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Boxing
an option in baths row
By Dave Lawley - Express & Star
(OCT 28)
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CELEBRITY BOXING
SPREADS ITS WINGS TO GERMANY...
By Sue TL Fox
October 27, 2002
*Information provided by WBAN's European Correspondent Torben L. |
(OCT 27)
For the first time on
German Television, Germany had its debut of "Celebrity Boxing."
The program called
"RTL Promi-Boxen 2002" was held on October 26, 2002.
The show received a great amount of media attention including making the
cover of one of the leading TV magazines in Germany. American pop star
Samantha Fox was originally supposed to fight Gina Wild, did not
make the show due to a broken foot. Samantha was replaced with
another celebrity. Photo
Gallery
Boxing: McCullough aiming to be a hit on
Belfast homecoming...
By Gary Lemke
(OCT 27) Like his official website, Wayne McCullough is work under
reconstruction. However unlike www.pocketrocketbox.com
, an address which is as subtle an indication of his style as a stiff jab
in the face, the all-action Irishman appears to be in a hurry to make up
for lost time. Full
Copyrighted story on Sport Independent.UK
Boxing star Roy
Jones Jr. visits kids at center
By Megan Lavey / Selma Times -
Journal
(Oct 26) Roy Jones, Jr. is a familiar name in the sports and music
world. He is a boxing champion, a professional basketball player, a music
producer, a performer and an actor. But to the group of kids that
awaited him at the Selma Youth Development Center Wednesday afternoon, he
is a hero. Full
Copyrighted story on Selma Times
THE SQUARE RING
October 26, 2002 -by Howie Reed
In boxing it’s a given that boxer’s
from different countries or ethnic groups carry the traits of that group
into the ring. Mexican , Thai and Filipino fighters have the reputation of
never taking a step backward, take two punches to land one and have great
hearts. The latter trait, if one choose, could be traced to the Greek
custom of "going out on your shield." Please no cards or
letters, I know none of the groups descended directly from Greeks. Editorial
Boxing:
The tale of two Harrisons should be lesson to all
By Ewing Grahame
(Oct 24) If further proof were required that we live in Godless times, the
fact that Audley Harrison remains better known, and richer, than his
namesake Scott should suffice. One has fought a succession of bums and
corpses thanks to his lucrative deal with the BBC which allows him to The
Herald.co.uk
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UPCOMING EVENT IN
PORTLAND!
Sent in by
Katherine Dunn
October 22, 2002
(Riley (L) - Draine (R) |
The Rose Garden (Quarter) in
Portland, Oregon has updated fight matchups that will be featured on their
November 14, 2002 card. The main event will be a battle between the
featherweights - ---Narcos Licona of Westminster, CA vs
Armando Cordoba of Panama. Also....Bridgett Riley vs
Para Draine in what's billed as a world championship
elimination match at bantamweight. The preliminaries include
Heavyweight Joe Guzman vs Brad McPeake, and Josuwea
Cielos vs Conal McPhee. The Riley vs. Draine matchup will
be a six-rounder, and should be an exciting bout.
