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	Toughman Contest - MobyGames
		Toughman Contest is a game based on the world famous boxing competition of the same name.
		Toughman matches consist of three one minute rounds.
		Your goal is to KO your opponent by causing their stamina meter to decrease to the point where they fall down, or beating on them enough that you are scored the winner at end of the third round.
	www.mobygames.com /game/toughman-contest (179 words)

	The Bryan-College Station Eagle> Region & State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Promoters of the Original Toughman Contest call it the “safest form of the fight event,” claiming their bouts are less dangerous than professional boxing, Olympic qualifiers and ultimate fighting matches.
		Toughman contests are banned in at least four states, including Pennsylvania and Missouri.
		Toughman matches are scheduled for three one-minute rounds, a move that Dore made during the early 1980s to protect fighters who didn’t always come to the arena in the best physical shape.
	www.theeagle.com /region/localregional/092202toughmandeath.htm (1158 words)

	Toughman Contest Tickets - Toughman Contest Ticket Broker
		Toughman Contest tickets are sold above face value.
		Toughman Contest sickets are together, side by side, unless otherwise noted.
		Once your Toughman Contest tickets are received, they cannot be replaced if lost or stolen.
	www.vividseats.com /sports/toughman-contest-tickets.html (147 words)

	The History ofThe Original Toughman Contest
		Toughman founder, announcer, and CEO of Dore and Associates Contracting.
		The same was true at the second contest in Marquette, Michigan held only a short time later.
		The Toughman Contest has the most safety precautions in the sport of boxing.
	www.toughmancontest.com /history.htm (445 words)

	Art Dore
		Toughman is an event where people of any shape, size, or physical condition are allowed to put on boxing gloves and try to knockout the other person in only 3 minutes.
		“Toughman Contest offers the common man or woman the chance to prove his or her mettle.” A Toughman bout consists of matching those who are not trained or who are not in proper physical condition against professional and trained fighters.
		Toughman is where concern for safety is not met for the purpose of entertaining an audience.
	www.combativesports.org /comments.asp (1721 words)

	Traverse City Record-Eagle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Toughman battles are scheduled Aug. 7-8 at the fair, with both male and female pugilists vying for prizes of up to $1,000.
		It's the 14th year for Toughman in Cheboygan, and fair manager Don Horrocks said the show must go on, though fair officials are aware of the controversy surrounding the fights and Toughman founder Art Dore of Bay City.
		Toughman rakes in about $30,000 for the fair and attracts crowds of 3,000 to 4,000 spectators.
	www.record-eagle.com /2003/jul/25tough.htm (448 words)

	Toughman
		Following the contest held March 8 and March 9 at the Delaware State Fairgrounds, state agencies have scrambled to determine who has the authority to regulate amateur boxing events and what the state regulations will be.
		But as reports of injuries spread, The Original Toughman Contest was notified by the Delaware State Fairgrounds that it would not be allowed to return to its facility.
		At the time of the contest in Harrington, the Division of Professional Regulation was unaware of its authority to regulate amateur boxing events.
	www.doverpost.com /PostArchives/04-10-02/pages/toughman.html (1296 words)

	Lansing State Journal:Cheboygan fair replaces Toughman with trucks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		CHEBOYGAN - With the popular Toughman competition on hiatus, a new truck contest will serve as the main demonstration of brawn this year at the Cheboygan County Fair.
		The state pulled the plug on Toughman amateur boxing, a fair staple for 14 years, because the promoter did not provide full medical insurance for fighters as required.
		Archie Millben, enforcement director for the state Department of Labor and Growth, said he was surprised fair officials didn't forge ahead with Toughman because the fair had appealed a judge's decision to uphold the cease-and-desist order.
	www.lsj.com /news/local/040803_toughman_1b.html (307 words)

	Northoftampa: Preacher in limbo after fight canceled
		CARROLLWOOD -- A preacher who is training for the Toughman Contest regional championship in Indiana has learned his fight was canceled because of injuries and deaths at the amateur boxing events.
		That victory earned him a spot in the regional Toughman Contest, which was set for Feb. 2 in Indiana.
		Now Toughman event organizers are scrambling to find new venues for the boxing matches in which fighters are allowed to enter off the streets.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/01/17/news_pf/Northoftampa/Preacher_in_limbo_aft.shtml (642 words)

	Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Contest is tough on a man 3/28/97
		Wendy Dore, daughter of Toughman founder Art Dore, said the comedy of errors is part of the appeal.
		The poster boy for the Toughman competitions, which have been around 20 years, is a bald, rotund man in red-white-and-blue trunks named Butterbean.
		He became interested the last time the Toughman Contest came through Augusta, when he was in the audience.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/032897/fea_toughman.html (493 words)

	Toughman Contest
		The very popular toughman contest is a single elimination boxing tournament, that is open to area men and women, age 18 through 39, with no previous professional boxing experience, and have limited amateur experience.
		All bouts are scheduled for three, one minute rounds, with all fighters using 16 ounce gloves, protective headgear and a mouth piece.
		There must be a minimum of four (4) contestants in a weight class in order to have competition in that class.
	www.wvtoughman.com /Information.asp (167 words)

