On this day in 1980, Marvelous Marvin Hagler won the undisputed middleweight title with third-round TKO of Alan Minter in London.

The World Boxing Council, which not long ago gave their imprimatur to the Sept. 2 Sam Peter/James Toney WBC heavyweight eliminator at the Staples Center in L.A., with the winner (Peter) to fight the winner of the WBC heavyweight title fight between then-champion Hasim Rahman and Oleg Maskaev, has approved by a vote of 21 to 10 a rematch between Peter and Toney.

ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas will call the Contender finale this evening with Friday Night Fights sidekick Joe Tessitore. Atlas checked in with TSS to offer his take on the finale.

Fresh off the firestorm of indignation he created at the United Nations General Assembly last week, which earned him the moniker ‘the bad boy of U.N. summitry’ by the Washington Post, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez, after castigating George Bush for his policies at home and overseas, took some time to sit down with Tavis Smiley on Friday, September 22, to discuss a wide range of subjects.

On this day in 1951, greats Willie Pep and Sandy Saddler met for the fourth and final time of their careers, ending one of the most savage rivalries in boxing history.

The World Boxing Association’s Executive Board recently ruled in favor of two-time world heavyweight champion John “The Quietman” Ruiz, regarding a dispute about the Universum-announced October 28th date for the WBA elimination fight between Ruiz and No. 2 rated challenger Russlan “White Tyson” Chagaev, to determine the organization’s official No. 1 heavyweight contender.

Next October 8 in Milan, Salvatore Cherchi and Parisi Flash Promotion will stage a major fight card. The main event of will be the return of former WBO lightweight and light welterweight champion Giovanni Parisi, who will challenge European welterweight king Frederic Klose.

The boxer Shelby “Girl� Walker (7-6-1, 6 KOs) was found dead yesterday in her apartment from an apparent overdose of pain medication.

On this day in 2004, Glen Johnson successfully defended his IBF Light Heavyweight title by knocking out Roy Jones, Jr., in the ninth round in Memphis, Tennessee.

On this day in 1994, Lennox Lewis lost his WBC heavyweight title to Oliver McCall by a second round TKO. It was a hard lesson for Lewis, but the knowledge he took from that experience helped made him the most dominant heavyweight of his era.