January 8 –
Roman Karmazin knocks out Dionisio Miranda in the 10th round as part of an
IBFmiddleweight title eliminator. This fight was later named the best middleweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
January 23 –
Juan Manuel López knocks out
Steven Luevano in the seventh round to become the
WBO featherweight champion. This was López's debut at
featherweight after vacating his former
WBO junior featherweight title. The fight was Luevano's sixth attempt at defending the title.
February
February 5 –
Glen Johnson, at 41 years of age, knocks out
Yusaf Mack – ranked as one of top ten light heavyweights in the world – in the sixth round.
March 20 –
Wladimir Klitschko knocks out
Eddie Chambers with a fierce left to the temple with five seconds left in the fight. Chambers was knocked out nearly instantly, collapsing to the canvas and hanging off the last rope. This was Klitschko's first defense of his
Ring magazine heavyweight title, his fourth defense of his
WBO heavyweight title, and his eighth defense of his
IBF and
IBO heavyweight titles.
March 27 –
Arthur Abraham is disqualified in the 11th round, to lose to
Andre Dirrell. In the fourth round, Abraham was down for the first time in his career, and he was cut over the right eyebrow in the seventh round. The fight was part of the second-group stage of the
Super Six World Boxing Classic.
March 27 –
Erik Morales comes out of a nearly 32-month retirement to defeat
José Alfaro by unanimous decision and win the
WBC international welterweight title.
March 27 –
Pongsaklek Wonjongkam defeats
Kōki Kameda by majority decision to win the
WBC flyweight title and vacant
Ring magazine flyweight title. This is the second time Wonjongkam has become the
WBC flyweight champion, first winning the title in March 2001. Wonjongkam had defended the title 17 times before losing to
Daisuke Naito in July 2007. This fight is later named the best flyweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
March 27 – In the co-main event of Wonjongkam/Kameda,
Oleydong Sithsamerchai defeats Yasutaka Kuroki by a unanimous decision to retain his
WBCstrawweight title for the sixth time. This fight was later named the best strawweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
April
April 3 –
Bernard HopkinsdefeatsRoy Jones Jr. by unanimous decision in a rematch of their May 1993 fight, in which Jones Jr. won the vacant
IBF middleweight title. The fight itself got little attention from the boxing media, even though it had been anticipated for many years in the boxing community. Following the rematch, the fight was widely criticized for its heavy use of illegal blows and a skirmish at the end of the sixth round.[citation needed]
April 10 –
Evander Holyfield, at 47 years of age, knocks out
Francois Botha in the eighth round to win the World Boxing Federation heavyweight title.
April 10 –
Andre Berto defeats
Carlos Quintana via referee stoppage in the eighth round to retain his
WBC welterweight title for the fourth time. This was Berto's first fight since taking a brief hiatus for nearly a year to help in
earthquake relief efforts in Haiti as well as to handle personal and family losses from the earthquake. During the fight, Berto injured his left
biceps.
April 17 –
Lucian Bute knocks out
Edison Miranda with a hard left uppercut in the third round. This was Bute's fifth defense of his
IBF super middleweight title.
April 17 –
Kelly Pavliklosses to
Sergio Martínez in a close fight for Pavlik's
WBC,
WBO, and
Ring magazine middleweight titles. Martínez controlled the early rounds with quick in and out movements, refusing to heavily engage with Pavlik. Martínez managed to cut Pavlik's left eyebrow in the first round. Pavlik then started to mount a comeback in the middle rounds by blocking Martínez's punches more effectively. Pavlik spent most of his time headhunting trying to land a hard right, which did help Pavlik get a knockdown in the seventh round. In the late rounds Martínez came back and started to open up Pavlik's cuts more, making his face extremely blood. In the post fight interview Pavlik said he couldn't see due to the blood. Martínez ended up winning the fight with a unanimous decision.
April 19 –
Edwin Valero commits suicide at the age of 28. On April 18, Valero was detained on suspicion of killing his 24-year-old wife. The following day, he was found dead in his prison cell, with a picture of his family in his mouth, having hanged himself using the denim pants he was wearing. Valero, who had two occasions where allegations of assault were placed on him in 2009 and 2010 was a subject of some inquiry on his
mental health following a motorcycle crash he suffered in 2001.
April 24 –
Mikkel KesslerupsetsCarl Froch by a unanimous decision to win Froch's
WBC super middleweight title. The fight was part of the second-group stage of the
Super Six World Boxing Classic. Following the fight, Froch complained about a judging bias, seeing how the fight was held in Kessler's country of origin, Denmark. This fight was later named the best super middleweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
April 24 –
Tomasz Adamek defeats
Chris Arreola by a majority decision. Arreola had his moments and held his own throughout the fight however Adamek had landed more clean punches and accurate combinations throughout the fight. This was Adamek's second defense of his
IBF international heavyweight title. This fight was later named the best heavyweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
April 30 – In a stunning upset,
Fernando Montiel knocks out
Hozumi Hasegawa, ending his five-year, 10 title defense streak and taking his
WBC bantamweight title. The knockout came as a surprise due to Hasegawa seeming to be clearly leading until the end of the fourth, when Montiel landed a left that stunned Hasegawa and pushed him back to the ropes, where he unloaded until the referee stopped the fight.
May
May 1 –
Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats Shane Mosley to continue his undefeated career streak. Mosley came out strong for the first two rounds—at one point making Mayweather's knees buckle—but Mayweather went on to control the fight.
May 8 – In a brief fight between
Paul Williams and
Kermit Cintrón, Cintrón falls out of the ring and is forced by doctors to stop fighting, giving Williams a win by
technical decision.
May 8 – Making his comeback after roughly 15½ months of being suspended,
Antonio Margarito defeated Roberto Garcia to win the vacant
WBC international super welterweight title.
