February 24th kicks off the Golden Gloves at New York City’s Copacabana. In honor of that, we’re featuring Michael Kozlowski, a trainer known for turning out sensational international champions – many of whom go on to become highly rated professionals…
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June 21, 2007, Dublin, Ireland. A history accompanied the first professional women’s bout held in Ireland but that’s where the glitz ended. Having cut her teeth at such salubrious venues as a Club Med in Florida and a National Guard…
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January 13th, 2007, Halle, Germany. Karolina Lukasik, 154, won by a split decision, over Jill Emery, 152.
Scores: 99-92, 97-93 and 94-96. The referee Daniel van de Wiele also acted as judge, and he had Emery as the winner.…
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October 11th, Westchester County Civic Center, White Plains, NY.
Bantamweight Khabir Suleymanov (2-0) outworked Omar Carroll (0-1-1) to win by scores of 40-36 on all cards…
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September 15th, 2006, New York, USA
Junior featherweight Khabir Suleymanov (1-0) beat Liquori Crawford (0-2) when the towel was thrown in at 2:28 of the first round…
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On AUG 31, 2006 on the All-Women’s card in Lake Tahoe Jill Emery won by a six-round unanimous decision over Daria Hill
Final judges scores, 59-55, 59-55, and 58-56;…
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May, 2006, Shymkent, Kazakhstan (25 years later)
In the city of Shymkent, there was an international tournament by the name of “Outstanding Boxer of the 80′s” Serik Konakbaev, named after a current member of the Republic of Kazakhstan Parlament.
Serik…
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In the 79th annual New York Golden Gloves, the oldest amateur tournament in the world, 5 of my students won gold medals in Madison Square Garden. Twin brothers, Khabir and Sabir Suleymanov, made history as they both took the gold…