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Topic: Boxing in the 1980s

	America 1980-1989: Sports History: Boxing \| American Decades
		Although no single boxing champion dominated the 1980s as Muhammad Ali did the 1970s, the era witnessed the emergence of several extraordinarily talented and charismatic fighters and many noteworthy bouts.
		In retrospect, professional boxing in the decade appears to have experienced one of its periodic heroic cycles.
		Yet in surveying the boxing world of the 1980s, one fighter stands apart for his skill, style, and longevity: Sugar Ray Leonard.
	www.bookrags.com /history/america-1980s-sports/sub4.html (581 words)

	Boxing - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Boxing gloves are heavily padded to soften the impact of the blow and to protect the hands of the boxer.
		Boxing’s aura of corruption is reinforced by the fact that most of the sport’s big-money title fights now take place in Nevada, where the giant casinos can host the event and simultaneously take in millions of dollars in bets on the outcome.
		Boxing did not reappear in society until the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660 ushered in a more relaxed moral atmosphere, allowing the sport with a barbaric history to make a comeback.
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	Boxing - MSN Encarta
		The man who personified the sport was American heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, whose fights with Carpentier, Luis Firpo of Argentina, and Gene Tunney of the United States received front-page newspaper coverage.
		This came from a combination of personable fighters who emerged from the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games, the ascendancy of outstanding Hispanic fighters, and some memorable bouts between evenly matched combatants such as Roberto Durán of Panama and Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, and Thomas Hearns of the United States.
		The stagnant heavyweight division received a needed jolt with the emergence of Mike Tyson in 1985.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571782_7/Boxing.html (1242 words)

	Boxing - Centiare, the free directory
		Boxing, also called prizefighting (when referring to professional boxing), the sweet science (a common nickname among fans) or the gentleman's sport (used mainly in England), is a sport and martial art in which two participants of similar weight classification fight each other with their fists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called "rounds".
		Boxing has been a dominant sport through out the world for hundreds of years and goes in waves of popularity dependent on the success of an indusry icon.
		The "rumble in the jungle" as Don King coined it is thought by many to be the crowning moment of boxing in the 20th century.
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	BOXING
		Earliest evidence suggests that boxing was prevalent in North Africa during 4000 BC and the Mediterranean in 1500 BC.
		The first boxing rules, called the London Prize Ring rules, were introduced by heavyweight champion Jack Broughton in 1743 to protect fighters in the ring where deaths sometimes occurred.
		In modern boxing, the rope-a-dope is generally discouraged since most opponents are not fooled by it and few boxers possess the physical toughness to withstand a prolonged, unanswered assault.
	www.solarnavigator.net /sport/boxing.htm (7107 words)

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		Boxing first appeared on Notre Dame's campus in 1923 under the direction of legendary football coach Knute Rockne.
		Advertised as boxing at its purest, the Bengal Bouts have received regular attention in the national media.
		Notre Dame boxers are taught Olympic-style boxing, where the scoring is based on the number of punches landed, and solid technique and quickness are often more important than strengh.
	www.nd.edu /~boxing/history.html (533 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Sports : Fantasy : Boxing
		The first boxing rules were introduced by heavyweight champion Jack Broughton in 1743 to protect fighters in the ring where deaths sometimes occurred.
		In the late 19th and early 20th century, amateur boxing was encouraged in schools, universities and in the armed forces, but the champions usually came from among the urban poor.
		For decades, from the 1920s to the 1980s, world championship matches in professional boxing were scheduled for fifteen rounds, but that changed with the death of boxer Duk Koo Kim, who died after a lightweight title fight with Ray Mancini in November of 1982.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Sports-Fantasy/Boxing.shtml (7091 words)

