With this pandemic lockdown in full force virtually world-wide, many fights have been already been cancelled, from the biggest, such as Anthony Joshua versus Kubrat Pulev, right through to many small hall events.
Whilst clearly the lockdown is affecting everyone involved in our beloved sport, it made me think of those that had been preparing for their professional boxing debut, such as today’s victim, sorry guest, Caitlin Foran, who was due to debut in Orkney on the 25th April.
Caitlin is a ten time Kickboxing World Champion, quite an accomplishment for someone that is still just 19 အသက်, let’s face it to achieve such a high status in any sport at such a young age is quite an accomplishment and without doubt her extensive combat sports experience is going to benefit her when this pandemic is over and she makes her pro debut.
I actually had the pleasure of meeting Caitlin back in March at an event in Barrow-in-Furness, where she was supporting Paul Peers when he challenged, and beat, Nicaraguan Milton Arauz for the Professional Boxing Council (PBC) International title, and always intended to cover her pro debut, but with that put back until later in the year due to the current situation decided instead to arrange an interview with her.
Enough of my waffle, let’s get to know this amazing teen star a little better.
(GDC) Hello Caitlin, thank you for taking the time to answer a few questions for us. My first question is I understand you are a multi-World Champion Kick Boxer, can you please tell our readers a little about your Kick Boxing career?
(CF) So I started kickboxing in 2008 at the age of eight, at the time I was juggling kickboxing with lots of other sports and activities but over time my attention just stuck with kickboxing and it became my life.
I certainly wasn’t one of these people that had a talent for the sport. I wasn’t flexible, I had no confidence, but the one thing I did have that has carried me through to this day is determination.
Living on an island we weren’t able to get to as many competitions as other clubs on the mainland could which meant we knew we had to really put in the extra effort to make up for the lack of experience.
Also coming from a large family where my mother was a single parent to 5 children meant I rarely was able to get away to compete and didn’t really start competing properly until I got my black belt in 2011.
I then started competing usually once a month with the first big one being the WKA Scottish championships in Glasgow where I won 2x golds, that was my first big confidence booster and I went on to compete more often winning more Scottish titles as well as British and European.
I then got invited to my first world championships in 2013 in Italy where I came away with a bronze medal.
I always preferred points fighting when I was competing, which is a more karate style, ‘start stop’ style of fighting, but at my second World championships in Prague in 2014, there was a woman without a fight for her ring Continuous section so I was asked if I would take the fight.
I’ve never been one to turn down a fight so I took the fight and ended up winning it as well as two others so I came away with my first three World titles and new love for ring fighting.
မှ 2014 သို့ 2017 I went on to win seven more World titles in various countries.
အားဖြင့် 2016/17 my kickboxing career was really taking off and I was looking at turning professional sometime soon, however at the end of 2017 my coach Ryan Reffell sadly passed which put an end to my kickboxing career.
(GDC) What influenced you to switch from Kick Boxing to Professional Boxing?
(CF) As I mentioned previously, I have never been a naturally flexible person so in kickboxing my legs were predominantly used for powerful body single kicks.
While I was still training with Ryan as part of Nemesis Kickboxing, at the end of 2015 we decided I was getting better with my hands and started thinking about switching to boxing.
This lead Ryan to start boxing classes on a Monday night as well as the kickboxing classes through the week.
I was offered my first fight that September with 4 days notice for the UKBC featherweight international title. I went on to win the fight and defended it in a rematch that December.
2017 was when I really started to focus more on boxing and less on kickboxing and had two more fights, with the last fight in my unlicensed career being a Five Nations title fight in April 2017 which brought my record to 4-0-0.
I thought my boxing career had ended then, until Paul Peers moved to Orkney in 2018 and got in touch via Facebook which then kickstarted my training again as he showed great interest in my boxing and was a massive help in getting my love for the sport back and showed that he believed in me which made me more confident in myself and got myself back to training properly again ahead of signing my professional contract in January this year.
(GDC) You were due to be undertaking your professional boxing debut in Orkney on the 25th April, obviously this is being rescheduled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, so firstly how have your preparations been going?
(CF) ဟုတ်ကဲ့, it was devastating when all this started but I am making sure to keep as active as I can with daily running and home exercises making use of the little space I do have at home.
(GDC) Has the Government ordered lockdown had an effect on your preparations?
