UTBA-II Boxing League

[Romultiltus]

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[lethal liberal]

I really hated to trade Nunn,as he is one of my faves but I need to look to the future as this season is officially toast for the Left Jab losers. I am open to all trades..have all my draft picks and Hebrons as well. My only untouchables are Shavers,Sandoval and Prince Charles Williams. Yeah,really hated to lose Nunn but I need a couple more power punchers. As you can tell by Nunn and Howard Davis Jr..I love the speed boxers but,even with the new scoring for decision wins,they just are not as valuable as the big punchers. Take care fellas.

[Romultiltus]

Individual Points Scored Leaders - HEAVYWEIGHT
(End of Season 1 Week 6)

GOLD: Frank Bruno takes over the top spot from Earnie Shavers this week.

SILVER: Sam Langford holds the top spot for the 3 consecutive week.

[Romultiltus]

Individual Points Scored Leaders - LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
(End of Season 1 Week 6)

GOLD: Roy Jones Jr holds the top spot for the 5th consecutive week.

SILVER: Bob Fitzsimmons hold the top spot for the 2nd consecutive week.

[Romultiltus]

Individual Points Scored Leaders - MIDDLEWEIGHT
(End of Season 1 Week 6)

GOLD: Kelly Pavlik holds the top spot for the 4th consecutive week.

SILVER: Rocky Graziano holds the top spot for the 2nd consecutive week.

[Romultiltus]

Individual Points Scored Leaders - WELTERWEIGHT
(End of Season 1 Week 6)

GOLD: Arturo Gatti holds the top spot for the 4th consecutive week.

SILVER: Zab Judah holds the top spot for the 2nd consecutive week.

[Romultiltus]

Individual Points Scored Leaders - LIGHTWEIGHT
(End of Season 1 Week 6)

GOLD: Carlos Navarro holds the top spot for the 3rd consecutive week.

SILVER: Alexis Arguello holds the top spot for the 4th consecutive week.

[Romultiltus]

Individual Points Scored Leaders - FEATHERWEIGHT
(End of Season 1 Week 6)

GOLD: Alejandro Gonzalez holds the top spot for the 5th consecutive week.

SILVER: Paul Hodkinson holds the top spot for the 2nd consecutive week.

[Romultiltus]

Individual Points Scored Leaders - BANTAMWEIGHT
(End of Season 1 Week 6)

GOLD: Jimmy Carruthers holds the top spot for the 3rd consecutive week.

SILVER: Johnny King holds the top spot for the 4th consecutive week.

[Romultiltus]

Individual Points Scored Leaders - FLYWEIGHT
(End of Season 1 Week 6)

GOLD: Yoko Gushiken holds the top spot for the 3rd consecutive week.

SILVER: Humberto Gonzales holds the top spot for the 3rd consecutive week.

[SAL]

First round of the waivers is over..........

Waiver claims:

Chilton Roughnecks claim LW (7)George McFadden 0-0-0 (0) *beginning
and release LW (4)Tracy Spann 1-11-0 (1) *pre-prime.

The waivers are now open again. Round two will close at 10 pm CST July 2.

NEW WAIVER RANK:
updated July 1, 2008

01) Coventry Hitmen
02) Muckboys
03) Baltimore Binks
04) Boxing Kangaroos
05) Bald Beavers
06) Oakland Assassins
07) Punching Bags
08) The Nobodies
09) Undisputed Champions
10) Iceteaboxing
11) Stockholm's Finest
12) Bears Unstable
13) Hebron Haymakers
14) Left Jab Inc.
15) Nebraska Corn Jabbers
16) Tomato City
17) Diggstown Ringers
18) Juggernaut
19) Toronto Tornados
20) Brooks Battlers
21) Villebilles
22) St.Louis Sluggers
23) Suffolk Dusk Owls
24) Chilton Roughnecks

[SAL]

Trade Announcement........

Tomato City sends LW (5)Saleman Itti-Aanuchit 5-6-1 (5) *beginner and Tomato City's 1st Round Draft Pick

to the Villebillies, for LW (7)Enrique Bolanos 9-3-0 (7) *beginner and Villebillies 3rd Round Draft Pick.

All rosters and traded draft picks post have been updated to reflect the recent changes.

[CONN CHRIS]

Hebron piled into the team bus this morning bound for Baltimore. New Haymaker Micheal Nunn balked at the travel accomodations until he realized that Ms Bankhead had already boarded.

[SAL]

Second round of waivers.......

Left Jab Inc. claims HW (6)Alexander Gurov 0-0-0 (0) *beginning

and releases HW (3)Jeremy Williams 2-10-0 (2) *beginner


NEW WAIVER RANK:
updated July 3, 2008
The waivers are now open. Round three will close at 8 pm CST July 3.

