Polacy organizują dużą galę w USA. Powalczą Szpilka

Bardzo ciekawie z perspektywy polskich fanów boksu zapowiada się planowana na 24 marca gala bokserska w Atlantic City.



W walce wieczoru wystąpi Mariusz Wach, który będzie bronić pasa WBC International w starciu z Tyem Fieldsem. Wcześniej do ringu mają wyjść m.in.: Artur Szpilka, Przemysław Majewski, Kamil Łaszczyk.

Budzący największe emocje "Szpila" skrzyżuje rękawice z Terrance'm Marbrą. To ten sam pięściarz, z którym Polak miał się bić w lutym w Las Vegas, ale zrezygnowano z tego pomysłu. Oficjalny powód? Promotorzy Polaka przekonywali, że impreza odbywałaby się w hali zbyt małej, aby pomieścić jego fanów.

W Atlantic City z tym problemów już na pewno nie będzie. Organizatorzy gali - Global Boxing, 12 Round KnockOut Promotions oraz Frank Maloney Promotions (dwie polskie grupy zjednoczyły siły ze znanym brytyjskim promotorem) - zapowiadają, że będzie to wielkie wydarzenie, które zapadnie w pamięci kibiców.

Uważamy, że ten pomysł ożywi wagę ciężką i wprowadzi kilka nowych twarzy na międzynarodowy rynek. Liczymy, że kibice z chęcią obejrzą kilka gal, podczas których mocne ciosy oraz emocje są po prostu zagwarantowane - cytuje Mariusza Kołodzieja, promotora Wacha i właściciela Global Boxing, portal ringpolska..pl.

To będzie pierwsza, ale nie ostatnia gala, na której wspólnie wystąpią Wach, Szpilka i reprezentowany przez Franka Maloneya Brytyjczyk David Price. Ustalono bowiem, że będą co najmniej trzy takie imprezy.
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Track and Field News ; Track & Field continue Indoor Season at Rod McCravy Memorial

USA Sports News : The Muray State women's track & field team will continue its record location season at the Rod McCravy Memorial hosted by Kentucky, Jan. 27-28 at the Nutter Field House in Lexington, Ky.

 Rod McCravy Memorial

Racers will be one of 17 teams at the assemble from 10 different conferences. MSU will be one of two teams from the Ohio Valley Conference, with Eastern Kentucky also participate. The SEC will be represent by the host Wildcats, Mississippi, South Carolina and Vanderbilt. Conference USA will be represent by Memphis and Central Florida; with the Sun Belt have teams from Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky. Also at the get together will be Cincinnati (Big East), Chattanooga (SoCon), Georgia Tech (ACC), Southern Illinois (Missouri valley), Ohio State (Big 10) and Miami (Ohio) (Mid-America).

Junior Alexis Love will be looking to get better on her record-setting time in the 60 and her top-ranking OVC time in the 200. Love is currently ranked No. 52 in the NCAA for her 24.31 come to an end in the 200 and 54th in the 60 (7.54-MSU school record).

The get jointly will get under way at 6 p.m., Friday, Jan. 27, with the weight throw, pole vault, and high jump and long jump events. Saturday's field events will start at 10:30 a.m. and run throughout noon, with track events running from 12:30 to 5 p.m.

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USA Sports News: Model files sex lawsuit next to Oscar De La Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya

Boxing News: Angelica Cecora, a 25-year-old model, has filed a lawsuit in New York alongside former boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya.

She is claiming the boxer try to force her into "disgusting" sex act in his hotel room last March.

The boxer's lawyer claims the meet was consensual and called the charges "offensive and frivolous."

Cecora admit the sex was consensual but claimed De La Hoya's performance and later requests were next to her will and things "took a wild turn that I didn't sign up for."

She is asking for $5 million for moving distress, false custody, and assault and battery.

"Once 12 o'clock hit that night, he just started doing more and more drugs and wanted me to do more and more things," she said.

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USA Sports News : Wounded Solo practice before U.S. women's Olympic qualifier

Athletic News : Hope Solo stood in the net, lean forward and grimace. She had just dive to her right to make a save, and her wounded leg was feeling the effects.

Hope Solo stood

The goalkeeper for the U.S. women's soccer team was back on the perform field Thursday, one day before the game that will decide whether the Americans go to the Olympics. Whether she'll really play was still in doubt.

"We still have quite some time to figure that out," Solo said after practice. "I have rehab planned right (now), another rehab session tonight, so we're just going to have to wait and see."