	Boxing Coverage updated 24/7 at MaxBoxing.com
		Even in the 1970s and 1980s boxing’s belly button still had a lot of eyes on it: Ali and Frazier, Leonard and Hearns all brought the eyes of the world to it.
		Boxing has many years left in it, and for us North Americans, we will have to get used to champions not from the USA but from Asia and Eastern Europe, just as a generation ago, American folk got used to world champions that weren’t Jewish, Irish, and Italian.
		Many people who used to box are now playing basketball and football; many are going to school and getting jobs and buying houses the old fashioned way: the pay for it over 20 years and not with the purse from one-hour work.
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	USATODAY.com - Boxing packs a punch as a hobby for busy professionals
		Described as the ultimate workout, white-collar boxing involves fitness-conscious working men and women in a strenuous training regimen that teaches them to box in 16-ounce gloves and headgear and prepares them to compete in bouts of three 2-minute rounds.
		Since its origin in the 1980s, white-collar boxing has grown in popularity among professionals like those who train at Brooklyn's famed Gleason's Gym, where white-collar boxing was born.
		She was bitten by the white-collar boxing bug on her first visit to Gleason's, and has plans to open a gym in Greenwich with Silverglade as her business partner.
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	Punch line - The Boston Globe
		Although Sauerland has been on the rough edges of boxing for more than 25 years, the German-born fight promoter rose to prominence by reviving a dying sport in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall Nov. 9, 1989.
		It appeared boxing was more like a hobby, but he certainly became more involved than that.
		When Sauerland got into German boxing in the early 1980s, it was a shady sport of questionable dealings, one littered with bad decisions and so many people of ill repute there was little boxing on German television.
	www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/boxing/articles/2006/11/17/punch_line (3052 words)

	Has Larry Merchant Become This Era’s Howard Cosell?
		Without shame he denounced both the mismatch he was commentating on and the sport of boxing, and swore he would never cover a boxing match again.
		Merchant seems to have metamorphosed into the worst possible boxing fan — one who demands an impossible standard of excellence and regards anything else less as an “abortion.” There is no gray area as far as Larry is concerned.
		The most unfortunate ramification of Larry Merchant’s degeneration into a broadcast hack is that knowledgeable boxing fans are being deprived of one of the few intelligent and analytical voices left in boxing.
	www.eastsideboxing.com /news.php?p=628&more=1 (917 words)

	Police say former heavyweight boxing champion Trevor Berbick found dead (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1981, Berbick beat an aging Muhammad Ali in the final fight of the boxing legend's career, then in 1986 won the WBC heavyweight title on a decision over Pinklon Thomas.
		In 1991, he was convicted of misdemeanour assault for attacking his former business manager, who testified the boxer put a gun to her head and accused her of stealing US$40,000 from him.
		Though Berbick was believed to be 52, according to boxing records, other reports said he was as old as 56 or as young as 49.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/sports/061028/s102870.html (439 words)

	IBHOF / Boxing Bibliography
		With a wealth of new photos, a brand-new section detailing the depiction of boxing in the movies, and the assurance of having all its records vetted by a panel of boxing's greatest experts, this hefty 656-page volume belongs on every fan's bookshelf.
		A look at boxing's controversal and tragic figures by Collins, one of this generations foremost boxing journalists.
		The illustrated history of boxing from the 1890s to the present.
	www.ibhof.com /ibhfbibl.htm (1205 words)

	Boxing - Showtime Fighter Biography: including boxing stats, profile and bio
		He boxed and moved effectively, switched between the right and left-handed stances, and won three of the first four rounds on two scorecards.
		Braithwaite was cut over his left eye by a clash of heads in the eighth round, and was penalized one point for holding in the same round.
		Brown boxed effectively in the early rounds, but Mormeck pressed forward and steadily wore down his opponent with body punches.
	www.sho.com /site/boxing/profile.do?fighter=453091&event=453074&fight=504334 (1891 words)

