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"Celtic Warrior" Steve Collins retained the WBO super middleweight crown #OnThisDay in 1996 with a Round 4 TKO of Nigel Benn at the Nynex Arena in Manchester. Benn was unable to continue after sustaining an ankle injury.

Rocky creator and star Sylvester Stallone was born in New York City #OnThisDay in 1946.

Johnny Dundee retained his (then lightly regarded) world junior lightweight crown #OTD in 1922 with a 15-round unanimous decision victory over "Little" Jack Sharkey at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn. More than 10,000 people witnessed the bout.

World Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard KO'd Charley White in Round 9 of 10 #OTD in 1920 at Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Articles of Agreement stipulated a catchweight clash but the title was considered to be at stake - although White had to win by stoppage or DQ to secure it as the bout was officially a "no decision" contest.

The "Michigan Assassin" Stanley Ketchel retained the world middleweight title #OnThisDay in 1909 with a 20-round decision victory over "Illinois Thunderbolt" Billy Papke at the Mission Street Arena in Colma, California.

New York cops stepped in to stop an "illegal" six-round exhibition bout between World Heavyweight Champ Bob Fitzsimmons and former king John L Sullivan #OTD in 1897. The pair were warned they would be locked up if they went ahead with their planned spar, part of a series of athletic events, in front of a crowd gathered at Ambrose Park in South Brooklyn. Fitz, who described the intervention as "an outrage", instead indulged in some Greco-Roman wrestling with famed grappler Ernest Roeber.

Future World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis made his professional debut with a first round KO of Jack Kracken in Chicago #OnThisDay in 1934.

Two-time World Welterweight Champion Johnny Saxton was born in Newark, New Jersey, #OnThisDay in 1930.

Jack Dempsey defended the world heavyweight title with a 15-round points win over Tommy Gibbons in Shelby, Montana, #OnThisDay in 1923.

James Montgomery Flagg's famous painting of the heavyweight title clash between Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey which took place #OnThisDay in 1919 at Toledo, Ohio. The painting was unveiled at Dempsey's New York City restaurant in 1944 where it remained until the venue closed in 1974. It's now in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

A wife's pain... Jess Willard's spouse Hattie was present at Toledo, Ohio, #OnThisDay in 1919 and saw for herself the brutal beating her husband endured for three rounds as he lost the world heavyweight crown to Jack Dempsey. The mother of five (pictured inset) would subsequently recall: "I was sitting with a friend, up close, too close, to the ring, and I know that I suffered every thing it's possible to suffer. I can't tell you how I felt... I don't think anyone could put it in words."

Jack Dempsey became World Heavyweight Champion in comprehensive style by utterly destroying the giant Jess Willard in 3 brutal rounds at Toledo, Ohio, #OnThisDay in 1919.

US Navy Middleweight Champion and future World MW Champ Harry Greb won a 10-round newspaper decision over "Caveman" Bob Moha #OTD in 1918 at Douglas Park, Rock Island. Greb reportedly bounced countless "lefts rights off the concrete chin" of Moha on his way to a comfortable win.

World Lightweight Champion Freddie Welsh defeated former champ Ad Wolgast #OnThisDay in 1916 when Wolgast was disqualified for a low blow in the 11th round of a scheduled 15-round battle in Denver, Colorado.

Jack Johnson retained the world heavyweight crown #OnThisDay in 1912 when police stopped his fight with Fireman Jim Flynn in East Las Vegas, New Mexico, in the ninth of a scheduled 45 rounds due to Flynn’s foul tactics. Flynn seemingly aimed to headbutt his way to victory and Johnson described him afterwards as "a joke" who behaved "like a billy goat".

Ad Wolgast retained the world lightweight title in dramatic and confusing fashion #OTD in 1912 at the Vernon Arena in California. Both Wolgast and Mexican Joe Rivers hit the floor in what many viewed as a simultaneous “double knockdown” in Round 13, with Referee Jack Welch then controversially counting Rivers out while seemingly helping Wolgast to rise. Welch, explaining his actions afterwards, said only Rivers was legitimately floored and that Wolgast had simply fallen over him, prompting him to pull Wolgast out of the way while he counted over the challenger.

Ad Wolgast retained the world lightweight title #OnThisDay in 1911 with a Round 13 KO of “The Fearless” Owen Moran at the Eighth Street Arena in San Francisco.