Boxing Links (6-12-11)

Posted on | June 12, 2011 | No Comments

Time can alter perception as Tyson enters boxing’s hall
New York Post
The estimated $300 million he made during his boxing career would be appealing. But the rest of his life — from growing up as a juvenile delinquent in Brownsville, Brooklyn, to being imprisoned for rape to being betrayed by those he thought would love …
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New York Post

Boxing bonanza a rousing success
Independent Online
For some in the audience it seemed like a boxing bazaar when Branco Milenkovic staged his bi-sexual box-and-dine tournament at Carnival City on Saturday night – and for others there was a bizarre element in the proceedings. …
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Independent Online

Ray Edwards’ upcoming boxing match cancelled
FS North
By John Holler Ray Edwards’ boxing career may be over if the current labor lockout can be resolved. Edwards began his pro boxing career last month with a unanimous-decision victory at Grand Casino Hinckley. He was scheduled to make his return to action …
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Boxing greats, officials set to tour Brockton to discuss Rocky statue plans
The Patriot Ledger
By Matt Stout Rick Lewando remembers the days when boxing meant something, when he’d watch great fighters like Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier on the “Wide World of Sports” broadcast. Later it was the likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler …
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Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.: The Greatest Fight That May Never Be
Bleacher Report
These are just a few of the highly anticipated dream match-ups of their time that boxing fans have been deprived of. If the Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao fight-terms discrepancies don’t soon find common ground, then at best we might have a fight…
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Bleacher Report

Fame, fortune have faded away for Detroit boxer Willie Edwards
Detroit Free Press
Willie Edwards’ problems include suffering from the early stages of Parkinson’s disease, which also has affected other former boxers. / SARAH RICE/Detroit Free Press BY MIKE BRUDENELL Former boxer Willie Edwards keeps to himself in his corner at …
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Hope City, Part Four
Kansas City Star
BY ROY WENZL Two weeks after Immanuel Thompson joined Johnny Papin’s backyard boxingclub, Johnny tied gloves onto the 12-year-old’s hands and pitted him in a sparring match against a boy two years older and a head taller. No jab, no skills, …
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Obama urged to pardon late boxing great Jack Johnson
Chicago Sun-Times
AP file Although 65 years have passed since Jack Johnson died, the best boxer of his time remains a person of much social and political dialogue. Johnson died an ex-convict — the result of a 1913 conviction in Chicago of having violated the Mann Act, …
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Hands That Punch Also Gently Guide
New York Times
She is a professional boxer. By COREY KILGANNON AT 5-foot-7 and 220 pounds, Sonya Lamonakis has a stinging left hook. She is the Women’s International BoxingAssociation’s third-ranked heavyweight, and has all but assured herself a chance to fight for …
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New York Times

‘One Arm’ Boxer Turned Hustler Reveals Early Williams: Review
San Francisco Chronicle
After boxing his way to light heavyweight champion of the Pacific Fleet, a car crash robbed him of the limb. Ollie sets out on a journey that takes him from shadowy corners of New Orleans to Times Square and eventually to a yacht off the Florida coast. …
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Blogs

Panama: Boxing Commentator’s Presidential Aspirations · Global Voices
By Ayoola Alabi
Tapia hosts a boxing programme at 9pm on Thursdays. He always dedicates the first few minutes of his show to criticising and reflecting on political topics, which in many cases have caused a negative response but also garnered support …
Global Voices