You jab, hook, block, dodge, duck and execute a star-punch on the latest Wii Punch-Out!!,  but it seems you are missing something important. Hmm, boxing gloves? Nope. A trainer? Nope. Probably a Punch Out tee, that’s it.

This T-shirt features Doc Louis training our Little Mac into a Big Mac along the Hudson River in New York City. We can’t guarantee you can KO King Hippo or the new Donkey Kong with this wear but hey, no wear no gain, man.
$20 from 80s Tees.
Image: 80s Tees

The 18-year old Filipino-American light welterweight boxer Adam Bigornia Fiel, from Palo Alto, California will be competing in his first major tournament outside the US. With parents originally from Cebu and Manila, he seeks to represent the Philippines in the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. Fiel will get a taste of world-class opposition, as one of the five-man RP team, at the First AIBA Asian Olympic boxing qualifying tournament beginning Friday, 25 January 2008 until 2 February, held in Bangkok, Thailand.
A light welterweight, Fiel along with flyweight Violito Payla, bantamweight Joan Tipon, lightweight Genebert Basadre and featherweight Orlando Tacuyan Jr. …read more

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Veteran Harry Tañamor showed no ill-effects of a weeklong layoff as he outclassed Nasir Mohammed of Wales, 24-5, Sunday in the International Amateur Boxing Association World Championships here.
Earlier, lightweight Genebert Basadre whipped Faraj Al-Matboli of Jordan, 29-7, to join Tañamor and flyweight Violito Payla in the round of 16 at the University of Illinois-Chicago Pavilion.
Light flyweight Tañamor, Basadre and Payla of the RP-PLDT-Smart boxing team only have to beat their respective rivals on Wednesday to join the list of quarterfinalists who will get automatic berths to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Source: Inquirer
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According to Wikipedia, Women’s boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games at a demonstration bout in 1904.
But that’s it. It never graced the Olympics as a bona fide sporting event even when women have been competing professionally in the sport for many years. Licenses weren’t even issued. I wonder why? Please don’t give me the gender role reason — I refuse to be stereotyped.
Women aren’t limited in doing and achieving certain things just because they’re supposedly the “weaker” sex. Pah. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m no feminist!)
Women’s boxing will not be at the 2008 Olympics, and it …read more

A match is first class if:
* It is of three or more days scheduled duration
* Each side playing the match has eleven players
* The match is played on natural, and not artificial, turf
* The match is played on an international standard ground
* The match conforms to the Laws of Cricket, except for only minor amendments
* The Board of cricket in the appropriate nation or the International Cricket Council recognizes the match as first-class.
[Wikipedia]
Listing some of the …read more

Boxers from 11 countries will be competing in the 3rd Cuban Olympic Games, Boxing tournament that’s going to be held in Camaguey, Cuba from 29 April – 05 May 2006.
The article said that officials confirmed that fighters will be coming from the following countries: United States, Kazajstan, China, the Dominican Republic, Bahamas, El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela.
The Dominican Republic, U.S. and Colombian selections will compete with boxers in all divisions, and the Venezuelan division will bring two teams.
There will be 66 boxers will be representing Cuba in this competition, four of which are Olympic champions and five are …read more