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Interview with Former Undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champ Lennox Lewis-2015

Interview with Former Undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champ Lennox Lewis-2015

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Lennox Lewis, CM, CBE is a retired boxer and the last undisputed world heavyweight champion. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship. As an amateur he won gold representing Canada at the 1988 Olympic Games after defeating future heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe in the final. Lewis is regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time.

Lewis turned professional in 1989, winning his first 21 fights before he knocked out Donovan Ruddock in 1992 to take over the number one position in the World Boxing Council (WBC) rankings. He was declared WBC heavyweight champion in December 1992 after Riddick Bowe was stripped of the title. Lewis lost the title to Oliver McCall in 1994 but defeated McCall in a rematch to win the vacant WBC title in 1997. He defended the title four times before becoming the Lineal Champion when he beat Shannon Briggs by knockout in 1998. He became undisputed champion when he defeated Evander Holyfield in November 1999. In 2001 he was knocked out by Hasim Rahman, but again avenged the defeat in a rematch to regain his titles. After defeating Mike Tyson by knockout in 2002 and stopping Vitali Klitschko in 2003, Lennox Lewis retired from boxing in 2004.

Lewis is 6 feet 5 inches (196 centimetres) tall and has an 84-inch (213 cm) reach. During his boxing prime, he weighed about 245 pounds (111 kg). Lewis often referred to himself as “the pugilist specialist.”

World Liberty TV’S Executive Producer Dr.Abbey had the pleasure of interviewing Heavyweight Boxing great During NYFW -2015 , where he was attending a live Runway fashion show by ArtisTix .

6th Annual Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame Awards & Induction Weekend-2022

6th Annual Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame Awards & Induction Weekend-2022

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Our team from World Liberty TV, Boxing team attended on Sunday Oct 9th 2022, to cover the Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame and Hard Rock Hotel Casino and Atlantic City. Following events below took place at the Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame.

 Sunday, October 9, 2022, The Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame 6th Annual Induction & Awards Ceremony 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Celebrates and Honors class of 2022.The red carpet started at 3pm. Which took place at Sound Waves Theater, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City.

2022 class members included: Lennox Lewis, Julio Ceěsar Chaěvez, James Toney, Frank Fletcher, Dave Tiberi, Chuck Mussachio, Kathy Collins-Globuschutz, Kathy Duva, Pat Lynch, Kevin Rooney Sr., Lynne Carter, Randy Neumann, Dr. Domenic Coletta, Tom Casino, and posthumously: James Broad, Eddie Aliano, and Harold Lederman.

Confirmed special guests included: Roberto Duran, Michael Spinks, Shannon Briggs, Paulie Malignaggi, Ray Mercer, Tim Witherspoon, Kelly Pavlik, Michael Olajide, Iran Barkley, Pinklon Thomas, Michael Nunn, Steve Cunningham, Roxanne Shante, Montell Griffin, Gerry Cooney, Randy Gordon, and Hall of Fame Promoter J Russell Peltz.

The Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony & Celebration will offer boxing enthusiasts a weekend full of great programming, including a kick-off cocktail reception, meet & greets, and fight fan experience that features spectacular artwork, exhibits, and boxing memorabilia.

The Highlight of the weekend is our red-carpet formal Induction Ceremony which takes place in an award show atmosphere.

We will honor and enshrine all who helped make Atlantic City a worldwide boxing Mecca.

Guests will enjoy the opportunity to mix and mingle with special guests, including entertainers, sports icons, government officials, and more. In addition, many of our previous honorees will be in attendance.

The Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame mission, vision and purpose is to offer fans and visitors alike, a highly interactive Sports & Entertainment Boxing Curation Experience, We are committed to preserving the rich boxing history of Atlantic City, through live historical curation, exhibits, legendary boxing stars, and personality appearances.

So many great boxers are too often forgotten after they have retired from the sport. The Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame will ensure they are always remembered, appreciated and honored by Atlantic City and surrounding communities.

Hundreds of people in attendance, came out for the 6th Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame. People from all over the USA, Latin America were in attendance, we had boxing great in attendance Roberto Duran, four-time world boxing champion, who came in from Panama, who was in attendance with his daughter. He signed memorabilia and took many pictures with boxing fans in attendance.

Judge Harold Lederman, former Boxing Judge and unofficial boxing judge for HBO Boxing, who died few years ago, a good dear friend of mine. Was honored posthumously.

Judge Lederman has been inducted to many Boxing Hall of fames, with his great judging talents throughout many years. Judge Lederman’s daughter Julie Lederman, was in attendance to pick up the award Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame.

