Boxing Links (6-7-11)

Posted on | June 7, 2011 | No Comments

Eminem and ‘Training Day’ director look to pair up for boxing drama
Los Angeles Times
Fuqua is set to come aboard “Southpaw,” a fictional boxing drama written and conceived by “Sons of Anarchy” creator Kurt Sutter and starring the Detroit rapper, said a source briefed on the film who requested anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to …
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Looking at a great weekend of boxing
BlackAthlete.net
IOWA CITY, IOWA—This past Saturday night, two great fights showed the best of boxing. The Julio Cesar Chavez and Sebastian Zbik fight showed two young fighters trying to make their name inboxing history. The same could be said of Carl Froch and Glen …
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Boxing champ ordered to pay up
Independent Online
By ZELDA VENTER Former world heavyweight boxing champion Corrie Sanders has been dealt a knockout blow by the Pretoria High Court ruling that he owed his former trainer, Harold Volbrecht, $156 000 (R1 068 000) in fees plus 15.5 percent interest …
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Independent Online

Former Vegas boxing judge gets prison for fraud
San Antonio Express
LAS VEGAS (AP) â€” A former boxing judge in Las Vegas has been sentenced to 1Â½ years in federal prison for defrauding the Social Security Administration out of about $400000. US Attorney Daniel Bogden says in a release that 66-year-old Paul Smith was …
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Former amateur boxer tries hand at promoting: Boxing Insider
Plain Dealer
By Joe Maxse, The Plain Dealer Actually, Tim VanNewhouse is not a kid or new toboxing. But the former amateur fighter has never promoted a professional show. Undertaking the biggest venture of his 25 years, VanNewhouse and his partners formed Stallion …
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Plain Dealer

Sergio Martinez pushing WBC for Chavez Jr date
WBN – World Boxing News
Two-weight world champion Sergio Martinez is set to put pressure of the World BoxingCouncil to make him the mandatory challenger to new champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr’s crown. The 36 year-old was stripped of the same title in January for failing to …
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WBN – World Boxing News

Englishman Froch’s star on ascent after victory in Super Six semifinals
SI.com
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — We in boxing bellyache all the time about fighters who duck dangerous opponents, refuse to take chances and turn prizefights into glorified wrestling matches. Carl Froch, the reigning WBC super middleweight champion, …
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Golden Boy exec denies Slim’s $65-M offer to Pacquiao
GMANews.TV
In the light of the reported $65 million proposal tendered by billionaire Carlos Slim to Manny Pacquiao for the boxing superstar to fight rising prospect Saul Alvarez in Mexico, Golden Boy Promotions vehemently denied a mouth-watering figure was ever …
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Nader coached and played everything from golf, boxing to horseshoes
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
He coached service teams in track, basketball, baseball and boxing in Hawaii and the Philippines. In Hawaii, Nader worked with Fred Apostoli, world middleweight champion, teaching kids how to box. While in the Philippines, he helped organize an …
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Underdog Boxing: Look what you’ve done Floyd
GMANews.TV
Boxing fans are a smart bunch. None of them believe fighters who use lame excuses anymore. Cop outs such as their trainers putting too much petroleum jelly on their faces (Wladimir Klitschko) or eating the wrong kind of soup which caused diarrhea …
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Blogs

Talkin’ Boxing with Lou DiBella | BoxingInsider.com – Boxing …
By Scoop Malinowski
By Scoop Malinowski One of the world’s premier boxing promoters talks discusses plans for Sergio Martinez, Andre Berto, the next Manny Pacquiao, Pacquiao.
BoxingInsider.com

Eminem Boxing Movie Close to Landing ‘Training Day’ Director …
By Borys Kit
“Southpaw” centers on a welterweight champ who punches his way back to glory after a tragedy.
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