Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard both held the welterweight title at different times in 1980.
No official holiday fell on the 7th of December, 1989, but Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran complete their trilogy of boxing fights nine years after their first two fights, at the opening of the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada; Leonard retains his WBC world Super Middleweight title by a 12 round unanimous decision.
Three times. The first two were for the welterweight title. June 1980, Duran took the title from Leonard, Nov @80, Leonard got his revenge, Dec '89, Duran (now the WBC middleweight champion) goes after Leonards WBC super middleweight crown, and Leonard outboxes him over 12 rounds (the first two fight were fifteen rounders)
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wbc welterweight title wba jr middleweight title wbc middleweight title wbc super middleweight title wbc light heavyweight title.
Charles "Sonny" Liston, in 1964.
Hearns turned pro at 147 on 25-nov-77 Leonard turned pro at Jr Welterweight on 5-feb 77, but was a full welterweight after a few fights, they met in a unification title bout September '81.
In the boxing context Tommy Burns was a world heavyweight champion who was the first white boxer to agree to fight a black boxer for the world title. On Boxing Day 1908 he lost his title to Jack Johnson who became the first ever black heavyweight champion of the world. Johnson was not the first black champion as many books say. tHAT HONOUR GOES TO First Black man to win a world boxing title; held three world boxing titles: paperweight, bantamweight and featherweight; invented shadow boxing and the suspended punching bag; fought in the world's longest fight.
sugar ray Leonard and thomas hearns both did it on the same weekend. if you include the wbo title, hearns did it first, beating James "the heat" kinchen for the inaugeral wbo supermiddleweight title. if not then Leonard (three days later) won the wbc lightheavy and inaugeral wbc supermiddle titles beating donny lalonde.
wbc is the 'world boxing council' :)
a famous aboriginal boxer.. he was the first aboriginal in boxing history to win a world title
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