THE Place for BOXING in Michigan
Ann
Arbor Tourney Starts Friday The James “Lights Out” Toney 1st Annual Invitational Tournament starts Friday and ends with championship competition on Sunday. The state’s newest amateur boxing tournament is hosted by Ann Arbor’s A-Square Fight Club, which has held several big venue club shows in the few years since its inception including a well attended show at the field house at nearby Eastern Michigan University. |
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Monroe’s
Morais Finds Success in MMA Debut Posted: August 15, 2008 Splitting his workout time between two gyms is how amateur boxer Drew Morais has spent his summer. And the work paid off as the novice boxer faced his latest opponent, this time in the caged arena. |
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Cunningham
Advances With Win Over Wallace |
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Bernal
Last Hope at Under-19 Championships Four Michigan boxers were among the seventy-eight amateurs fighting for gold at the Under-19 National Championships being held this week in Kansas City, but after the quarterfinals today only one still has a chance. |
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Under-19
Championships Four Michigan boxers are in Kansas City this week hoping to return home with a championship title at the Under-19 National Championships that start today. As in 2006, the national tournament is being held in conjunction with this year’s Ringside World Championships in Kansas City, Missouri. Seventy-eight boxers, aged 17-18, are expected to participate this year. |
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Boxing
Comes to Royal Oak The latest offering from Heavy Hitter and CLIP, with the assistance of licensed promoter Ron Remus, is set for Thursday in Royal Oak. The card has changed – as they always do – and so has the venue. But the card remains mostly competitive. |
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Dirrell
Posts Another Win Andre Dirrell recorded his fourth straight knockout victory with his weekend win over Maryland’s Mike Paschall. It is his longest KO streak of his pro career. |
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Nash
Continues Loss Streak Reggie Nash lost another fight this weekend but this time Michigan boxing fans did not have to endure it. |
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Furney
Fights on Judah Undercard Former Michigan fighter Scott Furney has been fighting regularly since his move out-of-state with little notice paid until this past weekend he appeared on the undercard of the Zab Judah –Josh Clottey card. Furney (3-4-1, 1 KO) went head to head against one-time amateur standout Diego Magdaleno on August 2. The two fighters with extensive amateur backgrounds faced-off in a six round junior lightweight bout. |
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Crown
Boxers Win Title Tournament Lansing’s Crown Boxing returned home with two new national champs from a Title amateur tournament that took place in early June, which Sportssummary just became aware of. |
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Funseth
Wins Silver in National Tourney From a young age, she has been around boxing. First because her older brother was a boxer and then when the bug effected her. Today, she holds distinction as a national medal winner. |
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Three
Win Top Prize at Junior Golden Gloves In an era of high fuel prices and a declining local economy, a handful of Michigan hopefuls ventured westward in quest of gold. No, this is not a page from your school history book about the gold mining efforts of days gone by but rather of five young men that sought a gold emblem to wear around their neck. At least momentarily, until it then takes its place on the bookshelf with their other trophies, belts and awards. |
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Settlement
Worked Out in Paris Complaints Representatives of the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth (DLEG) and former Detroit boxer Vernon “Iceman” Paris have worked out a settlement negating the need for a scheduled hearing on July 28. |
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Detroit Bad Ass gets Cancelled Promoters have cancelled Friday's amateur show at Fort Wayne. Promoter Greg Ahrens confirmed on Wednesday that the planned three show amateur elimination series culminating with a promotional contract and a FSN-televised pro debut has been cancelled. |
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Arsenault
Chalks Up KO 1 in Bay City Despite the overcast and threatening weather, promoters Greg Ahrens, Carlos Llinas and Art Dore attracted a SRO crowd to the annual summer show in Bay City. As in the last few years, Hooters on the Saginaw River was the venue. |
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For
Love, Injury puts Boxing on Hold Again For the second time in eight months, an injury has forced Kronk amateur J’Leon Love to temporarily put boxing on hold. |
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Toney
Defeats Rahman In controversial fashion, Hasim Rahman all but quit on the stool after the third round Wednesday night, giving James Toney the TKO decision and the NABO heavyweight championship. |
