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Brooklyn Stars On NBC Sports Network
February 29th, 2012 | 
Author: Brooklyn Stars On
NBC Sports Network Fight Night Show
March 24th – Aviator Sports and Event Center
Brooklyn, New York has a firm place in the history of boxing. Over the years, famous fight clubs like the Eastern Parkway Arena and legendary gyms like Gleason’s have contributed chapter after chapter to the fight game history book. The borough has also spawned ring greats like Mike Tyson, Joey Giardello, Mark Breland and Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, not to mention other notables like Jackie Gleason, Spike Lee, Al Capone and most of the Three Stooges. To be sure, Brooklyn is a historic locale.
Main Events and the NBC Sports Network look to add to that storied history on March 24th when they bring a big, nationally televised fight card to Brooklyn’s Aviator Sports Complex. The main event features an important 12-round IBF Title Elimination Bout between junior welterweights Zab Judah, 41-7, 28 KOs, and Detroit’s Vernon Paris, 26-0, 15 KOs. The non-televised undercard fights will begin at 7:30 p.m., the NBC Sports Network Fight Night broadcast will begin at 10 p.m. ET.
Judah is one of those proud Brooklyn fighters that have struck it big in boxing. The former five-time world champion is part of a fighting family of Brooklynites that include his brothers Daniel, Joe and father Yoel. The fight in March has been called Judah’s “Homecoming” but it will be the very first time that he steps into the ring in his hometown. It should be quite an event.
Earlier this year, the NBC Sports Network set out to create a new boxing series that would not only bring back to TV the important match-ups and competitive contests that fight fans were longing for, they also pledged to make their shows relevant to each hosting site. Just like it was done in the good old days of the sport.
So on March 24th, Zab Judah will not be the only fighter the local fans come out to see. The remainder of the show is loaded with other Brooklyn fighters anxious to do battle before their hometown crowd. But in an interesting note, it will be the very first Brooklyn fight for every one of them.
Brooklyn-born middleweight Curtis “Showtime” Stevens, 21-3, 15 KOs, will make his hometown debut against Cleveland’s Romaro Johnson, 11-5-1, 6 KOs, in a six-rounder. Stevens is coming off a close decision loss in his own IBF Eliminator and will be looking to get back on track.
Undefeated bantamweight Juan Domingez, 8-0, 5 KOs, won the Vacant USA New York State Bantamweight Title in his last outing, a unanimous decision over Arturo Santiago. The 26 year old was born in the Dominican Republic, but now calls Brooklyn home. He’ll fight a six-rounder in his first hometown bout.
Puerto Rico-born, Brooklyn resident Angel Garcia, 1-0, 1 KO, makes just his second career start on the card, but like the others, it will be the first time he does it in Brooklyn.
Zab’s brother Joe Judah, 10-1-1, 2 KOs, will compete in a 6-round super middleweight bout that marks his first fight in eight months. Joe beat Rafael Jastrzebski by decision in Las Vegas his last time out, but like his big brother, Joe has not yet fought in Brooklyn.
The ten-bout card promoted by Main Events will not only be a homecoming for Zab Judah and the other four Brooklyn boxers scheduled to appear, it will be the latest not-to-be-missed offering in Brooklyn’s very own piece of boxing history.
NBC SPORTS NETWORK FIGHT NIGHT SCHEDULE (All Times ET)
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Tags: Al Capone, Brooklyn, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, fight clubs, fight game, fight game history book, history book, Jackie Gleason, Joey Giardello, Main Events, Mark Breland, Mike Tyson, NBC, NBC Sports Network, Spike Lee, Three Stooges
Mike Tyson Interview with Jim Rome
Mike Tyson Interview with Jim Rome
httpv://www.youtube.com/user/rocklivetv?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/rRydtU0PzK4
Topics: Excited to be in the Jungle | His life now a days | Just happy he’s not fighting anymore | His mind | Growing as a human being | Respecting his children | Why he made his changes in his life | Losing his 4 year old daughter in a home accident | The day at the Hospital when he lost his daughter | Not knowing what to do when he was on the top | Cus D’Amato | Having to de-program his thought process | Learing to laugh | Knowing his wife for a long time | God is pretty cool | His family life growing up | Breaking the cycle | Losing 150 pounds | His pigeons | 1st time he ever threw a punch was over one of his pigeons | His production company now | His app and game | Free app | Men talking now |
Posted in Latest News, Professional Boxing |
Tags: Jim Rome, Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson Interview, Tyson
Tales From The Vault
By Boxing Bob Newman
While Boxing doesn’t have a “season” like so many other sports- baseball, football, etc., there are lulls during the year, especially for those fans that are relegated to whetting their pugilistic appetite by taking in the fights by watching on the tube. While ESPN’s weekly boxing coverage is on hiatus until the new year, and HBO and Showtime’s schedule has wound downfor the remainder of 2010, fans of the sweet science can still get their fix via “Tales From The Vault: A Celebration of 100 Boxing Closet Classics,” by Lee Groves. The 721 page tome is a comprehensive collection of what Groves believes to be some of the most thrilling battles in the ring, that have somehow slipped our memories.
