Boxing in The 1970s - 1974

1974

• January 28- Muhammad Ali avenges his defeat to Joe Frazier, beating Frazier by a unanimous decision in twelve rounds at New York.
• February 9- Carlos Monzón retains the world's Middleweight title with an embarrassingly easy seventh round knockout over world Welterweight champion José Nápoles in Paris, France.
• February 16- Alexis Argüello's first world title fight: he loses a fifteen round unanimous decision to WBA world Featherweight champion Ernesto Marcel in Panama City, Panama. Marcel never fought again.
• March 16- Roberto Durán avenges his loss to Esteban De Jesús, recovering from a first round knockdown to knock out the Puerto Rican in round eleven and retain his world Lightweight championship in Panama City, Panama.
• March 26- George Foreman retains his world Heavyweight championship with a second round knockout over Ken Norton in Caracas, Venezuela.
• July 9- Rubén Olivares conquers the vacant WBA world Featherweight championship with a seventh round knockout over Zensuke Utagawa in Inglewood.
• July 17- Bob Foster is knocked down in round thirteen, but retains his world Light-Heavyweight title with a draw (tie) with Jorge Ahumada in Albuquerque. It is Foster's last fight.
• August 24- WBA world Jr. Lightweight champion Ben Villaflor, a Hawaiian based Filipino, retains his world title with a second round knockout of Japan's future world champion, Yasutsune Uehara, in Honolulu.
• October 30- The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali regains the world Heavyweight championship, joining Floyd Patterson as the two only boxers to achieve such a feat, by knocking out George Foreman in eight rounds at Zaire.
• November 23- Alexis Argüello wins the first of three world titles, knocking out Rubén Olivares in the thirteenth round at Inglewood. He also becomes the first Nicaraguan world boxing champion.
• December 7- Victor Galindez becomes the third Hispanic world Light-Heavyweight champion. The Argentine beats Len Hutchins by TKO in round thirteen to claim the vacant WBA title, in Buenos Aires.