	Opinion: Toughman tragedy
		Incapacitated fighters are supposed to be protected in the ring, but referees in Toughman contests are often unlicensed and act more as antagonists.
		In a recent Toughman event, a beaten contestant who asked twice to give up was told by the referee to continue, according to the Detroit News.
		A perverse reality show, Toughman is a throwback to the Roman Colosseum, only many of these gladiators, like Young, are unprepared and unaware of the risk they are taking.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/06/27/Opinion/Toughman_tragedy.shtml (575 words)

	Toughman Contest Tickets - Toughman Contest Boxing Schedule - Toughman Contest Ticket Broker
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	www.coasttocoasttickets.com /boxing/toughmancontest_tickets.shtml (523 words)

	Toughman
		All Toughman contestants, who must live within 75 miles of Harrington, will fight once Friday, and the winners will advance to a single-elimination tournament Saturday.
		While the Harrington Toughman Contest will not be televised, the fights will be considered for a best of 2002 show on FX and a best of 2002 tape.
		I watch Toughman on TV but have never entered due to the event was never local and it looks like fun!” Photo by Erin Kosnac.
	www.doverpost.com /PostArchives/03-06-02/pages/toughman.html (1208 words)

	Toughman Contest lets armchair brawlers prove who's toughest: 4/6/03
		Several states have banned Toughman because of the dangers to untrained competitors.
		Warnings about the risks of competing in Toughman are loudly declared during registration for the Beaumont fight.
		Most of the publicity Toughman has drawn lately, though, has been for the recent deaths, including a 26-year-old father of two who died after a week in intensive care.
	www.s-t.com /daily/04-03/04-06-03/e09sp184.htm (1015 words)

	Toughman Contest
		The Toughman Contest was created by a former boxer and then promoter- Art Dore, in Bay City, Michigan in 1979.
		Thomas' company West Virginia Sports Promotions Inc., owns the exclusive rights to promote the Toughman Contest in West Virginia as granted by Adoreable Promotions, Inc. This year ten events are scheduled in West Virginia and one in Ohio.
		Thomas' company also co-sponsors a boxing gym, located in Clarksburg, where all Toughman and Toughwoman fighters can train free of charge.
	www.wvtoughman.com /History.asp (485 words)

	Toughman Contest gets underway today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The 17th Tri-State Toughman Contest is a two-day competition with about 150 fighters signed up.
		A special event scheduled Saturday is a pro boxing match between Darren "Bam Bam" Abraham of Bridgeport, W.Va., the West Virginia super middleweight champion, and Jay Holland of New Castle, Pa., in a scheduled four-round, non-title bout.
		Toughman men’s divisions are light heavyweight (160-184 pounds) and heavyweight (185-400).
	www.herald-dispatch.com /2005/January/14/LStop2.htm (139 words)

	Bruno on Boxing
		Jarczyk said that her son vomited at Memorial Hall after the first fight but that people associated with the contest told him it probably was just caused by nerves.
		This fraud Dore denies the Toughman Contests are not supervised properly.
		Calls to Robards Arena on the day of the fight were met with a recording of a confused and stuttering woman who said to prospective combatants, "Don't forget to bring your mouth pieces." She also said they were too busy to answer any live calls.
	www.cyberboxingzone.com /boxing/bruno6900.htm (870 words)

	Bruno on Boxing
		Any person participating in or promoting a professional or amateur toughman or badman match is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in statues 775.082 or s.
		The biggest name ever to emerge from the Toughman Contest is a fat buffoon named "Butterbean." If anyone thinks Butterbean is a boxer, then watch out for the flying cows.
		Dore's toughman Contests are banned in 18 states and throughout all of Canada, and everyone, including Dore, knows that the intention of the Florida law was to keep his butt and the butts of his Toughmen, out of the state of Florida.
	www.cyberboxingzone.com /boxing/bruno62000.htm (805 words)

	How Safe is Toughman?
		Posted 2/3/2005 06:00 PM The death of a Martins Ferry man in Dayton leads some to wonder whether the upcoming contest in Wheeling is safe.
		After a Martins Ferry, Ohio, man died in a Toughman bout last weekend, Ohio Valley residents are now wondering how safe their event might be.
		Jerry Thomas, who is organizing the Toughman bout in Wheeling March 11-12, said his event takes numerous precautions to protect boxers' safety.
	www.statejournal.com /story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=533 (313 words)

	The Banning of Toughman Contests: Big brother breaks up the fight. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"The Toughman concept was born in Bay City, Michigan"12 Art Dore, a former boxer, trainer, and promoter gave the guys in this milltowne a chance to create their own entertainment and win prize money after the professional bouts were falling short of expectations.
		Cody Koch, the 1995 winner at the National Toughman Contest in Asheville, North Carolina is a 22 year-old carpenter from Anchorage, Alaska who plans to use his $50,000 cash prize to begin a pro boxing career.
		Now, a new victim and a victim group, the families of toughman competitors, were discovered for politicians to hide behind and create a coalition despite any lack of substantive evidence that such a drastic measure as a total ban of these competitions was necessary.
	cctr.umkc.edu /~tjthompson/pap1.htm (3123 words)

