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International Boxing Club of New York, 348 U.S. 236 (1955), often referred to as International Boxing Club or just International Boxing, was an antitrust decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. By a 7–2 margin, the justices ruled that the exemption it had previously upheld for Major League Baseball was peculiar and unique to that sport and that ...
Pietro Vincenzo "Enzo" Calzaghe MBE (1 January 1949 – 17 September 2018) [1] was an Italian-born Welsh boxing trainer. He was the father of Joe Calzaghe and the head trainer for Team Calzaghe at the Newbridge boxing club. He, along with son Joe, was a co-founder of Calzaghe Promotions.
After facing several club-level opponents and scoring a knockout victory over EBU heavyweight champion Lee Savold, the International Boxing Club guaranteed Louis $300,000 to face undefeated heavyweight contender Rocky Marciano on October 26, 1951. [73] Despite his being a 6-to-5 favorite, few boxing insiders believed Louis had a chance. [89]
Aug. 18—Carl J. Delberta was a world class athlete. He was on track to claim the world title in boxing before World War II, where he would serve before returning home to Oneonta and becoming a ...
At the age of 14, Bustillo studied Kajukenbo with the Kempo/Karate Club of Waipahu until graduating from High School and moving to California to pursue a college education. [3] While a college student at age 19, he competed in tournaments such as the Golden Gloves , Silver Gloves , Blue & Gold and other amateur boxing shows for Shaw's Boxing ...
D'Amato also confronted boxing politics and decided, along with his friend Howard Cosell, to thwart the International Boxing Club of New York (IBC). Suspicious to the point of paranoia, he refused to match his fighter in any bout promoted by the IBC. [5] The IBC was eventually found to be in violation of anti-trust laws and was dissolved. [5] [7]
The Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Houston, Texas. It was created as a result of the Legacy Fighting Championship and Resurrection Fighting Alliance merger in 2016.
Gains was born on Sumach Street in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 12 December 1900. [2] He took up boxing at around the age of twenty, after being asked to act as a sparring partner by Charlie Clay, and boxed out of Toronto's Praestamus Club, an organisation for Black boxers.