Saturday, May 14, 2011

10 Notes of Professional Boxing's Dark World


Professional boxing is known as the "Sweet Science", but with the existence of corruption, collusion, fraud, threats of violence behind them, and the birth of a new entity MMA, has threatened the existence of the world of professional boxing gym

Great game still generate huge profits, sometimes the numbers are very striking differences and our top 10 events that have contributed to the destruction of boxing sport.

10. James Butler


Butler is a very promising young fighters from New York City, known by the nickname "Harlem Hammer."

In November 2001, James Butler competed against Richard "The Alien" Grant. The battle is a charity event for victims who survived the September 11 attacks.

After losing by unanimous decision, Butler walked into the center ring to say congratulations on Grant.

Grant responded by flexing his hand in the movement to clinch. Butler (who had stripped her fist gloves) throws a strong punch to the face Grant.

Richard Grant suffered a lot of facial injuries including a broken jaw, tongue torn.Butler, in turn, was arrested and convicted for assault, and jailed for the attack.

Unfortunately, the story does not end there. James Butler to continue his career after this incident, but was never able to duplicate the previous success.

In October of 2004, Butler was arrested and charged with the murder of Sam Kellerman, the brother of the HBO boxing analyst Max Kellerman, with a hammer, and then burn his body in the fireplace. Butler pleaded guilty in 2006, and sentenced to 29 years in prison.

9. Unrest in Madison Square Garden


Polish-born fighter, Andrew Golota entered the ring on July 11, 1996, with a remarkable 27-0 record and the top superstardom.Yang he had to do was get past the former 38-1 undefeated Heavyweight champion, Riddick Bowe. Golota responded with a brilliant performance.

With his Polandian style he repeatedly punched the round by round the former champion, until his opponent was almost subdued. He also excels in value and seem close to winning a knockout over his opponent.

In round 7, the struggle began to change very strange. Golota (for reasons known only to himself) began to openly and repeatedly punching Bowe below the belt line. Golota was warned several times and he even received points deductions, but the offense kept him continue.

After a few low blows even more striking looks, the referee was forced to disqualify him.From the corner, Riddick Bowe responded with a rush into the ring and viciously attacked Golota and his team.

This immediately sparked a larger racial riots, by the audience. MSG security forces are not equipped to handle the big fights and have to wait for the New York riot police arrived. Boxing official personnel and police personnel were injured in the incident was embarrassing and bizarre.

8. Only Happen in America



Not just anyone can have a professional football franchise. Not just anyone can have a baseball franchise. But anyone can become a fight promoter, even a murderer who was convicted of having killed the operator of Cleveland.

In 1974, Don King massively promoting his first professional boxing fight and it became famous for featuring Ali vs. Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire.

This mega-event to change the king directly into the main promoter in boxing for 30 years.
However, unfortunately the major players is like playing dirty, a lot of exploitation of the King to hide.

He has committed fraud by deception in any and almost all young boxer who promised to join the Promotion.

Don King has been indicated to be involved in: murder, bribery, theft, betting, breach of contract, and who assisted mafia extortion. Larry Holmes once said, "Don King to change her hair style like that for him to hide his horns."

7. Sonny Liston and the Mafia Sony


By all accounts, Liston had a sad childhood. Very poor and many suffered physical abuse, Liston left home at a young age and participating in a lot of violent crime.

While imprisoned, boxing skills he acquired and immediately after his release, he began to destroy opponents on the way for a string Heavyweight title.

Ambidexterity Liston attract the attention of several associations including the Mafia, Frankie Carbo and "Blinky" Palermo. When Sonny Liston fight against a young Cassius Clay on 25 May 1965, a lot of press already suspected that Liston is controlled by the mafia.

He still participates in one of the most obvious improvement in sports history. In the first round, Liston diving and allowed himself to be beaten by a blow to Clay (Ali), the famous "phantom punch." In slow motion shows the rapid combination that seems to miss, or just grazed Liston.

Incidentally, their first bout also ended controversially when Liston refused to come out of his corner in round 7, he claimed a shoulder injury. Sonny Liston finally died 5 years later, in the circumstances and situations that are suspicious.

6. Corruption Richard Steele

A very rare events that occurred on March 17, 1990. On this night two undefeated champions, both in weight class and in their main game, fight one another.

Julio Cesar Chavez, who has won a record 68 matches and never lost (promoted by Don King) meets Olympic gold medalist invincible, and middle-class champion, Meldrick Taylor.

Chavez is the champion favorite but Taylor who dominated the fight from the opening bell. In the final round of the speed of Taylor began to decrease, but he still leads in grades included in the final round.

Some time before the end of the game, Chavez scored knockdown but he got up quickly. The round continue to happen, Taylor will still be won by unanimous decision, but it does happen.

Referee the fight, Richard Steele, stopped the match when the time remaining 2 seconds in the final round, and give victory to Chávez.