May 8 – In a rematch of a 2009 fight,
Hugo Cázares defeated
Nobuo Nashiro to win the
WBA world super flyweight title. This fight is later named the best super flyweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
May 13 –
Manny Pacquiao is officially proclaimed congressman of the lone district of
Sarangani.
May 15 –
Amir Khan dominates
Paul Malignaggi to win by TKO in the eleventh round and retain his
WBA light welterweight title for the second time. This was Khan's debut in the United States.
May 22 – In their
fourth fight against each other
Rafael Márquez evens the series to two wins for each man by stopping
Israel Vázquez by TKO in the third round.
May 29 – The
WBO decides to strip
Sergio Martínez of his middleweight title due to his unclear decision of what weight class he wants to fight in (
160lbs or
154lbs). According to WBO bylaws no WBO champion may hold a non-WBO championship in a weight class that is different from the weight class of his WBO championship. Martínez never defended his WBO middleweight title and continued to hold the
WBC and
Ring magazine middleweight titles as well as the
WBC light middleweight title.
June
June 5 –
Miguel Cotto defeats Yuri Foreman by ninth round stoppage due to a leg injury Foreman suffered during the fight. In an amazing display of will, Foreman refused to quit despite being in what he later called a "very sharp pain". A towel was thrown in the ring, but it was ruled to have come from an outside source, and the fight continued for another minute until being stopped officially. This was Cotto's debut at
light middleweight. The fight was the first boxing match in the new
Yankee stadium built in 2009, and the first match in either Yankee stadium since Ali/Norton 3 in 1976.
June 26 –
Julio César Chávez Jr. continues his undefeated streak and improves his record to 41–0 with one
draw and one
no contest, following a unanimous decision over
John Duddy to win the
WBC silver middleweight title.
July 10 –
Juan Manuel López stops
Bernabé Concepción in a second-round TKO to defend his newly awarded
WBO featherweight title. The first round of this fight was later named round of the year by
Ring magazine.
August 7 –
Tavoris Cloud defeats
Glen Johnson by a unanimous decision. This is Cloud's first defence of his newly awarded
IBF light heavyweight title. This fight was later named the best light heavyweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
August 8 – Devon Alexander wins a decision over Andriy Kotelnyk.
August 14 –
Jean PascalupsetsChad Dawson by a
technical decision due to an accidental headbutt that caused a major cut over Dawson's right eye and the fight was stopped by the ring side doctor. However Pascal easily won the fight according to the judge's scorecards. Pascal defended his
WBC light heavyweight title for the third time, won Dawson's
IBO light heavyweight title, and filled the vacant
Ring magazine light heavyweight title.
August 21 –
Marco Huck defeats
Matt Godfrey by fifth-round TKO, to defend his
WBO junior heavyweight title for the fourth time.
August 28 –
Giovanni Segura upsets
Iván Calderón by a knockout in the eighth round to win the
WBO and
WBA super world light flyweight titles. Segura ends Calderón's undefeated 34-fight winning record. This fight would later be named both the best light flyweight and overall
fight of the year of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
September
September 4 –
Felix Sturm defeats Giovanni Lorenzo by a unanimous decision in his first fight in over a year.
September 4 –
Ricky Burns upsets previously undefeated
Román Martínez to end his 24–0 winning streak and win the
WBO super featherweight title. This fight is later named the best super featherweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
September 9 –
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is questioned by police after a domestic
battery charge is filed against him.
September 10 –
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is taken into custody but is released on $3,000 bail. Initially, Mayweather is only charged with felony theft.
September 11 –
Yuriorkis Gamboa defeats
Orlando Salido to unified the
WBA world and vacant
IBF featherweight titles. Gamboa was knocked down in the eighth round and was docked two points in the twelfth round. While Salido was knocked down twice in the twelfth round.
September 16 –
Floyd Mayweather Jr. receives two felony
coercion charges and one felony robbery charge added to his felony theft that he received earlier in the week, along with one misdemeanor domestic
battery charge and three misdemeanor
harassment charges. Collectively, the eight charges leave Mayweather Jr. with potentially up to 34 years in prison.
October 15 – In his first fight in more than 16 months
Antonio Tarver, former light heavyweight champion, returns as a
heavyweight to defeat Nagy Aguilera.
October 16 –
Vitali Klitschko defeats
Shannon Briggs by a unanimous decision. This is only the third time Klitschko has won a fight by decision.
November
November 6 –
Juan Manuel López defeats Rafael Márquez by TKO, in an exciting fight that was stopped early due to Márquez suffering a shoulder injury following the eighth round. López defends his
WBO featherweight title and improves his record to 30–0. This fight is later named the best featherweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
November 6 – As part of the co-main event to
López/Márquez, in his
Super Six debut
Glen Johnson defeats
Allan Green in an eighth-round knockout. This was Johnson's first time fighting in the
super middleweight division since September 2000 when he defeated Toks Owoh by a sixth-round TKO.
November 13 – In the co-main event of
Pacquiao/Margarito,
Mike Jones defeats
Jesús Soto Karass by a unanimous decision. Jones retains his NABA and
WBONABO titles and wins the vacant
WBC continental Americas welterweight title. This fight is later named the best welterweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
November 17 –
Danny Green defeats
BJ Flores by unanimous decision, giving Flores his first career loss.
November 26 – Following a loss in April 2010 that cost
Hozumi Hasegawa his
WBC bantamweight title, Hasegawa defeats
Juan Carlos Burgos to win the vacant
WBC featherweight belt.
November 27 –
Carl Froch upsets
Arthur Abraham by controlling the fight from start to finish to win a unanimous decision. Both boxers were coming off their first losses. The fight was part of the third-group stage of the
Super Six World Boxing Classic. Froch regains his
WBC super middleweight title that was vacated by
Mikkel Kessler.
