| 10 Days of Fasting |
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May, 2008
If you come to a new country with the ambition of becoming a world
level professional boxing coach competing with coaches who are
originally from here, you have to always be in good shape. You have no
time to be sick, especially in America where medical insurance is so
expensive...
On May 25th, I finished my annual 10 days of fasting.
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| My First British Boxer |
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April 13, 2008, New York
On April 13, 2008, I went to LaGuardia Airport to get my new student,
Billy Dawson, who just flew in from England. Both his father and
grandfather were boxers.
The day after I got back from the Men’s Nationals in Colorado Springs,
I unexpectedly met this determined young athlete while getting coffee
in Starbucks next to Gleasons Gym. Two young men from England...
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| US National Championship - 2008 |
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March 9-1, Colorado Springs, Colorado
At this championship Shemuel Pagan (whom I train with his father, Robert Pagan) represented the PAL 132 lbs weight division.
It was obvious that Shemuel won his first bout against Connor Johnson,
who represented the US Army (20:4) and next he beat Texan, Eric Fowler
(24:13).
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| S. Konakbaev (USSR) - M. Breland (USA) |
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February, 2008 г, New York,USA
After attending the amateur boxing world championships in Chicago,
November, 2007 Serik and I looked forward to meeting each other again
in NYC in February, 2008.
Mark Breland and I have been friends since I came to America, so when I
was sure Serik was coming to New York ...
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| World Champ Boxing, 2007, Chicago |
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This is the first World Championship where boxers who made it to the
quarter finals became qualified for the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing,
China. Over one thousand boxers representing over more than one
hundred countries showed up in Chicago to participate.
I had also hoped to participate more fully, but my student Shemuel
Pagan, who I co-train with his father, Robert, lost in the semi final
of the US Olympic trials.
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| When Students Don't Forget |
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September, 2007. After more than 12 years, I find myself in Moscow again. My daughter Valeria and I were chauffeured from the Sheremetyevo Airport to the hotel.
I saw Moscow has changed a lot over the years. On one hand it is still the capital of the Soviet Union that I remember from when I lived there. But in other ways, it has become much more western.
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| Olympic Team Trials 2008 |
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The U.S. Olympic Team Boxing Trials – Eighty-eight of the nation’s top amateur boxers competed for 11 coveted Olympic berths at the Olympic Trials, August 20-26, 2007.
Shemuel Pagan, bronze medalist of 2007 National Championship at 125 lbs, who I co-train with his father...
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| Emery Fights for NABF Welterweight title |
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On August 27, 2007 after many years of struggle, top amateur athlete, Jill Emery, has finally gotten her chance to fight for a belt in the US. On September 27th at the Tachi Palace, in Lemoore, California.
Emery, who was the oldest woman on the USA boxing team will fight on the same card as the WBC World Champion Carina Moreno, who was the youngest member of that illustrious team.
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| Jill Emery makes history in Ireland |
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June 21, 2007, Dublin, Ireland. A history accompanied the first
professional women’s bout held in Ireland but that’s where the glitz
ended. Having cut her teeth at such salubrious venues as a Club Med in
Florida and a National Guard Armoury in Dorchester Massachusetts...
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