Salamo Arouch was a Jewish boxer

Salamo Arouch was a Jewish boxer imprisoned at Auschwitz.While there, he was forced to fight bouts against other prisoners, the losers of which were sent to the gas chambers or shot. He survived over 2 years and 210 bouts...When the camp was finally liberated, Salamo Arouch was lucky to be alive. He had lost his entire family and had gone through something unimaginable.Arouch died in 2009 aged 86. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Marta, and four adult children.The 1989 movie 'Triumph of the Spirit', starring Willem Dafoe, was made about Arouch's experiences during World War II.

Chris Eubank jr to defend his title .

Chris Eubank Jr to defend his British middleweight title against Tommy Langford.October 22nd - Cardiff Motorpoint Arena

Luis Ortiz has parted way with Golden Boy Promotions.

UNBEATEN heavyweight contender Luis Ortiz has parted ways with Golden Boy Promotions.

The 37-year-old was set to feature on the Canelo Alvarez-Amir Khan undercard in May, and when that fell through was mooted to be facing Alexander Ustinov on the undercard of Canelo’s upcoming fight with Liam Smith. However those negotiations hit several problems and now Ortiz has split with Golden Boy as talks for a fight with Ustinov still continue.

“Today, Golden Boy Promotions and Luis Ortiz amicably parted ways,” said Stefan Friedman, spokesperson for Golden Boy Promotions.

“We are proud of the work that Golden Boy and Luis accomplished together culminating in his WBA Heavyweight Interim Championship victory and subsequent title defenses. We wish Luis and his team all the best in the future.”

Ustinov’s promoter, Andrey Ryabinsky, recently won the purse bids for Ortiz-Ustinov, which had been ordered by the WBA and reports have emerged claiming it could feature on the Sergey Kovalev-Andre Ward undercard in November.

Ortiz, a slick, hard-hitting southpaw, has struggled to find opponents in the past and splitting with Golden Boy, one of the biggest promotional companies in world boxing, might exacerbate those problems.

He last fought in March when he knocked out Tony Thompson in six rounds, before expressing his intent of fighting world heavyweight champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.

JOE JOYCE WAS ROBBED OF OLYMPIC GOLD.

Reaction on twitter to Joe Joyce losing out to Tony Yoka in men's super heavyweight Olympic boxing final

It's fair to say most were not happy!

WBC orders Povetkin fight

WBC orders Povetkin vs. Stiverne

With WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder nursing a surgically repaired right hand and torn biceps, the World Boxing Council has ordered #1 WBC contender Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22 KOS) to face #2 WBC Bermane Stiverne (25-2-1, 21 KOs) for the WBC interim heavyweight title.

The winner of the Povetkin vs. Stiverne fight will then face the 30-year-old Wilder in 2017 for his WBC title. The negotiation for the Povetkin-Stiverne fight begins today. If the two fighters are unable to come to an agreement by September 16 of next month, then a purse bid will be conducted on that date. Drug testing will be done by VADA for the Povetkin fight.

Alexander Povetkin Unofficial Team Stiverne Deontay Wilder World Boxing Council

Peter Fury set to release press statement concerning Oct fight.

According to Tyson Fury's trainer and uncle Peter Fury there will be a press release early next week, and Tyson Fury is back in training for his 'October 29' fight.

Wladimir Klitschko sues Tyson Fury.

Wladimir Klitschko taking Team Fury to court. Who knows when this rematch will happen.

Happy birthday Robert De Niro.

Happy 73rd Birthday to legendary actor Robert De Niro.Many boxing fans will know him most for his performance as Jake La Motta in the 1980 film Raging Bull.Robert De Niro did as many as 1000 rounds when training with the real Jake LaMotta. He thought De Niro had what it took to become a professional contender.

Deontray Wilder lash out at WBC.

Deontay Wilder lashed out at the WBC for its snail-like pace in its investigation into Alexander Povetkin’s positive drug test for the banned substance Meldonium and for not imposing punishment.

The World Boxing Council has released their ratings for the month of August and Olympic gold medal winner Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22KOs) has retained his mandatory position, sitting at number one, to WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (37-0, 36KOs).

Cuban heavyweight set for come back.

Cuban heavyweight Odlanier Solis (21-3) continues his comeback on September 17 in Goeppingen (Germany) and takes on Serbian Aleksandar Todorovic (7-9-1). Solis knocked out Milos Doveden (2-26) last week so Todorovic represent a step up in class for Solis, who has a lot work to do before he is back for real.

