Boxing Links (8-23-11)

Posted on | August 23, 2011 | No Comments

‘Real Steel’ Featurette Explores The Art of Giant Robot Boxing
Screen Rant
The new featurette for ‘Real Steel’ touches on the sport of robot boxing and how a combination of effects were used to bring the film’s metallic characters to life. The jokes about Real Steel being Rock’em Sock’em Robots: The Movie are still as …
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Screen Rant

David Haye Set To Retire? Good Friend Carl Froch Thinks So
EastsideBoxing.com
By James Slater: It’s been almost two months since his ultra-disappointing showing against heavyweight king Wladimir Klitschko, and former World Boxing Association (WBA) champ David Haye has been very, very quiet. Those fans who are still interested in …
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Green eyes US boxing rematch with Tarver
Sydney Morning Herald
Perth boxer Danny Green has no plans to retire any time soon, declaring his intent to win back his IBO cruiserweight world title from Antonio Tarver in the US later this year. Green admitted he was “destroyed” by Tarver when the pair fought in Sydney …
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Nadya ‘Octomom’ Suleman beats bartender in boxing match
USA Today (blog)
But before the end of the fight’s final round, Octomom tore off her boxing gloves and ran from the room, repeatedly jabbing the air with a pair of upraised middle fingers. The Miami Herald’s Glenn Garvin reports that Suleman thought that was a victory …
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USA Today (blog)

Aurit back at Temple to teach boxing
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Bernard Fernandez By Bernard Fernandez AFTER AN absence of more than a decade, Ron Aurit is returning to a college campus to teach boxing – safe, non-contact boxing – to students interested in incorporating a fighter’s training techniques into their …
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Boxing: Victor Ortiz Can Beat Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Bleacher Report
(Photo by Daniel Barry/Getty Images) Many boxing pundits maintain that Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr should already have a loss on his blemish-free 41-0 professional record. And while I respectfully disagree, the fight in question remains Mayweather’s …
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Bleacher Report

Tony Thompson-Eddie Chambers set
ESPN
Boxing is not a team sport, but if it was a team sport, we would be on the same team.” Goossen said he has Oct. 28 from Showtime for a “ShoBox: The New Generation” card that likely will include prospects Shawn Estrada, a super middleweight, …
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Zanesville athletes compete at world boxing championships
Zanesville Times Recorder
Local boxers Travis Jerig and Zakery Rollins participated in an international tournament during the weekend. The 11th annual Ringside World Championship was held at the KCI Expo Center with 1250 participating, including teams from Australia, Brazil, …
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Blogs

Hugh Jackman Explains His Futuristic Robot Boxing Movie Real Steel …
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Hugh Jackman Trains His Boxing Robot in New ‘Real Steel’ Featurette
By AceShowbiz.com
Titled ‘Main Event’, the video highlights how Charlie Kenton and his son find a wasted robot in a junkyard before they transform it into a championship contender on robot boxing ring.
Aceshowbiz.com – Entertainment News

Web

At local boxing club, these mothers pack a punch – Milford, MA …
The Milford Daily News – Rebecca Rossi breathes out hard as she slams her fists, sheathed inboxing gloves, into the padded focus mitts on instructor Keiko …
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