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‘The vision for the gym is to be able to serve the community we’re in and the neighborhoods we grew up in,’ said Antonio Beniquez, co-founder of the Barracks Boxing Club on the Northwest Side.
Lane, who was also an attorney, served as a judge and prosecutor before hosting a daytime courtroom TV show.
The women, now in their 60s and identified in the lawsuit by pseudonyms, are seeking damages for sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Trevante Rhodes (‘Moonlighting’) nails Tyson’s look and sound in the Hulu project.
The passenger and Tyson both requested that charges not be filed, District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe said in a statement.
The passenger was sitting in the row behind Tyson and excitedly trying to talk to the retired boxer before Tyson stood up, turned around and unloaded with a flurry of punches, the video footage published by TMZ shows.
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Williams, 37, will enter the ring Saturday night for a professional boxing match against 38-year-old football star Frank Gore.
Fury got up from two fourth-round knockdowns and stopped Wilder to retain his WBC title in the conclusion to a superlative heavyweight trilogy.
“He’s complicated, there’s undertow, there’s flaws, and we don’t hesitate to remind people throughout this film that there are,” Burns said. “At the end, he is a transcendent American character. He has so much, still today, to offer us.”
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The former boxing and Olympic champion overcame a slow start to capture her first MMA victory.
Mayweather and Paul boxed an eight-round exhibition Sunday night at Hard Rock Stadium. With the bout not being scored, no winner was declared.
The four-part documentary series premieres at 7 p.m. Sunday on Showtime.
Over 60,000 people are expected to pack AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Saturday to watch the super-middleweights vie to become the undisputed king at 168 pounds.
Because of statewide COVID-19 restrictions that would have set a hard cap on audience numbers, the organization will lose its main source of income for the year.
“I have been looking to tell my story for quite some time,” Tyson said in a statement Monday. He said he looks forward to creating a series that “not only captures my professional and personal journey but also inspires and entertains.”
Hagler, the middleweight boxing great whose title reign and career ended with a split-decision loss to “Sugar” Ray Leonard in 1987, died Saturday.
Leon Spinks’ recent death at 67 recalls the good ol’ days of a sport that is more in the hucksters’ hands than ever nowadays.
Tyson, who is not involved in the project, criticized Hulu on social media, saying the series smacked of insensitivity.
Spinks, who lived his later years in Las Vegas, died Friday night, according to a release from a public relations firm. He had been battling prostate and other cancers.
His exhibition match against Roy Jones Jr. on Nov. 28 sold more than 1.6 million pay-per-view buys — priced at $49.49 apiece — according to Tyson’s Legends Only League.
Vasiliy Lomachenko fought Teofimo Lopez with an undisclosed shoulder injury Saturday in Las Vegas. The injury was not made public beforehand
He lost in the 1960 Golden Gloves championships in Chicago. He won the next year, but a pro career never came. He veered into crime before winning praise for his volunteer work.
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