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Detroit
“Bad Ass” Concept is Unique Open class amateur boxers intending to turn pro this year will have a unique opportunity later this month. Three promoters are continuing a standing relationship to bring professional boxing to the state with a unique tournament-style amateur event that will culminate with a professional boxing contract. |
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Brusso
Improves, West Injury Causes Stoppage on Saturday Detroit Boxing Jungle was the venue on Saturday in a nine-card show billed as the “Rumble in the Jungle.” Six clubs from the metro area participated in the first of what trainer and owner Mike Awada says will be monthly Jungle shows. The Jungle gym is not the first club this year to promise monthly boxing shows – Kronk’s planned Pro-Am format has suffered from the start with cancelled pro cards and now complete cancellations for at least July and August. Hopefully, Awada will have better success. |
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Shamoun,
Jasso Win Despite their boxing gym being closed for the summer, two Casa De Boxeo fighters traveled to Ohio and won in club show competition. Zach Shamoun and David Jasso competed in the latest Defiance Athletic Club (DAC) show on Thursday, July 3. |
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Bert’s
Show is Cancelled Friday’s boxing show at Bert’s Warehouse Theatre in Detroit has been cancelled. |
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New
Kronk Holds First Grand Opening Kronk once again has a presence in the city of Detroit. Kronk coach Majed Fradi is opening the latest incarnation of the Kronk Gym on West Warren on Detroit’s far westside. Located between Piedmont and Grandville, the new gym occupies what used to be two storefronts located across from the Instinct Bar & Grill. |
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Historic
Fort Wayne, June 20 In response to a story penned by Lindy Lindell and published here last week about the June 20th pro boxing show at Detroit's historic Fort Wayne, co-promoter Gino Cicarella of Heavy Hitter Promotions took issue. His remarks are published here, in their entirety. |
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Paris:
Finished with the Past Vernon Paris is finished with the past. The young welterweight that has largely been the boxer of note in Michigan over the past year is moving forward. And, leaving Detroit behind. |
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Bernard
“Big Duke” Docusen Inducted into CA HOF Posted: June 27, 2008 by Bob Ryder This past June 21st saw the annual California Hall of Fame induction ceremony take place at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City, CA. A packed house was in attendance to witness the event. Of local interest to Michigan boxing fans were the inductions of Joe Louis, Jackie Kallen and Bernard Docusen as well as the appearance of Berry Gordy, Jr. |
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Boxer
Injured Friday is Doing Well Ryan Meyer, who was felled during his boxing debut at Detroit’s historic Fort Wayne on Friday, was released the same night from a Detroit hospital and is doing fine. |
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Historic
Venue Site for Heavy Hitter Show Posted: June 22, 2008 by Lindy Lindell Fort Wayne, the historic military site on the Detroit River dating back to the Civil War, provided the venue for an eight-bout card on Friday. The good guy v. bad guy show featured ticket sellers that brought roars of approval from the partisan crowd that very nearly packed the place. |
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National
JO Crowns Three Michigan Champions Five Michigan amateurs traveled the 450 miles from the Detroit area to Marquette, and the home of Northern Michigan University, for the 37th annual national Junior Olympics Championships that were contested June 17-20. Garden City’s Daniel Smith (201+ lbs), just barely in the open class with under 15 fights, Lincoln Park’s Erick DeLeon (125 lbs), with more than 65 fights, and Port Huron’s Valerie Farley (132 lbs, Female) each claimed national gold in this year’s tournament. |
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Paris
Hearing Postponed Wednesday’s scheduled hearing in Lansing against pro boxer Vernon “Iceman” Paris was postponed, department officials reported Friday morning. |
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“Gorgeous”
Gorges to make Debut After six years as an amateur boxer, Andre Gorges has had enough. Sort of. On Friday, the boxer whose mispronounced last name became a moniker makes his professional debut in Detroit. |
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Gjokaj
to donate to injured boxer The story of youth boxer Juan Contreras, severely injured in a sanctioned amateur bout and whose story has been chronicled several times on Sportssummary.com, has apparently touched the heart of professional boxer Luigi Gjokaj. |
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Flores
on Chicago Card Welterweight Federico Flores, Jr. (4-2-0, 2 KO) of Hart is fighting 31-year old Gustavo Palacios (2-3-0, 1 KO) on the Chicagoan’s home turf on June 20.
