Otd 1979 = Disco Demolition Night. Promotion gone wrong during Chicago White Sox - Detroit Tigers doubleheader at Comiskey Park. Fans damage field & riot causing the White Sox to forfeit the 2nd game. Here workers replace sod the next day. #ComiskeyPark#Chicago#baseball#otd
Otd in 1996 = Riddick Bowe win dq 7 over Andrew Golota. Golota is surprisingly outboxing & hurting Bowe but is disqualified for continuous low blows, leading to riot at MSG. Also Arturo Gatti ko 3 Feliciano Correa on undercard. #RiddickBowe#AndrewGolota#boxing#otd#ArturoGatti
@TheFightCity Edwin Rosario was most likely going to get a big fight against Pernell Whitaker when he lost by shocking 1st round ko to Akinobu Hiranaka. In post fight interview with Pernell after his most recent fight then, they said Rosario was next at 140 pounds.
Nigel McGuinness and Samoa Joe in the ring when they wrestled for Ring Of Honor. Both wrestlers had long reigns as ROH World Champion and ROH Pure Champion. #NigelMcGuinness#wrestling#SamoaJoe#ROH#RingOfHonor
Otd in 1964, 2x Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson beats contender Eddie Machen by 12 round decision in Stockholm, Sweden. #FloydPatterson#boxing#otd#1960s#60s
Otd 1910, right before Jack Johnson - Jim Jeffries fight, John L Sullivan, Bob Fitzsimmons, Tommy Burns + more watch Stanley Ketchell because Ketchell saw Jeffries look so bad training, he wanted to sucker punch & ko him before fight so he wouldn't be destroyed by Jack. #boxing
Baseball's all time hits leader, Cincinnati Reds player/manager Pete Rose, gets his first hit of the final season of his career, a single off of New York Mets pitcher Ron Darling on May 4, 1986 at Riverfront Stadium. #PeteRose#CincinnatiReds#Cincinnati#Reds#baseball#HitKing