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Boxing12.01.2010 - Denzil Batchelor – writer (1947), “Boxers are as various as fingerprints, no two are alike. There have been champions who hated the game and animated punch bags who could not get enough of it.” more...
Jack Palance was a successful boxer before he became an actorBoxing27.12.2009 - Bob Hope – actor/comedian – “I was called ‘Rembrandt’ Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. more...
Boxing06.12.2009 - Larry Holmes – Former World Heavyweight Champ: “If you stay in a room with promoteor Don King for an hour he’ll con you into anything. That’s why I talk to him on the phone. So I can hang up”. more...
Rocky Marciano retired in 1955 with his unbeaten record of 49 wins still intactBoxing01.12.2009 - Charlie Goldman (trainer) on Marciano’s lack of talent: “They all look better than Rocky when they’re doing their job, but they don’t look so good on the canvas”. more...
Women’s boxing will be an Olympic sport in 2012 Boxing23.11.2009 - Frank Bruno: I didn’t want to go around mugging old ladies or robbing banks, so I took up boxing. It’s surely more honourable to fight for a living than be fighting in the streets. more...
Boxing05.11.2009 - Bruce Woodcock, British heavyweight hope, 1940s - Sleep came as it must come to all British heavyweights, midway in the fifth round: ‘Red’ Smith, US s. more...
George with Alexis Argüello in Canastota, in 2005  Boxing27.09.2009 - I hadn’t time for a five year apprenticeship and no-one was going to send me to Hollywood. Boxing was never a sport to me. It was a deadly game, it was a path I was forced to follow”. more...
Primo Carnera’s record stood for seven decades until Valuev came along Boxing06.09.2009 - Don King (Promoter), on his time before boxing, “intellectually, I went into jail with a peashooter and came out armed with a nuclear bomb.
I made time serve me, rather than me serve time”.
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Wuz he robbed?Boxing27.08.2009 - Bud Schulberg, writer: “So what happens – this bum Wilson gets the title shot – outdoors in a ball-park! And what do I get? A couple of bucks and a one-way ticket to Palookaville.” (On the Waterfront) more...
The young men were honoured by the Arona MayorBoxing19.08.2009 - Two young boxers from Arona have won gold medals and been proclaimed Spanish champions in their age and weight groups.
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La Laguna - 07.02.2012 - A well-known Tenerife lawyer is the focus of police attention in a money-laundering and fraud investigation ordered by a La Laguna judge. more...
Canary Islands - 07.02.2012 - Relations between the Canarian government and the new Spanish government sank further yesterday when the region's tourism minister was apparently snubbed by his national counterpart. more...
Canary Islands - 07.02.2012 - Two Britons who had to be rescued again after getting into trouble on their bid to cross the Atlantic in a pedal boat could face a hefty fine for the latest mobilisation of air and sea rescue resources. more...
Puerto Santiago - 06.02.2012 - The controversial circumstances of the death of a Moroccan man whose body was recovered from the sea in Puerto Santiago at the week-end are being investigated. more...
Tenerife - 06.02.2012 - Several parts of the coast of Tenerife took a severe battering at the week-end due to the strong winds, which sent waves crashing onto the shore. more...
Santa Cruz - 06.02.2012 - Yesterday's big game against promotion rivals Albacete was an emotion-filled day for the family and friends of Andy Glover, who died recently. more...
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