Jean Pascal and Sergey Kovalev

On January 30 light heavyweights Jean Pascal and Sergey Kovalev will face off once again in Montreal.

Kovalev-Pascal II Will Be a Rerun with Coach Roach an Up-Close Spectator

BY Frank Lotierzo ON January 29, 2016

 

Photo by Herb Whyne

If you saw the first meeting between WBA/IBF/WBO light heavyweight title holder Sergey Kovalev 28-0-1 (25) and former WBC title holder Jean Pascal 30-3-1 (17),   Kovalev clearly controlled five of the seven rounds before stopping Pascal in the eighth.

When Kovalev, 31, and Pascal, 33, meet in a rematch Saturday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Pascal will have completed eight weeks of intense training and preparation under new trainer Freddie Roach.

Once Kovalev hits Pascal good he'll suddenly remember how things were the first time they fought and survival will overrule Roach's instructions and fight plan.
  
 


https://youtu.be/l_fRcpOFB4o

Link: http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles-frontpage/21969-kovalev-pascal-ii-will-be-a-rerun-with-coach-roach-an-up-close-spectator

Muhammad Ali & Wilt Chamberlain

Rare footage of Ali with Wilt 'The Stilt' Chamberlain interview with Howard Cosell.

• Category Sports
  

• License - Standard YouTube License
  

Link:https://youtu.be/fuX7FlddCRg

Muhammad Ali challenging Wilt Chamberain

 

Wilt Chamberlain at 7' 1" and 275 pounds verbally agreed to fight Ali on July 26, 1971 in the Houston Astrodome but Wilt extended his contract with the LA Lakers instead.


 

1967 MUHAMMAD ALI vs WILT CHAMBERLAIN

Leon Spinks suffered brain trauma in boxing career

After their recent drive to the VA hospital, Brenda sat behind Leon during an occupational therapy session. Six months ago, Leon was learning how to walk again. Now he stood in front of a video screen doing exercises that tested his mobility and cognitive skills.

Repeated blows to the head that Leon withstood in 46 professional fights over more than two decades had led to brain trauma, which was diagnosed in 2012 by Charles Bernick, a neurologist at the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas. Leon’s medical ordeal exacerbated his cognitive impairment.

And after attending a benefit for the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in 2012, Leon, with Brenda’s support, volunteered to participate in the clinic’s study of professional fighters’ brains. Bernick, co-author of the ongoing longitudinal study, examined Leon and noticed that the brain trauma from Leon’s boxing career affected his mood, memory and physical changes.

“Here’s a guy who had a lot of fights and who had a successful career and comes out with a lot of disability from that,” Bernick said. “Yet there’s other people that fight, maybe not quite as much, but go through their career and don’t have that (disability). Then the real question of whether it’s in football or boxing or the military or whatever is what causes that difference?” The first stage of the study — with Leon among 93 boxers and 131 martial arts fighters involved in the initial findings — concluded that repeated blows are linked with smaller volume of certain parts of the brain and slower processing speeds.

Leon, now among about 500 fighters participating in the longitudinal study, is scheduled to have more testing soon and will most assuredly arrive for his appointment with Brenda. No one pays more attention to Leon’s health than she does, and that’s one reason they spent their anniversary last year in an emergency room.

http://bcove.me/p0x049ch


Link: http://boxingjunkie.usatoday.com/2015/08/27/the-ex-champ-and-his-champion-as-leon-spinks-struggles-with-health-woes-wife-brenda-is-always-in-his-corner/

Paul Gallender Interview, Author "The Real Story Behind the Ali-Liston F...

 

Published on Mar 4, 2014

http://www.sonnyliston.net
https://twitter.com/PaulGallender
https://www.facebook.com/paul.gallend...
 

Paul
Gallender in his new biography, Sonny Liston -- The Real Story Behind
the Ali-Liston Fights. The author will honor Sonny with a 50th
Anniversary Celebration of his winning the World Heavyweight Boxing
Championship from Floyd Patterson.

