28 years ago

Date: 15th December 1995

Venue: Madison Square Garden, New York

Title: IBF World Super Featherweight Title

Promoter: Top Rank

Tv: HBO World Championship Boxing

Tracy Harris Patterson
( 54 - 3 - 1 )
Weight: 129 3/4 lbs

Arturo Gatti
( 23 - 1 - 0 )
Weight: 130 lbs

Arturo Gatti wins his first world title when he takes a close but unanimous decision over champion Tracey Harris Patterson at Madison Square Garden to win the IBF Super Featherweight Title. Gatti scored a second-round flash knockdown.

Leroy Brown 111-116 | Melvina Lathan 112-115 | Steve Weisfeld 113-114

Gatti and Patterson would meet again with the IBF title at stake just over 2 years later.