Boxing in The 1950s - 1957

1957

• January 2- Gene Fullmer becomes world Middleweight champion, defeating Sugar Ray Robinson by a fifteen round decision, at New York.
• February 13- Joe Brown retains his world Lightweight title with an eleventh round knockout of former world champion Bud Smith, at their Miami rematch.
• February 21- Carmen Basilio retains his world Welterweight title with a second round knockout of former world champion Johnny Saxton in their rubber match, at Cleveland.
• April 1- Alphonse Hamili wins the world Bantamweight title with a fifteen round decision over Mario D'Agata, Paris, France.
• May 1- Sugar Ray Robinson wins the world Middleweight title for a record fourth time, knocking out Gene Fullmer in the fifth round with a punch that became known as the perfect punch, at Chicago.
• June 24- Hogan Bassey becomes Nigeria's first world boxing champion in history, winning the vacant world Featherweight title with a tenth round knockout of Cherif Hamia, at Paris.
• September 23- Carmen Basilio becomes the world's Middleweight champion by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson by a fifteen round split decision, at New York.
• November 6- Alphonse Hamili retains the world Bantamweight title and unifies it, beating National Boxing Association world champion Raul Macias by a fifteen round decision, at Los Angeles.