Boxing:
Magee to make impact in States...By
Dave Kelly -Belfast Telegraph
(OCT 23) PROMOTER
Barry Hearn believes Brian Magee will take the first step towards making
an impact in America on November 9 in Manchester. Magee, it was confirmed
today, will defend his IBO super-middleweight Copyrighted
Story on Belfast Telegraph - UK
Stars turn out to honour Muhammad Ali
(OCT 21) TORONTO -- One by one they came up, the champion athletes whose
names were, naturally, on the second line of the marquee under Muhammad
Ali's, and told their stories to the muffled SkyDome sound system.Much of
what they had to say was unintelligible, meaning that on this day -- amid
this sometimes bizarre Toronto Argonauts promotional fundraiser/football
game -- they would fare no better at communicating the thoughts they were
aching to express than Ali himself. Full
Copyrighted Story on Canada.com
Boxing:
Harrison is no concern
to Wayne
By David Kelly - Belfast Telegraph
(OCT 21) WAYNE McCullough
today said that he was relishing a showdown with newly crowned WBO
featherweight champion Scott Harrison. Copyrighted
on Belfast Telegraph
Boxing: Ali
proclaims Lennox Lewis as 'The Greatest'
Copyrighted on Channel NewsAsia.com
(October 21) Muhammad Ali anointed world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis
"the greatest" on Sunday. The boxing legend was in Toronto to
raise funds for Parkinson's disease research. channelnewsasia.com
Boxing: Harrison aiming to make full use of
home advantage
By Steve Bunce - October 19,
2002
On paper Scott Harrison is not about to become the 21st current British
world champion when he fights Julio Pablo Chacon for the World Boxing
Organisation featherweight title at the Braehead Arena, Glasgow tonight.
However, odd things can happen when 5,000 fans start to believe.
Full
Copyrighted Story on Independent Sports Foreman to be inducted into World Boxing
Hall of Fame
(OCT 18) COMMERCE, California (Ticker) - George Foreman, who has gone from
punching grills to producing them, on Friday will be inducted into the
World Boxing Hall of Fame. Also to be inducted at the new
Crowne Plaza and Commerce Casino are former champions Miguel Canto, Mike
McCallum and Lupe Pintor, trainer Freddie Roach, HBO commentator Larry
Merchant and publicist Bill Caplan. Full
Copyrighted story on Fox Sports
GREG PAGE BENEFIT AUCTION
(OCT 16) There will be an Auction benefiting former World Heavyweight
Champion Greg Page who was paralyzed in a fight last year on
November 9, 2002 from 7 pm to 10 pm at Churchill Downs in Louisville,
Kentucky. Greg is in the toughest fight of his life! Let's
support him. Anyone wishing to donate items for auction or to lend a
financial hand may contact: Patricia Love Page, 208 W. Kenwood Way,
Louisville, Kentucky 40214 Tel: 502/363-3609. Ringside
is the official sponsor of the event.
Why isn't Jirov vs. Toney
headlining their own card?
(OCT 14) At the Rose Quarter in Portland, Oregon, HBO will have their first HBO Boxing Show for the year 2003, with Vernon Forrest vs. TBD as the main event, and the undercard to feature cruiserweights Vassily Jiroy and #1 contender James Toney. Boxing fans are looking forward to the long-awaited bout between Jiroy and Toney and it is sure to be an exciting night of boxing in the Rose City, but is it extremely disappointing that the Jirov v Toney fight would be reduced to being on the undercard of another mainliner. Director Reuben Lowing of Juggernaut Productions was working with Becky Schmit from the Rose Quarter and Moe Smith to bring Jirov vs. Toney to Portland March 29th, but HBO announced that the fight will be an undercard from Vernon Forrest vs. TBD
on January 25th.
Sparks fly at WBA rankings meeting
Fox Sports - October 16, 2002
NEW YORK (AP) — When the World Boxing
Association decided to hold an open hearing on heavyweight rankings, it
figured a fight might break out. And it almost did.
Story
on FoxSports.com
LOOKING FOR A FIGHT?
(OCT 16) Ron Simms, Airforce Security Policeman is looking for an
opponent for a fight November 9th at Sunset Station the fight will be for
Supermiddleweight.
If interested, email
Hotboxingnews!
WHITFIELD TO ACCEPT AWARD!
