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EUA Boxe declara junho “Mês da Unidade de Associação dos Alumni”
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Junho 11, 2018) – Boxe nos EUA “Mês da Unidade de Associação dos Alumni” começou a nocaute no fim de semana passado em Canastota, Nova Iorque, nas cerimônias anuais de indução da Classe Internacional do Hall da Fama do Boxe, como nove boxeadores de alto perfil, apresentando um incrível registro profissional acumulado de 365-51-7 (239 KOs) e 24 grandes títulos mundiais, juntou-se às crescentes fileiras da USABAA como orgulhosas, novos membros.
Chris tofflemire e John Scully representada USA Boxing Alumni Association, manning tables no torneio de golfe IBHOF e Memorabilia Show, aumentar a conscientização da USABAA e recrutar novos membros.
“O espírito do boxe amador estava vivo e bem durante todo o fim de semana no Hall da Fama do Boxe Internacional,” explicou Cugliari, EUA Boxe Alumni Association Diretor Executivo. “Informações sobre a nova Associação de Alunos de Boxe dos EUA foram bem recebidas pelos convidados do fim de semana, e estimados ex-alunos como Jesse Vargas e Reggie Johnson mencionaram que estão animados para se envolverem. A Alumni Association agradece o apoio de muitos neste fim de semana, particularmente Micky Ward e Antonio Tarver, que continuam a espalhar nossa missão.”
“O fato é que a grande maioria dos boxeadores profissionais que freqüentam o fim de semana no Hall of Fame em Canastota todos os anos eram boxeadores amadores e se conheciam bem antes mesmo de se tornarem profissionais.,” adicionado inestimável consultor da USABAA Scully, que recruta boxeadores para eventos patrocinados por grupos como este. “Em algum momento das conversas entre os pugilistas do outro lado do terreno, os tópicos freqüentemente acabam se voltando para os dias de amadores juntos.”
“Os amadores, para mim, era sobre lutar por respeito,” dois divisão campeão mundial Júnior Jones (50-6, 28 KOs); notado. “Para ir a lugares diferentes e chegar muito longe (como amador), você precisa aprender a se comportar e a fazer transações com outras pessoas.”
Outros novos membros da USABAA são seis vezes, dois divisão campeão mundial Miguel Cotto(41-6, 33 KOs); quatro vezes, dois divisão campeão mundial, bem como 1976 Medalhista de ouro olímpico e Hall da Fama, Michael Spinks (31-1, 21 KOs); Peso-pesado irlandês que se aposentou Mike Tyson, Kevin McBride (35-10-1, 29 KOs); duas vezes, dois divisão campeão mundialJesse Vargas (28-2-1, 10 KOs); cinco vezes campeão mundial e 1996 medalhista olímpico de bronze Antonio Tarver (31-6-1, 22 KOs); duas vezes, dois divisão campeão mundial Reggie Johnson (44-7-1, 25 KOs), três vezes, três divisão campeão mundial James Toney (77-10-3, 47 KOs); e candidato mundial dos pesos pesados Gerry Cooney (38-3, 24 KOs).
EUA Boxe Alumni Association
Criado para defender uma vida inteira, relações mutuamente benéficas entre EUA Boxing e seus ex-alunos, –boxers, funcionários, treinadores e fãs de boxe — A Alumni Association conecta gerações de campeões, inspirando e retribuindo aos futuros campeões de boxe dos EUA, dentro e para fora do anel de.
A Associação de Alumni de Boxe dos EUA está aberta a todos que gostam de boxe e gostariam de permanecer conectados ao boxe amador.. Os membros têm acesso a uma ampla variedade de eventos especiais organizados pela Alumni Association, incluindo a recepção anual do Hall da Fama da Associação dos Antigos Alunos de Boxe dos EUA.
Para ingressar na Alumni Association, basta se registrar em ex-alunos @ usaboxing,.org por um $40.00 taxa de associação por ano. Novos membros receberão uma camiseta, chaveiro e carteira eletrônica.
