Boxing Links (10-15-11)

Posted on | October 15, 2011 | No Comments

Boxing’s time machine not ready to stop
OCRegister
$50 for a $100 Gift Card to use Towards Bikes, Apparel, Accessories, and Service By MARK WHICKER LOS ANGELES – How many boxing champions begin their careers 0-1? How manyboxing champions lose three fights out of five, in their 40’s, and still reach …
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Boxing: Cleverly out to let his fighting do the talking
WalesOnline
“With the fight in his back yard it might be a bit hostile,” conceded Cleverly, who has vowed to quit boxing if he loses his unbeaten record tonight. “But it’s just a ring and it’s only what happens in the ring that matters. I’ve been in the deep zone …
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Boxing: Manny Pacquiao Finds Himself in Heap of Financial Trouble
Bleacher Report
It sounds like the star boxer needs to pick up another fight in order to pay his off his debt. According to TMZ, Pacquiao is reportedly $649016.95 in debt to his accountants. That’s right; he owes money to the people who are managing his finances. …
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Bleacher Report

Haye targeting Hollywood action career?
FOXSports.com
Britain’s former two-weight world champion David Haye is targeting a Hollywood acting career as an action man after confirming his retirement from boxing. “The Fighter’s” OK, but “Lights Out” (yes, on FX, a Fox Sports corporate sibling) is more …
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FOXSports.com

Boxing Champion Michael Spinks Sues Former Promoter’s Estate
BusinessWeek
By Jef Feeley and Phil Milford Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — Ex-heavyweight boxing champion Michael Spinks sued the estate of his former promoter, Ronald E. “Butch” Lewis, alleging Lewis failed to properly manage millions of dollars Spinks earned in his …
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Donaire vows to wow NYC
Manila Bulletin
By NICK GIONGCO MANILA, Philippines — Before Las Vegas got the monopoly of the big fights, New York was the center of prizefighting and the famed Madison Square Garden was considered the Mecca of Boxing. A long line of Hall of Famers have fought there …
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‘Real Steel’ pulls for Disney, DreamWorks
Variety
It also documented a 10-year history of robot boxing, authored the faux sports’ rules and created other elements of the mythology of the World Robot Boxing league, with many of the elements feeding the official World Robot Boxing Facebook page, …
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Variety

Innocent Man Leaves NY Prison For Boxing Ring
CBS New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A man who spent 26 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit is trading his prison cell for a boxing ring. Dewey Bozella says when his world was caving in, boxinggave him hope. “It was my freedom, if you really want to …
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Twitter King Malignaggi chats with fans
ESPN (blog)
By Michael Woods Boxing is a sport which is resistant to change. No, guys don’t so much drink the blood from steaks anymore, but old school rules and values do stick around, as people figure that the boxers from back in the day had something that …
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Thompson: Zehm Was in ‘Boxing Stance’
KHQ Right Now
In the second day of Spokane Police officer Karl Thompson’s use-of-force trial a jury heard Thompson tell a Spokane investigator that Otto Zehm was “ready to strike” and in a “boxing stance” while inside the Zip Trip on March 18, 2006. …
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Blogs

Q&A with the Boxing Room’s Executive Chef Justin Simoneaux …
By Mary Ladd
Boxing Room Executive Chef Justin Simoneaux. Photo: Liza Gershman. The Cajun and Creole dishes of his native Louisiana influence Chef Justin Simoneaux’s cooking at the recently openedBoxing Room. Simoneaux’s affinity for coastal …
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