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Junior Middleweight Contenders to Clash at Roseland on July 15

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New York—Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing will present its second boxing card of the month of July in New York City on the evening of the 15that the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan. The two headline bouts of the card will be nationally televised on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights. The headline encounter is expected to be a [...]

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Interesting first fight for a return of boxing at Yankee Stadium

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Like the old days Saturday, it will be, because on the same day in New York City there is the traditional Belmont Stakes horse race at Belmont Park. And later in the evening a major championship pro boxing card at Yankee Stadium. Though Miguel Cotto and Yuri Foreman are not Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, [...]

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Yankee Stadium Has A History In The Ring

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New York- Boxing has changed since the last time a professional card was held at Yankee Stadium.  Back on September 28, 1976 when Muhammad Ali fought Ken Norton for the heavyweight title, then at the old stadium, that is no more, fans knew who the heavyweight champion was. Now ask an astute boxing fan who [...]

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Boxing Notebook

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Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is already looking at plans for a major boxing card at Madison Square Garden next June on the eve of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade That is where his WBO welterweight champion, Miguel Cotto, is expected to be again, assuming Cotto is successful in his title defense against [...]

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