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January and Light-Heavyweight
* January 13-Anton Christoforidis becomes the first Greek world boxing champion in history, beating Melio Bettina by a fifteen round decision for the National Boxing Association's vacant world Light-Heavyweight title, in Cleveland.
* January 25-Joe Louis retains the world Heavyweight title with a first round knockout of world Light-Heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis in the first round, in New York.
* January 18-Harry Greb regains the world Light-Heavyweight championship, with a fifteen round unanimous decision over champion Johnny Wilson, at New York.

January and champion
On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.
The Jaguars ended the season losing 28 – 3 to the two-time defending champion New England Patriots on January 7, 2006 in the AFC wild card playoff round.
On January 4, 2009, the NFC North champion Vikings hosted the Philadelphia Eagles for the Wild Card round, their first home playoff game in eight years.
On January 11, 2009 the team defeated the defending Super Bowl Champions and the 2008 NFC East champion New York Giants 23 – 11 en route to their 5th NFC Championship Game in 8 years and 5th in the 10 years the Eagles have been coached by Andy Reid.
This was seemingly confirmed by the results of the first two interleague championship games, in January 1967 and 1968, in which the NFL champion Green Bay Packers, coached by the legendary Vince Lombardi, easily defeated the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders.
* January 7 – Dorothea Chambers, English tennis champion ( b. 1878 )
* January 1 – Mauri Rose, American race car champion ( b. 1906 )
In January 1913, he turned down a starting position with the American League cellar-dwelling St. Louis Browns, choosing instead to join the 1912 National League champion New York Giants, who with Thorpe playing in 19 of their 151 games, would repeat as the 1913 National League champions.
At the 23rd Soviet final, held in Leningrad in January – February 1956, Spassky shared first place on 11½ / 19, with Mark Taimanov and Yuri Averbakh, but Taimanov won the subsequent playoff to become champion, defeating Spassky in both their games.
The smallest municipality to produce a Stanley Cup champion team is Kenora, Ontario ; the town had a population of about 4, 000 when the Kenora Thistles captured the Cup in January 1907.
There were no qualifying matches ( also true of the first orthodox world chess champion titleholders ), but both players were in the top five in the January 2001 world rankings for orthodox chess.
On January 14, 1979, Benitez won a fifteen-round split decision to become a world champion in a second weight division.
Trinidad came out of his second retirement for the fight against Roy Jones, a former four-division champion on January 19, 2008.
During his reign as world champion, Kramnik never regained the world number-one ranking, doing so only in January 2008 after he had lost the title to Viswanathan Anand ; as in 1996, Kramnik had the same FIDE rating as Anand ( 2799 ) but became number-one due to more games played within the rating period.
Santos Benigno Laciar ( born January 31, 1959 ), known familiarly as Santos Laciar and nicknamed Falucho, was an Argentine world flyweight champion.
Bonnie Canino ( born 11 January 1962 ) is a former women's boxing world featherweight champion for two different associations.
She was the IWBF world Lightweight champion, but lost that honor when she fought a unification bout to the IFBA world champion Zulfia Koutdoussova on January 10, 1998 by a decision in Atlantic City.
Leonardo Cruz ( born January 17, 1953 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic ), better known in the world of boxing as Leo Cruz, was a world Jr. Featherweight champion from the Dominican Republic.
Whittingham was one of those appointed to draw up a service-book, and he procured a letter from John Calvin, dated 18 January 1555, which won over some ; but the compromise adopted was disturbed by the arrival of Richard Cox, who was an uncompromising champion of the prayer-book.
Gerardo González ( January 6, 1926-February 13, 2003 ), better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a former world welterweight champion from Cuba.
He continued his way up the world Lightweight rankings by defeating Leonard Tavarez, Angel Robinson Garcia and Whiter ( in a rematch ) among others, but on 29 January 1970, he found his first stone on the boxing road when he challenged future world Jr. Welterweight champion Miguel Velazquez in Madrid, for the European Lightweight title.
Rafael Limón ( born on January 13, 1954 ) is a Mexican former boxer who was a world champion in the Super Featherweight / Jr.
He beat Thomas Damgaard on January 28, 2006, by an eleventh round technical knockout to win the vacant IBA Welterweight title and become a champion in 3 different weight divisions.
Tommy Morrison born January 2, 1969, is an American heavyweight boxer and a former World Boxing Organization champion.

January and Archie
* January 18 – Archie Brash, Scottish Footballer
* January 12 – The landmark television sitcom All In The Family, starring Carroll O ' Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS.
* January 21 – Archie Hahn, American athlete ( b. 1880 )
The Shield was the cover feature for Pep Comics until March 1944, when Archie became the dominant feature ; the Shield continued in Pep Comics until January 1948.
Charles Archibald " Archie " Hahn ( September 14, 1880 – January 21, 1955 ) was a German-American athlete, and one of the best sprinters in the early 20th century.
Following the success and critical acclaim for this set, BCI Eclipse on January 16, 2006, struck a long-term exclusive deal with Entertainment Rights for distribution rights to its entire Filmation catalog ( with the exception of the Archie series which was acquired by Genius Products ).
Vickers opened a flying school on 20 January 1912 and among its first instructors were R. Harold Barnwell and Archie Knight ; 77 pupils including Hugh Dowding were taught to fly until the school closed in August 1914.
Archie Comics published a comic adaptation of the game for a 48-page special, published in January 1997.
Elmer " Archie " Fowler Stone ( January 22, 1887-May 20, 1936 ) was a United States naval aviator and a commander in the United States Coast Guard.
Allan John Melvin ( February 18, 1923 – January 17, 2008 ) was an American character actor who appeared in several television shows, including the roles of Corporal Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show ; Alice's boyfriend Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch ; and Archie Bunker's friend Barney Hefner on All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place.
This would end after No. 97 ( January 1975 ), when the title reverted back to being a standard Archie humor title.
Archie Alphonse Alexander ( 14 May 1888 – 4 January 1958 ) was an African-American mathematician and engineer and an early African-American graduate of the University of Iowa and he was the first to graduate from the University of Iowa's College of Engineering.
On January 26, 1875 detectives hoping to track down Frank and Jesse surrounded the farm, they threw a bomb through the window, Archie believed the bomb was a log, so he threw it into the fire, it exploded, killing him instantly and wounding his mother.
* All in the Family ( episode " Archie Goes Too Far ")-Joanie ( 27 January 1973 )

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