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Boxing: Tua announces split with trainer
Barry
(SEPT 24 New Zealand
heavyweight boxer David Tua has split with his long-time manager Kevin
Barry, throwing into doubt his December showdown with American Hasim Rahman.
In a shock announcement tonight, Tua said he had ended his relationship with
Team Tua, comprising Barry - who is also his trainer - and financial manager
Martin Pugh.Full Copyrighted Story
On New Zealand Herald
Boxing: Tapia tries to rise
from
dead, again
(SEPT 24)
For someone who has been declared clinically dead four times as a result of
drug overdoses, Johnny Tapia is in fighting form. His feet are nimble and
his fists a blur of precision hitting. He has lost more than 20 pounds, or 9
kilograms, after a month of rigorous workouts....Full Copyrighted Story
On International Herald Tribune
BOXING: From world champion to psychiatric
patient
(SEPT 24) ENGLISH former
boxer Frank Bruno was last night committed to a psychiatric hospital after
months of spiralling depression. The former boxing champion was detained
under the Mental Health Act, escorted from his eight-bedroom mansion in
Essex by police. Full Copyrighted Story
On Advertiser, Australia
Boxing: Tua has title fight but may miss star
billing
(SEPT 23) David Tua has secured his second world
heavyweight title fight but the New Zealand boxer may not be top of the bill
when he fights Hasim Rahman in Atlantic City on December 13. Tua's third
fight against tough American Rahman will be for the vacant World Boxing
Association (WBA) title, following an agreement between both parties and
promoter Don King in Miami today. Full Copyrighted Story
New Zealand Herald
Two lawsuits filed against promoter of
Toughman boxing events
(SEPT 23) TAMPA, Fla. - The family of a woman
killed in a Toughman boxing event sued the event's promoter Monday, calling
the matches a "barbaric, vicious, unregulated, bloody slugfest." The lawsuit
seeks damages of more than $15,000 in the death of Stacy Young after a
Toughman event at the Sarasota County Fairgrounds....Full Copyrighted
Story on Monterey County Herald
Ex-boxing champ Bruno treated for depression
I(SEPT
23)London - Former world heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno of Britain
is being treated at a psychiatric hospital, said news reports on Tuesday. It
was not confirmed whether Mr Bruno was taken there against his will on
Monday night. Full
Copyrighted Story on Independent Online, South Africa
TALKIN BOXIN
by Howie Reed -September 22, 2003
Deja Vu, again. Or as Yogi said, “It’s deja vu
all over again.” If you believed that either Oscar De La Hoya beat or
drew with Shane Mosley as 74% of you did, then the new IBF heavyweight
Champion is Fres Oquendo (24-2). Them good old judges would of course
tell you again that you didn’t know beans about scoring a fight.
Full Story
Boxing Clever: Body blow for Magee camp
(SEPT 20)
BARRY Hearn has always talked a good fight. Boxing's master salesman
never stops selling, and was at his breathless best telling us how Brian
Magee would leap to world stardom at the expense of Canada's Syd
Vanderpool. But there was something missing from a well-rehearsed script
- Vanderpool's signature to an Ulster Hall contract. Full Copyrighted
Story on Belfast Telegraph
Boxing: The clock struck 12, Duran was no
more
(SEPT 20) NO MAS. Two
small words that have clung to Panamanian ring warrior Roberto Duran
like a ball and chain for more than 20 years. They translate as no
more, and were his last contribution to that fateful rematch with Sugar
Ray Leonard in 1980 when he quit on his stool after eight rounds. At a
dinner in his honour at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, this week the very same
words cracked the midnight air like rifle fire as once more the great
Roberto raised his hands and shouted....Full Copyrighted Story on the
Mirror
Byrd in a fight for opponents
(SEPT 20) The International Boxing
Federation heavyweight champion defends his title tonight at Mohegan Sun
Arena from the challenge of Fres Oquendo and will earn $1 million for
his trouble. For a heavyweight champion, that's a lightweight purse, but
that's how it goes these days for Byrd...Full Copyrighted Story on
the Boston Globe
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Jones & Tarver - IBA
Title!
