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Skipping ropes for Boxing and FitnessBoxers have been using skipping ropes as a training aid for many years. Skipping can be used for endurance work, developing speed in short bursts, coordination and to encourage a sense of rhythm. Many of the great champions used to skip to the lively beat of music. One of these champions was the great “Sugar” Ray Robinson. You will find many film clips of him

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When you are training to become a boxer there are a few very important pieces of boxing equipment that every boxer needs. Whether you have a huge training facility and many different trainers, or you are working in a sweat shop by yourself, you still need these basic pieces of equipment to hone your skills. These different pieces of boxing equipment are a heavy bag, a speed bag, boxing gloves, a

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Boxing News -- 24 hours/day - Reload often! - fightnews.comFrustration for Lopez Boxing News -- 24 hours/day - Reload often! fightnews.com - 1 hour ago ... The bout headlined a five-bout "Path to Glory" card, presented by Thompson Boxing Promotions. ... For tickets, contact Thompson Boxing at (714) 935-0900. technorati tags:box, boxing, fighting, grappling

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Boxing: All Ireland Vegas clash toughest yet for Duddy - Belfast Telegraph Boxing: All Ireland Vegas clash toughest yet for Duddy Belfast Telegraph,?United Kingdom?- 47 minutes ago By David Kelly. Rising star John Duddy is set for an all-Irish showdown with Dubliner Jim Rock in Las Vegas. Duddy's manager Eddie ... technorati tags:boxing, box, fight, grappling

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A boxing champion and a painter — but more importantly, a Native ... - Farmington Daily TimesYou would never thinks that you could be a boxer and a painter A boxing champion and a painter — but more importantly, a Native ... Farmington Daily Times,?NM?- 11 hours ago ... on their backs. The artist, Thaddine Swift Eagle, 28, of Durango, Colo., is both a boxing champion and a painter. Her

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Boxing: Khan eases to eighth straight win - The Sunday TimesWell done to Khan. BBC SportBoxing: Khan eases to eighth straight win The Sunday Times, UK - 8 hours ago ... me,” Khan said. “I just stay 100 per cent focused on my boxing and that’s the way it always will be.”. JOHNNY NELSON’S ... Boxing: Bain's pain as Khan is out ic Wales Destroyer who Khan do The Herald Khan maintains winning run

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Boxing News: Fernando Vargas Meets the Press - The Sweet ScienceIs this going to be a re-match? The Sweet ScienceBoxing News: Fernando Vargas Meets the Press The Sweet Science?- 23 hours ago In anticipation of his July 15 rematch with Sugar Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand, Fernando “El Feroz” Vargas spoke with the boxing press via telephone ... Boxing News: Shane Mosley Meets the Press The

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BOXING: Gary resident Findley’s career off to ’super’ start - Gary Post TribuneFound this article while browsing - there is another superman out there... BOXING: Gary resident Findley’s career off to ’super’ start Gary Post Tribune, IN - 1 hour ago If you hear area boxing fans talking about Superman, they might not be talking about Clark Kent’s alter ego or this summer’s blockbuster movie. ...

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Boxing: Rocky seeks return - Bury Free PressI saw this article and wanted to show this to others - it's good news Boxing: Rocky seeks return Bury Free Press, UK - 1 hour ago Thetford-based boxer Rocky Dean has targeted a return match with one of the rising stars of the domestic scene. Dean was due to ... technorati tags:Boxing, Rocky

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Curtis Woodhouse will play his last game of football in today’s League Two playoff final against CheltenhamSome drink, others gamble, but Curtis Woodhouse gets a kick out of violence. By his own admission, a short temper has landed him in too much trouble down the years, but he can’t help himself. While the rule in football is that hands should never be raised, you can’t keep a bad man down. “

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Boxing becomes sport of princesBOXING does not customarily attract royal patronage but cheering enthusiastically ringside were Princes William and Harry at a charity boxing tournament and ball on Saturday night.Among those taking part at the Boodles Boxing Ball was the princes’ friend Hugh van Cutsem, a financial consultant, who beat Huw Williams, a Cambridge University boxing Blue. Mr van Cutsem

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On the bubbleHere are some fighters who are not yet eligible for the Hall of Fame who might receive my vote. Some are retired, and I will need to think long and hard about their candidacy when they appear on the ballot, and others are active fighters who still can accomplish more between now and their retirement:CalzagheJoe Calzaghe (41-0, 31 KOs): The unified super middleweight champion from

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Each June, boxing luminaries and fans from around the world gather at the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the quaint upstate New York village of Canastota for the annual induction weekend.At Sunday's 17th annual induction ceremony, former junior flyweight champions Michael Carbajal and Humberto "Chiquita" Gonzalez, who faced each other three times in their signature bouts, headline a 12-man

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Boxing: Roy Jones Jr, a former world champion at four weights, has said he is willing to go to Wales to face Joe Calzaghe.Jones has long been a target of Calzaghe, but after adding the IBF title to his WBO super-middleweight title by beating Jeff Lacy last week, it is the Welshman who is in demand from boxing’s biggest names. Calzaghe is due to box at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, on July 8.

