Nov. 6, 1981: WBC heavyweight champ Larry Holmes survives a scare in the seventh round when challenger Renaldo Snipes connects with a big right to the jaw that drops the Easton Assassin and sends him crashing into the ropes when he rises. But Holmes survives the haymaker and retains the title with an 11th round TKO in Pittsburgh. The win is a primer for Holmes' biggest challenge, which takes place in June 1982 against Gerry Cooney in Las Vegas.

Nov. 6, 1993: Evander Holyfield wins a split decision over champion Riddick Bowe to reclaim the IBF and WBA portions of the title. Bowe beat Holyfield in 1992, but relinquished the WBC belt. The fight was interrupted near the end of the seventh round when a man in a glider crashed into the ring. The “Fan Man” was then beaten by members of Bowe's entourage. Action was interrupted for more than 20 minutes.

Nov. 7, 1970: Argentine Carlos Monzon scores a 12th-round kayo over champion Nino Benvenuti in Rome to win the world middleweight title. The charismatic Monzon, the greatest fighter his country has ever produced, sets a then-division record of 14 title defenses until he retires, permanently, in 1977.

Nov. 7, 1988: Fighting for the first time since scoring his upset win over middleweight champion Marvin Hagler in April 1987, Sugar Ray Leonard knocks out WBC light heavyweight champion Donny Lalonde in the ninth round in Las Vegas to win the 175lbs. crown, and, newly created WBC super middleweight title.

Nov. 7, 1992: Fresh off his destruction of three-division champ Jeff Fenech in March, Azumah Nelson defends his WBC junior lightweight title via 12-round unanimous decision over Calvin Grove in Stateline, Nevada. It is the eighth defense of the title since he beat Mario Martinez for the vacant belt 1988.

Nov. 8, 1997: WBA champ Evander Holyfield stops IBF king Michael Moorer in the eighth round of their rematch to unify two-thirds of the heavyweight crown, setting up a showdown with WBC champion Lennox Lewis in March 1999. Moorer won a majority decisioned over Holyfield April 22, 1994 to win the WBA and IBF belts. Moorer then lost to George Foreman in his first defense.

Nov. 8, 2003: Six months after winning the WBA heavyweight title from John Ruiz, Roy Jones drops down to light heavyweight to defend his WBC 175 lbs. crown against Antonio Tarver. Jones rallies and wins in a controversial majority decision over 12 rounds. However tainted, it is the last victory in Jones' storied career. He goes on to lose twice to Tarver and is knocked out by Glen Johnson. Also on that card, Winky Wright easily defends his IBF junior middleweight crown with a lopsided unanimous decision over Angel Hernandez.

Nov. 9, 1996: Challenger Evander Holyfield knocks out champion Mike Tyson in the 11th round to win the WBA heavyweight title in Las Vegas. Holyfield takes command in the early rounds and drops the champion in Round 6. He steadily increases his control of the bout then drives Tyson into the ropes and pummels him at the end of Round 10. Holyfield wins the rematch via third-round disqualification, when a frustrated Tyson bites Holyfield's ear – twice.

Nov. 10, 1983: Marvin Hagler barely hangs on to his undisputed middleweight crown winning a 15-round unanimous decision over Roberto Duran in Las Vegas. Although never in trouble against then-three division champ Duran, who had won the WBA junior middleweight title in his previous fight, Hagler employs an overly cautious fight plan but rallies in the late rounds for the win. Hagler, who won the title from Alan Minter in 1980, reigns supreme at 160 lbs. until losing the title to Ray Leonard in 1987. Duran eventually wins the WBC middleweight title scoring a 12-round split decision over Iran Barkley in 1989.

Nov. 10, 1965: Sugar Ray Robinson, 44, is dropped in the sixth round en route to a 10-round unanimous-decision loss to top middleweight contender Joey Archer at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh in what is his final ring appearance. Robinson, who turned pro in 1941 and won world titles at 147 lbs. and 160 lbs., leaves the ring with a 173-19-6 record. He is still regarded by most historians as the best fighter ever, pound-for-pound.

Nov. 11, 1898: George Dixon recaptures the world featherweight crown when champion Dave Sullivan is disqualified in the 10th round. Dixon, who earlier won the world bantamweight title, holds two noteworthy distinctions: he is the first Canadian-born world boxing champion, and he is the first black man to win a world championship.

Nov. 11, 1978: Making the first defense of the title he won from Ken Norton, Larry Holmes dominates, then stops, Alfredo Evangelista via seventh-round knockout in Las Vegas to retain the WBC heavyweight title.

Nov. 12, 1943: How often did boxers fight in the old days? Answer: a lot. Future middleweight champ Jake LaMotta closes out an 11-2 campaign with a 10-round split-decision win over future welterweight champ Fritzie Zivic at Madison Square Garden. It's the third meeting between the two that year, with LaMotta winning a 10-round decision in June and Zivic prevailing in a 15-round split decision in July. Earlier in the year, LaMotta split a pair of 10-round decisions against another future champion: Sugar Ray Robinson. LaMotta and Zivic fought a fourth and final time January 14, 1944 in Detroit with the Bronx Bull taking the series 3-1, via 10-round unanimous decision.

