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fun fact: Eladio Carrión used to be a high performance swimmer who competed alongside Óscar Valdez, Robeisy Ramírez and Robson Conceição at the 2011 Pan-Am Games

u/Morning-Sunday — 1 month ago
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Boxers with backgrounds in other sports (non-combat sports)

  1. Terry Norris (baseball): He was a star high-school baseball player. While playing center field in 1985, a heated on-field brawl over racial slurs led to his suspension and effectively ended his baseball aspirations.

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  1. Anthony Joshua (track & football): He excelled at football and athletics and broke his school's Year Nine 100 m record with a time of 11.6 seconds, eventually improving to 11.0 seconds by age 15. In football, he scored 35 to 40 goals a season in local leagues.

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  1. Deontay Wilder (basketball & American football): He graduated from Tuscaloosa Central High School in 2004 and dreamed of playing football (wide receiver) or basketball (forward) for his hometown Alabama Crimson Tide, but the birth of his oldest daughter and poor grades caused him to attend nearby Shelton State Community College and to focus on a boxing career.

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  1. Rocky Marciano (baseball): So devoted to baseball was Marciano that he drove to Fayetteville, N.C., in 1947 to try out for a minor league team affiliated with the Chicago Cubs. “He didn’t have a great arm, but he could hit the ball a mile,’’ said Marciano’s brother-in-law, Armond Colombo. “He was very slow of speed and that held him back. He was a better-than-average baseball player, though.’’

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  1. Sergio Martinez (football): "My dream was to be a footballer. I played as a striker for Claypole and had an offer from Los Andes, so, at the same time, I joined a gym to improve my physique. By the third day, I was a boxer."

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  1. Lauren Price (football): She played football for several years with Cardiff City, winning the inaugural season of the Welsh Premier Women's Football League in 2013. She captained Wales at under-19 level and made her senior debut in 2012.

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  1. Katie Taylor (football): She represented the Republic of Ireland women's national football team at under-17, under-19 and senior levels. She made her final international appearance on 24 September 2009 when she came on as substitute in a 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan.

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  1. Curtis Woodhouse (football): His career in the Football League spanned across nine seasons, earning four caps for the England under-21 football team. Woodhouse won the British light-welterweight title on a split decision against Darren Hamilton.

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  1. Shawn Porter (American football): He earned all-conference football in his junior and senior year at Stow-Munroe Falls High School.

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  1. James Toney (American football): He was a standout high school football player. He excelled as a quarterback and running back for the Huron River Rats at Ann Arbor Huron High School, later receiving football scholarship offers from both Western Michigan University and the University of Michigan. "I wasn't a team player and wasn't good at taking orders. So I went into boxing."

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  1. Corrie Sanders (golf): In his youth, he played rugby, cricket, and golf. Wladimir Klitschko revealed that analyzing Corrie Sanders' love for golf actually prompted him to take up the sport himself.

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  1. Hank Lundy (American football): He earned a partial scholarship to play collegiate football at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, but declined upon learning his aunt could not afford to send both him and his sister, Muneerah, to college. "Send my little sister," Lundy told his aunt, "and I'll find another way."

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  1. Dominic Breazeale (American football): The 2012 Olympian and title challenger was quarterback on the football team at Mt. SAC and the University of Northern Colorado.

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  1. DaVarryl Williamson (American football): An accomplished high school football star, he attended Rochester Community and Technical College in Minnesota on a scholarship. Williamson later transferred on a scholarship to play for NCAA Division II Wayne State College in Nebraska, graduating in 1993.

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  1. Sonny Bill Williams (rugby league and rugby union): He won 58 caps for New Zealand (the All Blacks), and was part of the teams that won the 2011 and 2015 World Cups. He won the World Boxing Association (WBA) International Heavyweight title against Francois Botha.

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  1. Anthony Mundine (rugby league): He played for the St. George Dragons and Brisbane Broncos, and represented New South Wales in State of Origin. He appeared in three Grand Finals (1996, 1997, 1999). In boxing he held the World Boxing Association (WBA) super-middleweight title twice between 2003 and 2008.

