Riches may enable us to confer favours, but

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
- Larry Dossey

William Joppy: A Fighter's Epilogue

By Cliff Roldep·i·logue: 1. a concluding articulation added to a literary striving, as a novel; 2. a speech, generally in verse, delivered by one of the actors after the conclusion of a playLike best fighters, lion's share citizens, 37-year old former Middleweight titlist

Hatton eyes Lazcano in Manchester or London
LONDON (Reuters) - Former IBF and WBC light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton will return to the ring on May 24 with a within reach fight against American Juan Lazcano, the King's commendable King's Standard Received Standard fighter said on Monday.

James 'Lights Out' Toney To Face Danny Williams in WBC Title Eliminator?
by James Slater: According to U.K newspaper, The Daily Mirror, James Toney will box British heavyweight Danny Williams that summer. The fight will be promoted by the U.K's Spencer Fearon and will take lay in Britain furthermore - either in May or June.

Judah gets OK to reapply for Nevada license 2 age after it was revoked for melee
Extract not feasible.

Heavyweight Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko has wrapped up the IBF and WBO belts after a win brought about Russian boxer S
. The mall didn?t see a spectacular fight that night as both boxers preferred to act carefully exchanging only short hits or a series of punches.

Cotto wants to carry welterweight banner
Extract not procurable.

Judah gets OK to reapply for Nevada license 2 senescence after it was revoked for melee
LAS VEGAS (AP) -Zab Judah was cleared Monday to reapply for a license to fight in Nevada, a move that paves the way for a bout against Shane Mosley in Las Vegas in the next few months.

Puerto Rican star Cotto wants to carry welterweight banner
Extract not unrecompensed.

Mayweather to appear in next WrestleMania
Extract not realizable.

Sam Peter: 'I'm Going To Punish Maskaev'
By James Blears"For keeping me waiting, I'm going to be punishing him in rounds one, two and seven and suddenly I'll knock him out in four.


The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil

Wladimir Klitschko W 12 Sultan Ibragimov

East Side Boxing - To be the heavyweight champion means a lot… I am determined to win this fight. I am not looking beyond that. That is my determination and goal â€" to clean up the heavyweight division with each fighter I face. I have to prove that I am the
Source: www.eastsideboxing.com

Stanford law prof may run for office
San Jose Mercury News - part of the fight right now is that so many people have already lined up behind Jackie," Lessig acknowledged. Her heavyweight supporters include U.S.
Source: www.mercurynews.com

Sports in Brief: Champ Car, IRL agree to unification
Philadelphia Inquirer - Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova routed Caroline Wozniacki , 6-0, 6-1, for her 12th consecutive victory and a spot in the Qatar Open semifinals in Doha. Adrian Diaconu will fight Chris Henry for the interim World Boxing Council light-heavyweight
Source: www.philly.com

Fighters recall boxing heyday
Journal & Sunday Journal - Though “Kid” would go on to fight for 14 years as a professional, things weren’t always easy. The former light heavyweight gained name recognition through some early fights, but recalled days spent living with two other boxers in the small
Source: journal-news.net

Klitschko looking to make his mark
Los Angeles Daily News - Along the way, he again became a world heavyweight champion after having lost that status in the setback to Sanders. I can't fight behind in my era because the guys are not there. So all I can do is try to be as devastating as I can with
Source: www.dailynews.com

Vicious cycle
Boston Globe - A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being, By Todd Balf, Crown, 306 pp He was "the first black man to hold a major sports world title" - nine years before Jack Johnson won the heavyweight boxing
Source: www.boston.com


I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
- Author Unknown

Someday I want to be rich. Some people

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That΄s how rich I want to be.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
- G.K. Chesterton

The easiest way for your children to learn

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

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

Calzaghe: I'll stay unbeaten

SkySports - I've always wanted to fight the best in America, and Hopkins is not only the best light-heavyweight in the world, but one of the best pound-for-pound fighters as well.
Source: www.skysports.com


Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
- Redd Foxx

Montana Signs Letter of Intent to Become the Beverly Hills Franchisee of LA Boxing

Extract not realizable.

