Boxing
The arrest comes only days after the former middleweight champion fought in a match against Jake Paul in Anaheim, California.
Shields’ accolades over the last year include defeating Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse for the WBO light heavyweight and WBC heavyweight titles last July, then beating Danielle Perkins for the WBA heavyweight title in February.
Younger people may know Foreman for his infomercials, but for a generation of boxing fans, he will always be known for his skills in the ring.
The former fighter whose biggest victory was seen on ESPN would order dozens of cheeseburgers from McDonald’s and drive around the South Side to pass them out to people in need, according to his wife.
A native Texan, the boxing champ turned successful businessman began his boxing career as an Olympic gold medalist who inspired fear as he climbed to the peak of the heavyweight division by stopping Joe Frazier in 1973.
The boxer nicknamed “El Magnifico” revealed on Nov. 10 he had sarcoma.
The fight/event, marked by a lack of action, didn’t live up to the hype. Netflix got panned.
Usyk (22-0) added Fury’s WBC title to his WBA, IBF and WBO belts with a spectacular late rally highlighted by a ninth-round knockdown in a back-and-forth bout between two previously unbeaten heavyweight champs.
“Hopefully he would say we got it right to a large degree. ... To show the humanity in him was important to the story,” Blanchard says of the late Griffith, the subject of his 2013 opera.
Despite his many accolades, the 16-year-old champion didn’t set out to be a boxer — that was the passion of his father. Now several wins later, the younger Awinongya faces new challenges, including a new weight class where tougher opponents await and college classes.
Netflix’s latest set of thoroughly researched films also fills in some blanks about the BALCO steroid dispensary and Urban Meyer’s Florida Gators.
Both credit lessons they learned from boxing for their success in the entertainment world and consider competing in the Chicago Golden Gloves a key part of their development.
‘The vision for the gym is to be able to serve the community we’re in and the neighborhoods we grew up in,’ said Antonio Beniquez, co-founder of the Barracks Boxing Club on the Northwest Side.
Lane, who was also an attorney, served as a judge and prosecutor before hosting a daytime courtroom TV show.
The women, now in their 60s and identified in the lawsuit by pseudonyms, are seeking damages for sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Trevante Rhodes (‘Moonlighting’) nails Tyson’s look and sound in the Hulu project.
The passenger and Tyson both requested that charges not be filed, District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe said in a statement.
The passenger was sitting in the row behind Tyson and excitedly trying to talk to the retired boxer before Tyson stood up, turned around and unloaded with a flurry of punches, the video footage published by TMZ shows.
The Bears quarterback isn’t like either Super Bowl quarterback. Is there hope?