Boxing

Hometown Boxers Favored On Card This Weekend At Ford Performing Arts Center

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The Dearborn Civic Center also known as the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Michigan at 15801 Michigan Ave will be hosting an excellent night of professional boxing this Saturday, December 7th with action starting at 8 PM. Topbreed Management along with Second 2 None Promotions’ fight card, The Best of Tomorrow 9 tentatively features 8 stand out, competitive matchups put together by matchmakers, Ira Kendrick and Kenny Moore.

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Out-of-Towners Sweep in Main Bouts

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Story by Lindy Lindell, Photo’s by Bob Ryder

“The thing I’ve noticed in boxing is that it is always the B fighter who finds himself on the losing end when a fight is stopped due to some irregularity.” This remark was uttered by the late Cedric Kushner, still relatively early in his boxing career as a manager-promoter when, while waiting for a flight at Chicago’s Midway Airport following a fight the previous night in 1984 in which Tony Tucker had been awarded a two-round stoppage win over Dave Johnson.

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Boxing in the D! June 23 At The Atheneum Suite Hotel

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Thomas ‘Hitman’ Hearns and Jackie Kallen, First Lady of Boxing, to Launch Boxing in the D Series with a Night of Future Champions Event at the Atheneum Suite Hotel on June 23

Inaugural fight card features eight undefeated fighters, including Detroiters Taylor Duerr, Isiah Jones, Derrick Coleman and Cedric Paul

Fight night! Hall of Fame boxing legend, Thomas ‘Hitman’ Hearns, and Jackie Kallen, known as the first lady of boxing, in conjunction with Ten Count Promotions, are bringing big time boxing back to the Motor City on Saturday, June 23 at the Atheneum Suite Hotel (100 Brush Street in Detroit). Eight undefeated fighters will put their records on the line in the first Boxing in the D series to be presented by Hearns and Kallen.More

Boxing Returns to the Motor City Area Highlighting Midwest Fighters

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Rising unbeaten prospects Gheith Mohammed and Leon Lawson III as well as the return of Jafar Mohammed bolster a deep lineup of Midwest fighters in Second 2 None Promotions’ The Best of Tomorrow IV: The War in Dearborn.

The Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Michigan will be hosting an excellent night of professsional boxing this Friday, May 11th with action starting at 7:30pm. Doors are 7pm.More

O’Quinn Takes First Main Go in Stride

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A report from the weigh-in by Lindy Lindell, Author and Exclusive Boxing Commentator, GreeningDetroit.com Sports

Detroit bantamweight Jarico O’Quinn, 7-0-1, will make his maiden main-event go Friday night at Warren, Michigan’s DeCarlo’s Center, a Second to None Promotion, against a very experienced Nick Otieno, a 43-fight vet who has 31 wins and who has never been stopped.  O’Quinn, inactive since August (two fights have fallen out on him), relishes the action, but sees no big handicap for in fighting a boxer with so much pro experience.  O’Quinn had been hoping to fight eight rounders by now, but all will presumably be well if Otieno shows up.  He hadn’ t shown at the weigh-in by seven o’clock, an hour-and-a-half after the designated time for the weigh-in.  

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James “Lights Out” Toney VS. Mike “Lightning” Sheppard for Vacant WBF Heavyweight World Title Fight

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MAIN EVENT PROFESSIONAL BOXING, LLC & “LIGHTS OUT” TONEY PROMOTIONS will Host, Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area’s first Professional Heavyweight Boxing World Title Fight. The entire Pro card will be broadcasted in 188+ countries via PPS (Pay-Per-Stream) for $15.99 EXCLUSIVELY on Fight Tyme Live’s cyber network. Fight Tyme Live is available by searching “Fight Tyme” on Apple, Android, Apple TV, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire Sticks, Gear VR, Oculus Rift VR, Google Cardboard VR, Web, and more! May 13th, 2017 at the Eastern Michigan University Convocation Center, 799 N. Hewitt Road, Ypsilanti, MI 48197. Doors open at 5:00 PM, the broadcast of undercard bouts begin at 6:00 PM and main event broadcast begins at 9:30 PM.More

LARA Proud to Sanction Flint’s Claressa Shields’ Historic Detroit Fight

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As two-time Olympic boxing gold medalist and Flint native Claressa Shields headlines her second professional fight at the MGM Grand Detroit Event Center on March 10, state regulators are very pleased that Salita Promotions and Sho Box/Showtime have chosen Michigan for this historic event.
 

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Detroit History Through the Lens of Boxing

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by Lindy Lindell

It’s gone now: boxing in Detroit has been so marginalized and fractured into bits that it’s hard to imagine that the sport used to be the second most important in terms of fan interest in America.

But there was a time in Detroit when boxing was a decided, living phenomena in the lineaments of Detroit city life. Natives of a certain age will tell you that their father or uncle was a Detroit city Golden Gloves participant. Now, only the most diehard boxing buff could tell you the name of the heavyweight champion. (There are actually three heavyweight champions recognized by four sanctioning bodies—and this “confusion” is part of boxing’s problem).More

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