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  1. Seth Mitchell (American football): After receiving over a dozen NCAA Division I football scholarship offers, Mitchell decided to attend Michigan State University. He was forced to hang up his cleats for good in 2005 due to damaged cartilage in his knee. He took up boxing after he watched a former Notre Dame football opponent, Tom Zbikowski, win his professional boxing debut at Madison Square Garden. He won the WBO-NABO heavyweight title.

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  1. Nikolai Valuev (basketball & discus throw): He won the national junior basketball championship. He achieved the Master of Sports title in discus throwing.

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  1. Oleksandr Usyk (football): He played association football until age 15, training at the SC Tavriya Simferopol specialized sports school of the Olympic reserve (the club's football academy).

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  1. Vasiliy Lomachenko (ice hockey): He claims that if his father had not been a boxing coach he probably would have chosen to play ice hockey professionally.

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***There's another very interesting boxer that I did not include because he will be featured in a "Boxers with Crazy Lives" series that I'm working on***

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u/Morning-Sunday — 1 month ago
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28 year old pro boxer Yorky Medina passed away today during the earthquakes in Venezuela. 235 people have been reported dead with 4,300 injured.

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u/Morning-Sunday — 2 months ago
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(2021) Nice moment between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and pro boxer Dyah Davis. Floyd recognizes Dyah as a boxer and also remembers the legacy of his late father, Howard Davis Jr., as the best boxer at the 1976 Olympics.

Many people don't know this but Floyd is the biggest boxing nerd besides Mike Tyson. He's a true student of the game who recognizes the talent of a legendary US Olympian when many would disregard his legacy because Howard never won a professional world title.

Dyah Davis retired from boxing with a 26-4-1 record and he fought the likes of James DeGale, Sakio Bika and Darnell Boone and he's the boxing trainer of renowed mma fighters like Dustin Poirer and Johnny Eblen.

u/Morning-Sunday — 2 months ago
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Moon Sung-kil displays his power

  • Asian Games gold medalist x2 (1982 & 1986)
  • World Cup gold medalist (1985)
  • World Amateur Champion (1986)

After a succesful career where Moon reached the quarterfinals at the 1984 Olympics, he turned pro and became a two division world champion with wins over 5 world champions.

  • WBC Super Flyweight champion
  • WBA Bantamweight champion
u/Morning-Sunday — 3 months ago
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On this day 10 years ago, Muhammad Ali passed away. "The Greatest" was a x3 heavyweight champion, x6 Fight of the Year winner, x6 Fighter of the Year winner, Fighter of the Decade (1970's), Olympic Gold Medalist. Ali's actions as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War made him an icon.

  • 21 opponents (13 by KO) beaten in world championship bouts.
  • Has a record of 14-5 (9 KO) against World Champions: Won against Archie Moore, Sonny Liston (twice), Floyd Patterson (twice), Ernie Terrell, Jimmy Ellis, Bob Foster, Ken Norton (twice), Joe Frazier (twice), George Foreman, Leon Spinks.
  • Wins against 7 Hall of Famers: Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Bob Foster, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton
  • Defeated 4 Olympic Gold Medalist: Floyd Patterson, Joe Frazier, George Foreman & Leon Spinks.
  • Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC
  • Ali released two studio albums: I Am the Greatest! (1963) and The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay (1976). Both albums received Grammy Award nominations
  • In 1996, he lit the flame at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. It was watched by an estimated 3.5 billion viewers worldwide.
  • In 1990, Ali traveled to Iraq prior to the Gulf War and met with president Saddam Hussein in an attempt to negotiate the release of American hostages. Ali secured the release of the hostages, in exchange for promising Hussein that he would bring America "an honest account" of Iraq.
u/Morning-Sunday — 3 months ago
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On this day, 17 years ago, Guillermo "El Chacal" Rigondeaux made his pro boxing debut. x2 olympic gold medalist, x2 world amateur champion, x3 world cup champion. He became WBA, WBO and Ring champion at 122lbs. In 2013 with only 11 fights he upset the 2012 Fighter of the Year Nonito Donaire

u/Morning-Sunday — 3 months ago
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Undefeated boxer Rico Verhoeven (1-0) scores a brutal right hand knockout in kickboxing against Benjamin Adegbuyi. He will face heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk this Saturday.

u/Morning-Sunday — 3 months ago