View allAll Photos Tagged Boxing
David Haye knocks down Dereck Chisora (left) in their WBA and WBO International Heavyweight Championship bout at Upton Park, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Saturday July 14, 2012. Photo credit should read: Nick Potts/PA Wire
Welsh Wonders Marvel in Merthyr; Merthyr Mayhem – The Review
Thirteen professional boxing bouts and the debut of four of Wales’ top talents had set the scene for Saturday 23rd July at Merthyr Tydfil Leisure Centre. Sanigar Events had once again put on a stacked bill of bouts with a number of Wales’ best prospects and biggest names right now.
We had Swansea boys Sonny Lee and Kristian Touze make their professional debut, along with Treharris’s Gavin Gwynne.
Boxing Media UK sat and witnessed some fine performances and some even finer wins.
Buckle up tight as the ‘Merthyr Mayhem’ was set to unfold on a warm night in the South of Wales
SCE_3052 Prize Fighter Gym
16 A Woods Row, Carmarthen SA31 1BX
Training Nights & Times:
Telephone: 01267 237 372
Mobile: 07916 164 385
Email: kev_boxer44@hotmail.com
Shots taken September 2012 in Carmarthen Leisure Centre.
David Haye knocks down Dereck Chisora in their WBA and WBO International Heavyweight Championship bout at Upton Park, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Saturday July 14, 2012. Photo credit should read: Nick Potts/PA Wire
The Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program hosted a U.S. Army Boxing Smoker at Caserma Del Din Fitness Center Nov. 19 in partnership with U.S. Army Garrison Italy Sports, Fitness and Aquatics.
A total of 18 boxers from several units had the chance to compete in the ring in nine bouts from Light Middle to Super Heavyweight classes.
Photo by Laura Kreider/USAG Italy PAO
Learn more about us on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil and www.facebook.com/VMCItaly.
Phoenix Fighting Championship held on Saturday 6th July 2013, at Phoenix MMA @mmabournemouth
Prints and downloads of photographs can be purchased from wolfpictures.smugmug.com/MartialArts/Phoenix-Fight-Nights...
Boxing gloves sculpture by Graeme Hopper, commemorating 5 times British Lightweight champion Maurice Cullen who lived in the house behind it here at Shotton Colliery, County Durham. His professional career ran from 1959 - 1970 and the sculpture is modelled on his original gloves.
A boxer from the University of Botswana Boxing Club, an affiliate club of the Botswana Boxing Association (http://botswanaboxing.wordpress.com/)
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: CRYPTIC PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED! 🚨
Cryptic has officially released the date, time, and location for our debut Press Conference ahead of this Saturday’s massive Fight Night: Expo 4.0!
🔥 This is your chance to witness the fighters go face-to-face before they step into the ring. They’ll be answering your questions, reacting to match predictions, and making their final statements before fight night.
📅 Date: APRIL 4TH
🕐 Time: 5PM SLT
📍 Location:(maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sensual%20Spirit/11/91/34)
👊 Don’t miss out on this exclusive opportunity to have your say, be heard, and feel the tension build as the clock ticks down.
The time is nearly here. Are you ready?
#CrypticExpo4 #PressConference #FightNight #TheClockIsTicking ⏳🔥
Boxing originally arrived in Cuba as a tourist attraction mainly as championship bouts between North American Boxers during the high tourist season.[2] In 1909 Havana had its first professional fight. In 1910 a Chilean named John Budinich established the first boxing academy in Havana. Two years later government banned boxing due to the violence on the streets between blacks and whites. Boxing matches had to go behind closed doors as it grew popular throughout the island. Despite the banishment of the sport at the time, for the lower classes, boxing constituted a possible ticket out of poverty as well as steady and reliable entertainment.
Recognizing this, on December 13, 1921 Cuba decided to give boxing another chance and legitimized boxing with the establishment of the National commission on boxing and Wrestling. The lift on the ban brought tourist dollars with the bouts. Years later a national boxing academy was established to train talented athletes. The next decade Golden Gloves amateur competition had also arrived.
By 1959, Cuba had six professional world champions who were considered to be the founding fathers of boxing as well national heroes of Cuba. These fighters included Gerardo “Kid Gavilan” Gonzalez, Benny Paret, and Eligio “Kid Chocolate” Sardinas. In spite of the sport’s promise of prosperity, the Cuban boxers who earned a lot of money in the ring almost commonly died impecunious. Some boxers also had ties with the Mafia and other sources of corruption.
Cuba’s boxing reputation also drew foreign boxers as well, such as Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Jess Willard, Joe Lois, Joe Brown, and Sugar Ray Robinson. Although Cuba had traditionally done well in professional boxing, it did not win an Olympic medal in boxing until after 1959 due to considerable resources being devoted to the development of athletes as a result of the Cuban revolution.
In 1960, the professional boxer Benny Paret won the world welterweight title, and headed a strong contingent of professional Cuban boxers who followed up their fifth place at the 1954 games (two medals) with a first place, a position they have held in all subsequent Central American Games. In the Pan American games, where the competition was stronger, Cuban boxers also performed well, particularly from the late 1960s onward. The high international standard of Cuba’s boxers was evident in the Olympic arena.
In 1961, along with other sports, the Revolutionary government banned professional boxing. However, Cuba has built a reputation in amateur boxing. At the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games, Cuba won first place in boxing. Cuba’s first place in 1962 was based on four gold, two silver, and two bronze medals. In 1968, Cuba won two silver medals. At the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Cuban boxers swept the field, winning ten medals, six of them gold. By the 1982 Games, Cuba’s boxers were dominant, capturing all the gold medals. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, the Cubans outdid themselves, with seven gold and two silver medals.
By the 1980s, Cuban boxers were dominant in all major international amateur competitions, including the Olympics. From 1968 in Mexico City to Sydney 2000, Cubans have participated in seven Olympic tournaments, winning twenty seven gold medals, thirteen silver medals, and seven bronze medals for a total of forty seven—a number unmatched by any country. Cuba is the only country that can boast of two three-time Olympic Champions: Teofilo Stevenson and Félix Savón.
Cuba’s amateur boxing continued to prevail. In fact, at the 2001 world Amateur boxing championships Cuba won more gold medals than the rest of the world combined. At the 2000 Olympic games, Cuban Boxing was the most successful out of all boxing teams that entered, picking up four gold medals. (Source: Wikipedia)