Nov. 12, 1987: Roger Mayweather scores a sixth-round kayo over champion Ray Arrendondo in Los Angeles to win the WBC junior welterweight crown.

Nov. 12, 1994: Mexican Umberto “Chiquita” Gonzalez wins a majority 12-round decision over archrival American Michael Carbajal to retain the IBF/WBC junior flyweight titles in the third and final bout of their action-packed championship series. Carbajal won the first fight via seventh-round TKO in March 1993, Gonzalez rallied to win a split decision in the rematch in Feb. 1994.

Oct. 30, 1974: Former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stops champion George Foreman in the eighth round to win the heavyweight title in Kinshasa, Zaire. In regaining the title, Ali becomes only the second man to do so; Floyd Patterson was the first.

Oct. 30, 1993: Japan-based Orzubek Nazarov, one of the many talented amateur fighters from the old Soviet Union, scores a 12-round unanimous decision over champion

Dingaan Thobela in Johannesburg, South Africa, to win the WBA lightweight crown. Nazarov, who was born in Kyrgyzstan, repeats the feat five months later and makes six successful defenses before losing to Jean Baptiste Mendy in May 1998.

Oct. 31, 1932: Jackie Brown stops Young Perez in Round 13 in Manchester, England, to win the NBA world flyweight title.

Oct. 31, 1935: John Henry Lewis wins a 15-round unanimous decision over champion Bob Olin in St. Louis to win the world light heavyweight crown.

Oct. 31, 1941: Twenty-year-old Sugar Ray Robinson outpoints former welterweight champ Fritzie Zivic via 10-round unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden to close out the ’41 campaign 20-0 and bring his overall record to 26-0 … The year 1941 started on a high note for Zivic. In his first defense of the welterweight title, the “Croat Comet” repeated his victory over Henry Armstrong, the man he won the title from, in an action-packed bout via 12th round TKO, January 17. But, he lost the title to Freddie Cochrane in his next defense that July.

Oct. 31, 1992: Lennox Lewis destroys Donovan “Razor” Ruddock via second-round TKO at Exhibition Hall, London, Earls Court, England. The victory puts Lewis in line to fight the winner to the upcoming Holyfield vs. Bowe fight, which Bowe wins … Shortly after, Lewis is declared the WBC champion when Bowe, refusing to honor a preflight agreement that the Bowe-Holyfield winner fight Lewis, relinquishes the WBC title.

Nov. 1, 1922: Mickey Walker wins a 15-round unanimous decision over champion Jack Britton at Madison Square Garden to win the world welterweight title. The “Toy Bulldog” holds the title until 1926 and eventually wins the middleweight crown. He also scores victories over world-rated light heavyweights and heavyweights before retiring in 1935.

Nov. 2, 1907: In his quest to force a heavyweight title fight against champion Tommy Burns, Jack Johnson stops the highly touted “Fireman” Jim Flynn in the 11th round of a scheduled 20-round bout in San Francisco. Burns stopped Flynn in 15 rounds in an Oct. 2, 1906 title defense in Los Angeles.

Nov. 3, 1984: Mexican challenger Jose Luis Ramirez stops Edwin Rosario in the fourth round in San Juan, Puerto Rico and wins the WBC lightweight title. In May of 1983, Rosario scored a close, but unanimous decision over Ramirez to win the vacant crown … In Kingston, New York, Juan Meza stops Jaime Garza in Round 1 to win the WBC junior featherweight crown.

Nov. 3, 2001: WBA/ WBC champ Kostya Tszyu unifies the junior welterweight title with a second-round kayo over IBF titleholder Zab Judah in Las Vegas.

Nov. 4, 1995: In the rubber match of their three-fight series, Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield wage another exciting bout, although neither man is champion. Holyfield drops Bowe and hurts him several times, but can’t finish the job. Bowe recovers and stops Holyfield in the eighth round in Las Vegas. Both men are considered on a downward path. Bowe, it turns out, certainly is. Holyfield has one last major hurrah awaiting him 12 months hence: Mike Tyson.

Nov. 4, 2000: Making his first defense of the WBC welterweight crown he won from Oscar De La Hoya, “Sugar” Shane Mosley defeats Antonio Diaz via sixth-round TKO at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York.

Nov. 5, 1977: Ken Norton wins a 15-round split-decision over Jimmy Young in a heavyweight title eliminator to determine the WBC No. 1 contender for the crown held by Muhammad Ali. Norton’s victory puts him in line for a fourth shot at his nemesis. But the fight never happens because Ali is upset by Leon Spinks in February 1978. Spinks is stripped of the WBC version of the title when he chooses to give Ali a rematch and the Mexican-based world sanctioning body awards the title to Norton.

Nov. 5, 1994: Twenty years and one week after losing the heavyweight title to Muhammad Ali, George Foreman lands a crushing right hand to face of champion Michael Moorer, dropping him for the full 10-count and wins the title at age 45. He is the oldest man to win a world title. It is also the longest time between reigns. Ali’s presence was felt, as Angelo Dundee, who was Ali’s chief trainer, worked Foreman’s corner in the Moorer fight.