Commemorative Books Coverage List

Boxing 2018

Date of Paper Pages Event Covered (Daily Mirror unless stated)

5 July 1910 Page 3 Jack Johnson defeats Jim Jeffries (World Title)

3 July 1921 & Pages 1 and 3 defeats Georges Carpentier (World Heavyweight Title) 4 July 1921 Front and page 17

25 Sept 1926 Front, 3 and 15 defeats Jack Dempsey (World Heavyweight Title)

23 Sept 1927 & Pages 1, 3 and 18 Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey again (World Heavyweight Title) 24 Sep 1927 Front

1 October 1927 Front and page 5 More on Tunney v Dempsey

19 Feb 1930 Pages 5 and 22 Kid Berg is Light Welterweight Champion after defeating Mushy Callahan

24 June 1937 Page 30 defeats Jim Braddock (World Heavyweight Title)

21 Oct 1947 Page 7 Rinty Monaghan defeats Dado Marino (NBA World Flyweight Title)

29 Oct 1951 Page 11 defeats Joe Louis

19 June 1954 Page 14 Rocky Marciano defeats (World Heavyweight Title)

18 May 1955 Pages 1, 16 & 17 Rocky Marciano defeats Don Cockell (World Heavyweight Title)

23 Sept 1955 Pages 16 & 17 Rocky Marciano defeats (World Heavyweight Title)

3 Dec 1956 Page 17 defeats Archie Moore (World Heavyweight title)

25 Sept 1957 Page 23 defeats (World Middleweight Title)

27 March 1958 Page 23 Sugar Ray Robinson wins back the Middleweight title, defeating Basilio in a rematch

28 June 1959 Pages 1, 16 &17 Ingemar Johansson defeats Floyd Patterson (World Heavyweight Title)

22 June 1960 Pages 28 & 29 Floyd Patterson regains the World Heavyweight Title, defeating Ingemar Johansson

19 June 1963 Pages 22 & 23 Cassius Clay defeats at Wembley

23 July 1963 & Back page defeats Floyd Patterson again (World Heavyweight Title) 24 July 1963 Page 18

27 Feb 1964 Page 31 Cassius Clay defeats Sonny Liston (World Heavyweight Title)

26 May 1965 Back page Cassius Clay defeats Sonny Liston again (World Heavyweight Title)

8 Feb 1967 Pages 22 & 23 Cassius Clay defeats (World Heavyweight Title)

28 Oct 1970 Pages 26 & 27 Cassius Clay defeats Jerry Quarry in his comeback

10 March 1971 Pages 12 & 13 defeats Cassius Clay in “The Fight of the Century” 30 Jan 1974 Pages 30 & 31 defeats Joe Frazier

2 Oct 1974 Front, 30 & 31, Back page John Conteh defeats Jorge Ahumada (World Light-Heavyweight Title)

31 Oct 1974 Pages 26 & 27 Muhammad Ali defeats in “The Rumble in the Jungle”

2 Oct 1975 Pages 26 & 27 Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in “The Thrilla in Manila”

17 Sept 1978 Pages 36 & 37 Muhammad Ali defeats in a rematch

18 Apr 1979 Back page Jim Watt defeats Alfredo Pitalau to become World Lightweight champion

17 March 1980 Back page Alan Minter defeats Vito Antuofermo (World Middleweight Title)

9 June 1985 & Back page Barry McGuigan defeats Eusebio Pedroza (World Featherweight Title) 10 June 1985 Page 26

29 Sept 1986 Pages 26 & 27 Lloyd Honeyghan defeats Don Curry (World Welterweight Title)

24 Nov 1986 Pages 26 & 27 defeats Trevor Berbick (WBC Heavyweight Title)

3 Aug 1987 Pages 26 & 27 Mike Tyson becomes undisputed World Heavyweight champion after defeating Tony Tucker

30 March 1988 Pages 42, 43 & back Lloyd Honeyghan wins back the Welterweight title after defeating Jorge Vaca in a rematch

29 June 1988 Pages 30, 31 & back Mike Tyson defeats (World Heavyweight Title)

9 Nov 1988 Pages 38 & 39 defeats Donny Lalonde (WBC Super Middleweight & WBC Titles)

27 Feb 1989 Pages 30 & 31 Mike Tyson defeats Frank Bruno (World Heavyweight Title)

2 Oct 1993 Pages 36 & 37 defeats Frank Bruno (WBC World Heavyweight Title)

11 Oct 1993 Pages 30 & 31 Nigel Benn v Chris Eubank ends in a draw

7 Nov 1994 Pages 32 & 33 George Foreman becomes the oldest World Heavyweight champion at 46, after defeating Michael Moorer