“Tales…” is spread out over ten chapters consisting of ten fights each. Each fight is reviewed in vivid detail, possible in large part to Groves being able to review each fight from his private video collection of over 20,000 and counting, bouts. In the introductions Groves explains just what in his mind constitutes a closet classic. “It must fulfill the requirements of the more famous fights- riveting two-way action and multiple momentum swings- but somehow slipped through the cracks of history and memory.” Groves goes on to explain that they are fights that don’t readily come to mind, but when mentioned, cause one to slap his forehead and say, “How could I have forgotten that one?”
Groves has chaptered the book along the storylines of each fight. In order they are:
Chapter1- Brawls
Chapter2- Shootouts
Chapter3- Big Man Drama
Chapter4- Wars of Attrition
Chapter5- Undercard Treasures
Chapter6-Vengeance is Mine – Great Grudge Fights
Chapter7- Little Big Men
Chapter8- Sudden and Violent Endings
Chapter9- Upsets and Unpredictability – A Walk on the Wild Side
Chapter10- Back From the Brink: Great Comebacks
An eye for detail has helped Groves carefully, yet explicitly paint the drama that unfolded in each of the battles contained within “Tales…” That eye for detail also comes in handy as complete punch count statistics follow each fight in the form of total punches / jabs / power punches landed/thrown for both fighters. As a part of the Compubox team, Groves has sharpened his already acute knack for detail even more so.
Boxing’s renaissance man Steve Farhood, most recently of Shobox and Broadway Boxing fame, submits and eloquent foreword to “Tales…,” culled from his twenty years relationship that started when Groves was a young, eager scribe, looking to write about the sport he loved.
A must for any boxing fan’s library, “Tales From the Vault” is a worthwhile venture into boxing lore, from bouts long forgotten, to those we wish we knew of from the first bell!
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Tags: Boxer, Boxing, Boxing Coverage, Boxing news, boxing ring, Classics, ESPN, Fight Results, fighters, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, rankings, Results, Schedule, Sport, sweet science, TV fights
Boxing News Collection – 9th November
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Latest Boxing News – Tue 9th Nov, for: David Haye, Mike Tyson, Alan Green, Devon Alexander, Timothy Bradley, Sebastian Zbik, Rico Ramos, Steve Maxwell, Antonio Margarito, Freddie Roach, Mayweather, Bob Arum, Manny Pacquiao, Paul “The Pittsburgh Kid” Spadafora
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- Devon Alexander Vs Timothy Bradley update — Originally the fight was planned as a junior welterweight unification bout with three major titles involved. Now, only the WBO title will be at stake when Timothy Bradley faces Devon Alexander in the main event of an HBO-televised card on January 29. Alexander was recently stripped of the IBF title for refusing to go forward with a mandatory defense against South African boxer Kaizer Mabuza, by December 28, which was impossible since the Bradley fight was already scheduled 31-days from the deadline. – On the other hand Bradley has refused to pay the WBC sanctioning fee, according to Bradley’s promoter Gary Shaw. Thus if Bradley wins, he will not gain Alexander’s WBC belt. However, Alexander stands to gain Bradley’s WBO title. (if Bradley wins on the 29th Jan 2011 the WBC title becomes vacant).
