The mission of the WBAN
Resource Team is to provide an online educational source for the active,
inactive, retired boxers in the sport, and all others in the boxing
community that are involved in boxing. Our goal is to have our
Team, that are listed in their given field share their knowledge, and be able to answer
questions and provide on online source for those needing information or
help. The WBAN Resource Team will also provide
comprehensive and authoritative information with online articles, video
training tips, and a variety of related resources. The segment was
created by WBAN's Sue TL Fox. [More about us]
Can Bellew overcome underdog
status against Haye for the second time?
(NOV 15) Tony 'The Bomber' Bellew (29-2-1) was an underdog in his first
heavyweight bout as a professional, having formerly competed in the
light-heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions. Although he was a world
class operator, even holding the WBC world title at cruiserweight, he
was still not favored highly against former world heavyweight champion,
David 'Hayemaker' Haye. Their first bout in March of 2017 was Bellew's
biggest ever payday and many thought it was simply a money making
exercise for the Liverpudlian, and his return to cruiserweight would be
imminent after defeat. 'The Bomber' didn't subscribe to that narrative,
and instead picked up a momentous win, stopping an injured Haye in the
eleventh round of their bout at the O2 Arena...Full
Story
3rd Annual Ventura County
“Battle of the Badges”
Source: Press Release - Retired Boxers Foundation
(DEC 5) For the second year in a row,
Alex Ramos, Founder and President of the Retired Boxers Foundation,
joined Michael Bradburn of Camarillo Boxing and Fitness Center to
help out at the 3rd Annual Ventura County “Battle of the Badges.”
Mike Bradburn sent out a big THANK YOU to Alex Ramos, and Jacquie
Richardson, for their assistance at this year's 3rd annual Battle of
The Badges, held at Port Hueneme Pavilion. They were in New Mexico,
on Friday, flew in Saturday, just to attend this event. Mike and
Alex trained Fireman Mike Fuller, and were in his corner for his 2nd
round TKO win last night. Oh what a night, Thanks to Martin Gillitt
our other cornerman. This was a charity event Benefitting the boy's
and Girl's Club's. Bradburn loves giving back to this Organization,
because this is where he started his Boxing career. Laced Up and
Alex Ramos are partners in promoting the Retired Boxers Foundation
as the “Undisputed Champions of Dignity!” Fireman Mike Fuller won
his bout in 2010 and again in 2011...Full
Story
Who Said Engineers are Boring?
by Anca Neagu (Engineer)
(DEC 5)
I started training in 1999 (two years after obtaining my Master’s in
Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin) and
competed in boxing between 2000 and 2005. During this time, I won
the San Antonio golden gloves three times, won 2 silver medals (one
at USA Nationals, one at Pal Nationals), and 2 bronze medals (USA
Nationals). I competed on the US National Team in 2000 in a dual
meet with Russia (won the first fight while also braking my nose;
and lost the second fight while boxing with the broken nose), and in
2005 at the World Championships in Russia (lost to the Canadian
champion). I am very honored to have competed with some outstanding
women boxers and have been part of an amazingly talented National
Boxing team. Most people have no idea how good these boxers are.
While these accomplishments speak for themselves, I am also proud of
my career as a Civil Engineer. I was an engineer before I was a
boxer. All the training for boxing competitions had to be done after
work and on weekends. Also, the two weeks of vacation given by
employers were spent competing in boxing (not your usual definition
of vacation!)..Full
Story
Watch out for the ‘mitt men’
by Mischa Merz A pair of focus mitts do not
instantly make someone a boxing trainer. But it’s very easy for the
untrained eye to think so. Pads are all about sound and movement, that’s
why they are used in open training sessions and any TV piece on boxing.