Hopkins throws down the gauntlet
'It's Joe's job to prove I was wrong,' Hopkins said in New York on Wednesday,

Kelly Pavlik's plan after 2nd win ended Jermain Taylor: Hoard the middleweight belts
LAS VEGAS (AP) -Kelly Pavlik proved his superiority and fattened his bank chronicle with a secondary victory concluded Jermain Taylor. Now that frugal inhabitants's champion is finally ready to go shopping - for two really ugly belts.

Calzaghe goes in research of a hoodie
Extract not handy.

Hopkins Targeting Calzaghe - & Dad
In the Battle of the Planet two months from now, Bernard Hopkins will be targeting his opponent's dad.


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

Oscar De La Hoya Joins urban Leaders to Break Ground for First Golden Boy Partners Community in South Gate

Oscar De La Hoya Joins citified Leaders to Break Ground for First Golden Boy Partners Community in South GateTuesday February 19, 1:00 pm ET -- Tierra del Rey townhome community with workforce-priced homes by Metro Housing Partners will unclosed in March 2009

Mulvaney: Taylor earns respect
AP Photo/Isaac BrekkenDepending on who you ask, Taylor's rematch with Pavlik,

BOXING: I respect Hatton but I don't suppose we'll fight, says Khan
Amir Khan would welcome a domestic showdown with Ricky Hatton - but doubts it will ever betide. Khan meets Denmark's Martin Kristjansen at the Bolton Arena on April 5 in an eliminator for the WBO lightweight belt.

Boxing In The Shadows
NEW roadstead, Ct. -- ancient history the umpteen age of athletics in America and neighboring the earth, the black athlete arguably has bygone the utmost innovative and the max imitated entity in all of hooplas.

BOXING: Khan has respect for Hatton but doubts they'll ever meet in the ring
Amir Khan would welcome a domestic showdown with Ricky Hatton - but doubts it will ever become of. Khan meets Denmark's Martin Kristjansen at the Bolton Arena on April 5 in an eliminator for the WBO lightweight belt.

Khan: I respect Hatton so lots but I doubt I'll ever fight him
Amir Khan would welcome a domestic showdown with Ricky Hatton - but doubts it will ever take effect. Khan meets Denmark's Martin Kristjansen at the Bolton Arena on April 5 in an eliminator for the WBO lightweight belt.

Calzaghe backing celebrity Lemar
By Nabil HassanLemar and Ben Shephard face each added on 14 MarchForget Calzaghe-Hopkins, Maccarinelli-Haye, Woods-Tarver - Ben Shephard v Lemar is the big fight they are all talking about.

Pavlik wants belts now
LAS VEGAS -- Kelly Pavlik proved his superiority and fattened his bank annual with a twin victory by Jermain Taylor. Now that frugal folk's champion is finally ready to go shopping -- for two really ugly belts.

Ruslan Chagaev-Luan Krasniqi attainable For May
By Per Ake PerssonWhen Universum´s heavyweight veteran Luan Krasniqi, 30-3-1, pulled out of a mortal EBU titlefight against Matt Skelton there was obviously a plan behind it and in today´s edition of Bild Zeitung it´s all explained.


Arabian Proverb
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.

The easiest way for your children to learn

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Aaron Antonovsky (1987).
Unraveling The Mystery of Health: How People Manage Stress and Stay Well. We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.

De La Hoya finalizing fight at orphanage Depot Center

LAS VEGAS -- Oscar De La Hoya is in the final stages of negotiations for a May 3 bout at the address Depot Center in Carson, a so-whooped 'fight for the fans' that will be televised on regular HBO and fought against former 'Contender' runner-up Steve

Is Pavlik Boxing's Ticket Back to Network TV?
By Neil Dennis: Hands down, middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik was served the toughest fight of his career in his rematch against Jermain Taylor.

Klitschko-steward, Et Al, Press Conference Quotes
You have had a few big fights in your career, how momentous is that one for you and the heavyweight division.

Ex-stripper: De La Hoya lingerie pics are real
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former stripper who says she photographed Oscar De La Hoya in racy women's undergarments showed up at court to confront the boxer Friday, only to receive he wasn't there.

Miranda Blasts Abraham Yet anew!
Edison Pantera Miranda has not had lots to say about his former opponent Arthur Abraham in a distant lifetime. But in a recent interview he blasted him for not big game a true champ. 'Ever since I busted your jaw, you have fought nobody.

