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[edit] Gypsy Bare knuckle fighters

Hi guys, im Romany and from a bare knuckle back ground, I would like to give you more information on famous bare knuckle men such as Jimmy stockins, Bartley Gorman, Jonny Love, Darren Jackson, Henry Jackson, Mark Ripley. I have started to add some to the list and also those that are already on there make there own wiki page, any help would be grateful.Diamonddannyboy (talk) 21:51, 17 January 2008 (UTC) All my work has been deleted on Mark Ripley and Jonny Love,, can any one help...Diamonddannyboy (talk) 22:08, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project

Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-class, B-class, and Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles? Please post your suggestions here. Thanks a lot! Gflores Talk 17:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

is a biography of a boxer will do? if so, i'm suggesting the article Manny Pacquiao thanks and more power.RebSkii 19:31, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] new category: Category:Deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing

Following yesterday's death of Kevin Payne, a welterweight professional boxer who died from injuries sustained in a boxing bout, I wrote the bio article (a stub) about him and created a new category, since there wasn't one dealing with boxing deaths. -- Mareklug talk 22:17, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

For anyone who is interested in extending this category, the boxrec excyclopedia probably has the most extensive list of boxers who have died of injury from boxing. [1]

[edit] Participation

I didn't realize I was already participating. I accept even though it was after the fact. Maya Levy 07:09, 1 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] New Record table

New record table template was made.

  • example:Muhammad Ali's record is shown as
Number Date Result Round Method Opponent Nationality Note
47 October 30, 1974 Win 8R 2:58 KO George Foreman USA WBA & WBC World Heavyweight titlematch


--Yappakoredesho 22:50, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Personally I think a list of a fighters whole record is a little spacey and can be fixed by putting a Boxrec external link. Maya Levy 12:49, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I totally agree. The listing out of the records is entirely unnecessary and amounts to a really sloppy looking article. For example, look at Oscar De La Hoya. The article is probably 3x longer than it needs to be, since one can just click the link to boxrec. And the work to maintain these records is unsustainable. Jackboogie 12:54, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] new category: category:Southpaw boxers

Seemed like a good idea. Pascal.Tesson 05:13, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion for new category: category:National Golden Gloves Winners

I was thinking of creating a Golden Gloves category, but I'm not sure if people would get it confused w/the Gold Gloves in baseball or the New York tournament. Maya Levy 08:39, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

As you've pointed out in the category name, I think that the national golden gloves would stand out for boxing. This would distinguish it from any state level golden gloves tournaments or a golden glove in baseball.

[edit] WBA Disambiguation

I am not a member of the boxing project, but when I have some spare time I have a go at removing disambiguous links to WBA and many of them are for World Boxing Association, particularly within the Template:Championshiptitle. An example is Reggie Johnson.

Is there anything that can be done to cut down on the WBA disambiguous links in the future from this template? Pixie2000 20:46, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] National Titles

I was just editing some articles relating to boxers who hold or are going to challenge for the british heavyweight title. I was surprised to find that there isn't an article about this historic title already? Or perhaps there is but under a name that I couldn't think of. Initially I linked to British Heavyweight Championship but obviously this article isn't the one I was thinking of. British Heavyweight Title is not any better either. Anyone got any ideas?--Wikipediatastic 16:41, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Permission to be part of this project

i'm asking permission to enter this article Boxing at the 2006 Asian Games to be part of this project. thanks alot and more power.RebSkii 19:40, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stablepedia

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See Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team#Stablepedia. If you wish to comment, please comment there. ★MESSEDROCKER★ 02:31, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Pictures and the Copyright confusion

I guess I'm going to fill my winter boredom by going through and putting the infobox's up and tagging upcoming fights for random boxer articles, but the one thing I still need help with is pictures to fill the boxes. I've only gotten one picture up before I stopped bothering, which was itself deleted before I managed to drag an Australian Admin to help sort it out. I still have no clue as to getting any pictures,promotional or otherwise, for boxers past the copyright freaks that roam wikipedia. Any help with that, maybe a simplified walk-through by someone more knowledgeable, would be greatly appreciated. Btl 06:45, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] infobox template