(CF) Prior to lockdown we were getting sparring in at least once or twice a week at the club and had started our partnership with Lee Mcallister at Assassin’s boxing in Aberdeen in order to mix Orkney Boxing Clubs fighters with theirs for some sparring at weekends.
We only managed this once so far with weather being bad and boats not certain to run but were planning more in the lead up to the show.
(GDC) When the lockdown ends and the new date is announced, your opponent is stated to be Carly Mackenzie, do you know much about her?
(CF) I was originally due to fight Carly Mackenzie however my opponent recently changed to Professional Boxing Council (PBC) International Silver Champion Jamie Bates Wallis. I don’t know a great deal about Jamie to be honest but from what I’ve seen she is a strong orthodox boxer with a strong offence and sharp defence.
I took the fight knowing it would be a challenge especially being my first fight back in 3 နှစ်ပေါင်း. She’s proved to be a champion so in order for me to become a champion I must beat champions.
(GDC) Moving away from your career to date, who is your favourite boxer, ကျားသို့မဟုတ်မ, and why?
(CF) My favourite boxer to date has got to be Katie Taylor. She has played a massive part in getting Women’s boxing to where it is today and is a real inspiration to any athlete out there as she has shown that any obstacle can be overcome if you really want something.
(GDC) In the same vein, which is your all time favourite fight, and why?
(CF) It is so hard to choose a favourite fight but one has to be Katie Taylor’s most recent fight against Christina Linardatou as she continued her winning record and added WBO Super-Lightweight world title to her ever growing list of achievements. Usually Taylor would be getting stuck into the fight, firing shot after shot. However she kept to the outside this time boxing smart and not wasting energy.
(GDC) Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, finally is there anyone you would like to mention with regard to your upcoming debut?
(CF) I would like to give thanks to my sponsor, Gary Sutherland at GSRI, Steven Logie at Strength 101 for keeping me in shape and Paul Peers for everything he has done over the last year and a half to get my confidence back up and reignite my love for boxing. I would also like to give a shout out to all of my old teammates at Nemesis kickboxing Academy and Nemesis Boxing Gym without them I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Annual Event Was Scheduled For May 28 at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden
(နယူးယောက်, ဧပြီလ 2, 2020)—လမ်းတွေပေါ်မှာ Beat, the largest grassroots inner-city wrestling program in the United States, today announced that “Grapple At The Garden,” its annual fundraiser which was to be held on Thursday, မေ 28, has been postponed due to the current COVID-19 outbreak. The organization is entertaining several dates and formats for a rescheduled event later in the summer.
“Our primary focus is the health and safety of all involved, especially our supporters, our athletes and staff, and in order to be properly prepared for what is always a celebratory first class event for all, we have decided to postpone our late May date,"ဟုပြောသည် Brendan Buckley, Beat the Streets Executive Director. “We are working with our partners at Madison Square Garden and all our stakeholders to find the most effective date in the coming months.”
“Grapple at the Garden” made a highly successful, sold-out debut at the Hulu Theater in 2019 following nearly a decade at various other iconic New York City venues.
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Beat Streets ၏တာ ၀ န်မှာမြို့ပြလူငယ်များ၏အလားအလာအပြည့်အဝကိုဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်စေရန်နှင့်နယူးယောက်စီးတီးပြိုင်ပွဲ၏ယဉ်ကျေးမှုကိုမြှင့်တင်ရန်ဖြစ်သည်။. BTS works directly with the New York City Department of Education in a public-private partnership to bring the life-changing sport of wrestling to over 3,000 နယူးယောက်စီးတီးမှကျောင်းသားအားကစားသမားများသည်သူတို့၏ကိုယ်ရေးကိုယ်တာနှင့်အားကစားရည်မှန်းချက်များအောင်မြင်ရန်ကူညီသည်. ငါး boroughs အတွက်အလယ်တန်းနှင့်အထက်တန်းကျောင်းများတွင်ပန်းအစီအစဉ်များ၏စစ်ဆင်ရေးမှတဆင့်, BTS နှင့် DOE သည်လုံခြုံမှုကိုပေးသည်, အခွင့်မသာခြင်းနှင့်အန္တရာယ်ကျရောက်လွယ်သောလူငယ်များသည်ဘဝ၏အရေးကြီးသောဘဝသင်ခန်းစာများကိုသင်ယူနိုင်သည့်အပြုသဘောဆောင်သောဝန်းကျင်, ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ရေးတာဝန်နှင့်ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မှု, ရုပ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာကြံ့ခိုင်ရေးနှင့်အာဟာရ, နှင့်တစ်သက်တာသင်ယူမှု. အားကြီးသောမြှင့်တင်ရေး၏ရည်မှန်းချက်, ကောင်းစွာ - rounded ကျောင်းသား - အားကစားသမားနည်းပြမှတဆင့်ကယ်နှုတ်တော်မူ၏, ပြီးနောက်ကျောင်းအစီအစဉ်များကို, ဘဝကျွမ်းကျင်မှုအလုပ်ရုံဆွေးနွေးပွဲ, နှင့်နွေရာသီစခန်းများ. နောက်ထပ်သတင်းအချက်အလက်များမှာတွေ့ရှိနိုင်ပါသည် www.btsny.org.
