Jim Glancey, beloved Minnesota Boxing Mentor, Photographer, Coach dies at 83 On Thursday, August 19, I attended the funeral of Jim Glancey, a St. Paul boxing photographer and mentor to youth for over thirty years. Born James Ronald Glancey on February 26, 1927, he died on Saturday, August 7, 2010.…
Dundee’s View with Bert Sugar a great one Angelo Dundee’s autobiography, My View from the Corner: A Life in Boxing, written with (which always means by) the great boxing journalist Bert Sugar, has greatly enhanced my enjoyment of the Christmas season. Dundee begins with a description of the small but…
On Friday, July 23, Mark Breland spoke with Boxers and Writers Magazine via telephone from his home in Brooklyn, New York. While answering questions about his celebrated professional and amateur boxing careers, as well as his experience training fighters in recent years, he spoke of his upcoming appearance in Lights…
Former Secretary of the Minnesota State Boxing Commission, Board Member of International Boxing Federation, and founder of great boxing gym of the past died on July 3 St. Paul Boxing figure, Joe Azzone, dies of Heart Attack at 79.Josep J. Azzone, Sr., a St. Paul native who was an integral…
Published earlier this year, Sugar Ray Leonard’s autobiography, The Big Fight: My Life In and out of the Ring, is a great read for Christmas time and to carry you through an inspirational start to the new year. Written with Michael Arkush, the book opens with Leonard’s contemplation of what…
Three-time Ringside Boxing Masters Division International Light Heavyweight Champion, Steve McComas of St. Paul, Minnesota is joined this week by fellow Twin Citian and 2009 Heavyweight Masters Division Runner-up, Ryan Sheahan of Minneapolis for the third annual Gleason’s Gym Masters Clinic in Brooklyn, New York. Both have trained hard over…
Paramount Pictures “The Fighter,” starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams, is a compelling adaptation of Bob Halloran’s biography of Lowell, Massachusetts boxer “Irish” Micky Ward. Chronicling Ward’s career from its stall in the midst of tough fights and dysfunctional family melodrama to his challenge of Shea Neary in…
Joey Abell weighed in at 245 pounds for tommorow night’s rematch with his nemesis, Arron Lyons, who tipped the scale at 238. Vincente Alfaro and Brad Patraw each weighed 119 1/2 pounds for a match with such competitve promise it’s too hard to predict a winner. Frank Quinn, who’s returning…
Burrell Bad News for first opponent one half of Roca’s twin protegés wins on Duran-Vanda undercard Deano ‘Bad Newz’ Burrell of New York won his professional boxing debut on November 12 in a Lightweight bout at Schuetzen Park in North Bergen, New Jersey. He scored a 2nd round TKO over…
This Saturday night Minnesota heavyweight Joey Abell seeks to avenge his first loss with a rematch against Arron Lyons, of Las Cruces, NM. Abell was 9-0 when he lost to Lyons more than four and a half years ago, on December 1, 2006, via 1st round TKO in Philadelphia, PA.…
