Lists of notable fights and other key news by year
2000
February
March
April
June
July
- July 15 - Lennox Lewis defeat Francois Botha via 2nd-round KO to retain his WBC, IBF, IBO, Lineal Heavyweight Championship
August
September
- September 2 - Erik Morales defeats Kevin Kelley by 7th-round KO to win the Interim WBC Featherweight Championship
- September 2 - Diego Corrales defeats Angel Manfredy by 3rd-round TKO to retained his IBF & IBA Super Featherweight Championship
- September 9 - Roy Jones Jr. defeats Eric Harding by 10th-round TKO to retained his WBC, WBA, IBF, and won the IBO Light Heavyweight Championship
November
December
2001
January
March
- March 3 - John Ruiz defeats Evander Holyfield by unanimous decision to win the WBA Heavyweight championship. Ruiz, an American of Puerto Rican descent, becomes the first Hispanic world heavyweight champion.
- March 24 - Oscar De La Hoya wins decisively against Arturo Gatti by knockout in five rounds in a non-title match.
April
- April 7 - After a fourteen-minute introduction, Naseem Hamed loses to Marco Antonio Barrera by unanimous decision. Barrera, then known as a brawler, surprisingly easily out-boxed Hamed, who later retired after his next bout.
- April 22 - Hasim Rahman defeats Lennox Lewis via 5th-round KO in South Africa and wins the WBC and IBF heavyweight titles. Rahman lands a hard right hand for the upset knockout.
May
June
September
November
December
- December 15 - John Ruiz and Evander Holyfield fought to a draw for the WBA Heavyweight Championship
2002
January
February
- February 2 - In his first fight after becoming Undisputed Middleweight Champion, Bernard Hopkins defends the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles against Carl Daniels.
March
April
May
June
July
September
November
- November 23 - Arturo Gatti defeats Mickey Ward by unanimous decision in their second fight
December
2003
January
March
June
- June 21 - Lennox Lewis defends his title as he defeats Vitali Klitschko by technical knockout in 6 due to a cut in Klitschko's left eye. Klitschko was up on all of the scorecards at the time of the stoppage. There is talk of a rematch, but Lewis instead retires.
July
- July 12 - Ricardo Mayorga successfully defends his WBA and WBC welterweight belts as he defeats Vernon Forrest by controversial majority decision.
- July 17 - Jeff Lacy (as an up-and-coming super middleweight) defeats Richard Grant to win the vacant NABA Super Middleweight title as well as the USBA and WBC Continental Americas Super Middleweight titles.
September
November
December
2004
January
March
April
May
- May 8 - Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Márquez fought for the Featherweight championship. Although he was knocked down 3 times in the 1st round, Márquez managed to control the succeeding rounds to earn a somewhat controversial draw. Márquez retained his WBA and IBF titles, while Pacquiao retained his Ring Magazine title.
- May 15 - Antonio Tarver upsets Roy Jones Jr., knocking him out in the second round to take the WBC, WBA and WBO light heavyweight titles.
September
- September 18 - Bernard Hopkins adds the WBO title to his undisputed middleweight status as he defeats Oscar De La Hoya by a bodyshot knockout in the ninth round. This is Oscar De La Hoya's only defeat by knockout, and the last knockout victory Hopkins achieved (All of Hopkins' victories after this will be by decision).
- September 25 - Roy Jones Jr. gets knocked out for the second consecutive fight as he loses to Glen Johnson for the IBF light heavyweight title.
November
December
2005
February
March
May
June
July
October
December
2006
January
February
March
April
May
- May 6 - Oscar De La Hoya returns from a 20-month break and defeats Ricardo Mayorga for the WBC super welterweight title.
- May 11 - Former two-time heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson dies from complications of Alzheimer’s disease and prostate cancer.
- May 20 - Marco Antonio Barrera defeats Rocky Juarez by split decision. Juarez was competitive throughout the fight, breaking Barrera's nose in the early rounds. The fight was originally announced as a draw, until it was later revealed that there were two scorecard tabulation errors.
June
July
August
September
October
November
2007
January
February
- February 3 - Chad Dawson becomes WBC Light Heavyweight champion after defeating Tomasz Adamek by unanimous decision. Despite being knocked down from a straight right hand in round 10, Dawson dominates most of the fight with his speed.
