Archive for June, 2010
Jordanian women climb into the ring
June 30th, 2010 | 
Author: For Jordanian women, boxing is no longer a man’s realm. “Women have really proved themselves, whether it’s lifting weights, Taekwondo, Karate or boxing, which is just like any other sport,” said Ayman Nadi, a boxing coach who trains the Jordanian national women’s boxing team.
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Youth Olympic Games - Singapore
The Youth Olympic Games – will commence on the 14 of August till the 26th of August 2010. These games are due to be held in Singapore.
Olympic Boxing - is one of the 26 sporting disciplines which will be represented at these games.
Venue : Boxing
International Convention Centre – Dates 21 to 25 August.
Click here for the complete boxing schedule of these games.
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Annie Newton – Boxer 1893 – 1955.
Female Pioneers of Boxing
January 1926 – National coverage is given to a scheduled boxing match between Annie Newton and Madge Baker to be held at the - Hoxton Baths – for a side stake of 25 pounds, winner take all.
The then British Home Secretary, Joynson Hicks – objecting strongly to female boxing - stepped in and banned the contest from taking place.
According to un-verified sources the fight still went ahead at a later date in private.
Annie started training in the noble art at the tender age of eight, at the family boxing club the “AJ Newton School of Arms” by her uncle, Prof A J Newton who was an ABA champion in 1888 & 1890.
The Newton’s were a show biz family and as the “Newton Midgets” they toured the most famous music halls in London, with their boxing act – which consisted of, club swinging, ball punching, with Annie playing the piano and then Annie would don her boxing gloves and spar with her brother David – followed by a boxing exhibition with her uncle.
Since public competitive boxing for women was prohibited, fights were held in private. Annie is reputed to have taken part in 50 six round contests and won them all inside the distance. Some of these contests were held in, South Africa.
Annie was a celebrity in her time and renowned as a hard and unrelenting puncher, often taking part in three round boxing exhibitions against men. She also trained and spared regularly with one of the best British boxers of the 20’s era, Nipper Pat Daly.
Annie was the only female to entre the ring at the famous, NSC - Convent Gardens (Boxing Club 1891 – 1938) considering the era, this was quite an achievement.
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World’s Top Boxers Signed to World Series of Boxing Franchises
28 June 2024 - Some of the world’s top boxers were today drafted into twelve World Series of Boxing (WSB) squads following an International Boxer Draft, held in London. Following the boxer draft the Team Draw was held to determine the final competition schedule, revealing when the teams will compete against each other in their conference from the start of the WSB Regular Season on November 19th this year.
In total 87 boxers from around the world were chosen by the franchises to make up their quota of international boxers to start the first WSB season. Big names drafted today included the Ukrainian National Champion Sergiy Derevyanchenko, chosen by the Milan franchise, the popular Irish Olympic silver medallist Kenny Egan who heads to the Miami squad and German National Champion Ronny Beblik, who joins WSB Boston.
In some of the day’s other big signings, Australian super-heavyweight National Champion Trent Rawlins joins WSB Miami, who completed their signings to a strong Miami squad with the signature of Beijing Olympian Jose Payares from Venezuela. In Europe the Milan franchise added to their strong national squad with the signing of six boxers across four weight divisions, including the AIBA World Championships silver medalist Benjey Zimmerman from the Dutch Antilles, and the promising Montenegrin heavyweight Bosko Draskovic, a quarter-finalist at this year’s European Championships.
In the Asia conference Delhi were the day’s big movers, signing nine boxers across five different weight divisions, adding to their promising national squad which already includes some of India’s finest competitors such as Vijender Singh. Olympic bronze medalist Bahodirjon Sultonov, Ukrainian Champion super-heavyweight Roman Kapitonenko and Beijing Olympics semi-finalist Abdelhafid Benchabla will all joining up with their new team mates in the Indian capital over the coming months.
Boxers from as far afield as Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Haiti and New Zealand were included in the draft, which saw the twelve franchises competing hard to sign the best talent available, to strengthen their existing squad of national boxers.
Dr C. K. Wu, president of AIBA, the International Boxing Association, welcomed boxers, franchise owners and media to the historic inaugural draft. The World Series of Boxing is an initiative of the AIBA President, who opened the proceedings by saying: “Today, boxers have a new choice. A competition that will not only offer them long-term security, a guaranteed salary and regular competitive boxing at the highest level, but that will also allow them to retain their eligibility for the Olympic Games. That competition is the World Series of Boxing. For the first time ever, we will see a global, team boxing league in which the world’s best boxers compete against each other on a regular basis, year after year.”
