Archive for July, 2010
Olympic Boxing – Finals – Central American and Caribbean Games
July 31st, 2010 | 
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The Boxing Results of the Central American and Caribbean Games
Mayagüez – Puerto Rico
Finals Friday 30
Boxing ON Ireland’s Tallest Mountain “Carrauntoohil”
An unusual boxing exhibition is set to take place on top of Ireland’s tallest mountain Carrauntoohil, Co. Kerry on the 14th of August.
…Prize-fighter Champion Willie Casey and Ireland’s first female professional Christina McMahon, along with Kerry’s Willie Byrne and Naomi O’Brien and other National Champions will battle it out for battens disease almost 3,500 feet …up Ireland’s highest peak. The boxing ring will be airlifted to the summit via helicopter with RTE news cast covering the day’s events.
Carantouhil Approach
. The Cashen Vale and Macroom Boxing Clubs have undertaken this Fundraising event on behalf of the Heffernan family, and have been asking boxers, friends, fans and supporters to join with them and show their solidarity with Mary, Tony, Saoirse and Liam.
The organisers are appealing to everybody to please support this massive event, which will hopefully be a Guinness world record when completed.
Those who wish to donate can email support@beeforbattens.org
Carrantuohill
Information: Carrauntoohil or Carrantuohill — from Irish: Corrán Tuathail, meaning “Tuathal’s sickle / Tuathal’s serrated mountain”) is the highest peak in Ireland. Located in County Kerry, it is 1,038 metres (3,406 ft) tall and is the central peak of the Macgillycuddy’s Reeks range. There are two other peaks in this range that are above 1,000 m—Beenkeragh (1,010 m) and Caher (1,001 m). The peak of Carrauntoohil is topped by a large metal cross 5 metres (16 ft) tall.
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Boxing Schedules for Friday 30th July and Saturday 31st July
Friday 30 July 2010
Palasport, Pomezia, Roma, Lazio, Italy
Light middleweight – Emanuele Della Rosa 23(7)-1(0)-0 Vs Sandor Ramocsa 8(4)-5(0)-0
Middleweight – Domenico Spada 30(15)-3(0)-0 Vs Jozsef Matolcsi 26(18)-12(3)-0
Middleweight – Emanuele Blandamura 11(3)-0(0)-0 Vs Robert Blazo 7(4)-19(5)-2
Light welterweight – Vittorio Oi 13(3)-1(0)-1 Vs Laszlo Komjathi 35(13)-29(9)-2
Cruiserweight – Mirko Larghetti 8(5)-0(0)-0 Vs Krisztian Jaksi 8(1)-14(2)-5
Light heavyweight – Andrea Moretti 3(1)-1(1)-0 Vs Ferenc Hafner 1(1)-0(0)-0
Friday 30 July 2010
Enna, Sicilia, Italy
Light heavyweight – Danilo D’Agata 8(3)-0(0)-1 Vs Roberto Cocco 10(5)-5(2)-1
Vacant Italy light heavyweight title
Welterweight – Luigi Leonardi 3(2)-0(0)-0 Vs Giovanni D’Antoni (debut)
Lightweight – Giuseppe Lo Faro 2(0)-3(1)-0 Vs Wladimir Borov Vs18(8)-61(16)-1
Friday 30 July 2010
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Welterweight – Danny Garcia 17(11)-0(0)-0 Vs Jorge Romero 17(15)-2(1)-0
Vacant WBC Youth World welterweight title
Light heavyweight – Marco Periban 8(5)-0(0)-0 Vs Franco Raul Sanchez 12(5)-6(4)-2
Flyweight – Gilberto Keb Baas 32(20)-20(5)-3 Vs — TBA
Bantamweight – Naciff Castillo 6(1)-3(1)-0 Vs Miguel Garcia 0(0)-0(0)-1
