HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. (May 17, 2011) – Officially, the ring record of eight-division world champion Congressman MANNY PACQUIAO is 53-3-2, 38 KOs. However, after watching Manny’s knockout performance on the season premiere of Comedy Central’s immensely popular tosh.0, Tonight! Tuesday, May 17, at 10 p.m. ET, there may be a few adjustments made to Manny’s official record. I can say no more!
Enjoy the preview. http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/preview—uncensored—manny-pacquiao-punch
Prospect Boxing: WBO world champion Ricky Burns to receive “Sports Personality” Honour
After a memorable year for Coatbridge boxer Ricky Burns ,he is to be honoured on the next Prospect Boxing show at Ravenscraig Sports Facility on Friday May 20th. The world champion is to be honoured with the inaugural “North Lanarkshire’s European sports personality of the year”. The award is part of North Lanarkshire’s current status as “European capital of sport” for 2011,but recognizes Burns achievement at winning the World Boxing Organization (WBO) world belt and successfully defending it twice. The Coatbridge fighter will be in attendance to receive the award ,which is being presented by Lord Provost Tom Curly.
While Burns achievement’s are being honoured at the show,fight fans will also be able to enjoy the action. On the night Paul Allison, John McCallum and Chris Steel look to stretch there unbeaten runs. Also in action is Kenny Davidson, Mark Bett,who takes on Alexander White in a return leg from last weeks fight at Bellahouston sports centre. After losing on points to White in an action packed fight, Bett will certainly look to reverse the decision in the rematch!
Some tickets are still available for the six fight card and are priced £30 and can be purchased form Prospect Promotions on 01698 338888 and Ravenscraig Sports Facility 01698 274600. The Venue is fully licensed and further details can be obtained from www.prospectboxing.co.uk or our Facebook group Prospect boxing www.facebook.com/pages/Prospect-Boxing/208247569205243
World Boxing Council News
May 17, 2011 – Mexico City. From World Boxing Council (WBC) President Dr. José Sulaimán: The following is one of the weekly “Hook to the Body” columns by WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán that are published in El Universal every Sunday. From May 15, translated from Spanish:
HOOK TO THE BODY
By José Sulaimán
The Law of Life also in Boxing.
Along the years of my life, I learned that a leader will always have friends and supporters as well as detractors, and that I am NO exception.
I attended a dinner to which I was invited by well-known friends at Harry’s, a delicious steak and baked octopus specialty restaurant in Mexico City – a city known as having some the very best restaurants in the world – and I had the opportunity to say hello to many guests who were having a great time – boxing is very popular in all social stratus all over México.
However, a little incident happened when one of my friends at our table observed at another table that the guests there, who looked like the multi-million dollar Juniors, were looking at our table with greedy and distasteful faces, which bothered him. He expressed that, for sure, those Juniors had a superiority mentality that placed them against accepting work and success from others.
My mind at that moment flew almost 36 years back, to December 5, 1975, when I was first elected President of the WBC in Tunis, North Africa. I was received by the very dear and highly-respected long time president of the country, Habib Bourguiba, who at the reception welcomed me in the Arabic language and he scolded me, as a joke, for not speaking the language of my father, when I told him in Arabic that I spoke very little. His unpretentiousness and simplicity encouraged me to ask him for advice on how a young person like me could lead a small world boxing organization, which the WBC was at the time.
Of the several points in his humanly intelligent and experienced advice, there was one that called greatly my attention: “Never expect as a leader, as you are now,” he said, “that everybody accepts, respects, and empathizes with you, as that is not humankind. Always, without exception, there will be a number of people who, only by your being a public person, will be distrustful of you, will show negativity and rejection. It will be by jealousy, envy, bitterness, for being black or white, for your face, or your body, your beliefs, because they feel to be superior to you, or simply because you are a leader. As president of the WBC, you must always work knowing that there will be those who approve of you and others who will not, but don’t allow yourself to be limited or intimidated by detractors, because that will lead you to failure.” His comments led my thoughts to my friend who had been bothered by detraction faces and attitude.
It took years and experience for me to understand President Bourguiba’s words and it took many years of experience in a volcanic world like boxing to feel it and clearly see it. The time came to feel that as a leader in everyday life, I would have applause and booing, support and rejection, indifference and enthusiasm, success and failure, which would be always magnified by detractors or opposition in the media.
Since many years ago, based on my parents’ education, and why not – by thinking of President Bourguiba’s caution – I have always behaved as President of the WBC with my principles, my nature being of making friends, absolute impartiality, invariable respect to all others, friends or not, never to respond to aggressions, with perseverance in working for the WBC goals to always finish what I start, with acceptance of my mistakes and detractors, but always looking and struggling persistently for a world boxing unity, based on friendship and trust always for the good of boxing and boxers. “Unity makes strength,” my mother said to me during her moments of dying, when she asked me to devote myself to the care of my sister Nelly, my brother Hector, and my father.
I decided then to try my very best to build, as the leader of my beloved WBC, a bigger number of friends and supporters than detractors, by giving my life to the service of others, especially the most needy, and act with sincerity and my special empathy to all in the WBC and of my life, but understanding, respecting, and extending always my hand of friendship to detractors.
For me, boxers are boxing, and they are my life. I always think of them as my sons, and there is nothing that can substitute that feeling in the sport of my love. I was deeply moved by the feeling provoked in me by a message received where the Boxing Writers Association of America presented to our great middleweight WBC Diamond Champion, and the best of all, Sergio Martínez, the award of BOXER OF THE YEAR, which he took to his chest as a sincere show of love and appreciation, and expressed with tears in his eyes his deep gratitude to the WBC and its president for the unwavering support that we have shown him during all the stages of his career, when others objected to give him the opportunity.
His tears at that moment came into the deep of my heart. How humanly great it is to see that there is still gratitude in our life. Feeling the demonstration of our great WBC champion gave me pride, gratitude, and sincere affection, and sent me to bed at ease and very happy. Loyalty and gratitude stand for me as the most sacred feelings of human beings, and Sergio Martínez has them.
I thank you for reading my notes.