Boxing Links (3-29-11)

Posted on | March 29, 2011 | No Comments

Your turn: Would you pay to watch Tom Zbikowski fight?
Baltimore Sun (blog)
By Matt Vensel After beating some dude named Caleb Grummet on Saturday night, Tom Zbikowski, who is now 3-0 in his professional boxing career, was asked if he wanted to box in Baltimore. “I’ll do whatever I can to get a fight there,” the Ravens safety …
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Canseco twin bro foiled in boxing scam
News Sentinel
By Reggie Hayes Jose Canseco’s twin brother, Ozzie, showed up and pretended to be Jose for a celebrity boxing match in Hollywood, Fla. The match was canceled after the promoter realized the attempted fraud. Plus, fans were disinclined to stick around …
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Floyd Mayweather Jr: A 50 million dollar ego…
8countnews.com
Floyd Mayweather Jr: A 50 million dollar ego or a genuine concern about steroids in boxing? He has no blemishes on his record. He has defeated every fighter ever put in front of him. He’s still regarded by some as the number 1 pound for pound fighter …
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Cleveland has 79 in Golden Gloves: Boxing Insider
Plain Dealer
By Joe Maxse, The Plain Dealer Plain Dealer File79 boxers are slated for bouts during the two-week, four-night Cleveland Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament. The numbers are in for this year’s Cleveland Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament. …
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Plain Dealer

Committee hears battered boxer bill
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Boxer Z “The Dream” Gorres sits in a wheelchair at his doctor’s office during an interview last year. Gorres was partially paralyzed after a match in Las Vegas and ran up a $600000 bill at University Medical Center. Gorres met with law students working …
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Tszyu to train Lebedev
fightnews.com
By Ray Wheatley — World of Boxing Former WBC/IBF/WBA jr welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu will be training former WBO cruiserweight challenger Denis Lebedev for his May 22nd twelve round bout against Roy Jones Jr at the Sport Complex Krylatskoe in …
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City fifth-grader wins national boxing championship
Baltimore Sun
By Erica L. Green, The Baltimore Sun While Lorenzo Simpson’s classmates at City Springs Elementary/Middle were taking the Maryland School Assessments this month, the fifth-grader was 1000 miles away facing his own series of tests — in the boxing ring. …
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Erik Morales: ‘We are ready to win’
ESPN
By Diego Morilla In a high-caliber championship fight between two boxing stars we can expect nothing less than a head-on collision between two planets. But the planets that will be colliding on aboxing ring next April 9 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, …
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PAL boxers win big at Tri-State Golden Gloves
Zanesville Times Recorder
Three days of competition brought the best amateur boxers from Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky together last weekend, and some Zanesville Police Athletic League standouts brought home gold. Michael Roark was runner-up in the open men’s National …
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RockLive Launches Mike Tyson – Main Event Mobile Game for iOS Platform
PR Newswire (press release)
Available now and free in the iTunes App Store, Mike Tyson – Main Event lets players punch their way through multiple rounds as the underdog in a pound-for-pound boxing competition en route to the ‘main event,’ – boxing against the former undisputed …
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Blogs

Broadway Boxing Returns to the BB King Blues Club, Puerto Rican …
By Staff
Local Favorites Monroe, Monaghan, Peterkin, Burrell and Parsley to See Action on the Undercard NEW YORK, NY (Mar 28, 2011) New York City’s longest.
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