Boxing Links (3-13-11)

Posted on | March 13, 2011 | No Comments

Tom Zbikowski: Zbikowski easily wins boxing match
Rotoworld.com
Ravens S Tom Zbikowski knocked out Richard Bryant just 1:45 into his second professional boxingmatch on Saturday night in Las Vegas. All the more impressive when you consider Bryant has 32 pounds on Zbikowski. Afterward, Zbikowski said “right now this …
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Martinez stakes claim as boxing’s best pound-for-pound fighter
SI.com
Boxing’s annals are filled with extraordinary backstories, but Martinez’s path is remarkable even by fistic standards. He grew up in one of Argentina’s toughest barrios, “a good kid in a really bad area,” as DiBella puts it. …
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Climb into the ring with ‘Fight Night Champion’
USA Today
By Marc Saltzman, Gannett One thing is perfectly clear after lacing up the virtual gloves in EA Sports’ “Fight Night Champion”: the game maker wanted to create the most authentic — yet fast and fun — boxing simulation to date. …
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USA Today

Miguel Cotto stops Ricardo Mayorga with a TKO in 12th round
Los Angeles Times
Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 knockouts) defeated challenger Ricardo Mayorga (29-8-1) of Nicaragua with a technical knockout in the 12th round of their World Boxing Assn. super-welterweight title fight on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden …
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Promising Brazilian boxer killed by poli
FOXSports.com
Brazilian authorities say a youngster touted as one of the country’s most promising boxers has been killed in an altercation with a police officer. The Brazilian boxing federation says 16-year-old Tairone Silva was shot to death Friday after arguing …
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Press Box: Worcester amateur wins boxing title
Worcester Telegram
Fifteen-year-old boxer Demek J. Edmonds of Worcester, who fights out of the Boys & Girls Club, won the super heavyweight division title yesterday at the National Silver Gloves Championships in Kansas City, Mo. Edmonds, who advanced to the national …
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Boxing: Tucker suffers first defeat
Carroll County Times
For the first time in his professional boxing career, the Eldersburg light heavyweight’s arm wasn’t raised in victory as he fell in a surprising upset to an undistinguished fighter with a losing record. Repeatedly struck in the face and body with …
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Manny Pacquiao’s Greatest Fights: Part 2
8countnews.com
It’s understandable that not all of the six billion or so people in the world are aware of what this man has contributed to the sport of boxing. Along with greatness comes doubt. In 2003, nobody really knew who he was and many (even his Filipino fans) …
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Boxing: Berto to defend title against Ortiz
Inquirer.net
LAS VEGAS – Undefeated American Andre Berto will make the sixth defense of his World BoxingCouncil welterweight crown against countryman Victor Ortiz on April 16, promoters announced on Saturday. Berto, 27-0 with 21 knockouts, won the crown in 2008 …
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Blogs

Aspiring rabbi loses 2nd straight boxing match – Sports- NBC Sports
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Yuri Foreman, the aspiring rabbi-to-be who briefly held a piece of the 154-pound title, took a beating Saturday night at the hands of Pawel Wolak and lost for the second straight time.
NBCSports.com: Sports – http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/3032113/

Bad Left Hook Live Boxing Results: Miguel Cotto v. Ricardo Mayorga …
By Scott Christ
Miguel Cotto faces Ricardo Mayorga in Las Vegas, and Sergio Martinez squares off with Sergiy Dzinziruk in Connecticut. Bad Left Hook has coverage of a full night of boxing.
Bad Left Hook – http://www.badlefthook.com/