01) Coventry Hitmen
02) Muckboys
03) Baltimore Binks
04) Boxing Kangaroos
05) Bald Beavers
06) Oakland Assassins
07) Punching Bags
08) The Nobodies
09) Undisputed Champions
10) Iceteaboxing
11) Stockholm's Finest
12) Bears Unstable
13) Hebron Haymakers
14) Nebraska Corn Jabbers
15) Tomato City
16) Diggstown Ringers
17) Juggernaut
18) Toronto Tornados
19) Brooks Battlers
20) Villebilles
21) St.Louis Sluggers
22) Suffolk Dusk Owls
23) Chilton Roughnecks
24) Left Jab Inc.

[Tommysixfingers]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Hebron piled into the team bus this morning bound for Baltimore. New Haymaker Micheal Nunn balked at the travel accomodations until he realized that Ms Bankhead had already boarded.

That Nunn character seems like trouble to me. I'm willing to step up and do the right thing and take him off your hands for free Chris

[mikehoudini]

BINK GAZETTE July 3, 2008

It is a sad day in Binkville, as the mighty Binks have struck out! After being soundly beaten by the powerful Bears Unstable, a loss that propelled the Bears into first place, our Binks traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to take on Brooks Bombers on June 27. This was the first of two inter-conference matches, and the Binks had high hopes. The Battlers were in last place in their division, so the Binks expected to compete in a good contest!

Led by Max Schmeling (9-1), Juan Palacios (8-2) and Jermain Taylor (7-3), the Battlers had a seasoned squad, and had added several new fighters, including a young giant, Jess Willard. There is no point in keeping the reader in suspense regarding the outcome. The Binks were pummeled in the worst performance of their young tenure, propelling the Battlers into second place in their division, a two position jump!

A loyal following of several buses full of Bink fans made the trip, and sat dazed as the Binks lost the first eight bouts! No typo, folks, it was eight straight defeats! And that might have been the highlight of the night! The Cocoa Kid got a sitting ovation as he broke the dry spell with a decision over Young Corbett. Alas, Young Corbett II was knocked out by Mike Dundee. Amina Sade and her friends had been unable to make the trip, and this may have affected the Bink performance!

At halftime, the score was pitiful! Brooks Battlers were the leaders in wins, 12-4, leading in points, 39-11.5! Henry Hank managed a split decision win against level 3 Gilbert Cohen, and the lightheavies had a rare double win, Oakland Billy Smith beating Allan Green and Melio Bettina knocking out Vitali Kopitko. That was it, just four wins, in the half!

Having dug a hole almost halfway to China, the Binks were submitted to an epic tongue-lashing at halftime, and team captain Hasim Rahman was livid! He himself had lost, a disputed majority decision to Schmeling, but at least he acquitted himself well, and the Binks will be reviewing the footage of that fight, as they thought Max was going down to his second defeat.

The Binks were much more competitive in the second half, fighting the Battlers to a near standstill, going 7-8-1, losing on points by a 28-23.5 margin. They were much more competitive, as Mack Lewis had dissected the opening half and the Binks were able to adjust, but why didn’t they do this from the get-go? Maybe it was the Rock’s impassioned words that got them going! Maybe it was Mack’s instructions! Who knows? In any event, for those of you out there who don’t like to do your math, the final totals were Brooks Battlers 20-11-1, with a 67-35 pasting in points!

In terms of Fighter of the Week honors, that went to Carmelo Negron of the Battlers, who came into the week 1-9 but notched two first round knockouts against our lightweight tandem, Bummy Davis and Buzzsaw Yamabe! The Binks have initiated an official inquiry as to whether some foreign substance was in his gloves!

In actuality, there is always a Bink Fighter of the Week award, and this week’s co-winners are the light heavyweight duo of Batman and Robin, a.k.a. Melio Bettina and Oakland Billy Smith! For the first time ever, they both went 2-0, Melio with two 8th round knockouts, Billy with two unanimous decisions (the Binks had many would-be anonymous losses)! Honorable mention goes to feather Jose Badillo, who stopped Mike Dundee in 8 and took his losing fight into the 10th, both strong efforts against higher level boxers!

In terms of the Bum of the Week award, the winners are many. If you were to do a search on the word “disappointing” in a dictionary, you’d see a picture of bantam Horace “Boots” Monroe, who was stopped twice more and whose record is now a gaudy 2-10! His protégé, Danny O’Sullivan, is obviously learning all too well from Boots, as he was knocked out, twice, both times in the first round! It may be that, 90 days after Saint Patrick’s Day, his boxing skills begin to wane, rapidly! He was 4-1-1 at that date, but since has been stopped 6 times in a row!