Lightweight – Omri Lowther 13(9)-1(0)-0 Vs TBA
Friday 30 July 2010
CityCenter, Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Lightweight – Michael Faragon 11(5)-0(0)-0 Vs Eddie Soto 12(4)-1(0)-0
Featherweight – Maureen Shea 14(8)-2(2)-0 Vs Liliana Martinez 8(4)-10(1)-0
Vacant NABF female featherweight title
Light middleweight – Felix Rangel 0(0)-4(2)-0 VsEric Davidson debut
Light heavyweightShawn Miller 2(1)-1(1)-0 Vs Christopher Dammones 1(1)-1(1)-0
Lightweight- Zachary Smith 3(0)-1(0)-0 Vs Ryan Batt debut
Light middleweight Joe Yerdon 0(0)-1(1)-1 Vs Steven Williams debut
Friday 30 July 2010
Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Light middleweight – Derek Ennis 21(13)-2(2)-1 Vs Gabriel Rosadob14(8)-4(1)-0
USBA light middleweight title
Super featherweight – Anthony Flores 8(5)-1(0)-1 Vs Gustavo Dailey 4(1)-8(3)-0
Super middleweight – Dennis Hasson 9(3)-0(0)-0 Vs Alberto Mercedes 14(10)-15(7)-1
Super middleweight- Farah Ennis 14(8)-0(0)-0 Vs Demetrius Davis 20(8)-23(5)-5
Light heavyweight Andre Hemphill 8(5)-16(4)-2 Vs Anthony Pietrantonio 6(5)-5(4)-0
Cruiserweight Garrett Wilson 7(2)-5(1)-0 Vs Reshawn Scott 2(0)-4(1)-0
Lightweight Sidell Blocker 0(0)-2(1)-0 Vs Angel Ocasio 2(0)-0(0)-0
Heavyweight Bryant Jennings 3(2)-0(0)-0 Vs Bernell Stewart 1(0)-1(1)-0
Friday 30 July 2010
Buffalo Run Casino, Miami, Oklahoma, United States
Television: United States ESPN2
Welterweight – Delvin Rodriguez 25(14)-4(1)-2 Vs Ashley Theophane 26(7)-4(0)-1
Super middleweight – Don George 20(17)-0(0)-1 Vs Francisco Sierra 21(20)-3(2)-0
Vacant WBO NABO super middleweight title
Middleweight – Andy Lee 21(15)-1(1)-0 Vs James Cook 11(8)-3(3)-1
Lightweight – Dannie Williams 14(12)-1(0)-0 Vs TBA
Welterweight – Jonathan Gonzalez 8(8)-0(0)-0 Vs Abel Perry 12(4)-3(1)-0
Super featherweight – Rances Barthelemy 5(3)-0(0)-0 Vs TBA
Friday 30 July 2010
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Television: United States TeleFutura
Welterweight Danny Garcia 17(11)-0(0)-0 Vs Jorge Romero 17(15)-2(1)-0
Vacant WBC Youth World welterweight title
Light heavyweight – Marco Periban 8(5)-0(0)-0 Vs Franco Raul Sanchez 12(5)-6(4)-2
Flyweight – Gilberto Keb Baas 32(20)-20(5)-3 Vs TBA
Bantamweight Naciff Castillo 6(1)-3(1)-0 Vs Miguel Garcia 0(0)-0(0)-1
Lightweight – Omri Lowther 13(9)-1(0)-0 Vs TBA
Saturday 31 July 2010
Wyong Rugby League Club, Kanwal, New South Wales, Australia
Cruiserweight – Yoshinori Nishizawa 30(18)-20(3)-6 Vs TBA
Light heavyweight – Marc Bargero 40(10)-15(2)-4 Vs TBA
Light middleweight – Jacques Hendrisson 0(0)-0(0)-1 Vs Shawn Martin 0(0)-1(1)-0
Light heavyweight – Josh Jenkins 1(0)-0(0)-0 Vs TBA
Saturday 31 July 2010
O2 World, Altona, Hamburg, Germany
Television: Germany ZDF
Middleweight – Sebastian Zbik 29(10)-0(0)-0 Vs Jorge Sebastian Heiland 16(8)-0(0)-0
Interim WBC middleweight title
Super middleweight – Dimitri Sartison 26(17)-1(1)-0 Vs Khoren Gevor 31(16)-4(2)-0
WBA World super middleweight title
Heavyweight – Alexander Dimitrenko 29(19)-1(0)-0 Vs Yaroslav Zavorotnyy 14(12)-4(1)-0
Vacant EBU (European) heavyweight title
Super middleweight – Karoly Balzsay 21(15)-2(1)-0 Vs Aziz Daari 24(20)-14(9)-4