November 27 –
Andre Ward defeats
Sakio Bika by unanimous decision. The fight was the first of two non-tournament bout of the
Super Six World Boxing Classic. Ward defends his
WBA super world super middleweight title for the second time.
November 27 –
Juan Manuel Márquez defeats Michael Katsidis by ninth-round TKO. Katsidis was competitive throughout the fight and even scored a knockdown on Márquez in the third round, While Márquez fought a more solid fight, landing many combinations. Márquez defends his
WBO,
WBA, and
Ring magazine lightweight titles. This fight is later named the best lightweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
December 4 –
Paweł Wolak knocks out Jose Pinzon in the seventh round. This fight is later named the best junior middleweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
December 8 – A judge issues an arrest warrant for
Floyd Mayweather Jr. stemming from a November 15 incident where Mayweather allegedly poked a security guard in the face several times over parking tickets.
December 11 –
Amir Khan defeats Marcos Maidana in a relatively close decision. Khan came out strong in the early part of the fight by applying heavy pressure on Maidana and getting a knockdown late in the first round. However, in the later parts of the fight, Khan spent much of his time avoiding Maidana, trying to endure through rounds. At one point, Maidana appeared to have almost finished Khan in the tenth round, when he landed a huge punch. But Khan absorbs the punishment and does enough to win by unanimous decision. Khan defends his
WBA world light welterweight title for the third time. This fight is later named the best light welterweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine. It is also awarded
Fight of the Year by the
Boxing Writers Association of America.[5]
December 11 – In the co-main event of
Khan/Maidana,
Victor Ortiz and
Lamont Peterson settle with a somewhat controversial majority draw after ten rounds of boxing.
December 11 –
Abner Mares defeats
Vic Darchinyan by split decision to start
Showtime's second boxing tournament based on the
Super Six World Boxing Classic. However instead featured only four fighters, a single elimination format, and was focused on the
bantamweight division at 118 lbs (54 kg) under the title, The Bantamweight Tournament: Winner Takes All. This fight was later named the best bantamweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
December 11 – Following Mares/Darchinyan,
Joseph Agbeko defeated Yonnhy Pérez in a rematch of their October 2009 fight in which Pérez defeated Agbeko.
December 18 –
Marco Huck continues his reign as
WBO junior heavyweight champion by defeating
Denis Lebedev by split decision.
December 18 –
Jean Pascal vs. Bernard Hopkins ends in a controversial majority draw. Pascal scores two flash knockdowns early, putting Hopkins on the canvas for the first time in more than a decade. The older fighter then adjusts and dominates most of the fight.
December 23 –
Hugo Cázares defeats Hiroyuki Hisataka by a unanimous decision to retain his
WBAsuper flyweight title for the third time.
January 4 – Southern Highlands homeowners association files a lawsuit to the
Clark County District Court seeking $10,000 in damages and an
injunction against
Floyd Mayweather Jr. This comes in addition to numerous other charges Mayweather Jr. is facing, including domestic battery, theft,
coercion, robbery, and
harassment.
January 29 –
Timothy Bradley defeats Devon Alexander by a tenth round technical decision. The fight was stopped due to a cut Alexander had received from an accidental
headbutt in the third round, which was made worse by two more headbutts in the eighth round and a final, fourth headbutt in the tenth. Both fighters came in with undefeated records, and the fight was initially praised as one of the few good match-ups between two top-ranked
Americans in recent years. With the win, Bradley unified the
light welterweight titles by defending his
WBO title and winning Alexander's
WBC title.
February
February 4 –
Sergio Mora losses to
Brian Vera by controversial split decision. Vera had lost four of his last six fights.
February 5 –
Tomás Rojas defends his
WBC super flyweight title for the first time, defeating
Nobuo Nashiro in an exciting, back-and-forth fight.
February 12 –
Arthur Abraham defeats
Stjepan Božić by an official second-round technical knockout. The fight was stopped after Božić punched Abraham's elbow and fractured his hand.
February 19 –
Nonito Donaire defeats Fernando Montiel by technical knockout in the second round to unify the
WBO and
WBC bantamweight titles. Donaire started the fight strong by controlling most of the first round, landing a left hook that briefly stunned Montiel. In the second round, Donaire started landing a few combinations before finishing Montiel with a solid hook.
February 19 – In the co-main event of Montiel/Donaire, a rematch against up-and-comer
Mike Jones and
Jesus Soto Karass. The first bout against the two boxers back in November 2010 for the co-main event to
Pacquiao/Margarito ended in a controversial majority decision for Jones. In the rematch however, Jones controlled most of this fight, cutting Soto Karass over both eyes in the third round to win a strong unanimous decision.
February 26 –
Brandon Rios knocks out
Miguel Acosta in the tenth round, to win the
WBA world lightweight title. Acosta started the fight strong by controlling most of the early rounds. However a left hand to the body followed by a short jab caught Acosta in the sixth round and forced a knockdown. Acosta then appeared to be to have regained himself in the seventh round, just to be knocked down again in the eighth. The fight then ended with back-and-forth action from both fighters, with Rios landing three right hands to finish Ascota in the tenth.
March 12 –
Yuri Foreman is knocked out by
Paweł Wolak at the end of the sixth round. This was Foreman's first fight since coming off knee surgery following his fight with
Miguel Cotto.
March 19 –
Vitali Klitschko knocks out Odlanier Solís in the first round to retain his
WBC heavyweight title for the sixth time. The knockout came as a surprise after Solís appeared to sustain a serious knee injury. Initially, Klitschko was angry at Solís, thinking he'd taken a dive. However, Solís was taken to a hospital, where a scan revealed tears to his
anterior cruciate ligament and external meniscus and cartilage damage in his right knee.[6]
March 19 –
Lucian Bute knocks out
Brian Magee in the tenth round to defend his
IBF supper middleweight title for the seventh time.