• 
  

  Category Entertainment
  

• 
  

  License - Standard YouTube License
  

Link: https://youtu.be/_Uqb4P6C4NQ

 

Paul Gallender author "The Real Story Behind the Ali-Liston Fights"

 Published on Mar 2, 2014

"No athlete was ever vilified more viciously and unfairly than Sonny
Liston. 

Among other things, Liston was called an inferior Negro, less
than human, slow-thinking, a primitive in a primitive profession, a
latter-day caveman, a savage, glaring eyed gorilla, a rogue elephant, a
congenital thug, a cop hater and stronger than a yoke of oxen and just
as dumb."

So writes Paul Gallender in his new biography, Sonny Liston
-- The Real Story Behind the Ali-Liston Fights. 

The author will honor
 
Sonny with a 50th Anniversary Celebration of his winning the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship from Floyd Patterson at the African American Museum of Philadelphia.   

Liston and his wife Geraldine lived in Philadelphia from
1958-1962.

• Category Sports
  

• License - Standard YouTube License
  

Link: https://youtu.be/RwMZZl_AWFU

Ali's "Phantom Punch" - Why Liston took the dive!

 

Paul Gallender's interview with Jon Ralston on Ralston Reports.

Link: https://youtu.be/CBOzv45vNxA

Jack Dempsey and Rocky Marciano on the Phantom Punch

 Jack Dempsey and Rocky Marciano speaking with Howard Cosell on World Wide Sports about Muhammad Ali - Sonny Liston 2

*Forgot to cut the advert out *



Link: https://youtu.be/wuLWvYRpVR4

Rocky Marciano - Savage (HD)

 

Published on Jan 6, 2016

Reznick Presents:
Highlights and knockouts of the only undefeated heavyweight champion of the world in boxing history. Rocky Marciano.


Rocky Marciano was an intimidating monster of a fighter.

An
unstoppable force that threw bomb after bomb. Hit him with everything
you got, but he will still chase you down. When you're in the ring with
Rocky, you are fighting for your life.

He knocked out four
legends, giving them the biggest beatings of their career. And retired
undefeated as the heavyweight champion of the world. The only person in
history to ever do so.

• 
  

  Category
  

  • Sports
• 
  

  License - Standard YouTube License
  

• 
  

  Music "Vengeance" by Zack Hemsey (Google Play • iTunes)
  

Link: https://youtu.be/SjDfOoAxI_4

HBO Boxing's Best: Joe Louis

 

Link: https://youtu.be/qTaEMvYluMg

Concussion: A Movie about Head Injuries

Every university president and every sports editor should go back and read Jeanne Marie Laskas' article from 2009, Game Brain that tells the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who first documented the damage football causes after examining the brain of Pittsburgh Steeler, Mike Webster.  

Laskas makes you think about and question the collision sport sold as a harmless game.   
From her 2009 article:  

"Omalu did not like the education he was receiving. He felt he was learning something very ugly about America, about how an $8 billion industry could attempt to silence even the most well-intentioned scientist and in the most insidious ways."

"In the jar is Omalu’s fifteenth confirmed case of CTE—the most dramatic he’s seen."

"The NFL was already plenty pissed off. They had refused to acknowledge CTE or any of Omalu’s research or, really, Omalu himself. It seemed they wanted to simply pretend Omalu did not exist, and he was sick of it, sick of insisting that yes, Bennet Omalu is a real person who has discovered a real disease that is really damaging real people even as you sit there denying it. The public debate with the NFL was a distraction from his research. He would continue his work quietly, examining brains."

"Anybody still denying the disease is out of his mind."

Why newsrooms across the country didn't jump on this article back in 2009 and 
start questioning coaches, parents, and school administrators about what was now scientifically documented probably comes back to the newsroom battle between reporters and cheerleaders. 

When it comes to football, until now the pom pom wavers have usually won. A movie based on Jeanne Laskas' reporting of Omalu's work may change that.





Concussion with Will Smith should be mandatory viewing for every every reporter and for every university president.   

After viewing the university president should do the following: 

1.  Go to the mirror.

2.  Look in the mirror.

3.  Ask, "why am I, a university president, not concerned about supporting a sport that causes brain damage?"

Every sports editor should simply ask one question:   when will my sports reporters put down their pom poms and pick up their pens and do some reporting?

