Boxing Links (7-23-11)

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Amir Khan – Zab Judah: Prediction for Tonight’s Fight (Boxing)
International Business Times
Non-heavyweight divisions have proven to be the more entertaining and more competitive of the boxing divisions over the years. Saturday night in Las Vegas will be another example of two top-quality boxers squaring off in what should be a competitive…
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International Business Times

Mick Hennessy’s Weigh-In Blast For Dereck Chisora
BoxingScene.com
By Terence Dooley Tyson Fury and Derek Chisora spearhead boxing’s return to terrestrial TV when meeting for Chisora’s British and Commonwealth heavyweight crowns in a bout that was hit with a weigh-in face-off ban by the BBBoC due to the bad blood …
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Boxer Iannuzzi makes life change, discovers ring opportunities
Tbo.com
Two months later, Iannuzzi, a rising talent in boxing’s cruiserweight division, was cleared of any wrongdoing, compelling him to alter his life. “Everybody I meet, everybody I talk to, I treat them equally,” the Tampa boxer said. “It doesn’t matter. …
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Klitschko vs. Klitschko isn’t going to happen
Los Angeles Times
(Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP/Getty Images) By Bill Dwyre In the sport of boxing, there are thousands of sideshows and two real issues: Will Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao ever fight each other, and will the Klitschko brothers ever do the same? …
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Dana White: ‘Floyd Mayweather is what’s wrong with boxing‘
msnbc.com
And he’s argued with Mayweather in the past about boxing vs. mixed martial arts, at one point challenging Mayweather to get into the UFC ring with one of his fighters, which Mayweather did not accept. Then on Wednesday White appeared on WFAN in New …
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Anthony Dirrell Stops Engel; Elegele Drops Shocker
BoxingScene.com
It was a quick night for the 2004 US Boxing Olympian, who scored a second round knockout of Kevin Engel in the main event of ESPN2 Friday Night Fights at the Morongo Casino in Cabazon, California. While the outcome was never in doubt, the ending left a …
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ACROSS the BIG SKY
Great Falls Tribune
BUTTE — A boxer was awarded a technical knockout after his opponent was arrested in the middle of the fight for allegedly making an obscene gesture to the crowd. Brock Aleksich was boxing Bobby Moreno in an outdoor ring in Butteon Thursday night when …
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Shore’s Wise leads boxers into New York ring
Tasley Eastern Shore News
To the boxing community the area that rests peacefully along the New York State Thruway is the home of legendary boxing trainer Cus D’Amato, who developed and guided the careers of Floyd Patterson, Jose Torres and Mike Tyson. Farther up the thruway is …
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Yonkers boxing legend finally gets appropriate memorial
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Matt Hogan, left, a great-grandson, and Michael Hogan, a grandson to the late Yonkers boxinglegend Michael Hogan, look at a copy of a newspaper article displayed Friday during the dedication of Hogan’s new gravestone. / Matthew Brown/The Journal News …
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Jerusalem boxing club brings together Jews, Arabs | The Associated …
By The Associated Press
When Gershon Luxemburg started his boxing club 30 years ago, he was looking to build champions, not bridges. But thanks to a loyal cadre of Jewish and Arab fighters who flock to his stuffy gym inside a converted underground bomb shelter …
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