Giovani Segura

December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Giovani Segura

Giovani Segura is a professional Mexican Flyweight boxer. He is well recognized also by his boxing nickname El Guerrero Azteca which means “The Aztec Warrior“. He was born in Ciudad Altamirano in Guerrero, Mexico on April 1st of 1982. Segura is currently the Light Flyweight Boxing Champion and was also rated as the pound-for-pound rank number 9 boxer of the world by The Ring Magazine.

During his amateur career in boxing, Giovani Segura made a record of 38 wins over his 40 amateur bouts. He won mostly of his 38 wins by knockouts and only had 0 loses during his entire amateur career. Segura stated that his lost was only because of speed. He started hi amateur boxing career at the age of 15 years old.

He debuted from his professional career on March 28th of 2003 from which he garnered a boxing record of 18 wins, 0 losses, and 1 draw. His wins included bouts against boxing champions Carlos Tamara, and as well as former boxing champion Daniel Reyes. Giovanni Segura had also challenged the Columbian boxing champion César Canchila for the title of the Interim WBA Light Flyweight championship but lost to a unanimous decision. Segura and Canchila recently had a rematch from which Segura won the Interim WBA Flyweight title on March 14th of 2009.

In June of the same year, Segura elevated from his boxing career by becoming a full boxing champion. He also defended his title the following month by beating Juanito Rubillar in just 6 rounds. He had another title-defend fight November of the same year from which he knocked out his challenger Sonny Boy Jaro. And on February of the following year, Segura defended his WBA Light Flyweight title for the third time. He defeated his challenger Walter Tello and thus has retained his title.


 
In August 28th of 2010, Segura had a bout with the undefeated WBO Light Flyweight boxer champ Iván Calderón for a unification bout. He successfully unified his WBA title after knocked-out the Puerto Rican WBO boxing champion Calderón in the 8th round of their bout. His following fight was also a success after he stopped his challenger former boxing champ Manuel Vargas on the 7th round, thus defending his title.
 
Giovanni Segura and Iván Calderón had a rematch on April of 2011. Hence, during the rematch, Segura proved to have dominated the fight by knocking out Calderón during the 3rd round of the rematch fight. After his victories as a Light Flyweight Boxing Champ, Segura decided to vacate his titles to upgrade to the Flyweight division.

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Henry Armstrong, Jr.

November 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Henry Armstrong Jr

Henry Melody Jackson Jr. or better known as Henry Armstrong Jr. is a well-recognized American boxer. He is also known for nicknames such as Homicide Hank, Hammerin’ Hank, and Hurricane Hank.

Jackson or rather Armstrong, was born in Columbus, Mississippi on December 12th of 1912. During his childhood, his family moved to St. Louis Missouri, which was where he developed his pugilistic interest and developed his fighting skills.

Just like other legends such as Bernard Hopkins, Alexis Arguello, and Wilfredo Vazquez, Armstrong started his professional boxing career losing a fight with Al Sorvino in 1931 with a knockout. But that didn’t stop him from reaching the top. The first win that he had was also later that same year by defeating Sammy Burns in a 6-round decision. He moved to Los Angeles but lost four-round decision fights with Eddie Trujillo and Al Greenfield. After that 2 consecutive loss, he won 11 straight bouts. Hence, in 1933 he lost again and this time with Baby Manuel.

Armstrong was headfast and was determined to be a champ. He fought 22 fights and won each of them. He had later on encountered some losses but mostly wins. In 1937, Armstrong won 22 fights in a row and 21 of those bouts were through knockouts. He defeated Casanova by 3 rounds, Belloise by 4, Joe Rivers by 3, and also former world boxing champ Frankie Klick and Benny Bass in 4.


 
After that straight 22-win bout, Armstrong fought to try his first world title fight. By beating Petey Sarron in a knockout, Armstrong grasp the World’s Featherweight title Championship. He also won another 4 knockouts before that same year ended.
 
Henry Armstrong Jr. was regarded by a lot of boxing critics and enthusiasts as one of the greatest fighters of all time. Although Armstrong would lose a fight, he makes sure that he takes it back in 10 wins. He won more than three divisions in the boxing history where as during that time there were only 8 recognized world title divisions. He also defended his Welterweight championship title for more time than any other boxer did for their titles. He was recognized by the The Ring magazine as 2nd of the greatest boxers in the history of boxing for the last 80 years.
 
