‘Our Historian Sport Icons’ – We all have sat around the table talking about our favorite athletes of all time. Pretty much the same names stick with us forever. Let’s see if you agree… who comes to mind first for you?

For instance… when you think of bodybuilding, who comes to mind first?
Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Okay, here we go…
Question: Tennis?  Answer: John McEnroe, Billy Jean King, & Bjorn Borg.
Question: Baseball?  Answer: Hank Aaron & Babe Ruth.
Question: Football?  Answer: Jim Brown, Walter Payton, & Joe Namath.
Question: Basketball?  Answer: Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, & Wilt Chamberlain.
Question: Soccer  Answer: Pele’
Question: Martial Arts?  Answer: Bruce Lee & Chuck Norris.
Question: Golf?  Answer: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicholson, & Tiger Woods.
Question: Olympics?  Answer: Bruce Jenner.
Question: MMA?  Answer: Ken Shamrock & the Gracie family.
Question: Boxing?  Answer: Muhammad Ali & Mike Tyson.
Going way back, here are some our greatest boxers: Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Sugar Ray Leonard, Rocky Marciano, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Marvin Hagler, Thomas, Hearns, Larry Holmes. With all these names listed, what two fighters still come to mind more than any of them? It would still be> Muhammad Ali & Mike Tyson.

“When I first started, I really was not a football player. I never really even liked football then,” Walker told MMA Fighting. “I just loved to run. If it would have been around then, I really think I would have been an MMA fighter.”

At 47 years old, Walker is finally following his calling. He makes his debut on Jan. 30, facing little-known Greg Nagy at a Strikeforce show in Sunrise, Fla.
Read the full story at> MMAfighting.com

Finally, a final answer!!! Pacquiao will not be fighting Mayweather. The super fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is officially dead, as Top Rank CEO Bob Arum said he closed a deal Sunday for Pacquiao to meet Joshua Clottey in Dallas at Cowboys Stadium on March 13. Read the whole story at>> Yahoo Sports

Big talk about James “Lights Out” Toney wanting to do a MMA match.
Just imagine… if James Toney and Kimbo Slice fought, it would be as big of a money draw as the Micky Ward & Arturo Gatti fight. It would bring both MMA and BOXING more alive than ever.

Check out James Toney talking about the whole MMA idea on> YouTube

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Check out this video of an english gymnast who now has been discovered by hollywood.

Video presented by our Coach Larry Largent.

What happens when a 24-year-old knife wheeling punk tries to rob an ederly retired boxer.
Read about it>> Daily News Report

…… as seen from the Canadian side

Boxer goes insane

Police accuse 23 year old wife of killing 37 year old Gatti. So far the investigation seems to lay out, that she strangled him with her purse strap while he drunkenly slept. They were married in 2007, their son is 10 months. old. Here is more of the story>> by Fanhouse.com from the Associated Press