We all have heroes. It could be Nelson Mandela or Dan Crenshaw, Donald Trump or Abraham Lincoln, Tom Brady or Muhammad Ali, Julius Ceasar or Joan of Arc, Lady Di or Socrates, or all, or some other figure entirely who inspires, who gives hope that our better self will rise. One of my heroes is Marc Ratner.
For 35 years he has run the shot clock for UNLV basketball home games. For over 20 years he’s been a Div I football official. He’s also been the UFC’s Senior Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs for 15 years, and before that was the Executive Director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission for 24 years, and helped found the Association of Boxing Commissions. He’s an inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, World Boxing Hall of Fame, and the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, among others.
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The Past Week in Action 21 December 2020: Canelo, Golovkin, Ramirez Register Wins in Busy Yearend Fights (Part II)
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16 December (continued)
Los Angeles, CA, USA: Welter: Eimantas Stanionis (12-0) W TKO 9 Janer Gonzalez (19-4-1). Middle: Eumir Marcial (1-0) W PTS 4 Andrew Whitfield (3-1).
Stanionis drops Gonzalez.
Stanionis grinds down Gonzalez on his way to a ninth round stoppage. Nothing flashy about the Lithuanian. He just walks forward through whatever punches come his way and responds with clubbing rights and left hooks to the body. Gonzalez was forced to fight going back as nothing he threw was stopping the forward march of Stanionis. The Lithuanian also has a very useful jab which he used to set Gonzalez up for his hooking attacks. Gonzalez was finding plenty of gaps and landing some strong punches but he began to wilt under the relentless pressure from Stanionis. The fight had gone out of Gonzalez by the eighth and two rights crosses and a right uppercut saw him
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It’s a little-known law of nature: Because crusty, bloated sportswriters are biologically predisposed to pearl-clutching, the survival of the species depends on the periodic rant about The Sanctity of the Game. In boxing, that means screeds about sanctioning bodies, state commissions, promoters, managers, yahoo judges, YouTubers, referees, Saved By the Bell refugees, various and sundry unspecified sources of incompetence and corruption, and the
pièce de résistance PEDs. This mountain of sustenance, incidentally, is why fight bloggers and cockroaches will rule a post-apocalypse world.
It also explains a recent news cycle within the sport, in which the International Boxing Hall of Fame announced its 2021 inductees and HOF voters took to the internet to chitter over the details like the world’s worst-dressed knitting circle. The juiciest bit: James Toney, a two-time Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year, multi-divisi