All posts tagged "Michael Woods"
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Worldwide
Hearing Back From NYSAC
Big time boxing in NY is fairly flourishing, with Barclays Center being a constant platform for A grade main events, such as the one being featured...
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Worldwide
The Numbers Are In For FightNight Live Facebook Live Stream Event At Mohegan Sun
“FIGHTNIGHT LIVE” ON FACEBOOK OPENS WITH KNOCKOUT NUMBERS Boxing, MMA streaming series debut draws 40,000 views, and still climbing. Online: https://www.facebook.com/FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE/ The reviews are in, and...
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FIGHTNIGHT LIVE ARRIVES: Courtney Pennington Downs Delvin Rodriguez on Facebook Live Stream Show
Delvin Rodriguez wanted another crack at the A grade goodies, another big fight attempt and that attendant challenge and pay day. He’d need to get...
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New York
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTS: Heather Hardy Headlines in Brooklyn May 18
The struggle to get women’s boxing up to speed, on par with the men, it has been a fight quite appropriate for the mentally and physically...
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Worldwide
Golovkin Talks Trump
The President elect is a fan of boxing, used to host cards at his casinos in Atlantic City before they went bankrupt, and still attends the...
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New York
Brooklyn Battler Heather Hardy Talks MMA Debut Cancellation
Bad news for Heather Hardy, the Brooklyn based fighter who was counting down to making her MMA debut Saturday in Kansas, on an INVICTA show. Word...
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Gleason’s Was Movin,’ But It’s Still Groovin/Water St Location Getting Raves
The old gym, and the collection of blood and sweat and tears and odors, opened up in 1985. Some of the people at the new gym,...
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Japan
BOXING ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE: WHAT WE ARE THANKFUL FOR
Tis that time of year when many Americans frequently gather with family and friends, over indulge in food and drink, trade chatter and updates on what...
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Worldwide
UNANIMOUS DECISION: Tag Heuer/Muhammad Ali Event At Gleason’s A KO Affair
The joint smelled a tiny bit better than it does on an average day, even in a photo scrum of folks trying to snap a pic...
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Ultra Vet Bernard Hopkins To Meet Joe Smith
UPDATE 2: Joe Smith sounds ready to rock and roll into the New Year on a momentum surge. “I’m looking forward to this fight, this one...
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BWAA Dinner A Rousing Success; Mayweather Gets FOY
For the 91st time the Boxing Writers Association of America gathered to bestow awards, listen to the honored give speecahes, and ponder the state of the...
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New Podcast Alert: Rosie Perez First Guest on “TALKBOX”
TALKBOX, a brand new boxing themed podcast, is ready and waiting for you to devour it. I am the host of this pod–which is basically a...
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Atlas and Bradley Start Camp
By Michael Woods He flew from NY to Cali on Sunday and camp started Monday and Teddy Atlas said, by and large, Tim Bradley is right...
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“Detroit Brawl” Scores A Knockout
By Michael Woods Disclosure first: I worked on the show, doing blow by blow for GOFIGHTLIVE, and I consider the promoter, Dmitriy Salita, a friend… But...
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2016 NYS Boxing Hall of Fame Class HERE
Oh how I wish he were still alive so I could hear his acceptance speech. Hopefully, he’d have been sipping from the adult drink cup and...
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Worldwide
The Fight Game Exits 2015
This was an interesting year in boxing, if not one filled with scintillating in the ring action. We got the fight of the century, the one...
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Worldwide
Shane Mosley, But Of Course, Fights On
He is 44 years old and you can, if you wish, take aim at his dream, dismiss it as delusion, snipe at him from safe range....
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Worldwide
The Lowdown on “Throwdown”
If you are a sports fan who watches games on free TV, you saw, and saw again, and yet again, ads for those leagues who run...
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Japan
Assessing Walters-Sosa
He said the right words on Thursday, did Nicholas Walters, of his unheralded foe, Jason Sosa of Camden, New Jersey. Sosa is known to harder-core fight...
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Worldwide
Teddy Atlas Is A Bit Of A Rockstar
The intensity of Teddy Atlas, it isn’t for everyone. Everyone can’t handle it. That NY edge, those Manson lamps, that Vince Lomabrdi-Knute Rockne tinged surges of...