Susan Foreman

this article the author(John Whitaker) discusses an Everlast commercial that is only a minute and 30 seconds long but carries a powerful message. The commercial starts off with a small child running through what appears to be a bad neighborhood. As the commercial goes on we realize that he is not in a bad neighborhood but just lives in abject poverty. However, it seems that he has a really strong passion for boxing. This is shown when by the child’s constant training in a worn down gym. Everything

Stipe Lasic Mrs.Leonard College Prep English 14 December 2016 From Bro to Pro “Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.” Jack Dempsey was a professional American boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927. Through hard work he reached the status of heavy weight champion and impacted the future of boxing. According to the article Jack Dempsey Biography, “Born William Harrison Dempsey on June 24, 1895, in Manassa, Colorado, Jack Dempsey's parents, Hyrum and Celia Dempsey, were

Floyd Mayweather Sets Date For Next Fight Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather next bout is set just four months after his victory against Manny Pacquiao. The boxer an kicked he will fight against Andre Berto on September 12th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas (NV). This will mark Mayweather's final fight, closing his iconic career without a blemish on his 48-0, 26 KOs record. The event will be broadcast on Showtime Pay-Per-View at 8pm (Eastern standard time). Mayweather understands the magnitude of the last

For this biography I would like to talk about George St-Pierre. George St-Pierre, aka GSP is a professional mma (mixed martial arts) fighter and held the UFC world champ. GSP has a black belt in Kyokushin Karate, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. George was raised in St-Isidore, in Quebec (a town of only around 2,000 people) and was bullied by older kids for years, when he was 7 his dad put him in Kyokushin Karate. St-Pierre has said “life isn’t like the movies, when you’re only 8 or 9 and they are 12 there

Antonio and Felix have a dream of becoming lightweight champions of the world but each of them have a different boxing style. Soon Antonio and Felix will fight for the win in the Golden Glove champion ship. What exactly is the Golden Glove Champion ship? It is we're young athletes can develop lifetime skills. The first tournament was held in 1923. Both Felix and Antonio are seventeen years old, they live in New York City. Felix and Antonio have the dream of one day to become lightweight champions

Martial Arts have always been a craze among most of the people across the world. Mixed Martial Arts has always been considered as one of the best sports these days. People love to watch the self defense techniques tactfully used by both the opponents. Mixed Martial Arts Fighters from Hawaii are highly trained challengers who have mastered this technique of self defense. They are now on the field to show you their best performance and capability that literally keeps you fixed on your seats till the

Former IBF light welterweight and WBA welterweight titlist Paulie Malignaggi (33-7, 7 KOs) is reportedly hanging up his gloves after a devastating ninth round technical knockout loss to up and coming fighter Danny Garcia (31-0, 18 KOs), as per Boxing News 24. The Brooklyn native announced his intention to retire after a 14-year fighting career during the post-fight interview on Saturday at the Barclays Center in New York. He also expressed his desire to continue a career either as a boxing commentator

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

In recent years boxing today is constantly compared to the past years often making the argument that boxing was better in the past. The past had names like Lenox Lewis and Mike Tyson destroying the heavyweight division fans were almost guaranteed a knock out, which like most combat sports is what most fans want to see. Today, though fans constantly get disappointed when that doesn’t happen, which makes them automatically declare boxing’s past was and always will be better than it can ever become

Muhammed Ali was born in 1769, to a wealthy family who lived in northern Greece. Not much was known about Ali’s childhood, but when he reached his middle years he became fascinated with Napoleon Bonaparte, saw him as a role model, and tried to model himself after Napoleon when he took the throne of Egypt. None could have predicted that he would actually have reached the caliber of Napoleon as a leader, much less transform his country into a global superpower. Muhammad Ali’s countless economic, political