{Spam?} SUMMER DAZE

New York Post - Amateur boxing and Muay Thai boxing at the hall of St. Paul the Apostle, 60th Street and Ninth Avenue; $25, fridaynightfightsnyc.com. In theaters: George Clooney and the gang in “Ocean’s Thirteen.” 9: Deftones perform at Roseland Ballroom at 8
Source: www.nypost.com


If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
- Leon Eldred

MMA kicks its way to the top

Seattle Post Intelligencer - It is forging an identity distinct from the more venerable combat sport of boxing -- or, MMA's leaders argue, nudging the sweet science further into the periphery. The UFC is Sports Illustrated's cover story this week, and its premier star, Chuck
Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com

Motors Notes
Salt Lake Tribune - Former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman has become the co-owner of an Indy Racing League team. Foreman and his sons have purchased the Panther Racing Team. It is Foreman's first sports venture since he retired from boxing in 1997.
Source: www.sltrib.com

Unapologetically Cory "Next Generation" Spinks
Boxing Scene - Boxing is once again undergoing a movement, with many at the top in search of more action fights and less chess matches. Last weekend’s HBO doubleheader was offered as Exhibit A for those looking to do away with fights showing any semblance of
Source: www.boxingscene.com

Boxing: Enzo is out to Pole-axe Wlodarczyk
IC Wales - ENZO Maccarinelli is still waiting to hear who he will face in the main event on July 7 at the CIA, although he has been promised “a big name”. The Swansea man will be keeping an eye on the news from Poland tonight, with potential rival Krzysztof
Source: icwales.icnetwork.co.uk


Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
- Doug Larson

Five Ounces of Pain: UFC 71 Preview

CBS Sportsline - main events in quite some time, all eyes will return to mixed martial arts on Saturday when UFC light heavyweight Fight analysis: This is a rematch of their 2003 bout at Pride's Final Conflict. Liddell was under contract to the UFC
Source: www.sportsline.com

Barrett is knocked down in the 11th.
Sporting Life - Nikolai Valuev retained his WBA heavyweight title with an 11th-round stoppage of American challenger Monte Barrett in Chicago. The 328lb Russian dropped Barrett twice in the 11th round before the fight was halted with 48 seconds remaining with the
Source: www.sportinglife.com

Baysangurov-Bayram Lands on Klitschko Card
Boxing Scene - The Baysangurov/Bayram fight will be the co-feature for the IBF/IBO Heavyweight Championship of the world between Wladimir Klitschko and Lamon Brewster held July 7th in Cologne, Germany. Both fights will be seen internationally in over 100 countries
Source: www.boxingscene.com

The Iceman cometh: Liddell focused on avenging loss to Jackson
Covers.com - Since the 2003 fight, Liddell has gone on to win his last seven bouts, defeating now-heavyweight champ Couture twice and also scoring two wins against UFC poster boy Tito Ortiz. Sportsbook s have the light heavyweight champion set as a -175 favorite
Source: www.covers.com

UFC superstar Liddell looks to avenge loss to Jackson
USA Today - own Saturday night in Las Vegas when Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell takes on Quinton "Rampage" Jackson for the UFC light heavyweight I've been waiting for this fight with Rampage for a long time. I'm excited about it, and I will knock him out," Liddell
Source: www.usatoday.com

MMA brings new wagering world to fight fans
Covers.com - While fight fans have been wagering on boxing since two men strapped on the gloves, MMA is still a new venture to many 71 gives MMA bettors nine different matches to choose from, most notably Saturday night’s main event between light heavyweight
Source: www.covers.com

Williams lies on the canvas (Getty Images).
Sporting Life - my reach because I knew he would try to get close to me, so I stayed outside. I thought the fight would have been stopped a little earlier. "I got a little tired but nothing serious. I am the real world heavyweight champion and I am prepared to fight
Source: www.sportinglife.com

UFC 71 preview and guest predictions
Baltimore Sun - Jardine's stock soared after his UFC 66 victory over fan favorite and TUF 1 champion Forrest Griffin. Two other fighters will also make their UFC debuts Saturday -- undefeated light heavyweight Thiago Silva will fight James Irvin, while UFC newcomer
Source: www.baltimoresun.com


Doc Childre, Freeze-Frame
A harmonious relationship with one you love can enhance your work, health and entire well-being.

