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Thursday, July 5, 2012

HALL OF FAME FLIES FLAGS AT HALF-STAFF FOR HEAVYWEIGHT JIMMY BIVINS

The International Boxing Hall of Fame announced its flags will fly at half-staff in memory of light heavyweight and heavyweight standout Jimmy Bivins. He passed away yesterday at McGregor Home in East Cleveland, OH. He was 92.

1999 Hall of Fame Inductee Jimmy Bivins

Born December 6, 1919 in Dry Brach, GA, he moved to Cleveland as a youth. He turned pro in 1940. With a strong and quick left jab and excellent defensive skills, from 1941 to 1943 he beat the best fighters in the middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions including Hall of Famers Teddy Yarosz, Billy Soose, Joey Maxim and Ezzard Charles. In an unprecedented move, The Ring ranked Bivins as the number one heavyweight and light heavyweight contender at the close of 1942. The boxing world froze the titles in each weight class during World War II. In March of 1944, Bivins entered the U.S. Army but was honorably discharged in November. During this time he was known as the interim heavyweight champion. In 1945, he knocked out Hall of Famer Archie Moore in six rounds. From June 22, 1942 to February 25, 1946, Bivins went unbeaten in 26 consecutive bouts. Throughout his illustrious career, a world title fight managed to elude Bivins. He retired in 1955 with a record of 86-25-1 and 31 knockouts. He met seven Hall of Famers, beating four, and 11 world champions, defeating eight.

“Jimmy Bivins was a great fighter,” said Hall of Fame Executive Director Edward Brophy. “He fought and beat many of the best fighters of his era. As the boxing community mourns his passing, the Hall remembers his many contributions to the sport.”

In 1999, Bivins was elected into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

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GOODWIN MAIN EVENTS LEON ‘SOLID’ WILLIAMS Vs. TONY ‘CONQUEROR’ CONQUEST Southern Area Cruiserweight Championship 7th July 2012 @ York Hall, London

Leon Williams: Friendship’s On Hold Until After Saturday’s Title Fight

Whilst all the recent media focus has been on next week’s highly controversial Heavyweight clash, between David Haye and Dereck Chisora, another, and probably far more significant, Clash of the Titans takes place this coming Saturday, with the long awaited showdown, between former British Cruiserweight Champion Leon ‘Solid’ Williams and current Southern Area Champ Tony ‘Conqueror’ Conquest, taking place at York Hall in Bethnal Green.

After three false starts, each due to injury, this most defining of domestic Cruiserweight battles will also decide, for once and for all, just who is the Capital’s true #1 of the division as well as, along the line, earn the winner a shot at the coveted Lonsdale Belt.

The early betting seems to be heavily in favour of Streatham’s Former Champ Williams. No surprise really, as when the pair met as Amateurs, Romford’s Conquest was knocked out in just 45 seconds of the first round!

Earlier today, following his final training session at the TRAD TKO Boxing Gym in Canning Town, Leon Williams spoke briefly on the upcoming battle with his old foe and good friend Tony Conquest, “We’re really good friends but that’s on hold until after the fight, during the fight it’s purely business.

The plan is to just get my rounds in, punch hard and keep pressuring him and get the win, then say sorry afterwards and I’ll be the first to buy him a drink.

Then I want a shot at getting back my British title. That’s the main goal and that’s where my motivation for this fight is coming from. If it wasn’t a stepping stone to get the Lonsdale belt back where it belongs, with me, I probably wouldn’t have taken the fight.

The Southern Area title isn’t really what I want to fight for, I’m not devaluing the title at all, it’s a very worthwhile title, just me and my team feel it is a backward step as I was British Champ earlier this year.

I will get back there, but first I have to win this fight, and I will win this fight. We train hard at the TRAD TKO, me, Johnny (Manager/Coach Johnny Eames) and Barry (co-trainer Barry Smith) and we will get back to where we were, and I will get my British title back.”