- February 10 - Shane Mosley becomes WBC Welterweight champion by defeating Luis Collazo by unanimous decision.
- February 17 - Michael Sprott defeats Audley Harrison by third-round KO to win the European Union heavyweight title
March
- March 3 - Chris John defeats Jose Rojas by unanimous decision to retain the WBA featherweight title.
- March 3 - Miguel Cotto defeats Oktay Urkal by 11th round TKO to retain WBA welterweight title.
- March 3 - Rafael Márquez moves up in weight class and defeats Ring Magazine and WBC Super Bantamweight champion Israel Vázquez by 7th-round technical knockout. Vazquez did not answer the bell after badly breaking his nose and having trouble breathing.
- March 10 - Wladimir Klitschko defends his IBF Heavyweight title by defeating Ray Austin by 2nd-round knockout.
- March 10 - Souleymane M'baye defeats Andreas Kotelnik by split decision to retain the WBA light welterweight title
- March 17 - Jean-Marc Mormeck defeats O'Neil Bell by unanimous decision in their rematch to win the WBA, WBC, The Ring and lineal cruiserweight titles.
- March 17 - Juan Manuel Márquez defeats Marco Antonio Barrera by unanimous decision to become the WBC Super Featherweight champion. In the seventh round there was controversy, as Marquez thoroughly dominated the round then got knocked down by Barrera. Referee Jay Nady ruled this a slip, then penalized Barrera for hitting while Marquez was on the canvas.
- March 24 - Mikkel Kessler defends his WBA and WBC Super middleweight titles by defeating Librado Andrade by a shutout unanimous decision.
April
May
June
July
August
- August 4 - David Díaz defeats Erik Morales by unanimous decision to win the vacant WBC lightweight title. This was Morales' fourth consecutive defeat and he would not fight again until 2010.
- August 4 - Israel Vázquez defeats Rafael Márquez by technical knockout in the 6th round of their rematch to recapture the WBC super bantamweight title. The two traded punches throughout the fight before Vázquez dominated Márquez in the sixth round, causing the referee to stop the fight.
- August 25 - Iván Calderón defeats Hugo Fidel Cazares in a split decision to win the WBO Light Flyweight title and to become The Ring Magazine Jr. Flyweight champion. This was Calderon's first fight at Light Flyweight.
September
- September 1 - Ricardo Torres defeats Kendall Holt by 11th-round TKO to retain the WBO light welterweight title.
- September 7 - Junior Witter defeats Vivian Harris by 7th round KO to retain the WBC light welterweight title.
- September 29 - Clinton Woods defeats Julio César González by unanimous decision to retain the IBF light heavyweight title.
- September 29 - Kelly Pavlik upsets Jermain Taylor by 7th round TKO to win the WBC, WBO and universally recognized middleweight championship. Pavlik was knocked down in the second round but rallied back against a tired Taylor.
- September 29 - Chad Dawson defeats Epifanio Mendoza by 4th round stoppage to retain the WBC light heavyweight title
October
November
December
2008
January
February
March
- March 1 - Israel Vázquez successfully defends the WBC and Ring Magazine titles as he defeats Rafael Márquez by split decision.
- March 8 - David Haye unifies the WBA, WBC, WBO, The Ring and lineal cruiserweight titles as he defeats Enzo Maccarinelli by a 2nd-round technical knockout.
- March 8 - Samuel Peter wins the WBC Heavyweight title as he defeats Oleg Maskaev by 6th-round TKO.
- March 15 - Manny Pacquiao becomes the Ring Magazine and WBC super featherweight champion as he defeats Juan Manuel Márquez by split decision.
- March 22 - Andreas Kotelnik defeats Gavin Rees by 12th round TKO to win his WBA light-welterweight title
- March 22 - Joel Casamayor defeats Michael Katsidis by 10th-round technical knockout to defend the Ring Magazine Lightweight championship. In a thrilling back-and-forth fight, Casamayor knocked down Katsidis twice in the opening round, only to have Katsidis come back with a knockdown in the 6th. Casamayor knocked Katsidis down again in the 10th, hurting him in the process, and the referee called a halt to the contest.
