Sentences with phrase «boxing champion of»

As a young boy growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, 12 - year - old Cassius Marcellus Clay dreamed of someday becoming the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.

HE is the boxing champion of the world, and has been partying with more than one reality TV star.

Michigan used seven men last Saturday in a close game with Minnesota, and every one but Pomey outweighed the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.

How Paul «Big Show» Wight kind of, sort of, almost — OK not really — became heavyweight boxing champion of the world

Seventeen - year - old best friends dream of becoming light - weight boxing champions of the world.

Not exact matches

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., «The Greatest of All Time» was a three - time world heavyweight boxing champion and civil rights champion who suffered a decades - long battle with Parkinson's disease.

Andre Ward is one of the most decorated champions in all of boxing and is currently considered by many the best pound - for - pound fighter on the planet.

Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson.

The five times world boxing champion, Mary Kom also congratulated the star weightlifter of India on Twitter for bringing gold to India.

President Donald Trump is considering a full, posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion, who was convicted of racially tinged federal morals charges more than a century ago.

«Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson,» Trump said Saturday on Twitter.

Olympics national champion, who overcame several obstacles to not only succeed in boxing, but to be the first member of his family to graduate from high school.

Tecate's Champions Night campaign celebrates these fans by providing them with the opportunity to celebrate their bicultural duality and passion for boxing while providing retailers with the opportunity to further increase sales of Tecate Light.»

Tecate Light, one of the fastest growing imported light beers in the U.S., is encouraging LDA + boxing fans to turn their casual gatherings into the ultimate viewing experience with its Champions Night campaign that kicks off March 1st.

But, Ali aside, boxing is in a parlous state: no work for fighters, small purses when they do fight, empty gyms and fewer licensed fighters than ever before; only two American world champions (Ali and featherweight Danny Lopez)-- a long fall from a time when U.S. fighters held most of the world titles.

Similar tournaments are held every year at Army, Air Force and Notre Dame — McNally has tried, without success, to arrange a dual match between his brigade winners and Notre Dame's Bengal Bouts champions — but none of the other schools match the zeal for boxing at Annapolis.

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.

Infamously, Tyson bit the ear of world champion Evander Holyfield in their rematch in 1996, earning a ban from boxing and never winning the world title ever again.

He knows the ground game, of course, but he also knows boxing because he spars at my Wildcard West (gym), he spars with a couple of my fighters all the time over there, and one of them is a South African champion and won the world title at one time (Chris Van Heerden), so he's been in with some quality guys.

Video: Cristiano Ronaldo in gay relationship with Badr Hari, claims journalist on French TV Video: Tyson Fury's sexist rant shows dark side of boxing champion following «pedophilia» comments

Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather announced on Saturday that he has come out of retirement to fight UFC light heavyweight champion Conor McGregor.

BOXING — Panamanian ISMAEL LAGUNA, 22, became the new world lightweight champion when he won a 15 - round decision over Carlos Ortiz, 28, of New York in Panama City (page 32).

SI believes the public still has the obligation to be concerned with the links between the underworld and the boxing business, and one of these is exemplified in the case of Alex Greenberg and World Champions, Inc..

When Floyd Patterson knocked out Archie Moore to become history's youngest heavyweight champion, it was more than a ring triumph, it was also a defeat of the boxing monopoly

Rousey shot back by bringing up Mayweather's history of domestic violence, before taking another verbal jab at the boxing champion at the 2015 ESPYs.

BOXING — BILLY COSTELLO retained his WBC super lightweight title with a 12 - round unanimous decision over Ronnie Shields in the champion's hometown of Kingston, N.Y.

At 39 years of age — he will be 40 on August 14 — Tiger is the oldest champion in boxing.

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The 130 - pounder is one of Northern California's top boxing prospects and a six - time amateur national champion.

Nashville star Hayden Penettiere and heavyweight boxing champion, Wladimir Klitschko, announced their engagement on Wednesday's episode of Live With Kelly &...

Sick of people complaining over a free 4 hour show, this one in particular has 2 champions, a former champion, a HOFer, a boxing HOFer (or future if he isn't already) and multiple guests in studio.

Andy Goldstein sits down with former boxing world champion, Nigel Benn, to discuss his remarkable life and love of United.

Along with live video interviews with Liverpool legend John Barnes and former world cruiserweight boxing champion Tony Bellew, guests including Dr Colin King of the Black and Asian Coaches Association, professional boxer Natasha Jones, actress Phina Orouche and Kick It Out's Troy Townsend will all make speeches on the evening.

Germany wary of Russian hackers as elections approach + + + Human rights group voice concern as disappearances in Turkey continue + + + + A film about the forgotten Afro - Italian boxing champion Leone Jacovacci

BT Sport is where the best go head - to - head, bringing you live coverage of the Premier League, Uefa Champions League and Europa League, Aviva Premiership, European Champions Cup and Challenge Cup, the Ashes, boxing, UFC and MotoGP.

Creed sees former boxing champion Rocky Balboa, played by Stallone, serve as trainer and mentor to the son of his late rival Apollo Creed.

The world champion boxer not only has a history of winning trophies and plaudits for his boxing skills, he also has a disturbing history of violence against women.

As the self - styled people's champion in the largely minority borough of The Bronx, he once posed in red boxing gloves in one campaign.

Speaking through his son who is a member of the House of Representatives, Prince Akeem Adeyemi, the foremost royal father argued that, «I don't care attitude of government at all levels towards supporting the game of boxing has been responsible for the country's inability to produce world champions as it was in the past».

The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, as part of activities to mark the 50th year anniversary of the creation of Lagos State invited Holyfield, a five - time World Cruiserweight and Heavyweight boxing champion, for a scheduled boxing match with a former governor of the state, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

«American former world boxing champion, Evander Holyfield is in Lagos as a special guest of the government to celebrate Lagos at 50 and I am not invited.

I am a world boxing champion, I have contributed to the economic growth of Nigeria through sport and I was rewarded with the highest national honour ever given to a Nigerian athlete, Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).

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Showtime Boxing: SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING presents a night of three world title fights headlined by a featherweight world championship showdown between WBA titleholder Jesus Cuellar and former three - division world champion Abner Mares.

Synopsis: Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones) is the boxing heavyweight champion of early 1910s America.

Showtime Boxing: IBF Super Middleweight World Champion James DeGale discusses his childhood in London, winning a gold medal, and becoming one of boxing's most exciting champions in the super middleweight division.

Showtime Boxing: WBC Super Middleweight Champion Badou Jack sets his sights on becoming a unified world champion under the guidance of boxing legend Floyd Mayweather.

The film's highlight is the custody - hearing sequence, in which several human celebrities of yesteryear show up as witnesses: Silent film stars Clara Kimball Young and Francis X. Bushman, both of whom reminisce about their career highlights, and former boxing champion Jim Jeffries, who recalls his glory days of the 1890s.

Showtime Boxing: A profile of Cleveland - native Shawn Porter who started boxing at the age of four, and under the wing of his father, rose to be one of boxing's most exciting young champions.

Showtime Boxing: World champion, Shawn «Showtime» Porter will take on undefeated welterweight contender Kell Brook in an action - packed night of boxing also featuring the rematch between super middleweights Sakio Bika and Anthony Dirrell.