The former cricket star, famous for his role in England’s 2005 Ashes-winning triumph, switched the crease for the boxing ring in 2012.
Two years after retiring from cricket, Flintoff beat American Richard Dawson on points on his boxing debut in Manchester.
Freddie battled to a 39-38 points victory and in May 2014 came of out of retirement to play professional cricket again.
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Here’s what else happened on this day in the sporting world:
1872: England and Scotland played the first ever football international. The game at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, finished 0-0.
1956: Floyd Patterson became the then youngest world heavyweight boxing champion when, at the age of 21, he beat Archie Moore.
1991: United States defeated Norway 2-1 to win football’s first women’s World Cup, in China.
2004: Four-time Olympic gold medallist Matthew Pinsent announced his retirement from rowing three months after his final triumph in Athens in the coxless fours.
2011: Martyn Thomas left the Rugby Football Union and was replaced by Stephen Brown as acting chief executive.
2014: Tyson Fury beat Dereck Chisora by 10th-round stoppage to become the new European and British heavyweight champion in a one-sided contest at London’s ExCel Arena.