By Tom Moraetes -October 14, 2002
Rayonta Whitfield of the Augusta Boxing Club, USA Boxing's current #1
ranked 106 lbs., leaves this Thursday, October 17, 2002, for Spokane,
Washington (USA Boxing National Convention) to receive his award from USA
Boxing for the "Michael Nunnally" award presented to the one
boxer a year that displays tremendous positive character traits both
inside and outside the ring, it is without a doubt the most coveted award
USA awards its athletes and is a parallel type award of Football's "Heinsman"
award trophy. Full Story
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PRESS RELEASE:
OSCAR DE LA HOYA CARD- OCTOBER 26 |
(OCT 14) Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions serves up another
outstanding night of boxing for Southern Californians, this Wednesday
night, October 16th at the Irvine Marriott. First bout is set
for 7:30PM. The Heavyweight everyone is talking about, Duncan Dokiwari,
1996 Olympic Bronze Medalist, who has knocked out 16 of 20 opponents,
fights Tali Kulihaapai who also has a knockout percentage of 80% in the
Main Event of the evening...Somebody is going down! The IFBA Jr.
Bantamweight Championship Elimination Series starts with a six-round blast
between Marilyn
Salcido of Rialto, Ca. and Yolanda
Gonzalez of Las Vegas, two highly ranked contenders who have
earned this bout. More
JUST IN: UPCOMING EVENT IN DENMARK
(OCT 14) On October 25, 2002,
in Esbjerg, Denmark, Bettina Palle presents talented Danish cruiserweight Jesper
Kristiansen (22-3-1-6ko) and south african champion Earl Morais
(14-4-2-9ko) for the vacant iba continental cruiserweight title.
TALKIN BOXIN
by Howie Reed -October 14, 2002
LAST Saturday night at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, Eric Morel
increased his record to 32-0 when he defended his WBA Flyweight Title, for
the fourth time, against Thailand’s #1 Denkaosaen Kaowitch (26-1). The
11th round TKO was by far Morel’s best performance since his early days
of his firstchampionship bout. Editorial
John Whisler: Alamo City has trouble
contending
(Oct 13) Bob Arum seems to love San Antonio. His press tours seem to stop
here regularly. So why doesn't the legendary promoter bring any fights to
the Alamo City, which hasn't seen a megafight since Oscar De La Hoya and
David Kamau at the Alamodome in 1997?
Copyrighted
Story on mysanantonio.com
Margarito wins unanimous decision
Copyrighted on Boston.com
(Oct 13)ANAHEIM, Calif (AP) Antonio Margarito successfully defended his
WBO welterweight championship with a unanimous decision over third-rated
challenger Danny Perez. The judges' scores were 120-108, 120-108 and
118-110 for the Boxer from Mexico, who dominated Perez, of El Cajon, after
the first round.
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on Boston.com
Diaz Stops Davila in fifth
By John Whisler - San Antonio Express-News
Copyrighted
Story on San Antonio Express-News
Former Boxing Coach of Lewis’ dies at age
69
(Oct 10) Lennox Lewis’ coach
Arnie Boehm passed away yesterday, Wednesday, while at his gym.
Lennox trained with Boehm during his amateur boxing career, and when when
he turned pro. Boehm boxed in the 1940s and trained at the Waterloo
Regional Boxing Academy. Boehm was a highly respected Amateur boxing coach
in Canada.