Heavyweight – Juan Carlos Gomez 47(36)-2(2)-0 Vs TBA
Light middleweight – Arthur Matern4(3)-1(1)-0 Vs Semjons Moroseks 6(2)-11(2)-1
Light middleweight – Jack Culcay 5(3)-0(0)-0 Vs Ionut Trandafir Ilie 13(1)-4(1)-1
Saturday 31 July 2010
Cisterna, Lazio, Italy
Featherweight – Mario Pisanti 6(3)-1(1)-0 Vs Elemir Rafael 6(0)-39(14)-1
Saturday 31 July 2010
Piazza Mocchino, San Mauro Torinese, Piemonte, Italy
Light heavyweight – Stefano Abatangelo 8(3)-2(0)-1 Vs Mihaly Kratki 5(0)-29(10)-4
Super bantamweight – Daniele Limone 3(1)-0(0)-0 Vs Laszlo Provits 3(1)-4(3)-0
Saturday 31 July 2010
Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
Television: United States FOX United States FOX Espanol
Super flyweight – Simphiwe Nongqayi 16(6)-0(0)-1 Vs Juan Alberto Rosas 31(25)-5(0)-0
IBF super flyweight title
Bantamweight – Jorge Arce 54(41)-6(3)-1 Vs Martin Castillo 35(18)-3(2)-0
Super bantamweight – Robert Marroquin 14(11)-0(0)-0 Vs TBA
Light welterweight Jose Benavidez 7(7)-0(0)-0 Vs TBA
Saturday 31 July 2010
Unidad Deportiva Ulises Sansores, Champoton, Campeche, Mexico
Television: Mexico Cadena 3
Featherweight – Eduardo Lazcano 20(9)-1(0)-0 Vs Erick Perez 0(0)-5(3)-2
WBC FECOMBOX featherweight title
Lightweight – Juan Pablo Sanchez 12(7)-8(6)-0 Vs Jose Lopez 1(1)-0(0)-0
Vacant WBC Mundo Hispano lightweight title
Lightweight – Mario Sanchez 11(2)-6(4)-0 Vs Tomas Sierra 9(6)-18(5)-0
Super featherweight – Jesus Vidal 8(5)-8(6)-1 Vs Eduardo Avaca 3(3)-16(13)-1
Featherweight – Jose Tique debut Vs Darwin Izarraras debut
Light middleweight- Arturo Lopez 3(0)-1(0)-1 Vs Victor Casanova Delgado 1(0)-1(1)-0
Light flyweight – Julian Yedra debut Vs Jose Ek debut
Saturday 31 July 2010
MandalayBay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Television: United States HBO PPV Hungary DigiSport
Lightweight – Juan Manuel Marquez 50(37)-5(0)-1 Vs Juan Diaz 35(17)-3(1)-0
WBO lightweight title
WBA Super World lightweight title
Middleweight – Daniel Jacobs 20(17)-0(0)-0 Vs Dmitry Pirog 16(13)-0(0)-0
Vacant WBO middleweight title
Super middleweight – Sakio Bika 28(19)-3(0)-2 Vs Jean Paul Mendy 28(16)-0(0)-1
Light welterweight – Joel Casamayor 37(22)-4(1)-1 Vs Robert Guerrero 26(18)-1(0)-1
Lightweight – Jorge Linares 28(18)-1(1)-0 Vs Rocky Juarez 28(20)-6(0)-1
Super middleweight- George Groves 9(7)-0(0)-0 Vs Alfredo Contreras 11(5)-7(3)-1
Heavyweight – Seth Mitchell 17(11)-0(0)-1 Vs Derek Bryant 20(17)-5(2)-1
Lightweight – David Rodela 15(6)-3(2)-2 Vs Juan Montiel 3(1)-3(0)-1
Light welterweight – Frankie Gomez 4(4)-0(0)-0 Vs Ricardo Calazada 2(1)-2(0)-0
Saturday 31 July 2010
Doubletree Hotel, Ontario, California, United States
Television: United States FOX Espanol
Light middleweight – Alberto Herrera 7(5)-0(0)-0 Vs Sammy Gonzalez 7(3)-0(0)-0
Vacant USA Illinois Statelight middleweight title
Super bantamweight- Efrain Esquivias 8(5)-0(0)-0 Vs Jonathan Alcantara 4(0)-2(0)-1
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Boxing in the 1930′s Era
Mickey Walker