Wow, that sounds good, that guy hits hard. But is it, to paraphrase
Shakespeare, just a lot of sound and fury signify nothing? I love
punching the pads, I must admit, although I’ve never really settled into
a routine with a trainer, so every time I punch them I feel like I’m a
beginner, even though I have been boxing for many years, nearly 15 of
them now. But I do a lot of sparring and one thing I notice about
pads is, they are not like sparring. They are more like learning dance
moves. Hitting a target with two heads that come towards you instead of
a target with one head that often moves away from you and if they come
towards you they are throwing punches too. And with pads, you’re doing
what you’re told and not responding to what you see in the way your
opponent moves. You’re listening not watching, which is so different
from the real thing. It always makes me wonder a little about the
efficacy of the mitts. Despite the feel-good factor, is most of the
serious learning going on in other ways, like when you’re sparring and
your corner tells you to try something and it works? Or when you’re
shadow boxing and learning to throw punches on balance? Or when you are
watching quality fighters and are inspired to imitate them? Full Story
Ann-Marie Saccurato - WBAN
Resource Team Member - Boxing Tips #3 (NOV 12) Saccurato has a strength/conditioning coach certification for combat
athletes, and also certified under the National Strength and Conditioning
Association. She is not only a multi-world boxing champion, but she is
superb trainer that will take anyone to task in the gym. Saccurato's
education is in sports science in terms of performance training and
strength/conditioning that are the most n...More
with VIDEO BOXING TIPS
Sugar Ray Leonard Mainliner at PAL
Boxing Event
Story by Sue TL Fox
Footage/Photos/WBAN
(OCT 9) While nine amateur and
professional boxing bouts provided action inside the ring, the
main event, Saturday night, at the Clark County Events Center in
Ridgefield Washington, on the outskirts of Vancouver, was the
appearance of three time world champion Sugar Ray Leonard. The
event was a PAL fundraiser sponsored by the City of Vancouver
Police Department. The evening commenced, in the shadow of
the ring, with a VIP cocktail party and dinner for invited guests,
followed by the introduction of Leonard by the evening's promoter,
Patrick Ortiz. Sugar Ray spent nearly an hour signing various boxing
memorabilia and posing for photos with the fans who lined up around
the ring area for their moment with the former boxing great. And,
from the reaction of many of the fans, it was well worth the wait.
Leonard exhibited, in full force, the charismatic personality that
he was justly renowned for during his time in the ring and following
his retirement, doing boxing commentary and guest appearances on all
three major networks along with HBO and ESPN....Full Story
Educate don’t be at risk
by Bonnie Canino /
WBAN Resource Team Member
Education will make you smarter. It will give you the knowledge and the
answer. Then it’s up to you to put it in play and get the experience you
need. In this case I am speaking about being a smart boxer, fighter,
coach, and trainer. Sharing my knowledge, my explanation about it with
the experiences I have seen in my 32 year career. Subject weight
loss. ABC. I have seen and see boxers walking 10 pounds above
their weight division that they box at and they think it is okay to do
so. Then one week before they are to weigh in, they are needing to drop
the weight quickly to make the weight division. When you are a
professional fighter, it is necessary that you receive plenty of notice.
The average notice should be six weeks to diet and drop the weight for
that division. They start conditioning not just by exercising but
dieting to make the weight division. It should never be over two pounds
the day before the weigh-in. If you are an amateur, you know in advance
what weight division that you will be boxing in. Start early and
maintained your ...Full Story
Ann-Marie Saccurato - WBAN
Resource Team Member - Boxing Tips #2 (OCT 7) Saccurato has a strength/conditioning coach certification for combat
athletes, and also certified under the National Strength and Conditioning
Association. She is not only a multi-world boxing champion, but she is
superb trainer that will take anyone to task in the gym. Saccurato's
education is in sports science in terms of performance training and
strength/conditioning that are the most n...More
with VIDEO BOXING TIPS
WBAN Resource Team Member: Alex Ramos featured in video
on Brazilian TV Network September 21, 2011 (SEPT 21) Earlier this week
Brazilian TV Network featured a boxing story, that had part of the feature with
Alex "The Bronx Bomber" Ramos. The video is in Spanish, which Ramos is fluent in
that language. The Brazilian network, that is based in Mexico, Guadalajara, sent
a TV crew to California to do the interview in a local gym. The network is the
second free-to-air TV Network in Brazil. At this time, they reach
Full Video
Ann-Marie Saccurato - WBAN
Resource Team Member - Boxing Tips #1 Saccurato has a strength/conditioning coach certification for combat
athletes, and also certified under the National Strength and Conditioning
Association. She is not only a multi-world boxing champion, but she is
superb trainer that will take anyone to task in the gym. Saccurato's
education is in sports science in terms of performance training and
strength/conditioning that are the most needed in the boxing world. As a WBAN
Resource Team member, she will be providing video tips...More
with VIDEO BOXING TIPS
Alex Ramos: One Last Fight
WBAN Resource Team Member Story
by Bernie McCoy
(AUG 15)
Calling boxing a contact sport is much like calling the atomic bomb
an explosive device. Professional boxing, along with pro football,
easily surpasses the definition of a contact sport; they are both,
simply stated, collision sports. Key differences between boxing and
football are that football players wear quite a bit more equipment
and they are considerably better equipped for their post career
lives. Pro football players have the benefit of a union which,
provides, upon retirement, basic financial and medical benefits
designed to smooth the transition to life after the game. No such
union or benefits or smooth transition exist in the sport of boxing
for athletes who devote their prime years to the sport. It has
always been thus and one man and the organization he founded has
spent years attempting to change that situation. Not surprisingly,
the task is as tough as any bout this former boxer had in a long and
distinguished career in the ring. ..Full
Story
Newest Members of the WBAN Resource
Team
by Sue TL Fox
(JULY 27)
WBAN has just recently added three new WBAN Resource Team Members.
