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On January 27, 2001 at Rudi Sedlmayer Halle, Munich, Bayern, Germany, Vitali Klitschko, originally from Belovodskoye, Kyrgyzstan, fought Orlin Norris,from Lubbock, Texas, for the WBA Inter-Continental heavyweight title. Dr. Ironfist was 28-1 going in. Norris was 51-6. The fight was scheduled for 12…
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On January 26, 2002 at The Theater at New York’s Madison Square Garden, welterweight champion Shane Mosley, from Lynwood, California, defended his WBC title, in the first of their two fights, against Vernon Forrest, from Augusta, Georgia. Both fighters were undefeated. Sugar Shane was 38-0 going…
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On January 25, 2003 at Pechanga Entertainment Center in Temecula, California, WBC welterweight champion Vernon Forrest, from Augusta, Georgia, defended his title against Ricardo Mayorga, from Managua, Nicaragua. Forrest had won the crown from Shane Mosley a year earlier and defeated the Sugar Man…
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On January 24, 2009 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, former welterweight champion Shane Mosley, from Lynwood, California, fought reigning WBA Super World welterweight champion Antonio Margarito, (37-5-0) from Torrance, California by way of Tijuana, Mexico. Margarito was coming off…
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On January 23, 1967 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, WBC/WBA middleweight champion Emile Griffith, originally from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, fought the second of two fights with Joey Archer, from Bronx, New York. Their first bout was five months earlier, also at the Garden, and it was…
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On January 22, 2005 at American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida, Floyd Mayweather Jr., originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, fought Welterweight Henry Bruseles, from Caguas, Puerto Rico, in a WBC light welterweight eliminator. Mayweather was undefeated at 32-0. Bruseles was 21-2-1. The fight was…
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On January 21, 1958 at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, Tony DeMarco, aka the Boston Bomber, fought Welterweight Virgil Akins, from St. Louis, Missouri, in defense of the Massachusetts version of the World Welterweight Title. DeMarco, the former welterweight champ, was 54-10-1 at the time.…
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On January 20, 2006 at Pechanga Resort & Casino, Temecula, California, Nonito Donaire, from San Leandro, California by way of Talibon, Bohol, Philippines, fought Kahren Harutyunyan, from Yerevan, Armenia., for the NABF super bantamweight title. Donaire was still a boxing stripling without a soul…
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On January 19, 2003 at the Telstra Superdome in Melbourne, Australia, light welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu, originally from Serov, Russia, but fighting out of Sydney, Australia, defended his WBC/WBA/IBF titles against Jesse James Leija, from San Antonio, Texas. Tszyu was 29-1 going into the fight,…
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On January 18, 1956 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California, Flash Elorde, from Bogo, Cebu, Philippines fought Sandy Saddler, from Boston, Massachusetts for the World Featherweight Title. The two men had fought four months earlier in the Philippines, and Saddler walked away with the UD. Going…
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On January 17, 1986 at The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia, WBA heavyweight champion Tony “TNT” Tubbs, from Cincinnati, Ohio, fought “Terrible” Tim Witherspoon, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in defense of the title he won from Greg Page seven months earlier. Tubbs was undefeated…
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On January 16, 1999 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, Zab Judah, from Brooklyn, New York, fought Wilfredo Negron, from Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, for the interim IBF light welterweight title. Judah was undefeated at 18-0 going in. Negron was 17-3. The fight was scheduled for 12 rounds…
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On January 15, 2000 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, WBC/WBA/IBF light heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr., from Pensacola, Florida, defended his titles against David Telesco, from Port Chester, New York. Jones was 40-1, his single loss coming by DQ to Montell Griffin in 1997 (and later avenged).…
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On January 14, 2006 at Brondby Hallen in Brondby, Denmark, WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler, aka Viking Warrior, from Copenhagen, Denmark defended his title against WBC Continental Americas super middleweight champion Eric Lucas, from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Kessler was undefeated…
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On January 14, 1995 at Convention Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Hector “Macho” Camacho, from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, fought Todd Foster, from Great Falls, Montana, for the IBC welterweight title. Camacho was 47-3, his losses coming at the hands of Greg Haugen in 1991, Julio Cesar Chavez…