Boxing in the 1930s was affected by one of the biggest economic struggles in the history of the United States: The depression era. Because of the suffering American economy, many boxers were offered lower purses, and they would not fight for low amounts of money. When the decade began, the world Heavyweight title had been vacant for almost three years. There was a world Middleweight champion, Mickey Walker, but he was more interested in pursuing fights with the best Heavyweight contenders, instead of facing his own contenders down at the Middleweight division.
The Heavyweight division, during 1930 to 1937 in particular, could be compared to the Heavyweight division of the 1980s. Six champions were crowned before Joe Louis began his legendary run as Heavyweight champion in 1937. He retired in 1949, still being the world’s Heavyweight champion.
Boxing matches were so popular in the 30’s that they spurred the sales of radios. The Depression did hurt gate receipts, but radio also cut into profits as more and more Americans tuned in to ringside coverage. The career of Joe Louis paralleled the rise of boxing on the wireless and contributed significantly to the popularity of other sports reported over the new medium, Friday Night Fights became an institution. Joe Louis defended his world heavyweight crown three times in 1938, a record in boxing history. His most memorable match was against the former champion Max Schmeling. Louis beat the German in 2 minutes and 4 seconds, battering him so badly that Schmeling was hospitalized for 10 days. More than 70,000 people attended the fight in Yankee Stadium in New York City. Earlier that year, Louis had knocked out Nathan Mann at Madison Square Garden, and Harry Thomas in Chicago Stadium.
Boxing in the 30,s was Americas second most popular sport, next to baseball, though much of the attraction had a lot to do with the heavy gambling that accompanied the bouts. During this period many families were out of a job, thousands of youngsters took up boxing and sport was a means to idle the hours away. The depression left the Americans short on money but if an upcoming fight was going to be a sensational one—even in the lean years of the Depression—fans tried to scrape up good money to see it.
Boxing began expanding into Latin America in the 1930s: Sixto Escobar became the first world champion from Puerto Rico by defeating Baby Casanova, who had also been crowned at the start of the decade. Baby Arizmendi conquered the first world title for Mexico in 1934. For his part, Kid Chocolate became the first world champion from Cuba.
Three world champions won world titles in three different divisions; a feat no single fighter had accomplished since 1903: Tony Canzoneri, Barney Ross and Henry Armstrong cemented their place in boxing history by achieving the feat; Armstrong was the first, and will be the only, world champion to reign in three divisions at the same time. Boxing rules since ban boxers from reigning at more than one division at a time.
Boxers Of Yesteryear – Kid Chocolate 1930′s Era
Kid Chocolate January 6, 1910 – 1988
Kid Chocolate – Chocolate was called a “picture boxer”, mostly because he learned how to fight by watching films.
He was born Eligio Sardinias Montalbo on January 6, 1910 in Cerro, Havana, Cuba.