Leon ‘Solid’ Williams versus Tony ‘Conqueror’ Conquest for the Southern Area Cruiserweight title co-headlines Olivia Goodwin’s ‘One More Round’ event at York Hall in Bethnal Green, London on Saturday 7th July 2012.

UNDEFEATED LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT LAVARN “BABY BOWE” HARVELL LOOKS TO CONTINUE FIREWORKS THIS SATURDAY IN ATLANTIC CITY

This Saturday night at Ballys in Atlantic City, undefeated Light Heavyweight sensation Lavarn “Baby Bowe” Harvell will look to thrill the hometown fans when he takes on Mojeed Okedara in a six round bout.

Harvell, 11-0 with six knockouts has scored three straight knockouts with the last two being two of the more vicious stoppages in recent memory when he stopped Anthony Pietrantonio on April 28^th and Brian Donahue on June 13^th in the 3^rd and 1^st rounds respectively.

The Atlantic City native’s knockout was a featured photo in the New York Times that was seen throughout the world.

“The knockouts are a product of being in shape and prepared to fight”, said Harvell

“I am definitely improved and the knockouts are coming because I am just letting my shots go and not forcing anything”

Okedara of Nigeria will be making his American debut and has a record of 9-5 with eight knockouts.

“The fact that all I know is he is from a Africa makes me train harder because I don’t know much about him”, continued Harvell

Harvell will be fighting in from of his hometown fans in Atlantic City for the ninth time and it inspires him knowing that there will be a lot of fans cheering for him.

“I am always excited to fight in Atlantic City and I am always looking to put on a good show”

Harvell is trained and co-managed by Abdur Muhammad and co-managed by Vito Mielnicki.

Harvell is promoted by Gabe LaConte’s First round Promotions

MAJEWSKI TO BATTLE FITZPATRICK THIS SATURDAY FOR NABF MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE

Nonito Donaire vs Jeffrey Mathebula Kelly Pavlik vs Will Rosinsky Saturday, July 7th on HBO

Shane Cameron vs Monte Barrett Friday 6th July

Wladimir Klitschko vs.Tony Thompson 2 Saturday July, 7

UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen II on Pay-Per-View - Sat. July 7 - Las Vegas, NV

UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen II on Pay-Per-View - Sat. July 7 - Las Vegas, NV,
The rematch between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen goes down this Saturday night in Las Vegas - see how they've prepared for their middleweight title bout, plus Forrest Griffin and Tito Ortiz get ready for the final meeting in their epic trilogy! Countdown to UFC 148 premieres tonight at 9pm ET / 6pm PT on Fuel TV

RZA and Tarantino Joint Kung Fu Movie Project Features Cung Le

The shared obsession of academy award winning director Quentin Tarantino and Wu Tang Clan member RZA has materialized into an upcoming film featuring UFC middleweight Cung Le and other insanity.

According to the recently released official trailer above, The Man with Iron Fists apparently casts academy award winner Russel Crowe as a cowboy in feudal China, professional wrestler Dave Batista as Colossus, as Lucy Liu as Han from Enter the Dragon. While there is currently little information available on Cung Le’s part in the story, IMDB lists him as playing a character called Bronze Lyon. Since long-time action movie staple Byron Mann is playing the character Silver Lion, it can be safely deduced that this movie will be an orgy of violence and 1970′s call backs that makes absolutely no sense.

At a budget estimated near 20 million dollars, The Man with Iron Fists is the third biggest film that Le has appeared in, behind Pandorum and Tekken*.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Mike Tyson: MMA Fighters Need to Get Paid More

Mike Tyson went from the baddest man on the planet to the most interesting man in the world.

At least one of them.

There are seemingly no bad interviews with the former heavyweight champion.

On this one with Ariel Helwani of the MMA Hour, Tyson pushes for MMA fighters to make more money.

MMA VIDEO: White breaks up Sonnen-Silva staredown

And when that happens to then watch out for the predators.

"Nothing personal to nobody, they gotta be (expletive) millionaires," Tyson says. "They gotta get the (expletive) money they deserve. How is (MMA) going to be bigger than boxing if they don't have cash? These guys need to be multi-multimillionaires. They need to have their big (expletive) mansions, their big cars and if not, they should be able to take care of their family. They should be able to live without fighting no more."