It was truly a great experience for me and my team attending the Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, I want to thank, Ray McCline, President and founder of the Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, Angela Crockett, Director of Communications, Robb Scott, Social media wizard, and Whitney Ullman, who was instrumental in helping us to set up many interviews with boxing dignitaries.

See more about Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, ceremony in our World Liberty TV, Boxing Channels and blogs by clicking here. See exclusive interview with James “Lights Out” Toney, boxing great by clicking here.

See interview with Michael “Second to” Nunn, two-time world boxing champion by clicking here.

Also see exclusive interview with Vinny Paz, former Five Time world boxing Champion, this interview is very sensitive in a way, because I spoke to vinny about his life threatening injurie and how he overcame it, he was very gracious telling me in detail how he recovered and went onto to win three more world boxing championships. This is a must see interview. See Vinny Paz interview by clicking here.

See much more in our World Liberty TV, Boxing Channels, Blogs, Photo-Galleries of who is who of the Boxing World.

WBC Heavyweight World Championship DEONTAY WILDER VS. TYSON FURY -2018

WBC Heavyweight World Championship DEONTAY WILDER VS. TYSON FURY -2018

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WBC World Champion Deontay Wilder will defend his title against lineal champion Tyson Fury in a blockbuster matchup of undefeated heavyweights on Saturday, December 1, live on SHOWTIME PPV® at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.

Wilder vs. Fury tests the raw power of Wilder against the unmatched size and mobility of Fury. America’s only heavyweight champion since 2007, Wilder has 39 knockouts in 40 professional fights, including knockouts in all seven of his title defenses. Fury is a former IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight world champion who is undefeated in 27 professional fights and holds boxing’s coveted lineal heavyweight title.

The evenly matched showdown of top-ranked heavyweights pits boxing’s two largest champions against each other in the most significant heavyweight fight in the United States since Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson in 2002. In addition to physical stature – Wilder is 6-foot-7, Fury 6-foot-9 – both are among boxing’s greatest showmen, with outsized personalities and heavyweight charisma.

See more about DEONTAY WILDER VS. TYSON FURY, in our World Liberty TV Boxing Channel and blogs by Clicking here.

Floyd Mayweather Boxing Great Receives his 3rd Boxing Writers Association of America Award-2016

Floyd Mayweather Boxing Great Receives his 3rd Boxing Writers Association of America Award-2016

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The Boxing Writers Association of America is pleased to announce that its Sugar Ray Robinson 2015 Fighter of the Year is Floyd Mayweather Jr. This is the third time that “Money” has taken the BWAA top honors. The other times were in 2013 and 2007.

He and other award winners will be recognized at the 91st BWAA annual awards gala at a date and time to be determined.

Mayweather becomes a three-time BWAA Fighter of the Year-award winner, joining a prestigious group that includes Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Leonard, Evander Holyfield and Manny Pacquiao. It’s the third time in the last nine years that Mayweather has been awarded Fighter of the Year.

Mayweather (49-0, 26 KOs) won two times in 2015, adding Pacquiao’s WBO welterweight title, to the WBC/WBA belts he already owned in the highest-grossing prizefight of all-time on May 2 in Las Vegas. He announced the retirement of his illustrious career after beating Andre Berto on September 12. Both of Mayweather’s victories were typically one-sided unanimous decisions.

Floyd  Mayweather Jr. is an American former professional boxer and current boxing promoter. Widely considered to be one of the greatest boxers of all time, undefeated as a professional, and a five-division world champion, Mayweather won twelve world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes (twice at welterweight). He is a two-time winner of The Ring magazine’s Fighter of the Year award (1998 and 2007), a three-time winner of the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) Fighter of the Year award (2007, 2013, and 2015), and a six-time winner of the Best Fighter ESPY Award (2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014). BoxRec currently rates Mayweather as the sixth best pound for pound fighter of all time and the greatest welterweight of all time. In 2016, ESPN ranked Mayweather as the greatest pound for pound boxer of the last 25 years.

Many sporting news and boxing websites rated Mayweather as the best pound for pound boxer in the world twice in a span of ten years, including The Ring, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BoxRec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports. Mayweather topped the Forbes and Sports Illustrated lists of the 50 highest-paid athletes of 2012 and 2013 respectively, and the Forbes list again in both 2014 and 2015, listing him as the highest paid athlete in the world. In 2007, he founded Mayweather Promotions, his own boxing promotional firm after defecting from Bob Arum’s Top Rank.

