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| Name: | The Boxing Guru |
| E-mail address: | video8count@webtv.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://angelfire.com/nm/boxingmuseum |
| Comments: | Bill,
Thanks for the correction. I've changed the caption on the Eric Fields Picture. I don't know when that pic was taken, but it sure doesn't seem like 8 months before the Davis fight. Time sure flies by, doesn't it?! Anyway, send my best to Eric "Danger" Fields! Thanks for dropping in to the museum. -- Dan |
| Name: | bill |
| Comments: | The Boxing Guru visits with Cruiserweight prospect ERIC FIELDS & his Manager Garry Raymond. Picture taken just weeks before his stunning 1st round KO over Kelvin Davis on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights!
Gary Raymond has not been Eric's manager since last year. The current manager is Whit Haydon. Picture was taken at least 8 months prior to the fight. |
| Name: | Richard McCombs |
| E-mail address: | RichardMcCmbs@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | After Five Years, McCombs is Ready for Round Two
By: Dan Horgan Perhaps the most overlooked variable in boxing today is the vital importance of luck in a fighter’s career. Pugilists who benefit from good luck often find themselves at the top of the sport, while those who don’t generally retire not having lived up to their full potential. If luck in boxing was a body of water, then twenty-five year old Richard McCombs would be an arid desert. [More:] Countless boxers attribute misfortune to inhibiting their careers. Everything from poor training to medical obscurities seem to come up when a fighter talks about a loss, but to know the true meaning of bad luck, one needs to know the story of Richard McCombs. Growing up in Southeastern Washington D.C., McCombs, a self described “lost boy,” found solace in the fight game and began to excel at his craft. Training under Jerode Dews, McCombs compiled a 26-6 amateur record and even won a Washington D.C. Golden Gloves title at 139 pounds. On January 23, 2001, he made his pro debut at middleweight, knocking out the inexperienced Martin Ward in less than a minute. But over the next year, the downward spiral began. “My mother-in-law died six months after the Ward victory,” explained McCombs. “And right after that, I was offered a fight on one days notice. At the time, I was extra confident from my first fight, so I took it. I ended up paying the price.” For McCombs, “paying the price” meant suffering a first round knockout loss to the undefeated Tony Jeter. And the back luck didn’t end there. “In my next fight, I was outweighed by fifteen pounds,” said McCombs. “I paid the price a second time.” McCombs was again KO’d in the first round, this time at the hands of the untested Marvin Robinson. It was a tough time for the man they call “Too Sharp,” but McCombs was determined to again make things right. “At that point in my career, I promised myself to never come into a fight unprepared again,” he told DogHouseBoxing. But he never got the chance to. McCombs, who had signed a five year contract with Cleveland Burgess, a local manager, found himself in a catch-22 when Burgess fled to Mexico after “screwing over some fighters.” Although McCombs could fight while Burgess was gone, he would “need to pay Burgess a lot of money.” So McCombs, anxious to get back into the ring, has had to wait -- for five years and counting. “It’s been frustrating,” said McCombs. “I’ve just been staying in the gym, staying in shape, and getting ready for when the time comes.” McCombs first fight back will be in May versus an opponent to be named. Because his contract with Burgess is up, he can fight without losing money. Although the five year layoff appears to be an issue of concern, McCombs is not worried about ring rust. In his time off, he has lived a disciplined life, dedicating nearly all of his time to his family and Jesus Christ. In addition, he has been keeping his skills sharp by sparring with former two time middleweight champion William Joppy. According to McCombs, the experience has been invaluable. “I’ve learned a lot sparring with Joppy,” said McCombs. “And I‘ve been holding my own in there. Remember, I‘m a former champion myself.” McCombs will embark on the second round of his career in May. His unnamed opponent will be facing a determined, strong, fresh McCombs who has been waiting to fight for over five years. Needless to say, that opponent is, well, pretty unlucky |
| Name: | Richard McCombs |
| E-mail address: | RichardMcCmbs@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.Myspace.com/Jericho2007 |
| Comments: | Dan this website is Awesome I would like to say it's one of the best out here today. keep up the good work my friend I look forward to seeing classic fights of me on here in the future. |
| Name: | Joe P |
| E-mail address: | Hudson716@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.firstroundboxing.com |
| Comments: | Hi,
You have a great website!!! Hope to buy some fight DVDS from you in the future. I recently started a boxing message board: www.firstroundboxing.com Lots of fun but alot of work lol!!! |