နယူးယောက် (ဧပြီလ 1, 2020) – The New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) and Ring 8 jointly announced today a partnership to establish a COVID-19 fund to assist New York and New Jersey boxers and boxing personnel who are in financial need during the coronavirus pandemic.
Any boxing personnel (Boxer, သင်တန်းဆရာ, cut-men, စတာတွေ) who are independent contractors and live in New York or New Jersey may apply for monetary assistance by filling out a request form posted atwww.NYBoxingHOF.org နှင့်www.Ring8tv,နှင့်, or request a form atfightpublicist@gmail.comto be directly emailed.
All applicants must be licensed (NYSAC, NJSAC or USA Boxing) and forms must be submitted to NYSBHOF president Bob Duffy by email (depcomish@aol.com) or call him (1.516.313.2304) with the required information.
“Gyms are closed, and boxing has been suspended indefinitely,” NYSBHOF president Bob Duffy said. “Most boxing trainers, cut-men and other boxing personnel are independent contractors, so they do not have any income right now during this pandemic. They have families to support, rent to pay, food to put on the table, and other critical expenses. We want to help them by establishing this fund. We’re not in the position to give each applicant a large stipend, but we are able to provide a small payment to temporarily help them a little bit. We’re committed to doing this for the month of April, at the very least, and then we’ll will revisit extending payments until boxing returns, as long as there is money available in this fund. It’s the right thing to do!"
“Ring 8 is furthering our goals to assist boxers and boxing people in New York during this crisis,” Ring 8 president Charlie Norkus, Jr က. added. “It has been our mission since the very beginning. We are pleased to join the New York Boxing Hall of Fame in this endeavor.”
World’s Leading Combat Sports Channel Will Be Launching New Boxing Programming and Relaunching Its Mobile App to Support Growth on New Platforms
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တိုရွန်တို | နယူးယောက် – Network မှကိုစစ်တိုက်ခြင်း, a subsidiary ofသီချင်းအားကစား & Entertainment က and the world’s premier combat sports network, announced today that author, producer and boxing manager Adrian Clark has joined the organization as a consultant to develop original programming and strategic partnerships with a focus on professional and amateur boxing content, as well as supporting social media and community growth across Fight Network’s digital and social platforms. Clark has managed various clients, including Jerry Belmontes, James De La Rosa, ဝီလီမွန်ရိုး Jr က. and Frank Galarza. Clark has also worked closely with Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller and current world welterweight champion Errol Spence. He was a certified agent for the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) မှ 2012 သို့ 2014. Clark was honored by Forbes in their “30 Under 30” အတွက် 2016 in sports. Clark has also published several books, including ‘i’ A Guide for Young Entrepreneurs,Protect Yourself at All Times: A Guide for Professional Boxers, Boxing = Life and Dark Horse.
Clark launched hisProtect Yourself at All Timesinitiative in February 2016, including a book, podcast and video blog. Everlast Worldwide, the world’s leading manufacturer, marketer and licensor of boxing, MMA and fitness equipment, partnered with Clark in 2018 to launch the first-everProtect Yourself at All Timessymposium, an educational tool for fighters and their families whose purpose is to educate and inform professional boxers on the nature of business in boxing. Clark will be developing the concept into a television series for Fight Network in addition to other original programming for the network.
