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Commemorative Books Coverage List Boxing 2017 Date of Paper Pages Event Covered (Daily Mirror unless stated) 5 July 1910 Page 3 Jack Johnson defeats Jim Jeffries (World Heavyweight Title) 3 July 1921 & Pages 1 and 3 Jack Dempsey defeats Georges Carpentier (World Heavyweight Title) 4 July 1921 Front and page 17 25 Sept 1926 Front, 3 and 15 Gene Tunney 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 Joe Louis 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 Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis 19 June 1954 Page 14 Rocky Marciano defeats Ezzard Charles (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 Archie Moore (World Heavyweight Title) 3 Dec 1956 Page 17 Floyd Patterson defeats Archie Moore (World Heavyweight title) 25 Sept 1957 Page 23 Carmen Basilio defeats Sugar Ray Robinson (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 Henry Cooper at Wembley 23 July 1963 & Back page Sonny Liston 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 Ernie Terrell (World Heavyweight Title) 28 Oct 1970 Pages 26 & 27 Cassius Clay defeats Jerry Quarry in his comeback 10 March 1971 Pages 12 & 13 Joe Frazier defeats Cassius Clay in “The Fight of the Century” 30 Jan 1974 Pages 30 & 31 Muhammad Ali 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 George Foreman 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 Leon Spinks 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 Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick (WBC Heavyweight Title) 3 Aug 1987 Pages 26 & 27 Mike Tyson becomes undisputed World Heavyweight champion after defbeating 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 Michael Spinks (World Heavyweight Title) 9 Nov 1988 Pages 38 & 39 Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Donny Lalonde (WBC Super Middleweight & WBC Light Heavyweight Titles) 27 Feb 1989 Pages 30 & 31 Mike Tyson defeats Frank Bruno (World Heavyweight Title) 2 Oct 1993 Pages 36 & 37 Lennox Lewis 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 Evander Holyfield 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 Ricky Hatton 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 Mikkel Kessler to become undisputed World Super- Middleweight champion 21 Apr 2008 Pages 58 & 59 Joe Calzaghe defeats Bernard Hopkins 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 David Haye defeats Nikolai Valuev (WBA World Heavyweight title) 4 Apr 2010 Pages 56 & 57 David Haye defends his title by stopping John Ruiz 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 George Groves at Wembley 15 Dec 2014 Page 45 Amir Khan defeats Devon Alexander 4 May 2015 Pages 52 & 53 Floyd Mayweather defeats Manny Pacquiao 24 May 2015 Page 73 James DeGale defeats Andre Dirrell 29 Nov 2015 Pages 76, 77 and back Tyson Fury defeats Wladimir Klitschko to become World Heavyweight champion 28 Feb 2016 Page 61 Carl Frampton is crowned unified World Super-Bantamweight champion after defeating Scott Quigg 10 Apr 2016 Page 61 Anthony Joshua is crowned IBF World Heavyweight champion after defeating Charles Martin 30 May 2016 Page 51 Tony Bellew claims the WBC World Cruiserweight title against Ilunga Makabu 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 and back Anthony Joshua defeats Wladimir Klitschko in the IBF, WBA and IBO heavyweight title fight at Wembley Stadium Total Pages 158 .