Montreal boxer Dorin retires hours before
title defence in ...
Boxer Retired from boxing after not
making weight!
(OCT 24) BUCHAREST (CP) - World Boxing
Association lightweight champion Leonard Dorin has reportedly decided to
hang up his gloves after failing to make weight in Saturday's scheduled
title defence in his native Romania.
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on Canada.com
Pittsburgh Police Arrest Boxing Champ For Lewdness
(OCT 24) PITTSBURGH -- Professional boxing champion
Paul Spadafora was arrested Friday morning in downtown Pittsburgh and
charged with open lewdness. Full Copyrighted Story
on Pittsburgh Channel.com
Capital back on boxing map at last
(OCT 24)
WHEN Willie Quinn, part-time male stripper and
part-time title contender, knocked out Peter Federenko in three rounds at
the Grosvenor Hotel on 15 May 1998, little did the Edinburgh fight
fraternity suspect it would be more than five years before professional
boxing returned to Scotland’s capital.
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on The Scotsman, UK
BOXING: Kronk Gym inspires HBO series
(OCT 22)
Detroit's Kronk Gym, home of many of the world's best boxers over the past
25 years, is the inspiration behind a new HBO weekly TV series to be
produced by actor/comedian Billy Crystal. The yet-to-be-named show will be
part "Sopranos," part documentary...Full Copyrighted Story
on Independent, UK
Bakersfield To Hold USA Boxing Men's Western
Trials
(OCT 22) BAKERSFIELD,
Calif. -- After a month of consideration, USA Boxing named Bakersfield the
site for the 2004 Men's Western Trials in February 2004, KERO 23 reported.
Members of USA Boxing visited "Fight Night" at Centennial Garden last month
to inspect the environment and facilities.
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on Bakersfield Channel.com
Boxing: Magee to defend IBO crown at King's Hall
(OCT 22) Rising super-middleweight Brian Magee will make the next defence
of his International Boxing Organisation title on 22 November at the
King's Hall, Belfast. It will be the first time in eight years that the
King's Hall - where Barry McGuigan and Dave McAuley made their names -
hosts boxing, with Belfast man Magee ...Full Copyrighted Story
on Independent, UK
Yet Another Farce Tarnishes Boxing
(OCT 21) It
has not been a great week for boxing, even less so for its self-styled
saviours at the World Boxing Council. Their president’s inability to
subtract a point correctly last Saturday night made a mockery of the careers
of two heroic men whose interests the WBC purport to represent with
pride....Full Copyrighted Story
on
The Scotsman
Worldwide and UK
Boxing News
(OCT 21) ENSACOLA, Florida - Roy Jones has again stated that his move back
down to light heavyweight is by no means permanent given the lure of money
and Mike Tyson that remains at ....Full Copyrighted Story On
Readsport.com
Boxing
Coach Murder Linked to Thailand Killing
(OCT 20) etectives investigating the murder of an
elderly boxing coach who was shot dead outside his home were today
examining a possible link between his death and the murder of a British
businessman killed in Thailand. West Midlands Police have asked Thai
authorities for the file on bar owner Robert Henry, who was gunned down
earlier this month.
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On
The Scotsman, UK
Boxing: Worthy opponent provides Brodie with authentic world
(OCT 18) At last a real world title fight will take place in Britain when
the vacant World Boxing Council featherweight championship will hopefully
be decided over 12 rounds at the MEN Arena in Manchester tonight between
the local fighter Michael Brodie and Korea's Injin Chi.
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On
Independent, UK
Boxing : Sinclair WBU title deal done -
Warren
(OCT 17)
Neil Sinclair will finally get his WBU welterweight title shot in December.