Young Corbett II was counted out twice against lower level fighters, and is now a Boots (synonym for disappointing) 5-7. Young Tommy West also was a KO victim twice, and Bummy Davis lost two, only one on a KO. Billy Daniels, our newest addition, started off 0-2, being KOd by Jess Willard and being stopped by Schmeling on cuts in the 11th, in a fight in which he may well have been ahead. Still, Billy gave us hope for a brighter future with his bout against the German.

Our German, middleweight Max Resch, split, getting a decision win, evening his record at 6-6. Chocky Chockvivat lost a close one to 9-2 Juan Palacios and lost on a freakish cut to Johnny Buff. His partner, Jackie Brown, took Palacios to Round 11 and then stopped Buff in 8! Buzzsaw Yamabe continues to be a crowd-pleaser, though the crowds may shrink based on this week’s performance, as he upset the favored Al Roth and is now 7-5!

The Cocoa Kid had a freakish technical draw in addition to his win, and Hard-Luck Henry Hank, after his split decision win, took on Jermain Taylor. In a surprising result, durable Hard-Luck was knocked out in the 6th! The Rock stopped Willard handily, and believes he deserved the nod against Schmeling.

Mack Lewis, in a post-match interview said “Sure, we’re disappointed by this poor showing, bit it was probably due to happen, as our guys are young and came in a bit cocky. We rebounded nicely in the second half, and the boys now know that we need to fight both halves, as no one in this league is a slouch! We have an extremely tough match next week, against the leaders of the Figg Division, the heralded Hebron Haymakers! We’re resilient, and hopefully can learn some lessons from the shellacking we took tonight! I have to salute the Battlers, as they came ready to rumble!”

All year long, we’ve been talking about the one letter distinction between scrappy and crappy. There’s no doubt which the Binkies were tonight. They are now firmly entrenched in last place, 13 wins and 45 points behind their closest division rival. Through Week 6, they are 1-5, with a record of 86-101-5. Improvement is needed, or the fans will be staying away in droves!

The Binks will at least be home this week, but the Hebron Haymakers, owned by the sage boxing wizard Chris Conn, are prohibitive favorites. With the recently-acquired 10-2 Michael Nunn, the twin terrors at lightweight, Robin Blake and Edwin Valero (both 10-2), and super over-achiever Joe Symonds (10-1-1), they are tough customers. Add in the fact that nine of their roster have advanced to pre-prime, whereas only four Binks have, and it could be a long night! Chocky would like to slow Symonds down, and Buzzsaw Yamabe and Bummy Davis are psyched to meet the Terrors.

But it looks like an uphill struggle to me. Their best chance might be for some of their loyal fans to waylay the Hebron bus and flatten the tires, so as to get a forfeit win! Truly enterprising fans could stop at each of the three possible routes the Haymakers could use to reach Baltimore, so as to work their magic. Short of that, perhaps some changing of street signs is in order?

The owner is hopeful that the loyal Baltimore fans will continue to support the Binks. Amina Sade has promised knockout pre-game, half-time and post-game performances by herself and her friends, as well as a special incentive to the Bink Fighter of the Week, and fan of the night, so that hopefully will be incentive for those fans that are wavering.

In closing, the Binks got bonked this week, and then some, worse that the matadors who turned their back, to please the crowd, and fell prey before the bull (with an assist from the Association)! I almost titled this article “Requiem for the Binks.” The Battlers soared in the standings (then again, almost everyone who has played the Binks lately has soared in the standings) while the Binks remained mired in the muck in the dank and dreary basement. Can we break this streak? When do we play Left Jab again? Or the fine team from Toronto?

Bink Fever, catch it! You’ll only wish you died!

[mikehoudini]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Hebron piled into the team bus this morning bound for Baltimore. New Haymaker Micheal Nunn balked at the travel accomodations until he realized that Ms Bankhead had already boarded.

Thanks for the picture of the bus, Chris. I am circulating it to our loyal Bink fans, who may well be looking to "greet" your squad!

[lethal liberal]

Yeah,Left Jab is always a cure for a struggling team. I am hoping to change that however. Another cool Binks Gazette.

[Romultiltus]

Leading doctors and scientists at Yale University are intrigued by the "Bink Fever" and are exhausting all of their vast resources in order to find a cure. But for now, as the losses pile up, "The Rock" and his teammates will have to live with one of the more disfiguring side effects of the fever...

[Mad Bomber]

Mike, another great edition of the Gazette, and I don't think you will have to worry about crowd support, as during our team rally this week several of our fans were asking how long it take to get to Baltimore, and you thought you had problems.

Greg