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SEPT 19) Former IBA and undisputed World
Light-heavyweight Champion Roy Jones Jr. meets number one
contender Antonio Tarver November 8th, at the Mandalay Bay
Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Boxing Hall to honor Hearns, 6 others
(SEPT
19) Former world champion Tommy “Hit Man’’ Hearns heads the lineup
at the 13th annual Rochester Boxing Hall of Fame awards dinner Saturday
night. Hearns, a two-time boxer of the year during the 1980s, held seven
titles in six different weight classes. He defeated such great boxers as
Roberto Duran, Virgil Hill and Wilfred Benitez and fought a draw with
Sugar Ray Leonard.
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on
Rochester Demoncrat Chronicle.
"Yeah, I Was in the Gloves"
By Bernie McCoy -September 19, 2003
)SEPT
19)Even after all these years, the thing that I remember most vividly about
that night was the boxing robe. It wasn't the most beautiful thing I had
ever seen, but it was in the top ten. It was an almost black-red color, the
color that cherries have when they're displayed on a fruit stand. On the
back of the robe, in white script, was the legend "Salem C..Full
Story
Clark-Ramirez NABF
lightweight title fight in Las Vegas Oct. 17 on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights
(SEP 19) Providence, Rhode
Island – Promoter Jimmy Burchfield has announced that Classic Entertainment
& Sports, Inc. (CES) stablemates, NABF lightweight champion Michael Clark
and challenger Antonio “Cana Seca” Ramirez, will fight in the October 17th
12-round main event, live on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights, at The Orleans
Casino in Las Vegas. Guilty Boxing is presenting the show in association..Full
Release
Boxing commission
to hear scoring charges (SEPT 17)
LAS VEGAS Nevada boxing officials want promoter
Bob Arum to back up his allegations about the scoring in the Oscar De La
Hoya-Shane Mosley fight. Commission legal counsel Keith Kizer said Tuesday
that Arum will be sent a letter inviting him to appear before the commission
and formally....Copyrighted Story
on Mail and Guardian
Boxing star's 'bid to beat' drugs charge
(SEPT 17) A DOUBLE world
boxing champion facing a drugs charge offered cash to a man to take the
blame for the crime, a court heard yesterday. Former WBO
mini-flyweight and light-flyweight title holder Paul Weir, 36, offered to
pay "a wage" to another man, also arrested in a police swoop in May last
year, a jury at the High Court in Glasgow was told.
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on The Scotsman
Famous Philly Boxing Trainer Accused Of
Failing To Pay Child- ...
(SEPT 16) A boxing trainer accused of failing to
pay child support for a teenage daughter in Arizona was arrested as part of
a national crackdown on delinquent parents. George Benton, 70, a member of
the International Boxing Hall of Fame, owes $216,919 in child support, the
U.S. Attorney's Office said Tuesday. He was arrested Wednesday and arraigned
the same day.
opyrighted Story on
NBC 10
New world champion Jose
Rivera
returns home
(SEPT 16) WORCESTER, Mass. – Somewhat
lost in the hype and controversy surrounding last Saturday night’s Shane
Mosley-Oscar De La Hoya fight was the championship performance turned in
halfway around the world that same evening by “El Gallo” Jose Antonio
Rivera, who captured the vacant World Boxing Association welterweight
title.... Full Story
For the good of boxing, De La Hoya needs to keep mouth shut
(SEPT 15)
So, Oscar De La Hoya wants an
investigation of this whole nasty mess made by three guys sitting at
ringside. Not for himself, the Golden Boy insists, but for the good of
boxing. This begs the obvious question. Just what good is De La Hoya doing
for the sport of boxing by insinuating that the judges who scored Saturday
night's fight for Shane Mosley were corrupt, blind or merely incompetent?
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on
San Francisco Chronicle
Boxing: Maccarinelli cruises towards better
times
(SEPT 15) As expected, Enzo Maccarinelli's first
defence of his World Boxing Union cruiserweight title was short and sweet at
the Newport Sports Centre. Maccarinelli is one of the sport's most
unpredictable fighters because he gets hit, goes down but seems to always
get up and return the favour. Copyrighted Story
on Independent UK
Sharkie ’ s Machine : Questionable Judging
Further Destroys ...
