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Raging Bull is a movie that re-tells the story and memoir of Jake LaMotta. The movie begins with Jake (portrayed by Robert De Niro) practicing a monologue in his bathroom. The scene then switches to a younger LaMotta in the midst of a boxing match in 1941. This flashback paints the story of how LaMotta received his first loss. The scene starts off with LaMotta and Reeves exchanging blows until LaMotta gains the upper hand and knocks Reeves to the mat. The crowd starts celebrating, cameras go off, and LaMotta strikes a pose and receives his victory robe. The celebration is quickly interrupted though by the ring announcer’s decision to crown Reeves as the unanimous winner. This creates a huge uproar, followed by a stampede of people and bedlam in the crowd. Amidst the fight, the scene changes to the Bronx, in 1941. This scene features Joey (Jake LaMotta’s brother) and Salvy (Joey’s associate) walking and discussing Jakes boxing career on the streets of New York. Salvy tells Joey to make Jake ‘know that he needs to cooperate and stop being so hard-headed’. Joey then rebuttals Salvy and it becomes known to the audience that LaMotta’s loss was fixed before the match even started. The scene then cuts to Jake inside his apartment sitting at his dinner table.

he boxed. His pro career was paying off and he was shooting for a chance at the Featherweight

This past Saturday night we witnessed a huge upset as Viktor “The Ice Man” Postol (28-0) simply out classed Lucas “La Maquina” Matthysse (37-4). You may ask how was this a “huge” upset, this is an upset due to the fact Lucas holds one of highest KO ratios in all of Boxing out his 37 wins 34 came by way of KO. Now you have a boxer like Postol who has 27 wins with only 11kos, who typically would not be favored to survive the relentless onslaught of a power puncher. There are couple factors that subdued the machine and it was the height, range and pure Boxing ability of Postol that went on to stop Matthysse with a straight right hand to the previously injured left eye of Mathysse. Matthysse went down but decided not to get back up.

Before accepting this challenge Rocky was long retired from his boxing career, however he did plan to re-enter the ring after reminiscing about many of the moments he had experienced during his career. Rocky was determined to go back onto some local fights but he never imagined the challenge against Mason Dixon coming his way. This opponent was one of the fastest and youngest men Rocky would be fighting. He decided to dedicate a lot of his time to training for this fight. Not only was this fight going to be one of the greatest, but it was also an opportunity for him to let out the “beast” inside of him. Rocky felt he could not turn down this

The following year in 1971 Ali fought Joe Frazier, this fight was called “Fight of the Century,” this fight went 15 rounds before Frazier won by decision. In 1974, Ali and Frazier fought again, where Ali won. Later that year in Kinshasa, Zaire, Ali was an underdog to his younger opponent and former Heavyweight champion George Foreman. Here Ali beat Foreman and won back his title he had been stripped of in 1967. The next year in 1975, “Thrilla in Manilla” where Ali fought Frazier in a long 14 round fight where it ended in favor of Ali and is known as one of his toughest

According to Silverman (2012), one of the major causes or factors, which were involved in the declining trends of boxing in America, is diminishing use of heavyweight division. It has been examined that one of the major aspects, which caused people of America to get engage in other sports is the stoppage of heavyweight division in boxing. This idea was supported by Bernick and Banks (2013), according to which, the citizens of America loved to experience knockouts, which were quite impossible without heavyweight divisions. With the passage of time, they lost their interest from boxing and found other interesting and eye catching sports, like football, cricket, hockey, etc. It is a fact that Ray Robinson was a middleweight, during his boxing era (Epstein, 2011). In spite

On June 28th, 1997, Jeffrey Kostecki was doing his normal daily routine, except today was special; today was the day Mike Tyson was scheduled to fight Evander Holyfield for a rematch of the original title bout on November 9th, 1996. Except this time was different; not because Mike Tyson was going to win the title bout, but an event that happened during the match so gut wrenching, that it changed the way boxing was looked at forever. It was a normal day for Jeff, grinding out another day of work to try and achieve his dreams of owning his own small business, when he realizes today was the day. Today was when Mike Tyson was going to try and gain the heavyweight title from Evander Holyfield. “I think I remember

