It wasn't long before his father decided all eight sons should take up boxing as a serious sport.
Palance was born Vladimir Palahnuik in 1919, the son of a coal miner, and took up boxing in the 1930s.
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He only took up boxing at 24, an age when Ali, Foreman and Tyson were already heavyweight champions of the world.
Kirk Kerkorian quit during the eighth grade to take up boxing.
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As a diminutive 12-year-old, a young Zou Shiming began studying martial arts, but after much pestering he convinced his parents and a local coach to let him take up boxing instead.
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Tamerlan and Dzhokar took up boxing and wrestling respectively.
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"Since his Beijing victory, five more boxing clubs have sprung up and around 5, 000 children have taken up the sport, " says his father, Mahipal Singh.
Average viewership of boxing on Showtime was up 30% in 2012.
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The former England centre has recovered from a rib injury picked up on Boxing Day against Otley and is expected to feature against Sedgley Park on Sunday at Headingley.
The pair have joined up with Talon Boxing, who are based in the Lake Arrowhead mountains near Los Angeles.
The Liverpool-based King, who has achieved considerable success building up grass-roots boxing, has denied leaking the Saunders story but his antipathy for Edwards is irrefutable.
The boxing kit is a stunt dreamed up by Brendan Barns, the organiser of the fourth annual London Business Forum, and a man with a mission: to exterminate boring business conferences.
He said the town hall was opening from 11:00 on Boxing Day, to allow residents to pick up any items they need.
Then there's the Holyfield Foundation, set up by three-time heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield to promote spiritual, educational and athletic development among youth.
Consequently, Robb did not bother to reapply to the British Boxing Board of Control when his licence came up for renewal, believing that he would be wasting his time.
If it had been a boxing match, I would have judged Margaret Ritchie up on points.
What they'll see is a fighter who is enormously popular and whose name continues to pop up in conversations about the next great boxing supernova.
And one by one, at least for the first few looks, the models sported fur boxing gloves and tops with hoods like a glammed up Rocky.
Calzaghe - who had won the award three times previously - cemented his place as one of boxing's all-time greats by stepping up from the super-middleweight division he ruled for more than a decade to beat American greats Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr at light-heavyweight.
Joe Calzaghe - who has won this award the last two years - cemented his place as one of boxing's all-time greats by stepping up from the super-middleweight division he ruled for more than a decade to beat American greats Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr at light-heavyweight.
Costello said Gavin was not able to step up to the heavier class because fellow British boxing team-mate Bradley Saunders had already qualified in the light-welterweight.
Born to a large Merthyr family, Johnny soon learned to stick up for himself, and started his interest in boxing aged just eight.
McCracken took up the reins after a turbulent period for British boxing that resulted in most of Britain's best amateur boxers turning professional after the 2008 Olympics.
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Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather have dominated the boxing scene for the past five years, as they sucked up most of the attention and the money in the sport.
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The bouts pile up toward the end, but, as with almost every boxing picture, they lack the grunting doggedness of the real thing.
There is even one woman who is a heart surgeon in Mexico who, after she's finished putting people up and putting new hearts in them, is in the ring boxing and she is a world champion at bantum weight.
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