On This Day In Boxing History!

1990: Pernell Whitaker vs Azumah Nelson

WBC/IBF World Lightweight Championship

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas

May 19th

1908: Sam Langford W12 Sandy Ferguson

1909: Jack Johnson ND6 Philadelphia Jack O‘Brien

1917: Harry Greb NWS10 Jeff Smith

1933: Kid Chocolate W15 Seaman Tom Watson

1941: Petey Scalzo D15 Phil Zwick

1944: Manuel Ortiz TKO9 Pee Wee Lewis

1952: Yoshiro Shirai (W15) defeated flyweight champion Dado Marino in Tokyo to become Japan's first world-boxing champ

1957: Ingemar Johansson KO5 Henry Cooper

1965: John Wesley Meekins born.

1967: Curtis Cokes KO10 Francois Pavilla

Julio Cesar Green born.

1971: Rubén Olivares TKO3 Tsuguo Mineyama

1972: Clemente Sanchez KO3 Kuniaki Shibata

1973: Antonio Cervantes KO5 Alfonzo Frazer

1982: Darren Barker is born in Chipping Barnet, London, England

1984: Soon Chun Kwon W15 Ian Clyde

Francisco Quiroz KO9 Lupe Madera

1985: Wilfredo Gomez W15 Rocky Lockridge

1990: Pernell Whitaker W12 Azumah Nelson

Jermall Charlo is born in Lafayette, Louisiana

Jermell Charlo is born in Lafayette, Louisiana

1991: Ricardo Lopez KO8 Kimio Hirano

Savannah Marshall is born in Hartlepool, County Durham, England

1995: Jimmy Garcia, 23, dies from a head injury

suffered in his May 6KO loss to Gabriel Ruelas.

2000: Malcolm Tunacao KO7 Medgoen Toyota

Vassiliy Jirov KO2 Esteban Pizzarro

2007: Jermain Taylor W12 Cory Spinks

Kelly Pavlik KO7 Edison Miranda

Ulises Solis KO9 Jose Aguirre

2008: Yusuke Kobori TKO3 Jose Alfaro

2012: Juan Carlos Sanchez Jr W12 Juan Alberto Rosas

Kina Malpartida TKO6 Siriphon Chanbuala

2013: Shindo Go W10 Renata Szebeledi

2017: Igor Mikhalkin W12 Thomas Oosthuizen

Kayoko Ebata W10 Erika Hanawa

2018: Gary Russell Jr. W12 Joseph Diaz

Josh Warrington WSD12 Lee Selby