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  Boxing - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
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.
Boxing academies enrolled poets and nobles, and outstanding fighters such as Daniel Mendoza, Tom Cribb, and “Gentleman” John Jackson emerged.
Boxing’s respectability, however, came at a price: With fortunes to be made, unscrupulous business practices and promotional hype increased, as did the influence of racism.
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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)

  
 Untitled7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
From the perspective of boxing history, Mexican American identity formation in the evolution of United States culture is less recognizable in terms of a single causal explanation —such as capitalism, racism, or Americanization— but emerges as a multi-causal, interconnected set of processes.
Herrera's boxing career, from 1898 to 1909, coincided with both the rise of modern prizefighting in southern California and the rise of the "Mexican" hero in the sport.
Boxing was much more than merely a form of "sport"— it was a complex set of relationships that were themselves part of a larger process of social self-definition for individuals and communities.
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 Women's boxing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Women's boxing will not be at the 2008 Olympics, and it is very unlikely to become an official Olympic sport at the 2012 Olympics.
This might be attributed to the fact that women's boxing, at that period, confronted a society filled with stereotypes and which categorized professions as either 'men's work' or 'women's work', or because most people did not believe they would find the same caliber than in men's boxing.
During her battle to win the right to box as an amateur, she passed the age of 36, the maximum age for amateur fighters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Women's_boxing   (537 words)

  
 The Ageless Warrior: The Life of Boxing Legend Archie Moore
But for Moore, boxing was not just a physical activity; it was also a mental one.
It was not enough to know the rudiments of boxing, its mere physical trappings; Moore had to know the mental ones, too.
His boxing psychology can be gleaned from his gloss on heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano’s boxing style: "Marciano didn’t know enough boxing to know what a feint was; he never tried to outguess you – he just kept trying to knock your brains out.
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 Boxing News -- 24 hours/day - Reload often!
In another fight featuring a popular champion from the 1990s making a comeback, Charles "The Natural" Murray, who at one time seemed to be destined to become a future hall of famer, took on a young prospect in Reggie Green, who was in 1995 the NABF champion of the world.
Although boxing fans were excited about Johnson early, we would soon discover that despite his talent he was not quite world championship material like Hasim Rahman was.
He started the segment telling boxing fans "I'm not a guy that's making a fool of myself…I'm not like a George Foreman." But his attention would soon switch from Foreman to Pepeli, whose distain for Holmes was palpable, winking and blowing kisses at the former champion as he entered the ring.
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 Rafael Limon
Rafael Limon (born approx 1956) is a Mexican former boxer who was a world champion in the Jr.
Limon went on boxing until the 1990s, but he never again challenged for a world title.
He did fight, however, a number of world champions and important boxers from 1984 to 1992, including Julio Cesar Chavez and Roger Mayweather[?], both of which beat Limon.
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 Boxing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Boxing, also called prizefighting (when referring to professional boxing) or the sweet science (a common nickname among fans), is a sport and martial art in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called "rounds".
Boxing most likely was invented in various cultures independently and had their origins in man's prehistorical period.
Occasionally seen in Olympic boxing, the bolo is a punch which owes its power to the shortening of a circular arc rather than to transference of body weight; it tends to have more of an effect due to the surprise of the odd angle it lands at rather than the actual power of the punch.
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 U.S. Army Kevin Majors - DefendAmerica News Article
The Army noncommissioned officer was making a name for himself in the ring at Fort Benning, Ga., in the 1990s, but it wasn't until a motorcycle accident that Majors faced his toughest opponent — two broken arms and the end of his amateur boxing career.
Two years later, the volunteer coach trains six boxers he refers to as his "core group" at the post gym, as well as a few others along the way who are looking for a hobby or to get in shape.
Encouraged by the positive impact of boxing on his soldiers, Majors is trying to establish a formal boxing team at Fort Sam Houston for soldiers, family members and Department of Defense civilians.
www.defendamerica.mil /profiles/mar2006/pr031606ms1.html   (775 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Evander Holyfield (b. 1962)
Evander Holyfield, who spent most of his childhood in Atlanta and currently lives in Fayetteville, rose to international prominence as a heavyweight boxing champion in the 1990s.
Holyfield, the youngest of eight siblings, was born on October 19, 1962, in Atmore, Alabama.
from the boxing ring, Holyfield is a preacher whose personal heroes are the Nobel Peace Prize winners Martin Luther King Jr.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1990   (850 words)

  
 finger3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It would be hard for any boxing fan from the 1990s not to have some vivid memory of Tommy “The Duke” Morrison.
Although most boxing insiders will cringe at the thought of Morrison lacing them up again, it may be worth noting that the Duke always did seem to find a way to pick himself up off the canvas whenever he was in the boxing ring.
Boxing has been a part of my life, it was all I’ve known, all I’ve seen, and it’ll come back pretty easy is what I guess I’m saying.
www.boxingbuzz.com /peter-klitschko/finger3.htm   (1904 words)

