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APRIL  2004

Don King still rules boxing at 72
(APR 29) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Boxing promoter Don King is more overwhelming than his impressive stable of fighters, a greater force than Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson combined. Spend 90 minutes with King, and it's like sitting in the path of a human hurricane ......Copyrighted on the Alameda Times

Pro Boxing Returning
(APR 29) Pro Boxing is set for another night of action in Rochester. "Boxing at the Roc II" will take place May 21, 2004 at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center. Seven bouts will be featured on the card including former Jr. Welterweight champ and Rochester's own; Robert "Pushup Frazier. ......Copyrighted on the Globe and Mail, Canada

Boxing: NZ welterweight beats Aussie Commonwealth champ
(APR 29) New Zealand welterweight Kahukura Bentson recorded one of the biggest wins of his career with an upset points defeat of Australian Daniel Geale at the Oceania boxing championships in Nukualofa, Tonga last night. ......Copyrighted on the New Zealand Herald

Don King Banned from Atlantic City Boxing
(APR 29) ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey – As reported by the Press of Atlantic City: "Don King has been knocked out of Atlantic City boxing for one year. "Rejecting calls for tougher sanctions, state gaming regulators Wednesday banned the controversial boxing promoter from doing business with the casinos at least until 2005. ......Copyrighted on the Casino City Times

Audley Harrison comes to IBA Gym in Vegas! 
Photos by Tony Rila
The IBA recently had Audley Harrison, 15-0-0 (11KO) of England,  train at the IBA gym in Las Vegas, Nevada.   The 2000 Olympic gold medalist as a super heavyweight, is rated #10 with the IBA. The 6’6”, 250lb Londoner struck Gold in Sydney and joined an elite group that includes names like Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Leonard...Exclusive Photo Gallery!

Fox comes out swinging in battle for boxing supremacy(APR 26) LOS ANGELES -- Fox has decided to step into the ring with NBC and challenge it in the up-and-coming sports reality genre. Fox will present a series tentatively titled The Next Great Champ, in which a dozen aspiring prizefighters from across the country will get a shot at fame and fortune. .....Copyrighted on the Houston Chronicle

Boxing craves Klitschko victory
(APR 24) Back in 1905, big Jim Jeffries gave up the heavyweight championship of the world, undefeated and having run out of worthy challengers, or at least having run out of worthy Caucasian challengers, since the colour line was then firmly drawn......Copyrighted on the Globe and Mail, Canada

Boxing: Sprott defends British title
(APR 24) Michael Sprott, the journeyman fighter who surprised Danny Williams to win the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles earlier this year, sets out his first defence tonight, in his home town of Reading.......Copyrighted on Independent, UK

Mesi denies having clot on his brain
(APR 24) Joe Mesi and his handlers insisted Friday the serious concerns boxing authorities have about his brain are unfounded.
Mesi, along with father and co-manager Jack Mesi, denied any notion the undefeated Town of Tonawanda heavyweight suffered bleeding in his brain during his March 13 bout with Vassiliy Jirov in Las Vegas. ......Copyrighted on Buffalo News

Heated contest ends in a draw
(APR 24) The main event at Friday’s Miller Lite Texas Title Belt Professional Boxing Series was what boxing fans pay to see — a well-fought, hotly-contested bout between evenly matched fighters. The result was not.  In a matchup of Mexican welterweights, Manuel Gomez.......Copyrighted on Odessa American

Dream Fight Put On Ice
(APR 24) HE fight the whole country would like to see Craig Docherty against Alex Arthur in an east versus west showdown won't be allowed to happen. Docherty's manager and promoter Tommy Gilmour has rejected an offer to sell the rights to the contest to Sports Network, the company owned by Frank Warren........Copyrighted on Glasgow Daily Records

Boxing : tonight ’ s card at a glance
 (APR 24) New Breast (0-1) of Billings made his name in the local Club Boxing Series the past couple of years. He's also a former state and regional Silver Gloves champion. New Breast, 30, lost his pro debut to James Sundin in a four-round decision Salt Lake City this past December. ......Copyrighted on  Billings Gazette