He has a record of 26–0 (10 KOs) in world title fights, 23–0 (9 KOs) in lineal title fights, 24–0 (7 KOs) against former or current world titlists, 12–0 (3 KOs) against former or current lineal titles, and 2–0 (1 KO) against International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees.

Mayweather has generated approximately $1,311,000,000 in pay-per-view revenue and 19,530,000 in pay-per-view buys throughout his career, surpassing the likes of former top pay-per-view attractions Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Oscar De La Hoya, and Manny Pacquiao.

World Liberty TV,Boxing Team was on hand at the 91st Annual BWAA Awards Gala 2016, where Floyd Mayweather was honored with his third BWAA Sugar Ray Robinson Fighter of the Year, Award See exclusive Footage of Floyd Mayweather Receiving this Prestigious Award alongside his Acceptance Speech right here in our World Liberty TV, Boxing Channel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr.Adal M.Hussain Honored at RING 8 & NYS Boxing Hall of Fame Event -2016

Dr.Adal M.Hussain Honored at RING 8 & NYS Boxing Hall of Fame Event -2016

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My life and what I have accomplished thus far, and being a former fighter from England & Winning the Greatest Indian,Pakistani & Bangla Belt , in the 1980’s Tournament & working , with fighters like : Emile Griffith, Vito Anterfermo, Juan Laporte, Carlos Ortiz, Saul Mamby, Iran Barkley , James Bone Crusher Smith, Mark Breland, Junior Jones, Joey Gameche, Lonny Bradley, who have worked with our non-Profit Org to raise funds, to help our youths, about the dangers of Drugs, and instead do sports like Boxing to keep there mind and bodies healthy.

My Mentor Was Izzy Zerling Founder of G& S Sporting Goods Based on the Lower East side of Manhattan , who had been doing this kind of work for over 45 years.

Jack Hirsch (former BWAA ,President) also attended many of our Fundraisers, Spoke and help organize many of our Annual gala’s for many years.

I also founded world Liberty TV, in Dec 10th 2011, an online TV, with over 27 Channels and seen by close to 1 Million People World Wide, One of The Channels Being The World Liberty TV,Boxing Channel @ https://www.worldlibertytv.org/category/videos/boxing/ which I am the Executive Producer of, we have interviewed some of the Biggest names in the World.

Boxers Interviewed:

Floyd Money Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Sugar Ray Leonard, Lennox Lewis, Jake La Motto, Miguel Cotto, Carlos Palamino, Aaron Pryor, Sergey Kovalev, Larry Holmes, Ray Boom Boom Mancini, Mike McCallum, Carlos Ortiz, Bernard Hopkins, Vitali Klitschko, Danny Garcia, Erik Morales, Laila Ali, Roy Jones Jr, Juan Manel Marquez and many many more.

Promoters:

Don King, Bob Arum, Oscar DeLa Hoya,

Over 5 years Covered The RING 8 Gala annually, in our World Liberty TV, Boxing Channel

Since NYS Boxing Hall of Fame Started, covered it exclusively in our World Liberty TV, Boxing Channel

BWAA, Covered for the past 3 years.

World Liberty TV, Boxing Channel is Viewed by over 100k monthly, and also on our social media, making it one of the fastest growing online TV, Boxing Channel on the Internet.

Humanitarians of the World Inc, (HOTWINC) www.hotwinc.org an non Profit I started over 6 years ago helping the poorest of Poor Worldwide, also we honor Humanitarians ,with (HOTWINC) ,Medals annually at our Gala’s ,for there contribution to humanity, we have named an medal after Emile Griffith, 6 Time World Boxing Great, known as The Hotwinc Emile Griffith Sports Humanitarian Medal, https://www.hotwinc.org/medals/humanitarian-medals/ given to an athlete who has contributed to humanity, Emile Worked with our Org, for the past 14 years, by making appearances, and doing many other humanitarian projects , especially working with our youths.., Since Emile Passed recently, so we have this medal in his memory which will be presented by his Son Louis Griffith, at our Annual Gala’s.

Dr.Abbey has been honored over 350 times world Wide, for his contribution for Humanity, and helped thousand’s People World Wide and continues to do that.

Dr.Abbey Was honored By The Ring 8 and New York State Boxing Hall of Fame on Jan 19th 2016, for his contribution to These Organizations as well as a total contribution to the Sport of Boxing, by showcasing it on World Liberty TV, Boxing Channel, See What many of the Movers and shakers had to say about our Executive Producer Being Honored as well as the World Liberty TV, Boxing Channel.