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BUMPHUS RETURNS
HOME TO TACOMA |
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August 29th, 2003, at the Emerald Queen Casino a local legend returns home. He's not defending his titles or preparing for another bout, this time it's in support of another fighter, his own. Johnny "Bump City" Bumphus grew up in Tacoma, Washington and attended Stadium high school. His career path took him to the ring where he proved himself to be a force to be dealt with. Bumphus took time out of his busy schedule to talk about what he's looking forward to in coming home and what he's been through to get here. He has not been home for the last six years and this is a happy homecoming.
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| "SHOBOX" HEAVYWEIGHT SHOWDOWN |
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NEW YORK (Aug. 21, 2003) - The popular boxing series "ShoBox: The New Generation" will kick off a weekend of heavyweights with a special Friday, Oct. 3, telecast in prime time from Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. In the main event, World Boxing Organization (WBO) No. 6 contender Jameel McCline will take on undefeated heavyweight Cedric Boswell. SHOWTIME will televise the 10-round bout, presented by Goossen Tutor Promotions, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The telecast represents the 35th in a series of "ShoBox" telecasts that began on July 21, 2001.
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WILL TYSON
APPEAR IN K-1? |
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TOKYO, JAPAN (August 18, 2003) - All Japanese sports papers featured a front-page article that Mike Tyson might participate in a K-1 competition within this year. The K-1, a mixture of such martial arts as karate, kick boxing and kungfu, has produced such a big sensation here in Japan for years that an demonstrative event took place for the third time at the Bellagio ball room in Las Vegas last Friday. Iron Mike, invited by the K-1 group, watched the competitions at the ringside, and responded to the agitation of ex-NFL player and now K-1 star Bob Sapp from the ring. Tyson climbed up to the ring, smilingly played a scuffle with him and said on the microphone, "Sign the contract, big boy." It stirred up so great interests of Japanese K-1 fans here that our papers greatly reported a near-future possible confrontation of Tyson vs. Sapp everyday. We know anything can happen to Mike, but is he really serious? [End]
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MANABE HALTS
THAI CHAMP MUANGHALEK |
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TOKYO, JAPAN - Up-and-coming lightweight prospect Keita Manabe (15-1, 14 KOs), 133, came off the canvas in the third, and battered OPBF #6 ranked Thai national 130-pound champ Muanghalek Kiatwichien (8-2, 6 KOs), 132.75, with furious combinations to drop him badly and prompt the referee's stoppage at 2:58 of the fourth round on Friday night in Tokyo, Japan.
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