Boxing Links (6-7-11)

Posted on | June 8, 2011 | No Comments

Kansas boxer Victor Ortiz to defend title against Floyd Mayweather
Kansas City Star
By RUSTIN DODD The victory tour had hardly even begun before Victor Ortiz started offering up hints that his next fight would send ripples through the boxing world. Just two weeks after winning the WBC welterweight title, Ortiz arrived at Kauffman …
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Kansas City Star

San Rafael to allow professional boxing match at baseball field
San Jose Mercury News
By Jessica Bernstein-Wax SAN RAFAEL — A professional boxing event may be coming to San Rafael after the City Council voted 4-1 to allow the use in Albert Park. Marin boxing legend Paul Nave, known as the “Marin County Assassin,” had appealed city …
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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr and Boxing’s Minor League
Bleacher Report
It is also not good for the confusion it adds to boxing in that Chavez now has a belt and is referred to as a champion. However, overall, having Chavez occupy this position in the middleweight division may be good for the sport in the long run. …
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Bleacher Report

Southland boxer Genaro Hernandez, a former world champion, dies at 45
Los Angeles Times
Genaro “Chicanito” Hernandez, who ascended through the Southern California boxing ranks to become a two-time world super-featherweight champion, died Tuesday after more than two years of battling cancer, his friend and boxing publicist Bill Caplan said …
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Brandon Rios-Urbano Antillon Press Conference Quotes
EastsideBoxing.com
LOS ANGELES (June 7, 2011) – Undefeated World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight champion “Bam Bam” Brandon Rios and two-time world title challenger and Top-Five-rated contender Urbano Antillon spent more time talking to each other than members of …
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Juan Diaz quits boxing for law school
ESPN
By Dan Rafael Two weeks after signing a contract to fight David Torres and announcing that he would end a one-year layoff, the former unified lightweight titlist withdrew from the fight Tuesday, telling promoter Leon Margules of Warriors Boxing that he …
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Drug charges dropped against former boxing champ
USA Today
(AP) — Two Kansas drug charges against former heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison have been dropped because the state trooper who arrested him has died. By Charles Saus, AP Tommy Morrison had the charges dropped after the officer who arrested …
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Quiz boxer Sugar Ray Leonard
CNN (blog)
Flashy and fast-fisted, Sugar Ray Leonard is widely regarded as the greatest boxer of all time. The retired American champion has an unprecedented five world titles in five weight classes to his name and has been part of some of the most memorable …
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Eminem’s boxing drama may land Antoine Fuqua as director
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
But now that a boxing picture has taken a couple of major prizes, there’s interest in more boxingpictures and Eminem has one. He may get the director of “Training Day” behind the camera for “Southpaw,” his long-awaited second shot at the movies. …
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UFC 131: An Old Boxing Dogma Will Be the Key to Dos Santos’ Win over Carwin
Bleacher Report
Ask anyone in the sports of boxing who will win between a fighter who has fast hands and someone who possesses power but lacks speed, and you will often get the former as the answer. If this will apply in the upcoming title-eliminator match between …
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Blogs

Fireworks boxing is the greatest sport that never caught on
By Cyriaque Lamar
This blurb appeared in a 1937 issue of Popular Science. In London, two fellows donned asbestos suits and feigned a boxing match while their pyrotechnic doppelgangers exploded alongside them, like some sort of spontaneously combusting …
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OnMilwaukee.com Sports: Boxing flashback: Stanley Ketchel
One hundred three years ago this weekend, Downtown Milwaukee taverns ran out of champagne when Stanley Ketchel guzzled, sprayed and bathed himself in all …
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