AIBA Probe Digs Deeper Into Boxing Corruption Claims
An investigation has been launched into allegations that large amounts of money were paid out in an attempt to ensure boxers from Azerbaijan received gold medals at the 2012 Olympics.
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CNN’s O’Brien Speaks on Profiling Top Amateur Esparza
This Sunday, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien shines the mainstream spotlight on boxing when she profiles Olympic hopeful Marlen Esparza in the latest installment of her recurring series Latino in America entitled In Her Corner.
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Freddie Roach Enjoying His Work With USA Boxing
During his recent stop in New York, Freddie Roach, famed trainer of Manny Pacquiao, discussed his role with the U.S. Olympic boxing team, from his favorite boxers, to his desire to reverse recent history to importing his own fighters to serve as sparring partners. Roach is serving as a consultant to the team and is also involved in a trainer assistance program in which he has made his Wild Card gym in L.A available for one-on-one tutorials with the Olympians, all in preparation for the 2012 Olympics in London. Roach has spent the better part of a month in Colorado Springs, home of the Olympic training facility, working with the Olympic boxers, he said.
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Olympian Jamel Herring, The Tough Road to London
The boxing idiom "going to war" has a very literal connotation for Coram, N.Y. native Jamel Herring.
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Charlie Edwards, Anthony Joshua Eye Olympic Spots
"Little and Large" Londoners Charlie Edwards and Anthony Joshua have more reason than most to relish their tickets to the World Amateur Championships in Baku at the end of this month.
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Roach’s Pros Already Paying Dividends for Team USA
A few days have elapsed since Freddie Roach arrived at the USA Boxing headquarters in Colorado Springs with the help of a few of his friends to help this year’s crop of Olympic Trials winners. So far, the pleasure has been mutual.
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Freddie Roach Bringing Pros To Spar With Team USA
Several sources have informed BoxingScene.com that Freddie Roach will bring a cadre of fighters from his Wild Card Boxing Club to the USA Boxing headquarters in order to spar with the current members of the men’s and women’s U.S. National Team next week.
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Natasha Jonas Talks Olympic London 2012 Games
Women’s boxing has come a long way. Gone are the days of freak shows featuring Mia St. John and Christy Martins brawls. Although the likes of Lucia Rijker and Laila Ali raised both the profile and standard of the women’s game, they were shining lights in a poorly organised and supported sport. Things have changed. Women’s boxing has progressed to such a level that, for the first time, it is to be recognised as an Olympic sport at the London 2012 games.
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AIBA Men’s United States Roster, Training Update
(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – All 10 winners from the recent U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Men’s Boxing enjoyed nearly two weeks of celebratory events with the friends, family and fans for their tremendous accomplishment in Mobile. Yet the time for fun is over, the boxers will travel to Colorado Springs and the U.S. Olympic Training Center today for a preparatory training camp before they go to Baku, Azerbaijan for the 2011 AIBA Men’s World Championships, September 22-October 10.
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Haroon Khan To Lead Pakistan in AIBA Championships
team at the AIBA event after being named in the squad by the Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF).
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