Danny Williams earns surprise win over John McDermott - East Side Boxing

19.07.08 - By Andrew Walker : British Heavyweight champion Danny Williams (40-6-1 NC) won a surprising victory over John McDermott (25-4) at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre, Dagenham, England last night over twelve rounds of boxing. The fact that Danny
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U.S. Boxing reinstates Yanez to Olympic team - FOXSports.com
USA Boxing reinstated Luis Yanez to the Olympic team Wednesday, more than two weeks after the light flyweight was kicked off the Beijing roster for missing several weeks of workouts. Yanez was dropped from the team after he was absent for most of
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2008 Summer Olympic Games Preview - Boxing - Miami Herald
And they would be surprised to also learn that the force of a punch and its effect on an opponent has no bearing on the official scoring. So a knockdown, for instance, is scored only as a single hit (if a fighter is knocked down three times in a
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Competition format - NBC Olympics
Olympic boxing features single-elimination tournaments for each of the 11 weight classes. While it may be necessary to randomly distribute byes (so the second round features 32 or 16 boxers), there are no seeds. Therefore, it's possible for the top
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New sport combines boxing and chess - Corpus Christi Caller
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KO'D BY COKE BUST - New York Post
A boxer known as "the Pride of Spanish Harlem" was arrested yesterday on charges of being part of a cocaine-smuggling ring that planned to deal drugs in the neighborhood where he was idolized. Welterweight prizefighter Edgar Santana was arrested in
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Boxing's rare double - NBC Olympics
David Lee Armstrong's mother called her son by the name she gave him. But, Armstrong said, "Howard Cosell called me Davey Lee," and in Olympic circles that's how he's known, as Davey Lee Armstrong, the last U.S. boxer to fight in two editions of the
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