Boxing in the 2010s

Lists of notable fights and events by year

2010

• January 23 - Juan Manuel López knocksout Steven Luevano in the seventh round to become the WBO Featherweight champion. This was López's debut at Featherweight after leaving his former WBO Super Bantamweight title vacant. The fight was Luevano's sixth attempt of defending his title.
• February 5 - Glen Johnson at 41 years of age, knocksout Yusaf Mack in the sixth round. At the time Mack as ranked as one of top ten Light Heavyweights in the world.
• February 6 - Tomasz Adamek outpoints Jason Estrada to win by decision.
• February 13 - Nonito Donaire knocksout Manuel Vargas in the third round to defend his interim WBA world Super Flyweight title.
• March 13 - Manny Pacquiao defeats Joshua Clottey by controlling the fight from start to finish leading to Pacquiao winning by a decision. The fight was held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas in front of nearly 51,000 people. This was Pacquiao's first defense of his newly awarded WBO Welterweight title. This was the largest American attendance since 1993 and the third largest in fifty years.
• March 13 - Alexander Povetkin knocksout Javier Mora in the fifth round. After Mora was knocked down in rounds one and two and finally in round five before the referee stopped the fight.
• March 20 - Wladimir Klitschko knocksout Eddie Chambers with a fierce left punch that hit Chambers in the temple with only five seconds left in the fight. The punch knocked out Chambers nearly instantly, with him collapsing to the canvas hanging off the last rope. This was Klitschko's first defense of his Ring magazine title, his fourth defense of his WBO title, and his eighth defense of his IBF and IBO titles.
• March 27 - Arthur Abraham is disqualified to lose to Andre Dirrell in the eleventh round. Abraham was knocked down in fourth round for the first time in his career, and later got a cut over the right eyebrow in round seven. The fight was part of the Super Six.
• March 27 - Erik Morales comes out of a nearly 32 month retirement to defeat José Alfaro by decision.
• March 27 - Pongsaklek Wonjongkam defeats Koki Kameda by a majority decision to win the WBC Flyweight title and vacant Ring magazine Flyweight title. This is the second time Wonjongkam has had the WBC Flyweight title, after first winning it back in March 2001 and defending it seventeen times. Until he lost it to Daisuke Naito in July 2007.
• April 3 - Bernard Hopkins beats Roy Jones Jr. by a decision. The fight was a rematch to a May 1993 fight in which Roy Jones Jr. won the vacant IBF Middleweight title. The fight itself got little attention from the boxing media, even though it was a topic of discussion for many years in the boxing community.
• April 3 - David Haye stops John Ruiz in the ninth round, knocking him down four times. This was Haye's first mandatory defnce of his WBA Heavyweight title.
• April 10 - Evander Holyfield at 47 years of age, knocksout Francois Botha in the eighth round to win the WBF Heavyweight title.
• April 10 - Andre Berto defeats Carlos Quintana via a referee stoppage in the eighth round. This was Berto's first fight since taking a brief hiatus for the better part of nearly a year, to help in earthquake relief efforts in Haiti as well as to handle personal and family loses from the earthquake. During the fight Berto injured his left biceps.
• April 10 - Arthur Mercante dies at age 90.
• April 17 - Lucian Bute knocksout 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 Pavlik loses to Sergio Gabriel 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. On April 18 Valero was detained on suspicion of killing his 24-year-old wife. The following day he was arrested and within hours of being put in his jail cell he committed suicide.
• April 24 - Mikkel Kessler upsets Carl Froch by a unanimous decision to win Froch's WBC Super Middleweight title. The fight was part of the Super Six.
• 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.
• April 30 - In a stunning upset Fernando Montiel knocksout Hozumi Hasegawa ending his five year, ten title defense streak and taking his WBC Bantamweight title to become the WBO and WBC Bantamweight champion. The knockout came as a surprise due to Hasegawa seeming to be clearing leading for the opening rounds until the end of the fourth when Montiel landed a left punch that stunned Hasegawa and pushed him back to the ropes where he unloaded on him till the referee stopped the fight.
• May 1 - Floyd Mayweather 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, however Mayweather then went on to control the fight.
• May 8 - In a brief fight between Paul Williams and Kermit Cintrón, Cintrón fell outside of the ring and was 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 Light Middleweight title.
• May 15 - Amir Khan dominates Paul Malignaggi to win by TKO in the eleventh round. 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 Gabriel 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 still holds the WBC and Ring magazine Middleweight titles as well as the WBC Light Middleweight title.
• June 5 - Miguel Cotto defeats Yuri Foreman by a ninth round stoppage, due to a leg injury Foreman suffered during the fight. In an amazing display of will power Foreman refused to quit despite being in what he later referred as a "very sharp pain". A towel as thrown in the ring, however it was ruled to have come from an outside source and the fight was continued for another minute until being stopped officially. This was Cotto's first fight 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 19 - Andre Ward defeats Allan Green by decision. This was part of the Super Six. The fight was only the third time Andre Ward has fought in his birth city of Oakland.
• July 10 - Juan Manuel López stops Bernabé Concepción in a second round TKO to defend his newly awarded WBO Featherweight title.
• July 31 - In a rematch of 2009's fight of the year, Juan Manuel Márquez defeats Juan Díaz for a second time to retain his WBO Lightweight title and to win the WBA super world Lightweight title.
• July 31 - On the undercard of Márquez/Díaz 2, top 10 ranked Lightweight Robert Guerrero defeated Joel Casamayor.
• August 9 - Jay Larkin dies due to a brain tumor at age 59.
• August 14 - Jean Pascal upsets Chad Dawson by a technical decision due to a accidental headbut that caused a major cut over Dawson's right eye and 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 Cruiserweight 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 has become the first person to defeat Calderón and end his undefeated 34 fight winning record.
• September 4 - Felix Sturm defeats Giovanni Lorenzo by a unanimous decision in his first fight in over a year.
• September 4 - Ricky Burns upsets the previously undefeated Román Martínez to end his 24-0 streak.
• September 11 - Yuriorkis Gamboa defeats Orlando Salido to unified the WBA World and vacant IBF Featherweight titles. Gamboa went down once in round eight and was deducted two points in round twelve; Salido down twice in the twelfth round.
• September 11 - Wladimir Klitschko defeats Samuel Peter for the second time, in rematch of there 2005 fight.
• September 18 - After twelve rounds of boxing Shane Mosley vs. Sergio Mora ends in a controversial draw, even though most people felt Mosley clearly won.
• October 2 - Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym loses to Ryol Li Lee in a stunning upset. This was Kratingdaenggym's first lost since July 2006 against Volodymyr Sydorenko.

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2011

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