Boxing Links (6-2-11)

Posted on | June 2, 2011 | No Comments

Chavez Jr. intent on creating own legacy
ESPN
Throughout his eight-year career, whenever Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. walks from the dressing room to the boxing ring with that famous red bandana wrapped around his head, just as his famous old man did, the crowds go wild. Mexican and Mexican-American …
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Age relative to veteran boxers Hopkins, Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
By DAVE SKRETTA, AP Sports Writer Matt Rourke / AP Boxer Bernard Hopkins arrives at a ceremony Wednesday, June 1, 2011, in Philadelphia. Hopkins was honored by Mayor Michael Nutter at the Rocky statue outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art for winning …
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Lawyer: Pacquiao settles defamation lawsuit
USA Today
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Manny Pacquiao has settled a defamation lawsuit against other boxing world figures who intimated he used performance-enhancing drugs, a lawyer for the boxer said Wednesday. By Jay Directo, AFP/Getty Images According to his lawyer, …
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Mosley almost surrendered to Pacquiao
GMANews.TV
A month after losing a lopsided unanimous decision against pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao, Sugar Shane Mosley was actually on the verge of quitting in the last few rounds of the title fight for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight …
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Boxing great picking up mic
Las Vegas Review – Journal
The 67-year-old boxing great is reviving his R&B group the Knockouts, a parallel career he pursued even in the prime of his boxing days. Frazier even played the Caesars Palace lounge in 1970, before any of his epic fights with Muhammad Ali. …
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Gonna Fly Soon: A ‘Rocky’ Musical Is Moving Ahead
New York Times (blog)
By PATRICK HEALY The answer may lie with Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, a Tony Award-winning songwriting team (“Ragtime”), who along with the book writer Thomas Meehan are deep into a stage musical adaptation of the boxing-cum-romantic drama “Rocky …
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New York Times (blog)

Hopkins vs Martinez at 170: Lou DiBella Likes The Idea
BoxingScene.com
By Michael Marley Promoter Lou DiBella, known to erupt like Mt. St. Helen’s, has blabbermouth tendencies on many topics, ranging from boxing to baseball to pet care. But, as for my recently floated and quite nifty idea that DBE’s middleweight champion …
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Someone please take away Andre Berto’s cell phone and Twitter account
Examiner.com
Welterweight Victor Ortiz shocked many in the boxing world when he defeated Andre Berto in April. During the course of the thrilling battle, both men were knocked down several times and got back up to finish the fight. Today via Twitter, Berto hinted …
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Boxing and dancing? Locked out players keep busy
Yahoo! Sports
By RealClearSports Jun 1, 3:05 pm EDT The NFL and its players are heading back to court, with a hearing scheduled for Friday at the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. As a decision isn’t expected for at least another month, the NFL lockout most likely …
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