Mesi hopeful his son can fight again
(APR 24) Jack Mesi is staying positive, even though he's not sure whether his son Joe Mesi's heavyweight boxing career might be over because of a head injury.  "I've got to maintain hope," Mesi told The Associated Press on Saturday....... Copyrighted on Tuscaloosa News

Pennsylvania Golden Gloves title matches head outdoors
(APR 23) Boxing outdoors is nothing new to Pittsburgh. Nothing new to the Rooneys, either. It just doesn't happen often. Only a couple of times every half-century.....Copyrighted on Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Boxers set to rumble Saturday
(APR 22) WESTMORLAND — The Rumble in the Desert novice boxing exhibition sponsored by the Westmorland Police Activities League and Boxing Against Drugs boxing club will be at 5 p.m. Saturday in the Westmorland Youth Center..... Copyrighted on Imperial Valley Press

Prosecutors drop assault charges against former heavyweight ... (APR 20) PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors dropped assault charges against former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier on Tuesday after the alleged victim refused to testify.......Copyrighted on Penn Live

Confessions of a Boxing Junkie
(APR 20) I should know better, I’ve read the media reports, the proposed boycotts and I am fully aware of the contestants and what they are capable of. I’ve suffered the wrath of John Ruiz’s “jab and grab” and I’ve sat in .......Copyrighted on DogHouse Boxing

 Live but Not Necessarily Lively Boxing at the Garden(APR 18) SHORTLY after 2 o'clock yesterday morning, the last of the weary listeners at Don King's postfight monologue were straggling out of Madison Square Garden when a Garden security man summed ......Copyrighted on New York Times

Boxing's Search for Tomorrow's Somebody (APR17) NOW that Lennox Lewis has retired as the accepted world heavyweight champion, the promoter Don King is shouting that "the next era begins" tonight at Madison Square Garden. But it begins without a marquee name...Copyrighted on New York Times

Victory might save Smith's boxing career
(APR 17) BRADENTON - On the verge of a devastating blow to his career, Sarasota heavyweight China "The Dragon" Smith rallied to knock out Shawn Robinson at 2 minutes, 42 seconds of the third round and claim the National...Copyrighted on Bradenton Herald

Boxing: Elliott will not halt Magee rise to the top (APR 17) AS the pot of gold comes into focus, so the expectation grows on Brian Magee.  The Magee camp are relishing the 28-year-old's rise up the ratings of the major world governing bodies, telling everyone that he is on the verge of becoming Northern Ireland's first genuine world champion since Wayne McCullough....Copyrighted on Belfast Telegraph

Golota leads Garden boxing party
(APR 15) NEW YORK - (KRT) - Jose Antonio Rivera does not make a habit of fouling opponents. He does not guzzle beer or chain-smoke cigarettes after each victory. Maybe that is why he has flown under the radar for much of his career. Copyrighted on San Jose Mercury News

Boxing: Klitschko set to fight on after defeat (APR 14) Vladimir Klitschko said he will not retire after his surprising defeat to Lamon Brewster last weekend. The Ukrainian's camp said tests showed something was wrong with their fighter's health, which may explain why he was in such poor condition as he went out in five rounds. Copyrighted on Indepenent, UK

 Tyson's a freak show, but maybe boxing needs the attention anyway
(APR 12) If all goes according to plan, and it rarely does when Mike Tyson is involved, the former baddest man on the planet will walk into a Phoenix gym sometime this week and begin hitting the speed bag. Copyrighted on San Francisco Chronicle

Boxing Insider
(APR 12) Going down to the crossroads. That's how Friday night's pro show at Gund Arena is shaping up for Cleveland's Joe DiSalvo. While junior welterweights Angel Manfredy and Craig Weber will get plenty of attention, DiSalvo's co-feature against super middleweight Dallas ....Copyrighted on Cleveland Plain Dealer

