Davey Moore vs. Roberto Durán was a professional boxing match contested on June 16, 1983, for the WBA super welterweight title.

n January 1983, former welterweight champions Roberto Durán and Pipino Cuevas met in a non-title bout at the LA Sports Arena. Durán dominated the fight and scored a fourth-round knockout victory that put him in line for a title shot against the undefeated reigning WBA super welterweight champion Davey Moore. Despite Durán’s impressive victory, he was still perceived to be on the downside of his career having lost to little-known Kirkland Laing only nine months prior and the 23-year old Moore expressed doubt that the soon-to-be 32-year old Durán would be a match for him, infamously stating “Was that Duran looking so good or Cuevas so bad?”

The fight was originally scheduled to take place on May 27 in Bophuthatswana, South Africa with a Ray Mancini–Kenny Bogner WBA lightweight title fight as the co-main event, but the event was cancelled after Mancini was forced to pull out with a fractured collarbone. Two weeks later, the Moore–Durán fight was rescheduled for June 16 (Durán’s 32nd birthday) at Madison Square Garden in Moore’s native New York City. Durán underwent a rigorous training schedule with his longtime trainer Ray Arcel proclaiming “Right now, he looks better than I’ve seen him in several years” while Durán himself stated “What will beat Moore is not only my experience, but my conditioning. If I had to pick between them, I would say my conditioning.” Durán admitted that a loss to Moore would possibly lead to his retirement saying “If I lose, I’ll probably retire, but I’m not thinking about losing the fight. I’m stronger, more mature, more experienced and I’m training more seriously than at any time in my career.”

Moore had successfully defended his title three times, defeating all three opponents by knockout and was installed as 5–2 favorite by oddsmakers and was confident in his ability to defeat his opponent claiming that Durán was “over the hill but he still has his name and beating him will take me to the big money fights. I don’t expect a very long fight, it might even be over in a round.”

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Ken Buchanan 43–1 (16 KO) vs. Roberto Durán 28–0 (24 KO) was a professional boxing match contested on June 26, 1972, for the WBA and The Ring lightweight title.

In May 1972, it was announced that the reigning WBA lightweight champion would face the number-one ranked contender Roberto Durán in Madison Square Garden on June 26th, two days before Buchanan’s 27th birthday. Heavily anticipated, Buchanan was given a $125,000 purse, a then-record for a fighter in the lightweight division. Buchanan had first won the lightweight title in 1970 after defeating Durán’s countryman Ismael Laguna, the win propelled Buchanan into one of the boxing’s top fighters and he was named the top fighter of 1970 by the American Boxing Writers’ Association.[3] The 21-year old Durán, meanwhile, was a perfect 28–0 with all but four of his wins coming by knockout and had quickly established himself as a top contender.

The brazen Durán predicted he would knockout the champion out “in 9 rounds or less”, Buchanan however discredited Durán’s impressive record claiming none of the fighters he had beaten previously had been a top fighter asking, “Who’s He Beaten?’ He has a fair record, but he’s not fought anybody. He’s the No. 1 challenger, but who’s he beaten? He’s never fought anybody in the top ten. But the World Boxing Association told me I had to fight him because he’s the No. 1 challenger. As long as he’s legitimate, I’ll fight the man.”

Buchanan entered the fight as a slight 2–1 favorite. The fight drew a crowd of 18,821 and produced a gate of $223,901, a then-record for an indoor lightweight fight.

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Evander Holyfield vs. James Toney, billed as The War on October 4, was a professional boxing match contested on October 4, 2003.

n June 2003, it was announced that former 4-time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield would face reigning IBF cruiserweight champion James Toney in a non-title bout set for October 4, 2003.

Holyfield’s previous fight had been a loss to Chris Byrd in an IBF heavyweight title fight. Following the loss, Holyfield had entered negotiations with promoter Don King to face then-WBA heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr. Jones’ promoter claimed Holyfield was offered a $10 million purse, but negotiations fell through when Holyfield demanded an additional $2 million added on because he claimed King owed him such. After the proposed Holyfield–Jones fight fell through, Holyfield instead reached an agreement to face Toney.

Toney had won the IBF cruiserweight title in April by defeating Vassiliy Jirov, giving him his first major title since 1994 and making him a 3-division world champion as he had previously captured titles in both the middleweight and super middleweight divisions. Toney and his promoter Dan Goossen had agreed that if Toney beat Jirov for the cruiserweight title, then he could “do what he wanted.” After doing so, Toney then decided to move up to the heavyweight division.

Going in to the fight Holyfield was ranked as the 4th Heavyweight in the world by Ring magazine, as well as in the top 5 by both the WBC & IBF.

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Larry Holmes vs. Leon Spinks, billed as A Tribute to Joe Louis, was a professional boxing match contested on June 12, 1981, for the WBC and The Ring heavyweight championship.

Promoter Don King had hoped to pit reigning WBC heavyweight champion Larry Holmes against former undisputed heavyweight shortly after Holmes’ lopsided victory over an aging Muhammad Ali, announcing his plans in a press conference in late November 1980.
The WBC, however, recognized Gerry Cooney as their top ranked contender and chose not to elevate Spinks in their rankings to replace Cooney, temporarily delaying the fight. With Holmes and Cooney unable to come to terms, Holmes was instead matched up against Trevor Berbick, with King stating he was still working on a Holmes–Spinks title fight as a follow-up for Holmes should he defeat Berbick.

After Holmes defeated Berbick on April 11, 1981, his defense against Spinks was set. Originally the fight was to take place in Caesars Palace in the Las Vegas Valley on May 22, where seven of Holmes’ ten title fights had taken place, however, the fight was moved back to June 12 and the venue switched to Detroit after it was reported that both fighters wanted more time to prepare. King decided to belatedly dedicate the fight to the memory of Joe Louis, the great former heavyweight champion from Detroit, whom had died two months earlier after attending the Holmes–Berbick fight, with the fight taking place in his namesake arena.

Holmes was a 4 to 1 favorite going into the bout.

This was the first heavyweight title bout in Detroit since November 1970, when Joe Frazier knocked out light heavyweight champion Bob Foster in the second round at the Cobo Arena.

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