(SEPT 15) The new millennium has been
bittersweet to “Sugar” Shane Mosley. He was heralded as one of the best
“Pound For Pound” fighters after his narrow victory against Oscar de la Hoya
in June of 2000. A lot has happened since. Copyrighted Story
on Eastside Boxing
TALKIN BOXIN...
by Howie Reed (SEPT 14) LET’s
see if I can get this right. “The big brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
because every good boy does good.” “What in hell was that all about ?” “Well
I’ve been away from the old keyboard for a week and had to do my warm up e
exercises. Would you expect Pavoritti not to warm up before doing Puccini or
La Boheme? More
Mosley Wins
by Close decision...
(SEPT 13) Tonight at the MGM Hotel, in Las
Vegas, Nevada, Sugar Shane Mosley won a 12-round unanimous decision over
Oscar De La Hoya. Mosley is now the WBC/WBA 154-lb.t champion. Final
scoring was 115-113.
Mayweather Sr. Vs.
Jack Mosley
(SEPT 13) Two distinct
boxing philosophies will go head to head like fire and oil when Oscar De La
Hoya and Shane Mosley fight this Saturday.Floyd Mayweather Sr., the
jabbering trainer of De La Hoya will present his defense-oriented model
versus the power-boxing style of Jack Mosley and his son. Copyrighted Story
on Maxboxing.com
Boxing is far from on the ropes
(SEPT 13) I recently informed a friend who is an
avid sports fan that two of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world,
Oscar De La Hoya and Shane Mosley, will square off in a rematch tonight.
"Really," he said, all but yawning. "I used to follow boxing, but not
anymore."Copyrighted Story on
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jones to return to middleweight boxing ring
(SEPT 13) WASHINGTON: Roy
Jones is planning to relinquish his WBA heavyweight title for a tilt at
middleweight champion Antonio Tarver. “Jones is going to fight Tarver, with
the fight details announced at a press conference on Saturday,” said Kelly
Swanson, spokesperson for several different boxing organisations in
Washington on Friday. Copyrighted Story on
Daily Times Pakistand girl.Copyrighted Story on Miami Herald
Boxing coach arraigned on fondeling charges
(SEPT 13) PONTIAC, Mich.
- A well-known youth boxing coach has been arraigned on charges that he
fondled a 16-year-old female fighter.Ruben Flores, 62, of Oakland County's
White Lake Township, was arraigned on a fourth-degree criminal sexual
conduct, a two-year misdemeanor, for allegedly touching the breast of a
16-year-old...
De La Hoya set to get cooking, taste
(SEPT 12) Oscar De La Hoya seemingly has
everything a man could want. He's a world champion boxer who is said to be
worth more than $100 million and lives in a mountain estate in Big Bear,
Calif., with his wife, Puerto Rican singer Millie Corretjer. He's a
television personality with enough good looks and poise to land multiple
commercials and sitcom cameos. Copyrighted Story on
Baltimore sun
12-Time Dutch Boxing Champ Ben
Bril Dies
(SEPT 12) Ben Bril, a 12-time Dutch boxing
champion who competed in the 1928 Olympics as a 15-year-old, has died at 91.
Bril died Thursday at the Beth Shalom retirement home in Amsterdam, the
director of the home said. Copyrighted Story on The Ledger
Boxing promoter King wants to host fight in Iraq for troops(SEPT
12) Calling himself the ''black Bob Hope,'' promoter Don King announced
Wednesday that he has sent a load of boxing equipment to Iraq and said he
soon hopes to stage a boxing show there for the entertainment of the
troops...Copyrighted Story on Miami Herald
De La Hoya finally has matured into star whom
boxing can bank on
(SEPT 11) LAS
VEGAS - Elvis and Sinatra are gone, Mike Tyson has been sent away, and
Celine Dion falls short in the testosterone/silicone double-demographic. But
Oscar De La Hoya is here at the MGM Grand, and he is here to fight.
Suddenly, that means everything for this town and this sport. Copyrighted Story
on Mercury Sun News.