Champion Joppy retains WBA middleweight
title
Fox Sports Net - October 10, 2002
TOKYO — William Joppy of the United States
defended his World Boxing Association middleweight title Thursday, beating
Japan's Naotaka Hozumi by technical knockout in the 10th round. At
the opening bell, Joppy charged with a flurry of upper cuts and jabs, his
fleet-footed moves landing...Copyrighted
FoxSports
Boxing brothers
Copyrighted by
Spokane-Review
(Oct 10) Rick Jr., Dewey, Chauncy Welliver get a
charge from time in the ring...The Welliver brothers, all of them
professional boxers, fight for different reasons. Chauncy "The
Hillyard Hammer" Welliver, the youngest and heaviest of the three, is
the showman, ever playing to the crowd. Full
Story
Boxing: Excellent
start to
Maloney's season
Copyrighted on the Evening Gazette
Rees Maloney started the new season with a bang by recording a
convincing victory at the Hull Trades and Labour Club. The Phil
Thomas School of Boxing teenager was too hot for D Griffin from the Hull
Fish Trades Club and won by a massive points margin. Full
Story
Boxing: Hare in no hurry
By Doug Thomson, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
(Oct 8) TOMMY GILMOUR is Glaswegian through and through - but he is
getting a genuine liking for Huddersfield. The canny Scottish promoter has
helped put the town firmly on the fight game map since teaming up with
Chris Aston, the Crosland Moor-based trainer who operates from Northern
Fitness at Linthwaite. Copyrighted
story on the Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Boxing commission by-law gets
first reading
Joe McWilliams -Lakeside Leader
(Oct 9) Slave Lake Town Council may or may not establish a commission that
can sanction a Canadian championship boxing match at its meeting next
week. The brand new ‘Combative Sports Commission By-law’ passed first
reading at the Oct. 1 meeting, and council will either pass it Copyrighted
Story on Lakeside Leader
Tickets on Sale: Jorrin vs. Lorios
Tickets are now available on sale
for the Jorrin's November 1 defense bout against Oscar Larios. Tickets,
priced at $35, $55, $75 and $100, are available at the Arco box office,
Ticketmaster and Kickboxing Inc. in Roseville.
BOXING'S TOP
MAN AT FRATER FIGHT NIGHT
(Oct 8) Britain's
top boxing official will be in Cleethorpes later this month. Simon
Block, general secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control, will be
at Joe Frater's fight night at the Winter Gardens on Monday, October
21. And he will be joined by, among others, one of the legends
outside of the ring, former commentator Reg Gutteridge. The third
star name on the guest bill is former European light-middleweight
champion, Sheffield's Herol 'Bomber' Graham. Copyrighted
Grimsby Telegraph
STOP
CONNING FANS, AUDLEY
Harrison must get real says champ
Danny
By Oliver Holt - October 7, 2002
BRITISH heavyweight king Danny
Williams cranked up his war of words with loudmouth Audley Harrison last
night. Williams was ringside at the Liverpool Olympia on Saturday
night to watch rival Harrison record his seventh straight win by battering
hapless fall-guy Wade Lewis to defeat with a brutal second-round knockout.
But as Lewis was still being scraped off the canvas after failing to land
a single punch on the Olympic gold medallist, Williams taunted Harrison
about the calibre of his opponent. Copyrighted
Mirror.co.uk.com
News Brief: Abdulaev TKO1 over Lopez
DETROIT (OCT 6) Last night at the Cobo Hall Mohamad Abdulaev, still
undefeated 10-0-0, stopped Juan Antonio Lopez 2:35 in the first round.
Lopez slips to 18-3-1. v stops Lopez in first round.
Ayala's training schedule canned
By John Whisler -San Antonio Express-News
(OCT 6) He's been accused of fighting tomato cans for years.Now,
prizefighter Tony Ayala Jr. has been knocked out by one. It seems Ayala, a
middleweight, injured his toe last week when he dropped a can of tomato
paste on his foot. The injury, to the big toe on his left foot, is
expected to keep Ayala from training for at least the next several days.
Copyrighted
Story on My San Antonio
Guerrero headlines
Budweiser Boxing
By George Vondracek Caller-Times
(Oct 8) Ron
Guerrero is hoping the hometown edge will bring an end to his frustration
in the boxing ring. The Corpus Christi heavyweight will headline the
six-bout Budweiser Boxing Tour card scheduled Oct. 31 at the Ramada Inn
Bayfront. The event has a distinct South Texas flavor, with at least five
of the boxers hailing from the area. Guerrero (15-6-2, 10 knockouts)
is scheduled to face journeyman Jason Nicholson (16-16, 10 KOs) in an
eight-round fight. Copyrighted
story on Vondracek Caller-timesl
Ruiz
not set yet: Agreement or not, Jones may still pull his punches
Boxing Notes/by George Kimball
Sunday, October 6, 2002
Copyrighted
Story on the Boston Herald
India's Mohammad Ali ready for boxing
glory -Busan (South Korea), Oct 6, 2002
Mohammad Ali stings like a bee but is not interested in floating like a
butterfly. The Asian Games boxing medal hopeful prefers Full
Copyrighted story on Sify News
Second edition of River Street boxing
show canceled -By Donald Heath
-Savannah Morning News (Oct 6) A second boxing extravaganza on
River Street has been knocked out before the opening bell sounded.