Latest venture proves Foreman's no 'dope'

Dayton Daily News - all of his sons after himself (how cute), made millions by endorsing a hamburger grill and launched the comeback that led to his regaining the heavyweight crown at age 45. In the book, Foreman says he remembers drinking something before the Ali fight
Source: www.daytondailynews.com

CROCK SPROTT KO'S SHOW
Daily Mirror - MICHAEL SPROTT (below) has pulled out of this Saturday's Commonwealth heavyweight title fight with Matt Skelton in London with a leg injury. Promoter Frank Warren has cancelled the show as it is too late now to find a replacement
Source: www.mirror.co.uk

De La Hoya Confident Ibragimov Will Beat Briggs
Boxing Scene - with Caesar’s Atlantic City, Nafta Moskya, Golden Grain, CSI Sports, Global Advertising and Main Events.  The fight will be shown on Pay-Per-View and begins at 9:00 pm ET/ 6:00 pm PT. Ibragimov is one of the hottest talents in the heavyweight
Source: www.boxingscene.com

Del Real ready to step up in class
Visalia Times-Delta - The most exciting fight of the night was a heavyweight bout between Fresno's Jason Keith and William Johnson of Cortez, Colo. for the Gladiator Challenge/Native American Heavyweight championship. Johnson and Keith slugged it out for five minutes, and
Source: www.visaliatimesdelta.com

Fight Schedule
Ledger - Printer-Friendly Version E-Mail This Article Published Monday, May 21, 2007 Fight Schedule By The Associated Press Michael Sprott, England, 12, for Skelton's Commonwealth heavyweight title; May 30 At Kansas City, Mo. (ESPN2), Jorge Lacierva
Source: www.theledger.com

Johnson stops Griffin in 11th round
FOXSports.com - HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - Glen Johnson stopped Montell Griffin in the 11th round of a title-fight eliminator between former light-heavyweight champions Wednesday night. Johnson, a Jamaican now living in Miami, pressured Griffin throughout the scheduled
Source: msn.foxsports.com

Knights win twice
Journal - While the first game came down to being a nail biter, Game 2 started off like a heavyweight fight. Schindele homered in the top of the first for the Indians, but the Tigers got it back to make it 1-1. The second inning featured two-run homers from
Source: www.nujournal.com

comments on: Skelton vs Sprott This Saturday
East Side Boxing - Warren is clown !! . He promises this everytime he promotes a heavyweight fight. It should be against the law for him to talk so much crap. 21.05.07 @ 17:26:23
Source: www.eastsideboxing.com

Boxing: Joe's book no ordinary read
IC Wales - Calzaghe writes: “I would fight Bernard Hopkins, the light-heavyweight champion, Jermain Taylor, the middleweight champion. I would fight Winky Wright who boxed Taylor to a draw. I would fight all these guys tomorrow. But Hopkins is too shrewd a
Source: icwales.icnetwork.co.uk

Holyfield still wants to retire as champ
FOXSports.com - I'm only going to fight the people that allow me to be the heavyweight champion," Holyfield said. Holyfield, 41-8 with two draws and 27 knockouts, beat Fres Oquendo in San Antonio in November and Jeremy Bates in Dallas last August, his first fight in
Source: msn.foxsports.com


Doc Childre, Freeze-Frame
A harmonious relationship with one you love can enhance your work, health and entire well-being.

Mabuza itches for an IBF title

Beeld - The IBF championship has since been declared vacant following the decision by Marquez to move up a division and campaign in the junior-featherweight class. An elated Mabuza told City Press this week that he was dying to prove his detractors wrong by
Source: www.news24.com

Shaq and Skiles have killer connection thanks to fight
ESPN.com - I always looked as those two as two boxers, one a super heavyweight, the other a featherweight, both just ultracompetitive. They were packaged in two different boxes, but each had a significant aspect on our team," Krystkowiak said. And now, the story
Source: sports.espn.go.com

Khan and Cook Tickets Now On Sale!
East Side Boxing - Khan faces the hardest test of his career when he takes on classy Commonwealth Lightweight Champion Willie Limond and the main event features London hot-shot Nicky Cook facing-off against top American Steven Luevano for the Vacant WBO Featherweight
Source: www.eastsideboxing.com

U.S. Fighter Wins Fourth Straight World Title
ClickOnDetroit.com - He won Olympic gold as a featherweight at the 2000 Sydney Games -- where taekwondo made its debut as an official Olympic sport -- and earned a second gold at the 2004 Athens Games as a welterweight. The Sugar Land, Texas, native has won four Worlds
Source: www.clickondetroit.com

WBC orders talks on Pacman-Marquez II
ABS-CBN - The WBC, headed by Jose Sulaiman, has declared Pacquiao as the mandatory challenger to Marquez who wrested the WBC super-featherweight crown from Marco Antonio Barrera last March 17. While some people are calling for a rematch between Marquez and
Source: www.abs-cbnnews.com


There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.
- Henry Lytton Bulwer

Nigeria: Boxing: Onikeke Stops Sorkitti, Wins IBF Title

Former 2004 commonwealth welterweight champion, Fatai Onikeke, chopped down Thailand Kongthawat Sorkitti (33-30-1) in six rounds to capture the IBF Pan Pacific junior welterweight championship at the Knox Net Ball Stadium at Ferntree Gully, Melbourne,

John Duddy settles for decision against Strickland
Unbeaten middleweight John Duddy recovered from a cut over his right eye early in the fight to earn a unanimous 10-round decision over Dupre Strickland at the Beacon Theater on Friday night.