Sometimes in November 2008 in boxing

In November 2008 Joe Calzaghe entered the ring for the final time, beating Roy Jones Jr by unanimous decision and taking his record to 46 - 0.After an early knockdown Joe recovered to dominate the bout and put in a great performance to sign off his career with.It is a fight most would have liked to have seen years earlier when both guys were in their primes, but never the less it was better late than never. Madison Square Garden, New York.

Tyson Fury wife gave him a suprised birthday bash.

Tyson Fury posing with his birthday cake at his surprise birthday party organised by his wife last night on the 13th of August.While his debut fight with Klischko is on the 29th of October.

WBC to roll out stringent drug testing programme for all ranked fighters

Last May the 5th at a press conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, the WBC announced the official launching of the WBC Clean Boxing Program (“CBP”). WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman and Dr. Margaret Goodman, President of the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (“VADA”,) were present at that press conference.The WBC and VADA designed and implemented the CBP. The CBP includes a webinar that provides very useful information to anyone involved in sports in general, and in boxing in particular. The CBP webinar provides important facts about the danger of performance enhancing drugs (“PEDs”) and cautions athletes about many consequential aspects of using PEDs. One of the most salient aspects of the CBP is that it includes out-of-competition, random anti-doping testing. All WBC champions and the boxers included in the top 15 in the WBC ratings are eligible for out-of-competition, random anti-doping testing. Enrollment in the CBP is mandatory for all eligible boxers.Due to the increased activity around the world brought about the ongoing Summer Olympic Games, the WBC has extended the deadline for eligible boxers to enroll in the CBP. The new enrollment deadline is September 9, 2016. Any eligible boxer who is not registered in the CBP will be removed from the WBC rankings and suspended from any activity in the WBC.

George Foreman:Still big,still strong.

                                           "I COULD BEAT THIS GUY"

