Mark Jones
@boxingjones
IBHOF elector/ballot coordinator, women’s modern & trailblazer, USA Boxing Coach, Ring Magazine’s rating panel member, IBRO member, AAGPBL voter🐈 🫖 ⚾️ 📚 🍝
To commemorate the end of Hulkamania, here's @GovJVentura on Hulk Hogan helping Vince McMahon bust union organizing in the WWE.
Now that a week has passed, Oleksandr Usyk is an all-time heavyweight and a certain first-ballot HOF, but he's not the greatest. He's a modern-day version of Gene Tunney, who is criminally underrated on all-time lists at both light-heavyweight and heavyweight. #boxing
In the wake of Usyk's rematch triumph over Dubois, @SmittyBoxing praises the versatility of the champ's lead hand and also declares him one of the most brilliant technical fighters he has ever seen. This clip from today's "ITC" premiere at noon ET explains why:
Claressa Shields vs Lani Daniels Keys to Victory: Breaking down tactics of each fighter - goo.gl/alerts/8DoDyC #GoogleAlerts
⚡🇨🇺 BREAKING: Cuba officially joins the BRICS Development Bank, challenging decades of U.S. blockade —
‘Sugar’ Ray Leonard with trainer Angelo Dundee ahead of his pro debut in 1977.
What's Included in the 596 Books Banned by the Department of Defense Education Activity? @JoyceCarolOates bookriot.com/whats-included…
no laptop, no typewriter, just a quill pen & paper to compose her masterpieces: Jane Austen writing desk, Morgan Library & Museum.
#OtD 24 Jul 1961 Kredelle Petway was arrested at Jackson airport in Mississippi for participating in a freedom ride from Montgomery, Alabama. Freedom riding was a direct action campaign aimed at desegregating public transport. Learn more about Jim Crow: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/bo…
🥊 NICOLSON RETURNS AUGUST 23! Former WBC Featherweight World champion @skyebnic returns against Urvashi Singh (12-3) on #WyllieDib in Brisbane!💥 💫 Nicolson is targeting a World title at Super-Bantamweight. #NicolsonSingh
There are only two ways the era of nuclear weapons will end - either we abolish our nuclear weapons, or our weapons will abolish humanity. The United States must join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and join over half of the countries around the world in mutual…
Reporter: Was Malcolm X preaching hate and violence? Denzel Washington: Is the sheep preaching hate and violence when he says I'm not going to let a wolf eat me anymore?
Yokoso, Ichiro. #YakyuBaseball
Muhammad Ali's daughter Laila Ali offered chance to fight Claressa Shields for undisputed heavyweight world title | Boxing News | Sky Sports skysports.com/boxing/news/12…