Thoughts on changing this to better represent boxing standards as is the case at BoxRec. Take a look at Template_talk:Infobox_Boxer and comment please. I don't want to start putting up the information only to have to change it later, and Weight, Style and the lack of Hometown really need to be rectified before any large strides can be made to upgrading the content on individual boxer's pages. Btl 07:31, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I previously put a hometown listing on the template only to have it erased by someone else, later. The problem was that all of the existing fighters that had the infobox in it were left with a {{{hometown}}} mark making many looking empty . Maybe phasing it in as optional first should do the trick. Maya Levy 05:56, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kimbo Slice

If any of you have came across this article, you'll know what a mess it is. I'd be grateful if anyone with an interest could take a look at the new heading I've added on the talk page today. Stu ’Bout ye! 09:36, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Muhammad Ali nominated for U.S. Collaboration of the Week

Please vote for Muhammad Ali at Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTW. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Superfight

In 'The DVD' section it mentions that the only television appearance for this film was on ABC. I seem to recall seeing it on the CBS Late Late Movie (or similar name) around 1973. Anyone else?

[edit] Female boxers

I know female boxing is not very popular, but I was pretty disappointed to see the lack of female boxers in Wikipedia. Its an issue that needs some contributing Maya Levy 20:04, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Jaranda/Notabilty (sports)

Hi, I strongly recommed this project to give your notabilty guidelines for a new notabilty proposal that I'm creating on my userpage, once it is completed, I will move to wikipedia namespace for the community to decide. Thanks Jaranda wat's sup 23:02, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nigel Benn v Chris Eubank

I'm new to the project, I've just written this page could it please be included in any list of fights or boxing rivalries please, thanks. 1fletch 14:06, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Its a pretty good page, I really like the addition of the infobox on the side, I redirected it to Nigel Benn versus Chris Eubank to make it convienant for people searching for it. Maya Levy talk 17:29, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hometown listing on Template:Infobox_Boxer

I wanted to revisit the subject as seen on its talk page. Please revisit: Template talk:Infobox Boxer Maya Levy talk 02:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Years in boxing

One of my big goals is to get boxing by years using both professional and amateur results/upcoming tournaments by year, similar to 2007 in basketball, and possibly using it as a guide. I also think accompanying a frozen version the list of current world boxing champions by the end of the year. It may need a big collaboration, although time is not on my side lately. Maya Levy talk 05:54, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New template suggestion- Boxing fights template

Records before April 15, 1985
The War
Marvin Hagler
Nickname Marvelous
Record 60-2-2 (50 KO)
Hometown Brockton, MA
Recognition Undisputed Middleweight Champion
WBA, WBC, & IBF Champion
versus
Thomas Hearns
Nickname The Hitman
Record 31-0 (26 KOs)
Hometown Detroit, MI
Title(s) on the line
WBA, WBC, & IBF Championship
Undisputed World Middleweight Championship

I have a suggestion for a new template, which I entitled boxing fights template. It is to show the fighters records at the time of the fight, which belt(s) are on the line and to hopefully clear which fighter is champion or the challenger, or incase of a unification fight which fighter has what belt. I am open to any suggestions, additions, or comments about it. I put an example on the side and already put it on the Hagler/Hearns page. Note: this may be used for MMA fights as well. Maya Levy talk 05:44, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I like it... but if you're going to adapt it for MMA, what will go in the name area (MMA fights usually aren't titled). Also, I have an existing records template that can be used for boxers right out of the box, {{MMArecordbox}}. east.718 at 08:40, 10/17/2007 08:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New template for boxers

Just letting everyone know that there's a new template attempting to unify a lot of the martial arts templates, and {{Infobox Boxer}} is one of them. Please leave comments at {{Infobox Martial artist}}. Thanks! east.718 at 13:12, 10/24/2007.

