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Mon, July 7, 2008 12:55 pm By James Coolridge  Printer friendly version
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 Boxing is a sport full of energy, talent, patience and timings. If you are wanna excel in the sport, you need to possess all the must-have equipments for Boxing. Here is a list of the essential Boxing gears.
Gloves: No boxer would come into action until he is equipped with gloves. There are broadly three types of boxing gloves- speed bag gloves, heavy bag gloves and sparring gloves. Hand wraps are required to wrap your wrists and knuckles before putting your hands in the boxing gloves.
Speed bag: Speed bag is the first and foremost Boxing equipment. You should also carry a heavy bag that is used to throw punches at the daily practice sessions.
Mirror: Mirror is used for shadow boxing.
Jump rope: Jump rope or skipping rope is boxing equipment used only by pros. Now that you want to be a pro in boxing, you should carry a jump rope for your practice sessions. Jump rope develops agility in the game.
Workout suit: Boxers go jogging in the early morning hours, in the chilly weather. So, choose a workout suit whose top has a hood so that you can keep your head warm. Pair it with thick cotton socks and heavy duty rubber shoes. Try to look for cross-training shoes because they can protect you from injuries due to jogging on hard concrete roads. You should note that the shoes used for the ring is different from the jogging shoes.
Weighing scale: Boxers fight based on what weight category they belong to. This makes weighing scale essential boxing equipment. Carry a diary to keep a record of your body weight.
Groin-guard, head guard and mouth guard: All these are protective boxing equipment which ensures that you are not injured prior to a big fight. Among the three, mouth guard and head guard are inevitable equipments. Mouth guard prevents your teeth from getting accidentally knocked out by a blow to the head whereas a head-guard prevents your head from being knocked about too much during a sparring session.
Tags : Boxing, gloves, boxing equipment, speed bag
Mon, June 16, 2008 8:51 am By James Coolridge
 Amir Khan floored Martin Kristjansen three times in the seventh round for a TKO victory and closed in on a world title fight on Saturday.
In a final eliminator for Nate Campbell’s WBO lightweight title, Khan caught the Dane with powerful combinations. All three knockdowns came in the final minute of the round, and referee Mickey Vann ended the contest with seconds left.
Khan has won all 17 of his fights, with 13 by knockout, and Kristjansen was stopped for the first time in 24 fights. His record is 19-2 with three draws.
Tags : Amir Khan, Martin Kristhansenm TKO, Nate Campbell
Fri, June 6, 2008 8:41 am By James Coolridge
 Bundrage had winning scores of 96-93, 95-94 and 96-93 from the judges and he outdid Kassim Ouma in a 10-round light middleweight bout Saturday night.
After three rounds of relative inactivity, save for a low-blow warning on Bundrage (28-3), the action intensified when Ouma (25-5-1-1opened up a large cut above Bundrage’s left eye with an inadvertent head butt. Ouma tried to work the cut but could not force a technical knockout.
Bundrage took control of the fight in the seventh round with a big right hook and several more direct punches to Ouma’s face. Bundrage’s victory appeared in jeopardy after he received a point deduction for holding in the eighth round, but he continued to land big punches until the fight’s end.
Tags : Ouma, Bundrage
Thu, June 5, 2008 5:47 am By James Coolridge
Here is your three minutes dose of extreme knockouts in Boxing. This is a real Killer punch..ufff.. Hard to see the knock outs.
Tags : knock outs, extreme
Thu, May 29, 2008 9:29 am By James Coolridge
 Former WBO and IBF heavyweight champion Chris Byrd has lost 36 pounds in seven months to pursue his dream of winning a lightweight title. Byrd made his debut at light heavyweight against Shaun George at the Cox Pavilion on the campus of University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Friday.
He has dropped his last fight as a 211-pound heavyweight to Alexander Povetkin last Oct. 27 on an 11th round TKO.
“I’ve been a heavyweight so long, looking at my body now I’m like, ‘Wow!’” Byrd said. “People look at me now and the first thing they say is, ‘Who is that guy?’ The next thing they say is, ‘How did you lose the weight?’”
Byrd said that he did not hire a fitness and nutrition guru to shed the extra pounds. He in fact started running like the “Road Runner” and eating small meals every two hours like the cartoon character “Tweety”!
A typical breakfast is two sausage links, oat cereal with honey and a handful of grapes. He eats all his meals from small paper plates.
“That keeps me on track because you can’t get a lot of food on those little plates, but I find a way to pack the food on by stacking it up high,” he said. “I find I can’t eat a lot at one time. But I eat every two hours, so I’m never hungry.”
“That keeps me on track because you can’t get a lot of food on those little plates, but I find a way to pack the food on by stacking it up high,” he said. “I find I can’t eat a lot at one time. But I eat every two hours, so I’m never hungry.”
Chris Byrd had won a silver medal when he weighed 165 pounds in the 1992 Olympic Games. He also became a two-time heavyweight champion.
