Archive for the ‘Boxing’ Category

Interview with Rhonda McGee, Boxing Champion

The Pen­ta­gon Channel’s full inter­view with the The Navy Box­ing Team’s Master-at-Arms 3rd Class Rhonda McGee from their cov­er­age of the 2012 Armed Forces Box­ing Cham­pi­onship at Camp Pendle­ton, Calif.

This is their third year cov­er­ing Armed Forces Box­ing. This year, they’ll run nine hour-long episodes, covering each weight class, female exhi­bi­tions and con­so­la­tion bouts. They’ll also fea­ture pro­file pack­ages on box­ers, scor­ing and rules and much more. Episodes will begin releas­ing every Fri­day, start­ing March 9.  

Reserve Soldier Wins 2012 Armed Forces Boxing Championship

Pvt. Mar­quis Moore, of Mar­low Heights, Md., and sol­dier with the 978th Quar­ter­mas­ter Com­pany, recently won the 165-pound divi­sion of the 2012 Armed Forces Box­ing Cham­pi­onships, at Camp Pendle­ton, Calif., Feb. 8–10.

Moore defeated Marines Lance Cpl. Felix Mag­a­l­lanez after the ref­eree stopped their con­test at 2 min­utes, 27 sec­onds of the sec­ond round

“Moore was very impres­sive,” said U.S. Army World Class Ath­lete Pro­gram and Olympic coach Basheer Abdul­lah. “He impressed me the most tonight. He was explo­sive. He demon­strated good defense. He was slip­ping and coun­ter­ing right off the defense. He was very excit­ing to watch. I think he has what it takes to com­pete at the elite level.”

2012 Armed Forces Boxing Championship

by MC2 (SW/AW) Elliott Fabrizio

Check out this full inter­view with the Air Force Box­ing Team’s Senior Air­man Adam Has­san from cov­er­age of the 2012 Armed Forces Box­ing Cham­pi­onship at Camp Pendle­ton, Calif.

This is our third year cov­er­ing Armed Forces Box­ing. This year, we’ll run nine hour-long episodes, covering each weight class, female exhi­bi­tions and con­so­la­tion bouts. We’ll also fea­ture pro­file pack­ages on box­ers, scor­ing and rules and much more. Episodes will begin releas­ing every Fri­day, start­ing March 9.  

How the Army’s Boxing Program Works

by MC2 (SW/AW) Elliott Fab­rizio, Pen­ta­gon Chanel

Punch that guy as much as you can.

If that’s an order you’d love to carry out, the Army has a place for you: The All-Army Box­ing Team.

The Army’s box­ing pro­gram gives Sol­diers, the chance to fight their way through its rank­ings, and if they win enough, they may even find them­selves rep­re­sent­ing the U.S. in the Olympics.

“I Tell these Sol­diers, ‘Write your own story’,” said Staff Sgt. Charles Lev­erette. “Some­body gave me an oppor­tu­nity, and now I stand before you as All-Army Box­ing Head Coach.”

Army box­ing con­sists of a series of pro­grams with hard-won vic­to­ries as the admis­sion price to each suc­ces­sive level.

Air Force Boxers Rumble at Fort Sam Houston

by Steve Elliott
JBSA-Fort Sam Hous­ton Pub­lic Affairs

In what Air Force offi­cials called a “grand slam” for the Fit­ness Cen­ter on the Med­ical Train­ing and Edu­ca­tion Cen­ter Cam­pus, the Air Force Box-Off tour­na­ment Jan. 20 and 21 was a big success.

“The Air­men, Sol­diers, Sailors and Marines packed the house,” said Ken Hack, the center’s director.

“All branches of the ser­vices were at the event and also included fam­ily mem­bers, active duty ser­vice mem­bers and Depart­ment of Defense civil­ian employees.”

Female Marine Hooks, Jabs to Olympic Dreams

The fol­low­ing is a great piece about moti­va­tion, deter­mi­na­tion and dis­ci­pline. There is much to learn from this hard work­ing Marine. Enjoy the read and hope­fully this moti­vates you to push harder!

- Mil​i​tary​.com

By Air Force Staff Sgt. Jes­sica Switzer, Defense Media Activity

She runs count­less miles before dawn, spends hours in the gym hon­ing body and mind into a sin­gle, well-oiled machine. She pours heart and soul with equal amounts of blood, sweat and tears into what has become her nor­mal routine.

That rou­tine built the foun­da­tion for for­mer Marine lance cor­po­ral Melissa O. Parker to qual­ify as a com­peti­tor in the 2011 Armed Forces Box­ing Cham­pi­onships. She has been train­ing for this moment for what seems like a lifetime.

All-Marine Boxing Team Hits St. Louis

It’s Marine Week in St. Louis!

Mem­bers of the All-Marine box­ing team put on gloves and gave the St. Louis police and fire­fight­ers a good fight for char­ity dur­ing Marine Week St. Louis. Check out the video below for some of the high­lights. These Marines can really throw down.

Oorah!

Meet the All-Marine Corps Boxing Team

Check out this year’s All-Marine box­ing team. Looks like a strong team this year.

2011 Armed Forces Boxing Championship

The Armed Forces Box­ing Cham­pi­onship is a 10-week TPC Sports series, shot on loca­tion at Naval Base Ven­tura County, CA. Each week, box­ers from 10 dif­fer­ent weight classes com­pete for the gold medal and title of Armed Forces Box­ing Champion.

The All-Army Box­ing team won the team award in the 2011 Armed Forces Box­ing Cham­pi­onships held Feb. 18 at Lack­land Air Force Base, Texas. This marks the 20th year in a row the Army has won the event.

Army box­ers entered the finals unde­feated in the pre­lim­i­nar­ies, and a Sol­dier fought in each gold-medal fight.

The Marine Corps broke the Army’s win­ning streak when Lance Cpl. Abra­ham Lopez dom­i­nated Spc. Guy Jean-Baptiste, shut­ting him out for the first two rounds and hold­ing him at bay in the third for the 16–5 win. Lopez took gold in the 123 lb. weight class.

Playground Trick to Escape Multiple Attackers

A self defense sit­u­a­tion that involves mul­ti­ple attack­ers is one of the most dan­ger­ous ones to be in. It’s bad enough if you’re fac­ing an attacker on the street that’s stronger and big­ger than you are, but when you’re fac­ing a group of peo­ple, even when they’re smaller than you, a group like this can kill you. If a group of attack­ers is able to get you to the ground and start pound­ing you, the last thing you ever see may be their boots. Your main pri­or­ity in a sit­u­a­tion like this is to escape!

Escap­ing should not be thought of as cow­ardly. When the odds are not in your favor and there is a slim chance of win­ning such a street attack, only a fool would stick around to fight and risk being maimed or killed. Nearly every self defense instruc­tor will advise his stu­dents to run from a fight when­ever pos­si­ble. While this is great advice, there’s one thing that many peo­ple fail to take into account; what if one of the mul­ti­ple attack­ers runs faster than you do?