[edit] Orthodox stance

Guys the is a discussion going on the Talk:Orthodox stance about hte potential merger of the Orthodox stance and Orthodox (boxing) articles. Please can I have your thoughts. regards--Vintagekits 21:51, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WBO

The WBO isn't recognised by IBHOF? I read articles of the major boxing organizations. It appears that only the WBA, WBC and IBF are being credited. FoxLad 22:43, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No Jimmy Lennon Jr

I saw an article about his father, but there is surprisingly no articles about Jimmy Lennon Jr. Maya Levy talk 00:17, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Created article of Fight Promoter University

thanks for any help Armyguy11 (talk) 07:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Created article of Baby Arizmendi

Do I become a member of WikiProjectBoxing now that I have helped, with the recreattion of Baby Arizmendi? Toolazy21 (talk) 16:38, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Phil Martin

Hi. A head up that an article on Phil Martin, a British professional light-heavyweight boxer of the 1970s is up for AfD. The article is badly in need of a rewrite too. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:11, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ricky Hatton

I reverted a heap of IP vandalism there today while investigating an unrelated situation, found some additional changes that have been made, but needs a subject expert to determine whether they are fixing mistakes or introducing errors (my expertise is Australian geography and politics, not boxing :P) so if someone could look at the diff I presented on the Talk:Ricky Hatton talk page, that would be great. If semi protection is needed drop a note on my talk page. Orderinchaos 13:08, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Who is the project leader for WikiProject Boxing? I am interested in creating an article on a fight trilogy.--Jedi Kasra (talk) 19:37, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

There is no leader, just members. If you got the citations? go forth and create. GoodDay (talk) 21:24, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
I wanted to assume leadership at one time but couldn't due to my senior year of college. :( Maya Levy talk 14:56, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
  • O.K. then. I am interested in creating an article on the Bowe vs. Holyfield trilogy. Should I go ahead and run with that or should I create seperate article for each fight?--Jedi Kasra (talk) 06:30, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
It's your choice. GoodDay (talk) 16:20, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
  • O.K. How do I create a sub-page that links to my page, so that I can work on it, for example if you or another user can tell me how to do it, I'll be calling it, "User:Jedi Kasra/Project Real Deal vs. Big Daddy". Any cooperation would be appreciated.--Jedi Kasra (talk) 20:35, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
What you want is a Sandbox. -- GoodDay (talk) 23:49, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
  • O.K. I have created a sub-page entitled User:Jedi Kasra/Project "Real Deal vs. Big Daddy I-III". If anyone would like to participate please leave me a message on my talk page. Reliable sources, free images, etc. are needed. If I put something on there that is not correct, feel free to correct it, then tell me.--Jedi Kasra (talk) 05:02, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help request: GA backlog

Hello. There has been a large backlog at the Good Article Nominations page for a while, and some articles wait up to 50 days for a review. Since most of my editing is in the Sports and Recreation category, that is the area that I am currently focusing on. To try to cut down on the backlog, I'm approaching projects with the request that members from that project review two specific articles over the next week. My request to WikiProject Boxing is to try to find time to review Skip Holtz and Anfield. If these are already reviewed by someone else or you have time for another review (or you'd rather review something else altogether), it would be great if you could help out with another article. Of course, this is purely voluntary. If you could help, though, it would help out a lot and be greatly appreciated. The basic instructions for reviewing articles is found at WP:GAN and the criteria is found at WP:WIAGA. I recently began reviewing articles, and I've found it fairly enjoyable and I've learned a lot about how to write high quality articles. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 17:42, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Infoboxes.

I recently discovered on José Luis Ramírez page that there was no information box there, so I went and added it to his article. I just wanna ask, do all Boxers past and present need these on their article? Dan the Man1983 (talk) 22:39, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't think they need to as such, they're just a way of visually presenting the information which is easier on the eye - I certainly add them to articles I come across without them... Jimbo[online] 22:39, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Identity of IBO Middleweight Champion

Who currently holds this title? - Raymond Joval or Daniel Geale. -- GoodDay (talk) 19:12, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Geale [2] -- Jimbo[online] 21:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Tyson

Does anyone know where Mike Tyson was residing the time of the Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson fight on June 8, 2002? --Jimbo[online] 19:36, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ricky Hatton

Can some of you guys help to keep an eye on the Ricky Hatton article? It's a frequent target for vandalism and is in need of some verification. Thanks, --Jza84 |  Talk  12:40, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I've got my eye on the article too. I nominated it for semi-protection in order to stop the IP abuse. --Jimbo[online] 12:45, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Gomez

I am aiming to nominate this article for GA and to be a FA on 21 June. If you can suggest any improvements to the article please let me know.--Vintagekits (talk) 12:45, 31 May 2008 (UTC)