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“Eu acho ótimo,” Jones falou sobre a formação da USA Boxing Alumni Association. “Lutadores que se tornaram profissionais eram grandes amadores, mas também há muitos amadores que não se tornaram profissionais. Todo mundo não se torna campeão, mas eles tentaram e deram o seu melhor, e é por isso que essa organização é boa porque todos os boxeadores são apreciados.”
“Embora o fim de semana no Hall of Fame tenda a se concentrar nas carreiras profissionais de muitos lutadores,” Cugliari concluiu, “era difícil não notar o efeito que o boxe amador teve na vida de muitos desses grandes campeões. A Associação de Alumni de Boxe dos EUA quer agradecer a Ed Brophy por sua generosidade e apoio ao boxe, e esperamos uma longa parceria com o Hall da Fama do Boxe Internacional.”
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Anthony “The Magic Man” Tarver Credits USA Boxing for giving him Structure that carried him to top
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Maio 21, 2018) – Future Hall of Famer Anthony “The Magic Man” Tarver (31-6-1, 1 NC, 22 KOs) has just about done it all as a boxer having been an Olympic medal winner and world champion as an amateur, along with capturing five major light heavyweight world titles as a professional, as well as a pair of The Ring magazine’s top honors, and four other world championships in two different divisions.
“I credit USA Boxing for giving me structure for the first time in my life,” Tarver explicou. “Everything was scheduled; curfew, eating, treinamento, sleep….tudo! I then understood that I had to be accountable for everything I did. I had talent, but I wasn’t structured, and that was bigger than me. I had to adjust to authority. My determination took off, giving me support I never had before. I went on to make speaking engagements and get sponsors. I broke barriers. I’ve been the best at every level that I fought at in the world.”
Tarver was a highly decorated amateur who had an amazing 158-12 registro. He is the only boxer to capture gold medals at World Amateur Championships, U.S. National Championships and Pan-American Games in the same year (1995). The Orlando, Florida-born southpaw won a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, losing in the quarterfinals to future world champion Vassiliy Jirov, who Tarver had defeated in the semifinals of the 1995 World Amateur Championships. Tarver also won top honors at the 1994 National Golden Gloves Tournament and 1995 World Championships Challenge.
“I went on a winning roll in 1995 and went into the Olympics in rare form,” Tarver disse. “And that’s why I was favored to win a gold medal. I was hitting him (Jirov), the same guy I’d beaten in the World Championships, but no points were registering for me. I had a good second round, but I was down three points, so I threw my game plan away in the third round. I felt I had to do more and got away from my style: counter punching, not getting hit, and being patient. I thought I had won and so did a lot of people. I made up for that, embora, with a gold-medal professional career.
“I had been faced with a decision about going pro after I was beaten in the ’92 Olympic Trials. I decided to stay in the amateurs, despite not having any guarantees about making the 1996 U.S. Equipe Olímpica. I sacrificed four years of my pro career, which is why I turned pro at a relatively late age (27). I was determined when I found out the 1996 Olympics were in Atlanta. I think I made the right decision and I have no regrets.
“I had always dreamed of going to the Olympics. I saw Roy Jones, Jr – we first fought each other at 13 – get robbed of gold. I was watching that on television, jumped up, and knew where I was heading: The Olympics! We both suffered horrible decisions in the Olympics and I knew then that our careers would be parallel.
Tarver made his pro debut February 18, 1997 na Filadélfia, paragem Joaquin Garcia (4-0) na segunda rodada.
“I was an Olympic bronze medal winner but when I first turned pro,” Tarver added, “I didn’t have a promoter or manager. Nobody was willing to take a chance on me until I was 4-0, when I signed by first contract with Russell Peltz. I felt nobody could beat me.”
Nobody was able to beat Tarver, at least until his 17th luta profissional, quando Eric Hardingdefeated Tarver by way of a 12-round unanimous decision.