	Boxing's big hurrah? More like last gasp before MMA seizes day - CBS SportsLine.com
		Boxing is dead, but its brain still hasn't gotten the message to the body.
		Boxing is dead not just because boxing is worse than ever -- which it is -- but also because the UFC is better than boxing on all but boxing's best day.
		Boxing has lost me, and lots of people like me, because the fighters aren't as good, the rivalries aren't as compelling, and the access -- it's all about (free) TV, people -- isn't as easy.
	www.sportsline.com /columns/story/10164182 (944 words)

	MySA.com: KENS 5: Sports
		Its "Boxing After Dark" series, which is meant to showcase up-and-coming fighters and had but five shows in 2005, will become a regular monthly attraction in 2006.
		HBO long has been the undisputed champion when it comes to televised boxing, but it also has been sharply criticized recently for an apparent strategy of moving its major fights to pay-per-view and using its regular service to showcase its stars in "appearance" fights.
		Boxing writer Pat Putnam, 75, who broke the story of Cassius Clay changing his name to Muhammad Ali, died from complications after stomach surgery.
	www.mysanantonio.com /sports/stories/MYSA121805.3C.COL.BOX.new.whisler.1ea18014.html (1050 words)

	Sports \| Boxing \| PE.com \| Southern California News \| News for Inland Southern California
		Heavyweight contenders are rare anywhere since the NBA and NFL began swooping in with million-dollar contracts beginning in the 1980s.
		Now American heavyweight boxing gets the leftovers, while former Soviet Union countries fighters are beginning to dominate.
		Now the two California heavyweights are locked into a game of chicken with the winner perhaps gaining a foothold onto the lucrative heavyweight tourney, where checks with five figures are guaranteed for a contender.
	www.pe.com /sports/boxing/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_box_feature_24.34406cf.html (1186 words)

	Boxing Shows Some Punch - 3/7/2005 - Multichannel News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The beleaguered sport of boxing may have received an adrenaline boost last week when Million Dollar Baby won the Academy Award for best picture, but several cable networks are aiming to breathe new life into their pugilistic programming.
		Considered a significant broadcast and basic-cable draw in the 1970s and 1980s, televised boxing of late has largely aired on premium players HBO and Showtime, as many wary advertisers abandoned a sport known almost as much for its corruption and controversy outside the ring as its action inside the ropes.
		For its part, Showtime continues its series of boxing cards on the first Saturday of each month — scheduling that proved to be a ratings winner, network executives said, though it didn’t disclose specifics.
	www.multichannel.com /article/CA508803.html?display=Programming (819 words)

	woa.tv :: Boxing
		Though boxing originated in ancient Greece, the first reported match between women was not until the 1700s, and the sport has grown in spurts since then.
		Though the 1904 Olympics featured women’s boxing, it was only a display event and the sport hasn’t returned to the Games since (although there is talk of adding it to the roster for 2008).
		During the fitness boom of the 1980s, boxing went mainstream and became a popular form of exercise for women.
	www.woa.tv /articles/at_boxing.html (599 words)

	Boxing News :: Press Release : BoxingScene Writer Jack Welsh Passes Away
		Welsh covered boxing for many publications, including the Philadelphia Journal daily newspaper where he was the chief fight writer from 1978 to 1979.
		For many years, Welsh was the late-night boxing expert on Lee Pete's nightly radio sports talk on KDWN 720 AM, the Voice of the West, from the Frontier Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas.
		Boxing writer Charles Jay takes a deep look at the sport, and whether or not Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
	www.boxingscene.com /?m=show&id=1037 (432 words)

