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[krackdagawd]

Is Bradley finally going to make that heel turn

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

khan got arrested? when?
skip B where the fukk do u get your sources? You chat some crap at times.

Khan is in oakland..and the cocaine shyt was a rumour.

 

[Newzz]

168 nikkas we coming for YOU

#1 WBC

Andre Ward waiting for him

#SOGgang

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Carl Froch waiting for him

Fixed that for you breh.

 

[Newzz]

Fixed that for you breh.

Im riding with JCC Jr. over Froch

 

[Mook]

khan got arrested? when?
skip B where the fukk do u get your sources? You chat some crap at times.

Khan is in oakland..and the cocaine shyt was a rumour.

damn skip fukked wit hthe wrong one this time around

 

[mr. smoke weed]

According to the scene,Bradley has signed a extension with Top Rank to make the Manny match possible, while Manny refused to extend his contract beynd the fight........


Hopefully we get the real, demon possessed looking relentless Manny, and not this happy go lucky I'm afraid to get hurt or hurt my opponent Manny, he need the eye of the tiger back, he should mop the floor with Timmy like he showed and bits and points in fight one......Anyone who is a boxing fan should root Manny here, I mean aside from Mayweather, Tim Bradley very good nothing special ass could ruin boxing history and retire the great Pacquaio, that I dont want to see that..........

shut the fukk up Skip

 

[mr. smoke weed]

I can't wait for this fight to see how Ortiz is gonna come back. It's randomly on a Thursday night too on Fox Sports 1.....Ortiz can't even get a Showtime card?

Ortiz gonna leave the breh Collazo concussed and bodied

 

[firemanBk]

Deontay Wilder finally fighting somebody that's remotely a threat

Spoiler

Gary Russell, the cal's on you

Scott got blatantly fukked against Chisora. This is a good 2nd opportunity at a breakout victory for him.


JuanMa gonna get KO'd by another Mexican in PR though.
The same Mexican he KO'd to become a star back in the day too

 

[patscorpio]

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Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer has advised BoxingScene.com that his company finalized a Showtime televised tripleheader for March 15th at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The event will be co-promoted with Puerto Rico Best Boxing.

In the main event, WBA/WBC 140-pound champion Danny Garcia (27-0, 16KOs) will defend his titles against Mauricio Herrera (20-3, 7KOs).

Garcia is coming off a career-defining victory over Lucas Matthysse, which took place as the co-featured attraction to the record breaking Mayweather-Canelo Pay-Per-View on September 14th in Las Vegas.

Herrera, who defeated Ruslan Provodnikov in 2011 and gave fighters like Mike Alvarado and Kareem Mayfield all they could handle - has won two fights in a row since the loss to Mayfield, including a wide decision over puncher Ji-Hoon Kim last May. Herrera has never been stopped and always comes to fight.

Schaefer is excited to showcase Garcia in Puerto Rico and views the event as the first of many major shows for Golden Boy in the country. Garcia has been asking Golden Boy for a Puerto Rico headliner for a long time and Schaefer felt the time was right to start Garcia's campaign in the country.

"This is something that Danny wanted for a long time. He has been asking for a fight in Puerto Rico. We felt the time was right. He has a very strong Puerto Rican heritage. Both of his parents were born in Puerto Rico. His grandparents are from Puerto Rico. Danny used to visit Puerto Rico all the time when his grandparents were still alive. The last time he went there was three years ago, when his grandparents passed away," Schaefer told BoxingScene.com.

"I think it's going to be very exciting for Danny and for the sport and exciting for Puerto Rico. I'm really thrilled that there is going to be a meaningful fight in Puerto Rico against a guy like Mauricio Herrera, who beat Provdonikov. Herrera is a guy who knows how to be a spoiler. He did that with Provodnikov and that's what he wants to do here. Herrera has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time and he gets that opportunity on March 15, where the Puerto Rican vs. Mexican rivalry will be showcased."

Also featured on the card, a crossroads rematch between former champions Daniel Ponce De Leon (45-5, 35KOs) of Mexico and Juan Manuel Lopez (33-3, 30KOs) of Puerto Rico.

In 2008, Lopez captured his first world title with a shocking first round TKO of Ponce De Leon to capture the WBO super bantamweight crown at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. The win jump-started the career of Lopez with HBO.

Lopez has gone 3-3 in his last six fights, with two TKO defeats to Orlando Salido and a knockout loss in his last fight against rising star Mikey Garcia in June of last year. Ponce De Leon is one fight removed from a TKO defeat to Abner Mares.

The rematch takes place at super featherweight, with both careers at stake.

Also on the show, heavyweight banger Deontay Wilder (30-0, 30KOs) will face his toughest opponent to date in the form of Malik Scott (36-1-1, 13KOs).

Scott, a 6'4 lanky fighter with boxing ability, went to a controversial draw with Vyacheslav Glazkov in June of last year - where many felt he won - and then saw himself a victim of a highly controversial six round TKO loss to Dereck Chisora in July - where Scott beat the count, but the referee still ruled it as a knockout. Scott returned last week in Washington and stopped Grover Young in two rounds.