| Name: | roger |
| E-mail address: | rbaldstone@gmail.com |
| Comments: | very interesting i hope it will be usefull |
| Name: | anita cooper |
| E-mail address: | emverdict@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hey! Dan Sisneros, I went to school with you at Ambassador Christian High School. Yeah! Long time ago. Been keeping in touch with Brian Wilcox. A lot of things have happened and im truly in shock or excited. Hope u remember me. Tammy is your wife? Wow! God Bless. Hope 2 hear from you. |
| Name: | Emilia |
| E-mail address: | white_hoof_rhinocoress@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | wow, excellent site! |
| Name: | Tom Massey |
| E-mail address: | tlmrebel@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | The website is great,the Boxing guru has sent me a lot of awsome brawls on dvd, when the guys get together for the Saturday night fights, we always have a filler fight from the past, thanks to Dan ( Guru )he knows his boxing history and some awsome past fights. I think he should be the Larry Merchant of HBO, thanks for all the great entertainment. |
| Name: | Link |
| E-mail address: | rrsvt@gilanet.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.gilanet.com/rrsvt/indix.html |
| Comments: | Howdy, I happened to remember. Drop an "x" on my URL, and it will work. Resumexa is OUT! But, don't forget!
A Benjamin Chavez, of Lordsburg NM is in the Lordsburg NM newspapers for boxing. I haven't heard anything on him, for about 6 months, or less. Whatta, whatta-a-ah, wha-wha-wha where . . ., O-o-o-o-oh. The famous Julio Cesar Chavez, presently, has a son named so, as the internet Houston Press announced, January, Friday 19th 2007, that is boxing, also. I have to dig up the papers at the library, and see if anyone has heard anything! It would be nice to hear something, about such exciting events, so well publicized. Mr. Benjamin Chavez won a title, and, soon enough, defending was quite a high-light, for sponsoring with Tejano Fiesta of Lordsburg NM. |
| Name: | Thomas Joseph Sisneros |
| E-mail address: | precious_1027@msn.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://msn.com |
| Comments: | Hey, there champ whats up. Just I thought I would say hey and let you know your in my prayers and have a spot on my heart with your name on it. Right now your in Denver, Colorado with my dad, Thresa and aunt Tammy. Give aunt Tammy hugs and kisses for me. The date today is 5/31/06. Hope you all had fun there. Just browsing through your web sight and looking at pictures. I know this is a little late in the years to sign The Boxing Guru's Book but, you know your always in my heart. I dont think anybody in the WORLD has a greater uncle than I have, meaning you. You will always be the only World Champ to me. Love you and God bless.
your nephue, Thomas Joseph Sisneros |
| Name: | Thomas Joseph Sisneros |
| E-mail address: | precious_1027@msn.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://msn.com |
| Comments: | Hey, there champ whats up. Just I thought I would say hey and let you know your in my prayers and have a spot on my heart with your name on it. Right now your in Denver, Colorado with my dad, Thresa and aunt Tammy. Give aunt Tammy hugs and kisses for me. The date today is 5/31/06. Hope you all had fun there. Just browsing through your web sight and looking at pictures. I know this is a little late in the years to sign The Boxing Guru's Book but, you know your always in my heart. I dont think anybody in the WORLD has a greater uncle than I have, meaning you. You will always be the only World Champ to me. Love you and God bless.
your nephue, Thomas Joseph Sisneros |
| Name: | Howard |
| E-mail address: | spooncharity@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I have been a huge boxing fan for years. I just found your site, and have already bookmarked it. I am going to go look around more, and will let you know what I think, thanks, keep it up! :) |
| Name: | Link |
| E-mail address: | rrsvt@gilanet.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.gilanet.com/rrsvt/indixx.html |
| Comments: | Yeah, wow, from Loreez and history happens. I just can't forget those days, kiko & millon. They are, still, on in the book for the Golden Gloves. But, they went out at Cruces, 2nd Place 2nd Round TKO. And, but, yeah, I, still, can't forget those days. My days! Like Animas Panthers mid-'80s five (5) and early-'90s two (2) Varsity AA High School National Championships. Those two, kiko & millon, kiko made National Boxing Gloves Champion '65, all those silver ribbon medals, and then the ONE GOLD MEDAL AS BIG AS HIS FIST AND THICK AS 4 SILVER DOLLARS. So, but, and, yeah, I still think of My Days, SKYHIGH, and all those Leer cruises to all the Americas and Australia. Out A Site. I think I'll have a cigar, yeah. |
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| E-mail address: | john.baker@hushmail.com |
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| Name: | Peter Buck |
| E-mail address: | buck-rci@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I am a step grandson of Bantamweight great - Abe Goldstein.
