OK I got the ghosts out of the machine! Here’s the much overdue weekly martial arts news!
- High school judo program promotes martial arts to kids.
Not only does Washington have the oldest judo school in the nation, it also has the oldest established high-school judo program.
- Joe Calzaghe challenges Roy Jones to a boxing match.
“When I was the best boxer pound-for-pound in the world [intermittently between 1994 and 2003] it wouldn’t have been smart for me to go and fight Joe,”
- MMA is headed for Tennessee.
Bullman is the general manager of the Premier Martial Arts Center, whose second Knoxville facility will open this week. He has instructed law-enforcement officers throughout the area in self-defense. He will do more of the same with adults and kids at Premier’s new facility, which encompasses 1,700 square feet.
- An aging boxer loses in Thailand.
It reminded boxers, managers and promoters who persistently push their great champions to fight against Father Time and inspire them to try and win back titles that this is nothing but a ridiculous and foolish exercise.
- A female martial artist leaves karate for MMA.
“I feel safe because if someone comes out at me I know what to do,” said Ellie, who used to take traditional karate training. “This is more aggressive and much more fun.”
- UFC president Dana White gets interviewed.
White: Soon. We’ll be there, at Madison Square Garden.
- Drunken driver crashes car in martial arts studio!
The driver of a 2000 Toyota Avalon crashed through the front window of the school while six children were taking a class this week.
No one was injured.
- Did Mayweather retire at the right time?
Regardless of your stance, there’s no denying that Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s sudden retirement announcement comes at a perfect time for the welterweight division and boxing as a whole.
- Muay Thai fighter defends crown.
Brown will defend his International Karate Kick Boxing (IKKC) Cruiserweight World Champion title – one he has held since 2004
- If you are in El Paso on June 21st check out the taekwondo tournament!
The Friends of TaeKwonDo in conjunction with Elite TawKwonDo Academy and Master Soonmin Jang bring the El Paso TaeKwonDo Tournament to the Don Haskins Center on Saturday, June 21st.
- Shaolin monks to donate part of show profits to earthquake victims in China.
This time, part of the proceeds from the shows, to be held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta, will go towards helping victims of the May 12 earthquake in China.
Shaolin Kung Fu is considered to be the mother of all martial arts worldwide and the Shaolin Monastery is deemed to be a national monument in China.
- 14-year-old earns his black belt. Even better, a local paper actually covered it! (we really need more of this to happen)
Scott Marsh successfully earned his 1st Dan cadet karate black belt after a very demanding grading examination by Ultimate Karate at their town base.
- Female taekwondoist has incestuous affair with father!
London, Jun 14: A young British martial arts star had an incestuous two-year affair with her long lost father after they were reunited.
- 16-year-old places in world taekwondo championships.
What Nigel Harman wanted at first was to be like Jackie Chan. What he got was a realization that he can be as good as he wants to be in the Olympic sport of taekwondo.
- Seven-year-old has an almost-perfect record in tournament karate.
Paz, who turns 8 next week, has been working out in karate since age 4 and competing since he was 6. In that time, he has won nearly every one of his 45 matches, including those leading up to five grand championships.
- Larry Holmes enters boxing hall of fame–and does it his way.
“I don’t want them to put me in the Hall of Fame because they LIKE me,” Holmes said Sunday during the 19th annual induction ceremonies for the International Boxing Hall of Fame. “I want them to put me in because I EARNED it.
- Family makes karate part of their lifestyle.
“Karate was really a family tradition. It wasn’t just a lark with any of us,” Dan Haymore said. Although he had started karate in junior high school, he gave it up because he joined the Fannin County High School Band and didn’t take it up again until he was 24.
- University student dies after being kicked in the head during practice at karate club.
THE death of a university freshman who lost his life after being kicked in the head in a campus karate class earlier this week is being investigated by officials of the Shanghai Institute of Technology.
- Finally, George Foreman talks about boxing and other things!
DF: Do you have a favorite fight from your career?
GF: Yeah, I won an Olympic gold medal in Mexico City. I was a 19-year-old boy, and I had never had a dream come true. I couldn’t believe it. I stood on that platform, they put the gold medal around my neck with the national anthem playing in the background, I’ll never forget that. It’s like it was yesterday, and there has not been a moment second to that one.
Many people remember Big George for losing to Ali in the infamous “rumble in the jungle.” However, what they forget is that big George took a gold medal in the 1968 Olympics.
~BCP
