A community portal about Boxing with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Boxing, also called pugilism, prizefighting or the sweet science, is a sport and martial art in which two participants of similar weight fight...
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A community portal about Boxing with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Boxing, also called pugilism, prizefighting or the sweet science, is a sport and martial art in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called "rounds". In both Olympic and professional divisions, the combatants avoid their opponent's punches while trying to land punches of their own. Points are awarded for clean, solid blows to the legal area on the front of the opponent's body above the waistline, with hits to the head and torso being especially valuable. The fighter with the most points after the scheduled number of rounds is declared the winner. Victory may also be achieved if the opponent is knocked down and unable to get up before the referee counts to ten or if the opponent is deemed too injured to continue. For record-keeping purposes, a TKO is usually counted as a knockout when calculating the total knockouts.
Britain's David Haye will not have his World Boxing Association heavyweight crown diminished by the sanctioning of an interim title fight, Haye promoter Oscar de la Hoya said. In response to rival promoter Don King's claim that the WBA had agreed to an interim title bout, de la Hoya said in a statement released early on Tuesday that he had been assured no such bout will be recognized by the sanctioning group. "We have complete confidence that the WBA will keep their word and not sanction an... Read Full Story
Watch Evander Holyfield vs Francois Botha boxing on January 16, 2010 Nelson Mandela Memorial Stadium, Kampala, Uganda. Evander Holyfield vs Francois Botha boxing is available to watch online. You can watch Evander Holyfield vs Francois Botha boxing over the Internet. In watching Evander Holyfield vs Francois Botha boxing online, You can save time, money, and effort. You do not need to go to the event site to watch Evander Holyfield vs Francois Botha boxing. Don’t forget to watch Evander... Read Full Story
Watch Evander Holyfield vs Francois Botha boxing on January 16, 2010 Nelson Mandela Memorial Stadium, Kampala, Uganda. Evander Holyfield Evander Holyfield (born October 19, 1962) is a professional boxer from the United States and a multiple world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal". Holyfield won the bronze medal in the Light Heavyweight division at the 1984 Summer Olympics after a controversial disqualification in the... Read Full Story
Librado Andrade, whose last-round flurry last year nearly took Lucian Bute's super middleweight title, enters Saturday's rematch confident he will claim the International Boxing Federation crown. Unbeaten Romanian-born southpaw Bute, 24-0 with 19 knockouts, is a Canadian hero who has lured a sellout crowd of 16,000 to Le Colisee just 13 months after a unanimous decision over Mexican Andrade, 28-2 with one draw and 21 knockouts. Bute dominated Andrade in Montreal until the final 90 seconds... Read Full Story
A fist fight may seem an odd way to show respect between Jews and Muslims, but when Dmitriy Salita competes for the WBA light-welterweight title next month, he'll be doing just that. Salita, an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, New York, meets British Muslim title holder Amir Khan on December 5 in Newcastle, England. It will be a rare -- reportedly the first -- world title bout between practicing members of the two faiths. But at his training camp in Bushkill, in the Pennsylvania hills outside New... Read Full Story
Watch Daisuke Naito vs Koki Kameda boxing November 29, 2009 at Kokugikan, Tokyo, Japan. Daisuke Naito vs Koki Kameda boxing is available to watch online. You can watch Daisuke Naito vs Koki Kameda boxing online. In watching Daisuke Naito vs Koki Kameda boxing online, you save time, money, and effort. You do not need to go to the event site to watch Daisuke Naito vs Koki Kameda boxing. Don’t forget to watch Daisuke Naito vs Koki Kameda boxing. Tell your friends to watch Daisuke Naito vs Koki... Read Full Story
Daisuke Naito (born August 30, 1974) is a professional boxer from Japan. He is the current WBC flyweight champion, and former Japanese and OPBF flyweight champion. Naito made his professional debut in October, 1996. He compiled an undefeated record, and challenged future WBA flyweight champion Takefumi Sakata for the Japanese flyweight title on July 16, 2001, but failed to win the title in a 10-round draw. Naito traveled to Thailand in 2002 for his first world title shot, challenging... Read Full Story
Andre Ward claimed the WBA 168-pound title with an unanimous technical decision over Denmark's Mikkel Kessler on Saturday night, adding his first world championship belt to his Olympic gold medal with a stunning upset victory in his hometown. Ward (21-0, 13 KOs) announced his arrival among the world's elite boxers with a dynamic thrashing of Kessler (42-2), the WBA champion for most of the past five years and the early favorite to win the Super Six super middleweight tournament. Ward's speed... Read Full Story
Manny Pacquiao's 12th-round TKO of Miguel Cotto was the top-drawing pay-per-view bout of 2009 with 1.25 million purchases worth 70 million dollars in revenue, Home Box Office Sports said Friday. It's the second time this year that a Pacquiao bout has generated more than one million pay-per-view buys, further proof that the Filipino superstar, who trains in a Hollywood gym, is a box-office smash. The numbers up the urgency for all parties to get together on a clash between Pacquiao and... Read Full Story
A bruised but smiling Manny Pacquiao enjoyed a hero's welcome as he returned home to the Philippines on Friday, with masses of people taking to the streets and hailing him as the best boxer of all time. The nation's highest ranking officials joined the poorest of slum dwellers in paying homage to Pacquiao after he demolished Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto to become the only man in history to win seven titles in as many weight classes. "If Muhammad Ali was one in a million during his time, and... Read Full Story
