Tiara Brown has made a hobby out of hitting hard.
The Fort Myers High School graduate and once-aspiring Olympic boxer also has been hit hard, literally by opponents and figuratively by the death of George Floyd, his neck under the knee for more than nine minutes of a police officer who is on trial for murder in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Brown, who was named the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s Officer of the Year out of more than 3,000 officers in 2018, said she felt friction between herself and a few other department members last year. They were not responding with the empathy they should have following Floyd’s death, she said. She resigned Nov. 1 following almost six years with the department. She returned home.
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Frank Mir was preparing to make his Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship debut in early 2021 when he got a call to make his boxing debut.
Originally, Mir was set to fight Antonio Tarver in the co-main event to Ben Askren vs. Jake Paul. However, the Georgia Commission wouldn’t clear Tarver, so Mir is now set to face Steve Cunningham. Although it is a change of opponent, Mir is still excited at the opportunity of making his pro boxing debut.
“I was training for a fight in February in BKFC,” Mir said on Just Scrap Radio on BJPENN.com. “In November, I was picking up the boxing training and limiting the jiu-jitsu and wrestling and then February didn’t work out. They told me they’d get me an opponent on April 16 but a week later, Malki Kawa called me and asked if I wanted to do a pro boxing match completely. I’m excited, I like opportunities to challenge myself.”
Fighter finds a second chance after lifetime fighting on streets and serving time in jail
Matthew Strickland has been fighting his entire life. But after working with a faith-based program, he found a second chance at life. Author: David Schiele (10News) Updated: 5:47 PM CDT April 9, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Matthew Strickland has been fighting his entire life.
He was born in Harriman, Tennessee, where he found himself in a slew of street fights. He fought for his life after his father turned him to opioids as a minor. He also fought for his freedom while on the run from the police for a year, after committing assault and theft crimes.
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The Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) has powered on as a dominant force in the bare-knuckle boxing world. To give back to the athletes, they’re now working on pension plans.
“Our fighters are the most important asset of the company.” ‘We want to ensure that they are compensated not only on the night of the fight but also looked after in retirement. For each BKFC fight, money will be placed in a pension account for them to draw on upon retirement.” pic.twitter.com/1F91VZpx3J
“It looks like BKFC has finally culminated and came together and is going to be able to launch its first-ever ever in the history of the world the first-ever combat sports fighting pension for the fighters,” BKFC President Dave Feldman said. “We’re gonna do a pension for the fighters, we’re gonna put a little bit of money away for them, [after] each and every one of their fights. We’re gonna hold it for them for about five years or so at least and then they