Boxing: Corbett and Dever bust-up
(SEPT 11) DARREN Corbett insists that his WBU
light-heavyweight title fight is still on despite a bitter split with
manager Kevin Dever. Corbett revealed today that as far as he is concerned
he is now self-managed and is on course to clash with WBU champion Tony
Oakey on September 11. Copyrighted Story on Belfast Telegraph.
BOXING: Team Detroit concept would keep talent
home
(SEPT 11) best, at venues such as Joe
Louis Arena, the Palace of Auburn Hills and, perhaps, Ford Field. Hype?
Well, though the idea is still in the developing stages, several of the
state's leading boxing figures, including Kronk Gym boss Emanuel Steward,
are studying it seriously. Copyrighted Story on
Detroit Free Press
Boxing: Navarre no test for Harrison
(SEP 10)
Those who hoped Audley Harrison's relationship
with American television channel ESPN might signal a
step up in the level of opposition will be disappointed with the
selection of tomorrow's opponent, 35-year-old Quinn Navarre from Slidell,
Louisiana. Copyrighted Story on Telegraph.co.uk
Boxing promoter King wants to
host fight in Iraq for troops
(SEPT 10)
DEERFIELD BEACH,
Fla. - Boxing promoter Don King wants to hold a boxing match featuring his
newest star, welterweight champion Ricardo Mayorga, for U.S. troops in Mosul,
Iraq. Copyrighted Story on
San Jose Mercury News
Boxing often strains families
(SEPT 10) Both are dads. Both
are trainers. But never have two corners been more opposite.
Jack Mosley and Floyd Mayweather Sr. have followed different paths to a
rematch Saturday that represents a fight within a fight.
Copyrighted Story on
Arizona Republic, AZ
Press Release: Professional Boxing Series
Continues at HP Pavilion at San Jose
(SEPT 10) San
Jose, CA--- Silicon Valley Sports & Entertainment (SVS&E) and Golden Boy
Promotions announced today that Miller Lite Fight Night at the Tank will
continue at HP Pavilion at San Jose on Thursday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m....More
(SEP 9) He doesn't fight
anymore, but that hasn't kept Mayweather out of the spotlight. He is the
trainer for Oscar De La Hoya, who will be defending his WBC and WBA super
welterweight titles Saturday in a rematch with "Sugar" Shane Mosley.
Copyrighted Story on
Star Telegram
Irwin backs out
of Balletto fight...
“The Kid” scared of “Tiger”
(SEPT
8) PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – Billy “The Kid” Irwin, according to veteran
promoter Jimmy Burchfield, is living up to his nickname. Acting more like a
kid than man, Irwin has informed Burchfield that he is reneging on his
agreement to fight Gary “Tiger” Balletto, claiming he didn’t have enough
time to train. Full Story
Boxing promoter accuses gambler of
standover tactics
(SEPT 8)
A prominent boxing promoter has filed a
police complaint accusing an influential figure of ``causing havoc at a
major boxing match on Sept 6''. Songchai Rattanasuban, 57, filed charges
against Narong Oonpat, known in gambling circles as Klom Bang-kruay.
Forrest knows firsthand the way to beat Mosley
(SEPT 7) Vernon Forrest knows rematches. He knows Shane Mosley. More
coverage Boxing Notebook And he also knows a thing or two about
heartbreak, all of which likely will make him a popular figure this week in
Las Vegas for Mosley's showdown with Oscar De La Hoya.
Copyrighted Story on
San Antonio-Express News
Rivera
slides in for a title shot
(SEPT 7) It's hard to know
what's more surprising - that Worcester's Jose Rivera, inactive for the past
14 months, is fighting for a world title, or that the World Boxing
Association welterweight title was there to be fought for...Copyrighted Story on
the Boston Herald
Tua waits for Jones to quit belt
(SEP 6) The purse bid for the David Tua-Hasim Rahman III bout to decide the
WBA world title has been postponed until September 15. The WBA is
waiting for its heavyweight champ Roy Jones jun to renounce the belt. He is
expected...Copyrighted Story on
New Zealand Herald
BOXING: Sensitive side to The
Man
(SEPT 5) It was the day we
saw the man behind "The Man". Post the biggest victory of his career, the
new super-middleweight champion of the world spent yesterday suffering from
the humble foot blister and a sleepless night. "I couldn't sleep after
the fight, the adrenalin was still pumping....Copyrighted
Story on Advertiser, Australia
Purse Bid Delayed for Rahman-Tua
(SEPT 5) The purse bid for a World
Boxing Association heavyweight title bout between Baltimore's Hasim Rahman
and David Tua, the organization's Nos. 1 and 2 contenders, respectively, has
been postponed from tomorrow until Sept. 15, Rahman said yesterday.
