Sentences with phrase «won middleweight»

The black - belt master, a supporter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican, in the last presidential campaign, may have won a middleweight karate championship in 1968 and starred alongside Bruce Lee in «Way of the Dragon.»

# 5 Gene Fullmer WEST JORDAN State's first world boxing champ won middleweight title in 1957, over Sugar Ray Robinson.

Boxing Winky Wright can't win middleweight belts on defense alone Roy Jones Jr.'s battle royal with Prince Badi Ajamu is set for... Boise?

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.

Not exact matches

Luke Rockhold can become the interim UFC Middleweight Champion with a win on Saturday, but the same can't be said for Yoel Romero.

Whereas Gene mauled his way to the middleweight title, Jay has won 13 professional fights by boxing and sharp punching — a sufficient difference to make one wonder about heredity and environment.

He fought his way back up for a while, beating Curtis Parker in 1984 to take the USBA middleweight crown, a minor title, but enough to start talk of a fight with Hagler, and an opportunity at a really big win, a chance to grab the titles that mattered, those administered by the WBC / WBA / IBF and The Ring.

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.

Claressa Shields won the first ever gold medal in women's middleweight (165 lbs) boxing beating Russia's Nadezda Torlopova 19 - 12.

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.

The former middleweight champion lost his title and had a five - fight winning streak snapped in a surprising loss to Michael Bisping.

Yoel Romero will be battling Luke Rockhold in a UFC Middleweight Championship match, but he can't win the belt.

By beating the WBA junior middleweight champion, Davey Moore, Roberto Duran won his third title and recaptured his good name

Prior to that, he lost to Bisping defending the Middleweight Championship he won from Weidman.

Jesse, a senior at Columbia High, was the top teen middleweight lifter at the USA Powerlifting nationals after winning the 82.5 kilogram class in the 16 - to -17-year-old division with his three - lift total in the bench press (167.5 kg), deadlift (285) and squat (320).

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.

Israel Adesanya is a 28 - year - old Nigerian middleweight that owns a perfect 12 - 0 record as a professional with all 12 of his wins coming by way of knockout.

Hell, Anderson barely got past a blown - up middleweight in Tom Lawlor and only has one win over a current member of the UFC roster, and that was Jan Blachowicz in the midst of a 1 - 4 run.

Laszlo Papp, Hungarian middleweight and an Iron Curtain oddity (the Communist world's only pro boxer), knocked down Ralph (Tiger) Jones of Brooklyn three times to win a 10 - round decision before a sellout crowd of 16,000 in Vienna.

I moved up to middleweight to win a belt and faced one of the greatest middleweights of all time, Bernard Hopkins.

He competed as an amateur until he won the 1978 World Amateur Championships middleweight division.

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.

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 middleweigMiddleweight 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 middleweightmiddleweight division.

Showtime Boxing: IBF Super Middleweight Champion James DeGale talks with Nick Halling about his family foundation, winning gold in the 2008 Olympics, and adding another belt to his resume.

Showtime Boxing: Billy Joe Saunders stripped Andy Lee of his WBO middleweight world title after knocking Lee down twice in the third round and going on to win via majority decision.

SYNOPSIS: At the peak of his career in the 80s, boxer Vinny «Paz» Pazienza had won the lightweight world championship, followed by the junior middleweight title.

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.

With this victory, Pazienza became the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships.

The Olympic gold medalist from has regained his IBF super middleweight title with a unanimous - decision win over Caleb Truax in Las Vegas