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Final Quotas Filled for Women's Boxing at London Olympics

May 20th, 2012

The 2012 London Olympics will see the debut of women’s boxing as an Olympic event, and the conclusion of the Women’s World Boxing Championships in Qinhuangdao, China May 19 saw the final continental quotas filled.

The first Olympics for women’s boxing will only see action in three weight classes, with a total of 25 fighters. The classifications will be flyweight (51kg), lightweight (60 kg), and middleweight (75 kg). Olympic boxing runs July 28 – August 12 for the men, and August 5-9 for the women.

Here are the three classes broken down by continental quota and listing the country the fighter represents. Europe has three because host nation Great Britain has an automatic berth in each class.

Flyweight

Africa, 1

Maroua Rahali, Tunisia

The Americas, 2

Marlen Esparza, United States

Karla Magliocco, Venezuela

Asia, 2

Cancan Ren, China

M.C. Mary Kom, India

Europe, 3

Nicola Adams, England

Karolina Michalczuk, Poland

Elena Savelyeva, Russia

Oceania

Siona Fernades, New Zealand

Lightweight

Africa, 1

Rim Jouini, Tunisia

The Americas, 1

Adriana Dos Santos Araujo, Brazil

Asia, 2

Mavzuna Chorieva, Tajikistan

Saida Khassenova, Kazakhstan

Europe, 3

Katie Taylor, Ireland

Sofya Ochigava, Russia

Natasha Jonas, England

Oceania, 1

Alexis Pritchard, New Zealand

Middleweight

Africa, 1

Edith Ogoke, Nigeria

The Americas, 2

Roseli Amaral Feitosa, Brazil

Claressa Shields, United States

Asia, 1

Jinzi Li, China

Europe, 3

Savannah Marshall, England

Elena Vystropova, Azerbaijan

Nadezda Torlopova, Russia

Oceania, 1

Naomi-Lee Fischer-Rasmussen, Australia

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Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame nod caps Joe Hand's long career

May 20th, 2012


















On Sunday, standing among some of the state’s boxing blue bloods at his induction into the Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame, Hand, 75, will again ask himself that question.

How did he, a Philadelphia police officer, come to call Smokin’ Joe a friend? How did he wind up running a pay-per-view distribution company and boxing gym, both marked with his name?

Hand and eight other mainstays of the sport will gather at Romano’s Catering in Philadelphia to be honored as the newest members of the hall of fame, which is voted on by about 20 members of the Pennsylvania boxing community.

The other inductees are boxers Johnny Carter, Eddie Corma, Dorsey Lay, Steve Little, Frank Moran, Joe Rowan, and Jess Smith along with boxing writer Nigel Collins.

“I don’t take this lightly,” said Hand, who is also a member of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, the Pennsylvania Golden Gloves Hall of Fame, and the Middle Atlantic Boxing Association’s Hall of Fame. “This is recognition from my peers. That means a lot to me.”

Growing up, Hand never slid gloves over his fists. He wasn’t a boxing fan. His introduction to the sport came because of his job and too much down time.

As a police officer, he was assigned to patrol the subway station at Eighth and Market. Crime was light, mostly just the occasional purse-snatcher. So every day, Hand kicked back and flipped through the sports pages, looking for information about the Eagles and Phillies.

One afternoon, in 1964, Hand read about a company called Cloverlay. Some investors formed the business to support Joe Frazier, who turned pro after winning a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics earlier that summer. Hand wanted in.

He couldn’t give much. He said he made only about $4,000 a year then. But Hand was accepted into the group of 14, a group that included politicians and business executives and partners at accounting firms.

Unlike Hand, most of the Cloverlay partners were well-connected, but they were also busy. They needed someone to oversee the day-to-day operations.

They could pay $100 a month. Hand was driving a new baby blue Ford Fairlane, and the car dealer needed $99 every 30 days. He took the side job.

Hand organized Frazier’s training camps, found sparring partners, and, when Frazier hit the road, made room reservations.

“I was the butler,” Hand said, “the gopher.”

