Sentences with phrase «middleweight who»

Not exact matches

And listen to Gerald McClellan, who in February battled to the brink of death in his WBC super middleweight title fight against Nigel Benn in London.

Wright (49 - 3) gave up his junior middleweight belts for a shot at middleweight Taylor, but first he must dispatch the acrobatic Soliman (above), who at 31 - 7 is the IBF's No. 1 contender.

A less likely opponent is James Toney, who recently abdicated the IBF middleweight crown by moving up to the 168 - pound class.

Hall has stated in the past that he cuts from about 210 lbs and there are many others who cuts much more weight for middleweight.

After all, this is a guy who remedied the image problem of middleweight Fidel Castro Smith by stitching a shamrock onto his trunks and renaming him Slugger O'Toole.

The former matinee idol, who won a gold medal in front of his countrymen at the Rome Olympics in 1960 and later held the world middleweight title for most of three years, had been beating himself up, guilt - ridden that for all his success in and out of the ring, he hadn't done enough to help others.

One thing needs clarifying before revisiting the turbulent boxing career of Joey Giardello: «My name is Carmine Tilelli,» says the man who slugged his way through 133 professional bouts over a 19 - year span and wore the world middleweight belt from 1963 to» 65.

Pender will most likely settle the middleweight championship — andeliminate the confusion and controversy surrounding it — by taking on GeneFullmer, who is the National Boxing Association champion, acclaimed in allstates save Pender's, as well as Asia and South America.

Wonderboy trains with Weidman who is probably the biggest middleweight in the world.

In 1970 George Benton was a middleweight with all the moves, a dazzler who could have gone far.

Also check out who complains about fighting at 160 when he's actually fighting at middleweight.

A former IBF middleweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight champion, the 38 - year - old Toney, who weighed in at 229 pounds, tested positive for boldenone and stanazolol.

He is a natural welterweight who graduated into the middleweight division for a big - money crack at Ray Robinson and then could not reduce his way back to his natural habitat.

As a boxer, Honeyghan looks to America for inspiration — he frequently trains in the U.S. before major fights, and his best friend is Buster Drayton, the IBF junior middleweight champion, who lives in Philadelphia.

Christle, who was born in Dublin, is a middling middleweight prizefighter with perhaps a better heart than hands.

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.

This news comes as a shock to the pugilist who is currently in the United States of America after losing a 10 - round bout to middleweight opponent Gabriel Rosado.

Craig Wheeler of the University of Texas in Austin, US, who is not a member of the team, says it is still not known whether middleweight black holes form in globular clusters in the first place.

Michelle put Ward in touch with her trainer, Michael Olajide, a former middleweight contender, who owned a gym in Manhattan's fashionable Meatpacking District.

Rockhold is a former UFC & Strikeforce Middleweight Champion who has numerous wins over world class middleweights with the added advantage of only being 33 years old, 7 years younger than Yoel Romero.

Michael Bisping has waited eight years to fight for the middleweight title since joining the division; the problem is he's fighting Luke Rockhold who submitted him back in 2014.

Showtime Boxing: Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather discusses his fighter WBC Super Middleweight World Champion Badou Jack who makes his second title defense against former longtime titlist Lucian Bute, April 30th at the DC Armory in Washington, D.C.

Showtime Boxing: Exclusive look at IBF Super Middleweight Champion James DeGale who paved the way towards title unification with a hard - fought unanimous decision against top Mexican contender Rogelio Medina.

Mickey Rourke stars as boozy washed - up palooka Johnny Walker, who dreams of winning the middleweight boxing title and is given one last shot at it.

Showtime Boxing: Exclusive look at boxing's youngest world champion, David Benavidez, who left no questions in a rematch with Ronald Gavril, defending his WBC Super Middleweight World Championship with a dominating 12 - round unanimous decision.

Maurice DuBois profiles the new «Rocky»: middleweight Danny Jacobs, who's battled back from bone cancer to find himself boxing's newest champion with a chance at title reunification.Bill Whitaker leads an investigation into secret motors and mechanical cheating in pro cycling, a sport already infamous for its scandals.

Jake Gyllenhaal plays Junior Middleweight Champion Billy «The Great» Hope, a lefty champ who loses everything in a personal tragedy and is forced to literally fight his way to redemption.

Considine stars as the middleweight boxing world champion who reenters the ring to defend his title but doesn't leave in the same shape he went in.

Paz's father (Ciarán Hinds, Frozen, 2013) who manages the gym, is worried that Vinny is not ready for the change, but eventually agrees with Rooney's plans and is able to arrange a title fight for his unrelenting son in his first match as a junior middleweight against Frenchman Gilbert Dele.

Written by Kurt Sutter («Sons of Anarchy») and Richard Wenk («The Mechanic»), it's the story of Billy «The Great» Hope, the Junior Middleweight Champion who's on top of the world, until tragedy strikes.

Jake LaMotta, 1921 - 2017: Jake LaMotta, an iron - fisted battler who brawled his way to a middleweight title and was later memorialized by Robert De Niro in the film «Raging Bull,» died Tuesday,

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.

Matty Burton (Considine, who also writes and directs) is no journeyman in this sense: he's a veteran of the sport, a middleweight boxing champion with a glittering career under his belt and retirement in his sights.

By contrast, Southpaw involves a fictional character, Billy Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal), who has attained the junior middleweight championship.