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- Alan Green to appeal - Alan Green has decided to appeal the loss of his fight with Glen Johnson, to the Nevada State Athletic Commission due the fact that Green was hit with what appeared to be a rabbit shot and instead of referee Robert Byrd penalizing Johnson for the rabbit shot, he counted it as a legit knockdown. And then to make matters worse, Byrd stopped the fight while Green was trying to complain about the punch. Even after Green got to his feet at the count of eight, Byrd still stopped the fight. However the chances of Green overturning the decision are slim to none, basically it was Green who bent down and exposed the back of his head to Johnson.
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- Mike Tyson about David Haye — Speaking to Sky Sports News, Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson said that World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) isn’t ready to take on either of the Klitschko brothers at this time — Tyson says “He’s [Haye] not ready right this second. You have to analyze your situation and say ‘right, I’m not ready for them now’ – but that’s not to say you won’t be ready for them at some time down the road.” said Tyson.
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- Sebastian Zbik, mandatory challenger — Unbeaten WBC interim world champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KOs) will soon have the opportunity to remove the word “interim” from his title. The Universum fighter was made the official mandatory challenger for the winner of the November 20 clash between champion Sergio Martinez and Paul Williams in Atlantic City. This was confirmed by WBC general secretary Mauricio Sulaiman at the WBC Convention in Cancun, where Zbik and Universum co-promoter Dietmar Poszwa were both present.
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- Result, Ramos destroys Ruiz — Undefeated junior featherweight prospect Rico Ramos (18-0, 10 KOs) scored an impressive second round KO over Heriberto Ruiz (44-10-2, 26 KOs) on Monday night at the USMC Air Station New River in Jacksonville, North Carolina. A right hand to the jaw decked Ruiz to end it. Time was 1:03.
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- Australian Boxing, Steve Maxwell -- Hard punching welterweight champion Steve Maxwell (8-4, 6 KOs) will return to ring action on Friday when he will clash with Alex Ahtong (4-8-2, 3 KOs) over twelve rounds at the Tattersalls Function Center in Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. - In 2009 Maxwell stopped former Australian champion Mathew Paulley in two rounds and in 2010 he scored impressive fourth round knockout over Heath Ellis.
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- Spadafora opponent named — Unbeaten former IBF lightweight champion Paul “The Pittsburgh Kid” Spadafora (44-0-1, 18 KOs), now campaigning as a junior welterweight and fighting in New England for the first time, will face Argentina-invader Diego Jesus “El Camicero” Ponce (19-5-3, 3 KOs) in the 10-round main event on November 20 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
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- Freddie Roach: in an exclusive interview on the 99th edition of – On the Ropes Boxing Radio – said “If Mayweather doesn’t want to fight, if keeping that zero on his record is more important than making $60 million, then that’s his choice and we can live with that.”
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- Arum says he needs 700,000 PPV buys for Pacquiao-Margarito bout — For Bob Arum, Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito and company to do well in their mega fight this Saturday night, promoter Arum says the fight has to to at least 700,000 pay per view buys, according to the LA Times. This is the number that Pacquiao’s last fight against Joshua Clottey did in March, which was a big step down from the 1 million plus that Pacquiao’s fight with Miguel Cotto did last year.
Boxing – KO Artists of Yesteryear
Winning by knockout against a worthy opponent is the ultimate goal of most boxers. The amount of Ko’s in a champion’s career enhances his / her prestige and standing amongst the fans and fellow fighters. Here we take a look at a selection of some of boxing’s best Ko artists ever of the recent and distant past.
A knockout (also referred to as a K.O.) is a winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, Karate and others sports involving striking. A knockout is usually awarded when one participant is unable to rise from the canvas within a specified period of time, typically because of fatigue, injury (serious or temporarily incapacitating, e.g. a bleeding cut above the eye can blind a fighter), loss of balance, or unconsciousness; that is, the person may literally be knocked out.
The ultimate warriors of the ring
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No 1. (145 Ko wins) Archie Moore “the Old Mongoose” – Although none seem to agree on the number of exact wins Moore had by Ko’s as in those days some fights just never were recorded, especially when a fighter fought all over the world like Archie did. One thing is clear whether you accept 129 or 141 or some other number in that range, the Old Mongoose as Archie was called scored more KOs than any other fighter in the history of the sport. World Light Heavyweight Champion 1952 Dec 17 – 1962 May 12 – Archie Moore – 181 wins, 24 losses, 9 draws and 1 no contest, 145 KO.