The downside to the money are the leeches says Tyson. A subject he discusses in the interview with UFC president Dana White.

"They ain't get the scumbags yet," Tyson said. "Let their purses be in the paper like my purses were in the paper and Floyd(Mayweather)'s. Wait until the scumbags get in that sport."

Don King Congratulates Mexican President-Elect Enrique Pena Nieto The People’s Choice. The People’s Champion. And Don King’s Champion

American-Mexican promoter Don King sent congratulations today to Enrique Pena Nieto for winning Sunday’s election to become the new president of Mexico.

King met the 45-year-old president-elect last June while in Mexico and was greatly impressed.

“Pena Nieto is the people’s choice and the people’s champion in Mexico, and he has my heartfelt congratulations,” King said.

“In the words of Father Miguel Hidalgo, ‘Mexicanos, Viva Mexico!’ In the spirit of Hidalgo, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata and Benito Juarez comes Enrique Pena Nieto, a tried and true representative of the Mexican people, a leader who loves and cares about the people he represents.

“When he takes office, I know there will be a rebirth of boxing in Mexico. Mexicans are fighters inside the ring and outside the ring, and I look for a bigger, better and brighter future for all Mexicans. Viva Enrique Pena Nieto! Viva Mexico!”

Pena Nieto will succeed Felipe Calderon as the 19^th Mexican president since the Mexican Revolution concluded in 1920. He had served as governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 through 2011.

Holyfield Happy To See Changes In Old Rival Tyson, By Scoop Malinowski

15 years ago the two gladiators were arch rivals, slugging it out in the infamous “Bite Fight” in Las Vegas in late June 1997. Now Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield are on far friendlier terms.

Holyfield attended Tyson’s acclaimed one-man show in Las Vegas in April and recently shared complimentary words about Tyson to sports columnist George Willis in the June 30 edition of The New York Post. “It’s a great thing when people can make fun of themselves,” said Holyfield of Tyson. “That means they’re over it. If you’ve had issues in your life and (you are) trying to hide them, it scares you because you don’t want anybody to know and you act like you haven’t made mistakes.”

Holyfield told Willis that he sees Tyson, once world-renowned as “the baddest man on the planet”, as having evolved to become an inspiration for all people to improve their example. “I tell people all the time, Mike probably can change more people than anybody because people will look at Mike and say, ‘If Mike can change, I can change.’ Now he’s letting it all go.”

Interestingly, Holyfield suggested the pressures and stresses of the ring may have played a hand in deforming Tyson into the bad guy role he once seemed happy to portray. “Everybody was always telling (Mike), all you need is to be tough. Then everybody liked him for how tough he was but nobody liked him for the person he was. All the sudden he was trying to be ‘Iron Mike’ the whole time instead of being ‘Iron Mike’ when he was in the ring and a different person when you’re out of the ring. If you don’t know how to switch those things, you’re going to burn out.”

Tyson’s long-time close friend Mario Costa attended all six of Tyson’s stage performances in Las Vegas and observed Holyfield’s positive reaction in the audience from a few seats away. Costa told me, “Holyfield really enjoyed seeing Mike on the stage, he was smiling and laughing throughout the show. The expression on his face showed that he seemed really happy to see Mike having success and doing something well that is different than boxing. He looked really happy for Mike.”

Tyson’s one man show will open on Broadway at the Longacre Theater in New York City on July 31 and run through August. Originally scheduled for six shows, due to enormous success, an additional six dates have been added. “Undisputed Truth”.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

‎Nonito Donaire Jr. vs. Jeffrey Mathebula airs this Saturday at 10PM on HBO

Mike Tyson wants his next knockout to be on Broadway.