Through that work, he learned the ins and outs of the boxing business. In 1970, he formed Joe Hand Promotions, a company that distributes closed-circuit and pay-per-view events to bars and clubs.

Thirteen years later, he opened a boxing gym in Philadelphia. There, kids train for the rings Hand mastered, even if he didn’t step between the ropes.

 






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Massive NYX UN-BOXING Video

May 18th, 2012

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Fitness Boxing in the West Village

May 18th, 2012

Two weeks at a gym devoted solely to fitness boxing, Aerospace High Performance Center in the West Village, taught me that much. I had never thrown a serious punch in my life until my first workout in the most hands-on class offered, Aeroimpact. After having my hands wrapped and gloved, Michael Olajide Jr. ran me through the basics: jab, uppercut, hook and power punch. Mr. Olajide is a 48-year-old former middleweight champion who had been teaching similar classes for about a decade before opening the gym in 2005.

“We take the conditioning of fighters and ask you to do exactly what a fighter would do,” he said as we walked into a room where three types of punching bags hung idly.

In unison with about 20 other students — an even mix of men and women — I started throwing right jabs into a heavy bag in time to pumping house music. After a few minutes I started getting tired but also felt weirdly exhilarated. Punching felt good.

Right jab, slip right, right uppercut, left power punch. Each sequence progressed in pace from slow to medium to double time, or fighting speed. The goal, Mr. Olajide explained, is to develop power, speed, reflexes, defense and endurance. Keeping up with the increasingly elaborate maneuvers called for serious focus and stamina.

“Pick it up,” Mr. Olajide shouted with a sharp triple clap when he saw me lagging, yet again. He gently reminded me to turn my wrist just before impact and to keep my defensive hand up. “You’re perfecting the punches,” he said.

After a while, panting and drenched, I had to take a breather.

At the end of class everyone lined up for short one-on-one sessions with “focus mitts.” Every time my big knuckle connected squarely with the sweet spot of the mitt, I felt especially strong. But I was nothing compared with some of the others, particularly a few women whose punches were much faster and stronger than mine. They were highly trained fighters, and it was easy to see why women’s boxing will finally be a medal sport at the Summer Olympics.

Jessica Clarke, 19, a model who lives in Clinton, said she trained regularly at the gym and had vastly improved in six months. (A number of Victoria’s Secret models train with Mr. Olajide privately, he said.)

“Everyone’s just full-on into the workout,” Ms. Clarke said. “It’s so motivating and empowering, and it’s fun.”

While resting for a few days, I found myself craving the gloves and the bags. I shadowboxed in the mirror at home, trying to work on my form.

The next week, after an Aerobox class, which complements the Aeroimpact class with skipping rope and shadowboxing, Teresa Misagal, 44, a restaurant manager who lives in Williamsburg, told me that her 14 years of training with Mr. Olajide had, in his parlance, “sleekified” her.

“It changed what my arms look like, what my legs look like, my entire shape,” she said.

Though jogging and machines have their merits, this brand of exercise goes beyond mere fitness. It’s an art form, much like dance, in which you are always striving to improve and perfect the punches.

Aerospace offers a variety of weekly classes for $30 each; a one-month unlimited membership is $300; 332 West 13th Street, West Village; (212) 929-1640, aerospacenyc.com.

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Freddie Roach is ready to get in corner of USA Boxing

May 18th, 2012

Freddie Roach, the multi-time professional boxing trainer of the year, has made several fighters into supermen. Manny Pacquiao would serve as Exhibit A.

But Roach’s next mission — and he has chosen to accept it — might boost the superlatives into the realm of miracle worker.

Pending the outcome of a phone conversation next week with USA Boxing officials and national team coach Basheer Abdullah — the Roach decision a likely rubber stamp — Roach will head off to Colorado Springs, Colo., before the Games as a consultant to the U.S. team for the London Olympics.

Getting Roach to this point has involved politics, controversy, firings, money issues and power struggles. Yes, your basic Olympic fare.

For the last year and until last month, the national team coach of USA Boxing was Joe Zanders. But when Zanders’ teams — Olympic boxing is now both men and women, 10 male weight divisions and three female — did not do well in the World Games of 2011, the people with the checkbooks stepped in. That would by the U.S. Olympic Committee.