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Good
Crowd, Sparse Action at Bert's Warehouse Posted: June 7, 2008 by Lindy Lindell Five summers ago, I was the matchmaker for a show in Taylor, Michigan. I made the matches top to bottom. The show bombed, an artistic and financial failure. That I was fired was largely justified. There were complications beyond my control then and I have shied away from getting licensed as a matchmaker since because the situation has so badly worsened that I no longer think it is possible to account for 14 boxers to make seven (reasonably entertaining) fights involving the budgetary constraints necessary in the putting together of a club show boxing card. |
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MMA Cage Fighting Comes to Downriver Posted: June 3, 2008
The crowd at Wyandotte’s Yack Arena was larger than for the last boxing show that it hosted. Not a little larger. Alot larger. The stands were full to capacity and the tables and rows of folding chairs set up on the floor nearest the ring appeared to be mostly full. |
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Lawsuit
Filed in Contreras Injury The mother of 12-year old Juan Contreras, who was injured during a club show in March, has filed suit against her son’s boxing coach, his boxing club and the sport’s governing organization, USA Boxing. The state Local Boxing Committee (LBC), as well as the Kalamazoo boxing club that hosted the youth’s March 15 fight, were also included, along with five other individuals or companies, in a 21-page complaint filed Thursday in the Ingham County Circuit Court. The case is #08-747-NO. |
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Love
Defeats Olympian to Win Duel Kronk Gym's J’Leon Love won his first international competition over the weekend with a points win over Dominican Republic Olympian Argenis Nunez. |
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Lawsuit
Filed in Contreras Injury A lawsuit was filed Thursday in Lansing on behalf of Juan Contreras, a 12-year old boxer, who was injured during a club show in March. |
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Love
to Compete in Duel Kronk Gym light-heavyweight J’Leon Love will represent the United States in duel competition this weekend. Love, who returned to boxing in April after four months off due to a neck injury received in a traffic crash returning home from the 2008 Senior Open state championships, is one of eleven U.S. amateurs competing against boxers from the Dominican Republic this Saturday, May 31. |
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No
Movement in Paris Cases There has been little change in the status of two rules violations against now-former Detroit light-welterweight Vernon “Iceman” Paris as they make their way slowly through the agency that governs boxing in the state of Michigan. Paris, who moved to Florida earlier this month after another attack on his life, faces disciplinary action from Michigan officials after failing a second drug test and skipping out without providing a sample in a third instance. Both of these latest incidents occurred within the last six months. |
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Contreras
Responds to Mention of Hero Did the mention of an injured boy’s hero provoke a physical response that suggests some improvement? At least two people believe so. Michigan Boxing Commission chairman Al Low visited injured amateur boxer Juan Contreras on Wednesday and may have witnessed the youth’s first dramatic, intentional movement since falling into a coma more than two months earlier. |
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Youth
Boxer Remains in Coma Juan Contreras liked boxing from a young age. A young age. Juan is only 12-years old now. But he liked boxing for sometime and he bugged mom, Rosemary, for a year to let him participate before she finally gave in. That was in February. A month later, the young boxer collapsed in the ring and was rushed to a nearby hospital. Now, exactly two months later still, the boy who wanted to box lies in an Ann Arbor hospital bed in a coma. If he wakes from his coma, Juan is not expected to fully recover. |
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Lanardo
Tyner: "This is huge, it's my opportunity!"
Major step up against Arnaoutis headlines ESPN Friday night. By Mike Indri Retired Boxers Foundation Posted: May 8, 2008 Last year undefeated jr. welterweight prospect Lanardo Tyner made the sacrifice of uprooting his family from their Detroit, Michigan home down to Houston, Texas - with the notion that following his boxing idol, former world champion Frank Tate (a fellow Detroit native), would be a boost to his professional career. |
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2008
National Golden Gloves Day three has wrapped up at the National Golden Gloves in Grand Rapids, with three days left to go. Wednesday was a marathon session with 81 bouts contested in three rings. Several of the state’s fighters saw their first action including heavyweights Jordan Shimmell and Craig Lewis and 112-pounder Tyler James. |
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2008
National Golden Gloves With three rings in use, the boxers just keep coming… and going. Another fifty-one bouts were held as day #2 concluded on Tuesday at the National Golden Gloves with a like number advancing and a like number falling. Twenty-nine regions and 286 boxers are participating in the 81st annual tournament, being held for the first time ever in Grand Rapids. Hawaii sent no boxers to this year’s event. |
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Preliminary
Action Gets Underway in Grand Rapids The first boxers entered the ring as preliminary action in the 2008 National Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions got underway Monday afternoon in Grand Rapids. Michigan’s second largest city is hosting the 81st annual installment of the Golden Gloves national open-class tournament, which is often a boxer’s final amateur tournament before turning pro. The tournament, which draws amateur male boxers aged 17-34 with at least ten prior fights, from across the country, has only been held in Michigan once before – in 2000 – in the tournament’s eight decades of existence. Twenty-nine regions and 286 boxers are participating. |
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Vernon
Paris Attacked
Detroit light-welterweight Vernon "Iceman" Paris is reportedly hospitalized after being stabbed on Saturday, Sportssummary has learned. Early reports indicated that Paris suffered a collapsed lung and underwent surgery at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital but attempts to confirm that information with hospital officials have been unsuccessful. |
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Kronk
Gold Glovers Matched Tough |
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Kronk
Boxers Relocate Again “We don’t have a Kronk Gym,” said Kronk trainer Javan “Sugar” Hill. Hill was part joking and part serious. Mostly serious. Hill went April 14 to what had been the home of Kronk – above a Gold’s Gym in Dearborn – since vandals and years of decay forced their move from its original home on McGraw twenty months ago, to find the gym closed, a barricade placed in front of the door. |
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Good