26 Feb 1995 Pages 62 & 63 Nigel Benn defeats Gerald McClellan

4 Sept 1995 Pages 26 & 27 Frank Bruno becomes WBC Heavyweight champion after defeating Oliver McCall

18 March 1996 Pages 30 & 31 Frank Bruno loses his title to Mike Tyson

11 Nov 1996 Pages 34 & 35 defeats Mike Tyson (World Heavyweight Title)

9 Feb 1997 Pages 70 & 71 Prince Naseem Hamed defeats Tom ‘Boom Boom’ Johnson (WBO & IBF World Featherweight title)

30 June 1997 Pages 34 & 35 Mike Tyson is disqualified after twice biting Evander Holyfield’s ear

10 June 2002 Pages 1, 58, 59 and back Lennox Lewis defeats Mike Tyson (World Heavyweight Title)

1 Aug 2004 Pages 68 & 69 Danny Williams defeats Mike Tyson

6 Jun 2005 Pages 62 & 63 defeats Kostya Tszyu for IBF Light-Welterweight crown

17 Jul 2005 Page 64 Amir Kahn wins his first professional fight against David Bailey 28 Nov 2005 Page 55 Ricky Hatton defeats Carlos Maussa (IBF/WBA Light-Welterweight Title)

6 March 2006 Pages 54 & 55 Joe Calzaghe defeats Jeff Lacy to unify the IBF and WBO Super- middleweight belts

22 Jan 2007 Pages 54 & 55 Ricky Hatton defeats Juan Urango

25 Jun 2007 Pages 62 & 63 Ricky Hatton defeats Jose Luis Castillo

5 Nov 2007 Pages 58 & 59 Joe Calzaghe defeats to become undisputed World Super- Middleweight champion

21 Apr 2008 Pages 58 & 59 Joe Calzaghe defeats

25 May 2008 Pages 58 & 59 Ricky Hatton defeats Juan Lazcano

10 Nov 2008 Pages 50 & 51 Joe Calzaghe defeats Roy Jones Jnr

24 Nov 2008 Pages 54 & 55 Ricky Hatton defeats Paulie Malignaggi

27 Apr 2009 Pages 52 & 53 Carl Froch defeats Jermain Taylor

20 Jul 2009 Pages 54 & 55 Amir Khan defeats Andreas Kotelnik

8 Nov 2009 Pages 78 & 79 defeats Nikolai Valuev (WBA World Heavyweight title)

4 Apr 2010 Pages 56 & 57 David Haye defends his title by stopping

17 May 2010 Pages 60 & 61 Amir Khan defeats Paulie Malignaggi (WBA Light-welterweight title)

25 Jul 2011 Page 55 Amir Khan defeats Zab Judah (WBA/IBF Light-welterweight title)

17 Dec 2012 Page 45 Amir Khan defeats Carlos Molina

27 May 2013 Pages 62 & 63 Carl Froch defeats Mikkel Kessler

1 June 2014 Pages 62, 63 and back Carl Froch defeats at Wembley

15 Dec 2014 Page 45 Amir Khan defeats Devon Alexander

4 May 2015 Pages 52 & 53 Floyd Mayweather defeats

24 May 2015 Page 73 James DeGale defeats Andre Dirrell

29 Nov 2015 Pages 76, 77 and back defeats to become World Heavyweight champion

28 Feb 2016 Page 61 is crowned unified World Super-Bantamweight champion after defeating

10 Apr 2016 Page 61 is crowned IBF World Heavyweight champion after defeating Charles Martin

30 May 2016 Page 51 Tony Bellew claims the WBC World title against

26 June 2016 Page 70 Anthony Joshua makes a successful first defense of his IBF World Heavyweight crown against Dominic Breazeale

1 Aug 2016 Page 49 Carl Frampton defeats Leo Santa Cruz to win the WBA featherweight title in New York 16 Oct 2016 Page 60 Tony Bellew defends his WBC cruiserweight title by defeating BJ Flores

5 Mar 2017 Pages 70 & 71 Tony Bellew defeats David Haye in his first heavyweight fight

30 Apr 2017 Pages 70 & 71 Anthony Joshua defeats Wladimir Klitschko in the IBF, WBA and IBO heavyweight title fight at Wembley Stadium

28 Aug 2017 Pages 44 & 45 Floyd Mayweather defeats Conor McGregor in Las Vegas

29 Oct 2017 Pages 70 & 71 Anthony Joshua defeats Carlos Takam in

18 Feb 2018 Page 64 George Groves defeats Chris Eubank Jr. in

25 Mar 2018 Page 59 defeats Lucas Browne at

1 Apr 2018 Pages 74 & 75 Anthony Joshua defeats in Cardiff

23 Sep 2018 Pages 74, 75 and back Anthony Joshua defeats at Wembley Stadium

Total Pages 168