Kansan Jess Willard became 'The Great White Hope'
(APR 12) In his heyday, race discrimination was common and Kansan Jess Willard was unashamedly nicknamed "The Great White Hope," "Cowboy Jess" and "The Pottawatomie Giant."....Copyrighted on The Wichita Eagle

The Square Ring
 by Howie Reed- April 10, 2004
It didn’t take long for Don King to dip into his stable of “willing stallions” to set up a mating (heavyweight tournament) to breed a successor to Mr. Lewis.  One name absent from the “pay for play” is Audley Harrison, the likeable POM with the minor WBF
heavyweight title. Harrison’s latest fight was shown in America with..Full Story

Team Spinks has Cory ready for bout
(APR 8) LAS VEGAS - St. Louis' Cory Spinks will step back into the loneliest spotlight in sports here Saturday night. Spinks will be in the ring to defend his undisputed world welterweight...Copyrighted by St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Exclusive Photo Gallery of Klitschko!
By Tony Rila
(APR 7) This week at the IBA Boxing Gym, Wladmir Klitschko prepares for his fight that will take place this Saturday, on April 10, at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.  IBA Women's Heavyweight champion Vonda Ward was also at the gym.  Photos

Klitschko brothers aim to rule world boxing
(APR 7) Vitali and Vladimir Klitschko are turning their muscular backs on Germany in a bid to make boxing history by becoming the first brothers to hold world titles simultaneously. Copyrighted by Independent Online

BOXING: GOMEZ BOXING CLEVER
(APR 6) THE war of words between Michael Gomez and Alex Arthur ahead of their super-featherweight showdown started in earnest last night.  Mancunian Gomez, who beat Ghanain Ben Odamattey on Saturday night to win the WBU title, has goaded the for...Copyrighted by Glasgow Daily Record

Former amateur boxing champ shot and killed by Miami-Dade officer
(APR 6) An alleged drug dealer and one-time boxer was shot and killed after he pointed a gun at a Miami-Dade police officer while running down the hallway of an Opa-locka apartment complex, a department spokeswoman said. 

 Wladimir Klitschko: Ready, or Ready for the Taking?
(APR 4) Words of confidence and promises of an emphatic win are commonplace among boxing’s warriors, be they prohibitive favorites or longshot underdogs. On April 10, there will be one of each in opposite corners as Wladimir Klitschko continues his comeback .Copyrighted Story on Doghouse Boxing

Boxing: Brodie sees 'real' world title at end of brutal road
(APR 4) Ar real fight for a real title," proclaims the promotional blurb for Saturday's return encounter between Michael Brodie and Korean In-Jin Chi for the ....Copyrighted Story on Independent UK

Boxing coach pleads no contest to sexual conduct charges
(APR 3) PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) -- A well-known boxing coach has pleaded no contest to fondling the breasts of a 16-year-old aspiring boxer last fall in his gym. ....Copyrighted Story on Detroit Free Press

Resnick trying to revive local boxing
(April 1, 2004) — Ron Resnick remembered the night Rochester welterweight Russell Jordan lost a four-round decision in Washington, D.C., despite knocking down his opponent twice. Copyrighted Story on Democrat And Chronicle

Boxing: Fast finish for winner Liam
(APR 1) Explosive hitter Liam Hartley took less than a minute to become the new Tyne, Tees and Wear junior ABA heavyweight champion.  Hartley (Halfpenny ABC) sparked out Michael Ryan (Headland) courtesy of a savage countering right hand in round one of their contest at the Federation Brewery's Lancastrian Suite in Dunston. Copyrighted Story on ic Teesside.co.uk

Senate passes bill for oversight of boxing
(APR 1) The United States Senate approved legislation that would create a federal agency to oversee professional boxing. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the bill's author, has criticized fight promoters for taking advantage of young boxers and chastised state boxing commissions for conflicts of interests and for not ensuring the objectivity of fight judges. Copyrighted Story on Buffalo News

 

  
     
     
     
     
     
 

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