Matches Keep Lansing Boxers Busy Posted: April 28, 2008 by Lindy Lindell PHOTOS BY BOB RYDER Pro-Am boxing is, more and more, looking like the way to go--at least in Michigan. The simple fact of the matter is that good fights involving boxers with good records is no longer doable in the Wolverine state. Two attempts at matches make the point. A Michigan junior-middleweight, 2-0, refused to box an 0-3 welterweight because, as the junior-middleweight's handler told me, "I heard he [the 0-3 boxer] was an animal." In a match attempted for the present show, promoter Joe Bermudez told me that a 9-1 middleweight declined to fight a boxer with a 10-18 log. Because such matches can't be made, it isn't necessarily the fault of the boxers in question. It is the fault of the handlers who guide their careers; These handlers may not be able to spell "paranoia," but they follow its tenets as if it were scripture. |
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Experience
Triumphs Unusual Night of Amateur Boxing The latest offering from promoter and trainer Joe Bermudez’s Boundless Promotions took place Saturday evening with an entertaining mix of amateur and professional boxing in Lansing. |
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Youth
Boxer Fighting for his Life Crown youth boxer Juan Contreras remains in a coma today, five weeks after collapsing following a club show. Contreras, 12, was stopped in the second round of his second amateur fight on March 15 at a Kalamazoo show. He collapsed leaving the ring and was rushed by ambulance to a local hospital before being transferred to a hospital in his hometown of Lansing. Juan has not regained consciousness and published media reports suggest he is unlikely to recover. |
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Monroe
Hosts Toledo Golden Gloves The last of Michigan’s boxers to compete in Golden Gloves at the local level, before the national championships kick off in two weeks in Grand Rapids, took place this weekend in Monroe and Wisconsin. In Monroe, Joe’s Boxing Club hosted the annual Toledo Golden Gloves tournament, marking the first time ever that the Toledo franchise tournament has been held in Michigan. Wisconsin results will be posted when available. |
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Tyner
Gets Title Shot
Boxer Lanardo Tyner (19-0-0, 11 KO) will fight Mike “Mighty Mike” Arnaoutis in Atlantic City for the vacant USBA welterweight title on May 9th, a fight that is scheduled to be televised on ESPN2. |
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Detroit
Golden Gloves Conclude The Detroit Metro Golden Gloves crowned twenty-one new champions following three days of quality amateur boxing over the weekend. Once again the Gibraltar Trade Center in Taylor was the scene and Casa De Boxeo’s Rene Munoz played host. Munoz’s years of experience of hosting both this event as well as the state Junior Olympics showed as this year’s event was very well organized and ran smoothly. |
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Detroit
Golden Gloves Continue Boxers from sixteen metro-Detroit area clubs competed Saturday in the first full day of action at the 2008 Detroit Metro Golden Gloves, held once again at the Gibraltar Trade Center in Taylor. Seven preliminary bouts were contested on Friday and the tournament concludes Sunday. |
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Detroit
Golden Gloves Get Underway Twenty boxing clubs are competing at this years Detroit Metro Golden Gloves, being hosted once again by Casa De Boxeo and held at the Gibraltar Trade Center South in Taylor. |
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Dolton
Easily Wins Debut Kronk newcomers made up the two professional bouts that shared their talents along with the areas’ amateurs April 4 in Detroit’s Eastern Market on a well-received Pro-Am card, courtesy of Sugar Hill Boxing and Undisputed Promotions. It was the first of what the two promoters promise will be monthly shows at the venue – Bert’s Warehouse Theatre - which hosted one other such show in late 2006. |
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Kronk
Boxers have a Good Night Boxing returned to Detroit’s Eastern Market district Friday night with an evening of Pro-Am action courtesy of Sugar Hill Boxing and Undisputed Promotions. It was the first of what promoters promise will be monthly shows at the venue, which hosted one other such show in late 2006. |
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Domonique
Dolton Debut Tonight After some months of anticipation – and one postponement – boxing fans are poised to witness the professional debut of one of Michigan’s best amateur boxers tonight.
Domonique Dolton is a familiar name and face across the state in the amateur ranks, having fought in roughly ninety bouts and amassing a nearly 76% win ratio, according to records maintained by Sportssummary. Tonight, fight fans will be witness to the start of Dolton’s professional journey. If he lives up to the promise as many expect, it will be something one can boastfully tell their children and grandchildren years from now: “I saw Domonique make his debut.” |
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Call-Out
Provokes Response Following his record-setting knockout victory over Francis McKechnai on Saturday, Tyrone Brunson issued a challenge to Michigan boxers Cornelius “K9” Bundrage and Brian “The Lion” Mihtar. |
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Soaring
Eagle will happen without Paris Boxing fans will not see Vernon “Iceman” Paris on Saturday’s card at Mt. Pleasant’s Soaring Eagle Casino, but matchmaker Bruce Kilty is confident that a good show has been put together for boxing fans. |
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2008 Eastern Michigan Champions Crowned Twenty-three boxers were crowned as champions last weekend at the conclusion of the Eastern Michigan Golden Gloves championships. |
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DRD
Puts on Lively Show at "New" Venue Posted: March 18, 2008 By Lindy Lindell Photos by Bob Ryder Louis Mitchell of the Detroit Recreation Department put on a lively, 11-bout amateur card at the newly-refurbished Northwest Activities Center Saturday night as a standing-room crowd watched. The near-westside venue (also known as the old Jewish Center) has undergone considerable improvements throughout its complex and this reporter was more than a little bedazzled in checking out these improvements in touring the the building at "halftime" during the amateur show. |
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Boxers
Advance at Eastern Michigan Golden Gloves In addition to the fifteen boxers that were eliminated in the preliminaries a week earlier, nineteen additional boxers fell off in the second round. The winners now advance to the finals at the same location March 22. |
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Paris
Suspended Detroit fighter Vernon “Iceman” Paris was suspended by Michigan officials on Monday, making him ineligible to fight at any non-Native American show for the next ninety days. The suspension comes more than fourteen months after state officials report that Paris failed his post-fight drug test. The promising young boxer tested positive for Marijuana following a December 22, 2006 fight in Flint which Paris won over Aaron Sannipoli by knockout. That result has since been changed to a “no contest” in the official records. |
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U.S.
