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15.06.2010 - Despite the excitement that followed last month’s crowd-pleasing fight between Floyd Mayweather and Sugar Shane Mosley which the former won clearly on points, it wasn’t the contest the fans were longing to see, which was originally supposed by be Floyd Mayweather against Manny Pacquiao, billed as The Fight of the Century. more...

Even the great Jack Dempsey refused to fight Greb

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Boxing’s greatest middleweight

24.02.2010 - ‘Sugar’ Ray Leonard – World Middleweight Champion 1988-1990: “Boxing is more than a sport, it’s a skill. In the ring your fists are like little snakes that strike before you can tell them to”. more...

Ricky could well be lined up against Márquez

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Hatton v Márquez – Could be a belter

13.02.2010 - Tenerife is like a second home to Manchester’s boxing hero Ricky Hatton who has, over the years, spent numerous holidays in the south of the island. more...

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The ageless Archie Moore

23.01.2010 - Television not only opened up boxing like a flowering rose to millions of fans, many, who wouldn’t have known the difference between a left hook and a sky-hook, but it also introduced viewers to lots of fighters with colourful nicknames, the likes of Sugar Ray, the Bronx Bull, Bobo, the Rock and the Cuban Hawk among them. more...

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British boxers will share the limelight in 2010

12.01.2010 - Denzil Batchelor – writer (1947), “Boxers are as various as fingerprints, no two are alike. There have been champions who hated the game and animated punch bags who could not get enough of it.” more...

Jack Palance was a successful boxer before he became an actor

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Stars of screen and canvas

27.12.2009 - Bob Hope – actor/comedian – “I was called ‘Rembrandt’ Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. more...

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Haye – now you know my name

06.12.2009 - Larry Holmes – Former World Heavyweight Champ: “If you stay in a room with promoteor Don King for an hour he’ll con you into anything. That’s why I talk to him on the phone. So I can hang up”. more...

Rocky Marciano retired in 1955 with his unbeaten record of 49 wins still intact

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The undefeated world champions

01.12.2009 - Charlie Goldman (trainer) on Marciano’s lack of talent: “They all look better than Rocky when they’re doing their job, but they don’t look so good on the canvas”. more...

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The gentle sex get in on the act

23.11.2009 - Frank Bruno: I didn’t want to go around mugging old ladies or robbing banks, so I took up boxing. It’s surely more honourable to fight for a living than be fighting in the streets. more...

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David Haye is aiming high

05.11.2009 - Bruce Woodcock, British heavyweight hope, 1940s - Sleep came as it must come to all British heavyweights, midway in the fifth round: ‘Red’ Smith, US s. more...

George with Alexis Argüello in Canastota, in 2005

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Death where is thy sting!

27.09.2009 - I hadn’t time for a five year apprenticeship and no-one was going to send me to Hollywood. Boxing was never a sport to me. It was a deadly game, it was a path I was forced to follow”. more...

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Heat returns with a vengeance

Canary Islands - 30.07.2010 - Soaring temperatures yesterday have brought a sweltering end to the month for most parts of the Canaries. more...

Pool users treated after chlorine leak

Santa Cruz - 30.07.2010 - Eight swimmers using Santa Cruz's municipal swimming pool required medical treatment yesterday evening after chlorine leaked from a maintenance tank into the air. more...

Karate school boss charged with 56 child sex offences

Gran Canaria - 30.07.2010 - The owner of Gran Canaria's most successful karate school is to be prosecuted for almost 60 separate offences in what Spanish media are billing as the biggest child sex scandal in the country's history. more...

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Santa Cruz - 29.07.2010 - A Santa Cruz woman who knocked over a pedestrian and damaged several cars in the Ramblas area of the city was well over the alcohol limit, according to police. more...

Arona resorts set for 22 million euro facelift

Arona - 29.07.2010 - The main tourist areas in Arona are to receive a massive facelift under a 22 million euro project unveiled yesterday by the local council. more...

Islands claim bullfight ban 'first'

Canary Islands - 29.07.2010 - Yesterday's headline-making decision by Catalonia to outlaw bullfighting in the region as of 2012 has prompted a flurry of media reminders here that the Canaries were the first part of Spain to ban the sport. more...

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