April 8 – Experienced veteran
Jhonny González upsets the top-ranked
Hozumi Hasegawa in a fourth-round TKO to win his
WBC featherweight title. This was Hasegawa's second fight at featherweight since moving from bantamweight in late 2010.
April 9 – In the co-main event to Maidana/Morales,
Robert Guerrero defeats
Michael Katsidis by unanimous decision. Guerrero wins the interim
WBO and
WBA world lightweight titles.
April 16 –
Amir Khan defeats Paul McCloskey by technical decision in round 6. McCloskey was cut by a clash of heads, and the bout was stopped by the ringside doctor.
April 16 –
Orlando Salido defeats
Juan Manuel Lopez by technical knockout of the 8th round. This puts an end to Lopez's undefeated record and an end to a potential unification bout with
Yuriorkis Gamboa.
May 7 – Also on the Pacquiao/Mosley card,
Kelly Pavlik defeats
Alfonso López via majority decision. This was Pavlik's first fight in over a year after being defeated by
Sergio Martínez and losing his Ring magazine, WBC, and WBO middleweight titles. It was also Pavlik's debut at
super middleweight.
May 14 –
Andre Ward defeats Arthur Abraham by unanimous decision to retain his
WBA Super World Super Middleweight title. The win advanced him to the Finals of the Super Six tournament.
May 21 –
Bernard HopkinsdefeatsJean Pascal. Hopkins, at age 46, becomes the oldest man in the history of boxing to win a major world title, supplanting
George Foreman, who had previously held the distinction after his knockout victory over
Michael Moorer.
May 21 – As part of the Hopkins/Pascal card,
Chad Dawson defeats
Adrian Diaconu nine months after his loss to Pascal. It was Dawson's first fight under Hall of Fame trainer
Emanuel Steward.
May 21 –
Denis Lebedev brutally knocks out
Roy Jones Jr. in the 10th round. Jones falls face first to the canvas and is unconscious for several minutes.
June
June 4 –
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. defeats Sebastian Zbik by majority decision to capture the
WBC Middleweight title and become the first Mexican to win a major title in the middleweight division.
June 25 – In the co-main event of Alexander/Matthysse,
Tavoris Cloud knocks out
Yusaf Mack at the end of the eighth round to improve to 22–0 and defend his
IBF light heavyweight title for the third time.
June 25 – Also on the same card as Alexander/Matthysse,
Cornelius Bundrage upsets
Sechew Powell by unanimous decision to defend his newly awarded
IBF light middleweight title for the first time.
July
July 2 –
Wladimir Klitschko defeats David Haye by unanimous decision. Klitschko, already the holder of four heavyweight championships, adds Haye's WBA title to his collection.
August 27 – Raul Garcia losses a split decision to prospect Moises Fuentes to lose his WBO minimumweight title.
August 31 – Hugo Fidel Cazares losses a split decision to Tomonobu Shimizu and WBA title.
September
September 3 –
Andre Berto stops
Dejan Zavec at the end of the fifth round by a medical stoppage after Zavec's right eye closed and suffered a serious cut.
September 10 – Vitali Klitschko
knocks out Tomasz Adamek in the tenth round.
September 10 – Yuriorkis Gamboa wins a technical decision over Daniel Ponce de Leon.
September 10 – Juan Carlos Salgado wins a decision over Argenis Mendez for the vacant IBF title.
September 17 – Saul Alvarez
knocks out Alfonso Gomez in the sixth round.
September 17 – Floyd Mayweather Jr.
knocks out Victor Ortiz in what many deemed a sucker punch in the fourth round to remain undefeated.
October
October 1 – Andy Lee wins a decision over Brian Vera.
October 1 – Sergio Martinez
knocks out Darren Barker in the 11th round.
October 1 – Toshiaki Nishioka wins a decision over Rafael Marquez to defend WBC super bantamweight title.
October 1 – Karo Murat versus Gabriel Campillo ends in a split draw.
October 1 – Yoan Pablo Hernandez wins a technical decision over Steve Cunningham.
October 8 – Donnie Nietes defeats Ramon Garcia Hirales for WBO light flyweight title.
October 8 – English prospect Kell Brook knocks out Rafal Jackiewicz in the sixth round.
October 15 – In what is later changed to a
No Contest, Bernard Hopkins is unable to continue after injuring his shoulder in the 2nd round of a light heavyweight fight with Chad Dawson. Dawson was initially awarded a knockout victory.
October 15 –
Kimbo Slice scores his second career knockout, stopping Tay Bledsoe in just under two minutes.
October 21 – Pongsaklek Wonjongkam defeats Edgar Sosa to defend his WBC flyweight title.
October 22 – Nonito Donaire wins a one-sided decision over Omar Andres Narvaez
October 22 – Miguel Acosta losses a decision against Richard Abril in a big upset.
October 29 – Hernan Marquez knocks out Luis Concepcion in the first round to defend the WBA belt.
November
November 4 – Suriyan Sor Rungvisai wins a decision over Nobuo Nashiro.
November 4 – Denis Lebedev wins a one-sided decision over James Toney.
November 5 – Ricky Burns wins a decision over Michael Katsidis.
November 5 – James Kirkland wins a major upset by knocking out Alfredo Angulo in the sixth round.
November 5 – Lucian Bute wins a one-sided decision over veteran Glen Johnson.
November 7 – Joe Frazier dies due to liver cancer.
November 28 -
Wladimir Klitschko is defeated by British boxer
Tyson Fury by unanimous decision, ending an almost decade-long reign as the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
July 20, 2019- Manny Pacquiao beats Keith Thurman by split decision at the
MGM Grand Garden Arena, becoming the oldest welterweight champion at the age of 40.
December 7, 2019 - Anthony Joshua regains titles by beating Andy Ruiz Jr. in a rematch.