Promoter Frank Warren today announced that Sinclair will tangle with Jimmy
Vincent for the vacant championship on either December 6 or 13. Warren
has shows on both those dates, one in Cardiff and the other at the MEN
Arena, and it is just a question of slotting Sinclair into the appropriate
bill for television requirements.Full Copyrighted Story
On
Belfast Telegraph
Spina decisions Moore in Las Vegas
Providence light heavyweight remains unbeaten
(OCT 17)
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Providence’s unbeaten light heavyweight Joey “KO Kid”
Spina (9-0, 7 KOs) extended his undefeated winning streak to nine with a
unanimous four-round decision (40-35, 39-36, 39-36) against of Rodney
Moore
(4-7-3, 1 KO) tonight (Fri., Oct. 17) on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights, live
from the Orleans Casino in Las Vegas. After the fight Classic
Entertainment & Sports Inc. president Jimmy Burchfield announced that
Spina will replace Providence fighter Benny “The Boss” Costantino, who was
injured during training, on CES’ October 31st “Haunted Homecoming,” live
on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights from the Rhode Island Convention Center in
Providence.
Press Release: Ruiz goes back to his ring
future
(OCT 17) SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Former
World Boxing Association heavyweight champion, John “The Quietman” Ruiz,
has gone back to his roots to prepare for his December 13 WBA “Interim”
heavyweight title fight against Hasim “The Rock” Rahman at Boardwalk Hall
in Atlantic City. Full Story
Canadian boxers Kooner and Gauthier have positive drug tests ...
(OCT 17) OTTAWA (CP) - The 2004 Olympic dreams for
two of Canada's top amateur boxers are intact after out-of-competition
positive drug tests for marijuana were thrown out Friday. Canadian Amateur
Boxing Association director Robert Crete said he was informed by the
International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) that the athletes, Andrew
Kooner of Windsor, Ont., and Sebastien Gauthier of St-Jerome, Que., will not
be sanctioned.
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On
Canada.com
“Pro Boxing’s Back in Manchester”
Oct. 24 benefit dinner show at Center of NH
(OCT 17) MANCHESTER, N.H. – The card has been
set for “Pro Boxing’s Back in Manchester,” promoted by Candia Road Smoke
as a benefit dinner show for the Manchester Memorial High School football
team and Farmington Gridiron Club, to be held October 24 at the Center of
New Hampshire in Manchester Holiday Inn.
Full Story
The Square Ring
by Howie Reed...(OCT 17) Everything
that happens in boxing effects everything else at the upper most reaches.
Take for example the campaign to get WBC Champ Yodsanan Nanthachai (3-K
Battery) to fight either Joel Casamayor or Antonio Fritas. What happened
was that after fights in Las
Vegas and Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago the
landscape...Full Story
McGuigan's looking forward to benefit event
(OCT 17) BARRY McGUIGAN is a man who knows what it is like to be in a fight.
The ever-popular Irishman captured the WBA title in the Eighties as he
reigned supreme as the premier featherweight on the planet and one of
Britain's best loved sportsmen.
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icliverpool, UK
Dawson-Welliver fight for WBC Youth
middleweight title
(OCT 17) PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island –
Two 21-year-old middleweight prospects, “Bad” Chad Dawson and Dumont
“Dewey” Welliver, will fight for the vacant WBC Youth title in the
10-round co-feature October 31 on Haunted Homecoming,” promoted by Jimmy
Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc., live on ESPN2 Friday
Night Fights at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence.
Full Story
Laszlo Papp, Hungary's three-time boxing gold medalist, dies at ...
(OCT 16)
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Laszlo Papp, the first boxer to win three
Olympic gold medals, died Thursday after a long illness, the Hungarian
Boxing Federation said. He was 77. Considered one of Hungary's greatest
sports figures, Papp won an Olympic middleweight gold in London in 1948,
and light-middleweight golds in Helsinki in 1952 and in Melbourne in 1956. Full Copyrighted Story on
CNN/SI
Press Release: Golota
Headlines Turning Stone Boxing Card..October 14, 2003
Oneida Nation Homelands—Former heavyweight
contender Andrew Golota (37-4, 30 KOs) continues his highly heralded journey
on the comeback trail when he steps into the ring at the Oneida Indian
Nation’s Turning Stone Casino Resort on Friday, November 14. He’ll square
off against power punching Terrence “KO” Lewis (31-13, 21 KOs) of
Philadelphia, Pa. in a scheduled ten-round bout.
