Ray Alberts lost by TKO to Englishman Garry Deloney on December 21, 1993 when he challenged for the vacant World Boxing Board (WBB) light heavyweight title. The fight was held in London, England. Alberts fought eight fights in Guyana before moving to French Guiana.

He ended professional fighting in 1995 with a record of 19 victories against 10 defeats. Joseph Ignatius Murray may have stepped a bit out his comfort zone when he challenged rising lightweight king Sugar Shane Mosley, at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut on December 21, 1996. .

Undefeated in 20 fights at the time, the lightning-quick Mosley ended Murray’s hope in the third round via a TKO. Three fights later, the American was crowned International Boxing Federation lightweight champion.

Mosley was undefeated in 38 fights when he met Vernon Forrest who handed him back-to-back defeats in 2002. On December 21, 2002 Howard `The Battersea Bomber’ Eastman won in the fourth round when Hussain Osman of Damascus, Syria retired.

The fight was staged at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre in Essex, United Kingdom. In November of the previous year Eastman had made an unsuccessful bid for William Joppy’s WBA middleweight title.