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Weekend Boxing Predictions: Bute-Andrade II and Guzman-Funeka...another late-fight case of fatigue or bravado (take your pick), he should retain his title by unanimous decision . The co-feature on HBO's Boxing After Dark broadcast has the potential to outshine the main event. Joan Guzman and Ali Funeka... In this article: Lucian Bute, Joan Guzman, Librado Andrade, IBF, Nate Campbell, Kelly Pavlik, Boxing, Fatigue, and Timothy Bradley |
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Bleacher Report | 1 day ago
Manny Pacquiao vs Shane Mosley: The Most Exciting Fight in Boxing
While all the talks among boxing fans and pundits is centered around Pacquiao's potential bout with Floyd Mayweather, which is certainly the most anticipated fight in recent memory, the bout that might bring more excitement and no doubt live...
In this article: Manny Pacquiao, Sugar Shane Mosley, Floyd Mayweather, Miguel Cotto, Surgery, Yuri Foreman, and De La Hoya
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Bleacher Report | 2 days ago
Meet Your Boxing Community Leader: KING J
...Bleacher Report Boxing Community Leader: KING J. KING J is one of the top columnists in the sport of boxing and is a featured columnist. Boxing is his favorite sport by far, and he is passionate about watching, training for, and covering the...
In this article: Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Roy Jones Jr., Freddie Roach, and Chris Arreola
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AP Online | 4 days ago
Champion boxer survived where friends went astray
...including Alexander's own brother. The beauty of sports is in its power to inspire, with life-changing tales of triumph over adversity. Boxing didn't simply alter Alexander's life, though. It might very well have saved it. "I think about...
In this article: God, St. Louis, Las Vegas, and Junior Witter
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Bleacher Report | 6 days ago
Boxing's Three Biggest Turkeys in the Past 25 Years
...Green rambled that "Michelle Cicely Tyson is a homo" while he smooched his gangly biceps.br Bleacher Report publishes the best Boxing newsletter on the internet. We're going to send you the most entertaining Boxing articles, videos, and...
In this article: Mitch "Blood" Green, Mike Tyson, World Boxing Council, and Trevor Berbick
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Bleacher Report | November 19, 2009
Ricky Hatton Vs Juan M Marquez: Boxing Has No Place For This Fight
...other than lining the coffers of both the fighters and the promoters alike this fight serves no purpose on the boxing landscape. A boxing landscape which was once inhabited by Ricky 'the Hitman' Hatton as he ruled the light-welterweight...
In this article: Ricky Hatton, Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr., City of Manchester Stadium, Millennium Stadium, and Wembley Stadium
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Honolulu Advertiser | November 16, 2009
Boxing: Pacquiao-Mayweather fight not made, but line is
Updated at 2:54 p.m., Monday, November 16, 2009 Boxing: Pacquiao-Mayweather fight not made, but line is LAS VEGAS The fight hasn't been made yet, and may not ever happen. But this city's casinos are already taking bets on who will win...
In this article: Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Las Vegas, Miguel Cotto, and Station Casinos
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CNN | November 16, 2009
Boxing: Mayweather ready for Pacman
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has called Manny Pacquiao "one-dimesional." STORY HIGHLIGHTS Manny Pacquiao is the new WBO welterweight world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. used to hold the WBC title in the division and is undefeated in 40...
In this article: Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao, WBO, Oscar De La Hoya, U.S., Ring magazine, Miguel Cotto, and Freddie Roach
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Honolulu Advertiser | November 16, 2009
Boxing: Pacquiao vs. Mayweather? Let the talks begin
...by Philippines' typhoons and disrupted by Pacquiao's endless entourage and the fighter's own preoccupation with karaoke. Only one other boxer stands with him. Which is why Ross Greenburg, the chairman of HBO sports, sat at a podium and...
In this article: Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bob Arum, Freddie Roach, Recession, Ali, and Kenny Bayless
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Guardian Unlimited | November 15, 2009
Boxing makes an unlikely comeback
"I was public health minister and the British Medical Association quite regularly at that time called for boxing to be banned." But she said boxing's safety record had improved and it was now ranked 75th by the Royal Society for the...
In this article: Tessa Jowell, David Haye, Amir Khan, London, London Olympics, British Medical Association, and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
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The Seattle Times | November 14, 2009
Boxing Manny Pacquiao stops Miguel Cotto in the 12th round in Las Vegas
...| Manny Pacquiao stops Miguel Cotto in the 12th round in Las Vegas Originally published Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 8:13 PM Boxing | Manny Pacquiao stops Miguel Cotto in the 12th round in Las Vegas Boxing Pacquiao has won titles...
In this article: Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, World Cup, Kyle Busch, Kim Yu-Na, Evan Lysacek, Carl Edwards, and Las Vegas
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Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to win. Victory is achieved if the opponent is knocked down and unable to get up before the referee counts to ten seconds (a Knockout, or KO) or if the opponent is deemed too injured to continue (a Technical Knockout, or TKO). If there is no stoppage of the fight before an agreed number of rounds, a winner is determined either by the referee's decision or by judges' scorecards.
Although fighting with fists comes naturally to people, evidence of fist-fighting contests first appear on ancient Sumerian, Egyptian and Minoan reliefs. The ancient Greeks provide us our first historical records of boxing as a formal sport; they codified a set of rules and staged tournaments with professionals. The birth hour of boxing as a sport may be its acceptance as an Olympic game as early as 688 BC. Modern boxing evolved in Europe, particularly Great Britain.
In some countries with their own fighting sports, the sport is referred to as "English Boxing" (e.g. in France to contrast with French boxing, or in Burma with Burmese boxing and in Thailand with Thai boxing). There are numerous different styles of boxing practiced around the world.
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- English boxing, American Boxing, Western Boxing
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