  
 FOX Sports - - In time, UFC may TKO boxing's audience
Kevin Iole, the boxing beat writer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has covered every UFC event held in the city and thinks the barriers to acceptance by the mainstream boxing press and public have more to do with the limitations imposed on the major media than the quality of the UFC product.
Old-line boxing people have expressed little interest in the UFC or mixed martial arts in general, and that prospect is not likely to change.
They may not be capturing the boxing audience now, but they're latching on to a generation of customers who will eventually make up more and more of the demographic pool.
msn.foxsports.com /boxing/story/5372598   (1227 words)

  
 Boxing News - April 27, 2006 - TheSweetScience.com
A lifelong fight fan, Wanda got her start in the boxing industry in 2003, as an inspector for the Washington DC Boxing Commission.
Former world boxing champion, Naseem Hamed, 31, was released on bail and told he could face jail on March 31, after pleading guilty to a charge of dangerous driving.
Norfolk boxing coach Glen Saffer is encouraging school children to get off the streets and learn the art of boxing.
www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-news-wire.php?sdate=20060427   (740 words)

  
 rotella
That a woman can be a national amateur champion or have an amateur boxing career at all, and that she has prospects for pursuing that career in legitimate professional circles, is a recent development that points to significant changes not only in boxing but in the sexual division of work and play.
There have been boxing-related fads in women's exercise before, and women have been boxing in earnest on the fringes of the business, since the emergence of modern pugilism,9 but the arrival of legitimate women's boxing in the 1990s is significant not only for the numbers involved but also because it has an institutional base.
Women's boxing is still an institutional fledgling: like female hockey players, deer hunters, and footsoldiers, female boxers in America have not had many chances to work on their violent craft, but it appears that they will.
www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v25/v25n3.rotella.html   (2536 words)

  
 New boxing gym offers training for athletes of all ages, abilities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Begun in the early 1990s by a boxing enthusiast, LA Boxing started as a single gym in southern California.
Most of the company's corporate officers have boxing, kickboxing or mixed martial arts backgrounds and the gyms are decorated with signed pictures of top names in each of the sports.
Hired on as general manager, Yoder said people are drawn to LA Boxing because the training style and approach is unlike anything in boxing and the all-access membership is rarely seen in other gyms or health spas.
www.pressofatlanticcity.com /business/story/7060670p-6918362c.html   (777 words)

  
 I miss the Boxing magazines - Page 2 - The Cyber Boxing Zone Message Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Forget the nostalgia, the simple fact is that from the early to mid-'80's on the boxing mags were crap written by crappy writers...
If I am not mistaken John Ort tried to start a new boxing publication in the middle 1980s, which was a very decent looking mag in terms of looks, but the rest was pretty crappy.
Back in the Seventies, Boxing Illustrated had that same story and even included a photocopy of a newspaper article detailing Johnson's valiant effort before a private club audience which ended when Dempsey crushed him in the sixth.
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 Quale Press -- Boxing Inside the Box: Women's Prose Poetry by Holly Iglesias
Boxing Inside the Box: Women’s Prose Poetry is a creative/critical work proposing “women’s prose poetry” as a form distinct from that widely touted as “definitive” in journals, anthologies and critical texts.
Iglesias believes that the shape of prose poems — a simple box — serves as a powerful metaphor for gender roles that constrain and contain women.
Unlike most of their male counterparts who produce disembodied, ironic and surrealist prose poems, women write from within this genre-defiant box works that are at once lyrical and embattled, sensual and menacing.
www.quale.com /Boxing_HI.html   (400 words)

  
 HBO: Boxing: Event: Arturo Gatti vs. Thomas Damgaard: ARTURO GATTI: HIS FANS CAN'T GET ENOUGH
Yet while many boxing analysts say Gatti and Evander Holyfield may have been the most exciting fighters of their generation, they are reluctant to call him an all-time great, pointing to his having fought in just six championship fights and winning two titles.
Boxing historian Johnny Ortiz, a member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame board of directors agrees that wins and loses are irrelevant when analyzing Gatti's career.
Gatti's first appearance on HBO's new show, "Boxing After Dark" was against Wilson Rodriguez on March 23, 1996, a brutal fight many felt would have been named "Fight of the Year," except that a couple guys named Holyfield and Mike Tyson went at it, also.
www.hbo.com /boxing/events/2006/0128_gatti_damgaard/columns/index.html   (2745 words)

