BOXING\Collins keeps super-middleweight title.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Ireland's Steve Collins
Steve Collins, nicknamed The Celtic Warrior, is a former boxing champion. He was born Stephen Collins on 21 July, 1964, in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland. retained his WBO WBO World Boxing Organization WBO Western Buddhist Order WBO Wehrbeschwerdeordnung WBO World Bamboo Organization (formerly International Bamboo Association) WBO Won by One (Malibu, California; a cappella group) super-middleweight title Saturday, stopping challenger Neville Brown of Britain in the 11th round in Millstreet, Ireland. Collins, 31, who dominated the fight from the start, knocked Brown down in the first round and set the stage from that point. Collins knocked down Brown in the 11th - and then knocked him down again later in the round with a left hand. Brown got up and continued briefly until the referee stopped the fight. The 30-year-old Brown, the British middleweight title holder, was no match for Collins and quickly got trapped into trying to beat him in a street fight - Collins' speciality. "I had him out on his feet three or four times, but he kept coming back," Collins said. Collins, after a third title defense, offered a title fight to Britain's Nigel Benn, who lost his WBC WBC white blood cell; see leukocyte. WBC abbr. white blood cell WBC, n stands for white blood cell. super-middleweight title last weekend to South African Thulane "Sugar Boy" Malinga. Italian triumphs: Italy's Giovanni Parisi took the WBO super-lightweight crown with an eighth-round knockout of defending champion Sammy Fuentes of Puerto Rico in Milan, Italy. American referee Raul Caiz stopped the fight at Milan's Palalido indoor sports palace when the 32-year-old Puerto Rican appeared defenseless at the center of the ring after the younger Italian landed an impressive combination of powerful rights and lefts. Goodman dies: A funeral service will be held tonight in Toms River, N.J., for Murray Goodman, a boxing writer who became a one of the sport's leading publicists. Goodman, who covered Joe Louis' heavyweight title victory over Jim Braddock in 1937 and headed the public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most for Muhammad Ali's upset of George Foreman in 1974, died Friday. He was 82. His son Bobby Goodman, once a matchmaker Matchmaker - A language for specifying and automating the generation of multi-lingual interprocess communication interfaces. MIG is an implementation of a subset of Matchmaker. for Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference , is a boxing promoter. AIDS testing: Indiana has joined at least 10 other states in requiring professional fighters to be tested for the virus that causes AIDS before they are allowed to compete. |
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