One of Armstrong’s greatest boxing streaks was the 27-win bouts in a row that he won and all by a knockout. It was regarded by many boxing enthusiasts as the best streak in the boxing history. Even if Mayweather and Pacquiao are the hottest buzz in the boxing ring today, they have not still reach that kind of boxing streak that Armstrong did.
 
Henry Armstrong Jr. had a total of 180 fights. He won 149 of those fights and 101 of them were all knockouts, he had 21 loses, and 10 draws.

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Gene Tunney

November 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Gene Tunney

James Joseph “Gene” Tunney was born on May 25th in 1897 to both English parents, Mary Lyndon and John Tunney who migrated after the Great Famine to the United States. Tunney was recognized as American Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight boxer during his reigning era.

Tunney was nicknamed as “The Fighting Marine” because he became a United States Marine before becoming a Boxing Champ. He fought 68 well recognized professional bouts with having only one lost to Harry Greb in the Light Heavyweight division. Following his excellent records, Tunney had another lost which was during World War I in a 10-round decision. His second lost was with Tommy Loughran.

Other than being a former United States Marine, Tunney was an excellent boxer of his age. He is basically best regarded for his defense.


 
He was one of the most famous boxers and had had fought high-paid bouts such as with Jack Dempsey. The fight with Dempsey was named as “The Long Count“, and was considered as one of the biggest bouts and rematch in the history of boxing for decades. Despite the fact that Tunney won his fight against Dempsey for the Heavyweight Title, he never got the recognition because Dempsey was considered by many as an all-time champ. He beat Dempsey twice and won by a unanimous decision.
 
With this great fighting skill of Tunney, he was awarded as the first “Fighter of the Year” by the Ring Magazine during 1929. His recognition in the boxing world became slow because he was rather an intelligent and honourable fighter, instead of others who just follow the killer instinct that entertains viewers. He preferred to do boxing as somewhat like the game of chess, which was not widely used as a strategy during those times. Nonetheless, his intelligent fighting motives were awarded and he eventually reached the top success.
 
Other well known boxing fighters from which he succeeds were Tommy Gibbons and Georges Carpentier, which he beat up both with an excellent knockout.
 
Tunney died on November 7, 1978 at the age of 81 and was buried in Stamford’s Long Ridge Union Cemetery. He died suffering from circulation ailment at Connecticut’s Greenwich Hospital.
 
Gene Tunney was indeed one of the most impressive and well-recognized boxer during his generation. He was included in the Boxers Hall of Fame and retired from his career with an unbeatable title of Heavyweight Champion of the World.

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George Foreman

November 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
George Foreman

“Big George” or known in his birth name George Edward Foreman is two time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champ and was also an Olympic Gold Medalist. He was born on the 10th of January year 1949 in Marshal, Texas. Foreman was also an ordained Baptist Minister, a successful businessman, and an author. He was well-recognized as one of the most powerful hitters in the history of boxing.

Foreman started his boxing career with an amateur record 22-4, by which he lost twice to Clay Hodges. He later on became a professional boxer in year 1969 where he knocked out Donald Walheim in just three rounds. Following that same year, he won 13 boxing fights by of which 11 are knockouts.

He stood by his heavyweight title in 1970 after winning 12 fights of which 11 are knockouts. In 1971, he won another 7 fights with all knockouts. He proved himself to be considered as ranked #1 challenger by the WBC and WBA after gaining a 32 Wins to 0 Lost record, 29 by which are all knockouts. His reign continued in 1972 where of all his wins he had his opponents’ knockout in just 3 rounds.


 
After gaining a record of 45 Wins and 2 Loss, Foreman retired from his boxing career, hence at that time he was just 28 years old. He stated that his reason for leaving boxing was because he found God and thus he became a Christian Minister. 10 years later after retiring, Foreman at the age of 38 announced that he was returning to boxing. Many of the critics thought that his comeback would be bad because during that time, Foreman was already out of shape and looked quite heavy. But Foreman proved to them that he still has his heavy punches and silenced the critics by winning again his fights.
 
In November 5th of 1994, Foreman became the oldest man who won a championship at the age of 45 by knocking out a 26 year-old Michael Moorer, thus he was up until now the oldest heavyweight champion. He was included in the top 25 greatest boxing fighters of all time in the Ringmagazine. Foreman also ranked 9th of the top 100 greatest punchers of all time, that was named by the Ringmagazine.
 
George Foreman had a total of 76 Wins and 5 Losses, 68 of which are all knockouts. Foreman has up to now remained as one of the most well-known Boxers of the world in Heavyweight division.

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