It’s a phrase heard around living rooms and on barstools around the world when a big fight is on, but when it comes from the mouth of George Foreman, it tends to carry a lot more weight behind it. So even at 51, and two and half years removed from his last fight against Shannon Briggs, the two-time heavyweight champion saw the then-number one contender for Lennox Lewis’ heavyweight crown, David Tua, in 2000 and figured that he could take him out and make another run at the title. “I told my wife I could beat that guy, I’m gonna start training, I’m gonna get in shape, and I could still be champion of the world,”recalled Foreman. “I can fight Tua, offer him a five million dollar purse, which he wasn’t getting anyways, beat him myself and then fight for the title.”
Foreman’s wife Mary, who he calls Joan, wasn’t buying it.“She’s listening to all this and finally she says ‘You’re not fighting anymore.’ I said, ‘You can’t tell me I can’t do it’,” Foreman recalls with a laugh. “ ‘Look at those guys; don’t you know I can still do it?’ And she said something so profound to me; she said ‘Isn’t that the way you want to leave the sport, George, feeling like you could still do it?’ I never said another word about boxing again. That’s the way I wanted to leave, feeling like I could still do it. She was right.” Now 16 years later, Foreman is 67, and the Briggs fight remained his last. To a new generation, he’s the ‘guy with the grill,’ referring to his long association with the cooking device that bore his name and made him millions, and he’s one of the rare happy endings in a sport filled with fighters devastated by health and money issues, many related to the ring which made them famous. So how did Foreman escape unscathed, not just once, but twice? “You have to have proper guidance,” he said. “Boxing is an easy sport to get into, probably the easiest of all, but it’s the hardest one to get out of. The person most responsible for overseeing his welfare is the fighter themselves. And it wasn’t easy for me. I had never thought about that in my life, how I really wanted to leave. And most people aren’t given that kind of advice. ‘Come on, you got one more in you. Just one more.’ And we’re failures, all of us, because we can’t see that we want to get out the way we came in, feeling good about ourselves.” Particularly hard hit has been Foreman’s Golden Era of heavyweights in the 1970s. Joe Frazier, the man Foreman won the heavyweight title from the first time in 1973, passed away in 2011. Previous opponents Ron Lyle and Scott LeDoux also died, with Jimmy Young and Jerry Quarry (who Foreman never faced) also dying before their time. Ken Norton never fully recovered from a 1986 car accident, being hospitalised again in 2012 before passing in 2013, and the ravages of Parkinson’s disease took their toll on perhaps Foreman’s greatest nemesis, Muhammad Ali whose passing sent shockwaves through the world this June. It’s a horrific period for those who were once the equivalent of superheroes for children and adults around the world just a few short decades ago, and a stark reminder of what age and a life in the ring can do when the spotlight is dimmed. It’s an inevitability that has hit Foreman harder than anything he took on fight night."I never did visualise a world without them and when they started passing, it hurt,” he said. “It’s like a part of me died. And that’s the one thing I do understand; nobody’s got a monopoly on life and death. And it’s not how long you live, it’s the quality of the life you live, and I’m thankful for the quality of life. I get up and I go fish, I walk my dogs in the morning, and I’m already in the happily ever after now. I’m happy now. And I would like to live for a long time, and I’m going to the doctor like everybody else, and whenever they tell me they have a new pill for something, I say ‘Doctor, give me one!’ I really want to live. And I’ve made new friends, and I like Twitter and Facebook because I meet new people every day, become friends and chat with them so I don’t feel like I’ve lost all of my friends.”
Thankfully, Big George is still going strong, healthy and able to represent the last generation of truly great heavyweights. Sure, there have been the Lewises, Tysons, Holyfields, Bowes, and Klitschkos that future generations will look back at and admire as being among the best fighting during their particular time, but for consistency and quality, the 1970s provided boxing with its greatest heavyweight thrills.And standing centre stage with Ali and Frazier was Foreman, back then a surly and intimidating figure who is barely recognisable when you compare him to the friendly and almost grandfatherly icon that people young and old admired during his second stint in the ring from 1987 to 1997.“I wasn’t a nice guy at all,” said Foreman of his first ring life. “I’m gonna tell the truth, I concentrated on being mean. I left home to join the Job Corps, and that was around ’65. I won the Olympics in ’68 and I was still away from home, trying to be a boxer. I moved to Hayward, California, and starting life all I had was boxing, nothing else. So there wasn’t any socialisation of me. I didn’t get along with people because I wasn’t exposed to people. I was training, boxing, training, boxing, and then I became champ. It was like ‘Oh, it worked.’”
He also admits to picking up some lessons in intimidation to the originator of the craft, Sonny Liston."He’d once been heavyweight champion of the world, and I’d see that title belt sitting there in his luxurious home, and the way he treated people I said I guess that’s the way you ought to be when you’re champion. And I started being the same way. As a matter of fact, I think I became worse! I picked up a lot of bad habits because I didn’t know they were bad habits. I thought they were just traits of being champion of the world.”