We have his personal scrape book with notes and his fight legend in his own hand. We would like to sell it to a collector. If interested I could send pics of the collection. |
| Name: | Ray the Bull from Hull |
| E-mail address: | ray_thebullfromhull@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Looking forward to Terrible Tim Witherspoon coming back to Hull , hope to meet him this time hows Bob Dimock he aid he's making a comeback ,does he fancy a warm up partner |
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| Name: | rrsvt |
| E-mail address: | rrsvt@gilanet.com |
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| Name: | Justin S. |
| E-mail address: | boxing4free@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.boxing4free.com |
| Comments: | Go to http://www.boxing4free.com to visit an online boxing gym. |
| Name: | Boomboomvice |
| E-mail address: | boomboomvice@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Just to let you know, Kenneth Vice won a Welterweight (140 lbs.) WBF title on January 25, 1995 in Bristol, Tennessee against Alvin Patton. He is listed as a Jr. Welterweight Contender on this site. Although 135 lbs. was the weight he preferred to fight at, he could only get a title fight at 140 lbs. towards the end of his career. He only had 4 weeks to train for it, and the gym in our backyard was falling apart at the time. As a matter of fact, we didn't even have a clock in the gym. I helped time the rounds he sparred on the heavy bag with a stop watch and used nails to mark them. He hadn't fought in years. (As always he was the underdog.) He fought all 8 rounds on pure heart because he ran out of gas in the 1st round. My brothers and sisters and I were unable to watch the fight because it was on satellite, but a friend kept us posted by telephone. My mother was folding clothes and we were huddled in the kitched when we got the news that he had finally won a title fight. Needless to say we have never been prouder of our father. Not bad for a coonass from Youngsville. |
| Name: | Boomboomvice |
| E-mail address: | boomboomvice@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Kenneth Vice is my father, and I thought that it was very nice of you to display his picture on your website. Boxing was his dream, and he still eats, breathes, and sleeps this sport. If my mother didn't have a say so (and he didn't have 6 children to worry about), he would still be fighting today, at the age of 43. These men work very hard to excel in this brutal sport, and it is always appreciated when their hard work is recognized. |
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| Name: | Martha Midkiff |
| E-mail address: | mmidkiffclk@msmisp.com |
| Comments: | Nice site. You are correct in saying that Jones and De La Hoya are the best pound for pound. Boxing has became a sluggers sport. It is wonderful to see your collection of real BOXERS. GO GURU!!!! |
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| E-mail address: | theprimespot@aol.com |
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(Ooops, I didn't realize No Cameras Allowed). If I come across it, I'll let you know! PS Feel FREE to also request your favorite band from the 562 area. TPS is all about LONG BEACH and surounding cities! |
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| Name: | Joe Vreeland |
| E-mail address: | www.DIESELDOC46@AOL.COM |
| Comments: | Nice place to visit..thanks for setting it up. I am wondering if you know or knew of a boxer by the name of JACK STEEL(E?)? He was a customer of mine in Anaheim, CA, in the '70's. He fought Joe Lewis in Madison Square during a Golden Gloves event. He hung 'round with Buddy Bear, (Max Bear), the dad of Jethro Bodine from the Beverly Hill Billies show. He told me a lot of really great stuff about the carnivals, the sideshows he worked and of course, a lot of boxing stories. I believe them all! Joe Vreeland |
| Name: | John Stump |
| E-mail address: | jwstump@sbcglobal.net |
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| Name: | Monica Sisneros |
| E-mail address: | minifer40@aol.com |
| Comments: | HI DADDY! I love your website it's awesome! Keep up the good work :)
LOVE, MONICA |
| Name: | Crystal McKay |
| E-mail address: | cmckay@nmsu.edu |
| Comments: | Hi Dad! I like your website. You're like really famous!! :) I know a celebrity!! Well, gotta go!