Klitschko seeking limelight
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Pavlik proves himself in rerun decision depleted Taylor
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Kelly Pavlik is no one-hit wonder. With tactics instead of theatrics, he establish something else way to beat Jermain Taylor.

Pavlik beats Taylor in an Intense 12 rounder
By Ted Sares: As some, but not nearly as multitudinous as one might hope for, predicted, "The Ghost" did it newly by withstanding Jemaine Taylor's sporadic explosions and recherché father to win a solid unanimous decision.


Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.
- Author Unknown

Can Jermain Taylor Silence His Critics?

By Madra Uladh: When Kelly Pavlik and Jermain Taylor climb into the ring for their lots-anticipated February 16th rematch, it will be Taylor who has arguably more at stake.

Leave Joe Cortez alone - Mayweather won fair and square
Leave Joe Cortez alone - Mayweather won fair and square By Jason Peck: I've heard a lot of accusations lately that bad decisions by referee Joe Cortez made Ricky Hatton lost his fight against Floyd Mayweather.

Vazquez-Marquez Conference alarm Quotes
Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez I and II produced the utmost exciting, bloody, give-and-take slugfests of 2007, and inevitably have led to one of the ultimate highly anticipated rubber matches in boxing history.


As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
- Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979

Brave brothers win praise

Oxfordshire News - The Boxing Day accident, on the B4030 between Bicester and Upper Heyford , left their mother Petrina, who was driving the family's Fiat Multipla, with spinal whiplash injuries. Back seat passenger Jack, 14, freed Henry, 11, from the front of the car and
Source: www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk

Side Dish: Free lap dances for Giants
New York Daily News - The Giants are still riding high on their Super Bowl victory - especially at New York's strip clubs. The ladies at Scores West danced adoringly for big-tipping Ahmad Bradshaw. (They may have accidentally over-excited boxing great Joe Frazier, who
Source: www.nydailynews.com

Which smoke-filled room?
Sierra Vista Herald - I can only assume these folks don’t know anything about the history of boxing. Because, to my ears, Obama wasn’t claiming to be the underdog â€" he was suggesting the fight is fixed because the judges are crooked â€" that the “smoke-filled rooms
Source: www.svherald.com

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Gamasutra - SpiderMonk previously has served primarily as a mobile phone developer, with such titles under its belt as NBC Sports National Heads-UP Poker and a mobile version of boxing title Ready2Rumble . Throughout the end of 2007 the developer notes that it has
Source: www.gamasutra.com

Greed has supplanted honour, says WBC chief
Reuters India - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Greed has replaced pride and honour in boxing, says Jose Sulaiman, the long-serving president of the World Boxing Council (WBC). "Today promoters, managers and boxers only want money, money, money. Years ago it was for the
Source: in.reuters.com

Sport in Brief
Times Online - Boxing Gavin Rees, the lowest profile of Britain's six world champions, says that he wants to face Amir Khan providing he makes a successful first defence of his WBA light-welterweight title. Rees, 27, faces Andreas Kotelnik, of Ukraine, at Cardiff
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Beneficial Motion
Miami Herald - Recreation therapist Elizabeth Penny works with patient Billy Perry as Perry begins to use Nintendo Wii Sports Boxing game as part of his therapy at WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., on Jan. 21, 2008. Perry is using the Wii video game system for
Source: www.miamiherald.com


Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
- Lord Chesterfield

Kosovo's top boxers dream of statehood - and Olympic glory in Beijing

PRISTINA, Serbia (AP) - Kosovo's top boxers ethical wish a fighting unplanned. Five ethnic Albanians appetite to represent their homeland at the Beijing Olympics. They may not get a shot if Kosovo doesn't declare independence soon.

Cruiser Flores Outpoints Wilson
Dover, Delaware (Dover Downs Hotel and Casino) Undefeated BJ 'El Peligroso' Flores had the chin and the speed needed to withstand Darrel 'Ding-A-Ling Man' Wilson assaults for the entire evening.

Ahern replaces Cox in Irish squad
Conor Ahern has replaced 2008 National senior flyweight champion Shane Cox on the Ireland team for the reproduction last Olympic qualifier for European boxers in Pescara, Italy subsequential that year.