“They came to us in February and let us know their concerns,” said Anthony Bartkowski, executive director of USA Boxing. “They wanted to make sure their funding was being used properly.”

The USOC has something called high-performance funding, and its perception was that boxing’s performance wasn’t that high. The choice was somebody take the fall or the fighters would be getting to London in rowboats. Bartkowski, no dummy, dismissed Zanders and the checkbooks reopened.

“It was difficult for all parties,” Bartkowski said. “It was a tough pill to swallow all around.”

Roach was part of the deal. He had volunteered his time last year, spent more than a month in Colorado Springs at USA Boxing headquarters, pitching in with Zanders and his team, and had been established in the minds of the check-writers as an integral part of the 2012 London effort. The desire for Roach’s presence apparently hasn’t changed in the minds of the USOC.

“The USOC brought up Freddie to us from the start,” Bartkowski said. “They liked the idea of him helping and said that we should give it a shot.”

Remember, these decisions are being made against a backdrop of recent Olympic boxing embarrassments. After a parade of U.S. Olympic glory that served as a springboard to professional greatness for the likes of (Cassius Clay) Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Sugar Ray Leonard and Oscar De La Hoya, to name a few, the cupboard had run bare. USA Boxing brought back one medal, a bronze by Deontay Wilder, from Beijing and hadn’t won a gold since Andre Ward’s in 2004 in Athens.

It may not have occurred to the USOC that it had, in Roach, a knight ready to ride in on a white horse until he, inadvertently, suggested it himself.

“I was in the Philippines, training Manny,” he said recently, “and somebody asked me if I would help out the Philippine Olympic fighters. I said I’d rather help my own country.”

That found its way into print, and soon, Roach was working alongside Zanders. That reportedly didn’t work on several fronts.

As one associate of Roach’s put it, “Freddie would suggest they work the gloves and Joe would say, nope, we are going swimming.”

Roach said, “It became clear he didn’t want me around. He said that, if we did well, I’d get all the credit and if we didn’t, he’d get all the blame.”

Roach departed Colorado Springs, got busy training Pacquiao and Amir Khan and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., among dozens of others, and the issue didn’t come to a head until the USOC money people came marching in in February. Still, it took until mid-April to get Zanders off the payroll and officially make Abdullah, an acquaintance of Roach’s and the team’s 2004 Olympic coach, the main man.

“I know him, I like him,” Roach said. “He’s been here in my Wild Card Gym several times.”

The delays and agendas have now necessitated a let’s get-this-all-straight phone call next week. As recently as early this week, one USA Boxing board member told Yahoo Sports that Roach would not be part of the London effort.

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Boxing champ cops drug ban

May 16th, 2012

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AUSTRALIAN national boxing champion Bianca Elmir has reportedly been banned for doping just hours before she was due to fly out to China to fight for an Olympic berth.


According to reports, Elmir tested positive to a diuretic while competing at the Australian titles in February where she won the 51kg division.

The weight class is one of three divisions being held in the first women’s boxing program at an Olympics, but Elmir was banned from competing at the world championships, which are being held in China – the main qualification route to London.

Boxing Australia officials refused to comment on the issue, which is still before the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA), the 30-year-old facing a maximum two-year ban.

Elmir was replaced in the Australian squad at the world championships by Kristy Harris, who lost in the first round.

Elmir reportedly told ASADA she took the tablet to stop swollen ankles on long flights, having been given the medication from a friend while training in Ireland before the national titles.

According to her coach Gary Hamilton, the drug can be used as a masking agent or to help you lose weight.

“She’s taken the substance, that’s not denied, but she wasn’t aware it was going to do what it did. It wasn’t done to help her with her boxing,” Hamilton told Fairfax papers.

“I really believe she’s taken it for this medical reason, and only for this medical reason.”

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Boxing age raised to 14

May 16th, 2012

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The ACT has become the second state or territory in Australia to raise the minimum boxing age to 14, but Boxing ACT isn’t going down without a fight.