Imagine what the football world would look like today if sports reporters were reporters and not cheerleaders.  Every sports cheerleader should write Jeanne Marie Laskas a thank you note and say "thank you for demonstrating what a reporter is supposed to do."  

When journalism fails, bad things happen.   





http://www.whenjournalismfails.com/

David 'Hayemaker' Haye Greatest Hits

 Hayemaker Productions sent us this great highlight reel of David's career to date. 

To find out more about the Hayemaker visit. www.hayemaker.com/ 

 

David Haye: The Official Hayemaker Website

www.hayemaker.com/

The Official Hayemaker Website. For all the latest news, fight details and Official Hayemaker merchandise.

Link: https://youtu.be/1iBex2iq3eU

Rocky Marciano - Savage (HD)

 

12 year champion - World Record
26 title defenses - World Record
"He can run, but he can't hide." - Joe Louis

• 
  

  Category  Sports
  

• 
  

  License - Standard YouTube License
  

• 
  

  Suggested by INgrooves
  

  • Batman v Superman - Soundtrack -

Link: https://youtu.be/SjDfOoAxI_4

Joe Louis - The Brown Bomber Knockouts (HD)

 

12 year champion - World Record
26 title defenses - World Record
"He can run, but he can't hide." - Joe Louis

• 
  

  Category Sports
  

• 
  

  License - Standard YouTube License
  

• 
  

  Suggested by INgrooves
  

  • Batman v Superman - Soundtrack -

 Link: https://youtu.be/E-4DMPM2lns

Sugar Ray Robinson - Beautiful Brutality

 

lished on Jan 17, 2016

Offensive highlights of the best P4P boxer of all time!

Sugar
Ray Robinson - Was an American professional boxer. Frequently cited as
the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances in the
welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create
"pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of
weight. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in
1990.

Google+: https://plus.google.com/1047152700798...
Dailymotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/haNZAgod
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user41971768

Highlights Knockouts Tribute
----------------------------------------­--------

haNZAgod

• 
  

  Category Sports
  

• 
  

  License - Standard YouTube License
  

• 
  

  Music ="Pro / Never Knew" by ToreyB. (iTunes)
  

Link: https://youtu.be/XSRkje65E1I

Livingstone Bramble

 

 

Ras-I Alujah Bramble (formerly Livingstone Bramble)

Ras-I Alujah Bramble, nee Abuja Bramble, nee Livingstone bramble



Some people are just blessed. Professional boxer Livingstone Bramble had everything one could ask for in a name: a good first name, a good last name, and a sweet-sounding birthplace – St. Kitts and Nevis. It’s enough to make a guy named Dave Carlson green with envy. Dave Bramble, Livingstone Carlson, Davingstone Brambleson, or even just “Dave Carlson from the mean streets of St. Kitts and Nevis” – any of these names would be an improvement.

Not to mention that he won a world title and then defended it in a second fight against heavily-favored lightweight world champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini (in what must have been the most fun boxing poster anyone has ever designed).

His name was so good, in fact, that the best name they could come up with for a fight card where fellow world champion Hector “Macho” Camacho would defend his title for the last time before facing Bramble was “The Preamble to Bramble.” Let’s make this clear: the guy’s name was so good that promoters decided the best way to sell a fight with a charismatic, camera-friendly world champion named “Macho” Camacho was to drop Camacho’s name entirely and use the name of a guy who wasn’t even in the fight, because Camacho might fight Livingstone Bramble next!

But Bramble decided to tempt fate. He started hanging out with witch doctors and practicing witchcraft. He would carry a snake into the boxing ring and at publicity events. He was rumored to do far crazier witch rituals. In Bramble’s next fight, with a record of 24-1, he would be upset by Edwin Rosario in a second-round knockout, and would never fight Camacho nor regain his previous success.

