Middleweight - Notable Historical Events
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Middleweight - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1884-08-30 |
Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves |
1936-09-01 |
Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek |
1950-08-25 |
Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title |
1951-02-14 |
Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title |
1960-01-22 |
Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title |
1980-09-27 |
Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms. |
1983-04-13 |
Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault |
1983-07-08 |
Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title |
1995-02-25 |
British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital |
2013-12-28 |
Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship |
2016-05-08 |
Canelo Alvarez KOs Amir Khan in sixth round to retain middleweight title |
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Middleweight - Notable Birthdays
Middleweight - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1890-9-09 |
Ned Depinet, World's Middleweight Championship: Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Randy Turpin |
1919-01-01 |
Rocky Graziano, New York City, US boxer (Middleweight champ) and entertainer (Pantomime Quiz, Miami Undercover) |
1921-07-10 |
Jake LaMotta, Bronx New York, middleweight boxing champ (1949-51) (Raging Bull) |
1929-04-19 |
Edward Crook, Detroit Mich, middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1960) |
1936-05-09 |
Terry Downes, middleweight boxing champ (1961-62) |
1938-06-24 |
Boris Lagutin, USSR, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1964, 68) |
1939-10-15 |
Carmelo Bossi, Italy, light middleweight boxer (Olympic-silver-1960) |
1944-01-20 |
Isao Okano, Japan, middleweight judo (Olympic-gold-1964) |
1944-06-05 |
Chris Finnegan, UK, middleweight boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1946-10-01 |
Alfred Jones, Grace Miss, middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1968) |
1948-10-22 |
John Peterson, US, Middleweight (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1949-08-26 |
John Baldwin, Detroit, light middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1968) |
1951-08-17 |
Alan Minter, England, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972) |
1952-05-23 |
"Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, NJ, middleweight boxing champ (1982-83) |
1954-04-12 |
Marvin Johnson, US, middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972) |
1956-07-22 |
Michael Spinks, US, middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1964-01-08 |
Virgil Hill, Missouri, middleweight boxer (Olympic-silver-1984) |
1967-02-03 |
Jason Morris, Scotia NY, half-middleweight judoka (Oly-silver-92, 96) |
1967-05-01 |
Yael Arad, Israel, Women's half middleweight judoka (Oly-1996) |
1968-02-17 |
Celita Schutz, Riverdale NJ, half-middleweight judoka (Olympics-96) |
1970-06-20 |
Shay-Oren Smadja, Israel, men's half middleweight judoka (Oly-1996) |
1972-05-21 |
Liliko Ogasawara, Englewood NJ, middleweight judoka (Olympics-96) |
1973-03-06 |
Brian Olson, Tallahassee Fla, middleweight (189 lbs) judoka (Oly-96) |
1973-09-17 |
David Reid, Phila, light middleweight boxer (Olympics-gold-96) |
1976-12-30 |
Rhoshii Wells, Austin Tx, middleweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96) |
Middleweight - Notable Weddings
Middleweight - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
2013-01-04 |
Former World Middleweight champ Jake LaMotta (90) weds his longtime fiancée Denise Baker (62) in Bisbee, Arizona |
Middleweight - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
2008-10-23 |
Kevin Finnegan, British Middleweight Boxing Champion (b. 1948) |
2012-11-07 |
Carmen Basilio [Carmine], American world welter and middleweight boxing champion, dies from pneumonia at 85 |