Full Story
Full House is Just the Tonic For Doc Fight
(OCT 14) PROMOTER Tommy Gilmour wants Scotland's feelgood factor to move
from the football pitch to the boxing ring. Gilmour is hoping it's a
full house for his `Tartan bill' at Bellahouston Sports centre on November 1
as Glaswegian Craig Docherty will headline against Abdul Malik Jabir of
Ghana. And the undercard will be made up entirely of Scottish boxers taking
on all comers. Full Copyrighted Story on
Glasgow Daily
News
Whitaker and Castillo top Warrior’s Boxing
Promotions card on ...
(OCT 13) Professional boxing continues at the
Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Coconut Creek Casino the night before Halloween
with an outstanding lineup of bouts featuring Lance “Mount” Whitaker,
Elieser Castillo, Tito “El Misil” Mendoza, Whyber Garcia and Ada “Ace”
Velez.
Full Copyrighted Story on
EastsideBoxing.com
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Showtime Tonight - Holyfield vs.
Toney!
October 11, 2003 |
(OCT 11) Tonight boxing fans can catch a viewing of the Pay-Per-View of
the
The Holyfield-Toney, Casamayor-Corrales Bouts Will Be Replayed In Their
Entirety On SHOWTIME, Saturday, Oct. 11, At 10 PM ET/PT .
Hopkins, Mayorga headline major boxing card in AC
(OCT 10) NEW YORK (AP) -- Before stepping in the ring with William Joppy,
middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins decided Thursday to take on his
opponent's entire entourage. An angry Hopkins charged off the dais at a
new conference announcing their Dec. 13 fight, getting into a shoving and
screaming match with about a half-dozen Joppy backers in a midtown
Manhattan hotel ballroom. Full Copyrighted Story on
CNN/SI
Boxing: Tua's fight off as managers head to court
(OCT 10) There has been another blow to David Tua's immediate boxing
future. It appears Tua's interim world title fight against Hasim Rahman
has been cancelled. Boxing sources in the United States say promoter Don
King has signed John Ruiz rather than Tua to fight Rahman on December 13. Full Copyrighted Story on
New Zealand Herald
Press Release: NWBA Heavyweight
Championship Fight Night 43
(OCT 9) Portland's Reggie Davis
(8-2, 5K) has been added to the card to face Juan Carlos Garcia (3-1, 3K)
in a six round battle. Chauncy "Baby Face" Welliver or "the Hillyard
Hammer" from Snoqualmie, WA, (15-1-2, 7 KO) will face Nigerian King Ipitan
(19-5-1, 13 Press Release
The Working Man’s Champion…
Up Close and Personal with WBA Welterweight Champion Jose Rivera
Doghouse Boxing Exclusive
(OCT 8) In boxing, you have so many different personalities, some loud, some
quiet, and some that just remain totally grounded. This is what makes the
sport of boxing so interesting to cover because in this sport, young men
learn discipline, set and obtain dreams, that anywhere else
Interview by "Bad"
Brad Berkwitt on Doghouseboxing.com
Boxing: De La Hoya to come out of retirement
(OCT 8)
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PRO BOXING: Virgil Hill's manager says he'll get
another title ...
(OCT 8) BISMARCK -
Virgil Hill will get a chance to avenge last year's loss to Jean-Marc
Mormeck, Hill's manager says. Mormeck took Hill's WBA cruiserweight title
Feb. 23, 2002, in France. Bill Sorensen, Hill's manager, vows that Hill, a
former Grand Forks resident, will be better prepared for a rematch early
next year.
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on Grand Forks Herald,
ND
Veteran
boxing promoter Joe Daszkiewicz dies at 78
(OCT 8)
To many boxers, Joe Daszkiewicz was simply "Papa Joe." He not only managed
and trained them, but he treated them like his own sons. "Before
giving them their cut, he always told them, 'Make sure you invest this,' "
his son, Chuck, said. "If they fought in Las Vegas, he wouldn't give them
their money till they got home, because he didn't want them to gamble it
away."
