"You can't beat boxing in front of the Stoke people, " he told BBC Radio Stoke.
When the show asked her to be on, she memorized the Encyclopedia of Boxing in a few weeks.
The Irish rugby team and boxing in Ireland were both successful examples of sports leaving sectarian differences behind.
"Ten years ago, nobody would have dreamed that we'd be getting this level of boxing in Wales, " said Enzo Calzaghe.
Palance was born Vladimir Palahnuik in 1919, the son of a coal miner, and took up boxing in the 1930s.
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Khan, undefeated in 16 bouts, will have the added advantage of boxing in front of his home crowd at the Bolton Arena.
Wanniarachchi's gold medal was his country's first in boxing in 72 years, and he was hailed as a national hero when he returned home.
Nowadays, Nelson is trying to preserve the legacy of boxing in Ghana, working with young talent to help create the country's next crop of champions.
Mr Cummins, who was known as "The Guvnor", had retired from boxing in 1995 and was paralysed by a motorbike accident in 2004, which left him requiring home care.
Calzaghe cemented his position as the world's best super middleweight by delivering a masterclass of boxing in comprehensively beating American Jeff Lacy in March to claim the IBF title.
Ali - who started boxing professionally in 1999 and won her first world boxing title in 2002 - was to trade blows with O'Neil, a little-known Guyanese boxer, in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.
Owen's tragic tale forms part of a rich story of Welsh boxing in the USA that has featured the likes of Jim Driscoll, Freddie Welsh, Jimmy Wilde, Frank Moody, Tommy Farr, and, more recently, Joe Calzaghe.
David Mijares, who trained in boxing with Tamerlan in high school and later coached the younger brother in soccer, agreed that his friend felt pressure to take his father's place.
Ruiz said he now plans to move from Las Vegas to his hometown of Boston in order to open a boxing gym in the inner city.
After two years in the navy, Harry originally joined the BBC in 1949 and delivered his first boxing commentary in the same year.
Golden Boy is now the biggest promoter in the fight business staging more than 100 boxing events in 2012.
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The bouts were part of a three-day boxing festival in Cardiff that culminates on Sunday with the World Boxing Confederation's star-studded Night of Champions.
They were both interested in boxing, he said, and the two met "a few times" in recent years at boxing events.
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Saturday's Cotto-Margarito rematch at the remodeled Garden offers the backdrop of bad blood (Cotto lost in 11 rounds in 2008) and a lingering controversy the revocation of Margarito's boxing license in California after a sticky substance was found on the hand wraps he used in a 2009 fight with Shane Mosley.
Back in London after his controversial recent defeat in the US, the boxer recalls how his life changed after "two weeks of boxing" in 2004.
"I am actually 20 years in sport, in boxing, and never ever in 20 years I use my skills outside of the ring, " he said.
This is not to say, as some observers do, that British boxing is in terminal decline.
And his camp fell out with the Amateur Boxing Association in February, before withdrawing from its championships.
The drivers went on strike on Boxing Day in a long-running dispute over bank holiday pay, disrupting services.
But Cleverly left to train at his father's gym at Church Place Amateur Boxing Club in Bargoed, south Wales.
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The prince also visited a youth group and boxing club in the city.
The announcement comes after Tube drivers went on strike on Boxing Day in a row over bank holiday pay.
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That is not to mention the freak show tent, the giant exhaust pipe sculpture or the church with a boxing ring in the middle.
To prepare for fights on the ice, Mr. Martin has a boxing coach in Windsor who trains him on the mechanics of throwing and eluding punches.
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