Sentences with phrase «light middleweight»

Written and directed by Ben Younger («Prime»), his first effort in more than a decade, and produced by Martin Scorsese, it tells the story of Vinny Pazienza, professional boxer who held world titles in the lightweight, light middleweight and super middleweight divisions.

Despite disagreements between Rooney and Vinny's father, Angelo (an almost unrecognizable Ciarán Hinds, «Hitman: Agent 47»), he receives a shot at the WBA World Light Middleweight Title and is successful in defeating the French champion, Gilbert Dele, with a TKO (technical knockout) in the 12th round.

Okay, for truth's sake, Vinny had already made his near - miraculous comeback much earlier in real life, defeating future WBC Light Middleweight Champion Luis Santana via a 10 - round decision.

Vinny Pazienza had a promising boxing career after winning the light middleweight title, but then a car accident left him with a broken neck and the possibility of never being able to walk again.

By the time he retired in 2002, Roberto would also hold the world welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight titles.

The 12 boxers, who won five bronze medals in Atlanta in addition to Reid's light middleweight gold, have a combined record of 156 -2-2 in the punch - for - pay ranks.

Dowdney, a former British universities light middleweight boxing champion, came to Brazil in 1995 to study street children in the northern city of Recife for his dissertation in social anthropology.

Not exact matches

The light heavyweights to middleweights will start at $ 10,000, go on to $ 15,000 and finish with a 70/30 split of $ 65,000.

The match - ups for the opening quarterfinals are: Holmes vs. Prater in the heavies; Cassidy vs. Taylor in the light heavies; the sharp Colbert against Chiaverini in the middleweights; Randy Shields vs. Juan Cantres in the welterweights; Pat Dolan vs. Johnny Sullivan in the lightweights and Walter Seeley vs. Hilbert Stevenson in the feathers.

Carl (Bobo) Olson, impassive middleweight titleholder from San Francisco seeking more fertile fields to conquer, was heaviest of career at 169 pounds, sported brand new crewcut, mustache and right - hand power, surprised flabby (even at announced 175 pounds), 33 - year - old Joey Maxim with lethal two - fisted attack, battered ex-light heavyweight champion to canvas with savage combinations in second and ninth rounds, kept up lightninglike barrage all way to win easy 10 - round decision at San Francisco, confidently set sights on Archie Moore's light heavyweight crown.

Randy Turpin, England's former world middleweight champion, called it quits after unsungCanadian light heavyweight Gordon Wallace scored four knockdowns, knocked himout in fourth round at London.

The reason for this tensed - up optimism was that, while the light and middleweights were dandy in their classes, men like Dube, Bednarski and others — the superheavies, the whales — had a more special mission in mind.

Defended the belt against back to back middleweights and Sonnen was coming from a lighter weight class off a KO loss.

British light - middleweight Brian Rose took a step towards elite level with a battling 12th - round stoppage of Joachim Alcine in Blackpool

About 12 million light - years distant in galaxy M82, middleweight M82 X-1 is bigger than the black holes left over from stars» deaths, but it's not big enough to be supermassive.

Most of the black holes in LIGO's mergers have been middleweights, being heavier than that 20 — solar mass limit but much lighter than the supermassive variety, raising questions about their origins and relationship to the two well - studied populations of black holes.

In co-features, welterweights Jo Jo Dan (33 - 2, 18 KOs) and Kevin Bizier (23 - 1, 16 KOs) go for a 12 - round rematch, super middleweight Andre Dirrell (23 - 1, 16 KOs) takes on Derek Edwards (27 - 3, 14 KOs) and light heavyweight contender Artur Beterbiev (6 - 0, 6 KOs) faces Jeff Page Jr. (15 - 0, 10 KOs).

The pride of Cranston, Rhode Island was a 30 - year - old light - middleweight champion with a 31 - 5 professional record when a 1991 car accident left him with a broken neck and an iffy prognosis of walking again.

UFC 3 contains an incredibly strong fighter roster from the past and present throughout 10 weight divisions comprising of women's strawweight including Joanna Jędrzejczyk; women's bantamweight including Ronda Rousey; men's flyweight including Demetrious Johnson; men's bantamweight including Dominick Cruz; men's featherweight including Max Holloway and Frankie Edgar; men's lightweight including Conor McGregor and Tony Ferguson; men's welterweight including BJ Penn, Donald Cerrone, Matt Hughes and Robbie Lawler; men's middleweight including Anderson Silva, Georges St - Pierre, Michael Bisping and Robert Whittaker; men's light heavyweight including Chuck Liddell, Daniel Cormier, Forrest Griffin and Rampage Jackson; and men's heavyweight including Stipe Miocic; and many more fighters besides.