Her essays on boxing were collected in the 2009 anthology One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing.

However, Maynard eclipsed this goal on Boxing day against QPR at Loftus Road ; facing away from goal just outside the box, he collected a bouncing ball in the air, with one kick to control it and another to turn two defenders, and then smashed a stunning volley into the top corner past an unmoved Radek Cerny, all without the ball hitting the floor.

In some Canadian provinces, Boxing Day is a statutory holiday that is always celebrated on 26 December.

In Britain, Canada, New Zealand and some states of Australia, Boxing Day is primarily known as a shopping holiday, much like the day after Thanksgiving in the United States.

In recent years, retailers have expanded deals to " Boxing Week ", and some stores even have " half way to boxing day sales " on 26 June.

In some African Commonwealth nations, particularly Ghana, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania, prize fighting contests are held on Boxing Day.

Boxing and wrestling feature frequently in art, and some form of polo was probably popular, with men sitting on the shoulders of other men rather than on horses.

On Boxing Day and New Year's Day, it is a tradition for some residents to don blackface and parade through the town singing ' minstrel ' songs.

Although he isn't a member of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame ( unlike his uncle Basilio, who is ), in 1990, Ed Brophy and some Canastota businessmen came up with the idea to build the hall of fame in Canastota, to honor Canastota's two native world champions: Basilio and Backus.

Together with other short-circuit formulae ( including Superstox, Hot Rods, Bangers and Midgets ) was held regularly ( every Thursday evening, every Boxing Day afternoon and some Saturdays ) at Aldershot Stadium ( actually just across the Surrey county boundary in Tongham ) from the 1950s until the final meeting on 21 November 1992.

At Hobson & Canobbio's request, Gibbs wrote the code for FightStat ( also called PunchStat in some venues ) and was used at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum and in Reno for the 1985 HBO Boxing telecast of the Livingstone Bramble-Ray Mancini rematch for the WBA's world Lightweight title.

It is considered to be Australia's " premier sports precinct ", and regularly hosts some of the biggest domestic and international sporting events, including the AFL Grand Final ( Australian rules football ), Australian Open ( tennis ) and Boxing Day Test ( cricket ).

A few stations switch to all-Christmas music for the entire season ( some beginning as early as mid-November ); in Detroit, 100. 3 WNIC in 2005 started Christmas music day and night on midnight of October 31 because programmers believed that at least some listeners who are attracted by the Christmas music will remain loyal listeners when the station reverts to its standard format on Boxing Day.

He made some very early silent films during the Victorian era including in 1895: a film of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, The Arrest of a Pickpocket, The Comic Shoeblack, The Boxing Kangaroo and Performing Bears.

He stated: " Boxing started off as a habit and it ended up giving me some money and making me a little bit of a better person.

The benefit was later scheduled for October 15, and the band announced that they would be performing their self-titled debut album in its entirety, along with some songs from Hot Boxing.

Wincobank is home to St Thomas Boxing school which has produced some of Britain's best boxers of recent years including Herol ' Bomber ' Graham, Naseem Hamed and Johnny Nelson.

The former Undisputed Middleweight Champion issued a statement in early 2010 saying, " I'm going to take some time off from the sport of boxing and take myself out of the SHOWTIME Sports World Boxing Classic tournament.

McGirt and some of the fighters he trains are documented in the book " Bring it to the Ring: A Boxing Yearbook and Inspirational Message to Today's Youths.

After those two wins, he was placed number one among the world's bantamweights by the International Boxing Federation.

The date is also a Public Holiday in those countries that celebrate Boxing Day on the day instead / as well.

In his opinion, " the association of the figure of president Fernando Henrique Cardoso with those of the decaying celebrities of Celebrity Boxing is interesting to think about the political meaning of the episode ".

An AGP style event was held on Boxing Day, 1936 at the South Australian town of Victor Harbor for a centennial South Australian Grand Prix before the Australian Grand Prix title was revived in 1938 for the grand opening of what would become one of the world's most famous race tracks, Mount Panorama just outside of the semi-rural town of Bathurst.