People have appreciated his commitment and keenness during the challenge. BJ Penn conquered Florian right form the first round till the 3m 54sec score of 4th Round, it was here when his rear-naked stifle ended the matters.'BJ Penn’s game was flawless and perfect. This was confirmed by the 17,411 spectators who were glued to their seats till BJ Penn ultimately won. BJ Penn fans in the Wachovia Center viewed the entire match with great amusement and amazement. The audience was amazed to see the way Penn systematically faced and singled out each and every facet of his opponents- Florian’s fight preparation. Penn organized the standup with firm rights which counteracted his opponent’s 4 inch contact advantage thereby resulting in 2 opening round knockdowns. 'Penn was quite successful to stop and defend every takedown attempts from his challengers. And when these were put to the ground, Penn was still fresh, fit and fine with no sign of deterioration. Just like from past several years, his cardio was perfect and this really helped him to lead to capitulation hold. Penn was all set to fight and he actually wanted to maintain his title.

Pacquiao squeezed the battle from the opening chime, attempting to score a knockdown. He looked as though he would when he got Vargas with a straight left that put him on the canvas in the second, however Vargas got up rapidly.

“Bang”.... “Uppercut”..... “Jab”. That's all you here in the ring… Every move/punch counts for the winning of the fight. Not knowing if the opponent was going to give the last punch. Sylvester “ROCKY” Balboa was much more than a fighter, boxer...He is motivation to not stop what you started. Rocky was a Star in the boxing world… Made films...A Overtime boxing match, and Rocky’s Latest film.

Slice last fought at Bellator 149 on Feb. 19 in Houston, where he defeated Dhafir Harris in a three-round decision, but the result was later overturned by the Texas commission after Slice tested positive for banned

The boxing-fight of Evander Holyfield versus Mike Tyson, billed as “The Sound and the Fury,” was a professional boxing match contested on 18 June 1997 for the WBA Heavyweight Championship. It achieved notoriety as one of the most bizzare fights in bocing history, after Tyson bit off part of Holyfield’s ear. Tyson was disqualified from the match and lost his boxing license, though it was later reinstated. The fight took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. During another clinch, Tyson bit Holyfield’s left ear. Holyfield threw his hands around to get out of the clinch and jumped back. Tyson’s second bite just scarred Holyfield’s ear. Lane did not stop the fight this time, so the two men continued fighting until time expired.

Garcia (37-0, 30 KOs) showed a depth of talent that was too much for Broner (33-3, 24 KOs)—winning their showdown by a 12-round unanimous decision.

When Mcgregor would have the microphone, he would be trash talking to Mayweather face. Mayweather would sit up straight and wait his turn to talk. When it was Mayweather turn he would trash talk back, but smile at the end. Saturday night, August 26 ,in Las Vegas the day came for both fighters which they have been preparing for. Both of them threw punches to the face and bodies in the 1st round through the 9th round. When it came the 10th round Mayweather started to realize how Mcgregor was fighting. Mayweather switched his position to perform better punches which lead to knockout Mcgregor to the ground. After the celebration from Mayweather and his team members. An announcer ask Mayweather “When you look back what do you want people to remember Floyd Mayweather by?” Mayweather responds was “Well just know I went out 50-0, and in my last fight I gave them a bang.” What he meant by “bang” is that his goal has finally been accomplished. This speech from him made me look back on my goals and how far I have accomplished them as

We expected that the only fight that night would be Chandler vs. Brendan, that was definitely not the case. Before the main event there were six other fights. We had attracted a lot of the seniors to Fight Night X and they were definitely down for fighting. These minor fights included, Alex Mack vs. Zach Diecker, Luke Worley vs. Blake Metcalf, Max Kemper vs. Collin Goveia, Michael Smith vs. Austin Sweet, Square vs Joe Wolf, Bryce Rutledge vs. Parker McDonald all leading up to the main event. Will Hogan had been taking cash bets throughout the night and Brendan was the heavy favorite. (Our event had turned from an underground fight club to an underground fight club with illegal gambling) Brendan was the favorite due to his size and the fact that he was getting shipped off to Army basic training in just a few months. But, he was a wild card, like I stated earlier he was not part of our friend group so we had never seen him fight. This was unlike Chandler who was a Fight Night veteran with a side of batshit crazy when it came to wrestling. After a crowd pumping introduction from Joe Wolf the most historic fight in Fight Night history was