Boxing Links (8-27-11)

Posted on | August 27, 2011 | No Comments

Balfour to head up Boxing SA
Independent Online
Sports minister Fikile Mbalula announced one of his predecessors, Ngconde Balfour, would head the new board of Boxing South Africa (BSA). Speaking in Johannesburg on Saturday, Mbalula said Balfour, a former sports minister and, more recently, …
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Independent Online

Boxer Mundine joins Sonny Bill Williams debate
AFP
WELLINGTON — Efforts to get Sonny Bill Williams to renew his New Zealand rugby contract have taken a new twist with Williams’ ally boxer Anthony Mundine taking a swipe at the All Blacks coaches. Williams could not even make the bench for Saturday’s …
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AFP

Friday Global Boxing Results: Senchenko Retains Belt in Ukraine
Bad Left Hook
Pretty quiet Friday overall in the boxing world, but here’s a look at what did happen across the globe. Results: Vyacheslav Senchenko TKO-6 Marco Antonio Avendano … Karoly Balzsay UD-12 Stas Kashtanov … Ignacio Mendoza KO-1 Vladimir Kravets. …
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Is Boxing on the Outside Looking In?
SecondsOut
So they’re going to direct people over to the pay-per-view and those are people that we wouldn’t ordinarily attract because there’s very little overlap between UFC [and boxing]. So we have the opportunity now to pick up, with their help, a good number …
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Frank Warren on PPV, Sky, Future of British Boxing
BoxingScene.com
Whatever your perspective, Warren has been at the business end of boxing for years and has delivered many PPV shows, he believes that boxing itself is not the problem, that the sport can thrive on the paid platform if it is done correctly. …
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HBO Boxing Greatest Hits: Victor Ortiz (Video)
Bad Left Hook
by Scott Christ on Aug 26, 2011 8:17 PM EDT in Boxing Video HBO Sports updated their greatest hits packages for the September 17 fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Victor Ortiz. Here’s the Ortiz video: I have this feeling like there’s a …
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Bring on the honeymoon: Boxing’s All-Kardashian team
MiamiHerald.com
And as I made the trek up I-75 back home, I thought about it in boxing terms. So many times over the years, fighters have burst onto the scene with big talk, big accessories, big entourages or a big back story, only to wind up as footnotes to those …
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Boxing: McDermitt’s Hinkey returns to ring tonight in Rural Rumble
Reno Gazette-Journal
Hinkey, who lives in Las Vegas but still considers Northern Nevada home, headlines today’s Rural Rumble boxing card at the Churchill County Fairgrounds. Hinkey (8-2, 7 KOs) faces Anthony Bartinelli (20-14, 13 KOs) in a six-round middleweight bout. …
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Verizon Offers Chance To Go Ringside in Las Vegas for Mayweather-Ortiz Boxing …
MarketWatch (press release)
26, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Verizon has launched the sweepstakes “Choque de Titanes,” and the winner will be flown to Las Vegas for ringside seats to the highly anticipated welterweightboxing match between six-time and five-division World …
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HBO Boxing Greatest Hits: Floyd Mayweather Jr (Video) – Bad Left …
By Scott Christ
HBO Boxing has updated their Floyd Mayweather Jr Greatest Hits package. Bad Left Hook has the video.
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