The International Boxer Draft allowed the twelve WSB teams to select from a pool of 175 boxers from 64 countries to complete their squads of national boxers. Under WSB rules, each team must comprise a minimum of three boxers who are not from the team country. The luck of the draw determined who got first pick of the talent as the boxers were drafted in turn in each of the WSB’s five weight classes (54kg, 61kg, 73kg, 85kg, 91+kg).
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New Look - For - Malta Boxing News
The Malta Boxing News, which is the only Maltese sports web site that reports exclusively, local & international - COMBAT SPORTS NEWS - has introduced a new banner, which truly reflects its targets and aspirations to cover and report all types of combat sports from around the globe.
Look us up on - www.maltaboxing.net
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Smokin’ Joe Frazier - gives a helping hand
‘The Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa” in Canada, which has been providing young people with high-quality after-school, weekend and summer programming for the past 87 years, recently got a helping hand from one of the all time greats of boxing, Smokin’ Joe Frazier who made an appearance at the sold-out Ringside for Youth XVI event in support of the club.
The 16th annual charity gathering brought in a total of about $ 155,000, in return fans of the sport were able to communicate with the champion, hear interesting stories from his career, past battles and the history of the nickname “Smokin”.
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International Boxing Camp - In Malta
The English group is being led by Lion club coaches, Julian Borg & Steve Walters.
Julian who is of Maltese decent is very well known in Maltese boxing circles, last November (2009) he was very instrumental in the organization of Malta’s largest ever, International club boxing tournament, early in 2010 he was also heavily involved in training camps for Maltese boxers in the UK and more recently he was the appointed coach for the Maltese, St Julian’s Boxing Club, participating at the Haringey Box Cup, which was held at the Alexandra Palace – Wood Green, London.
This is the fifth international boxing training camp to be organized in, Malta since April of 2009. Maltese boxers also participated in three international training camps during this period in Milan, Wales and England.
These training camps were the original brainchild of Julian Borg and former secretary general of the MBF, Alexander Zammit. They were designed to expose Maltese youths to the international world of boxing and once again give credibility to Maltese boxing on the international platform, which had almost sunk into oblivion after the mid seventies.
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IRELAND BOW OUT OF EUROPEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
After Irelands success at the, Elite European Boxing Championships in Russia, the Irish were hoping for a repeat performance at the, Junior European Boxing Championships, being held in the Ukraine.
The Irish dream ended in the quarter finals on the 24th of June, when their five remaining boxers were all eliminated.
Bernard O’Neill (IABA public relations officer) Reports
Ireland’s European Junior Championships campaign ended on a disappointing note today after all five boxers lost their quarter final bouts in the Ukraine.
Defeats for Dean Walsh, Declan Carlin, Dylan Carr, Robert McGreevey and George Boylan brought the curtain down on Ireland’s involvement in the 30 nation tournament.
Walsh was desperately unlucky to lose out to Henrik Mokoyan of Armenia by a one point margin.
Carlin, McGreevey, Boylan and Carr also produced brave displays against formidable opposition at the Sports Centre in the city of Lvov.
Ireland were using a nine-man squad in the Ukraine, reduced to eight last Monday after Anthony Coyle picked up a foot injury.
217 boxers from thirty nations are competing at the Championships across 13 weight categories from 46Kg to 80Kg+.
The Championships conclude on Sunday.
Quarter Finals Results - June 24th
46Kg: Dean Walsh (Ireland) lost to Henrik Mokoyan (Armenia) 2-3
54Kg: Declan Carlin (Ireland) lost to Gregory Shalamberedze (Georgia) 0-4
60Kg: Dylan Carr (Ireland) lost to Andrey Mikhailav (Belarus) 1-3
66Kg: Robert McGreevey (Ireland) lost to Maksim Schuslianak (Belarus) 0-2
75Kg: George Boylan (Ireland) lost to Idris Shakhmanov (Russia) RSC2
Source: The IABA
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UFC News - Brock Lesnar vs Shane Carwin
Lesnar faces an even bigger test than Carwin at UFC 116
On Saturday July 3, the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas will be the stage for UFC 116, where we will witness arguably the biggest fight, both figuratively and literally, in UFC heavyweight history. One blink of an eye and it could all be done and dusted, as champion Brock Lesnar makes his second title defence against fellow genetic freak Shane Carwin.
