Monthly Archives: August 2009

RING TRIVIA answers August 2009

By admin | Published: August 31, 2009

1) In 1903, who was the first recognized Light-Heavyweight (175 lb.) champion ? answer is – Jack Root

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JIM AMATO

By admin | Published: August 28, 2009

Gene Fullmer and David Martinez By David Martinez / Boxing Historian As you have seen on my website, we feature articles by Jim Amato. Jim is a friend and an outstanding boxing writer and I am simply blessed to have him as a part of dmboxing. With that being said, I am going to treat [...]

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WEBSITE T-SHIRT

By admin | Published: August 26, 2009

Last month marked the two year anniversary of this website, so I reduced the price of my website t-shirt from $15.00 to a special 40% discount price of $9.00 each and with FREE shipping to any where in the USA.

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CALIFORNIA BOXING HALL OF FAME

By admin | Published: August 23, 2009

For those of you that are one the west coast – next month – on Saturday, September 26, 2009 will be the next boxing venue of interest in the southern California area, which is, the annual California Boxing Hall of Fame induction ceremonies 2009.

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JIMMY ELLIS

By admin | Published: August 19, 2009

Jimmy Ellis and David Martinez By Jim Amato Author’s note; Upon hearing of Jimmy’s next great battle against Pugilistic Dementia, I would like to re-release this article about him from 2004. It’s too bad that the cruiserweight division was not around in the 60′s and 70′s. Many fine boxers scaled under 190 pounds and gave [...]

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In Rusty’s Corner

By admin | Published: August 15, 2009

Rusty Rubin is the managing editor of Ringsports.com The solemn parade continues; it seems that the bad news of boxing people who have passed on continues. We are continuing to see our ranks grow slimmer as the summer gets hotter. Among those lost this month was a 40 year old son of boxing historian Tracy [...]

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Welcome Duke's Boxing!

By admin | Published: August 12, 2009

By David Martinez / Boxing Historian I would like to welcome Henry Calles of Duke’s Boxing to my website as a link blogroll where you can now directly link onto that website.

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Baron Ron Herron

By admin | Published: August 9, 2009

By David Martinez / Boxing Historian Recently I was a guest on the Santa Barbara (California) News Press radio station, KZSB 1290AM, on the morning talk show with host Baron Ron Herron. Baron asked me over a month prior to come on and said “let’s talk boxing.” So, I said “yes” and brought my boxing [...]

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RING TRIVIA for August 2009

By admin | Published: August 6, 2009

1) In 1903, who was the first recognized Light-Heavyweight (175 lb.) champion ? a) Bob Fitzsimmons b) Jack Root c) Jack O’Brien d) George Gardner

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R.I.P. Vernon Forrest

By admin | Published: August 3, 2009
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