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Beating Up on Food Craze from the UK

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Dec 23, 2012 in Other News | 4 comments

It has been reported that there is a fundraising craze in the UK featuring guys wearing old boxing gloves to punch up, beat up and pound on and through food to raise money for charities including filling donuts with jam and cream,digging through bowls of baked beans,apple sauce.syrup and rice pudding to find...

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October 30 Editorial

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Dec 22, 2012 in Editorial | Comments Off

The world of boxing is mourning the sudden death of Emmanuel “Manny” Steward the famed head coach at the world renowned Kronk gym in Detroit and the trainer of numerous current and former world champions including Lennox Lewis, Thomas Hearns, and Wladimir Klitchko to name a few. He also served as...

American Heavyweight King Search Continues- Johnathon Banks Stops the Mitchell Express Train

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Nov 18, 2012 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By Michael Amakor | December 2, 2012 If you are an American boxer, a couple of brutal knockout wins in the Heavyweight division can quickly get you proclaimed the next great phenom by an American boxing public anxious to see an exciting new protégé fill in the void left by Iron Mike Tyson. Better still, if...

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Alphonso Gomez

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Oct 1, 2012 in Editorial | Comments Off

Although he lost last night on Showtime you cannot help but admire Alphonso Gomez (23-6-2, 12KOs). Ever since his debut on the TV Show “The Contender” where he challenged a far more experienced fighter in his first fight and defeated him, he has done nothing but impress me with his rugged...

Edgar Sosa Defends WBC Silver flyweight title against Ikehara

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Aug 1, 2012 in Fight Reports | Comments Off

By Michael Amakor | July 31, 2012 Experienced veteran and former WBC Light Flyweight Champion Mexican’s Edgar Sosa (46-7, 28 KOs) forced the referee to stop his brutal almost one sided assault of Japanese Flyweight champion Shigetaka Ikehara (22- 4-2, 18KOs) before the start of the ninth round to...

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Ex-Heavyweight Champ in Dire Straits

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Jun 11, 2012 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

Compiled by Michael Amakor from reports by TMZ. Com | June 10, 2012 TMZ.Com has reported that former undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield’s (44-10-2, 29kos) has sold his mansion for a princely sum of $7,500,000 at a public auction on March 6. Must be a big house you would ask. Yes, Quite...

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Mark “Too Sharp” Johnson to be inducted into IBHOF

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Jun 4, 2012 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

Compiled by Michael Amakor and Ricky Womack The International Boxing hall of fame has long since announced that Mark “Too Sharp” Johnson will be inducted into its hall of fame in a ceremony at its much fabled headquarters in Canastota New York on June 10th 2012 to the delight of boxing fans, but...

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CORRALES LIVES ON!!

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on May 15, 2012 in Archives | Comments Off

By MICHAEL AMAKOR | Pictures by Naoki Fakuda The world of boxing was thrown into mourning following the announcement that the legendary Diego “Chico” Coralles had expired on May 7th 2007 AD in Las Vegas Nevada. Corrales died from the multiple injuries he sustained after the motor cycle he was...

Double Epic in Atlantic City – Seth Mitchell Impresses, & Dawson Defeats a living Legend

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on May 1, 2012 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By Michael Amakor | April 28, 2012 Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey Photos By Naoki Fukudu The world of boxing saw two epic events take place on April 28, 2012 at the historic Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, a city popularly referred to as America’s playground. First off, we saw the...

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FightKings.Com Launches Mobile App

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Apr 9, 2012 in Other News | Comments Off

FightKings.Com launched its first app “FightKings Boxing” which gives boxing fans the ability to view its content right from their iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Subscribers will have access to FightKings in-depth stories and fan oriented reports, stunning ringside photos, link to its radio...

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FightKing Chronicles – February 2012 Recap

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Mar 26, 2012 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By Michael Amakor – – 02/22/12 Perhaps we are misreading the calender because it already seems like the early arrival of March Madness, we’ve had some great fights recently and then we had a controversial decision generally perceived to have been scored by another gang of three blind mice,...

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Amakor Boxing Chronicles- March 24, 2012

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Mar 25, 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Whoever tells you boxing is dying or is in decline does not know what the hell, those statements are certainly not backed up by the facts and does not take into account the new wave of coverage that boxing is receiving currently, sure it mostly streamed on premier tv, but then much of almost everything...

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As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.

In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.