Jim Amato
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008When you’re a professional heavyweight and you win forty of forty eight fights, chances are you could fight a little. Oregon’s Terry Hinke could fight. Although he would never reach the heavyweight ” A ” list, he was good enough to do well against some fairly good competition.
Terry turned pro in 1969 and quickly [...]
BRIAN LONDON
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008The British produced some quality heavyweights during the 1950’s and 60’s. Of course ” Ol’ ” Enry ‘ Cooper comes to mind. There was rugged Joe Erskine and Wales gave us Dick Richardson. Later Billy ” The Golden Boy ” Walker would emerge. One of the best was Brian London who would twice fight [...]
FIVE TIME WORLD TITLE CHALLENGER MITSUNORI SEKI PASSES AWAY
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 I recently learned that one of Japan’s first great boxers, Mitsunori Seki passed away. He was the victim of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 66. Seki was good enough to challenge for a world title no less then five times during the 1960’s.
Seki first attempted to win the flyweight title from Thailand’s [...]
: TAVORIS CLOUD VS. JULIO GONZALEZ ON AUGUST 8TH IN CHICAGO
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008: TAVORIS CLOUD VS. JULIO GONZALEZ ON AUGUST 8TH IN CHICAGO
06/09/08
TAVORIS CLOUD VS. JULIO GONZALEZ ON AUGUST 8TH IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, IL (JUNE 7, 2008) The highly anticipated showdown between unbeaten light heavyweight Tavoris Cloud and former world champion Julio Gonzalez will take place on Friday, August 8th at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom and will be broadcast [...]
MONTELL GRIFFIN FIGHTS IN CHICAGO JUNE 20th
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 “Nine years is a long time to be fighting out of town, I’m thrilled to be fighting at home on June 20th” said former world champion Montell “ICE” Griffin after a training session in his native Chicago..
‘I’ve been on the road for while and it’s nice that my kids and family can come see [...]
DREAM FIGHT : CARLOS MONZON -VS- GENE FULLMER
Thursday, June 5th, 2008DREAM FIGHT : CARLOS MONZON -VS- GENE FULLMER
Two of the strongest middleweights to ever lace up the gloves square off for a battle of the ages. Carlos Monzon of Argentina. Tall, lean but deceptively strong with a thudding left jab and a thumping right cross. Gene Fullmer of Utah. Barrel chested and bull strong. Awkwardly [...]
ADAMEK IN CHICAGO
Thursday, June 5th, 2008ADAMEK IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, IL- IBF Cruiserweight #1 Mandatory Tomasz Adamek met with the media in Chicago today to announce his ESPN2 televised showdown with veteran brawler Gary Gomez set for Friday, July 11th at the Aragon Ballroom.
Chicago was the location of two of Adamek’s biggest wins as he battled Paul Briggs in 2005 and 2006 [...]
TIMBER : THE FALL OF BIG JOHN TATE
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008TIMBER : THE FALL OF BIG JOHN TATE
He was to be the heir apparent to the retired Muhammad Ali. He was a big strong heavyweight who could box. Yes Larry Holmes was the holder of the World Boxing Council’s version of the heavyweight title. Larry had been embarrassed though in the amateurs by Duane Bobick. [...]
MOVIE REVIEW : ” POOR BOYS GAME “
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008MOVIE REVIEW : ” POOR BOYS GAME ”
This 2008 boxing movie is what I call a ” sleeper “. The cast is headed by veteran actor Danny Glover who plays George Carvery. George is a former trainer whose son is beaten up outside the ring and left permanently disabled. The young man accused of this [...]
Boxing’s “Big Mac”…Mac Foster
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 By :Jim Amato
Long before Mark McGwire was launching tape measure home runs in Oakland and acquiring the nickname “Big Mac”, West Coast sports fans used to cheer the feats of another “Big Mac”. MacArthur Foster a heavyweight boxer from Fresno, California won his first 24 professional bouts all by knockout. Six [...]