Copyrighted Story on Sunspot.Net
(SEPT 5) The fight is sold
out but the promotional ads run continually on the big screens in the MGM
Grand.
Each man, Oscar De La Hoya and Shane Mosley, emphatically states he's going
to win. Mosley goes a step further and says it'll be because De La Hoya
"can't hit what he can't see."
Copyrighted Story on
Las Vegas Sun
Senior men boxing
championship
(SEPT 5) In New Delhi, there will over
350 boxers from across the country who wil be participating in thesenior
men's National Boxing Championship. The tournament will be held from
September 9-14. to be held in Bangalore from September 9 to 14. According to
news sources, star pugilist Mohammad Ali Qamar, Jitendra Kumar, Akil Kumar,
V Harikrishna and Som Bahadur Punn have confirmed their participation in the
event, Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF).
Press Release: Jose Rivera fighting for World
welterweight title
(SEPT 4)
WORCESTER, Mass. – Boxing’s best-kept secret, “El Gallo” Jose Antonio
Rivera, departs Friday for Germany. This is no European vacation, though,
for the 30-year-old professional boxer. He is on a mission to capture the
World Boxing Association welterweight championship against unbeaten Michel
Trabant. Moreay
Mundine wins vacant WBA super
middleweight
title
(SEPT 3) SYDNEY (AP) — Former Australian rugby league player Anthony Mundine
won the vacant WBA super middleweight title Wednesday with a unanimous
decision over Antwun
Copyrighted story on USA Today
BOXING: Commissioner pushes reform
(SEPT 3) New state boxing boss Bradley A. Wright
is working to reverse what he describes as "the downhill slide" of the fight
game in Michigan. Wright, 47, who was appointed boxing commissioner in
June, is pushing legislation that he Copyrighted Story on Detroit Free Press
Pacquiao seeks prayers for upcoming fight
(SEPT 3)
REIGNING IBF world champion Manny Pacquiao appealed to all boxing
enthusiasts in this city to help him pray for his upcoming fight against
Marco Antonio Barrera in Texas this November 15. Pacquiao, who gave
his inspirational talk during the 2003 Tuna Festival Amateur Boxing
Tournament, said he...Copyrighted Story on
Sun Star
Bradley & pal see way back
(SEPT 3) One of the
things that Lonnie Bradley's parents always told him was to be nice to the
people you meet going up life's ladder because they are the same ones you
meet coming down. Bradley befriended Frank Meehan with that attitude when
the two lockered next to each other at Gleason's ...Copyrighted Story on
New York Daily News
Boxing: 'Foul Pole' set for British debut
(SEPT 3)
Andrew Golota's ring career is arguably second only to that of Mike Tyson
for incident and controversy, and from next month the towering Polish
fighter, nicknamed the Foul Pole because of his penchant for hitting low,
will have the first of several fights in Britain. Copyrighted Story on
Independent, UK
First ever women's boxing match between
Russia and US to be held ...
(SEPT 2) The first ever
women's boxing match between America and Russia will take place in Saint
Petersburg on September 5. As a Rosbalt correspondent was informed by
the organising committee for the event, each team will contain 11
competitors. The two lightest weight categories will not be represented in
the match but the other boxers are currently the strongest in the two
countries. Copyrighted Story on
Pravda, Russia
Boxer Martin faces lawsuit
(SEP 2) ALTAMONTE SPRINGS
- A Winter Springs beautician sued Christy Martin for allegedly punching and
choking her during an argument in a parking lot. Martin, one of the most
prominent names in women's boxing, denied the allegations. Linda Rappa, 38,
is seeking unspecified damages for the Jan. 1....Copyrighted Story on St.
Petersburg Times
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