Dois anos depois, Tarver embarked on a 12-fight murderer’s row stretch during the next seven years, arguably establishing him as the No. 1 pound-for-pound do mundo. It all started with a successful rematch with Harding (21-1-1) in Indianapolis, when Tarver dropped Harding in the fourth round, plus twice more in the fifth, on his way to a fifth-round technical knockout to avenge his lone pro loss to that date.
Next up for Tarver was a showdown with 44-3 Montell Griffin for the WBC and IBF 175-pound division titles, which were vacated by Roy Jones Jr., Abril 26, 2003 no Foxwoods Resort Casino, em Mashantucket, Connecticut. In his first world title shot as a pro, Tarver pitched a complete shutout, decking Griffin in the first and last rounds to shut out his opponent by scores of 120-103 from all three judges.
Sete meses mais tarde, contudo, Tarver lost a controversial 12-round majority decision and his WBC crown (he was stripped of his IBF belt) to WBA Super and IBO champion Jones in Las Vegas. The following May at the venue, Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, embora, Tarver became the first to knockout Jones, putting him to sleep in the second round.
Tarver then became a mainstream celebrity, appearing on late-night shows and covers ofThe Ring magazine and KO Magazine, and co-hosting an ESPN Sexta-feira Night Fights televisionar.
“I was robbed in my first fight with Roy,” Tarver insisted. “They called my knockout of Roy the greatest upset in light heavyweight history. Why didn’t they see me coming? I had beaten everybody ranked ahead of me. Roy was the pound-4-pound king, but he knew. I may not be the fastest, the quickest, or the strongest, but I doubt that there’s ever been a pro fighter to enter the ring with a higher IQ than me. Even at my age, I still feel that way today.”
The WBC stripped Tarver of his title in 2004 for fighting IBF champion Glen Johnson (41-9-2) instead of the WBC mandatory challenger. Johnson, ironicamente, was stripped of his IBF title for the same reason right before his fight in Los Angeles with Tarver. Tarver and Johnson fought for The Ring and IBO titles and Johnson won a 12-round split decision.
In their rematch six months later em Memphis, Tarver won a unanimous 12-round decision over Johnson to capture the IBO strap. Tarver completed his trilogy with Jones, retaining his IBO title with a unanimous 12-round decision (117-111, 116-112, 116-112).
Tarver lost a 12-round decision June 10, 2006 in Atlantic City to Bernard Hopkins for the IBO championship, which was soon vacated and recaptured by Tarver with a 12-round majority decision over Elvir Muriqi (34-3).
Tarver traveled to Australia in 2011 to challenge IBO cruiserweight champion and local hero Danny Green, who retired after nine rounds, as Tarver added another title belt to his display case.
Em dezembro de 2013 em Temecula, Califórnia, Tarver knocked out Jonathon Banks (29-2-1) in the seventh round, and Tarver’s last fight was a 12-round split decision draw with former world champion Steve Cunningham (28-7) em Newark, New Jersey.
Em 2006, Tarver starred as Mason “The Line” Dixon, the heavyweight champion in the film,Rocky Balboa.
Tarver, as he marches towards his planned history-making performance by becoming the oldest heavyweight world champion of all-time, also has served as a color commentator in boxing for Spike TV and Showtime.
Hoje, com a idade de 49, Tarver is still technically active, and he also trains his son and undefeated middleweight prospect, Antonio Tarver, Jr. (5-0 (4 KOs), where they live in Tampa, Florida.
“I was older than the rest of the boxers on the U.S. Olympic Team and the U.S. National Team,” Tarver comentou. “What a team! Guys like Diego Corrales e Zab Judah didn’t make that Olympic Team. I gave Floyd Mayweather, Jr. his first moniker, ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’, until he changed it years later to ‘Money’. We had a bond on that Olympic team with Floyd, Fernando Vargas, David Reid, Zarim Raheem and the others.”
