Friday, June 17, 2011
Two amateur pugilists with a combined age of 100 are scheduled to fight at a boxing match at M&T Bank Stadium on Saturday.
M&T Bank Stadium’s first-ever boxing event on Saturday will be underscored by an unusual pairing—two fighters whose combined age is an even 100. The older of the middle-aged pugilists is Jim Traband of Carney, a 52-year-old father of two and a grandfather of nine who has been married for more than 30 years. The other, Patrick Cornelius, is a 48-year-old Federal Hill resident who is single with no children and works as a chef at Bistro Rx in Patterson Park. They’ll be fighting for the Masters' Maryland State championship in an Olympic-style amateur bout as part of "Federal Hill Fight Fest," a boxing card starting at 4 p.m., in section N of the stadium's parking lot. Gates open at 2 p.m. Amazingly, it’s not even the first time these two …
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Baltimore Ravens DB tested negative for marijuana in a second drug test. He and four other fighters initially tested positive after a fight card in Oklahoma.
Baltimore Ravens safety and professional boxer Tommy Zbikowski and his attorney/adviser Mike Joyce have just informed BoxingScene.com that the Chickasaw Nation Boxing Commission has overturned its 45-day suspension for the fighter. On Saturday night, Zbikowski and four other boxers tested positive for marijuana, but the commission said afterward that it would reverse the decision if the athletes took another test that came back clean. Zbikowski did so at an independent lab in Inverness, IL on Tuesday and turned in the negative results. "I think that the commission did the right thing by lifting the suspension," said Top Rank CEO Bob Arum. "The tests that were taken were very unreliable. Now Tommy has taken a proper test, and as a result, …
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
NFL safety continues boxing career during lockout.
Baltimore Ravens safety Tom Zbikowski is trying to compete in as many professional boxing matches as possible, even as the NFL owners and players' association are locked in talks to sign a new collective bargaining agreement and the Ravens' season is on hold. A former amateur boxer who turned pro in 2007, the 26-year-old Zbikowski (3-0, two knockouts) returned to the ring with a March 12, first-round stoppage of Richard Bryant in Las Vegas. He followed that up 14 days later with Atlantic City's tougher-than-expected, unanimous decision over Caleb Grummett on March 26. Promoted by Las Vegas-based Top Rank Promotions, Zbikowski's upcoming schedule keeps him fighting once each over the next three months; on April 23 at the WinStar Casino, he…
Sean Tully
3:07 pm on Friday, June 17, 2011
Dang, I am about the same age as these two chaps (actually a year older than the oldest one) and I don't think I'd be a match for either of them. I'd better do some more push-ups and sit-ups. more ›