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No 2. (109 Ko’s wins) “Sugar” Ray Robinson – While many fighters have held that nickname over the years, none have been as sweet as Ray Robinson, whose real name was actually Walker Smith Jr. Robinson won the middleweight title an unprecedented 5 times. Even Muhammed Ali referred to Sugar Ray as the greatest fighter ever (it is rumored that Robinson actually refused to give Ali an autograph when Ali met him while Ali was still young, and Clay). Unlike Moore, the majority of Robinson’s losses came at the end of his career.
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No 3. (86 Ko’s wins) Julio Cesar Chavez – Julio is a Mexican world champion boxer who won world titles in 3 different divisions. Among the world champions that Chávez defeated in his career are Edwin Rosario, Jose Luis Ramirez, Rocky Lockridge, Meldrick Taylor, Roger Mayweather, Sammy Fuentes, Héctor “Macho” Camacho, Juan Laporte, and Tony López. Chavez went 13 years before not winning a fight, with a draw to Pernell Whitaker, and it was another year later before he suffered his first defeat which was avenged 4 months later. Only in his last 8 years of his 24 year career did Chavez acount for 4 of his 5 losses to 3 different opponents. He was able to avenge his lose to Willey Wise, but failed in second attempt to Oscar De La Hoya. – Won 107 Lost 6, 2 draws, 86 KO.
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No 4. (68 Ko’s wins) “Big” George Foreman’s biggest enemy opponent has always been himself. He could not accept defeat. After making his name as one of the most dominant fighter ever, his loss to Ali took him out of professional boxing for over a year. He made his first comeback attempt in 1977, knocking out his next 5 opponents (including Frazier, again), only to retire after losing a 12 round decision. A decade later, Foreman made an improbable comeback at the age of 38. Foreman made it again near the top of the boxing rankings, and despite suffering setbacks against Holyfield and Tommy Morrison, Foreman shocked the world when he stunned Michael Moore with a knock out in the 10th round. His next few bouts further proved that even unto his late 40th, Foreman was still a formidable force. George Foreman – Won 76 lost 5, 68 KO. (source ezinearticles.com).
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No 4. (54 Ko’s wins) Joe (Brown Bomber) Louis – While there seems to be some dispute over whether 5 of his victories by KO were exhibition matches or not, there is a consensus not take seriously 2 of his 3 losses in failed comeback attempts. The last, and most humiliating defeat was an 8th round KO through the ropes by Rocky Marciano. The Brown Bomber was so much in debt, that he tried to come back well past his prime. The fact that so much cultural identify was thrust upon his shoulders, made Joe Louis not only one of the greatest pure fighters, but a true icon for America’s 2nd class citizens. Joe will be best known for his 1st round KO over Germany’s Max Schmeling in 1938. Schmeling beat the favored Louis in 12 years only a few years earlier. Even when Joe won the Heavyweight title by knockout, he refused to be called champion until he settled the score with Schmeling. It is this attitude that made him a national hero despite his color. Won 68 Lost 3, 54 KO.
Roberto Duran – 103 Wins, 16 Loss, 69 KO
“Marvelous” Marvin Hagler – 62 Wins, 3 Losses, 2 Draws, 52 KO
Thomas Hearns – 59 wins 4 Loss 1 Draw, 46 KO
Mike Tyson – 50 wins, 5 losses, 2 no contests, 44 KO
Rocky Lennox Lewis – 41 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw, 32 KO
Marciano – Won 49 Lost 0, 43 KO
Muhammed (Louisville Lip) Ali – won 56 Lost 5, 37 KO
“Sugar” Ray Leonard – 36 Wins, 3 Loss, 1 Draw, 25 KO
A selection of links to videos current and historical showing some of the greatest knockouts in the history of boxing
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Tags: Archie Moore “the Old Mongoose”, Boxing Ko, Joe Louis, Julio Cesar Chavez, Knockout, KO Artists, Marciano, Mike Tyson, Muhammed (Louisville Lip) Ali, Roberto Duran, Rocky Lennox Lewis, Thomas Hearns, “Big” George Foreman, “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler, “Sugar” Ray Leonard, “Sugar” Ray Robinson
