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Boxing Links (9-16-11)

Posted on | September 16, 2011 | No Comments

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Mayweather out to stave off age, Ortiz
ESPN
Asked by a newcomer to the boxing beat following Wednesday’s final news conference if those legal problems were a distraction, Mayweather looked perplexed. He said the reporter wasn’t familiar to him, so he must have been new to have the audacity to 
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‘I did wrong things; I see it now’: boxer Gatti’s widow
Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL – Money wasn’t an issue in Amanda Rodrigues’s marriage to boxing champion Arturo Gatti. What did bother her, though, was his inability to change his ways and stop drinking, the 25-year-old told Quebec Superior Court ON Thursday, 
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Boxing: Ready to rumble
Observer Online
Professional boxer and Bengal Bouts champion Mike Lee weighs in Thursday at Irish Green. Lee will fight Jacob Stiers tonight as part of the first ever pro boxing event at Notre Dame. Mike Lee said the day he received his acceptance letter to Notre Dame 
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The boxing rabbi
CNN International (blog)
Boxing gloves snap and thump, keeping the rhythm with the grunts and shouts. There is no music, no TVs, no smoothie bar. It smells like a boxing gym should: awful. Winning a belt does wonders for your popularity at the gym. 
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Former Boxing Champ Morrison Jailed In Wichita
KAKE
Sad he was a good boxer. by ash Location: emporia on Sep 15, 2011 at 09:35 PM Looks like karma got back to him. Wasn’t it just recently that his charges were dropped in Lyon County?! by LESSON NOT LEARNED on Sep 15, 2011 at 09:08 PM They need to tattoo 
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TOP 7 Boxers that Pack a Punch in Movies
Scorecard Review
Warrior (starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton and Nick Notle) is not a boxing movie. I know it’s MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). So why on Earth am I writing a TOP 7 about boxers one week after Warrior failed to excite audiences at the box office? Wow. 
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Gomez grateful for his shot vs. Canelo
ESPN
By Dan Rafael ESPN Boxing Hot Button – Arash Markazi and Noel Pineiro-Planas discuss if it’s better to watch the fight in Los Angeles or Las VegasTags: Mayweather, Ortiz. la sportscenter,boxing While most of the boxing world will be focused on Las 
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Tough times bring boxing greats here
Las Vegas Review – Journal
Boxing legends Earnie Shavers, left, Ken Norton and Leon Spinks meet in the MGM Grand lobby. » Buy this photo Like Joe Louis in another era, boxing legends Ken Norton, Leon Spinks and Earnie Shavers have moved to Las Vegas to cash in on their fame in 
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Boxing to continue at Decoto firehouse — for now
Daily Review Online
By Rob Dennis UNION CITY — The City Council has approved a plan to continue using a former firehouse on 10th Street as an interim location for a youth boxing center and other recreational activities while officials seek a permanent home for the 
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Blogs
Comparison between UFC and Boxing Pay Per View Buys | MMAValor
By Will Gray (Staff Writer)
Undefeated Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. will be defending his WBC welterweight championship against “Vicious” Victor Ortiz and given the history of the pay per view purchases generated by Mayweather, the argument that boxing is the 
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Notre Dame’s Mike Lee: Boxing’s Latest ‘Great White Hope’ – Bad 
By Scott Christ
Mike Lee is being hyped, but how much hope is there? Bad Left Hook has more on the Notre Dame product, who brings pro boxing to the university for the first time on Friday.
Bad Left Hook

 

Web
Reporter’s Notebook: The changing face of women’s boxing – CNN
A high school gym erupts with cheers as the announcer introduces the women fighting to be the nation’s top amateur boxers. Names like Esparza, Cruz and 
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Mailbag: Boxing isn’t going anywhere – Boxing – Yahoo! Sports
With huge PPV draws like Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, naysayers can’t say the sport of boxing is dead. – Boxing news.
sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ki-iole_boxing_not…

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