- March 27 - Verno Phillips defeats Cory Spinks by split decision to win the IBF light-middleweight title
April
May
June
July
- July 3 - Hugo Garay defeats Yuri Barashian by unanimous decision to win the vacant WBA light heavyweight title
- July 5 - Felix Sturm defeats Randy Griffin by unanimous decision to retain WBA middleweight title
- July 5 - Kendall Holt defeats Ricardo Torres by 1st round TKO to win the WBO light welterweight title
- July 11 - Daniel Santos defeats Joachim Alcine by 6th round KO to win the WBA light middleweight title
- July 12 - Wladimir Klitschko defeats Tony Thompson by 11th round KO to retain the IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight titles
- July 26 - Antonio Margarito knocks out Miguel Cotto in the 11th to gain the WBA Welterweight title. Cotto managed to control the early rounds, but Margarito came back with relentless pressure, eventually winning one of the greatest fights of the year. But the handwrap controversy surrounding Margarito was later to call the victory's validity into question.
August
September
October
November
December
2009
January
- January 3 - Toshiaki Nishioka defeats Genaro Garcia by 12th round TKO to retain WBC super bantamweight title
- January 10 - Zsolt Erdei defeats Yuri Barashian by unanimous decision to retain the WBO light-heavyweight title
- January 17 - Andre Berto defeats Luis Collazo by unanimous decision to retain the WBC welterweight title
- January 24 - Shane Mosley defeats Antonio Margarito to win the WBA welterweight title by 9th-round TKO. Controversy erupted before the fight when it was discovered that Margarito had an illegal plaster-like substance in his gloves. Margarito and his trainer had their boxing licenses revoked.
- January 30 - Former heavyweight champion 1959–60 Ingemar Johansson dies from complications of pneumonia and had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
- January 30 - Juan Urango defeats Herman Ngoudjo by unanimous decision to win vacant IBF light-welterweight title
February
March
- March 1 - Israel Vázquez defeats Rafael Márquez by split decision to retain the WBC and The Ring super-bantamweight titles in the third bout of their rivalry.
- March 12 - Hozumi Hasegawa defeats Vusi Malinga by first-round stoppage to retain the WBC bantamweight title
- March 13 - Lucian Bute defeats Fulgencio Zuniga by fourth-round stoppage to retain the IBF super-middleweight title
- March 14 - Arthur Abraham defeats Lajuan Simon by unanimous decision to retain the IBF middleweight title
- March 14 - Amir Khan defeats Marco Antonio Barrera after the fight was stopped toward the end of the 5th round. Barrera suffering a severe cut, reopened from his previous fight, by a clash of heads late in the opening round. With Barrera deemed in no position to fight on by the ringside doctor, the fight went to the scorecards where Khan was ahead on all three.
- March 21 - Vitali Klitschko defeats Juan Carlos Gómez by 9th round TKO
- March 21 - Roy Jones Jr. knocks out Omar Sheika in the 5th round to win the vacant NABO light heavyweight title. This was Jones' first knockout win in 6½ years. The undercard featured MMA fights.
April
May
June
July
August
September
- September 12 - Mikkel Kessler defeats Gusmyr Perdomo by fourth-round KO to retain the WBA super-middleweight title
- September 12 - Iván Calderón defeats Rodel Mayol to defend his WBO light flyweight title for the fifth time. The two had previously fought to a draw.
- Román Martínez defeats Feider Viloria by ninth-round KO to retain the WBO super-featherweight title
- September 19 - Sebastian Sylvester defeats Giovanni Lorenzo by split decision to win the vacant the IBF middleweight title
- September 19 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. dominates Juan Manuel Márquez in Mayweather's comeback fight, after retiring 21 months earlier. It was the first time Marquez had fought above the 135 lb (61 kg). limit. There was some controversy over Mayweather being two pounds over the 144 lb (65 kg) weight limit, for which he later paid Marquez $600,000. The fight was aired the same night that UFC 103 was aired, however sold much better, with 600,000 more PPV buys.
- September 26 - Vitali Klitschko knocks out undefeated Chris Arreola in the 10th round. The fight was Klitschko's fourth defense of his WBC heavyweight title.
October
November
December
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