Boxing Links (8-22-11)

Posted on | August 22, 2011 | No Comments

Q&A: The return (again) of Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Los Angeles Times
And when Mayweather steps into the boxing ring Sept. 17 against WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz, he will have gone 16 months since his last fight, a lopsided win over Shane Mosley. This downtime could take a deeper toll because Mayweather, 34, …
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Octomom Nayda Suleman beats strip club bartender in celebrity boxing match
Daily Mail
By Daily Mail Reporter Octomom, real name Nadya Suleman, beat a local strip club bartender in a celebrity boxing match on Saturday night in Fort Lauderdale, Miami. The single mother of 14 won a split decision in three one-minute rounds, according to…
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Daily Mail

Game ‘Putting On Boxing Gloves,’ Producer Mars Says
MTV.com
“We did two songs. That’s coming along crazy. We’re going to have no features: It’s just him rapping. No name dropping, no little things people say is cliché about Game. It’s just putting on the boxinggloves and going for what we know.”
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PG police look for teen boxer in toddler shooting case
Washington Times
By Andrea Noble Investigators are looking to question an 18-year-old amateur boxer in connection with shooting of a toddler outside a Glenarden apartment complex, Prince George’s County police said Monday. They have identified Deven Angel Matos, …
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Washington Times

Boxing clever: new VW ‘people’s car’
Independent Online
By Motoring staff As brilliant a car as the Passat is, Volkswagen is really about small cars; if you think about it, the name, which literally means “People’s Car”, says it all. VW built its reputation on the Beetle, the Golf and the Polo; …
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Independent Online

Results from the Victory Outreach Church’s USA Amateur Boxing Show Part II
Examiner.com
On Saturday, after a 20 minute intermission the Road to Victory II USA Amateur Boxing Show resumed to serve up an additional eight bouts, Bouts 10 through 17. Bout #10 featured 19 year-old Miguel Sanchez of the Ocean’s Boxing Club going up against 18 …
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McCloskey: Prescott Boxing More, Very Dangerous Fight
BoxingScene.com
By Pawel Pronishev After studying tapes of Colombian banger Breidis Prescott (24-2, 19KOs), Irish junior welterweight Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12KOs) feels the hard hitter is starting to incorporate more boxing in his ring game. …
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USA Boxing names Ken Buffington team manager for World Championships
Marshalltown Times Republican
BY MIKE DONAHEY – Staff Writer (mdonahey@timesrepublican.com) , Times-Republican Ken Buffington’s travels as a boxing competitor, coach and promoter have taken him to many American cities and to Ireland. Now he can add Baku, Azerbaijan to his list. …
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RGV Boxing Notebook: Perales wins in world-class Mexico City tournament
Brownsville Herald
Fuentes, whose brother, Deejay, also is an MMA competitor, is trying to succeed as a standard boxer as well as an MMA fighter, so he enlisted Gogue’s help. Fuentes is 5-3 in MMA competition and 1-0 in boxing. “Right now, Randy is the only one out there …
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Boxing weekend review: Henry Lundy beat David Diaz
The Sport Review
We look back at the best of the weekend’s boxing. This week: Henry Lundy’s defeat of David Diaz By Mike Pope 10:45am UK, Monday 22 August, 2011 Henry Lundy. August is boxing’s off-season, and there have been few fights to discuss in recent weeks. …
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Blogs

Octomom — Victorious in Celebrity Boxing Match | TMZ.com
By TMZ Staff
Octomom donned head gear and GIANT boxing gloves and defeated someone named Cassandra Andersen in a celebrity boxing match last night in Florida. But…
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Octomom Nadya Suleman Wins Celebrity Boxing Match Against Strip …
By AceShowbiz.com
The single mother of 14 was declared a winner by a split decision although she left the ring with raised middle fingers before the match was actually over.
Aceshowbiz.com – Entertainment News

Octomom Takes On Celebrity Boxing (Photo) | Allie is Wired
By Allie
Nadya Suleman is now a boxer. ‘Octomom’ beat a local strip club bartender in a celebrity boxingmatch Saturday night in Fort Lauderdale, with Michael Lohan in her corner. We’re not exactly sure what Lindsay Lohan’s dad had to do with …
Allie is Wired

Cele|bitchy » Blog Archive » Octomom leaves celebrity boxing match …
By Celebitchy
Suleman tore off her boxing gloves a few seconds before the end of the fight’s final round and ran from the room, repeatedly jabbing the air with a pair of upraised middle fingers in what she apparently misunderstood to be a traditional …
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Web

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. – Los Angeles Times
The most problematic issue preventing a Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao super-fight has been Mayweather’s insistence that both submit to random, …
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