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Sonnen puts focus back on fighting for Bisping

Count on Chael Sonnen to subvert expectations in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
He's ridiculed the jiu-jitsu skills of proven submission experts. Dismissed stars of Pride Fighting Championships as frauds. Described a former titleholder as a champion manufactured by UFC's marketing machine. Derided the most dominant UFC champion of all time as an effeminate coward.


Yet for this weekend's fight against middleweight Michael Bisping, Sonnen offers a different kind of verbal surprise: Respect.

"How you could ever deny Bisping?" Sonnen says. "I'm just not on that bandwagon. I plan to do everything I can do to stop him. But I'm not going to sit here and act as though the guy's not a great fighter. He is."

They'll square off Saturday in the co-main event of UFC on Fox 2 (8 p.m. ET, Fox) in Chicago. Zuffa promises the winner a UFC title fight against 185-pound champion Anderson Silva later this year.

Matchmakers have been trying to put together a rematch between Sonnen and Silva since their dramatic showdown in August 2010, when the champ pulled off a late submission after being dominated by the challenger for most of five rounds. But with a four-fight win streak and a No. 9 spot in the USA TODAY/MMA Nation consensus rankings for middleweights, Bisping has his own case to make for a title shot.

"Chael's widely regarded as probably No. 2 in the division," Bisping says. "People do say that I haven't been fighting the top guys. Well, here we are."

Bisping and Sonnen got only a fraction of the time they would normally dedicate to training for any particular fight, let alone a title eliminator. Sonnen's originally scheduled opponent, Mark Munoz, underwent elbow surgery less than two weeks before the Chicago show; UFC chose Bisping as a replacement.

With such a small window to get ready for each other, they have little time for promotional work outside of UFC's basic requirements and a few relatively mild verbal jabs at each other.

"The fight was only made a few days ago," Bisping says. "I've got to put all my energy into preparing for that fight."

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Macon to Host Georgia's Best Fighters

The Bishop Frank Ray Boxing Arena in downtown Macon turns one this weekend. In celebration of the anniversary, fighters from around the state will put on the gloves in Central Georgia's home for the sweet science.


The arena on sixth street is hosting the Georgia USA Boxing Championships beginning Thursday. The three-day amateur tournament includes boxers of various ages and experience levels. For the first time the bouts will include local female fighters.

The stakes will be high in the Open Division, where seven spots in Nationals are up for grabs. Of the up-and-coming fighters that call the Macon gym home are the Montgomery brothers - Mikhail, Maliek, and Michael - are the star pupils. The lessons they've learned extend beyond the ring.

"It teached me hard work, period," Maliek said. "If you don't work hard at the sport you're not gonna be that good at the sport. You just got to work. You put in the hours in the gym and it pays off."

"People walking around in our schools they don't have no discipline," Michael said. "Then when they come to this they come out a different person."

Michael will have a chance to earn a spot in Nationals this weekend. The fights start Thursday at 6:00 p.m., with championship bouts beginning Saturday at 2:00 p.m.

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'Money' talks: Mayweather phones Pacquiao to discuss fight

The promoters don't seem to be making much headway in arrange the highly probable Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao megafight.


So Mayweather it seems that took matters into his own hands, calling Pacquiao, throughout Pacquiao's manager, Michael Koncz, in the Philippines on Wednesday (Thursday in the Philippines) to ask him directly regarding fighting on May 5th in Las Vegas.

"I told him we should do the fight as long as he agree to 50-50 sharing," Pacquiao told the Philippine Star during an awards dinner in Manila on Thursday.

As for a probable fight date, Pacquiao said, "We did not talk about the date (of the fight)."

Mayweather, 34, has insist on May 5 as a fight date, since he got his 87-day jail ruling pushed back to June 1 to house a May 5 fight, leaving enough time to heal from possible injuries from the fight before he begins serving his sentence.

Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter and chairman of Top Rank, has said they would need to do the fight at the end of May or early June, to give Pacquiao time to heal from a 29-stitch cut he suffer in November against Juan Manuel Marquez, and also to get a 45,000-seat provisional outdoor arena built.

Arum has said if that cannot be arranged, they could work something out for a mega fight in November in Las Vegas.

On Thursday May weather talked to the media after donating $100,000 to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity as part of his assure to his sentence judge, about facing Pacquiao.

"There is no fight I want more than the Manny Pacquiao fight," he said. "I guess he said he agreed to fight. The only thing that is stopping this fight right now, which I truly believe is stop the fight, is Bob Arum."

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