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The 1990 bout between Julio Cesar Chavez and Meldrick Taylor remains a notable event in super-lightweight boxing history. Chavez secured a decisive stoppage victory over Taylor in the twelfth round, finishing a highly contested fight with just two seconds remaining. This dramatic finish captivated a...

The 1981 clash between Thomas Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard is remembered as one of boxing’s most dramatic encounters. Held on September 16th, it was a welterweight title fight where Leonard secured victory through a knockout in the fourteenth round. This stoppage unified the WBC and WBA titles, earn...

The July 21, 1982, boxing match between Salvador Sánchez and Azumah Nelson was a contest for the WBC featherweight championship. Sánchez defended his title by stopping Nelson via technical knockout in the fifteenth round of a grueling fight. Nelson, who took the bout on short notice, established him...

Mike Tyson defended his WBA heavyweight title against Evander Holyfield on November 9, 1996, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Entering the fight, Tyson was a heavy betting favorite to defeat Holyfield. However, Holyfield dominated the contest and ultimately stopped Tyson in the 11th round via technica...

Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto was a boxing match held on November 14, 2009, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The bout was contested for Cotto's WBO welterweight title at a catchweight of 145 pounds. Pacquiao defeated Cotto by technical knockout at 55 seconds of the 12th round, b...

The May 2018 lightweight boxing match featured Vasyl Lomachenko challenging Jorge Linares for the WBA lightweight title. Despite suffering a knockdown in the sixth round, Lomachenko rallied to stop Linares via technical knockout in the tenth round. The victory allowed Lomachenko to win a world title...

Held in November 2003 at the MGM Grand, this super featherweight bout featured Manny Pacquiao challenging the favored Marco Antonio Barrera. Pacquiao secured an upset victory by stopping Barrera via technical knockout in the eleventh round. The performance is widely noted for establishing Pacquiao a...

The third and final heavyweight boxing match between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe, held on November 4, 1995, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Holyfield won the bout by technical knockout in the eighth round to claim the WBA heavyweight title. This victory concluded one of th...

A heavyweight boxing match held on June 23, 1969, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Joe Frazier defeated Jerry Quarry by technical knockout in the seventh round to win the vacant New York State Athletic Commission heavyweight championship. The victory established Frazier as the top contende...

Ricky Hatton defeated reigning champion Kostya Tszyu in an IBF and The Ring light welterweight title fight held in Manchester in June 2005. Hatton applied relentless pressure throughout the bout, ultimately leading Tszyu to decline answering the bell for the 12th round, resulting in an 11th-round st...

Carl Froch versus George Groves I was an IBF and WBA super-middleweight title fight held in Manchester in November 2013. Groves knocked Froch down in the opening round and led through much of the contest, but referee Howard Foster stopped the fight in Froch's favour during round nine. The timing of...

Oleksandr Usyk defeated Tony Bellew by technical knockout in the eighth round on November 10, 2018, at the Manchester Arena in England. The bout was Usyk's final defense of his undisputed WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO cruiserweight championships before he permanently moved up to the heavyweight division. B...

Canelo Alvarez faced Caleb Plant in a November 2021 boxing match to unify the super middleweight division. Held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, the bout saw Alvarez enter as the WBA, WBC, and WBO champion, while Plant held the IBF title. Alvarez knocked Plant down twice in the eleventh r...

Errol Spence Jr. challenged Kell Brook for the IBF welterweight title in May 2017. The boxing match took place at Bramall Lane, a football stadium in Brook's hometown of Sheffield, England. Spence systematically broke down the defending champion, ultimately stopping Brook in the eleventh round to cl...

The first boxing match between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito took place in 2008 for the WBA welterweight title. Margarito secured an eleventh-round technical knockout victory over the previously undefeated Cotto in a highly competitive bout. The fight became notorious during the aftermath when...

Canelo Álvarez vs Billy Joe Saunders was a super-middleweight title unification boxing match held on May 8, 2021, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Álvarez, holding the WBA, WBC, and The Ring titles, faced undefeated WBO champion Saunders. The bout attracted a record-breaking indoor attendance fo...

Tim Witherspoon vs Frank Bruno was a heavyweight boxing championship match held on July 19, 1986, at the Wembley Stadium in London. Witherspoon defended his World Boxing Association (WBA) title against Bruno, a local British challenger, in a highly physical contest. After Bruno built an early lead o...

Oscar De La Hoya vs Julio Cesar Chavez I was a major professional boxing match held on June 7, 1996, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The contest pitted the rising star De La Hoya against the legendary Mexican champion Chavez for the WBC super lightweight title. De La Hoya won the f...

Kell Brook vs. Gennadiy Golovkin was a middleweight boxing match held on September 10, 2016, at the O2 Arena in London. Brook moved up two weight classes from welterweight to challenge Golovkin for the unified WBC, IBF, and IBO middleweight world titles. Golovkin won the fight when Brook's corner th...

Frank Bruno vs. Mike Tyson I was a heavyweight championship boxing match held on February 25, 1989, at the Las Vegas Hilton in Nevada. Tyson, the reigning undisputed heavyweight champion, successfully defended his titles by stopping the British challenger Bruno via technical knockout in the fifth ro...

Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou was a professional heavyweight boxing match held on March 8, 2024, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ngannou, a former UFC heavyweight champion, was making only his second professional boxing appearance after facing Tyson Fury in 2023. Joshua knocked him down once in the fi...

Oscar De La Hoya vs. Julio Cesar Chavez II was a rematch held on September 18, 1998, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. De La Hoya retained the WBC welterweight title when Chavez's corner stopped the fight after the eighth round, with Chavez having absorbed sustained combinations and suffered...

Vitali Klitschko vs. Chris Arreola was a WBC heavyweight championship fight held on September 26, 2009, at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Klitschko retained the title when Arreola's corner stopped the contest after the tenth round, following prolonged punishment from the champion's straight punches...

Vitali Klitschko vs. Tomasz Adamek was a heavyweight boxing match contested for the WBC championship on September 10, 2011. The event took place at the newly built Stadion Miejski in Wroclaw, Poland, drawing a massive crowd of over 40,000 fans to support the Polish challenger Adamek. Klitschko, the...

2008 light welterweight title fight in Las Vegas where Hatton stopped previously unbeaten Malignaggi in round eleven to retain his world championship belt.

Anthony Joshua earned a unanimous decision over Swedish contender Otto Wallin in Riyadh in December 2024, returning to winning form after consecutive losses to Oleksandr Usyk.

Garcia stopped former unified champion Zab Judah by first-round TKO in April 2013, making a swift and dominant defense of his junior welterweight titles.

An August 2017 boxing crossover event in Las Vegas where Floyd Mayweather stopped UFC champion Conor McGregor by TKO in round 10, finishing 50–0.

On October 2, 1980 in Las Vegas, Larry Holmes stopped the aging and physically depleted Ali in round 11 in a bout widely regarded as a painful mismatch.