January 8 –
Roman Karmazin knocks out Dionisio Miranda in the 10th round as part of an
IBFmiddleweight title eliminator. This fight was later named the best middleweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
January 23 –
Juan Manuel López knocks out
Steven Luevano in the seventh round to become the
WBO featherweight champion. This was López's debut at
featherweight after vacating his former
WBO junior featherweight title. The fight was Luevano's sixth attempt at defending the title.
February
February 5 –
Glen Johnson, at 41 years of age, knocks out
Yusaf Mack – ranked as one of top ten light heavyweights in the world – in the sixth round.
March 20 –
Wladimir Klitschko knocks out
Eddie Chambers with a fierce left to the temple with five seconds left in the fight. Chambers was knocked out nearly instantly, collapsing to the canvas and hanging off the last rope. This was Klitschko's first defense of his
Ring magazine heavyweight title, his fourth defense of his
WBO heavyweight title, and his eighth defense of his
IBF and
IBO heavyweight titles.
March 27 –
Arthur Abraham is disqualified in the 11th round, to lose to
Andre Dirrell. In the fourth round, Abraham was down for the first time in his career, and he was cut over the right eyebrow in the seventh round. The fight was part of the second-group stage of the
Super Six World Boxing Classic.
March 27 –
Erik Morales comes out of a nearly 32-month retirement to defeat
José Alfaro by unanimous decision and win the
WBC international welterweight title.
March 27 –
Pongsaklek Wonjongkam defeats
Kōki Kameda by majority decision to win the
WBC flyweight title and vacant
Ring magazine flyweight title. This is the second time Wonjongkam has become the
WBC flyweight champion, first winning the title in March 2001. Wonjongkam had defended the title 17 times before losing to
Daisuke Naito in July 2007. This fight is later named the best flyweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
March 27 – In the co-main event of Wonjongkam/Kameda,
Oleydong Sithsamerchai defeats Yasutaka Kuroki by a unanimous decision to retain his
WBCstrawweight title for the sixth time. This fight was later named the best strawweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
April
April 3 –
Bernard HopkinsdefeatsRoy Jones Jr. by unanimous decision in a rematch of their May 1993 fight, in which Jones Jr. won the vacant
IBF middleweight title. The fight itself got little attention from the boxing media, even though it had been anticipated for many years in the boxing community. Following the rematch, the fight was widely criticized for its heavy use of illegal blows and a skirmish at the end of the sixth round.[citation needed]
April 10 –
Evander Holyfield, at 47 years of age, knocks out
Francois Botha in the eighth round to win the World Boxing Federation heavyweight title.
April 10 –
Andre Berto defeats
Carlos Quintana via referee stoppage in the eighth round to retain his
WBC welterweight title for the fourth time. This was Berto's first fight since taking a brief hiatus for nearly a year to help in
earthquake relief efforts in Haiti as well as to handle personal and family losses from the earthquake. During the fight, Berto injured his left
biceps.
April 17 –
Lucian Bute knocks out
Edison Miranda with a hard left uppercut in the third round. This was Bute's fifth defense of his
IBF super middleweight title.
April 17 –
Kelly Pavliklosses to
Sergio Martínez in a close fight for Pavlik's
WBC,
WBO, and
Ring magazine middleweight titles. Martínez controlled the early rounds with quick in and out movements, refusing to heavily engage with Pavlik. Martínez managed to cut Pavlik's left eyebrow in the first round. Pavlik then started to mount a comeback in the middle rounds by blocking Martínez's punches more effectively. Pavlik spent most of his time headhunting trying to land a hard right, which did help Pavlik get a knockdown in the seventh round. In the late rounds Martínez came back and started to open up Pavlik's cuts more, making his face extremely blood. In the post fight interview Pavlik said he couldn't see due to the blood. Martínez ended up winning the fight with a unanimous decision.
April 19 –
Edwin Valero commits suicide at the age of 28. On April 18, Valero was detained on suspicion of killing his 24-year-old wife. The following day, he was found dead in his prison cell, with a picture of his family in his mouth, having hanged himself using the denim pants he was wearing. Valero, who had two occasions where allegations of assault were placed on him in 2009 and 2010 was a subject of some inquiry on his
mental health following a motorcycle crash he suffered in 2001.
April 24 –
Mikkel KesslerupsetsCarl Froch by a unanimous decision to win Froch's
WBC super middleweight title. The fight was part of the second-group stage of the
Super Six World Boxing Classic. Following the fight, Froch complained about a judging bias, seeing how the fight was held in Kessler's country of origin, Denmark. This fight was later named the best super middleweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
April 24 –
Tomasz Adamek defeats
Chris Arreola by a majority decision. Arreola had his moments and held his own throughout the fight however Adamek had landed more clean punches and accurate combinations throughout the fight. This was Adamek's second defense of his
IBF international heavyweight title. This fight was later named the best heavyweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
April 30 – In a stunning upset,
Fernando Montiel knocks out
Hozumi Hasegawa, ending his five-year, 10 title defense streak and taking his
WBC bantamweight title. The knockout came as a surprise due to Hasegawa seeming to be clearly leading until the end of the fourth, when Montiel landed a left that stunned Hasegawa and pushed him back to the ropes, where he unloaded until the referee stopped the fight.
May
May 1 –
Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats Shane Mosley to continue his undefeated career streak. Mosley came out strong for the first two rounds—at one point making Mayweather's knees buckle—but Mayweather went on to control the fight.
May 8 – In a brief fight between
Paul Williams and
Kermit Cintrón, Cintrón falls out of the ring and is forced by doctors to stop fighting, giving Williams a win by
technical decision.
May 8 – Making his comeback after roughly 15½ months of being suspended,
Antonio Margarito defeated Roberto Garcia to win the vacant
WBC international super welterweight title.