Boxing ACT has lodged an appeal with the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal (ACAT) in an attempt to overturn the decision to increase the age limit from 10 years of age.

NSW is the only state or territory which enforces a boxing age of 14, with a large contingent from across the border expected to be affected by the change at an amateur boxing tournament in Canberra on Saturday night.

Boxing ACT is required to seek a permit from the ACT Government each time it holds an event for junior boxers.

Approval was forthcoming for this weekend’s event, but Boxing ACT only received notification on Tuesday that all contestants must be 14 years or older.Up to a dozen Canberra boxers aged between 10 and 13 would be affected by the increase, with many more expected from interstate.

Boxing has rules in place to protect younger competitors, such as a mandatory 30-day period out of the ring for a concussion and a limit of a 2kg weight difference between fighters under the age of 16.

Boxing ACT is seeking an interim order to allow Saturday’s tournament to go ahead, and believes the Government’s decision is an unreasonable misuse of executive power to restrict the operation of its sport without consultation of those effected.

Boxing ACT holds between four and five tournaments a year for the past decade for junior amateurs.

The official said the ACT Government has approved each previous application without expressing any concern.

 




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Boxing club opens at Newlands School in Seaford

May 14th, 2012


THE GLOVES were definitely on when youngsters joined a new boxing club which started in Seaford on Tuesday (May 8).


Seaford and Newlands Amateur Boxing Club is based at Newlands School and aims to give youngsters a diversion and hopefully reduce crime and antisocial behaviour.

The club was the idea of Dave Selby, who said: “I am moving to Seaford as I was part of the old boxing club that was located above the library, so I am aware there is a need.

“The aim of the club is to target underprivileged youth in the area and provide a diversionary facility to reduce antisocial behaviour and crime.

“All coaches at the club have passed the relevant boxing coaching courses as set be the Amateur Boxing Association of England and are all CRB checked. The club has strict policies covering child protection, health and safety and equity.

“The vision of the club is to become a well known name in boxing circles, bring back boxing shows to the area and be a focal point for youth in the community.

“I also have the full backing of Newlands School and want to integrate boxing into the school.”

Training sessions are every Tuesday and Thursday from 7pm to 8.30pm for seniors aged 16 plus and cost £3.50 per session or £5 for both sessions. Annual membership is £25.

For juniors, aged ten to 16, training is every Wednesday from 7pm to 8pm at £2.50 per session and annual membership is £15.

Members do not need previous experience of boxing and the club is open to those who just want to keep fit as well as for those who wish to compete.

Three classrooms have been identified for the club and funding is being sought to refurbish the buildings to provide a boxing gym.

All the coaches at the club are volunteers and the club is purely non profit making, with all proceeds going back into the club.

Mr Selby is looking for local people to help buy equipment or a kit sponsor who may want their logo on the kit.

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MMAFighting: Slice wins fifth career boxing fight

May 14th, 2012

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May 13, 2012 – One wonders if Gary and Jared Shaw actually believe they’re fooling the public.

Last night at the Lucky Star Casino in Concho, Oklahoma, Kevin ‘Kimbo Slice’ Ferguson continued his sojourn into the world of boxing as he faced and defeated Jesse Porter in the first round of their scheduled four-round bout (it should be noted there is some dispute as to whether Slice’s opponent was Porter or Richard Dawson, which is another hilariously sad angle to Slice’s boxing foray). If Slice keeps this up, he’ll soon replace Butterbean as the ‘King of the Four Rounders’, which is, well, signifying of nothing even approximating an accolade.

If Slice wishes to or needs to feed his family this way, one can think of worse ways to do so (although one can think of better ways, too). Slice’s participation in this charade is regrettable and one wonders how much he’s financially taking home after his handlers get their cut, but he’s hardly a villain.

The question is how long it will be before Slice crosses the tipping point. He’s not demonstrably getting any better and presumably needs double-digit wins to even begin tantalizing someone with a scintilla of a name to face him in what will surely be unregulated territory. Until then, I suppose they’ll keep feeding Slice pre-diabetic gas station attendants to render unconscious.

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HBO Boxing: Floyd Mayweather – Speaking Out

May 12th, 2012

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