Missing Calzaghe Clash Is A High Price For Taylor
JOE CALZAGHE made his debut as a TV pundit in the States in the early hours of

Duddy decisions Strickland
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In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
- Author Unknown

All together now . . . rock, paper, scissors. Do try this at home. You

Times Online - The pretournament favourite, Antonie “Shears” Maanum, was surprisingly eliminated despite trying to put off opponents by wearing a red silk boxing gown. Paramedics were on hand in case of “wrist or shoulder dislocations” while each bout
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Gym looks for that special fighter
Roanoke Times - Boxing is fighting to make a comeback in this country, but a big-money fight like the one this past Saturday between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya creates only short-lived excitement. Boxing will experience a renaissance if it happens at
Source: www.roanoke.com


Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.
- Dutch Proverb, sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt

Memorial For Boxer Diego Corrales Postponed in Las Vegas

KLAS-TV - Corrales was a former lightweight and super featherweight champion who fought most of his career at 130 pounds. He had a record of 40 wins and five losses, with 33 knockouts. He died on the second anniversary of a lightweight title unification
Source: www.klas-tv.com

Corrales dies in motorcycle crash
Philadelphia Daily News - In a Jan. 20, 2001, challenge of WBC super featherweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., Corrales was enraged when his stepfather, Ray Woods, threw in the towel in the 10th round, despite the fact he had been knocked down five times and was bleeding
Source: www.philly.com

INDRI: Diaz a baby bull no more
Boxing Insider - In the co-feature bout of the evening Super Featherweight Agnaldo Nunez retained his NABF and NABA titles with a razor close twelve round majority decision over veteran Carlos Navarro. Nunez (17-1-1, 7 KO's) was a bit quicker and sharper with his
Source: www.boxinginsider.com


Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
- Tommy Smothers

{Spam?} Corrales Was Just Pussycat In Life But A Lion In The Ring

AS EVER in life, triumph and tragedy come as a package. Two days after celebrating a brilliant success for boxing we were left mourning the death of one of our own. What a waste. Diego Corrales was a pussycat out of the ring and a lion in it.

Sports Wire - Title Bid For Amir Rabbit
RYAN Barrett, stopped by Amir Khan in just 1min 51sec last September, will fight for the British featherweight title on June

My rematch with De La Hoya will be even better - Mayweather
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They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.
- Chi Chi Rodriguez

Be you in what line of life you

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends, and spirit - and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.

Corrales dies aged 29 in accident

Corrales had two epic fights with Jose Luis CastilloFormer two-weight world champion Diego Corrales died on Monday in a Las Vegas motorcycle accident, exactly two years since his finest moment in the ring.

Diego Corrales in pictures
Mar 95: Corrales (blue) dodges a punch from Cuba's Arnaldo Mesa Bonell in the 12th Pan American Games. Chico was to turn pro and win his first paid contest a year and a day later.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. Appears on Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- By Wray Edwards: Jay Leno is a professional entertainer and a very adept interviewer. His conversation with Floyd Mayweather Jr. was quite revealing and was also a great opportunity to see Floyd interacting with the general public.

Corrales dies after bike crash
Former two-weight world champion Diego 'Chico' Corrales has died overnight after a high-speed motorcycle accident in Las Vegas.

Jamie Cox Makes Big Pact
- Ambitious young boxing star Jamie Cox has made a pact with Swindon Town: Win the Premiership title and I'll win a World title.

Video of De La Hoya-Mayweather bout taken down after HBO complaint
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Video of the 12-round fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr. was taken down from YouTube.com on Monday after HBO filed a copyright claim, the Los Angeles Times reported on its website.

Boxing missed a 'Golden' opportunity: Floyd-Oscar fails to deliver to targeted mainstream audience
- By Mike Indri, Retired Boxers Foundation: When all the HBO Pay-Per-View numbers are officially announced, this past Saturday night's fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather will further confirm the fact that boxing is not dead; or at

Boxer dies in motorcycle accident
Diego Corrales is shown in this 2006 photo.

