Boxing Links (6-10-11)

Posted on | June 10, 2011 | No Comments

Mike Tyson reflects on his HOF career
ESPN (blog)
Mark Ralston/Getty Images Today, Mike Tyson focuses on his family and films, having left behind boxing and his troubled past. Mike Tyson has a new life now. The former heavyweight champ is married for the third time, to Kiki, raising children and …
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ESPN (blog)

Fighters lining up for defending champ Pacquiao
Seattle Post Intelligencer
FILE – In this April 30, 2010 file photo, Floyd Mayweather Jr. steps on the scale at a weigh-in ceremony before a WBA welterweight boxing title fight against Shane Mosley in Las Vegas. Mayweather, the undefeated six-time world champion, …
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Boxer Tony Suggs is fighting to let go of the past
Washington Post
Little Anthony’s hands are wrapped in yellow boxing tape. The 25-year-old’s eyes narrow as he ducks and weaves, each jab accompanied by an angry hiss of exhaled air and the bounce of his long dreads. Suggs thinks he isn’t listening. “Come on! …
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‘One Arm’: boxer turns to sex for money
New York Daily News
Ollie is a maimed boxer at the center of “One Arm,” a slim but stirring drama now packing a wallop from the New Group and Tectonic Theater Project. The 85-minute one-act is based on a short story Williams wrote in 1942. He repurposed it in 1967 as a …
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New York Daily News

Bob Hanna: Respect British boxing champion
SouthCoastToday.com
“I’m actually getting tired of hearing how I fight the best — that’s what I’m boxing for. I want to fight the best. I don’t want to fight a bum-of-the-month.” Give this man a standing ovation, please. We need more fighters like him. …
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Pacquiao, Mayweather, Khan, oh my! Series of fights on schedule could give …
Washington Post
“I really can’t remember any other weight class that has been so talent-loaded,” Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer said, referring to the 140- and 147-pound divisions, by far the most exciting in boxing over the past few years. …
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‘Guys don’t talk about those things’: Boxing legend Sugar Ray’s tearful sex …
Daily Mail
By Daily Mail Reporter He is one of the greatest boxers of all time, fearless in the face of some of the toughest opponents to ever stand in a ring. But in an emotional interview discussing his new book, boxer ‘Sugar’ Ray Leonard teared up as he …
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Daily Mail

Rocky’s road
FOXSports.com
This weekend, the Boxing Hall of Fame will welcome a new class. Among a group of inductees that includes all-time greats like Mike Tyson and Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., one stands out as a seemingly peculiar choice: Sylvester Stallone. For more MMA/boxing …
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Get Fit On 6: Cycle Boxing
KAALtv.com
Cycle boxing may be the answer for you! Take red boxing gloves, combine them with a bike, and you have an intense cardio class called Cycle Boxing. It’s a dynamic workout that has become a craze at many area gyms. “The class is run for 45 minutes and …
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Blogs

Fireworks Boxing
By Phil Haney
For those of you that think the sport of boxing isn’t brutal enough, it seems that in 1937 someone tried to add fireworks to the mix. Two boxers fought each other while connected to pyrotechnic dummies which exploded on impact. …
Neatorama

Boxing Champ Sugar Ray Leonard Talks Sexual Abuse, Drug Abuse In …
By J. Tinsley
Boxing champ Sugar Ray Leonard talks sexual abuse and drug abuse in his new book, The Big Fight.
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