Boxing
Events
- 17 March — Bob Fitzsimmons knocks out James J. Corbett in the 14th round to win the World Heavyweight Championship in the first championship fight ever captured on film.
Lineal world champions
- World Heavyweight Championship – James J. Corbett → Bob Fitzsimmons
- World Middleweight Championship – title vacant
- World Welterweight Championship – Tommy Ryan
- World Lightweight Championship – George "Kid" Lavigne
- World Featherweight Championship – George Dixon → Solly Smith
- World Bantamweight Championship – Jimmy Barry
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—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
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