Lesnar may not be the most popular fighter in the UFC, but he is certainly the number one guy as far as PPV figures are concerned; because when he fights, the whole world knows about it. This will be no different next Saturday, and fans can expect another spectacle when Lesnar takes on the most dangerous pretender to his heavyweight throne.
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World’s Top Boxers Join up to WSB National Boxing Squads
The World Series of Boxing teams have now finalized their national boxer squads ahead of the International Boxer Draft for the World Series of Boxing in London on 28th June. Star names on the list include world number one Vijender Singh (Delhi team) and two world number two ranked boxers, Domenico Valentino (Milan team) and Zhang Zilei (Beijing team). At the International Boxer Draft, teams will be able to select from 175 of the world’s top boxers, from 64 different countries, to complete their squads with the minimum number of non-national boxers required by WSB regulations.
The Milan team features a World Champion, Domenico Valentino, and an Olympic silver medallist, Clemento Russo - both ranked in the top five of the world in their AIBA weight class. Valentino, 26, also scooped the AIBA Best Boxer Award in 2009 and has recently been appointed an Athlete Role Model for the upcoming Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. Russo, 28, is a policeman by trade and became a celebrity in Italy after appearing in the “Reality House” reality TV show, the country’s version of the popular “Big Brother” format.
Indian superstar Vijender Singh tops the Delhi team list. The bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games also took bronze at the 2009 Asian and World Championships and is ranked number one in the world in AIBA’s 75kg class. He will also bring a touch of Bollywood glamour to the WSB, since he will be appearing - as a boxer - in a Bollywood production that is set to start filming in 2011.
The star boxer on the Beijing team is undoubtedly Zhang Zilei, who is world number two in AIBA’s super heavyweight (91+kg) rankings. Zhang is also 2009 Asian Champion and took bronze at the 2009 AIBA World Championships in Milan and gold at the 2010 China Open. Zhang Jianting is the team’s second Asian Champion and made the quarterfinals of the 2009 AIBA World Championships. He also topped the podium at the 2010 China Open.
The team from Baku has added youth into the mix following Azerbaijan’s recent success at the 2010 AIBA Youth World Championships on home soil. The team includes Youth World Champion Shaban Shahpalangov, silver medalist Elvin Mamishzade and his namesake and bronze medalist Elvin Isayev.
Istanbul are betting on a mix of experience and youth, with two participants from the recent Youth World Championships competing alongside the likes of Bahram Muzaffer, who made the quarter finals at the 2009 AIBA World Championships in Milan and 26 year-old Abdullah Koroglu, who has over 200 victories under his belt.
The Paris team fields the only boxer who already has WSB experience, since light heavyweight Ludovic Groghue took part in the first-ever WSB test event in Baku earlier this year, easing out to victory over Sijuola Shabazz of the USA. Groghue’s national team mates include Abdelkader Bouhenia, silver medalist at the 2009 AIBA President’s Cup 2009 and bronze medalist at the 2009 AIBA World Championships, as well as Alexis Vastine, who took gold at the 2009 AIBA President’s Cup.
Astana is fielding the maximum national boxer squad with fourteen boxers, including experienced athletes Akshalov Merey, 2007 Asian Champion and Rygebayev Rustam, who participated in the 2007 AIBA World Championships. Because of the size of its national boxer contingent, the Astana team will have to recruit six non-national boxers - the minimum number required for a squad of this size under WSB rules - to complete its squad at next week’s draft in London.
Ivan Khodabakhsh, Chief Operating Officer of the World Series of Boxing, said that the announcement of the national boxer squads will make for an interesting draft. “We can see an excellent mix of squad sizes and different ages in the national boxer squads of the WSB teams. These teams consist of Olympic and World Championship medalists and the top boxers in each country. With over 175 of the world’s top boxers available for selection in the International Boxer Draft next week in London, the teams have a vast reserve of boxing talent at their disposal to compose their ideal World Series of Boxing squads,” he said.
The full list of national boxers in each team can be viewed here.
The teams for the Americas conference will be announced separately, since a separate selection procedure is required for the US national boxers to be distributed among the teams.
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