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February 1st, 2012 Boxing News

• Ashburn Mom Vies for Another Boxing Belt

  11 to faces Houston fighter Vashon ?Lady V? Living for the Women’s International Boxing Association’s vacant middleweight championship in a 10-round boxing bout. Nelson (5-0-1), a single mother, works in Loudoun as school bus driver and cafeteria
  
  

• Boxer: ‘I never tried to kill him’

  A CHAMPION boxer has admitted carrying out a brutal attack on a teenager - but claims he only acted in self defence. Grant Quigley, 17, confessed to the High Court in Glasgow that he had left the 19-year-old victim lying unconscious in Port Glasgow’s
  
  

• Bideford Boxing Club blooming

  This is based on the club’s organisation and set-up and should enable the club to continue to move forward and stay at the top of amateur boxing, said a spokesman. Club member Ricky Dymond showed his class in Plymouth against Devonport opponent Kyle
  
  

• Local boxers slugging for silver

  Twelve-year-olds Brandun Lee (left) and Santos Ortega of the Coachella Valley Boxing Club are two local fighters who have qualified for the Silver Gloves Nationals boxing tournament today through Sunday in Kansas City. / Richard Lui/The Desert Sun A
  
  

• Amir Khan forced to wait to to learn Peterson rematch fate

  A spokesman for Peterson told BBC Sport: “Right now our efforts are focused on the appeal to the World Boxing Association (WBA). “Once that’s done and Lamont is finally in receipt of his WBA belt then we will shift the focus to who he fights next
  
  

• Martinez breaks down dome boxing matchups

  Boxer Marco Antonio Rubio (left) spars with trainer Jorge Rodriguez (right) at Championfit Gym ahead of his championship bout against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on Saturday. Marco Antonio Rubio works out at Championfit Gym ahead of his championship bout
  
  

• Boxing Returns To Times Union Center - WTMM 104.5 The Team

  If you’re a boxing fan, you want to be in downtown Albany on Saturday, Feb. 4. Boxing returns to the Times Union Center, with two title bouts for fans to enjoy, in the card KO at the TU. Headlining the card is the IBA World Title Bout, between Joe ?The
  
  

• Rigondeaux to Donaire: Stop the excuses

  MANILA, Philippines ? Cuban boxer and reigning World Boxing Association super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux continues to challenge Filipino boxer Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire. Rigondeaux has declared that he wants to fight Donaire,
  
  

• Mayweather-Ortiz II?

  Now that we finally know, or have come to accept, that Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao won’t be fighting any time soon, all eyes are on the two fighters and who they might fight next. Names have been tossed around like salad in a four-star restaurant, and while nothing is certain, some interesting…
  
  

• Once the Hottest thing in Boxing, Nonito Donaire wants to Entertain

  Coming off a destructive knockout of Fernando Montiel, an assault so vicious that it left Montiel on the floor with his legs shaking involuntarily, Donaire was the talk of the boxing world. He was mentioned in the same breath as countryman Manny
  
  

• Delvin Rodriguez-Pawel Wolak I Boxing Writers 2011 Fight of the Year

  BRONX, NY (January 31, 2012) ? Honors keep rolling in for Star Boxing’s world ranked Junior Middleweight Delvin Rodriguez, the latest being yesterday’s announcement by the Boxing Writers Association of America (?BWAA?) that last July 17th Star
  
  

• Brawls and Bruises: Gene Fullmer

  Prizefighters constitute a very special group of men. They cannot be number crunched, packaged and neatly filed…
  
  

• Mayweather Jr. to face some tough questions in seeking boxing license - Las Vegas Review

  But Floyd Mayweather Jr. can expect to spend longer than 60 seconds when he appears before the Nevada Athletic Commission today in seeking his boxing license. The WBC welterweight champion is the final action item on the agenda at today’s 9 am
  
  

• HBO Boss: I’m Over It

  HBO boxing’s new boss, Ken Hershman, met with selected members of the media earlier today in an attempt to win friends and influence people over lunch. There are longwinded accounts on the web of the event, which are more about the writers than the principal, but let me save you time…
  
  

• Comatose boxer Karlo Maquinto’s kin seek healing masses for recovery

  Relatives of boxer Karlo Maquinto, who fell into a coma after a boxing match last weekend, are asking Catholic Church leaders for help in praying for the boxer’s recovery. Maquinto’s kin particularly sought healing masses so he can recover from his