Foreman learned more than that from Liston, as he was a sparring partner for the former heavyweight champion before he won a gold medal for the United States in the 1968 Olympics. Hearing about these sessions is fascinating, especially because there are only a handful of people still alive whose paths crossed with Liston, particularly in the ring."That was an important point in my life,” recounted Foreman. “I was just an amateur boxer, I had won a little junior Golden Gloves tournament, and then I was given the opportunity to work with Sonny Liston. They said he needed some sparring, and I didn’t know anything about sparring. All I knew was hit, hit, hit. And I really put it on him because I was so quick and his trainer was telling him to take it easy on me. So he was trying to hold off and I was really cleaning him out. But then he hit me with a right hand and knocked me against the ropes and Dick Sadler, who was his trainer then, said ‘Hold it, hold it, that’s enough.’ And I was glad.”Then Foreman laughs that deep belly laugh that is both unmistakable and infectious. I go on to tell him what former heavyweight prospect Derek Bryant once told me about the jab of Larry Holmes after sparring with him. “I never saw it coming,” said Bryant of the jab of ‘The Easton Assassin’. “I only saw it going back.”Big George had the same assessment of Liston’s jackhammer left.“He had such wonderful timing with his jab,” said Foreman. “If he got you going with it, you couldn’t stop it. That’s the way it was with Liston. I was trying to time it, and I was just getting torn up.”Read: George Foreman – The Temptation at the Door Not too many people got in Foreman’s way once he turned pro in 1969, but even though he mowed down opponent after opponent with brute force, the man at the top of the division, Frazier, wasn’t someone he was particularly interested in meeting.
“I didn’t like the idea of fighting Frazier,” said Foreman, who defeated Don Waldheim and Gregorio Peralta at Madison Square Garden on the undercard of Frazier’s wins over Jerry Quarry and Jimmy Ellis. “It wasn’t like he was some imaginary guy somebody wrote about; this guy was tough as nails and there wasn’t any chink in his armour. I didn’t want to fight him. He was one of those guys, you want to be champ of the world and you’re tough, but not him of all people.”Foreman not only fought Frazier for the title in January of 1973, he destroyed him, knocking “Smokin’ Joe” down six times before the end came at 2-26 of the second round. Foreman was the heavyweight champion of the world, the unofficial baddest man on the planet, and he knew it. “When I beat Joe Frazier, it was like I crossed the line,” he said. “I thought I can beat anybody, anytime, anywhere.”Few doubted that opinion, especially after Jose Roman and Ken Norton each got demolished by the clubbing fists of Foreman in his first two title defences. So when Ali was announced as the next challenger for the seemingly invincible champ in 1974 in Zaire, many feared for Ali’s life. And as far as Foreman was concerned, well, he wasn’t concerned at all."That’s the sad thing about it,” he said. “I had cleaned Ken Norton out, wiped out George Chuvalo, who had gone 12 rounds with him [Ali], and I knocked them out. Muhammad Ali was no concern. I figured I’d knock him out in maybe two, three rounds at the most. And what made me so good against Joe Frazier was that I was afraid of him. And what made me so terrible was that I had literally no respect for Muhammad Ali. None.” On October 30, 1974, George Foreman got ready to defend his title against Ali in “The Rumble in The Jungle.” The bout was taking place after a one-month postponement due to a cut suffered by Foreman, but that was apparently just delaying the inevitable for Ali.“I got in that ring and I didn’t even think about this guy,” said Foreman. “It was the best I ever felt. I remember going to the dressing room thinking ‘Man, I like boxing. If I can feel like this before a match, I’d fight every day.’ No butterflies, no fear at all, and it makes you just go out and forget this and forget that. You don’t even think about moving your head or jumping backwards or anything; you just think about doing it. And I lost that quality, which was my best quality: fear.”Eight rounds later, Ali was the champion again, Foreman had lost his title and his aura of invincibility, and boxing would never be the same again.Foreman would be back in the ring a year and a half later, engaging in a five round classic with Lyle, beating Frazier again, and then running off three more wins before a loss to Young in 1977. He would never get another shot at Ali but in a comeback for the ages, Foreman returned to the ring in 1987 at 38, went 24-0 before losing a title fight to Evander Holyfield in 1991, but five fights later he got it right, knocking out Michael Moorer on November 5, 1994 to regain the heavyweight championship of the world.George Foreman was a superhero again, and at the moment it’s hard to picture any heavyweight capturing the imagination of the general public like he and his peers did. He certainly can’t see it.“We’re running into a sad era and things are just not good,” said Foreman, who also went on to commentate for HBO’s boxing telecasts for several years."I wish I could fix it. I think all the time that it wasn’t that I was a good champion or a heavyweight champion of the world or that Muhammad Ali was that great, but we certainly were heroes for people to talk about, and I wish this generation had just a few. I don’t know the reason and there have been a lot of people trying to take a guess at the reasons, but there aren’t any. We just don’t have ’em.”Yet as the old boxing adage goes, from the worst economic situations come the best fighters. The way Foreman sees it, that may be the case once again in the coming years.
“We’ve had some hard years over the last four years or so and some people have seen hard times they never thought would exist,” he said. “Maybe that’s the reason for the making of great men.“Maybe around the corner, those who survived and came out of this unbroken will make great champions in the next few years. That’s only a guess too, but hopefully we’ll get it back. It’s not around now and it’s nowhere to be found.”He pauses, thinking about the friends he’s lost and those going through those hard times today.“Jerry Quarry, Thad Spencer, Ernie Terrell,” he said. “Where did they come from? They were bigger than earth, and no one was bigger than the greatest show on earth, Muhammad Ali. Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and Floyd Patterson, I could go on and on and on. They were like angelic figures that stayed in your mind and you’d never get them out. I wish the young kids could have that again.”We all do. But at least we’ve still got Big George.

