Boxing Links (10-15-11)
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 … See all stories on this topic » […]
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A comedy Throw-down pitting Queens best comedians against Brooklyn’s best comedians. There is no better place to crown a champion than at Gleason’s, the home of more boxing champions than any other gym in the world. The bout sheet includes: Kendra Cunningham (Brooklyn) Leah Bonnema (Queens) Garry Hannon (Brooklyn) Adam Lehman (Queens) […]
Boxing Links (8-31-11)
Oscar De La Hoya tells of drug use, cheating, thinking of suicide Los Angeles Times “Rock bottom was recently,” the boxing great said in an interview with Spanish-language broadcaster Univision, according to an English-language transcript it provided. “Within a couple of years, just thinking if my life was even worth it. … See all stories on this topic […]
PIERS MORGAN STEPS INTO THE RING WITH BOXING CHAMPIONS OSCAR DE LA HOYA AND VICTOR ORTIZ
Interview Special To Air Wednesday, August 31 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT LOS ANGELES (August 30, 2011) – CNN prime time talk show host Piers Morgan will step into the sport of boxing as the Wednesday, August 31 edition of “Piers Morgan Tonight” features a visit with WBC Welterweight World Champion Victor Ortiz and all-time boxing great Oscar de […]
Boxing Links (8-2-11)
Remembering Butch Lewis as more than a boxing promoter | Philadelphia Inquirer … Philadelphia Inquirer So it comes as no surprise that the little fourth grader became one of the greatest boxing promoters, having worked for more than 30 years with the likes of Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali and Michael and Leon Spinks. PAUL BURNETT / Associated Press Boxing … See all […]
THE LATE GENARO “CHICANITO” HERNANDEZ TO RECEIVE INAUGURAL LOPEZ FAMILY “SALUTE TO GREAT CHAMPIONS AWARD” SATURDAY, JUNE 25 AT FIRST PICO RIVERA SHOW
Pico Rivera–It is only fitting that one of the great Los Angeles boxing champions will receive the very first Salute To Great Champions award, and that champion will be Genaro “Chicanito” Hernandez. On Saturday, June 25th in the boxing ring at the Pico Rivera Sports Arena as part of Opening Night of the Inaugural Boxeo en El […]
Boxing Book Released About First Black Champions
Premier sport broadcaster Al Bernstein introduces and pens the Foreward for a new book on the history of boxing. The First Black Boxing Champions: Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s, recently released by McFarland & Company, Inc., is a compilation of newly written, meticulously documented, biographical essays on some of the most intriguing fighters ever known, […]