Boxing: two-time world champion Diego Corrales dies after motorcycle crash
Former two-weight world champion Diego 'Chico' Corrales has died overnight after a high-speed motorcycle accident in Las Vegas.


Gary Zukav (as quoted in HeartMath Discovery Program)
If your thoughts are thoughts that draw low-frequency energy current to you, your physical and emotional attitudes will deteriorate, and emotional or physical disease will follow, whereas thoughts that draw high-frequency energy current to you create physical and emotional health.

O'Donnell's debut disaster

John O'Donnell's Las Vegas dream turned into a nightmare as he tasted defeat for the first time as a pro.

Boxing's 'saviours' want out
Las Vegas - Boxing's self-proclaimed saviours, Floyd Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya, made it clear they have better things to do than keep fighting. But each man expects his US rival to remain in the ring.

Calzaghe goes to Memphis to seal deal on Taylor fight
Joe Calzaghe's heading to Memphis to seal the deal on a superfight with middleweight king Jermain Taylor.

Mayweather-De La Hoya Rematch Possible
morning for months. He was confident he would wake up that day as an unbeaten, retired champion who could take his four kids out for pizza in peace any time he wished.

AP: Mayweather-De La Hoya Rematch Possible
LAS VEGAS (May 6) - Floyd Mayweather Jr. had been looking forward to Sunday morning for months. He was confident he would wake up that day as an unbeaten, retired champion who could take his four kids out for pizza in peace any time he wished.

Boxing 'needs More Big Bouts'
A leading sports business expert says boxing needs more than the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather showdown to restore it to sport's top table.

Rematch still option for Mayweather-De La Hoya
LAS VEGAS -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. had been looking forward to Sunday morning for months. He was confident he would wake up that day as an unbeaten, retired champion who could take his four kids out for pizza in peace any time he wished.

Boxing 'needs more big bouts'
A leading sports business expert says boxing needs more than the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather showdown to restore it to sport's top table.

Philadelphia Daily News, Bernard Fernandez Column: Bernard Fernandez | They Saved Boxing at Least fo
09 AM By Bernard Fernandez, Philadelphia Daily News May 7--LAS VEGAS -- A lot of people were calling it the fight that might save boxing, but it was no more that than WWI was the war to end all wars.

BOXING: Mayweather beats De La Hoya
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Krishnamurti
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

comments on: Boxing - Gatti vs. Gomez

East Side Boxing - I look for Gatti to win this. All of the fighters on the contender were nothing more than journeyman. Look at the possible mismatch of Jermain Taylor fighting Sergio Mora that was being talked about. I think that this fight will be more competitive
Source: www.eastsideboxing.com

Chicago awarded '07 boxing worlds
Sports Illustrated - CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago isn't wasting any time trying to show it would be a good host for the Olympics. The city, chosen last month as the U.S. candidate for the 2016 Summer Games, was awarded the 2007 world boxing championships on Thursday, two
Source: sportsillustrated.cnn.com

Opinion: Mixed martial arts may soon KO boxing
Colorado Springs Gazette - Boxing is not dead. It never will be. Too many of us like good fisticuffs for it to die. But even after Saturday’s fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya, boxing remains on life support. Unless boxing reverts to its roots it will
Source: www.gazette.com

Does Amateur Boxing Cause Brain Damage?
eMaxHealth.com - Blows to the head in amateur boxing appear to cause brain damage. "Despite the high prevalence of brain damage as a result of professional boxing, until now there has been little information on the possible risks for brain injury in amateur boxing
Source: www.emaxhealth.com

The greatness of HBO's boxing documentary De La Hoya/Mayweather 24/7
Slate - The exceptional When We Were Kings was the first mainstream documentary to chronicle the buildup to a big boxing match. Unfortunately, it wasn't exactly timelyâ€"fans had to wait until 23 years after the Rumble in the Jungle to glimpse the pre-fight
Source: www.slate.com

Fight to save boxing on
The Daily Tribune - LAS VEGAS, Nevada â€" Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather weighed in at the heaviest mark of his career here Friday on the eve of a showdown with Oscar de la Hoya, who tipped the scales right on the super-welterweight limit. The US fighters engaged in one
Source: www.tribune.net.ph

Holding pattern
The Australian - The fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr in Las Vegas on the weekend drew boxing fans from across America: including award-winning actors Helen Mirren , Jack Nicholson , Jim Carrey and John Cusack , singer Jennifer Lopez and her husband
Source: www.theaustralian.news.com.au


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.