Although at the age of 49 he is still an active fighter, Tarver occassionally does some color commentating and he trains pro and amateur boxers at a gym in Tampa, Florida. “I’m not retired as a fighter,” Tarver commented. “I started a program, ‘Train with The Champ’, and it includes room rent and training. I like to say it’s an AirB&B for boxing. I train my son (5-0 médios Antonio Tarver, Jr. há. I learned a lot from my early days, training in Orlando with my coach, Lou Harris, and I reunited with Jimmy Williams, que é 90 agora, training my son together in Tampa.
Tarver also is an advocate of the relatively new “EUA Boxe Alumni Association,” which was created to champion a lifelong, relações mutuamente benéficas entre EUA Boxing e seus ex-alunos, –boxers, funcionários, treinadores e fãs de boxe — the Alumni Association connects generations of champions, inspirando e retribuindo aos futuros campeões de boxe dos EUA, dentro e para fora do anel de.
“I’m going online to join,” Tarver disse. “I’m looking forward to attending an Alumni Association meeting, Junho 24-30 during the Junior Olympics in Charleston, West Virginia.
Everything that goes around, vem por aí, in USA Boxing. Just ask future Hall of Fame candidate Antonio Tarver.
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Boxing trainer Orlando Cuellar goes Back to the Future at 5th St. Academia
MIAMI (Outubro 26, 2016) — Internationally renowned boxing trainer Orlando Cuellar has come full circle, right back to the famed 5th St. Gym in South Beach, where he once visited as a teenager to learn and now trains fighters out of six days a week.
Born in Havana, Cuba, Cuellar’s family resettled in Miami when he was three with Orlando living there through high school. Como um pugilista amador, Cuellar vividly remembers watching boxers at 5th St. Gym such as Cassius Clay, Willie Pastrano, Vinnie Curto e Florentino Fernandez, as well as legendary trainers, irmãos Angelo e Chris Dundee.
“I watched and learned, picking up as much as much as I could,” Cuellar disse. “Agora, I find myself working out of the 5th St. Gym for the past six weeks. It’s been an incredible experience. Todos os dias, you never know who is going to walk through the doors there. It’s been one of the best boxing gyms in the world for more than 50 anos. From the days dating back to Muhammad Ali, fighters have been attracted to this gym because of its rich history and great sparring, as well as to the area with South Beach’s restaurants, clubs and beach. The warm, humid weather also makes it easier for fighters to lose weight running and training.
“(Owner) Dino Spencer is carrying on the 5th St. Gym’s tradition. Everyday I’m there is exciting for me. Mixed ethnic groups train there and it’s a magnet for talent. There’s sparring three days a week – I call it Spar-a-rama – and everybody’s welcome to challenge themselves. The sparring is better than a lot of TV fights.
“5th St. Gym trainer Guy Laieta had been trying to convince me to join the team for the last five years. I spoke to Dino on several occasions, expressing my desire to train fighters out of the 5th St. Academia. Ele disse, ‘Let’s do it.’ The success of the 5th St. Gym today has a lot to do with ownership. Dino has a passion for boxing and he is very hospitable, which trickles down to his staff and fighters. Good vibes all of the time!”
Cuellar left for Las Vegas in 1976 e, after he realized that being a boxer wasn’t in his best interest, he started training fighters there in 1981 out of Johnny Garcia’s Gym. Um ano depois, he shifted his base Brooklyn and started training fighters out of another boxing icon, Ginásio de Gleason. Em 2000, he resettled in Miami.
Best known as world light heavyweight champion the head trainer of Glen Johnson, Cuellar also worked with future champions such as Nicolas Walters, Rances Barthelemy e Erslandy Lara, bem como Luis Franco, Aaron Davis e Juan Carlos Gomez, to name a few of the more notables. Hoje, he’s the chief second for several top fighters including Antonio Tarver.
Recognized throughout boxing as a superior teacher, Cuellar’s success is mostly attributed to his training of fighters on an individual basis, focusing on their personal needs rather than giving all fighters the same instructions and attention.