How Olympics boxers deals with cut

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With top amateurs now boxing without headguards and so just like professionals are more susceptible to being cut. Rio will be the first Olympics where the male boxers will compete without protective headgear. The first time since the Los Angeles Games in 1984.We asked Dr. Mike Loosemore, the experienced GB team doctor at the English Institute of Sport, how to handle cuts. He explains in his own words: 

                                  DURING THE CONTEST
Cuts in the ring can be dealt with by someone in the corner and there’s been an extra coach or an extra person allowed in the corner [in amateur contests] for this very reason, to be able to deal with cuts that boxers get.Adrenalin is the easiest [substance] to use and the one [England Boxing] are going to make available. [Amateur] coaches will be allowed to use 1:1000 on cuts during fights and this should be effective at reducing bleeding during the fight itself.The course [England Boxing] are going to do is to show people how to use adrenalin on cuts, which cuts are to be concerned about and which cuts are not so concerning, so the coaches treat them appropriately at ringside.For a cut, what they should do is put direct pressure around the cut and put adrenalin on the cut with pressure. So you put pressure on either side of the cut to stop the bleeding, then you put adrenalin into the middle of the cut and put pressure on.
What you don’t do: you don’t put Vaseline into the cut. Because it makes it difficult for it to heal up afterwards when it’s sutured. You try to keep the vaseline out of the cut. You don’t wipe the cut, you never wipe the cut, with a towel or a swab or anything. You always put direct pressure on. Because if you wipe a cut it takes away all the clot that you’ve formed. What you’re trying to do is get it to clot.You want a lint-free swab (cotton wool’s not very good because you get little bits of material in the cut) or a cotton bud, something you can use to put the neat adrenalin, the 1:1000 adrenalin directly on the cut with a bit of pressure.
                                AFTER THE CONTEST
It depends where the cut is and it depends how deep the cut is for the best way to repair it. I’d recommend that for any cut that you think is so big it needs suturing you get it done in hospital; you should take cuts to hospital where the environment is clean, where they have the proper equipment and the proper lighting so they can do a proper job on it.I think it’s important for boxers that they have cuts closed properly and correctly because, if they don’t, it makes them more vulnerable to getting cut in the same place in the future.Some people just cut easier than other people and that’s usually due to the shape of their face and whether their super-orbital ridges stick out more than other people’s.
You can be unlucky and just have the sort of face where you get cut. But you can also box unlucky and get cut. Some people the way they box, their heads get close together, then they stand more chance of getting cut than if they have a style where their heads are further apart.The most important thing is if the initial cut is sewn up or closed properly – it might be glue or it might be Steri-Strips – you want to get it done as soon as possible after the fight. Waiting until the following day is not so good, you want to try to get it done as quickly as possible so it heals up better. You want it done in a clean environment where anything like Vaseline can be cleaned out of the cut and then it’s sewn up with a decent quality material or glued together or Steri- Stripped together in an area where there’s plenty of light so the person who’s doing it can see what they’re doing, so a hospital environment or a clinical environment.
                                    DURING A TOURNAMENT
In a tournament situation, at the medical on the morning of the fight, as long as the cut is closed and tidy and there are no outside sutures on the skin then they’ll be allowed to box.The most important thing is that you get the cut closed. Once the cut’s closed there’s not much more you can do about the cut. The important thing to do in a tournament is to keep the swelling down. That’s the real problem. It’s not the cut that’s going to get you stopped the following day. It’s the fact that you’ve got swelling around the cut and obviously if you are cut and the tissue is damaged, swelling is likely to happen so you need to put cold pressure on the area, regular icing, regular pressure and if you’ve got to sleep overnight, sleep in an upright position if you can to try to stop the swelling coming up. The swelling’s going to be the problem not the actual cut. You’re much more likely to not be allowed to box if your eye’s all swollen with a cut than if it’s not swollen with a cut.
                                      THE HEALING PROCESS
You want the skin to heal up as best it can but that’s just a case of having good nutrition and keeping well. It’s difficult, if people are cutting in the same place all the time, it’s probably more to do with their anatomy than the previous cut. Because cuts will often be quite strong after they’ve healed up because the scar tissue is quite tough. So it’s only if they box too soon after the cut, that it’ll unzip.
You can put on things like vitamin E cream to try to keep the skin healthy and help the scars heal.Apart from keeping yourself in good condition, eating well, putting Vaseline on before you fight in appropriate areas it’s very difficult to do anything else.

Tyson Fury To Take On UKAD Over Drug Test Results

World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18KOs) has decided to take legal action against the UKAD, according to reports in The Star and The Sun. Fury’s lawyers have lodged legal papers with the High Court demanding that the anti-doping authority explain why he was charged with a doping violation.