“I look forward to working with Fight Network on enhancing the depth of its boxing coverage,” Clark ကပြောပါတယ်. “Working closely alongside my network of industry contacts and the FN Studios original production team, we will develop new programming to put the spotlight on the sweet science and topics that are often overshadowed in mainstream coverage. With its recent resurgence in mainstream popularity, this as an opportune time to bring Fight Network subscribers unprecedented coverage of their favorite boxing stars, both inside the ring and behind the scenes.”
“The rise in popularity of boxing in recent years cannot be understated,” said Ariel Shnerer, newly appointed GM of Fight Network. “With more ways to consume fights than ever before and new stars being born, the sport has experienced tremendous growth on a global scale. We look forward to collaborating with Adrian on new programming initiatives and sponsorship opportunities as we put a renewed focus on our coverage of the sport, not only through our weekly news shows and live fights, but by developing original productions that bring our viewers closer to the fights and fighters they love, as well educational programming about the business of boxing.”
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Salita ပရိုမိုးရှင်း, boxing’s leading promotions company, announced today the launch of their new YouTube series “Train Like a Boxer,” featuring Company Founder Dmitriy Salita and Olympic Gold Medalist and multi-weight world champion Claressa Shields, as well as other premier fighters under the Salita banner including Otto Wallin, Shohjahon Ergashev and Kolbeinn Kristinsson.
Starting with anew webisode ဒီဗုဒ္ဓဟူးနေ့, ဧပြီလ 1, 2020, on the Salita Promotions and Claressa Shields YouTube channels, “Train Like a Boxer” will seek to motivate people to remain active during quarantine by providing fitness advice and boxing-related routines perfectly suited for individuals with minimal equipment and limited space to exercise.
Before becoming boxing’s newest promotional powerhouse with an impressive stable of world champions, top contenders and blazing new prospects, Dmitriy Salita spent years training in some of the most recognized gyms in the sport’s history as a New York State Golden Gloves champion and professional top contender.
“During this worldwide Corona crisis, this series will help boxing fans with their physical and mental state by engaging with our fighters in these fun and healthy activities,” said Salita. “A boxer’s workout is perfect for these tough times because it is done in the isolation of training camp. Our fighters want to give back and connect with fans worldwide during this ‘isolation training camp’ period and soon together we are all going to enjoy the great victory of overcoming Covid 19.”
Three-division and current WBC and WBO Super Welterweight world champion Shields, who saw her bid to become the first boxer in the four-belt era to be crowned an undisputed world champion in two weight divisions against also unbeaten IBF Super Welterweight Champion Marie-Eve Dicaire officially postponed last week, says she hopes these videos help everyone stay physically and mentally fit during these trying times.
“With all that the world is going through right now, I want to help people in any way I can to feel better while staying at home until this pandemic is over,” said Shields. “These videos — even 20 သို့ 40 minutes a day — can help. Let’s stay strong together!"
မတ်လ 31, 2020– With unanimous support of the USA Wrestling COVID-19 Advisory Committee, USA Wrestling has suspended all sanctioned events and national events through May 10.
This is an extension of a previous suspension of activities announced on March 16, which discontinued sanctioned events through April 6 and postponed or canceled national events through April 20.
For USA Wrestling, our number one priority is always the safety of our athletes and their families, all our members, our national staff and the entire U.S. wrestling community.
This decision aligns USA Wrestling with the U.S. Center for Disease Control’s guidance from March 16 that no gatherings of 50 or more people take place for the following eight weeks.
The USA Wrestling COVID-19 Advisory Committee includes Dr. Tom Price, a physician who is past U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and past member of Congress; ဒေါက်တာ. Bernard Feldman, UWW Medical Commission member and Hall of Fame wrestling physician; and John Bardis, past U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, and a longtime USA Wrestling leader who has a successful career in the medical industry.
Also included on the COVID-19 Advisory Committee calls are USA Wrestling President Bruce Baumgartner, Executive Director Rich Bender and all of USA Wrestling’s staff directors, so they can communicate directly to their constituent groups.