There was immediate protest from the Taylor, but the Nevada State Athletic Commission (the body that its integrity is often questioned) persisted with this final decision.

Taylor's subsequent career and health were destroyed and stolen, it is becoming the preferred ritual boxer Don King, who like sports sportsmanship Boxing staining.

5 scandal International Boxing Federation (IBF)



IBF is a major boxing bodies based in New Jersey. Each agency has a boxing champion on the version. Winners are only allowed to fight boxers ranked in the top 15.Ranking committee determines who gets ratings.

Chairman of the committee has the final determinant of rank and is known for corruption.In November 1999, the IBF president Bob Lee Sr. was indicted and convicted on charges of extortion lot.

Lee conspired with other ratings chairman, C. Douglass Beavers, to rig a ranking system by supporting the promoters boxer willing to pay bribes in those larger.

The duo routinely produce hundreds of thousands of dollars from people like Don King and Cedric Kushner, as a reward for their fight inflate ratings. Promoters who do not pay do not get a degree.

The result is a system that is really corrupt that is not based on merit. This is one of the dark side of boxing sport.

4. Boxing does not come from the golden age


James D. Norris was a very rich and very strong in the mid-20th century. He has a lot of companies and is very involved in sports, including having the National Hockey League franchise, has a large stake in Madison Square Garden and horse racing. Jim Norris also individuals who are very poor and associating with known criminals.

As president of the International Boxing Club, Norris has a virtual monopoly on the championship game, because of the lucrative contracts that IBC should be broadcast on national television.

Jim Norris personally responsible for improving a variety of evidence, including Harry Thomas vs. Max Schmeling in 1937, and Jake LaMotta vs. Billy Fox in 1946. Real corruption knows no bounds.

In addition to her match-fixing is also illegal to manage a lot of boxers (who are usually against their will) and persuade them to hire his colleagues as an adviser.

3. Olympic Seoul, Korea - 1988


Many people remember the young Roy Jones Jr. was robbed of his Olympic gold medal by corrupt judges, but few remember the events that preceded it worse.

Keith Walker of New Zealand, the official bantamweight bout between Byun Jong Il of South Korea and Alexander Hristov of Bulgaria. This fight is full of rottenness and Walker had to repeatedly punish Jong for butting heads.

At the end of the fight, Hristov was declared the winner but this only angered supporters host Jong.

A number of South Korean boxing offisial and coach stormed into the ring and viciously attacked the referee Keith Walker with punches, kicks, bottles and even seats. Walker fears and could barely escaped serious injury and headed straight to the airport and take the first plane back to New Zealand.

Embarrass and humiliate, President of the Korean Boxing Federation and President of the Korea Olympic Committee, both resigned after this sad incident.

2. Actions of Panama Lewis


At the time, Carlos "Panama" Lewis is a world class coach, but on the other hand, his character was not world class.

Although it is under the cloud of suspicion for allegedly giving him the boxers water laced with illegal stimulant and for gambling on the fights involve him in this dirty action, Panama Lewis concocted a diabolical plan to his boxer, Luis Resto.

In 1983, Resto nothing more than an amateur fighter day laborers, and only became a professional opponent when he is fighting champion undefeated Billy Collins Jr. 's new star, on June 16, 1983

Knowing the opponent far Resto on it, the coach of Panama issued a foam of gloves and add ballast illegal in glove fist. Luis Resto continue to torment an unsuspecting opponent for 10 rounds.

Having declared the winner, Resto near the corner of Collins. Collins's father, who was suspicious of the new force Resto, Resto and touching hands immediately notify the offisial.

Boxing gloves were confiscated by the state Athletic Commission and both are included in the indictment. Panama Lewis and Luis Resto permanent license has been revoked and given a prison sentence.

Unfortunately, Billy Collins Jr. will not fight again, which once promising career ruined by injuries he received. Collins Jr. died less than a year later, it was decided to suicide, although a lot of suspicion

1. The death of Duk Koo Kim




A superstar in South Korea, Kim has climbed up to number one lightweight fighter and tries to win the world title fight against Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, on November 13, 1982.

The fight was so brutal, especially to Kim, who has started to fall at the final round after receiving so many incredible blow from the champion.

At the beginning of round 14, Mancini hit Kim with his right hand which led to him crashing into the ropes and then slammed her head on the canvas.

Kim managed to rise, but the fight was stopped by the referee. A few minutes later, Duk Koo Kim fell and fell into a coma, was taken out of the ring and straight to the hospital.

Tragically, this Korean boxing star died 4 days later from severe brain trauma. Of the hundreds of victims of the boxing ring ever recorded, the death of Kim is one of the saddest.

Opponent Kim, Ray Mancini, will never again be the same caliber fighters, and are widely announced that he blamed himself for Kim's death.

Kim's mother committed suicide three months after the death of her child by drinking a bottle of pestisida. The Referee, Richard Green, plagued by guilt, also committed suicide shortly after Kim's death.

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