May 8 – In a rematch of a 2009 fight,
Hugo Cázares defeated
Nobuo Nashiro to win the
WBA world super flyweight title. This fight is later named the best super flyweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
May 13 –
Manny Pacquiao is officially proclaimed congressman of the lone district of
Sarangani.
May 15 –
Amir Khan dominates
Paul Malignaggi to win by TKO in the eleventh round and retain his
WBA light welterweight title for the second time. This was Khan's debut in the United States.
May 22 – In their
fourth fight against each other
Rafael Márquez evens the series to two wins for each man by stopping
Israel Vázquez by TKO in the third round.
May 29 – The
WBO decides to strip
Sergio Martínez of his middleweight title due to his unclear decision of what weight class he wants to fight in (
160lbs or
154lbs). According to WBO bylaws no WBO champion may hold a non-WBO championship in a weight class that is different from the weight class of his WBO championship. Martínez never defended his WBO middleweight title and continued to hold the
WBC and
Ring magazine middleweight titles as well as the
WBC light middleweight title.
June
June 5 –
Miguel Cotto defeats Yuri Foreman by ninth round stoppage due to a leg injury Foreman suffered during the fight. In an amazing display of will, Foreman refused to quit despite being in what he later called a "very sharp pain". A towel was thrown in the ring, but it was ruled to have come from an outside source, and the fight continued for another minute until being stopped officially. This was Cotto's debut at
light middleweight. The fight was the first boxing match in the new
Yankee stadium built in 2009, and the first match in either Yankee stadium since Ali/Norton 3 in 1976.
June 26 –
Julio César Chávez Jr. continues his undefeated streak and improves his record to 41–0 with one
draw and one
no contest, following a unanimous decision over
John Duddy to win the
WBC silver middleweight title.
July 10 –
Juan Manuel López stops
Bernabé Concepción in a second-round TKO to defend his newly awarded
WBO featherweight title. The first round of this fight was later named round of the year by
Ring magazine.
August 7 –
Tavoris Cloud defeats
Glen Johnson by a unanimous decision. This is Cloud's first defence of his newly awarded
IBF light heavyweight title. This fight was later named the best light heavyweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
August 8 – Devon Alexander wins a decision over Andriy Kotelnyk.
August 14 –
Jean PascalupsetsChad Dawson by a
technical decision due to an accidental headbutt that caused a major cut over Dawson's right eye and the fight was stopped by the ring side doctor. However Pascal easily won the fight according to the judge's scorecards. Pascal defended his
WBC light heavyweight title for the third time, won Dawson's
IBO light heavyweight title, and filled the vacant
Ring magazine light heavyweight title.
August 21 –
Marco Huck defeats
Matt Godfrey by fifth-round TKO, to defend his
WBO junior heavyweight title for the fourth time.
August 28 –
Giovanni Segura upsets
Iván Calderón by a knockout in the eighth round to win the
WBO and
WBA super world light flyweight titles. Segura ends Calderón's undefeated 34-fight winning record. This fight would later be named both the best light flyweight and overall
fight of the year of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
September
September 4 –
Felix Sturm defeats Giovanni Lorenzo by a unanimous decision in his first fight in over a year.
September 4 –
Ricky Burns upsets previously undefeated
Román Martínez to end his 24–0 winning streak and win the
WBO super featherweight title. This fight is later named the best super featherweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
September 9 –
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is questioned by police after a domestic
battery charge is filed against him.
September 10 –
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is taken into custody but is released on $3,000 bail. Initially, Mayweather is only charged with felony theft.
September 11 –
Yuriorkis Gamboa defeats
Orlando Salido to unified the
WBA world and vacant
IBF featherweight titles. Gamboa was knocked down in the eighth round and was docked two points in the twelfth round. While Salido was knocked down twice in the twelfth round.
September 16 –
Floyd Mayweather Jr. receives two felony
coercion charges and one felony robbery charge added to his felony theft that he received earlier in the week, along with one misdemeanor domestic
battery charge and three misdemeanor
harassment charges. Collectively, the eight charges leave Mayweather Jr. with potentially up to 34 years in prison.
October 15 – In his first fight in more than 16 months
Antonio Tarver, former light heavyweight champion, returns as a
heavyweight to defeat Nagy Aguilera.
October 16 –
Vitali Klitschko defeats
Shannon Briggs by a unanimous decision. This is only the third time Klitschko has won a fight by decision.
November
November 6 –
Juan Manuel López defeats Rafael Márquez by TKO, in an exciting fight that was stopped early due to Márquez suffering a shoulder injury following the eighth round. López defends his
WBO featherweight title and improves his record to 30–0. This fight is later named the best featherweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
November 6 – As part of the co-main event to
López/Márquez, in his
Super Six debut
Glen Johnson defeats
Allan Green in an eighth-round knockout. This was Johnson's first time fighting in the
super middleweight division since September 2000 when he defeated Toks Owoh by a sixth-round TKO.
November 13 – In the co-main event of
Pacquiao/Margarito,
Mike Jones defeats
Jesús Soto Karass by a unanimous decision. Jones retains his NABA and
WBONABO titles and wins the vacant
WBC continental Americas welterweight title. This fight is later named the best welterweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
November 17 –
Danny Green defeats
BJ Flores by unanimous decision, giving Flores his first career loss.
November 26 – Following a loss in April 2010 that cost
Hozumi Hasegawa his
WBC bantamweight title, Hasegawa defeats
Juan Carlos Burgos to win the vacant
WBC featherweight belt.
November 27 –
Carl Froch upsets
Arthur Abraham by controlling the fight from start to finish to win a unanimous decision. Both boxers were coming off their first losses. The fight was part of the third-group stage of the
Super Six World Boxing Classic. Froch regains his
WBC super middleweight title that was vacated by
Mikkel Kessler.
