Boxing Links (3-11-11)

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Cotto-Mayorga fight could spell the end of an era for boxing heavyweights Bob …
New York Daily News
Boxing promoters Bob Arum and Don King announce the Miguel Cotto vs. Ricardo Mayorga fight at a January press conference in Manhattan. Bob Arum and Don King are two men who came from completely different sides of the track to eventually become the two …
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Watching movie about his life like taking a punch for former boxer Micky Ward
Winnipeg Free Press
Ward will be in Vancouver this weekend to help promote a boxing card of up-and-coming fighters. Talking to the young boxers is a role he enjoys. “You get to see their faces,” he said. It’s gratifying to Ward that many boxers knew who he was even before …
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Ricky Burns team at loggerheads on eve of world title defence against Joseph …
Telegraph.co.uk
Ricky Burns was forced to shut himself away yesterday after an acrimonious dispute within his camp threatened to derail his preparations for tonight’s second defence of the World Boxing Organisation super-featherweight title against Ghanaian Joseph …
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Telegraph.co.uk

Pacquiao-Mayweather next for King-Arum?
ESPN (blog)
For a good portion of the past 40 years, the rivalry between Arum and King has been the dominant one in professional boxing. But time has a way of healing all wounds; to judge from the kind words and compliments they have been throwing in each other’s …
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Eyeing new challenge, Martinez readies for undefeated Ukranian
USA Today
In less than six minutes, the fight was over, and boxing had a new star. By Al Bello, Getty Images Martinez celebrated like a king following his six-minute knockout of Paul Williams back in November 2010 in Atlantic City. …
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USA Today

Tommy Zbikowski: From Boxing to The NFL and Back Again
BoxingScene.com
In 2006, he was the pride of Notre Dame football and a former amateur boxer making his debut in the big room at Madison Square Garden on the Miguel Cotto vs Paulie Malignaggi undercard. That first foray into the punch for pay ranks took all of 49 …
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Oroville boxing club helps youth fight for a better life
Enterprise-Record
So Jones, a former professional boxer, started a boxing club open to all and has run it on a shoestring budget for more than four years. He coaches the kids himself, also teaching them to respect and be polite to others, and to have a positive outlook …
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A lasting gift: Forest Lake boxer helps others in his death
KARE
A Forest Lake High School senior who collapsed in the boxing ring and later died continues to give to others. “He was a giver. He was a giver. He wanted people to be taken care of,” said Susan Smith about her son, Charlie, who has helped dozens of …
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No Klitschkos for Dereck Chisora, but Tyson Fury will be a big night
The Guardian (blog)
Photograph: Daniel Roland/AFP/Getty Images While the boxing world waits for official confirmation that David Haye is actually going to share a ring rather than a megaphone with Wladimir Klitschko, Dereck Chisora, jilted by Wlad, gets Tyson Fury as a …
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The Guardian (blog)

MMA missing the mayhem Miller, ’80s boxers brought
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Clay, who at 32 is four years younger than Vitale, is old enough to remember how boxing cards were hyped by over-the-top fighters and managers willing to throw taunts and even blows at prematch press conferences and weigh-ins. …
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Blogs

1 new result for boxing

neo-neocon » Blog Archive » And speaking of boxing…
By neo-neocon
…which we were the other day, in the comments section on this thread in which I’ d said I couldn’t stand the sport—caused me to recall the single worst moment of boxing history I’ve ever had the misfortune to witness. …
neo-neocon – http://neoneocon.com/

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2 new results for boxing

Boxing promoters Don King and Bob Arum, together again . . . what …
The carnival barkers brought the show to a place where they buy ink by the barrel. It was Don King and Bob Arum, together again. Stop the presses.
articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/07/…/la-sp-dwyre-20110308

Ali-Frazier: The day boxing’s ‘mothership’ landed – ESPN
“It was chock-a-block,” said boxing historian Bert Sugar, at that time the publisher of BoxingIllustrated magazine. “Everybody who was anybody was there. …
espn.go.com/sports/boxing/blog/_/name/boxing/…/6193383

Boxing Links (3-11-11)

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