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Boxing: Barrera fight could win Hamed respectNaseem Hamed has described his April showdown with Mexico's Marco Antonio Barrera as the fight which will earn him the right to be called a true champion.The three-times world champion takes on dual champion Barrera in Las Vegas in defence of his super-featherweight crown, still craving the adulation and respect he feels is owed by the boxing

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Boxing sensation floats and stings into quarter-finalsBritain's teenage boxing hope Amir Khan stormed through to the quarter-finals of the Olympic tournament with a spectacular victory over seasoned Bulgarian Dimitar StilianovThe 17-year-old lightweight confirmed he was a unique talent by easily outpointing the European champion with a stunning display.Khan struggled at first against the tricky

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Takaloo steals Magee's thunder and takes crownMany of the 6,500 crammed into the King's Hall would have hoped for a night of joy for Belfast's Eamonn Magee. But the 34-year-old southpaw, who has made an extraordinary recovery from a street attack two years ago, looked a shadow of his old self as he lost a majority points decision to the Margate-based Mehrdud Takaloo and surrendered the World

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Boxing: Who’s the duddy?Three years ago John Duddy was drifting in Irish amateur boxing. On Thursday he fights before a sellout crowd in New York. By Brian DooganDown at Gleason’s Gym, under the foreboding shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, the New York fight crowd is congregating expectantly.No fighter apart from Sugar Shane Mosley, twice a conqueror of Oscar De La Hoya, had ever sold out the 5,600-

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RICKY HATTON’S performance in edging past Luis Collazo for the WBA welterweight title in Boston, Massachusetts, last weekend was an eyeopener for Eamonn Magee. The Belfast boxer is the only man to have put Hatton on the floor in his career. Now Magee fancies a rematch. “I think Collazo was the first really fit young man Hatton had faced, apart from me, and it showed,” Magee said. “I’d love to

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Boxing: Shy family man seeking glory without fameONE of the saddest aspects, to many boxing fans, when Ricky Hatton and Frank Warren parted ways, was that Hatton was lost to terrestrial television.Hatton’s win over Kostya Tszyu, for the IBF light-welterweight title last June, was before Warren agreed a deal with ITV and when the two split, Hatton was lost to a big crossover audience. Like his

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Three years ago John Duddy was drifting in Irish amateur boxing. On Thursday he fights before a sellout crowd in New York. Down at Gleason’s Gym, under the foreboding shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, the New York fight crowd is congregating expectantly. No fighter apart from Sugar Shane Mosley, twice a conqueror of Oscar De La Hoya, had ever sold out the 5,600-capacity Theatre at Madison Square

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Australia face dilemma as controversy enters ringBOXING may not be the hottest ticket in town but when it comes to controversy it is fighting well above its weight in Melbourne, with a former bouncer who fatally felled David Hookes, the former Australia cricketer, in a pub brawl two years ago now a sparring partner for the green and gold pugilists.Zdravko Micevic, 23, was found to have acted in

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Beat-em-up takes on an awful realityIN THE world of boxing (and we’ve phoned a boxing fan about this, so we’re pretty sure we’re right) few fights are more infamous than the bloody bout fought between Chris Eubank and Michael Watson in 1991.The world title fight ended after 12 rounds, with Watson in a coma. He suffered irreparable brain damage and it would be almost another decade before he would

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There was much to like about Naseem Hamed, in the early days, at least. He was 15 or so, a guest of the promoters, sitting quietly on the steps of a hotel lobby in Belfast as more recognisable members of the boxing fraternity moved about him. The kid gazed at Chris Eubank, Don King and luminaries of various influence as they soaked up the sycophancy. The kid sat on the steps, watching, not quite

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Troubled Scott Harrison has checked into The Priory to seek treatment for depression and alcohol problems. The World Boxing Organisation featherweight champion yesterday withdrew from a title defence against Gairy St Clair on Saturday. But his manager Frank Maloney revealed this morning that the 28-year-old Glaswegian has reluctantly admitted his problems and been admitted to the London

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Record books show that former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, who died Thursday in New York, was the first man to win the title twice. Actually, Patterson should have won it three times -- and would have won it three times, if it weren't for a referee in desperate need of cataract surgery.The first came on Nov. 30, 1956, exactly 30 days before my 5th birthday. As a child born in the early

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Thanks for the memories Floyd.Floyd Patterson, the first man to regain the world heavyweight title, has died at the age of 71.The American, who had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer, passed away at his home in New Paltz, New York on Thursday.Patterson won Olympic middleweight gold in 1952 before becoming the youngest world heavyweight champion in 1956 when he stopped

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Look forward to watching this.Glasgow Scott Harrison will defend his WBO featherweight crown against Mexico's Martin Honorio at Belfast's King's Hall on 20 May.The 26-year-old Honorio is ranked number nine by the WBO and has won 21 of his 25 fights.Original opponent Joan Guzman withdrew after Harrison was forced out of a 25 March date with a mouth infection.visit www.secrets-of-boxing.com/

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Let's hope Nasir is as good as Naseem...Amir Khan has likened Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Mo Nasir's fighting style to that of Naseem Hamed.Olympic silver medallist Khan says Nasir has the talent to flourish at the Beijing Olympics and in the paid ranks."Mo has a different style, one that confuses people," said Khan, 19. "It's the same style as Nas had and it could suit the professional

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Well Done Gavin!!Gavin tipped to follow king KhanGavin won Commonwealth gold in the lightweight divisionAmateur Boxing Association head coach Terry Edwards has hailed England golden boy Frankie Gavin as the British fight scene's next Amir Khan.The 20-year-old was one of six British fighters to win Commonwealth titles in the ring in Melbourne on Saturday.And Edwards said: "Frankie's an

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Hatton moves up for new title bidHatton's American adventure has been frustrating so farBritish light welterweight king Ricky Hatton will move up a division to try to capture another world title.The Manchester fighter will challenge America's WBA welterweight champion Luis Collazo in Boston on 13 May.Collazo, 24, who has won 26 of 27 fights, earned his title last April and has defended it

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Witter set for world title tiltWitter lost his last world title challenge in 2000Bradford's Junior Witter looks set to fight for the WBC light welterweight title, which has reportedly been vacated by Floyd Mayweather.Witter is the WBC's mandatory contender and should be paired off with former WBO champion DeMarcus Corley.Corley, 31, has mixed in top-class company and won 31 of 36 fights"I defend

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