His professional boxing debut, officially, occurred on December 8, 1927, when he beat Johnny Cruz in six in Havana. Whether that was his actual debut or not has been a point of contention, because some Cuban boxing historians claim that he was actually paid for 21 bouts before that, supposedly winning each of them by knockout, which would put him on Ring Magazine’s list of longest knockout streaks in history. But documents show the Cruz fight as being his first professional bout.
He was nicknamed the ” Cuban Bon Bon ” and during the 1930’s he was one of the best drawing cards in New York. His flashy personality and even flashier style in the ring made him a real crowd pleaser.
After racking up a series of victories in his native Cuba, ” The Kid ” invaded the US in 1928 knocking out Eddie Enos in three rounds in Mineola, N.Y. He would go on to fight at all the popular New York spots like Ridgewood Grove and the St. Nicolas Arena. On November 30, 1928 at Madison Square Garden the Kid drew with rugged Joey Scalfaro. In 1929 he beat Bushy Graham and Vic Burrone. Then on May 22, 1929 the Kid outscored the great Fidel LaBarba. Kid Chocolate continued to win fights and among his victims were Gregorio Vidal, Al Singer and Dominick Petrone.
The year 1930 saw the Kid enter the ring for a match with Jackie ” Kid ” Berg. The energetic and quick Chocolate was hard pressed to last against his aggressive adversary. Berg won a split decision. Three fights later, the Kid was out-classed by Fidel LaBarbra. Kid Chocolate is then matched with Batttling Battalino for the featherweight title. On December 12, 1930 at Madison Square Garden, Battalino got the verdict in a bout that many felt could have gone to Kid Chocolate.
Finally on July 15, 1931 the Kid finally won a world title. At Baker Field in Philadelphia the Kid halted the rugged Benny Bass in seven rounds to win recognition as the worlds junior lightweightchampion. In November he moved up in weight to take on the lightweight champion Tony Canzoneri. It was a great fight witnessed by over 19,000 fans at Madison Square Garden. This time the Kid came up on the short end of a split decision.
Chocolate would win nine straight after his setback to Canzoneri against some tough guys like Davey Abed, Lew Feldman and Johhny Farr. On July 18, 1932 Kid Chocolate would meet Kid Berg in a
return match. Again Berg was able to pull off a close decision at the Garden.
The Kid again put together an impressive win streak including a fifteen round win over Fidel LaBarba that gained him the New York State Athletic Commission featherweight title.
On November 24, 1933 Kid Chocolate suffered a severe career setback when he was blasted out in the second round by Tony Canzoneri. One month later the Kid lost his junior lightweight title to Frankie Klick. His career was on the decline but he was still winning more then he lost. There was a draw with tough Tommy Paul in 1934. Later that year he was clearly outpointed by Petey Hayes. In 1935 he lost a decision in Caracas, Venezuela to Simon Chavez.
In December of 1936 the Kid would drop a points call to Phil Baker. He would then win over twenty fights through 1938. He was held to a draw by Bernie Friedkin and Orville Drouillard but managed a degree of vengeance when he was awarded a well deserved decision over Phil Baker in Cuba in 1938.
Chocolate was known as a wild party man during his years as a world champion. He was a boxer who enjoyed being out at night and engaging himself under the bright lights of the city’s nightlife. However, when he stepped out of boxing in 1938, he went back to Cuba and lived a quieter life.
In 1959, Chocolate’s figure in Cuba was totally relegated by Fidel Castro and his revolutionary forces, and he almost became a forgotten champion, but by the late 1970s, Chocolate’s achievements were finally recognized by the Cuban government, who then put him to live in a state backed house, as had occurred with other important Cuba athletic figures. It was in that house that Chocolate died in 1988.
His record was of 136 wins, 10 losses and 6 draws, 51 wins coming by knockout, also making Ring magazine’s list of boxers with 50 or more career knockout wins. He became a member of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame alongside Bass, Berg and Canzoneri.
He was the inspiration for the character Choclolate Drop in Clifford Odets’ play Golden Boy
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Tags: Boxers of Yesteryear, Boxing, history of boxing, Kid Choclate