Nationals
Day three in Colorado Springs came to an end along with the dreams of three Kronk fighters who lost in Tuesday's quarterfinals at the 2008 U.S. Nationals, or Future Stars Nationals, tournament. |
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U.S.
Nationals
After two days of ring action, 79 boxers have fought and advanced at the U.S. Nationals and 79 more have been eliminated, including two from Michigan. MLK-NMU's Ryan Schmidt was stopped in the fourth round of the 125-lb bout by Derrick Murray of St. Louis, Missouri and NMU's Termaine Woodward lost 11-6 to Wichita, Kansas' Jeff Strum at 141-lbs, ending their medal bids. |
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U.S.
Nationals Kick-Off in Colorado Springs After several months of advancing tournaments, some 270 of the country's finest amateur boxers have descended on Colorado to compete in the 2008 U.S. National Championships. The week-long tournament, which is also referred to this year as the Future Stars National Championships began Sunday and runs through Friday at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. |
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Eastern
Michigan Golden Gloves Prelims |
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Thirteen
Boxers Compete at Arnold Classic Forty-nine amateur boxers won contested bouts over this past weekend at the Arnold Classic boxing invitational championships held in Columbus, Ohio. Five of those were from Michigan. Three Michigan fighters were among thirty-three boxers that were unopposed and five won silver medals. |
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Friday
Shows Cancelled For the second time in a week, state officials have cancelled a planned pro show in Grand Rapids. Both cancellations appear to be the result of the promoter, Earl Thompson III, being unable to file necessary documents - including insurance - with state officials. This morning, organizers of tomorrow's Pro-Am show scheduled at Bert's Ballroom in Detroit cancelled the event due to forecasts for heavy snow. |
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Amateur
Results from Defiance Matt Niziokel also won his bout with Troy Rios, of Toledo, at 141-lbs. Dylon Minton (70-lbs, Junior) and Taylor Carol (female 130-lbs, Intermediate) lost to host club fighters. |
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Four
Return Home with Titles from Senior Open Regionals Editor’s Note: Four Michigan boxers returned from Illinois on Sunday with regional titles to their credit. Sportssummary was not in attendance but Kronk boxer – and competitor at the tournament – Leandre White was kind enough to share some comments on the four champions’ fights. While not traditional reporting, it is presented here nonetheless as a unique view of an event that would otherwise not be reported. |
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Boxing
Returns to Dearborn Heavy Hitter Promotions and Clip Boxing have again teamed up to present a night of professional boxing this Friday at the Ford Performing Arts Center in Dearborn. Detroit favorite Vernon “Iceman” Paris (17-0-0, 12 KO) is scheduled against Kenyan Nasser “The Silencer” Athumani (21-5-1, 16 KO) despite a reported hand injury, which caused Paris to drop off a card at The Palace earlier this month. |
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Flint
Boxer Remains under Suspicion At his young age, Anthony Dirrell has experienced – and endured – a lot. Success in the boxing ring, first as an amateur and then as a pro. Winning such amateur titles as the National Junior Golden Gloves, Under 19 Championships and the National PAL led to his name and picture appearing regularly in both the local Flint media as well as national news sources. He participated in the 2004 Olympics Trials, where an injury prevented his continuing. And, he has met former-world champion Muhammad Ali. As high as those positive occurrences were, Dirrell has also experienced the depths of life’s negative side. |
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Tyner:
Airfare and No Pay were Issues Friday's pro card at Dearborn's Performing Arts Center - the second in recent months - has generated more animosity between Detroit's two premiere welterweights - Lanardo Tyner and Vernon Paris. As the card changes, as they always do, news from co-promoters Heavy Hitter Promotions suggests that Tyner (19-0-0, 11 KO) was originally scheduled to fight but dropped off the card because his opponent, Nasser Athumani (21-5), was too tough. Paris (18-0-0, 13 KO), meanwhile, was stepping in to fill the void despite not being 100% because of a hand injury that caused him to drop off the previous fight in Dearborn this past December. |
