Middleweight

Lenroy “TNT” Thomas now (19-4) makes a statement on front of his hometown crowd at the Bayfront Hilton in beautiful St Petersburg Florida. You would think that after a 16 month layoff we would see some ring rust, but that was not evident as Thomas has been traveling the world sparring some the best in the heavyweight division, with names such as Alexander Povetkin and Luis “King Kong” Ortiz to name a few. His Opponent Grover Young (12-21), the only man alive to score a drawl with Sergey Kovalev

Ring Magazine rates him as the No. 1 contender in the middleweight division (as of Aug. 22), and it’s difficult to argue with the accolade. GGG has been his usual quiet self during the build up to his 17th world title defense, but he has carried himself in a confident, focused manner. It’s clear there’s a mutual

Not even financial woes concerning UFC 217’s ticket sales could divert George “Rush” St-Pierre’s (GSP) attention to his goal of defeating Michael “The Count” Bisping and having the UFC middleweight championship belt wrapped around his waist on November 4 at Madison Square Garden. MMA Junkie relayed GSP’s statement that he would rather win his fight and make zero dollars than the other way around by losing his fight and earning his profit. According to UFC commentator Joe Rogan, the pay-per-view’s

to retire but he didn't. After losing to Mayweather. He hopped up two weight classes and beat the French champion Gilbert Déle. Vinny has claimed 5 world titles. He has competed in 8 world title matches so he has lost 3. Before Vinny was the middleweight champion he was a lightweight from Rhode Island. Vinny pazienza was born in Cranston Rhode

anti-semitic remarks throughout the novel, which has a negative effect on him because he is treated differently and often looked down upon. Robert Cohn was from one of the richest Jewish families in New York, he attended Princeton and was named the middleweight boxing champion. Being a Jewish man going to Princeton made Cohn feel bitter, shy and inferior. The narrator of this novel, Jake who went to school with Cohn says that Cohn actually disliked boxing but he used it to “counteract the feeling of inferiority

world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) was dominated by one name Michael Thompson. Already an Olympic gold medallist in wrestling Thompson had joined the UFC in 1991 and had taken the sport by storm beating Ricky Martel in his third ever fight to become middleweight champion of the world. Just one and a half years and he was champion, an achievement no one had ever done before. After defending his title for 3276 days just short of 9 years and beating and ending the careers of many of the greatest fighters

This seems to ring more true than ever after colitis has sidelined former middleweight and welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. There were talks of a fight between St-Pierre and Woodley prior to the disclosure of his illness, but he’s out indefinitely. Co-main event Saturday’s co-main event will be a featherweight fight

In 2014, Pettersson and Berg analyzed the level of dehydration in competitors at the time of their actual event. Researchers also analyzed the hydration level of competing athletes at the time of the weigh-in based upon each competitor’s water consumption. A total of 63 competitors were selected for this study; 43 men and 20 women. Researchers developed a volunteer form that they distributed to Swedish Olympic Committee Representatives. These representatives then presented the form to male and female

Aside Hughes and Serra, the 36-year-old has defeated high-profile names such as Nick Diaz, BJ Penn and Carlos Condit. How he will perform after a four-year layoff against a bigger fighter at a heavier weight is the biggest question. No one in the middleweight division, including Bisping, seems to think that St-Pierre will defend the title if he wins. St-Pierre cleared up those thoughts to the MMA Hour in August. “I have to defend my title,” St-Pierre said. “It’s written in my contract. I have to defend

The Performance factor as my dependent variable in this research proposal can be for each of the boxers utilizing the orthodox/southpaw position, observing the quantity of triumphs against an orthodox/southpaw adversary. Age: the average age for an active professional boxer ranges from 22 -40 years Opponent’s stance: this could either be southpaw or orthodox yet this data directs the choice of evaluating performance in a boxing match (win/lose/draw). Ratings or Rankings: base on the rule that a