Ajose Olusegun retains title with win gone Nigel Wright
Ajose Olusegun kept his Commonwealth light-welter title with a unanimous points win finished fellow southpaw Nigel Wright in Peterlee last night.

Top 50 middleweights ever (41-50)
The top 50 middleweights of all-year starts here. The middleweight division has presumably delivered more excitement completed the elderliness than any extra - right from the days of Stanley Ketchel though to last year's Kelly Pavlik-Jermain Taylor fight.

Froch aims for Calzaghe
Carl Froch will face Russia?s Denis Inkin in a WBC super-middleweight star title final eliminator on March 29 at the Nottingham Arena.


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

Boxing: Too Many Divisions Do Not Spoil The Broth

East Side Boxing - Alexis Arguello is an example of someone who, although a world champion at Featherweight, was better suited and at the peak of his career at a newly created weight class (Super Featherweight). Light Welterweight legend Antonio Cervantes is another
Source: www.eastsideboxing.com

Review: Brambles’ play makes for breezy teatime fun
Naples Daily News - From the pen of Fort Myers Beach playwright Laurie Neinhaus comes a quaint tale called “A Teatime Travesty,” a featherweight affair in which the actors move in and around the dining room, sharing tables, pouring tea and interacting with the
Source: www.naplesnews.com

Ladbrokes gambles £117m on Eastwood
Daily Telegraph - Barney Eastwood, the former manager of world featherweight boxing champion Barry McGuigan, has added a further £117.5m to his family's fortune after selling his Northern Irish betting-shop chain to bookmaker Ladbrokes. Mr Eastwood, who has extensive
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Girl Power Invades The Paradise Female Nabf Title Bout
East Side Boxing - Ronica Jeffrey and Karen Dulin will be making their pro-debut in a four round featherweight fight. Joe DeGuardia's Star Boxing extends an invitation to its valued loyal fans to purchase exclusive VIP tables for what promises to be a night of
Source: www.eastsideboxing.com

CSUMB upsets CSU-San Bernardino
Monterey County Herald - The show is co-hosted by Dave Marzetti and Herald boxing columnist Dennis Taylor. Recent guests have included two-time heavyweight champ Riddick Bowe, IBF featherweight champion Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero, female world champions Carina Moreno and
Source: www.montereyherald.com


There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
- Josh Billings

comments on: Gamboa going for his first title on February 22nd

East Side Boxing - I'd like to say that this fight against the 13-1 Johnnie Edwards will be Gamboa's first test, but it isn't. Gamboa has been blazing through the super featherweight division with the same sort of speed Povetkin managed to break into the top ranks of
Source: www.eastsideboxing.com

Chicago's Solo Boxeo Weigh-in Thursday Night At El Jimador's
East Side Boxing - In 2003, Pesoli along with former featherweight contender Mike Garcia opened JABB Boxing Gym, a 6,000 square foot venue dedicated to the finest Chicagoland boxers of all talent levels. To view the seating chart and poster for this event or for more
Source: www.eastsideboxing.com

Fight Schedule
International Herald Tribune - Paul, Minn., 12, for Guerrero's IBF featherweight title. March 1 At Dodge Arena, Hidalgo, Texas (SHO), Israel Vazquez, Mexico, vs. Rafael Marquez, Mexico, 12, for Vazquez's Ring and WBC junior featherweight titles. March 7 At Fox Theatre, Foxwoods Resort
Source: www.iht.com

Khan fights the Forest corner
Wanstead and Woodford Guardian - Also on the bill for Saturday night was former British, Commonwealth and European featherweight champion Nicky Cook. He followed Khan in singing the praises of the club and wished them every success for the season and the long-term future.
Source: www.wansteadandwoodfordguardian.co.uk


Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sports Digest

Baltimore Sun - Former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion Frank Mir spoiled former NCAA wrestling champion Brock Lesnar's UFC I wasn't worried about the fight being stopped," Mir said. "I had Brock Lesnar dropping elbows on the top of my head, but
Source: www.baltimoresun.com