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from Monroe; Redinksi Impresses Posted: February 10, 2008 By: Lindy Lindell Feb 9, Monroe Community College: The evening was kicked off with a celebration commemorating Monroe's Joe Giarmo's boxing club. With the 92-year-old Joe present (and spry as ever), a dozen former boxers, one by one, indicated when they boxed for Joe. These included a senior citizen who first boxed for Joe in 1946 to the promoter of the show, Todd Riggs. |
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Quintana
Ends Williams’ Perfect Record "Paul's a good fighter but I knew I could win," Quintana said. "I think that he under estimated me. I think he looked past me. This fight was do or die for me today, and I was happy that I was able to do it." |
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Amateur Profiles Removed; Pro Boxers Added Sportssummary removed more than fifty amateur boxer profiles over the weekend and began adding profiles for Michigan professional boxers. The removal of amateur records/profiles effected some 53 boxers under the age of 18 in which at least basic infomation had been posted online and approximately 800 others that were scheduled to be posted. The boxers removed had not signed a release allowing the posting of personal information and/or photos required under the federal Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Boxers that are at least 18 years old are not covered by the Act and their profiles were not effected. In all, fourteen releases are on file for underaged fighters and their profiles remain online. Over the weekend, the posting of profiles of Michigan professional boxers began and will continue until the 200+ licensed boxers are included. Those amateur boxers wishing to be included can submit a signed release, which can be printed and then mailed or faxed. |
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DOES HIS PART, GETS QUICK KAYO Posted: February 3, 2008 Corrected: February 18, 2008 by Lindy Lindell Joe Donofrio's evening of boxing came across pretty well after all. Hopes of getting local favorites Vernon Paris and Lanardo Tyner on the same card (though not against each other), with the idea that the two would later be matched against each other later in 2008 went by the boards when Paris begged off the show the Sunday before the fight due to a bum right hand. |
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Andy
Lee's Fight LIVE via Internet Fans of Irish middleweight and Kronk fighter Andy Lee (14-0-0, 11 KO) can watch his next fight, Saturday, LIVE via the internet, according to a press release issued by Kronk Boxing. |
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Paris
Off Friday; Card otherwise intact The “Iceman” is off tomorrow’s pro card at The Palace, promoter Joseph Donofrio has reported. A hand injury apparently iced young Vernon Paris’s fight, Paris promoter Carlos Llinas reportedly informed Donofrio on Sunday evening. No further information was available on the extent of the injury, which was confirmed by boxing commission Chairman Al Low, who reported that Paris was disappointed in having to cancel the fight and that he offered to appear in the ring to explain the cancellation. It is unknown whether that offer was accepted or why Paris’ camp thought it necessary to offer. |
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Paris,
Tyner on same card but not against each other The
appearance of both men on the same card may bring a smile to the
face of those that want to see a Lanardo Tyner – Vernon Paris
fight but it won’t be happening February 1st when both dynamic
fighters appear in the same ring but not as opponents. |
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Michigan
Boxers Earn Regional Titles Fourteen of the state’s amateur boxers added regional titles to their resumes as they competed and won at this past weekend’s Silver Gloves regional championships in Ohio. Boxers, under the age of 16, from five states comprising Region 2 fought during the two-day tournament held in Columbus, January 19-20. The boxers all won state Silver Gloves championships in the open division earlier this month in Pontiac. |
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The
"Old Roy Jones, Jr." beats up an old Tito Trinidad! New
York - Madison Square Garden was not nearly as filled as had been
expected; quite possibly even the most ardent supporter of legendary
five-time World Champion Felix "Tito" Trinidad knew the
obvious. Their Puerto Rican boxing hero, who had not fought since
getting thoroughly dominated nearly three years ago in his embarrassing
12 round unanimous decision defeat at the hands of Ronald "Winky"
Wright, was bought out of retirement (for the not so embarrassing
price of 9 million dollars) to face a bigger, stronger and faster
fighter in Roy Jones, Jr. |
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Big
Dog Boxers Overrun Silver Gloves The relatively new Big Dog Boxing Club dominated the 2008 Michigan Silver Gloves championships that were held January 5-6 in Pontiac.
