Editing Boxing in the 1970s (section)

==1973==
*January 22 – [[George Foreman]] becomes world Heavyweight champion, defeating [[Joe Frazier]] by knockout in round two at [[Kingston, Jamaica]]. It is the first fight televised on [[HBO Boxing]].
*January 24 – [[World Boxing Association|WBA]] world Flyweight champion [[Masao Ohba]] dies after his car collided with a truck in [[Tokyo, Japan]]. He left a record of 35 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw, with 15 knockouts.
*March 31 – [[Ken Norton]] becomes the second boxer to defeat [[Muhammad Ali]], breaking Ali's jaw en route to a twelve-round split decision in [[San Diego]].
*May 5 – [[Eder Jofre]] wins the [[World Boxing Council|WBC]] world Featherweight title three years after his first retirement from boxing, defeating world champion [[Jose Legra]] by a fifteen-round majority decision in [[Brasília]], Brazil.
*May 19 – [[Antonio Cervantes]] retains his WBA world Jr. Welterweight title with a five-round knockout of ''[[Alfonso Frazer|Alfonso Peppermint Frazer]]'', in their [[Panama City, Panama]] rematch.
*June 2 – [[Carlos Monzón]] retains his world Middleweight title with a fifteen-round unanimous decision over [[Emile Griffith]], at their rematch, held in [[Monte Carlo, Monaco]].
*July 2 – Former world Heavyweight champion Joe Frazier returns to the ring, beating [[Joe Bugner]] by a twelve-round decision at London.
*September 1 – George Foreman retains his world Heavyweight title with a first-round knockout over ''[[José Roman (boxer)|José Roman]]'', who becomes the first [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] to challenge for the world Heavyweight championship, in Tokyo.
*September 10 – Muhammad Ali avenges his loss to Ken Norton, beating Norton by a twelve-round split decision in [[Inglewood, California]].
*November 3 – [[Arnold Taylor]] survives four knockdowns to knock out WBA world Bantamweight champion [[Romeo Anaya]] in fourteen rounds, winning the world title in [[Johannesburg, South Africa]], in what boxing writer [[Chris Greyvenstein]] called ''probably the most murderous and dramatic (fight) in South African history''.
*December 1 – In the first boxing fight pitting a Black man against a White man in South African history, [[Bob Foster (boxer)|Bob Foster]], an African-American, retains his world Light Heavyweight championship with a fifteen-round unanimous decision over [[Pierre Fourie]]. It was, in addition, Foster's second fifteen-round decision win over Fourie.