Full Copyrighted Story on Minneapolis Star
TALKIN BOXIN
by Howie Reed -October 7, 2003
TIS always better to tell the truth than to get
caught
in a fib. With that as I guiding light I have an apology to make to all my
readers who ..Full
Story
Teresa Tapia To Be Honored By World Boxing Hall
Of Fame(OCT 6) In tribute
to her devoted, skilled and successful management of Johnny Tapia’s
illustrious career, the World Boxing Hall of Fame will honor Teresa Tapia
with The Special Recognition Award at the 24th Annual Banquet of Champions
in Commerce, California on Saturday, October 18, 2003.Full Copyrighted Story
On
Eastsideboxing.com
Boxing: Holyfield thinks over future
(OCT 6) They say a fighter is always the last to
know when it's time to go, but surely even Evander Holy- field will now
accept the inevitable. A fortnight before his 41st birthday, the
four-times heavyweight world champion was pummelled into submission by James
Toney in Las Vegas early yesterday.Full Copyrighted Story
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Middlesbrough Evening
Gazette, U
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Casamayor topples
Corrales!
By Norm Longtin
Photos by Rick
Pineda |
(OCT 5) Last night at the Mandalay Bay Resort
& Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, Joel Casamayor began his second reign
as IBA World Jr. Lightweight Champion with a stoppage win at the end of
round six over former IBA Champion, Diego Corrales. Corrales, bleeding from
an accidental clash of heads, was down early in round three and again a
round later but would rise to return ...Full
Story with Photo Gallery
Boxing: Diaz the latest fall guy for Harrison
(OCT 5)
Audley Harrison continued with his unabashed game plan of putting bums on
seats in an American odyssey which he insists will lead him to the world
heavyweight championship. His defeat of a near-novice Argentine in Las Vegas
on Friday night followed a familiar pattern, with the 31-year-old Olympic
champion overpowering an opponent who had...Full Copyrighted Story
On
Independent, UK
AUDLEY IS A JOKE
(OCT 4) AUDLEY HARRISON is the Walter Mitty of
heavyweight boxing, according to Herbie Hide. Former WBO heavyweight
champion Hide's contest against Alex Vassilev in London tonight has been
spiced by the latest bout of repartee between the British rivals. Last
night Hide claimed that Harrison was not quite the operator he would have
America believe. "I live in Las Vegas.
Full Copyrighted Story
On
The Mirror, UK
Venezuela's Alexander Munoz retains WBA super
flyweight boxing ...
(OCT 4) TOKYO (AP) - Venezuela's Alexander Munoz
retained his WBA super flyweight title Saturday with a unanimous decision
over Japan's Hidenobu Honda. This was the second title defence for Munoz,
who captured the super flyweight crown by defeating Japan's Shoji Kobayashi
last year.
Full Copyrighted Story
On
Canada.com
Holyfield, Toney expect to bring back boxing
fans
(OCT 3) LAS VEGAS - The past three weeks have
not been the greatest for boxing. Shane Mosley won a much disputed decision
over Oscar De La Hoya. IBF heavyweight champ Chris Byrd didn't distinguish
himself in a boring decision over Fres Oquendo. And last week, the next
generation of heavyweights assured us that the future is not now.Full Copyrighted Story
On
San Jose Mercury News
Boxing: Harrison's next step on road to credibility
(OCT 3) Audley Harrison will fight for the fifth time this year when he
meets Argentina's Lisandro Diaz at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas
tonight. Harrison's last bout was in Miami just three weeks ago and he
has planned two more fights before Christmas as part of his assault on the
senses of the American boxing public.
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On
Independent, UK
Press Release: Tim Shocks vs. Jaime
de la Torre eight rounder added
(OCT 2) Chauncy "Baby Face" Welliver
or "the Hillyard Hammer" from Snoqualmie, WA, (15-1-2, 7 KO) will face
Nigerian King Ipitan (19-5-1, 13 KO) in the Northwest Boxing Association (NWBA)
Heavyweight Championship Title. The eight round pre-main event is a rematch
with Welliver having won a split decision in October of 2002....Press
Release
Press Release: Vargas coming to Providence
for Balletto in Halloween Homecoming...October
2, 2003
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – Former
world champion “Goyo” Vargas is coming all the way from Mexico to Providence
on a mission to take Gary “Tiger” Balletto’s International Boxing Union
lightweight crown at “Halloween Homecoming,” ESPN 2 Friday Night Fights show
October 31 at the Rhode Island Convention Center.
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