Entries tagged with "2000":
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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 December 2nd, 2000, IBF light middleweight champion Fernando Vargas, from Oxnard, California, met WBA light middleweight champion Felix Trinidad, from San Juan, Puerto, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Vargas was undefeated at 20-0 and taking a big step up in class. Trinidad…
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On December 1st, 2000 at the Venetian Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, WBO super bantamweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera, from Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, defended his title against the crafty veteran Jesus Salud, from Sinait, Philippines. Barrera was 51-3 going in, Salud was 62-9,…
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On October 7, 2000 at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut, 20-2 Oleg Maskaev from Abay, Kazakhstan, fought 29-0-1 Kirk Johnson from North Preston, Nova Scotia, Canada. Both men were ascending through the heavyweight ranks, but Maskaev's ascent was faster. Several years later, Maskaev went…
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On September 23, 2000 at York Hall in London, England, 20-0 Ricky Hatton fought 19-1 Giuseppe Lauri. Hatton was in a sense just starting out. He was winning all his fights and stopping most of his opponents, but his greatest achievements lay ahead. It would be another five years before Hatton took on…
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On September 2, 2000 at Don Haskins Convention Center in El Paso, Texas, IBF super featherweight champion Diego Corrales, from Sacramento, California, defended his title against Angel Manfredy, from Gary, Indiana. Corrales was undefeated at 32-0 coming in. Manfredy was 33-4-1. The fight was scheduled…
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On June 17, 2000 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, WBC welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya, from Montebello, California, defended his title against IBF lightweight champion Sugar Shane Mosley, from Lynwood, California, in the first of their two fights. De La Hoya was 32-1 coming in.…
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On May 21, 2000 at Harrah's Casino in Kansas City, Missouri, WBA super featherweight champion Jong-Kwon Baek, from Seoul, South Korea, defended his title against Joel Casamayor, from Miramar, Florida by way of Cuba. Both fighters were undefeated. Baek was 21-0. Casamayor was was 20-0. The fight was scheduled…
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On May 16th, 2000 at Spectrum Arena, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom WBO Inter-Continental light welterweight champion Ricky "Hitman" Hatton, from Manchester, England, defended his title against Ambioris Figuero, from Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic. Hatton was undefeated at 18-0. Figuero was…
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On April 29, 2000 at New York's Madison Square Garden, Wladimir Klitschko, originally from Solnechnoye, Kazakhstan, fought David Bostice, from Los Angeles, California, for the WBA Inter-Continental heavyweight title. Klitschko was 32-1 coming in. Bostice was 22-1-1. The fight was scheduled for 12 rounds...
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On April 8, 2000 at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, IBO cruiserweight champion Thomas Hearns, from Detroit via Memphis, Tennessee, fought former IBF cruiserweight champion Uriah Grant, from St. Andrew, Jamaica. Hearns was 59-4-1 coming in to what was being billed, incorrectly as it turned out,…
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On March 18, 2000 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, WBC super featherweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., from Grand Rapids, Michigan, defended his title against IBA super featherweight champion Gregorio Vargas, from Santa María Natividad, Mexico. Mayweather was 22-0 coming in. Vargas was 40-6-1.…
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On February 26, 2000 at New York's Madison Square Garden, former super featherweight, lightweight, junior welterweight and welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya, from Montebello, California, fought Derrell Coley for the IBA welterweight title. The Golden Boy was 31-1 coming in. His only loss was to…
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On July 29, 2000 at Veteran's Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona, WBC light welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu, from Sydney, Australia by way of Serov, Russia, defended his title against former super featherweight, lightweight, and light welterweight Julio Cesar Chavez, from Ciudad Obregon, Sonora,…