	USA Boxing - USA BOXING ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS
		USA Boxing has been on probation by the U.S. Olympic Committee since November 2002 and was asked to undergo extensive governance reform on April 25, 2006.
		That governance reform called for the adoption of new bylaws granting greater staff autonomy in day-to-day operations and the establishment of a new Board of Directors, which would be the sole governing authority for the organization.
		USA Boxing's Board of Governors, in its last official act as a governing entity for USA Boxing, voted to relinquish responsibility as an authoritative board of USA Boxing on August 19, setting in motion the creation of the new 10-member Board.
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	Boxing News -- 24 hours/day - Reload often!
		You can't talk about boxing in the 1980s (or the 1990s for that matter) without mentioning the name Larry Holmes.
		Perhaps the most underrated champion in boxing history, Holmes reigned for an amazing seven years, making twenty title defenses before losing the belt in controversial fashion to Michael Spinks in 1985.
		Early in your career you struggled to capture the imagination of boxing fans due to the fact that you followed in the footsteps of Muhammad Ali, but in your comeback fans seemed to embrace you with more gusto.
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	USA Boxing - USA BOXING ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS
		The new Board is comprised of individuals that are resolute in their commitment to amateur boxing and possess the business acumen needed to affect change.
		USA Boxing has been on probation by the U.S. Olympic Committee since November 2002 and was asked to undergo extensive governance reform on April 25, 2006.
		USA Boxing's Board of Governors, in its last official act as a governing entity for USA Boxing, voted to relinquish responsibility as an authoritative board of USA Boxing on August 19, setting in motion the creation of the new 10-member Board.
	www.usaboxing.org /92_1677.htm (1116 words)

	AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory
		Boxing shoes from a range of suppliers in custom colors and styles.
		Dealers of boxing and martial arts equipment as well as security equipment and bulletproof vests.
		Boxing game for the PC allowing for accurate computer fights between thousands of boxers of today and yesteryear.
	www.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Shopping/Sports/Boxing (562 words)

	MMANEWS.COM \| Joe Frazier Back In The Ring For Charity Fight
		The fight will be the former champ's first boxing match since the 1980s.
		Frazier is perhaps best-known for 1971's "Fight of the Century", the 15-round match in which he handed Muhammad Ali his first defeat.
		Though confident is his fighting abilities, the self-described "macho" mayor has signed a waiver to release Frazier from responsibility in the event of bodily injuries to Herenton.
	www.mmanews.com /boxing/Joe-Frazier-Back-In-The-Ring-For-Charity-Fight.html (293 words)

	History News Network
		You have to remember that in the 1980s, boxing was actually dominated by the little guys — and in boxing, anyone who is not a heavyweight is a little guy.
		Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran, and Marvin Hagler and Tommy Hearns were the glamour boys of boxing in the 1980s, and they generally defined the decade by fighting with one another in various and sundry permutations.
		Put it this way — one of the marquee heavyweight fights of the 1980s in the heavyweight division was the championship fight between Larry Holmes, who had caught Ali toward the end of his career when The Greatest should have retired, and Gerry Cooney.
	hnn.us /blogs/entries/6586.html (1136 words)

	Boxing - Showtime Championship Boxing - Announcers
		A Boxing Lifer - And Thrilled About It Steve Farhood has been around the sweet science for 27 years, most of which were spent as editor-in-chief of RING Magazine and KO Magazine.
		He also pens a column and features for Boxing Monthly, for which he serves as associate editor, and Boxinginsider.com.
		The publication subsequently regained much of the luster that was lost during its financial struggle of the 1980s.
	www.sho.com /site/boxing/announcers_farhood.do (445 words)

	WAIL!... The CBZ Journal \| April 2003
		I remember that the 1980's had some of the biggest fights ever and that the build up to them was so immense that it made the pre-fight hype for Tito-Oscar and Tyson-Lewis seem weak by comparison.
		It seemed to me that the whole world, boxing fans or not, were waiting to see who would win between Leonard and Hearns in 1981, Holmes-Cooney in 1982, Hagler-Hearns in 1985 and Leonard-Hagler in 1987.
		I mean, one minute I am fighting Tony Vierra in his basement with K-Mart boxing gloves as a 13-year old and the next I am competing in the U.S. Olympic Trials with Sugar Ray Leonard cheering for me in the front row.
	www.cyberboxingzone.com /boxing/w0403-js.html (3113 words)

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