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Deontay Wilder: ?Muhammad Ali is the icon of boxing?
By John Dennen, BoxingNews, Wed, 08 Jun 2016
THE WBC heavyweight champion and the only American world heavyweight titlist, Deontay Wilder paid tribute to the late, great Muhammad Ali.
?He stood as a man of principle, but he was also a man who made everyone laugh and a man everyone wanted to be around,? Wilder told the Premier Boxing Champi Read Full Story >>>Floyd Mayweather Jr. drops $7.7 million cash on ultramodern home in Miami Beach
By Neal J. Leitereg, Los Angeles Times, Wed, 08 Jun 2016
Retired welterweight boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., among the highest paid athletes in the world, has put a few of his many millions to good use, buying a home in Miami Beach for $7.7 million in an all-cash deal.
Completed in 2015, ?Money? Mayweather?s new Florida home has an ultramodern vibe with c Read Full Story >>> ABAP shuns pro qualifier
Tempo, Wed, 08 Jun 2016
The Philippines won?t be sending boxers to Vargas, Venezuela, site of the last qualifying event for the Rio Olympics.
The Venezuela slugfest is scheduled July 3 to 8 and Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (ABAP) executive director Ed Picson told the Bulletin that unless Manny Pacq Read Full Story >>> Ali ? Transcendent. Timeless.
By Marc Livitz, Boxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Why would anyone would choose to defend a country?s interests when their own interests as well as basic human rights were but an afterthought?
?All the world?s a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts???Wi Read Full Story >>> Jesus Cuellar vs. Abner Mares Media Conference Call Transcript
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Lou DiBella
Thank you all for joining us. As you know that we have a great fight card on Saturday, June 25, SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING on CBS presented by Premier Boxing Champions at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
The main event between Keith Thurman and Shawn Porter for the welterweight Read Full Story >>> Amir Khan Successfully Launches Pro Boxing In Pakistan ? Inaugural Event Featuring British & Irish Boxers Raises 8 Million PKR For Charity
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
It may have only been 4:30 in the morning, but the heat was stifling as the Emirates A340-300, that carried the contingent of international boxers and officials from the British & Irish Boxing Authority (BIBA) that were to Read Full Story >>> 'BATA' REYES SHOWS GLIMPSES OF MAGIC AS HE WINS 'MAKE IT HAPPEN' 1-POCKET INVITATIONAL
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
63 year old Efren ?Bata? Reyes pulled off some of his magical shots to defeat America?s top player, the much younger 32 year old Shane Van Boening to win the ?Make It Happen? One-Pocket Pool Championships at the Simonis Arena Read Full Story >>> Team Gunn Official Statement on the passing on Kevin ?Kimbo Slice? Ferguson
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Hackensack, NJ (June 7, 2016) ? World Bare Knuckle Boxing heavyweight champion Bobby Gunn is deeply saddened by the passing of Kevin ?Kimbo Slice? Ferguson.
For the last several years, rumors were circulating of a matchup between Gunn and the backyard fighting legend turned professional fighter.
Read Full Story >>> Ken Shamrock -- Kimbo Never Got the Respect He Deserved (VIDEO)
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
TMZ SPORTS -- Ken Shamrock says his heart aches for Kimbo Slice -- saying the guy made a tremendous impact in the world of combat sports ... but never got the respect he truly deserved.
Shamrock -- who fought Slice (a Read Full Story >>> FELIX INJURY SETS THE STAGE FOR SANDERS-MAKASHVILI BOUT ON FRIDAY'S MAIN CARD
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (June 7th, 2016) -- With Luis Felix forced to withdraw from his first official title defense due to injury, Ryan Sanders will step up to face a three-time Ultimate Fighting Championships veteran Friday at Twin River Casino.
Sanders (10-7, 1 KO), the Bangor, Maine, native who defe Read Full Story >>> Why Muhammad Ali was 'the greatest' American Muslim
By Daniel Burke, CNN.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
(CNN) ? It was a fitting end to this country's most famous Muslim life: Family and friends around the bed of Muhammad Ali, the boxer whose conversion to Islam decades ago sent countless seekers and sportswriters scrambling in search of a Quran.
Whispering good-byes into his ears, the family recite Read Full Story >>> Muhammad Ali had what it takes to be 'greatest' on TV
By Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
magine what the next chapter of Muhammad Ali?s life would have been like if Parkinson?s didn?t drastically alter it for over three decades?
Visions come rushing in, including one in which he is sitting behind a microphone. There would have been no shortage of suits interested in Ali?s services. Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao spends over P66.4 M for Senate bid
By Rosette Adel , The Philippine Star, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
MANILA, Philippines ? Senator-elect Emmanuel ?Manny? Pacquiao spent over P66.4 million of personal funds for his senatorial campaign.
Based on his Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) submitted to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the boxer turned lawmaker?s expenditures, paid Read Full Story >>> ARANETA CENTER, ALI MALL TO PAY TRIBUTE TO MUHAMMAD ALI (PHOTOS)
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
The Araneta Center within which the famed Araneta Coliseum where the historic ?Thrilla in Manila? took place on October 1, 1975 stand and the adjoining Mall which was named after the greatest heavyweight champion o Read Full Story >>> IDOL REDUX
By Dong Secuya, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
CEBU CITY ? ALA Promotions International has revived its 'IDOL' boxing shows / TV series which aim to develop boxing talents from the grassroots level, this was announced during Tuesday's press conference at St Mark's Hotel here ho Read Full Story >>> Muhammad Ali's courage lives on, but who will follow his path?
By Chris Korman, USA Today, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
It is difficult for many sports fans today to understand why Muhammad Ali means as much as he does. By the time we came to understand him, in the 1980s or 90s or early 2000s he had become a symbol, his real meaning obscured by so many competing interpretations.
And by this:
Can you imagine if Read Full Story >>> Muhammad Ali raises his fists for the last time in his final ever photos
The Sun, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Haunting pictures were taken just weeks before the boxing legend?s death
THIS is the last official portrait of Muhammad Ali.
Proud to the end, the boxin Read Full Story >>> From THE RING Magazine: In the fighters? words
By Thomas Hauser, RingTV.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
ALI AND FRAZIER AGREED THAT THEY WENT TO HELL AND BACK TOGETHER
This story appeared in the November 2015 edition of THE RING Magazine.
In 1989, I sat on the sofa in my living room with Muhammad Ali beside me and watched a tape of his October 1, 1975, fight against Joe Frazier.
Boxing fans a Read Full Story >>> Martinez pledges win over Lomachenko for Puerto Rico
By Mitch Abramson, RingTV.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Last year, Roman ?Rocky? Martinez fought Orlando Salido twice in two ?Fight of the Year? candidates. In the first meeting, Martinez narrowly won the WBO junior lightweight title; in the rematch, he retained it when they fought to a draw.
The two had been tabbed to meet in a much anticipated rubbe Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao?s tax arrears mounting ? Henares
By Jess Diaz, The Philippine Star, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
MANILA, Philippines - The tax arrears of outgoing Sarangani congressman and incoming senator Manny Pacquiao are mounting, Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Kim Henares said yesterday. Henares told ABS-CBN News Channel that three years ago, the BIR assessed the Pacquiaos a tax deficiency Read Full Story >>>
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