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This report posted on fightnews that states Manny had his blood drawn by the NASC 24 days prior to the Hatton fight looks like it is just detecting STD’s and not enhancements.

References
Record – Boxrec
Koki Career Footage – Boxpres

It looks like Koki will take on the legendary fighter from Thailand next, Pongsaklek Wonjongkam.

Koki Kameda vs Daisuke Naito
November 29th, 2009 ~ Super Arena, Saitama, Saitama, Japan

~ referee: Hector Afu | judge: Max DeLuca 116-112 | judge: Daniel Van de Wiele 117-111 | judge: Hubert Minn 117-111 ~ WBC flyweight title ~

Posted by DC Amateur Boxing http://youtube.com/dcamateurboxing

Ok, now that I’ve gotten your attention, the headline is saying a lot, I know. However, back in 2001 and 2002, two tournaments were held in Washington, D.C. that produced some of the most exciting amateur boxing that I’ve ever seen in a night (or two in this case). I wasn’t there, but to quote from one of my all-time favorite movies Menace II Society, “I’ve seen the tape!”. Organized by DC-based clothing company, H.O.B.O., the DC Platinum Gloves attracted the top amateurs from all of the country–many of which would come into the national spotlight over the next few years at the Olympics and on HBO, Showtime and ESPN. Many of the boxers featured in this playlist have carried the talent they showcased at the Platinum Gloves into their professional careers. Here are just some of amateur titles in the resumes of the featured boxers along with their age and weight division from the Platinum Gloves. My favorite bouts are the two 2008 US Olympic team members, Russell and Ali facing off and Dominic Wade’s rematch of his Natl Silver Gloves Championship with Dante Moore of New Jersey. There were more than two dozen bouts, so this is just a partial list. Stay tuned for my post on the 2002 edition.

2001 Platinum Gloves

• 12/13-year-old 80lbs. Gary Russell Jr. (DC) – 2008 Olympian, Natl. Golden Gloves, Natl. Jr. Olympics , US Nationals, 2005 World Champion bronze medalist
• 12/13-year-old 80lbs. Sadaam Ali (Brooklyn, NY) – 2008 Olympian, Natl. Golden Gloves, Natl. PAL, Natl. Jr. Olympics
• 13/14-year-old 132lbs. Keon Davis – 2001 Natl. Silver Gloves, Natl. PAL, Natl. Jr. Golden Gloves
• 15/16-year-old 112lbs. Jonathan Brown (Norfolk, VA) – 2001 Natl.Junior Olympics, Pan-Am Jr. Cadet bronze medalist
• 13/14-year-old 132lbs. Alan Lawrence (Newark, NJ) – Natl. Silver Gloves and 2-time Under 19 Nationals
• 13/14-year-old 132lbs. Harold Parker (DC) – 3-time Natl. Silver Gloves
• 14/15-year-old 95lbs. Mark Davis (Cleveland, OH) – 2-time Jr. Olympics
• 14/15-year-old95lbs. Teon Kennedy (Philadelphia, PA ) – Natl. Golden Gloves
• 14/15-year-old90lbs. Dominique Lee (DC) – Natl. PAL, Natl. Jr. Golden Gloves, National Silver Gloves and Natl. Jr. Olympics
• 12/13-year-old 106lbs. Bear Richardson (Philadelphia, PA) Natl. Jr. Olympics
• 11/12-year-old 95lbs. Dominic Wade (DC) – 4-time Natl. Silver Gloves and 4-time Jr. Olympics
• 178lbs. Curtis Stevens (Brooklyn, NY) – 4-time Natl. Silver Gloves, 2-time Natl. PAL
• 132lbs. Anthony Peterson (DC) – 2-time Natl. Silver Gloves, Natl. Junior Olympics, Natl. PAL Champion, Natl. Golden Gloves

The combined professional record from just some the boxers featured in the playlist is 106-4 (61 KOs).

Curtis Stevens: 21-2 (15 KOs)

Anthony Peterson: 29-0 (19 KOs)

Kevin Cagle: 12-2 (12 KOs)

Mark Davis: 12-0

Teon Kennedy: 14-0 (6 KOs)

Dominic Wade: 5-0 (5 KOs)

Hajro Sujak: 4-0 (2 KOs)

Gary Russell Jr: 5-0 (2 KOs)

Sadaam Ali: 4-0

May 28, 1956 Sports Illustrated

Sweetest Scientist

The power of positive thinking and a left hook beat Bobo and reaffirmed Sugar Ray’s role as the Sweetest scientist

Martin Kane

If Boxing were nothing more than two muscular men bashing each other about the head and body, its integrity as a sport would be as questionable as that of some who make a living off the pure, strong bodies of boxers. Its virtue, though, lies in something deeper. There is a family resemblance between the swift, smashing moves of the fighter and the slow, pondered moves of the chess player. Both are games in which success depends upon the proper application of speed and power, guided by intelligence. One waits in chess for the right moment, but one prepares for it too.

It was so the other night in Los Angeles when Sugar Ray Robinson, who had done it twice before, knocked out Bobo Olson, thereby retaining the middleweight championship of the world he had won from Olson last December. The real question was not so much whether Robinson could beat Olson—he had beaten him three times, once by decision—but what method he would use for the kill this time. The last time out Olson had succumbed to a right-left-right combination, after he had been induced to expose the left side of his jaw. It was reasonable to conclude that this time he would keep a protective glove up there.