“Each fighter needs personal and specific work to complement their God-given talents,” Cuellar explained. “You can’t teach all fighters the same way. I specialize on what I call old school meets new school. Old school was upfront and personal to go 15 rounds, new school is about throwing more punches, more foot movement and fighting from the outside. I teach doffense: defense + offense. Punches aren’t vitamins, none should be taken. Boxing is little more than a battle of reflexes; one fighters versus another, but the real trick is how the fighter uses his reflexes. I teach my fighters how to turn the ring apron into a minefield.”
Boxing has played a huge role in Cuellar’s life. Back in the 5th St. Gym is just another chapter in his unique life.
“I live through my fighters,” Cuellar concluded. “Every victory is my proudest moment. There are no big or little victories, every win is a happy moment because of all the hard work and sacrifices me and my fighter made during training camp.”
Orlando Cuellar is thrilled to have gone back to the future.
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Undefeated prospect Antonio Tarver, Jr. establishing his own identity in ring
TAMPA (Maio 10, 2016) – Fighting for his young family, as well as to expand the legacy associated with his last name, the son of 5-time world champion and 1996 U.S. Olímpico Anthony “Magic Man” Tarver – unbeaten junior middleweight prospect Antonio Tarver, Jr. – this past weekend continued establishing his own identity in the ring.
After a 9-month absence, the 28-year-old Tarver (4-0, 3 KOs) returned to the ring in Lakeland, Florida, paragem Jose Cortez na segunda rodada. Tarver displayed his improving skills, especially a punishing body attack, during a thoroughly dominating performance. He broke-down Cortez and closed the show in style.
“It took me one round to get rid of ring rust,” he explained. “We had a game-plan to go to the body, then the head, body and head, but it took me a round to do it. God’s really blessed me and I owe all thanks to Him. My father and coach, Jimmy Williams, have always told me not to look for a knockout but that it’ll come. I’m not a one-punch knockout fighter. It’s all about setting up shots and putting them together. I may not connect with every single body shot I throw, but if I get in three of four each round, it’ll eventually cause damage. I’m focusing on my opponent’s liver and ribs, trying to be a body-snatcher.”
Tarver was an athlete, playing basketball and football, who didn’t start boxing until he was 19. He had a very brief amateur career and fully realizes that he’s consistently going to be fighting more experienced boxers.
“No anel,” Tarver disse, “I’m still a baby. My opponents may be much more experienced than me, but I do have a lot of experience around me: my father, coach Williams and Darrell Foreman. My father wouldn’t support me as a fighter until I proved to him that I was worthy (sacrificing and training). I’m worthy now and believe I’m coming into my own as I continue to learn.”
“Como um pai,” Tarver Sr., notado, “I wanted him to know what he was getting into and have the tools to succeed. He’s as tough as nails. When he realizes how strong he really is…..tenha cuidado. There’s a difference between hitting an opponent with a punch and punching through him like he’s doing now. I just wish he’d get started quicker. He doesn’t get going until he gets hit and then he turns into a beast. A ferociousness comes out from inside that I never had. He’s improving all of the time. He’s putting punches together better and sitting down on his punches.
“Antonio is going to be a fan-friendly fighter. I know I put him under a lot of pressure, but he’s fighting much more experienced guys. I’ve never been worried about him fighting a tough guy. It’s the guys who think in the ring and have amateur pedigree that can be problems for him.”
Understanding that his opponents get pumped to fight him because of his last name, Antonio Jr. rationalizes that, taking advantage of the situation he is in. “It’s very important for my opponents to beat me and the name,” ele admitiu. “My father set this stage for me and my name is, Antonio Tarver, Jr., so they’re trying to give us both a loss. I’m fighting for my family and to protect the legacy of my last name. I try and take advantage of being my father’s son and accept everything that goes with that. I don’t try to put pressure on myself but, claro, I want to be the best Antonio Tarver Jr. I can be.