The former boxer announced Monday that he will team up with director Spike Lee to bring his one-man show, "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth," to the Longacre Theatre for six nights only, July 31 to Aug.12.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Mike Tyson causes ticket scramble, Broadway run extended

Spike Lee-directed one-man show now ends August 12

Mike Tyson and Spike Lee have the hottest ticket on Broadway. After announcing last week Lee will direct Tyson in his upcoming one-man show, “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” fan response was immediate. To accommodate the demand for tickets, lead producer James L. Nederlander has announced that the show will extend its run with six additional shows.

Originally slated to run for a limited six-night engagement from July 31 to August 5, the show will now play through Sunday, August 12.

RESULTS FROM FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM‏

Salita Promotions in association with The Fight Factory Gym presented sanctioned seven amateur fights plus one exhibition fight on Sunday evening July first at the gym. A crowd of local fans enjoyed every minute of the three round bouts as they cheered their hearts out. The theme for the show was Fights for Freedom in memory of the events of 40 years ago at the Munich Olympic Games when eleven Israeli athletes and coaches, plus a German police officer were murdered by terrorists after being held hostage.

About midway through the show everyone stood for the traditional ten count for those murdered in 1972. Remedy performed a rap number about the tragedy of the Holocaust and the Munich Games. Just before the final fight a dance troop made up of young ladies entertained with some upbeat steps.

“It was a great show,” said Welterweight contender Dmitriy Salita. “We had a nice crowd, and we had great fights. Remedy performed, there were dancers and State Senator David Storobin was here as well. We had celebrities in the crowd. It was all about entertainment. We want to do this again and do it often. We want the fighters to build a fan base with the crowd. It’s what it’s all about and I think we have something here.”

With the help of sponsors some of the proceeds from the evening will go to benefit boxing gyms in Israel. We want to extend a thank you to The Abramson family, Sushi Meshuga, radio/TV show host Aaron Braunstein, , and David Feld King of Diamonds. Their help made this show possible.

Winners received a large trophy and the Fight Factory Gym Fight for Freedom Championship

Here are the results:

152 Lb. Novice

Jamie Logan (Mount Vernon Boxing) won DQ over Bryan Lamont (Eastern Queens Boxing)

165 Lb. Novice

Kuanysh Nyazov (Fight Factory Gym) won points over Vladimir Dalton (Asbury Park Boxing Gym)

Keylah Smith (Starrett City Boxing) won points over Hilley Dombroff (Starrett City Boxing)

Josh Dombrov (Starrett City Boxing) won points over Timothy Lopez (Fight Factory Gym)

165 Lb. Open

Derrick Walker (Asbury Park Boxing Gym) won points over Vassilliy Fedushkin (Brighton Beach Boxing)

201 Lb Open

German Tyvryaev (Brighton Beach Boxing) won points over Dan Pasciolla (Asbury Park Boxing Gym)

201 Lb. Novice

John Scaffiddi (Fight Factory Gym) won points over Khalil Kearney (Starrett City Boxing)

Exhibition (No winner or loser)

Henry Terry (Mount Vernon Boxing) fought Anthony Tudisco (Fight Factory Gym)

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Looking back at Mike Tyson-Evander Holyfield bite fight in 1997 - The Bonus - SI.com

Gabby Douglas Looks to be Olympic Games Heroine

*Gymnastics is going to be a beautifully stunning event this coming Olympic games as 16-year-old Gabby Douglas garners support from across the nation to be picked to represent the U.S.

Following in the footsteps of Dominique Dawes, Douglas has been dubbed the flying squirrel for her graceful movements and charming personality.

Critics and fans are looking to Douglas to carry the torch of the next big Olympic star, not to mention she’s the black community’s next Olympic heroine.

Although she’s a crowd pleaser now, the athlete says she was once a bit bashful.

“I used to be sooo shy,” she said with a giggle. “Now I’m like, ‘Lah, lah, lah. Lah, lah, lah. … I’m just ready to go out there and perform. I’m so ready to take on this journey.”

And what a journey it will be.

UFC 148: Silva Vs. Sonnen 2

A Week From Today Is Probably One Of The Greatest Grudge Matches Of All Time In Mixed Martial Arts.