In his worst mistake, he decided to change his name, to Ras-I Alujah Bramble, and would also fight under the names Ras-I Bramble and Abuja Bramble. One writer referred to him as The Boxer Formerly Known as Livingstone Bramble. The name change didn’t work – he would go 16-24 after the Rosario fight, with his last bout in 2003, although he often hints at a potential comeback.

This should be a cautionary tale. Livingstone Bramble had an awesome name and was on top of the world – a tremendous lightweight fighter. But when it comes to exceptional names, there can be too much of a good thing.


























Link: http://funnynamesblog.com/2012/02/10/ras-i-alujah-bramble-formerly-livingstone-bramble/

Grat Fight between Garcia and Giuerrero

 

Jose Napoles

A tribute to the great welterweight champion Jose "Mantequilla" Napoles.

Link: https://youtu.be/GR-kuFNSXrA



 

Takashi Miura vs Francisco Vargas

 

Link: https://youtu.be/5nFtSorIfGI

Robbie Lawler and Rory MacDonald - Bloody Warriors (UFC 189)

Link:https://youtu.be/2_P81jIJ7YY

The Doctor Behind Will Smith's Movie 'Concussion' - Bennet Omalu, MD

The Doctor Behind Will Smith's Movie 'Concussion'

Bennet Omalu, MD

2015 WebMD Health Hero, Scientist


Growing up in Nigeria, Bennet Omalu, MD, dreamed of becoming a pilot. His parents had other ambitions -- they wanted him to be a doctor -- so he reluctantly enrolled in medical school. He settled on forensic pathology, turning the investigation of death into a higher calling. "I realized it was a very good platform for me to seek the truth," he says.

In September 2002, when legendary Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster lay on Omalu's table at the Allegheny County coroner's office, something about the story of his death rang false. The official cause was a heart attack, but Omalu had heard about Webster's erratic behavior -- the violent outbursts and confused ramblings. Intuition led him to delve deep into Webster's brain. There, he found clumps of tau, a protein that often builds up in the brains of elderly people with Alzheimer's, but had never before been seen in a 50-year-old football player. "I searched and searched thousands of publications," Omalu says. "I did not see any report on what I was observing. I just couldn't believe it."

He named the condition chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. And he thought the National Football League would welcome his discovery. Instead, it launched an attack to discredit his work. "It was a very lonely, painful experience," he recalls.

In time, the lineup of players with CTE grew, and the NFL had to face the issue. "The truth is like light," Omalu says. "You can cover it up for a while, but you cannot conceal light." The league has put stricter rules in place to limit head injuries, though Omalu says that won't solve the problem. "As long as your brain is exposed to repeated blows … you have a risk of brain damage," he says. "We have to educate people." He hopes Hollywood will help. This December, Will Smith will play Omalu in the film Concussion. "I think this movie will make a very big impact in spreading the word."

Omalu's research has transformed the way we look at -- and play -- football. Still, he remains humble. "I don't want to be glorified. I don't want to be placed on any pedestal. I'm just a simple man who wanted to make other people happy."

http://www.webmd.com/healthheroes/video-bennet-omalu-md?ecd=wnl_men_010816&ctr=wnl-men-010816_nsl-prmd_title&mb=%2fYEUKcm5jBiihqPGg%2fPGD2dEpmNqbUHLAOXXq3hWp98%3d

Howard Davis Jr. Dies at 59

Sports

 

  Howard Davis Jr. squares off with Hector Camacho during their nationally televised junior welterweight bout in 1987. Photo / THE RING

Howard Davis Jr., left, fighting Carlos Gonzalez in 1977. Davis won the Val Barker Trophy as the top Olympic boxer in 1976. Credit Larry C. Morris/The New York Times 

Howard Davis Jr., Who Won Boxing Gold, Dies at 59

By DANIEL E. SLOTNIKDEC. 31, 2015

Howard Davis Jr., a boxer from Long Island who in 1976 won an Olympic gold medal and also received the Val Barker Trophy, awarded to the most outstanding Olympic fighter, over his teammates and fellow gold medalists Michael and Leon Spinks and Sugar Ray Leonard.

Davis died on Wednesday at his home in Plantation, Fla. He was 59.  The cause was lung cancer, according to an announcement on Facebook by the Howard Davis Jr. Foundation, which raises money to fight cancer.