“People are always going to compare me with my father but we fight in different weight classes. Light heavyweights, other than Roy Jones Jr., are slower than junior middleweights, who are much quicker like Floyd Mayweather, Jr. I’m always going to be fighting opponents taller than me, or sometimes the same height, but I’m 5′ 9″ and a lot of my opponents are going to be 6′ 2″ or so.
The father has another important lesson he’s teaching his son. “Antonio became a father for the first time last September and he was slow getting back in the gym,” Antonio Sr. adicionado. “He has to learn how to balance fatherhood with his pro boxing career, making sacrifices to become a champion!”
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PREMIER BOXING CHAMPIONS MAKE SUPER BOWL 50 PREDICTIONS
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Antonio Tarver refuta teste de drogas falhou
Equipe Tarver passou o Dia do Trabalho alimentando desabrigados & outros no Exército de Salvação em Tampa
EQUIPE TARVER (L-R) – Jamil Thompson, Antonio Tarver, Angela Mitchell, Orlando Fernandez e Eboney De Costa.
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TAMPA (Setembro 10, 2015) — Equipe Tarver, liderada pelo campeão mundial cinco vezes e peso pesado do mundo Anthony “The Magic Man” Tarver (31-6-1, 22 KOs), gasto este Dia do Trabalho passado atendendo a mais de 150 sem casa, pessoas com deficiência e pessoas com mobilidade reduzida, veteranos militares locais, no Exército da Salvação em Tampa.
“Eu realmente gosto do serviço comunitário que tenho feito ultimamente, porque isso me faz sentir como se eu estivesse fazendo a diferença na vida das pessoas que são menos fortuna então me,” Tarver disse. “Para saber que a minha equipa parece estar gostando muito bem torna isso ainda mais especial para mim. Eu realmente aprecio-los para participar cada vez que somos chamados. Eu não posso esperar até para o nosso Giveaway Turquia e de Natal Unidade Toy em Tampa / Orlando. Se todas as organizações sem fins lucrativos ou potenciais patrocinadores estão dispostos a se juntar a equipe Tarver, por favor, não hesite em visitar o meu site na web OfficialAntonioTarver.com enquanto continuamos a fazer a diferença onde ele conta.”
Próxima função planejada do time Tarver será uma Turquia Giveaway antes de Ação de Graças.
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Inaugural da equipa Tarver Back-To- School drive a major hit last week in Tampa
Equipe Tarver na Casa de Layla em Tampa
TAMPA (Agosto 26, 2015) — The inaugural Team Tarver Back-To-School-Drive was a major hit last week at Layla’s House (www.LaylasHouse.com) em Tampa, Florida.
Campeão mundial cinco vezes e peso pesado do mundo, Anthony “The Magic Man” Tarver (31-6-1, 22 KOs), his son, unbeaten junior middleweight prospect Antonio Tarver, Jr. (3-0, 2 KOs), e alguns outros membros da equipe Tarver distribuído material escolar quinta-feira passada para crianças carentes na cidade natal de Tampa Tarver.
EQUIPE TARVER: (L-R) – Antonio Tarver, Antonio Tarver Jr., Eboney De Costa, Orlando Fernandez, Angela Mitchell e Jamil Thompson
“Não há nada melhor do que ver sorrisos nos rostos das crianças,” Tarver disse. “I believe it’s important to give back in your community. We feel it’s very important for children, especialmente os mais jovens, ter suprimentos para o primeiro dia de escola. Fomos capazes de fornecê-los com materiais essenciais, como livro-malas, Lápis, e notebooks. Esperançosamente, eles se sentem melhor sobre si mesmos, frequentam a escola, e obter uma boa educação.”
Função planejada próxima equipe de Tarver será uma Turquia Giveaway antes Thanksgiving.For informações adicionais, inquire patrocínio ou a fazer uma doação, por favor envie- officialteamtarver @
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Travis Kauffman regressa com destruição primeira rodada sobre Carmack
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