Boxing Links (2-1-12)

Posted on | February 1, 2012 | No Comments

Will Junior remember Alamo differently?
ESPN (blog)
(A brief aside: The notion of two welterweights actually deciding who is the best fighter in the world by meeting in the ring might, to today’s generation of boxing fans, seem an absurdity, a fiction so improbable as to be without any kind of …
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Hershman: HBO to remain ‘bullish’ on boxing going forward
USA TODAY
HBO boxing broadcaster Jim Lampley, left, and President of HBO Sports Ken Hershman will be working together after years of Hershman leading Showtime’s boxingeffort. HBO boxing broadcaster Jim Lampley, left, and President of HBO Sports Ken Hershman …
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USA TODAY

Hershman begins HBO job in earnest
ESPN
By Dan Rafael Ken Hershman now sits in the biggest chair (figuratively, at least) in the boxing business. As the new president of HBO Sports, Hershman wields the biggest checkbook to buy fights — about $35 million a year — even though nobody at the …
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Andre Berto vs. Victor Ortiz Boxing Rematch Postponed
Fox News
(Photo by John Parra/Getty Images for Haute Living Magazine) *** Local Caption *** Andre Berto2010 Getty Images Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Boxing fans were dealt another blow Tuesday with the postponement of the highly-anticipated Feb.
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Underdog Boxing: Everything starts again for Nonito Donaire
GMA News
The check hook Donaire threw was so brutal that it won the Knockout of the Year Award from almost every boxing website or magazine that gave out such awards. However, for the second time in his career, Donaire failed to capitalize on what was a …
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Boxing: Casper’s Kinsman aims for national title
Casper Star-Tribune Online
Nate Kinsman entered the boxing ring looking for a workout to help stay in shape for football. One year later, Kinsman has a much larger goal in mind. “We’re going down to bring a national championship to Casper,” the Kelly Walsh sophomore said.
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Ashburn Mom Vies for Another Boxing Belt
Patch.com
11 to faces Houston fighter Vashon “Lady V” Living for the Women’s International Boxing Association’s vacant middleweight championship in a 10-round boxing bout. Nelson (5-0-1), a single mother, works in Loudoun as school bus driver and cafeteria …
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Boxing Returns To Times Union Center
WTMM 104.5 The Team – ESPN Radio
If you’re a boxing fan, you want to be in downtown Albany on Saturday, Feb. 4. Boxing returns to the Times Union Center, with two title bouts for fans to enjoy, in the card KO at the TU. Headlining the card is the IBA World Title Bout, between Joe “The …
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Amir Khan forced to wait to to learn Peterson rematch fate
BBC Sport
A spokesman for Peterson told BBC Sport: “Right now our efforts are focused on the appeal to the World Boxing Association (WBA). “Once that’s done and Lamont is finally in receipt of his WBA belt then we will shift the focus to who he fights next.
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BBC Sport

Boxing card Friday night in Greensboro
Greensboro News & Record
The World Championship Boxing event, put on by Walter Johnson and B. Hairston as part of the 2012 KO Fights Series, will include: WBC-US super middleweight championship, Scott Sigmon (19-3, 11KOs) of Jefferson, Va., vs. Jimmy Campbell (16-5, …
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Blogs

Amateur boxing to focus on women’s development this year …
By KNews
The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association will be placing emphasis on the development of women’sboxing this year. GABA president Steve Ninvalle informed that the association’s Technical Director, Terrence Poole, has been placed in …
Kaieteur News

Web

Star inactivity sapping the life out of boxing – Boxing – Yahoo! Sports
Boxing interest would grow exponentially if magnates like Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather fought more often. – Boxing news.
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