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May 29 2019

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.

February 28 2019

Lively Club Show Features Local Boxing Talent

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It’s better to be lucky than good. There was no main event. There were no real “names” on the card last Saturday night on February 23 at the Dearborn Civic Center. The best matchmakers Kenny Moore and Aaron Rodriguez could come up with for an opponent for the one true prospect slated to box, the 6-0 junior-middleweight Joseph Bonas, was an 0-3 boxer, about whom the less said, the better. Bonas told me after the card was over that he would likely be fighting in Mexico in March, where he notched his last two wins.

August 18 2018

Detroit History Through the Lens of Boxing, Part II

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*By Lindy Lindell, Author and Exclusive Boxing Commentator for GreeningDetroit.com Sports*

Almost three years ago in writing Part I of “Detroit History Through the Lens of Boxing,” for greeningdetroit.com, I alluded to two stories that are generally unknown to the history of Detroit through the ever-narrowing lens of boxing. Those two stories involve a murder of a black boxing trainer by a white patrolman in 1963 (a scenario that pulls in but does not directly involve a very young Emanuel Steward, and another strange (I’m going to call it a non-happening) in which Muhammad Ali was denied to fight in Motown against heavyweight champion Joe Frazier in 1970, but did fight in Frazier in New York in what has become regarded as the Fight of the Century in 1971.More

June 25 2018

Duerr Dominant in Downtown Decision Win At ‘Boxing In The D’

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by Lindy Lindell

There is elevator music and when there isn’t, there is elevator chatter when its occupants are going to and coming from sporting events. This journalist’s impression was that those who occupied the elevator on the way to the eighth floor of the Atheneum Hotel last night didn’t know the featured main event fighter, heavyweight Taylor Duerr, from Rootie Kazootie (a white, television puppet from the 1950s who wore his cap side-saddle fashion and thus, some theorize, was the inspiration for the fashion among homies three decades later).

February 24 2018

O’Quinn, Bonas Impressive in Local Ring Returns

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For Detroit bantamweight Jarico O’Quinn, it had been a half-year of frustrating inactivity and two cancelled fights before finally getting into the ring last night and getting some much-needed work against a tough, meaningful opponent, Nick Otieno, 31-13, Kenya, who steadily moved forward and made O’Quinn, 8-0-1, work for his six-round win last night at Warren, Michigan’s DeCarlo’s Banquet and Convention Center

February 22 2018

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.

November 1 2015

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