Tags : heavyweight, Byrd, light heavyweight, weight loss
Sun, May 18, 2008 5:30 am By James Coolridge
 What are the qualities of someone who can excel in the sport of boxing? Most likely, someone who is willing to much time, energy, talent, and patience into becoming one – and that means being willing to train long hours over many months, even years, to become an excellent boxer. But that is not all that is required to excel in boxing –The first boxing equipment you need are a speed bag and a heavy bag to throw punches at daily.
A mirror is essential boxing equipment, so you can do shadowboxing.
You should get a jump rope (the kind only pros use, mind, not the type for grade-school children) so you can skip rope as part of your training. This type of boxing equipment allows you to develop agility.
A workout suit is necessary boxing equipment when you go jogging, especially since many boxers go jogging in the early hours of the morning when it is quite chilly. Choose one whose top has a hood so you can keep your head warm too. Then you have to complement such boxing equipment with thick cotton socks (so your feet don’t chafe as you go jogging long miles over many hours) and rubber shoes that are pretty heavy duty. If you can get cross-training shoes, those are the best kind because they tend to absorb a lot of the punishment from jogging on hard concrete roads.
The shoes you need as boxing equipment for the ring will be different of course.
A well-calibrated weighing scale is a very important piece of boxing equipment because boxers fight based on what weight category they belong to. You should also have a record book or diary where you can jot down what your weight is for that day, at what time, what you had to eat, and how you trained. This gives you a clear idea of where you are at your training, especially if you are training to become a professional boxer.
Tags : Boxing, gloves, shoes, Protective, gear, weighing scale, mirror
Thu, May 8, 2008 8:58 am By Matt Davis
 Japanese boxer Yusuke Kobori will challenge Jose Alfaro of Nicaragua at Tokyo’s Differ Ariake on May 19 for the WBA lightweight throne. Alfaro has been WBA lightweight champion while Kobori is Ex-OPBF and national super-feather champ. This will perhaps be an ambitious crack for Kobori who has been engaged in six sparring sessions with WBC feather ruler Jorge Linares and won the belt on last Thursday.
Kobori told the mediapersons, “”I’ll go forward and mix up with the champ to win the belt.” His sparmate Linares also praised Kobori’s determination to become WBA lightweight champion.
Alfaro, 20-3 with eighteen knockouts won the WBA crown with a victory over Prawet Singwangcha last December 28 in Bieifeld, Germany.
Kobori of Japan has a record of 22-2-1 with eleven knockouts has competed mostly as a Jr. Lightweight.
The winner must fight WBA mandatory Paulus Moses within 120 days from May 19 this year.
Tags : WBA lightweight, Yusuke Kobori, Jose Alfaro
Tue, April 15, 2008 10:55 am By James Coolridge
 IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute is being diagnosed with a leg injury that will cost him for six weeks.
The diagnosis was made by Dr. Jacques Toueg after Bute, who trains out of Montreal, complained of severe pain in his leg. The specifics of the injury were not disclosed.
“This is the type of injury where an athlete could cut his season short, or even end it,” Toueg said. “It is very risky to fight in such a state. A mandatory rest period is a necessity.”
Bute (22-0, 18 KOs) last fought on October 19, 2007 when he took the IBF super middleweight title from Alejandro Berrio with an 11th-round TKO
Tags : Lucian Bute, IBF super middleweight champion
Fri, April 4, 2008 8:17 am By James Coolridge
 American Challenger Elvin Ayala failed to gain the IBF middleweight title from Arthur Abraham on Saturday. He score 2:32 of the12th round at the Sparkassen Arena.
Abraham, the German dominated the fight and finally ended the contest when he floored Ayala with a big left with 28 seconds remaining in the final round. Referee Roberto Ramirez waved off the bout immediately.
Abraham (26-0, 21 KOs) wobbled Ayala with a big left hook early in the third round and then floored him with a right to the head in the fifth. Ayala (18-3-1), on the other hand, tried to hit back, but most of his combinations were absorbed by the champion. Ayala came out strong in the 10th round with several quick shots but found him in trouble by the end of the round.
Ayala survived till the 11th round but was on the receiving end of a strong left, which sent him down and out shortly before the end of the bout.
Tags : Boxing, Ayala, Abraham, Middleweight, IBF
Mon, March 10, 2008 3:06 pm By James Coolridge
 If you love boxing then you cannot miss this. Named as one of the biggest fights since the last decade, and a true battle of the best David Haye v Enzo Maccarinelli will be fighting it out for being one of the best, today, in this sport. This is actually a fight between an Englishman and a Welshman, fought on the soil of London, but it would take place at a time when most of the people in Britain would be asleep.
One of the main reasons for this is that USA can put a lot of money in this game and it would be played at their peak hour. This fight is even been compared to the greatest of the boxers and one of the greatest of the fights that between Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank
Although this has been termed as one of the best fights coming up this year, the hype has mainly been to attract the American Media and the advertisers, such that they can put money on this game. I believe that this fight will be the grassroots for more “fight nights” between this two. Nevertheless, it is a fight that all of Britain should watch even if it is at an odd hour. I mean, you can lose two hours of sleep to watch a good game, can’t you?
Tags : Englishman vs. Welshman, David Haye v Enzo Maccarinelli, Boxing, Fight Nights
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