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Jabir Herbert Muhammad Dies at 79; Managed Muhammad Ali

Mr. Muhammad became Muhammad Ali’s boxing manager after Ali’s conversion to Islam and negotiated his multimillion-dollar fights.

Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:19 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Deaths (Obituaries), Blacks, Boxing, Ali, Muhammad, Nation of Islam

Boxing Team’s Failure Highlights Fight Within

A disconnect between coaches threatens to undermine USA Boxing’s attempt to reclaim its glory years.

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 2:12 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Boxing, USA Boxing

Final Bout Signals Shift in Priorities

The United States’ medal hopes shrank when the light flyweight Luis Yanez lost, 8-7, to Serdamba Purevdorj of Mongolia.

Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 8:22 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Boxing, Yanez, Luis

The Saturday Profile: A Blind Boxer Inspires Uganda

Officials in Uganda’s blind community say Bashir Ramathan has become a hero to the estimated 500,000 Ugandans who are blind.

Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 5:11 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Athletics and Sports, Boxing, Eyes and Eyesight, Uganda, Blindness, Ramathan, Bashir

Gems of the Ring, Guarded By a Professor in Boxing Gloves

The late boxing historian Hank Kaplan’s archive, amassed over half a century, has arrived in the borough of his birth.

Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:21 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Athletics and Sports, Brooklyn (NYC), Colleges and Universities, Boxing, Kaplan, Hank, Archives and Records, Libraries and Librarians

Loss by Top Flyweight Sends U.S. Boxers Reeling

The United States boxing team is reeling after Rau’shee Warren, the reigning flyweight world champion and the team’s best hope of winning gold, lost his opening bout.

Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:18 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Boxing

New to the Sport, a Boxer’s Work Ethic Helps Him to Keep Defying the Odds

Deontay Wilder, 22, has applied his sense of right and wrong to an amateur career that, to everyone but him and his coach, grows more improbable every day.

Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 10:12 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Boxing, Wilder, Deontay

Doctors Diagnose Hole in Defeated U.S. Boxer’s Lung

Two days after a boxer collapsed trying to make weight, a teammate lost his opening match and said he felt weak.

Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 11:05 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Olympic Games, Medicine and Health, Boxing, Doctors, Lungs, Molina, Javier

Trying to Make Weight, U.S. Boxer Collapses

A top boxer will not compete in the Olympics after he collapsed in a final effort to make weight.

Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 3:39 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Boxing, USA Boxing, Russell, Gary Jr

For American Athletes, a Home Base for Training That’s a Little Like Home

The United States Olympic Committee has created a facility where athletes can train, eat and play in a place that looks and feels like home.

Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 10:58 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Beijing (China), Olympic Games (2008), Boxing, United States Olympic Committee, Weight Lifting, Restaurants, Volleyball, Housing

Pavlik Wins Easily and Issues a Challenge

The future holds tremendous opportunities for Kelly Pavlik, who seems to be coming into his own at a time when boxing is looking to anoint the next pound-for-pound king.

Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 9:26 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Boxing, Hopkins, Bernard, De La Hoya, Oscar, Mayweather, Floyd Jr, Pavlik, Kelly, World Boxing Council, World Boxing Association, World Boxing Organization, Atlantic City (NJ), International Boxing Federation

Pavlik Retains Middleweight Titles

Kelly Pavlik stopped Gary Lockett of Wales with a punishing assault in the third round of his first middleweight titles defense on Saturday night.

Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 12:25 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Boxing, Pavlik, Kelly

Undefeated, Mayweather Retires From Boxing

Floyd Mayweather Jr., the World Boxing welterweight champion, said that he could no longer find personal happiness in the sport.

Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 8:39 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Boxing, Mayweather, Floyd Jr

The Pride of Youngstown: A ‘Ghost’ Who Didn’t Vanish

Dubbed “The Ghost” for his ability to make opponents swing and miss, boxer Kelly Pavlik has quietly and suddenly amassed two of the four middleweight belts.

Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:40 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Boxing, Ohio, Kelly Pavlik

Tv Sports: Elite XC Was Brutal. So Was the Hyperbole.

If M.M.A. truly is the world’s fast-growing sport, why did the announcers of CBS’s broadcast of the Elite XC circus on Saturday sound like such in-house lackeys?

Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 9:51 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Mixed Martial Arts, Television, Boxing, Martial Arts, CBS Sports, Johnson, Gus, Slice, Kimbo

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