November 27 –
Andre Ward defeats
Sakio Bika by unanimous decision. The fight was the first of two non-tournament bout of the
Super Six World Boxing Classic. Ward defends his
WBA super world super middleweight title for the second time.
November 27 –
Juan Manuel Márquez defeats Michael Katsidis by ninth-round TKO. Katsidis was competitive throughout the fight and even scored a knockdown on Márquez in the third round, While Márquez fought a more solid fight, landing many combinations. Márquez defends his
WBO,
WBA, and
Ring magazine lightweight titles. This fight is later named the best lightweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
December 4 –
Paweł Wolak knocks out Jose Pinzon in the seventh round. This fight is later named the best junior middleweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
December 8 – A judge issues an arrest warrant for
Floyd Mayweather Jr. stemming from a November 15 incident where Mayweather allegedly poked a security guard in the face several times over parking tickets.
December 11 –
Amir Khan defeats Marcos Maidana in a relatively close decision. Khan came out strong in the early part of the fight by applying heavy pressure on Maidana and getting a knockdown late in the first round. However, in the later parts of the fight, Khan spent much of his time avoiding Maidana, trying to endure through rounds. At one point, Maidana appeared to have almost finished Khan in the tenth round, when he landed a huge punch. But Khan absorbs the punishment and does enough to win by unanimous decision. Khan defends his
WBA world light welterweight title for the third time. This fight is later named the best light welterweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine. It is also awarded
Fight of the Year by the
Boxing Writers Association of America.[5]
December 11 – In the co-main event of
Khan/Maidana,
Victor Ortiz and
Lamont Peterson settle with a somewhat controversial majority draw after ten rounds of boxing.
December 11 –
Abner Mares defeats
Vic Darchinyan by split decision to start
Showtime's second boxing tournament based on the
Super Six World Boxing Classic. However instead featured only four fighters, a single elimination format, and was focused on the
bantamweight division at 118 lbs (54 kg) under the title, The Bantamweight Tournament: Winner Takes All. This fight was later named the best bantamweight fight of 2010 by
Ring magazine.
December 11 – Following Mares/Darchinyan,
Joseph Agbeko defeated Yonnhy Pérez in a rematch of their October 2009 fight in which Pérez defeated Agbeko.
December 18 –
Marco Huck continues his reign as
WBO junior heavyweight champion by defeating
Denis Lebedev by split decision.
December 18 –
Jean Pascal vs. Bernard Hopkins ends in a controversial majority draw. Pascal scores two flash knockdowns early, putting Hopkins on the canvas for the first time in more than a decade. The older fighter then adjusts and dominates most of the fight.
December 23 –
Hugo Cázares defeats Hiroyuki Hisataka by a unanimous decision to retain his
WBAsuper flyweight title for the third time.
January 4 – Southern Highlands homeowners association files a lawsuit to the
Clark County District Court seeking $10,000 in damages and an
injunction against
Floyd Mayweather Jr. This comes in addition to numerous other charges Mayweather Jr. is facing, including domestic battery, theft,
coercion, robbery, and
harassment.
January 29 –
Timothy Bradley defeats Devon Alexander by a tenth round technical decision. The fight was stopped due to a cut Alexander had received from an accidental
headbutt in the third round, which was made worse by two more headbutts in the eighth round and a final, fourth headbutt in the tenth. Both fighters came in with undefeated records, and the fight was initially praised as one of the few good match-ups between two top-ranked
Americans in recent years. With the win, Bradley unified the
light welterweight titles by defending his
WBO title and winning Alexander's
WBC title.
February
February 4 –
Sergio Mora losses to
Brian Vera by controversial split decision. Vera had lost four of his last six fights.
February 5 –
Tomás Rojas defends his
WBC super flyweight title for the first time, defeating
Nobuo Nashiro in an exciting, back-and-forth fight.
February 12 –
Arthur Abraham defeats
Stjepan Božić by an official second-round technical knockout. The fight was stopped after Božić punched Abraham's elbow and fractured his hand.
February 19 –
Nonito Donaire defeats Fernando Montiel by technical knockout in the second round to unify the
WBO and
WBC bantamweight titles. Donaire started the fight strong by controlling most of the first round, landing a left hook that briefly stunned Montiel. In the second round, Donaire started landing a few combinations before finishing Montiel with a solid hook.
February 19 – In the co-main event of Montiel/Donaire, a rematch against up-and-comer
Mike Jones and
Jesus Soto Karass. The first bout against the two boxers back in November 2010 for the co-main event to
Pacquiao/Margarito ended in a controversial majority decision for Jones. In the rematch however, Jones controlled most of this fight, cutting Soto Karass over both eyes in the third round to win a strong unanimous decision.
February 26 –
Brandon Rios knocks out
Miguel Acosta in the tenth round, to win the
WBA world lightweight title. Acosta started the fight strong by controlling most of the early rounds. However a left hand to the body followed by a short jab caught Acosta in the sixth round and forced a knockdown. Acosta then appeared to be to have regained himself in the seventh round, just to be knocked down again in the eighth. The fight then ended with back-and-forth action from both fighters, with Rios landing three right hands to finish Ascota in the tenth.
March 12 –
Yuri Foreman is knocked out by
Paweł Wolak at the end of the sixth round. This was Foreman's first fight since coming off knee surgery following his fight with
Miguel Cotto.
March 19 –
Vitali Klitschko knocks out Odlanier Solís in the first round to retain his
WBC heavyweight title for the sixth time. The knockout came as a surprise after Solís appeared to sustain a serious knee injury. Initially, Klitschko was angry at Solís, thinking he'd taken a dive. However, Solís was taken to a hospital, where a scan revealed tears to his
anterior cruciate ligament and external meniscus and cartilage damage in his right knee.[6]
March 19 –
Lucian Bute knocks out
Brian Magee in the tenth round to defend his
IBF supper middleweight title for the seventh time.
