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Bangkok Post : BOXING
Thailand's amateur boxing boss Taweep Jantararoj has vowed to run for the presidency of the International Boxing Association (AIBA). Gen. Taweep was banned from AIBA activities for 12 months in May after the organisation said he had improperly criticised the boxing competition at the 2008 Olympics.
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Boxing: Booth shows bottle to ring the changes
By its very nature, boxing is a sport which has difficulty separating Rocky from reality, yet sometimes there are tales which defy even the most imaginative of Hollywood scriptwriters. Such is that of Jason Booth, surely the most remarkable boxer in Britain. As Carl Froch, the former world super-middleweight champion, says of his fellow Nottingham resident: "His story is one you couldn't make up."
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Ogilvie upstages Commonwealth Games boxers
Nearly all of Australia's Commonwealth Games boxing team was on show in Perth on Saturday night – but it was a West Australian not going to New Delhi who caught the eye.
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Boxing great's son looks for flying start
African boxing legend Azumah Nelson punched his way out of poverty. For now, his teenage son, Dalvin, is fighting for fun.
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Boxing: Silent assassin who lets her fists do the talking
They say about young ladies that it is the quiet ones who often turn out to be the tigresses, and they certainly don't come much quieter than Savannah Marshall. The 19-year-old six-footer from Hartlepool may be a woman of few words – that's why they call her "The Silent Assassin" – but her fists certainly do any necessary talking. She has stopped or KO'd almost half of her 28 opponents and is ...
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