Davis, who was a lightweight for most of his career and had a blistering left jab, was only 20 and was in mourning at the 1976 Games in Montreal. Days earlier, his mother, Catherine, had died of a heart attack at 37.

“I remembered her pointing her finger in my face and telling me, ‘You’d better win the gold medal,’ ” Davis told The New York Post in August. “I wasn’t going to be denied. There was no way I was going to lose.”

He soundly beat Simion Cutov of Romania for the gold medal in the lightweight division, becoming one of five Americans (along with Leonard, the Spinks brothers and Leo Randolph) who won gold that year.

“For pure ring mastery, the performance turned in by Davis against Cutov probably was the most polished of the night,” Steve Cady wrote in The New York Times. “It had skill, footwork, self-defense and, when he elected to strike, awesome power for a lightweight.”

Davis had more than 100 wins as an amateur. As a professional, he had a string of victories but lost a 1980 lightweight title bout against Jim Watt and, unlike the other 1976 gold medalists, never won a world title.

Davis said publicly that he was conflicted about the violence and injuries inherent in the sport.

“The last couple of years, there has been a rash of fatal injuries to boxers,” Davis told The New York Times in 1981. “You think about that every time you step into that ring. 

I see boxers get knocked out and lie there four or five minutes. It’s frightening. Even if you get paid a million and a half dollars, it’s not enough. It’s a very dangerous sport.”

After turning professional, he said he found little that he enjoyed about boxing, other than the money.

For Davis, the eldest of 10, boxing had always been a family affair. He was born on Feb. 14, 1956, in Glen Cove, N.Y., to Catherine and Howard Davis Sr., a social worker who ran a youth center and trained amateur and professional boxers, including his son.

According to a biography on the Davis foundation’s website, he was inspired to become a boxer after seeing the 1970 documentary “A.k.a. Cassius Clay” and went on to win Golden Gloves tournaments before he made it to the Olympics.

He retired from boxing in 1996 with a professional record of 36-6-1 with 14 knockouts, the foundation said.

Several years ago he began training mixed martial arts fighters, perhaps most notably Chuck Liddell. Davis and his wife, Karla, also started a mixed martial arts promotion company called Fight Time Promotions.

Besides his wife, survivors include a son, Dyah, also known as Ali; a daughter, Anika; and a brother, Kenny.

 Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/01/sports/howard-davis-jr-who-beat-grief-to-win-boxing-gold-dies-at-59.html?ribbon-ad-idx=5&rref=sports&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Sports&pgtype=article

  

TOP 20 BEST BOXERS 2016 (HBO)

Published on Dec 24, 2015

The Ultimate Pound For Pound list for 2016 ranked by Boxing Legends TV. With an all new star rating system.



1) Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin

2) Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez

3) Sergey 'Krusher' Kovalev

4) Andre 'S.O.G' Ward

5) Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez

6) Tyson '2 Fast' Fury

7) Guillermo 'The Jackal' Rigondeaux

8) Adonis 'Superman' Stevenson

9) Wladimir 'Dr Steelhammer' Klitschko

10) Timothy 'Desert Storm' Bradley Jr

11) Terence 'Bud' Crawford

12) Manny 'Pac Man' Pacquiao

13) Kell 'Special K' Brook

14) Danny 'Swift' Garcia

15) Erislandy 'The American Dream' Lara

16) Deontay 'The Bronze Bomber' Wilder

17) James 'Chunky' Degale

18) Keith 'One Time' Thurman

19) Shawn 'Showtime' Porter

20) Amir 'King' Khan



Please leave a Like on the video and Share with you're friends on Facebook https://youtu.be/JReg2nvTGq8



Visual Content Provided By HBO, SHOWTIME, Sky Sports, Boxnation

• 
  

  Category
  

  • Sports
• 
  

  License
  

  • Standard YouTube License

Link: https://youtu.be/JReg2nvTGq8

Julio Cesar Chavez - Juan La Porte

Link: https://youtu.be/BgUQWd1qKWA