April 8 – Experienced veteran
Jhonny González upsets the top-ranked
Hozumi Hasegawa in a fourth-round TKO to win his
WBC featherweight title. This was Hasegawa's second fight at featherweight since moving from bantamweight in late 2010.
April 9 – In the co-main event to Maidana/Morales,
Robert Guerrero defeats
Michael Katsidis by unanimous decision. Guerrero wins the interim
WBO and
WBA world lightweight titles.
April 16 –
Amir Khan defeats Paul McCloskey by technical decision in round 6. McCloskey was cut by a clash of heads, and the bout was stopped by the ringside doctor.
April 16 –
Orlando Salido defeats
Juan Manuel Lopez by technical knockout of the 8th round. This puts an end to Lopez's undefeated record and an end to a potential unification bout with
Yuriorkis Gamboa.
May 7 – Also on the Pacquiao/Mosley card,
Kelly Pavlik defeats
Alfonso López via majority decision. This was Pavlik's first fight in over a year after being defeated by
Sergio Martínez and losing his Ring magazine, WBC, and WBO middleweight titles. It was also Pavlik's debut at
super middleweight.
May 14 –
Andre Ward defeats Arthur Abraham by unanimous decision to retain his
WBA Super World Super Middleweight title. The win advanced him to the Finals of the Super Six tournament.
May 21 –
Bernard HopkinsdefeatsJean Pascal. Hopkins, at age 46, becomes the oldest man in the history of boxing to win a major world title, supplanting
George Foreman, who had previously held the distinction after his knockout victory over
Michael Moorer.
May 21 – As part of the Hopkins/Pascal card,
Chad Dawson defeats
Adrian Diaconu nine months after his loss to Pascal. It was Dawson's first fight under Hall of Fame trainer
Emanuel Steward.
May 21 –
Denis Lebedev brutally knocks out
Roy Jones Jr. in the 10th round. Jones falls face first to the canvas and is unconscious for several minutes.
June
June 4 –
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. defeats Sebastian Zbik by majority decision to capture the
WBC Middleweight title and become the first Mexican to win a major title in the middleweight division.
June 25 – In the co-main event of Alexander/Matthysse,
Tavoris Cloud knocks out
Yusaf Mack at the end of the eighth round to improve to 22–0 and defend his
IBF light heavyweight title for the third time.
June 25 – Also on the same card as Alexander/Matthysse,
Cornelius Bundrage upsets
Sechew Powell by unanimous decision to defend his newly awarded
IBF light middleweight title for the first time.
July
July 2 –
Wladimir Klitschko defeats David Haye by unanimous decision. Klitschko, already the holder of four heavyweight championships, adds Haye's WBA title to his collection.
August 27 – Raul Garcia losses a split decision to prospect Moises Fuentes to lose his WBO minimumweight title.
August 31 – Hugo Fidel Cazares losses a split decision to Tomonobu Shimizu and WBA title.
September
September 3 –
Andre Berto stops
Dejan Zavec at the end of the fifth round by a medical stoppage after Zavec's right eye closed and suffered a serious cut.
September 10 – Vitali Klitschko
knocks out Tomasz Adamek in the tenth round.
September 10 – Yuriorkis Gamboa wins a technical decision over Daniel Ponce de Leon.
September 10 – Juan Carlos Salgado wins a decision over Argenis Mendez for the vacant IBF title.
September 17 – Saul Alvarez
knocks out Alfonso Gomez in the sixth round.
September 17 – Floyd Mayweather Jr.
knocks out Victor Ortiz in what many deemed a sucker punch in the fourth round to remain undefeated.
October
October 1 – Andy Lee wins a decision over Brian Vera.
October 1 – Sergio Martinez
knocks out Darren Barker in the 11th round.
October 1 – Toshiaki Nishioka wins a decision over Rafael Marquez to defend WBC super bantamweight title.
October 1 – Karo Murat versus Gabriel Campillo ends in a split draw.
October 1 – Yoan Pablo Hernandez wins a technical decision over Steve Cunningham.
October 8 – Donnie Nietes defeats Ramon Garcia Hirales for WBO light flyweight title.
October 8 – English prospect Kell Brook knocks out Rafal Jackiewicz in the sixth round.
October 15 – In what is later changed to a
No Contest, Bernard Hopkins is unable to continue after injuring his shoulder in the 2nd round of a light heavyweight fight with Chad Dawson. Dawson was initially awarded a knockout victory.
October 15 –
Kimbo Slice scores his second career knockout, stopping Tay Bledsoe in just under two minutes.
October 21 – Pongsaklek Wonjongkam defeats Edgar Sosa to defend his WBC flyweight title.
October 22 – Nonito Donaire wins a one-sided decision over Omar Andres Narvaez
October 22 – Miguel Acosta losses a decision against Richard Abril in a big upset.
October 29 – Hernan Marquez knocks out Luis Concepcion in the first round to defend the WBA belt.
November
November 4 – Suriyan Sor Rungvisai wins a decision over Nobuo Nashiro.
November 4 – Denis Lebedev wins a one-sided decision over James Toney.
November 5 – Ricky Burns wins a decision over Michael Katsidis.
November 5 – James Kirkland wins a major upset by knocking out Alfredo Angulo in the sixth round.
November 5 – Lucian Bute wins a one-sided decision over veteran Glen Johnson.
November 7 – Joe Frazier dies due to liver cancer.
November 28 -
Wladimir Klitschko is defeated by British boxer
Tyson Fury by unanimous decision, ending an almost decade-long reign as the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
July 20, 2019- Manny Pacquiao beats Keith Thurman by split decision at the
MGM Grand Garden Arena, becoming the oldest welterweight champion at the age of 40.
December 7, 2019 - Anthony Joshua regains titles by beating Andy Ruiz Jr. in a rematch.