Boxing Links (5-28-11)

Posted on | May 28, 2011 | No Comments

Bouts with abuse nothing new for boxing
New York Post
At least not when we chatted in Las Vegas earlier this month at the Boxing Writers dinner the night before Manny Pacquiao chased Shane Mosley around the ring for 12 rounds at the MGM. As always, De La Hoya looked fit and in good spirits. …
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I worry about James DeGale.. most fight fans just don’t like him
Mirror.co.uk
By Barry McGuigan 28/05/2011 There is nothing like rivalry in sport and in boxing it is the equivalent of petrol on a fire. The atmosphere in the O2 Arena last week for James DeGale and George Groves’ dust-up was like a world title fight, …
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ROBERT MORALES: Return is therapeutic for Christy Martin; De La Hoya…
Los Angeles Daily News
By Robert Morales, boxing columnist Christy Martin pulled down her sock to display a long, nasty scar on her left calf. “I was laying on the floor and this part of my leg laid on the floor,” she said. Martin was re-living the horrifying Nov. …
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Delaware boxer Amir Mansour belts his way to title
The News Journal
Though the storm was confined within the walls of the Rollins Center inside the Dover Downs Hotel & Casino as a co-main event of “Friday Night Fights,” Mansour hopes his message continues to be spread across the boxing world. …
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Boxer tells of her attack to draw attention to domestic violence
Las Vegas Review – Journal
Christy Martin is a terror in the boxing ring with 49 victories and only five losses. Hearing this tough woman is the victim of domestic abuse is as stunning as her 31 knockouts. Her husband, Jim Martin, “told me for 20 years he would kill me if I ever …
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Wladimir Klitschko vs David Haye: Send in Your Official Predictions
Bleacher Report
Alright fight fans we are going to kick off our next Bleacher Report Boxing Community Official Prediction Collaboration piece once again which this time we will provide prizes to two winners. We finally have the most meaningful and biggest heavyweight …
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Bleacher Report

Tony Thompson To Face Eddie Chambers In IBF Final Eliminator – Who Wins?
EastsideBoxing.com
Chambers, once again in his career, will be the smaller man against Thompson, but his fans hands and his fine boxing brain will se to it that the big southpaw encounters plenty of problems. The battle between the two fighters who are generally looked …
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Bernard Hopkins Got The Chance To Engage Pascal In A Rematch; These Guys Weren …
EastsideBoxing.com
Hurt at the decision going against him after he’d “put on a boxing masterpiece,” De La Hoya said he’d have no choice but to go for the KO in the return. But would Oscar have gotten the stoppage, or would the lethal-hitting Trinidad have got to his chin …
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Q&A with Avenal boxer Jose Ramirez
Fresno Bee
By Jeff Davis / The Fresno Bee The next step on the road to the 2012 Olympics for Jose Ramirez of Avenal comes Saturday with a tuneup bout at the USA Boxing Central Regional Championships. The 18-year-old Fresno State freshman, as the defending …
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Blogs

Boxing Breakfast: The Klitschko vs Haye Buzz – Bad Left Hook
By Scott Christ
Bad Left Hook wonders: Is Wladimir Klitschko mentally dominating David Haye in the lead-up to their July 2 fight?
Bad Left Hook – http://www.badlefthook.com/

Political shadow-boxing: Swaraj versus Jaitley | Firstpost
Sushma Swaraj’s attack on Arun Jaitley reflects the growing rivalry between two young aspirants to the BJP throne.
Firstpost – http://www.firstpost.com/