Co-promoter Mike Jarrell said the other co-promoter, Cedric Kushner, made
excessive demands after the show had been approved by local
officials. Instead, Jarrell will put on his own show on the same
date, Oct. 20, in the Savannah Civic Center. Copyrighted
Story on Savannanow.com
Boxing: Hamed hitched to Core values
Steve Bunce reports on a ringside partnership based on old friends and
street-fighting spirit
(OCT 6) IT was January 1996
and at the time Naseem Hamed was the best fighter in Britain and when he
pulled up outside the gym in a Porsche a crowd of 50 surrounded the car in
seconds. The building was on the main road in Moss Side and inside
hundreds filled the different floors Copyrighted
Story on Sunday Herald
TALKIN BOXIN
by Howie Reed -October 6,2002
JOHN TAPIA is in the news again, which should
elicit the response, "Soo, What else is new." This time he’s
been stripped by the IBF (International Boxing Federation) of his
Featherweight title. The IBF Championship Committee "Voted"
(anytime you’re dealing with a sanctioning organization quote marks are
required when the word "vote or voted" is used. Full
Editorial
Vargas steroid complaint issued
By Kevin Iole, Las Vegas Review Journal
The Nevada Athletic Commission on Friday filed a formal complaint against
former super welterweight champion Fernando Vargas, alleging he tested
positive for a banned anabolic steroid after a Sept. 14 loss to Oscar De
La Hoya at Mandalay Bay. Copyrighted
Story on LasVegasReview Journal
Army trying to ring up support for
boxing in Area IV
By Franklin Fisher - Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, October
6, 2002
TAEGU, South
Korea — The Army is looking for a few good left hooks. The service is
creating a regular boxing program for its installations in Area IV, the
lower South Korea military district. Battalion-level boxing matches in
various weight classes are planned, and bouts between fighters
Copyrighted
Story on Stars and Stripes
Boxing:
Smash and grab the cash Wayne
By David Kelly - October 5, 2002
WAYNE McCullough should get
in and get out after two years, according to former world champion Dave
McAuley. McAuley, who once reigned as IBF flyweight champion,
believes that Pocket Rocket McCullough can help bring back the crowds to
Irish boxing. But the comeback, in McAuley's view, should be a case
of smash and grab Copyrighted
on Belfast Telegraph.com
REPLACEMENT FOR OCTOBER 13 EVENT
(OCT 4) Charles Sufford has
replaced Davarryl Williamson who bowed out due to an illness in his family
on the October 13, Fox Sports telecast from Philadelphia. Shufford (18-2)
will meet Eliecer Castillo for the vacant IBA America's heavyweight title.
ESPN2 "SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE
FIGHTS" IN PUERTO RICO!
(OCT 4) On October 27, 2002, at the
Coliseo maria quixote morales, in Gguaynabo, in Puerto Rico, Sugar Ray
Leonard Boxing card and ESPN2 presents 'Sunday afternoon at the Fights'
with the vacant IBA America’s Lightweight title unbeaten IBA number #1
rated contender Alex Trujillo (22-0-16ko) vs hard-punching Javier Jauregui
(44-10-1-32KO). Also, there will be a title fight for the
vacant IBA world featherweight title championship featureing John Michael
Johnson (30-8-23KO) vs Angel Chacon (27-4-23KO).