	32X - Toughman Contest
		Based on the real-life Toughman Contest, this cart puts you smack in the middle of the famous fighting tournament with opponents from around the world.
		The man on the videogame box cover is none other than "Battling Butter" Bean, a real-world Toughman Contest legend and the toughest opponent in the game.
		A two-time regional Toughman champion and two-time World Contest finalist, he spends most of his spare time with his wife and three children.
	www.eidolons-inn.net /segabase/32X-ToughmanContest.html (334 words)

	Special Report ----- Toughman: Bouts with danger - 5/18/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He lost that bout against a man who had fought in several previous Toughman contests, and within minutes began showing signs of brain damage.
		Johnny Rodriguez, knocked out in the first round of the Toughman contest, gets medical attention from Dr. Robert Jones at the Lucky Eagle Casino in Rochester, Wash. Critics say contenders of all ages, sizes and physical conditions can sign up without having the skills or training to box.
		ROCHESTER, Wash. -- Ringside doctors at Toughman bouts are powerless to stop fights, forced to split their attention between ringside and backstage while fights are in progress, and, in some cases, lack proper training.
	www.detnews.com /specialreports/2003/toughman/index.htm (896 words)

	JUDGE: Toughman cease and desist justified
		CHEBOYGAN - An administrative law judge said the state was justified in its KO of the Cheboygan County Fair's Toughman contest last year.
		State officials shuttered the event when the fair and Toughman promoter did not meet a requirement to provide full medical and hospitalization insurance for Toughman brawlers.
		Commissioners last year threw in the towel on the Toughman minutes before spectators were to enter grandstands to view the highly profitable amateur bouts.
	www.record-eagle.com /2004/apr/30tough.htm (323 words)

	DLEG - CIS Orders Cease and Desist for Cheboygan County Fair Toughman Contest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The cease and desist order was issued after the CIS Bureau of Commercial Services Athletic Board of Control, which regulates professional boxing in the state, learned of a Toughman Contest scheduled for August 7-8 at the Cheboygan County Fair.
		CIS then received copies of the insurance policy in the name of the promoter’s corporation “Diamond in the Rough, Inc.” in the amount of $50,000.00 and the Cheboygan County Fair’s liability policy with $5,000 in medical coverage – totaling a maximum of $55,000 which fails to meet statutory requirement of unlimited medical expense.
		We feel it is a priority that the Toughman and similar exhibitions protect competitors and their families by providing proper medical care and preventing financial hardship with adequate insurance protection in the event of injury.”
	www.michigan.gov /cis/0%2C1607%2C7-154-10573_11472-72923--M_2003_8%2C00.html (703 words)

	What happened to The Original Toughman Fan Page?
		A young mother of two is dead as a result of injuries she received in a Toughman competition.
		Toughman has made Art Dore rich and has killed quite a few innocent people.
		By the way, Toughman took down their Fan Forum rather than let people post about the deaths.
	www.davidtaylorfamily.com /toughman.htm (1262 words)

	Cline Quest is KO'D
		Cline, at age 38, was the oldest to compete in this years Toughman Contest.
		This contest added new weight divisions, but also inserted an age cut off of 39.
		If you missed the Toughman Contest in Beckley, the promotion is back in action this weekend in Elkins with the Third Annual Mountain Champions at Elkins High School.
	www.wboy.com /story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=2005 (223 words)

	FACING A BAN? THAT'S TOUGH, MAN \| TheSweetScience.com Boxing
		The Toughman Contest helps competitors to build confidence and self-esteem.
		State of Texas, if The Original Toughman Contest is not allowed to continue.
		would have noticed that he was entered in the contest in violation of the Toughman rules.
	www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/1006/facing-ban-tough-man (1881 words)

	Toughman Contest 32x - Digital Press Online
		The Toughman Contest is famous for Butterbean, one of those boxers famous for quick matches and slaughtering the poor saps that get in the ring with him.
		It's brutal and fast paced as the selected player character is sent into the ring against multiple fake brawlers, and some celebrities (including Butterbean and rapper Coolio).
		There are a few boxing games from the 16-bit era that are better than this, including the sequel to the game Toughman Contest seems to mimic.
	www.digitpress.com /reviews/toughman_32x.htm (533 words)

	THE BIG WAZOO - CONTESTS
		All you gotta do is send us an e-mail at: wazu@cbsradio.com "telling us If you could fight anyone who would it be?" Please be sure to label your contest entry "Toughman" and don't forget to leave you name, age, address, and phone number so we can contact you if your our winner!
		Weigh-in and arm wrestling contest is at the Kickstand Pub in Polaris on Thursday, March 23
		Persons under the age of 13 are not eligible to participate in this activity.
	www.thebigwazu.com /sections/contests/OLD/Toughman_Contest.htm (238 words)

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