In addition to the seven USA Wrestling National and Regional events postponed in March and April, three additional events have been postponed:
o Northeast Regional Championships, Manalapan, N.J. – May 1-3, 2020
o USA Wrestling Women’s National Championships, Irving, Texas – May 8-10, 2020
o U.S. Beach and Belt National Championships, Carolina Beach, N.C.– May 8-9, 2020
There are many things that USA Wrestling members can do in the short term. USA Wrestling has launched TheMat.tv, an expanded video portal, as well as a COVID-19 section on its website TheMat.com with other resources. Many state associations and clubs are having online practices. Many of USA Wrestling’s partner organizations are also providing programs and materials. In-home training, cross training and running are also great ideas as allowed by local government and health authorities.
USA Wrestling is monitoring this situation daily. Please understand that this situation is fluid, and there may be further changes to this and other USA Wrestling policies based on national and local government regulations and advice from medical experts, including the Center for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization, and USA Wrestling’s COVID-19 Advisory Committee. ထို့အပြင်, USA Wrestling advises all of its members to refer to their state and local health agencies for guidance about the COVID-19 situation in their area.
USA Wrestling has been, and will continue to meet regularly with state leaders, National Team athletes and others to inform and support them, as well as receive their input.
USA Wrestling has pledged to increase its direct communication with its members moving forward, including opportunities to receive information directly from members of the COVID-19 Advisory Committee.
USA Wrestling is updating a page on its website solely devoted to COVID-19 atက https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2020/March/14/COVID-19-Special-Section. This page includes links to resources for the wrestling community, as well as lists of statements, press releases and articles that will update and educate all members about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Due to the ongoing safety concerns surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as current federal, state and local government mandates, Bellator MMA officials today have announced that three upcoming live events scheduled for May have been postponed.
These events include:
Bellator 242– May 9 San Jose အတွက်, ကာလီဖိုးနီးယား.
Bellator European Series London– May 16 လန်ဒန်မြို့ရှိ
Bellator 243– May 29 in Temecula, ကာလီဖိုးနီးယား.
The organization will continue to monitor the situation closely and fully intends to reschedule the events as soon as possible.
ထုံးစံအတိုင်း, the health and safety of our athletes, ပရိသတ်များ, partners and staff remains our top priority. We appreciate the understanding and patience of everyone involved during this incredibly difficult time.
Refunds for ticketholders to these events, as well as Bellator 241 originally scheduled for March 13 Mohegan Sun က Arena မှာ, will be available at their original point of purchase.
ကေတီရဲ့ရောဂါပထမ ဦး ဆုံးမှာဒါဖှယျသလိုပဲ, ငါနောက်ထပ်အဖြစ်ဆိုးများအတွက်ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကို set up. နောက်ဆုံးမြောင်းတစ်ခုကြောင့်သူမရုတ်တရက်ပြန်ထွက်လာသည့်အချိန်တွင်ကျွန်ုပ်၏သံသယများမှာအဖြစ်မှန်ဖြစ်လာရန်နီးစပ်လာခဲ့သည်, အပူတပြင်းကြိုးစားအားထုတ်မှု. သူမသည်ဓါတုဆေးသွင်းကုသမှုကိုငြင်းဆန်ခဲ့ပြီးသူမ၏ဆရာဝန်များကသူမ၏ရှင်သန်မှုသည်မျှော်လင့်ချက်မရှိဟုဆိုခဲ့သည်.
ထိုအခါ, သူမတွေ့ဆုံခဲ့သည် Billy အကောင်းဆုံး. ၁၇ နှစ်အရွယ် Billy Best သည်ကင်ဆာရောဂါခံစားနေရသူဖြစ်သည်, မိမိအဘ၏အစ်မ, ထိုနေ့တွင်ပင်ဆရာဝန်များကသူ၏ Hodgkin ၏ရောဂါကိုဖော်ထုတ်ခဲ့သည်. Billy သည်သူ၏ဆင်ခြေဖုံးမက်ဆာချူးဆက်ရှိအိမ်သို့ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်သည့်ဓာတုကုထုံးဖြင့်ကုသမှုကိုခံယူရန်အကောင်းဆုံးမိသားစုသို့မီဒီယာဆပ်ကပ်တစ်ခုဆင်းသက်လာသည်.
သူ့မိဘများအနေဖြင့်သတင်းထောက်များကိုအသနားခံစာတင်ခဲ့သည်. Billy တက္ကဆက်ပြည်နယ်မှာတက်အဆုံးသတ်ခဲ့သည်, သူနှင့်သူ၏ရှေးရှေးသူမဆိုပိုပြီး chemo ခံနိုင်ရည်ရှိသည်မဟုတ်ခဲ့ပါသဘောတူပြီးနောက်မှသာသူအိမ်ပြန်လာ၏.
