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This Day in Boxing -- October 17
by Sin City Richey

1904:
Joe Bowker W 20 Frankie Neil, London. Wins World Bantamweight Title.

1910:
Digger Stanley KO 8 Joe Bowker, London. Wins vacant British Bantamweight Title; retains European bantam Title.

1916:
Jack Britton W 12 Ted "Kid" Lewis, Boston. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1929:
Frankie Genaro W 15 Ernie Jarvis, London. Retains NBA Flyweight Title.

1938:
Joey Archibald W 15 Mike Belloise, NYC. Wins vacant New York World Featherweight Title.

1969:
Jose Napoles W 15 Emile Griffith, Inglewood. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1973:
Ben Villaflor KO 1 Kuniaki Shibata, Honolulu. Regains WBA Super Featherweight Title.

1987:
Elly Pical W 15 Tae Il Chang, Jakarta. Wins IBF Super Flyweight Title.

1993:
Kennedy McKinney W 12 Jesus Salud, Lake Tahoe, CA. Retains IBF 122-lb Title.

1995:
Saensor Ploenchit KO 10 Hioki Ioka, Osaka, Japan. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

1997:
Ike Quartey D 12 Jose Luis Lopez, Ledyard, CT. Retains WBA Welterweight Title. Quartey, despite being dropped twice and fading badly down the stretch, seemed to control most of the rounds with his jab.

Pernell (Swea' Pea) Whitaker W 12 Andrei Pestriav, Ledyard, CT.
1998:
Pichitnoi C. Siriwat KO 8 Taekil Lee, Bangkok. Retains WBA Junior Flyweight Title.

1999:
Yeo-Sam Choi W 12 Saman Sorjaturong, Seoul, S. Korea. Wins CBZ Lineal & WBC 108-lb Title.
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