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2008
Michigan Silver Gloves Champions Crowned The 2008 Michigan Silver Gloves championships were held January 5-6 at UAW Hall 653 in Pontiac. As they have for the past several years, the Azteca Youth Enrichment boxing team played host for the two-day event for boxers under the age of 16 years. Seventy-one young state champions were crowned in three experience levels (A to C) in four age divisions (8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15) - many of them unopposed. In total, roughly 1/3 of Michigan's registered boxing clubs and 108 eligible boxers participated. Champions in the "A" class of all divisions except Bantam (novices) advance to the regionals in Columbus, Ohio January 19-21. Winners of that event advance to the nationals January 30-February 2 in Missouri. |
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Ann
Arbor Boxing Challenge is Success Hamtramck’s Andriy Stankevych continued to improve his record with a win over Detroit Golden Gloves champ Brandon Love in a 142-lb. matchup. The Ukraine-born 16-year old is title-less but has improved his record with several wins this year and should make a good showing at the upcoming championships. |
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Injury
to Keep Love out of Ring Love, 20, was within a few miles of home returning from the Senior Open championships north of Traverse City when the car he was riding in collided with another vehicle. The super-middleweight, who was asleep in the rear seat and not wearing a safety belt, was thrown over the front seats and into the windshield causing a deep head cut and a fractured C3 vertebrae in his neck, the boxer told Sportssummary. Love was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital where he was kept overnight. |
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Three
Win Debuts, Fanslaw Improves in Monroe Despite a winter storm warning that threatened more than six inches of snow fighters came from as far as Battle Creek within the state and Defiance and Lima in Ohio to compete. |
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Earns Belt at Ford Center Posted: December 14, 2007 PHOTOS BY BOB RYDER  Before a near-standing room only crowd, and FSN cameras, Vernon “Iceman” Paris again saw victory in a boxing ring winning his 17th professional fight Thursday night at the Ford Performing Arts Center in Dearborn. In addition to the win, the 19-year old Paris earned his first significant – and unquestionably legitimate – title, the World Boxing Foundation (WBF) Light Welterweight championship. |
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Senior
Open Results Posted: December12, 2007 Results from the Michigan Senior Open state championships, which were held December 7-8, 2007 at the Leelanau Sands Casino showroom in Peshawbestown: |
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Mayweather-Hatton:
Your Comments Sportssummary thought it would be interesting to see what some of YOU thought about the fight. From amateur and pro boxers that dream of being the next Mayweather to the trainers and officials that share the ring with them to one of the promoters that dedicates much of his time to putting boxing shows on in the state, a dozen took a few minutes to share their thoughts: |
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Shimmell
Wins World Golden Gloves Jordan Shimmell won the World Golden Gloves Championships which were held November 16-17, 2007 at the Grand Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota. The two-day tournament – the first ever – included amateur boxers from the United States, Ireland, Great Britain and Puerto Rico. |
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Conquers Puerto Rico Posted: November 22, 2007 He missed a week of school and he
missed fighting in a Pro-Am that advertised his appearance but 15-year
old Erick DeLeon had good reason to miss both: He was busy winning
his first International tournament. |
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Kronk
Fighters Win across the Board There were a series of last minute changes as several hundred people entered the home of the Plymouth Whalers on Thursday. What two days earlier was a 4-pro, 3-amateur fight card had become a 3-pro, 4-amateur card that turned into three pro and two amateur fights as the first bell rang. The first-ever boxing show at Compuware Arena in Plymouth and the first Emanuel Steward Kronk event in Michigan in nearly two years was drastically less than what it could have been. The 3,000 seat arena was nearly empty, Kronk’s one-time light welterweight star Octavio Lara was scratched from the card and the night’s main event was booed but the night had some redeeming elements. |
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Banks,
Lee, Lara and Amateurs on Thursday Card Detroit fight fans will get to see some legitimate future stars of the sport as members of the local Kronk Team enter the ring at Plymouth’s Compuware Arena this Thursday. Cruiserweight Johnathon Banks (17-0-0, 13 KO), middleweight Irishman Andy Lee (12-0-0, 9 KO) and light welterweight Octavio Lara (7-2-0, 5 KO) will fight in front of a hometown crowd – Lee is a transplant to Emanuel Steward’s Detroit home so that sort of qualifies – for the first time in awhile. Banks’ last fight in the area was eleven months ago at Bert’s Warehouse in Detroit’s Eastern Market district; Lee hasn’t fought in the state since his pro debut twenty months ago at Joe Louis Arena and Mexican-favorite Lara’s last fight was on the same March 10 show as Lee. He retired a few months later and Thursday will be his first fight since deciding to return to the ring. How long Lara stays this time may depend on whether his passbook records a W on Thursday or not. |
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Tyrone
Harris - it's now time to deliver Outside
of his Lansing hometown not too many boxing fans have heard of talented
lightweight prospect Tyrone Harris, and with good reason. |
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World
Championships to Air Sunday FOX TV will air final round action from the 2007 AIBA World Championships on Sunday, USA Boxing announced in a press release yesterday. |
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Williams
