10 Jan
Muhammad Ali recently celebrated his 66th birthday. This name made history in boxing. Since 1981, Muhammad Ali fights inside the boxing ring. Browsing through his records, he lost in his first 2 fights but after that, he was able to gain 56 wins (37 knockouts and 19 decisions). Indeed, Muhammad Ali is a very [...]
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28 Sep
It is not only men that you can see inside the boxing ring. Nowadays, even women do boxing. I thought boxing is for men only but now I discovered that since 1911, women are already wearing boxing gloves. I am really just amazed for their bravery and confidence to play a sport ideally for men.
Having [...]
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19 May
As we all know, boxers, referees, judges, and coaches retire. But only now was able to hear that even boxing rings retire.
The 82-year old boxing ring at Madison Square Garden retired. But this doesn’t mean boxing-no-more. In fact a slightly larger ring will replace it. An extraordinary ceremony was done. The world’s greatest champions were [...]
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19 Apr
You would often associate the statement “I am the greatest” to indeed one great boxer Muhammad Ali.
ROCKY! ROCKY! ROCKY!
The Rocky here is not the Rocky you see in the movies, but I would like to write about the Italian hero Rocky Marciano. In an article entitled TOP TEN Pound 4 Pound Best Boxers Ever by [...]
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30 Mar
The Swedish Heavyweight Champion who stunned the workd when he knocked out Floyd Patterson to steal the heavyweight title from the American in 1959 died today as one of the only five non-
Americans who have won the title in it’s long history. He died at a nursing home not far from the house where he [...]
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27 Feb
As anticipation becomes bigger with the match between Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and British slugger Ricky Hatton, both camps have started to fire barbs at each other. Hatton trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr., expressed confidence that his ward would not suffer the same fate as legend Oscar dela Hoya, another ward of his, who lost [...]
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31 Jan
The Swedish Heavyweight Champion who stunned the world when he knocked out Floyd Patterson to steal the heavyweight title from the American in 1959 died today as one of the only five non-
Americans who have won the title in it’s long history. He died at a nursing home not far from the house where he [...]
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27 Dec
Rumors of the next fight for the Filipino’s champion, Manny Pacquiao being Ricky Hatton have been around for a while but the actual agreement(contracts are yet to be signed by both players) have yet to be finalized. There were some issues with Manny who allegedly released statements that he would not be fighting Hatton if [...]
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21 Aug
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Oscar De La Hoya has just about wrapped up a deal to finish his boxing career Dec. 6 against Filipino star Manny Pacquiao, two people with knowledge of the discussions told The Associated Press.
De La Hoya’s long-stalled discussion about fighting Pacquiao recently revived when the sides found an adequate way to split the [...]
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06 Jun
“There’s going to be a lot of fireworks,” said Diaz, the reigning World Boxing lightweight champ, to ABS-CBN North America News Bureau. The fight dubbed as “Lethal Combination” is scheduled to take place on June 28, 2008 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The Mexican boxer said that he will [...]
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