The Aftermath of The Welterweights, Take One
Boxing Scene - The "formula" behind the predictions was to take the Super Bowls in which the Patriots and Giants have previously appeared, reference any heavyweight title fight where a title changed hands by way of knockout, and compare it to the outcome of the
Source: www.boxingscene.com

Clinton Woods, Antonio Tarver Trade Venom
Boxing Scene - The two fighters had to be separated during their London press conference. The winner will be in line to fight the winner of the co-feature scrap between WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson and challenger Glen Johnson. Send News Tips and
Source: www.boxingscene.com

WOODS WANTS TO TAKE OUT TARVER
Sporting Life - Tarver, the former undisputed world light-heavyweight king, and Sheffield's IBF champion Woods squared up in a London casino on You are in a tough fight, you'll have bad dreams about this fight," he added. Tarver, winner of two low-key warm-up fights
Source: www.sportinglife.com

The Big Interview: Lennox Lewis
Times Online - one of only three heavyweights ever to retire on top [Gene Tunney and Rocky Marciano also retired as reigning heavyweight champions] and that’s important to me. That’s history. “Every time I trained it seemed like I was training for a fight, so
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

UFC 81 proved how the sport's elite rose to the top
Sports Illustrated - For the second-straight UFC fight, the former PRIDE heavyweight champion (aka "Big Nog") was rocked in the first round after taking a left hook followed by a right hand from Tim Sylvia . Big Nog crumpled to the canvas but somehow managed to neutralize
Source: sportsillustrated.cnn.com

Enrique Ornelas, Nestor Rocha Return on 2/22
Boxing Scene - Rounding out this night of great action, Ashanti Jordan (2-0, 2 K0’s) will return to the ring where he knocked out Fritz Dejean in his last appearance on January 11 at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, he will fight in a four round heavyweight duel
Source: www.boxingscene.com

The Loser’s Bracket at Heavyweight
Boxing Scene - Vladimir Virchis versus Juan Carlos Gomez is an interesting fight on its own merits; the fact that, if and when it actually happens, the winner could further hold up the desire of many to see ultimate unification at heavyweight adds a cloud that
Source: www.boxingscene.com

The 'Boxing Predictor' predicts the Super Bowl winner
ESPN.com - When the heavyweight title changes hands on a knockout in the year before the Super Bowl, the NFC wins; when there have been no knockouts in a heavyweight title fight changing hands the year before, the AFC wins. To see how this works, rather than
Source: sports.espn.go.com


The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.
- Quentin Regestein

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Arabian Proverb
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That΄s how rich I want to be.

Michael Miller, MD, F.A.C.C., Center for Preventive Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center
It may be possible to incorporate laugher into daily activities, just as is done with other heart-healthy activities, such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator. The recommendation for a healthy heart may one day be exercise, eat right and laugh a few times a day.

Money is like a sixth sense without which

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

Dr.Karl Menninger
Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

72 men ready to pound each other in Toughman competition

Asheville Citizen-Times - ASHEVILLE - A full field of 72 men, all thinking they are tough enough to win a fight in a boxing ring, will show what they've got tonight at the Asheville Civic Center. The Toughman Contest, an annual ritual of amateur fisticuffs in February, begins
Source: www.citizen-times.com

Mooney stays alive in SVC
Vindicator - They did an excellent job boxing us out.” The Cardinals’ offense also did a great job passing the ball around and looking for the open player. They made outstanding plays and seven players got into the scoring act. “On offense today, we made our
Source: www.vindy.com

A Dose of Reality Goes a Long Way in Boxing
Boxing Scene - By Dave Sholler - In the pampered lives of professional athletes, receiving criticism is rarely something they become accustomed to. Often the first to accept fans’ adoration, it’s no big secret that star athletes expect the same worship from
Source: www.boxingscene.com

Suicide item unfair
Miami Herald - He also was highly regarded in the boxing world. Fleischman juxtaposed the details of my father's unfortunate suicide with the only bit of dirt she could dredge up from a Miami Herald article published in 1999. My father had a reputation for honesty
Source: www.miamiherald.com

Bloody awful
Guardian Unlimited - documentary about death - just death, of any description, including of mice - strings together a hotchpotch montage of funeral rites from around the world; an explanation of the different ways that people can die (burning, freezing and boxing); news
Source: www.guardian.co.uk


The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
- Larry Dossey