Light Middleweight History

[Joe Boxer]

I don't understand this entry in Wikipedia:

"This division was established in 1962, when the Austrian Board of Control recognized a fight between Nicko Sabong and Teddy Wright for the "world" championship. The fight, which took place on October 17, was won by Griffith via a 15 round decision."


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_middleweight

[scartissue]

Obviously some form of misprint at Wikipedia. Someone reading something from a different page. I always knew of the Griffith-Wright fight, but for the fun of it I looked up Nicko Sabong on boxrec and he doesn't exist. So who knows what they were looking at.

[klompton]

It wasnt really the created by that fight. The WBA created the title and a fight between Moyer and Giambra was signed for it. The promotion in Austria was staged three days before the Moyer-Giambra fight but was trying to piggy back on that notion of a new title and steal the WBAs thunder.