The promotional EP Big Bright Cherry was released in 1994 and included three tracks from the Hot Boxing recording sessions as well as three self-produced songs.

Broyles appears on two tracks of Boxing Nostalgic.

Prior to the eventful Boxing Day Test of 1995, Muralitharan had captured 80 wickets in 22 Tests at an unflattering average of 32. 74.

The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known by foreigners as the Boxers, or " Yihe Magic Boxing ", was a secret society founded in the northern coastal province of Shandong consisting largely of people who had lost their livelihoods due to imperialism and natural disasters.

In November 1913, the International Boxing Union had declared the world heavyweight title held by Jack Johnson to be vacant.

World Championship Boxing has also had two spin-off series, Boxing After Dark and KO Nation.

* Boxing heavyweight great Muhammad Ali had his training camp in Deer Lake.

The groups that historically had recognized several boxers as champions included the New York State Athletic Commission, the National Boxing Association, the European Boxing Union and the British Boxing Board of Control, but these groups lacked, for the most part, the all-encompassing " international " status they boasted of.

* Tommy Gibbons and his brother Mike Gibbons, members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, had a summer home on Osakis Lake.

On May 1, 2010, Mosley fought undefeated Floyd Mayweather, Jr .. Boxing purists had called for the fight for over ten years.

According to many experts and the Ring Magazine book The Ring: Boxing In The 20th Century, Gómez and Zárate had the highest knockout win percentage of any two boxers paired inside a ring in history: When Gómez and Zarate met on October 28, also at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, the challenger and still world Bantamweight champion Zarate was 55-0 with 54 knockouts, while defending world Super Bantamweight champion Gómez was 21-0-1 with 21 knockouts.

All had similar records with McNeil fighting out of what was the Kenton gym, North Benwell Sports & Boxing Club ; beaten on points, with a tally of 23 fights, 21 wins, 19 by way of k. o.

Clark had made an earlier FJ appearance in a one-off race at Brands Hatch on Boxing Day, 1959, driving a Gemini-B. M. C.

According to boxing book The Ring: Boxing In The 20th Century, the forum's director, fearing a riot like the one that happened after Rose had beaten Chucho Castillo there might happen again, went to Olivares ' locker room to express his worries, and Olivares guaranteed he wouldn't let that happen again.

Despite the fact that he had fought only three rounds in the last two years, the World Boxing Organization sanctioned a challenge to their heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.

On September 24, 2008, reports had surfaced that Gatti was considering a comeback against Montreal welterweight Antonin Decarie ( now 25 – 1 ), the Canadian and North American Boxing Organization Champion.

In 1980, he had his first world title try, when the World Boxing Council Lightweight champion Jim Watt gave him an opportunity to fight for the title.

Orion Classics, minus its founders ( who had moved to Sony Pictures Entertainment and founded Sony Pictures Classics ), continued to acquire popular art-house films, such as Boxing Helena, before Metromedia merged the subsidiary with Samuel Goldwyn Entertainment in 1996.

Chávez had lifted the World Boxing Association's world Lightweight championship by beating Rosario, and a unification bout between the two friends and neighbors was planned.

Screaming that he thought the gloves had no padding, Collins Sr. demanded that the New York State Boxing Commission impound the gloves.

After an investigation, the New York State Boxing Commission determined Lewis had tampered with the gloves.

In 1983, Kronk fighter Milton McCrory won the WBC's world Welterweight title that had been vacated by Sugar Ray Leonard ; Jimmy Paul beat Harry Arroyo for the International Boxing Federation's world Lightweight title in 1985.

The Tunneys had seven children ; one son was killed in a homicide around 1920, another was a NYPD Detective from 1924 to 1951, dying in 1971, while Gene would become famous as a World Heavyweight Boxing Champion.

It should also be noted that the anonymous person confirmed at the start of the video that it was true and that he had the official book reviewing the International Boxing Hall of Fame to prove it.