အဓိကအားဖြင့်ငွေကြေးနှင့်အလုပ်အကိုင်များပါ ၀ င်သောအကြောင်းပြချက်များကြောင့်စက်မှုလုပ်ငန်းသည်အခြားဆေးဝါး၏နာကျင်မှုမရှိသောနှင့်အဆိပ်မရှိသောချဉ်းကပ်မှုများကိုဆန့်ကျင်စွာအမြစ်တွယ်နေသည်, မော့စ်ကပြောသည်, သူက back up လုပ်ဖို့အထောက်အထားရှိပါတယ်.
Katie Hartley နဲ့ Billy Best တို့ကသူတို့ရဲ့ကင်ဆာကသေစေနိုင်တယ်ဆိုတာသိတယ်. သူတို့ရုန်းကန်နေရတဲ့အချိန်တစ်ချိန်ချိန်မှာသေလုနီးပြီဆိုတာကိုအမေနဲ့အမေသိတယ်. သန်းပေါင်းများစွာသောအဆိုးရွားဆုံးသောရောဂါလက္ခဏာများကိုရောဂါရှာဖွေတွေ့ရှိခဲ့ကြသောသူတို့မသေဆုံးမီကသူတို့၏ရှင်သန်နိုင်မှုအခွင့်အလမ်းများမှာနည်းပါးလှသည်ဟုသိထားကြသည်.
သူ၏ယခင်ကျောင်းမှပါမောက္ခအချို့သည်ပြင်သစ်တောင်ပိုင်းရှိစစ်ပွဲအတွင်းလှုပ်ရှားခဲ့သော Union Scientifique Nationale Francaise ကိုဖွဲ့စည်းခဲ့သည်။. Naessens သည်ယာယီကျောင်းမှဇီဝအင်ဂျင်နီယာဘွဲ့ရရှိခဲ့သည်, ဒါပေမယ့်သူကစစ်အပြီးအစိုးရသစ်ကနေတန်းတူဒီဂရီရှာ၏.
ဘာလဲ:This week’s installment of SHOWTIME BOXING WITH ERIC RASKIN AND KIERAN MULVANEY podcast features an interview with Stephen Espinoza, သမတ, အားကစားနှင့်ပွဲစီစဉ်ခြင်း, Showtime Networks Inc မှ. In the new episode, veteran boxing reporters Raskin and Mulvaney discuss a wide-range of topics with Espinoza, including the current state of boxing and what may lie ahead for the network’s boxing programming once the current hiatus comes to an end. For the full interview, click on the following link: https://s.sho.com/3bkvFp1.
Below are excerpts from the interview with Espinoza:
On SHOWTIME Sports’ interim content plan…
Espinoza – “It is therapeutic to look forward to and make plans for things that are more reflective of normal life for us, absolutely. Our goal is to fill that gap with a lot of the stuff we have. We have a deep library of documentaries and we are definitely surfacing a lot more of the archive bothတောင်းဆိုသည့်အခါand we will look at it on linear more regularly.”
On what lies ahead when boxing resumes…
Espinoza – “It’s going to be a wild ride. There’s a lot to be made up. There are a lot of fighters that need fights to happen, and I think we could be in for a pretty interesting period of time where there’s a lot of activity in a relatively short window … I think we’re going to see an action-packed, jam-packed schedule whenever we return, whether it’s in three, six or nine months – and we may see people taking a different tact on taking fights.”
On what fight you wish you could go back in time to attend live …
Espinoza – “Chavez vs. Haugen on February 20,1993 for the WBC Light Welterweight Title at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City… It wasn’t a great fight or great opponent but it’s my pick because of the legendary status that fight has within Showtime’s hallways. There were 132,000 တက်ရောက်သူရှိလူများ, you had Chavez taking the presidential helicopter to events [နှင့်] you had Don King getting robbed on his way from the airport to the hotel as soon he got into town. There were so many things around the atmosphere. It was one of those legendary events I would’ve loved to be at for the atmosphere.”
The weekly SHOWTIME BOXING podcast features Raskin and Mulvaney diving deep into the boxing and SHOWTIME boxing events. New episodes are release in all major podcast platforms every Monday, including Radio.com.