Making Debut on EMU Card Kronk’s Ed “Thoroughbred” Williams is scheduled to make his pro debut at a pro-am show set for this Friday at Ypsilanti’s Eastern Michigan University (EMU). The event is promoted by Florida’s Undisputed Promotions, Inc. Williams has accrued a 15-12 amateur record over six years that includes the 2006 Detroit Metro Golden Gloves title at 151-lbs. With his pro debut, Williams is dropping ten pounds to fight at light welterweight where he says he is most comfortable. “I’m getting older and have enough experience (to move up),” Williams told Sportssummary last week, concerning his decision to turn pro at this time. “I’m ready.” |
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Kronk
Announces November Show Date The Compuware Ice Arena in Plymouth will play host to the latest Kronk boxing show on Thursday, November 15. |
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Tyner
Warns Paris: “I’m the Man of Detroit” |
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Wins Silver at PALs Posted: October 11, 2007 The national Police Athletic League (PAL) Championships were held last week and a silver medal came home to Michigan. The 33rd annual event was held at the Oxnard, California PAL gym with more than 300 boxers participating from 27 states. Kronk
amateur J’Leon Love won three matches – two by decisions
and one stoppage – before losing by two points in the finals
on Saturday earning his second national silver medal. |
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Windsor’s
Josh Cameron Reaches 100
Milestone That milestone fight took place September 29th in front of friends and family at Border City’s “Club Show XV” in Windsor, Ontario, Canada where the 17-year old has trained for the past six years. |
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Ski
Lodge Heats Up with Boxing The latest, Saturday’s “Brawl at the Mountain,” held in the sweltering heat of the Mt. Brighton Ski Lodge, saw Matt Templeton perhaps his best in his 15th fight as his jabs were cleaner and faster and his all-too-frequent ducking less than usual. That translated into Templeton throwing more punches that connected. |
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Amateurs
Shine Under the Stars at Meadowbrook On a pre-matched card, as ten teenage boxers – ten from Michigan and two from Ohio – climbed thru the ropes at Rochester Hill’s Meadowbrook Music Festival the crowd watching was the largest most of the teens have seen. More than 1,500 boxing fans gathered at the outdoor venue for “Boxing Under the Stars” – the latest offering from Donofrio Boxing and his first ever Pro-Am card. |
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Tyner
Scores Tenth Knockout Win
Updated: September 30, 2007 Last nights “Boxing Under the Stars” at Meadowbrook was a great night of boxing that saw former-Detroiter Lanardo “Pain Server” Tyner (17-0-0, 10 KO) deliver up enough pain to force Tennessee’s Marteze Logan (25-30-2, 6 KO) to not answer the ninth round bell. His opponent’s sub .500 record could be deceiving if one looks at the quality of his opponents which included Vivian Harris, Steve Forbes, Hector Camacho, Jr, and, most recently, Damian Fuller. Logan’s losses in those fights were after going the distance. With only two of his 29 losses coming by knockout, Logan is not easily stopped but that is exactly what happened in Friday night’s battle with powerhouse Lanardo Tyner. |
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Amateurs
to Shine in Outdoor Show On a pre-matched card, ten Michigan teenage boxers and two from Ohio will show their skills under the stars in an outdoor show at Rochester Hill’s Meadow Brook Music Festival this Friday. Twelve amateurs will compete in the senior and intermediate divisions on the front end of a 10-bout pro-am show from Promoter Joseph Donofrio. The show will feature all teenage amateurs with the youngest being 13-years old with a medium range of experience. The show is the first boxing event to be held at Meadow Brook, which is on the campus of Oakland University, and the first mixing of pros and amateurs by Donofrio. Click here for copy of the fight card. |
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Confusion
Reigns over Kronk Fight The word coming from the Kronk camp is contradictory. The latest: As of 11:45 am, today, a night of boxing scheduled for October 18 and a press conference set for today have been cancelled. The fight at Compuware Arena likely has been cancelled because of budget woes at the state level – no approved budget means no money to pay inspectors. At least that’s part of the message getting out there. |
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Boxing
Literally Under the Stars Friday Metro Detroit boxing fans will be treated this Friday to an evening of “Boxing Under the Stars.” Literally. If the weather holds, as forecasters currently predict it will. Promoter Joseph Donofrio, whose venue of choice until now has been the The Palace, is bringing together professional boxers and their amateur counterparts for a night of boxing at Rochester Hills’ Meadow Brook Music Festival. It is a first ever for the usual concert venue and one that Donofrio has been trying to put together since at least last year. |
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Donofrio
Returns with Meadow Brook First Amateurs and professionals will be center stage as Rochester’s Meadow Brook Music Festival plays host to a night of boxing one week from today, courtesy of promoter Joseph Donofrio. It will be the first offering from Donofrio this year, the first pro-am show he has ever put on and the very first time that “the sweet science” has graced the usual concert venue. |
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Love
Represents USA in Golden Belt Tournament Dearborn Heights’ J’Leon Love left his suburban Detroit home yesterday enroute to Romania, where he will represent the United States in his first international competition since starting to box less than two years ago. Love joins nine other U.S. amateur boxers in the 36th annual Golden Belt tournament taking place in Romania (located between Ukraine and Bulgaria in southeastern Europe) September 3-9. One boxer, in the 119-lb category, dropped out of the trip for reasons not reported by USA Boxing. |
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Knockouts
Rule the Day in Lansing Show The first four bouts on a seven-bout professional card were over without all the ring girls even making an appearance in the ropes, much to the chagrin of most of the men in the room. |
A
vehicle crash last week sent Kronk Gym's J'Leon Love to the hospital
and a neck injury will keep him from the ring for at least six weeks.