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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