Happy belated Thanksgiving! Say hi to buttercup, Mom, and your daughter, (whatever her name is!) :) Love, Crystal (your other daughter) |
| Name: | Crystal McKay |
| E-mail address: | cmckay@nmsu.edu |
| Comments: | Hi Dad! I like your website. You're like really famous!! :) I know a celebrity!! Well, gotta go!
Happy belated Thanksgiving! Say hi to buttercup, Mom, and your daughter, (whatever her name is!) :) Love, Crystal (your other daughter) |
| Name: | Jeff Daniel |
| E-mail address: | jdaniel@tdmn.com |
| Comments: | Dan, Haven't talked to you in a long time, but talk about you all the time in discussions about boxing with friends and acquaintences.
I was in Albuquerque a couple of weeks ago and stayed in Old Town Sheraton close to your old neighborhood. I could see Sandia Peak from my room. I was wishing you and Tammie were still there to visit, but I know you guys are in Las Cruces now. Cindy and I are always planning to come see ya'll, but never seem to get there. Maybe we can make that trip in the near future. Your friend, Jeff Daniel |
| Name: | amy c. |
| E-mail address: | ladyamyrose@aol.com |
| Comments: | Man after seeing that picture of lou savarese I wish he'd take on a 2nd wife.(me, of course). thanks to sammy a man at my boyfriends work got me some pictures. maybe one day ill be lucky to get them signed or get a hug from the handsome guy. i like your sight very much. a big lou fan in houston c.l. area. amy. |
| Name: | Rich Marks |
| E-mail address: | richmari@webtv.net |
| Comments: | I really liked this web site. I am a licensed trainer in New York City, I am looking for a serious person that really wants to learn how to box. I am retired and do not charge for the training, you must pay your own gym dues. If you think you would make a good fighter contact Rich at richmari@webtv.net |
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| Homepage URL: | http://stripe.filetap.com |
| Comments: | Nice work dude! |
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| Comments: | your site looks greate!
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| Name: | Aqiulop Umbdore |
| E-mail address: | ab@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Thank you from Uganda. Former World Heavyweight Champion of West Africia.Please feel free to e-mail me for pic's. |
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| E-mail address: | MUGU@MUGU.COM |
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| E-mail address: | spma@uni.de |
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| Homepage URL: | http://www.4guests.com |
| Comments: | Great time :) |
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| Name: | mimi |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.ticketmaster.com/lennoxlewis |
| Comments: | I found this article about upcoming LENNOX LEWIS VS. KIRK JOHNSON World Heavyweight Championship fight.
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| Name: | "Bad"Brad Berkwitt |
| E-mail address: | bberkwitt@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.geocities.com/bberkwitt |
| Comments: | Dan,
Your collection of boxing memorabilia is something to be proud of. It shows me just how much you love boxing as I do. Keep fighting the good fight. All the Best, Author “Bad” Brad Berkwitt Boxing Interviews of a Lifetime is no available at www.1stbooks.com or to purchase personally signed copies, you can email the author directly at bberkwitt@aol.com |
| Name: | Maggie |
| E-mail address: | maggie@cuteandsingle.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://cuteandsingle.com |
| Comments: | Congratulations on your site! |
| Name: | Lona Taylor |
| E-mail address: | info@zipporahsthimble.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.zipporahsthimble.com |
| Comments: | Hey Dan - Just checking out the site and great photos! Miss you lots. send me an email and catch up. Hope all is doing fine....
Lona ( do you still need a girl to sing harmony in your band? ) |
| Name: | Jim Amato |
| E-mail address: | jimsboxing@zoominternet.net |
| Comments: | Dan,
Impressed with the items in you museum. Great picture of you and Duran. He was my all time favorite !!! Take care, Jim |
| Name: | SAMMY |
| E-mail address: | samz007@msn.com |
| Comments: | I THINK THIS IS PRETTY COOL TO HAVE ALL THIS BOXING STUFF ALL AROUND YOU! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! |