Training at Greenwood Lake, New York before moving west to permanent quarters at San Jacinto, California, Sugar Ray applied his best thinking to the problem of how to open up Olson for the knockout punch. He experimented on the speed bag but, while he was able to work the right-left-right there with correct dispatch, he failed miserably on a variation—left-right-left—suggested by his co-manager, George Gainford.

At the same time Olson and his manager, Sid Flaherty, were thinking how they might use Bobo’s best assets, stamina and youth, against the 85-year-old-or-thereabouts Robinson, who has been a professional fighter since 1940. The longer the bout lasted the better chance Bobo would have. There is still a doubt whether Robinson’s good-looking legs can hold him up for 15 rounds. Bobo was given a rather simple strategy: “Wear Robinson down by body punching, clinching and leaning during the early rounds, and protect your jaw at all times. After he’s tired out maybe your infighting will be enough to win a decision.”

It was, in fact, about the only strategy possible. In Wrigley Field’s little 18-foot ring (in other cities rings go up to 24 feet) there would be small chance for Bobo to stab and run. Besides, that is not his natural style.

There was something else, though, that no strategy could fix. Bobo had to be convinced that he had a chance to win, and it was fairly clear on the day of the fight that this conviction was not in him. If, that is, you can judge what a man feels by noting how he looks and ignoring what he says. At the weighin Bobo was morose and downcast. His skin was a sallow yellow, his eyes moist. He said be felt fine. When Robinson, bright and bouncy, slapped him on the back and whispered a few cheery words to him, Olson’s dark-bristled chin sank lower on his chest. He mumbled something.

He had to be weighed twice. With trunks on, he was just a shade over the 160-pound limit. Looking about Hollywood Legion Stadium (the site of the weighin), Announcer Ben Bentley saw a sprinkling of women in the audience and bellowed a prim warning:

“We will not be responsible for what happens when these fighters stand before you nude.”

The ladies seemed not to hear.

“Will the ladies on this side of the ring [near the scales] please move to the other side?” Bentley pleaded. “There is a weight situation and he will have to remove his trunks.”

There was no exodus of women. After all, this is Hollywood. The weighin proceeded. Without trunks, Bobo just made it. Robinson was a half pound lighter, trunks and all.

That afternoon the skies were clear but thunder rolled over Wrigley Field. Uncle Sam was demanding priority on Robinson’s share of the purse but settled for a down payment of $25,000 on $89,000 in taxes owed since 1949. Olson’s legal wife made a similar move to tie up his earnings but, apparently, Bobo did not learn of this until after the fight. He may have been striving to avoid excuses, for the word was all over town, but Bobo insisted that he did not know of his wife’s action until he was served with a paper in his dressing room after the fight.

So, presumably, when he faced Robinson in the ring, Bobo’s mind was reasonably clear of those problems that come with dual domesticity. All he had to think about was how to keep from being knocked out for, say, 10 rounds. Then youth would carry him through the other five. That seemed to be enough to worry him, though. He had a sombre look to him. Robinson, on the other hand, was gay and debonair, immaculately groomed. Before he slipped on the orange gloves the high polish on his trimly manicured nails glistened in the afternoon sun.

The announcements were made and the bell rang. At that moment the rival strategies came under test.

Very soon the crowd was yelling in protest because Bobo, true to his plan, was clinching at every opportunity and grimly resisting the efforts of Referee Mushy Callahan to part him from the safety of embrace. Robinson looked amused, in a bored sort of way, and from time to time snapped a left hook to Olson’s head or a right to the body. Olson tried lefts to the head, mostly to put him within clinching range. It was Robinson’s round.

“The first round,” Robinson explained later in a step-by-step summation of his strategy, “was a feeler. I had to see how he was going to fight; we could see then that he was going to try to last.”

So then the plan began to function. In the second round Robinson threw left hooks to the head but missed with his right. As in the first round, Olson kept his gloves by his head except when he saw a clear chance to punch or clinch. Robinson was very fast, throwing rights and lefts to head and body. Still, he was not sharp. He took the round by a large margin, mostly because Olson persisted in his holding.

ADVICE EN FRANCAIS

During this round George Gainford began to yell in French at Robinson, who picked up a certain fluency during his dancing days in Paris. “Doucement! Doucement!” Gainford would shout from time to time. It was a plea that Robinson box sweetly and not make a nonsensical try for a knockout before the precise opportunity presented itself. There had been little flurries in which Robinson looked overeager.

In the third round Sugar Ray put into play the essence of his plan.

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Record: Boxrec

19th bout ~ Monte Barrett
December 12th, 2009 ~ PostFinance Arena, Berne, Switzerland

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17th bout ~ Talgat Dosanov
August 15th, 2009 ~ Dynamo, Grozny, Russia

16th bout ~ Michael Sprott
June 20th, 2009 ~ Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

14th bout ~ Aksym Pedyura 12-0 (11)
February 26, 2009 ~ Sport Palace, Kiev, Ukraine

~ time: 1:56 | referee: Lahcen Oumghar | judge: Jose Ignacio Martinez | judge: John Coyle | judge: Torben Seemann Hansen ~ vacant EBA (European Boxing Association) heavyweight title ~

13th bout ~ Julius Long
October 11th, 2008 ~ O2 World Arena, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany

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October 2nd, 2005 ~ Bretch Wallis

2005 ~ Bjorn Bregy – K1 Italy

2005 ~ WKN European title, Riga, Latvia