For those of you who do not know about the newest addition to WBAN,
the WBAN Resource Team is a group of people in various fields
related to the sport. We have physicians, trainers, people who have
put on promotions, matchmaking, management of boxers, and more. They
can answer general questions to help active, inactive, and retired
boxers in many fields of the sport. They are dedicated individuals
to help educate and share their knowledge. The mission of the
WBAN Resource Team is to provide an online educational source for
the active, inactive, retired boxers in the sport, and all others in
the boxing community that are involved in boxing. Our goal is to
have our Team, that are listed in their given field share their
knowledge, and be able to answer questions and provide on online
source for those needing information or help. The WBAN Resource Team
will also provide comprehensive and authoritative information with
online articles, video training tips, and a variety of related
resources. ..Full
Story
WBAN’s Top Ten TIPS for Women Boxers!
By Sue TL Fox
(original article 2003, 2014)
(JULY 12)
Get Photographs taken! Many times
the boxers fight and fail to get any photographs of their fights.
For one, it will be something you will want later in life after you
have stopped boxing. But, it is also important to have photos on
file, for news articles, and for promo purposes. If you see
photographers at the weigh-ins, and press conferences, ask them if
they are going to ringside and are they shooting your fight. Get
their names and contacts so that you can either purchase your photos
from them or get a copy of them from the photographer. Many
photographers are glad to send you photos of you to your own fight.
..Ten
Top Tips
Nutrition Pugalistica -
Giving the body what the body needs Part II
by
Amit S.Katz
In my first installment we established
that the body needs four things 1.Oxygen 2.Water 3.Fuel and 4.Minerals.
I covered the difficult part of the equation, obtaining a good source of
minerals. So if Water and Oxygen are the easiest part of the equation,
then we are left with Fuel. This in and of itself is a huge can of
worms, because we are no longer dealing with the most basic fuel the
body needs which is Glucose, but rather we are now dealing with where
the source of this fuel comes from i.e. food. Every fighters diet
will vary according to their height/weight, blood type, eating habits,
cultural background, physical geographical location and on and on, etc
etc…
We can therefore conclude that there is no set food specific to all
fighters, meaning we can not squeeze all of these varied people into one
diet. But we can establish guidelines that all athletes need,
guidelines that make sense if you are trying to perform at a high
athletic level and leave the food choices up to the fighter. The food we
eat can be broken down into 3 basic categories, each one yielding some
type of fuel or building block and they are 1.Fats 2.Carbohydrates and
3.Proteins. Making the right choices from these food sources in a
way is giving the body it’s proper fuel whilst treating the body or the
“Machine” if you will...Full Story
Concussions: Latest Topic on WBAN Resource
Team Website -By Sue TL Fox
June 29, 2011
(JUNE
29) This week WBAN has been concentrating our efforts in adding information and
an online educational set of
lessons (five chapters) and quiz on Concussions
on the WBAN Resource Team Website.
Also, this week,
Dr. David Geier,
orthopaedic surgeon, and WBAN's Resource Team member published an informational
article "Blunt trauma and sudden death in young athletes."
This week WBAN has been concentrating our efforts in adding
information and an online educational set of lessons (five chapters)
and quiz on Concussions on the WBAN Resource Team Website. Also,
this week, Dr. David Geier, orthopaedic surgeon, and WBAN's Resource
Team member published an informational article "Blunt trauma and
sudden death in young athletes." We have now created a new segment
where you can take the Online Test: Concussions called "Heads Up"
Concussion in Youth Sports. On this segment we also have available
"downloads" of the lessons on concussions for coaches and the .Full Story
Blunt trauma and sudden death in young
athletes
By
Dr. David Geier
WBAN Resource Team Member I have written recently about deaths in youth sports related to
cardiovascular events and commotio cordis. But there is another large cause of
sudden death in sports that is important to discuss, and that is sports-related
death due to blunt trauma. In the July 2011 issue of Pediatrics, Matthew
Thomas et al. analyzed 30 years of data from the US National Registry of Sudden
Deaths in Young Athletes. They compiled statistics from athletes 21 years old
and younger who participated in competitive or team sports (not intramurals) who
died from blunt-force trauma in that sport. These deaths resulted from blows or
sudden forces to the head, spine, or other body organs.In some ways, the study
offers good news. The number of blunt trauma deaths in U.S. sports is relatively
low. The average number of deaths from these causes has averaged 9 per year for
the last 30 years, and that number doesn’t seem to be increasing. And these
deaths were about four times less likely than deaths from cardiovascular causes.