Wilder and Scott are good friends, but both promise to leave their friendship at home when they step into the ring.

salute that tripleheader..scott is going to box wilder's ears off..my nikka ponce is going to BODY juanma this time...herrera will definitely give danny a fight...dude is a volume puncher and a counter puncher...he may make things interesting for him

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Why tf they still letting JuanMa box?

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

JuanMa is a ring tragedy waiting to happen. Ponce De Leon is going to give dude his own medicine this time around.

I've never been impressed with Malik Scott. Dude is afraid of letting his hands go. He didn't look that good against Chisora and the fight before that where he got that draw wasn't impressive either. He has the goods, but just doesn't give that vibe of being comfortable in the ring. He could very well box Wilder's head off, but I wouldn't be surprised if he fukked that up somehow.

 

[ChocolateGiddyUp]

salute that tripleheader..scott is going to box wilder's ears off..my nikka ponce is going to BODY juanma this time...herrera will definitely give danny a fight...dude is a volume puncher and a counter puncher...he may make things interesting for him

If Tito shows up N passes the torch to young Swift after he kos the Mexican with the left hook

 

[firemanBk]

If Tito shows up N passes the torch to young Swift after he kos the Mexican with the left hook

That cold war is really fukking things up here. Young Felix should be crushing a can on this card too

 

[SuikodenII]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...xings-radical-hero-with-scrapbook-shrine.html

Len Johnson was a strikingly good boxer. He learnt his trade at the traveling boxing booth and from his father, a former sailor from Sierra Leone who settled in Manchester. Johnson was very skilful and light on his toes with an “educated left hand and a slippery defence”, and was considered Britain’s best middleweight of the late 1920s and early 1930s. But he was never allowed to fight for an official title. A black man, even a British-born black man, could not hold a British belt. The colour bar would not be lifted until 1947.

Cheesed off, Johnson retired from the ring in 1933, toured the country with his booth, worked for the Civil Defence Corps in the Second World War and became increasingly radicalized, eventually joining the Communist Party. He stood as a communist candidate for Moss Side East six times between 1947 and 1962, though he rarely got more than a dusting of votes. He helped organize the 1945 Pan-African Conference in Manchester. He became great friends with Paul Robeson, the singer and civil rights activist, and organized Britain’s “Let Paul Robeson Sing” campaign, after the American authorities confiscated Robeson’s passport. He was active locally and a respected community leader in Moss Side.

He died 40 years ago this September, much loved but in straitened circumstances, and I am ashamed to say that, before last Friday, I knew nothing of him. But I was enlightened by a brown cardboard box of documents belonging to the Working Class Movement Library in Salford.

The library sits on the side of a busy road, a red-brick building converted from an old nurses’ living quarters. It houses tens of thousands of pieces of ephemera collected over a lifetime by Eddie and Ruth Frow, a couple who met at a Communist summer school in 1953 and shared an interest in collecting books on radical politics. They married and moved to Stretford.

They loved to collect. In the summer they would tour the country in their caravan, picking up interesting things as they went. Their house became a shrine to radical campaigns, banners hung from the stairs, china stacked up on the surfaces and they moved their bed to the centre of the room so that the walls around could be stacked full.

They were unusual in that they were bibliophiles who read all their books, and they became experts. As the word spread, others bequeathed their collections to them until eventually, in 1987, Salford City Council offered to house the library.

Endless brown cardboard boxes of documents sit in the hidden upper rooms of the library, but visitors (anyone is welcome) can request what they want brought down. In the foyer sit cabinets of bits and pieces varying from a plastic bullet from Northern Ireland, a CND mug, and a display on the left-wing nature of Bagpuss and the protest songs of Madeline the rag doll.

The Frows were not big sports fans, but their interest was piqued occasionally. A more recent collection on FC United is on loan to the People’s History Museum in Manchester. The library owns quite a few pieces on the 1932 Kinder Mass Trespass, including the papers of lead activist Benny Rothman. In a neat circle, later this year FC United will re-enact the trespass.

And of course, there is that box on Johnson, full of treasures. A tattered and torn old scrapbook, put together painstakingly, documents all Johnson’s fights and struggles. Newspaper articles have been pasted in and notes made alongside in a looped hand in blue fountain pen. The scrapbook includes an article written for Empire News by Lord Lonsdale, which turns down Johnson’s ponderings over whether he would ever be able to fight at the National Sporting club. “I am very sorry,” Lonsdale writes, “because he is a very fine fellow, a really nice man with a splendid personality and a splendid boxer. But there it is.”

He goes on to explain how, after talks with Winston Churchill at the Home Office, the legality of boxing was made conditional on having no “inter-coloured contests”.

Other treasures include a box of photographs showing a lean, handsome young man, face unscarred by fighting, and a postcard addressed to “Mr Lenin”, presumably Johnson, from the Ku Klux Klan of Britain, with the postscript: “White is for Purity. Keep Britain pure!”

There could not be a better resting place for Johnson’s legacy than this hidden gem, nestling, radically, on the A6.

1947, got damn England