  
 Thai Boxing Association of the USA
Yes, the Thai Boxing Association of the U.S.A. was founded by Ajarn Surachai "Chai" Sirisute, who has made it his life's mission for more than 30 years to spread Muay Thai around the world.
It is a publication distributed to members of the Thai Boxing Association on a non-profit basis.
Bruce Lee was influenced by Thai Boxing as well as western fencing, Savate, Chinese boxing and filipino boxing.
www.thaiboxing.com /tba-faq.html   (1533 words)

  
 Oscar De La Hoya vs. The Past | TheSweetScience.com Boxing
Whether you are a fan of Oscar De La Hoya or not, it is impossible to deny his importance to boxing over the last decade.
The fighters would alternate between boxing and brawling, often engaging in wicked exchanges that would result in both fighters being staggered.
Hearns would rebound with his heart and skills, boxing his way back into the fight with his longer reach and superior hand speed, a la the original Leonard fight.
www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/3808/oscar-hoya-past   (1770 words)

  
 Welcome to the Indian Family Health Clinic!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Lott, a former amateur boxer himself, said he was the last coach for the Great Falls Amateur Boxing Club, when it folded in the late 1990s.
But all are welcome at the center, which includes aerobic and weight equipment, a boxing ring, meeting room and aerobics area.
Only white-collar, club, and amateur boxing members are allowed in the boxing club.
www.indianfamilyhealth.org /boxing.htm   (758 words)

  
 TeleFragged   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
There were quite a few boxing games released during this decade-long period, but none of them saw a whole lot of popularity.
It was an utterly shameful era for boxing games altogether, and I was completely hopeless about the state of things until the next game in the list appeared seemingly out of nowhere.
The anime style is somewhat unique in the boxing genre, but the ability to bob and weave made this one much more interesting.
www.telefragged.com /index.php3?file=articles/boxinggames/index2   (1394 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - AP: Senate leader took free boxing tickets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Reid took the free seats for Las Vegas fights between 2003 and 2005 as he was pressing legislation to increase government oversight of the sport, including the creation of a federal boxing commission that Nevada's agency feared might usurp its authority.
It cites the 1990s example of an Oregon lawmaker who took gifts for personal use from a South Carolina state university and its president while that school was trying to influence his official actions.
Harry Reid accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three championship boxing matches while the state agency was seeking to influence Reid's unsuccessful effort to increase federal oversight of boxing, according to the Associated Press.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2006-05-29-reid-ethics_x.htm   (1623 words)

  
 Why do wealthy people go broke? - Business - International Herald Tribune
George Foreman, bald, smiling and gigantic, is propped atop a stool in Gleason's Gym, the venerable boxing haunt in New York, watching a videotape of his heavyweight championship bout in 1994 with Michael Moorer.
He earned multimillion-dollar purses boxing in the 1990s and made tens of millions more by reinventing himself as a gentle entrepreneur, astutely peddling the best-selling hamburger grills that bear his name.
Tyson, the former boxing champion, is entangled in his own financial woes despite once having the marquee boxing power to draw $30 million purses for a single fight.
www.iht.com /articles/2006/09/18/business/broke.php   (1554 words)

  
 Meehan towelled up in his bid for a title shot - Sport - www.theage.com.au
Meehan, who won praise for his unlucky split-decision loss to World Boxing Organisation champion Lamon Brewster in September, had been affected by niggling neck and hand injuries in training and Mark Janssen said he had been so concerned that that he had unsuccessfully tried to withdraw his fighter in the lead-up to the bout.
Rahman, who stunned the boxing world by knocking out the then-undisputed world champion Lennox Lewis three years ago, has now set up a title shot in the World Boxing Association or World Boxing Council with the win, which was part of a Don King extravaganza that included two heavyweight title bouts.
Holyfield was a shadow of the man whose three memorable bouts against Riddick Bowe helped define heavyweight boxing in the 1990s.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/11/14/1100384427056.html?from=storylhs   (559 words)

  
 Former welterweight runs his own boxing gym (phillyBurbs.com) | Burlington Times
After an injury ended his boxing career, Browning said, he was devastated but never gave up his desire to have a connection with the sport he loved.
Today, the former welterweight is hoping to land a knockout blow in a new arena: running his own boxing gym.
He made the boxing team at Fort Campbell, Ky., and went on to win the All-Army title in 1989 with a 65-8 record.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/112-07302005-521165.html   (589 words)

  
 OSCAR DE LA HOYA vs. THE PAST ... - The Cyber Boxing Zone Message Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
His list of victims is like a who’s who of boxing in the 1990s and 2000s.
Well, it's been a while now and we tend to forget but boxing media and public wise was at about it's lowest ebb ever.
Oscar was the one boxer who had crossed over to the general media that you could point at and not be embarassed about.
www.cyberboxingzone.com /cbzforum/showthread.php?t=2084   (2633 words)

  
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