The authors did provide some findings that coaches and parents should
understand. These deaths occurred in 22 different sports, so few athletes are
immune from this possibility. Football had the highest number of blunt trauma
deaths, followed by track and field, baseball, boxing, and soccer. But even
horseback riding, skiing... Full Story
Tony's Corner: Mits
by Tony
Rumanes
I have been training now in boxing for well over 25 years, that ranged from
boxing clients who wanted to get in optimum condition, to amateur and pro
boxers. As an owner of my own gym, the Old School Boxing, located in
Atlanta, Georgia, I have learned throughout the years of working the mitts, that
there is a definite art to holding the mitts: Communication, body language,
wording of combos, distance, timing, angles, defense and speed are so relevant
to the sport. A good coach will tackle all of the above. This kind of training
is an essential tool for the success of a boxer. Holding the mitts can really
break down a coach’s shoulder, wrist and hands, as well as the boxers. I have
been lucky in the sense of being in the right place at the right time, and I
believe I am using the best quality gear for the protection of a coach and his
boxer. I had visited the Wildcard gym many years ago, and I was referred
to Sergio Garibay. Sergio has made mitts and body protectors for the greatest
trainers of today. As I aspire to be one of the best myself, I know that
protection is an absolute importance in the sport. Training camps that can go on
from six to eight weeks and can be extremely vigorous, and any and every little
aid can help. .Full Story
Tony's Corner: Fitness Tip of the Month
by Tony
Rumanes 1. Do not overcook
your carbohydrates, sweet potatoes, oatmeal, etc.., the carbohydrate can turn
from a low glycemic carb, to a high glycemic carb, which the body utilizes like
sugar. This will spike your insulin levels and cause a storage of fat. 2.
If you get hungry right before bed after training, try a casein shake. It will
protect your muscles while you rest. 3. Eat balanced meals of protein,
carbs, and fats. This will stabilize your blood sugar levels and promote fat
loss, while holding on to your lean muscle tissue, which gives you a boost in
your metabolism. 4. Periodization is the most effective way to train on weights.
Changing the workouts just by changing the repetitions, weight and or intensity
will promote great results. 5. Its ok to sensibly cheat on the weekend with
food. You need to give yourself a break sometimes. Just get back on track Monday
with your workouts and cardio and your metabolism will reset. 6. Try
adding interval training to your workout program, your body will feed off of its
own natural fatty acids, until the nutrition is replaced by food, this will burn
fat all day long, especially if done in the morning.
.Full Story
Nutrition Pugalistica -The Basics: Giving the body what the body needs
by
Amit S.Katz
(MAY 28)
In my first installment we
established that the body needs four things 1.Oxygen 2.Water 3.Fuel and
4.Minerals. I covered the difficult part of the equation, obtaining a good
source of minerals. So if Water and Oxygen are the easiest part of the equation,
then we are left with Fuel. This in and of itself is a huge can of worms,
because we are no longer dealing with the most basic fuel the body needs which
is Glucose, but rather we are now dealing with where the source of this fuel
comes from i.e. food. Every fighters diet will vary according to their
height/weight, blood type, eating habits, cultural background, physical
geographical location and on and on, etc etc… We can therefore conclude
that there is no set food specific to all fighters, meaning we can not squeeze
all of these varied people into one diet. But we can establish guidelines
that all athletes need, guidelines that make sense if you are trying to perform
at a high athletic level and leave the food choices up to the fighter.
The food we eat can be broken down into 3 basic categories, each one yielding
some type of fuel or building block and they are 1.Fats 2.Carbohydrates and
3.Proteins Making the right choices from these food sources in a way is giving
the body it’s proper fuel whilst treating the body or the “Machine” if you will,
as a shrine to athletic performance. .Full Story
Latest News: WBAN Resource
Team
by Sue TL Fox
I am in the process of developing
an extensive Resource Team for WBAN, where women boxers can utilize
many of the resources in regards to training, boxing, health,
fitness, performance training, contract, and management issues, and
more. Currently I have Fitness/Trainer Tony Rumanes on board,
Multi-world champion, Ann Marie Saccurato who will do video training
and performance tips (she is absolutely fantastic with her knowledge
in this field); am working with getting one or two physicians on
board; Lifestyles Nutritionist Amit Katz; Eddie Montalvo for
management and other related questions about contracts; an attorney
who specializes in contracts; Tom Moraetes who has been WBAN's "Ask
the Trainer" advisor and who has been with WBAN for over 10 years,
and others that I have been in contact with at this time. I
will be making an announcement soon when I have completed getting
the WBAN Resource Team on board...Full
Story
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