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(OCT 2) First off, a special
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small fee-based site that is very beneficial in off-setting the increasing
costs of running the websites! The latest updates to the records
site have been vast....WBAN has been busy adding many boxing records,
reports, and general information with those records. Also, there have been
an extensive set of Hot Photo galleries, that now have over 250 Hot and
Behind the Scenes photos! In addition. WBAN's goal is to have over
500-600 photos on this site available to members. WBAN will make
available as of Oct. 7, a monthly free download of a set of MPEGS for
Exclusive Members, upon request. WBAN will have it posted on the
Records site when you can request the MPEGS. In the coming
months, WBAN will be adding extensive history, archives of
women's boxing, developing more history on the past boxers, and
information that is not available anywhere else on the net! It is easy
to sign up as a member. You can use PAYPAL, or contact WBAN by email and
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FRAZIER-LYDE
PASSES ON $50,000 PURSE TO FIGHT VONDA WARD!
By Sue TL Fox
October 2, 2002 |
(OCT 2) In today’s news "Beacon
Journal"
matchmaker- promoter Tom Vacca talked about Frazier-Lyde backing out of a
$50,000 offer to fight IBA Heavyweight World Champion Vonda Ward, 14-0-0
(13KO) in Ward’s first defense of her belt. Vacca told the Journal that
plans "fell through" last week for booking Frazier for the
upcoming December 6, co-headline event on the upcoming ESPN2 "Friday
Night at the Fights" card. Vacca said, "Frazier gave every
song and dance she could find,'' and that he offered Full
Story
Columnist Dean Juipe: Jimenez takes
full-time shot at boxing
If there were any catcalls directed
toward Miguel Jimenez during his Aug. 17 fight with Joe Calzaghe in
Cardiff, Wales, one of them may have been the trusted standby "Don't
quit your day job." Copyrighted
Story on Las Vegas Sun
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COACH RECOVERING
RAPIDLY FOLLOWING MAJOR OPERATION
By Bill Harris
October 2, 2002 |
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 2 -- Del Porter, long time boxing coach and proprietor
of the Ace Boxing Club here, is recuperating from abdominal surgery. But
it is a very active convalescence. The affable coach has been
running the Ace club 42 years and even although he was told to stay home
and rest after major surgery just three weeks ago...
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TRISHA "TNT"
HILL
ADDED TO MATCHUP! |
(Oct 2) WBAN's past Fighter
of the month has been added Matchup! Trish "TNT" Hill is
5'3", and fights as a featherweight (128-133 lbs). Trisha is from
Kennesaw, Georgia and trains
in Atlanta, Georgia by Willie
Perkins. Trisha is 2-0-0 as a pro boxer. Go
to Matchup
Columnist Dean Juipe: Fighter apt to get
hit with fine
Las Vegas Sun- posted October 1, 2002
Impoverished as the State of Nevada allegedly is, someone from the
governor's office should begin preparing a thank-you card for Fernando
Vargas. He's going to write the state.. Copyrighted
Link on Las Vegas Sun
The Ruiz Tease
By
Jason
Probst October
1, 2002
Ruiz-Jones: On or off? This could either be one of the more interesting
matches in the recent history of the WBA heavyweight title, or another
case of cold feet for Jones, a la "The Runaway Bride".
The
State of Women’s Boxing: A Break-through Year
part two a two part series by
David
Avila
(Oct 1) When Christy “the Coal Miner’s Daughter” Martin meets Mia
(Playmate) St. John-Rosales in November, it will be significant for one
reason: money. “That’s why I’m in this sport,” said St.
John-Rosales. Copyrighted
story on Maxboxing.com
Boxing: Trainer faces ban for life as he
stops Hatton fight
By Steve Bunce in Manchester
(Oct 1) Stephen Smith was down for the second time but he knew before then
that the fight was over when he felt an elbow slice his eyebrow and then
the blood drip down his cheek after just 28 seconds of round two against
Ricky Hatton at the MEN Arena in Manchester on Saturday night. Copyrighted
story on Independent Sport
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