World Boxing Council

Tyson could have been the best boxer ever. He was the first heavy weight to hold all three major boxing belts at the same time (“Mike Tyson”). His wild childhood and beginning of career shocked the world, but once all his fame and fortune caught up with him he got into some trouble. When he tried to come back it was just too much and he had to retire. Tyson played a major role in the world of boxing and influenced the way we box today. Mike Tyson childhood lead the way to his successful career

Jeff was an IBO super-featherweight champion and Roger (Floyd’s current trainer) was a World Council

Boxing is one of the oldest known sports, from 2,000-year-old depictions on the walls of tombs in Egypt, to stone carvings indicating that Sumerians, who lived in what is now Iraq, boxed over 5,000 years ago. However, this is not the boxing that we know today, it was once a more exhausting and brutal sport. In ancient Greece, two men would sit face to face with their fists wrapped in strips of leather. They would hit each other until one of them fell to the ground unconscious or dead. Roman fighters

my favorite sports to watch is boxing. I started to enjoy the sport of boxing after I saw the first Rocky movie. The Rocky movie was my first introduction to the sport of boxing. Even though Rocky is the fictional character he is one of the most iconic boxing figures in the sport. Sure, there are boxing legends like Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather, and Oscar de la Hoya. But for some reason, Rocky Balboa is the reason that I am a fan of the sport of boxing. As much I loved to talk about

Banning Boxing Last year half the world stood still for one of the biggest spectacles in sport - a championship-boxing match. In May 2002, Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson stepped in the ring to settle a yearlong grudge by fighting each other. For the event, both men were flown to Las Vegas, Nevada, where they trained for weeks and prepared themselves for the bout. The revenue created from stadium seats, advertising and pay-per-view television (arranged by Don King of course)

Los Angeles Rams Football Club V. Cannon (Page 76 in textbook) Background Billy Cannon is a highly touted draft prospect coming off a successful college career at LSU, which included a Heisman Trophy win. The Los Angeles Rams of the NFL were the first in signing him to a $50,000 contract. However, Cannon subsequently signed a $100,000 contract with the AFL’s Houston Oilers. The Rams sued Cannon in an effort to prevent him from performing any football activity for any organization other than their

Hands of Stone is a 2016 film, directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz. The film is a biopic based on Panamian boxing legend, Robert Duran, played by Edgar Ramirez. The film shows his rise from a poor street boxer to a feared amateur known for his free spirit and early knockouts. In his quest for greatness he meets the love of his life, Felicidad (Ana de Armas), illustrious boxing coach Ray Arcel (Robert Di Nero), and goes head to head with American champion Sugar Ray Leonard (Usher Raymond). Through the

Roach is the boxing coach of world champion 8 division world, Manny Pacquiao and more, like Cotto, even Georges St-Pierre. He has a fight record of 40-13 and 15 by knockouts. But unfortunately, it was cut short, since due to taking many blows and barrages of punches over all those years, he began showing the early signs of Parkinson’s disease. But still he refuse to retire until he lost 5 of 6 more fights, until then he just retired at age 26. Notably one of his greatest accomplishments was training

the best boxer in the world. Unlike us, he had huge objects blocking his path in the time he

Pound for Pound King of Boxing Floyd Mayweather, the greatest boxer of all time, recently ended his career with a professional record of 49-0 with 26 knockouts, and 11 title wins. Floyd has accomplished everything in boxing that can be done. He went undefeated, he has won 11 titles at 5 different weight classes, and holds the welterweight champion in two different boxing divisions (WBC and WBA). He also owns 22 championship belts. Floyd Mayweather is arguably the greatest boxer of all time. The