Robert Alan Aurthur (June 10, 1922 – November 20, 1978) was an American screenwriter, director and TV producer.

Television

In the early years of television, he wrote for Studio One and then moved on to write episodes of Mister Peepers (1952–53). He followed with teleplays for Campbell Playhouse (1954), Justice (1954), Goodyear Television Playhouse (1953–54) and Producers' Showcase (1955). One of his four 1951-55 plays for Philco Television Playhouse was the Emmy-nominated A Man is Ten Feet Tall (1955), with Don Murray and Sidney Poitier, which was adapted two years later as the theatrical film, Edge of the City (1957) with Poitier and John Cassavetes.

He did two teleplays for Playhouse 90, and one of these, A Sound of Different Drummers (3 October 1957), borrowed so heavily from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 that Bradbury sued.

Film

After 1957, he continued to do screenplays. He was one of the writers on Spring Reunion (1957), notable as Betty Hutton's last movie, following with Warlock (1959), and his earlier association with Cassavetes led to script contributions on the actor's directorial debut with Shadows (1959). After an uncredited contribution to Lilith (1964), he scripted John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix (1966).

He wrote and directed The Lost Man (1969) about a black militant (Sidney Poitier). As the writer-producer of All That Jazz (1979) he received two posthumous Academy Award nominations.

Personal life

Aurthur served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He was the first husband of actress Beatrice Arthur, who also served in the Marines; they divorced and had no children. She used a variation of his surname as her professional name.

Death

Robert Alan Aurthur died of lung cancer in New York City, aged 56.

References

External links

Robert Alan Aurthur - BFI database entry

Robert Alan Aurthur - allmovie

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Name	Roy Scheider
Caption	Scheider Family Collection, 1990
Birth name	Roy Richard Scheider
Birth date	November 10, 1932
Birth place	Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
Death date	February 10, 2008
Death place	Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Other names	Roy R. ScheiderRoy Schneider
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1961–2008
Spouse	Cynthia Bebout (1962–1989)Brenda Siemer (1989–2008)

Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as police chief Martin C. Brody in Jaws, as choreographer and film director Joe Gideon in All That Jazz, detective Buddy Russo in The French Connection and his role as Captain Nathan Bridger in science fiction television series seaQuest DSV. Scheider's final performance is to be released posthumously in the 2010 thriller Iron Cross. Described by Allmovie as "one of the most unique and distinguished of all Hollywood actors", Scheider was nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award over the course of his career.

Early life

Scheider was born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Anna Scheider (née Crosson) and auto mechanic Roy Bernhard Scheider. Scheider's mother was of Irish Catholic background and his father was German American and Protestant. As a child, Scheider was an athlete, participating in organized baseball and boxing competitions, for which he was classed as a welterweight, weighing in at 140 lbs. He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and was inducted into the school's hall of fame in 1985. He traded his boxing gloves for the stage, studying drama at both Rutgers University and Franklin and Marshall College, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. After three years in the United States Air Force, he appeared with the New York Shakespeare Festival, and won an Obie Award in 1968. Scheider played running roles on two CBS soap operas, Love of Life and The Secret Storm.

Film career

Scheider's first film role was in the 1963 horror film The Curse of the Living Corpse. (He was billed as "Roy R. Sheider"). In 1971, he appeared in two highly popular movies, Klute and The French Connection; the latter, in which he played a fictionalized version of New York City detective Sonny Grosso, garnered him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His first starring role came in 1973 in The Seven-Ups, a quasi-follow-up to The French Connection, in which Scheider's character is once again based on Grosso.

Two years later, he portrayed Chief Martin Brody in the Hollywood blockbuster Jaws which also starred Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss. Scheider's famous movie line, "You're gonna need a bigger boat", which was actually ad-libbed by Scheider, was voted 35th on the American Film Institute's list of best movie quotes.

In 1976, he appeared as secret agent Doc Levy in Marathon Man, with Dustin Hoffman (as his younger brother) and Laurence Olivier. Scheider reunited with French Connection director William Friedkin in the box-office flop Sorcerer, a remake of the 1953 French film Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear).

He was originally cast as Michael (Robert DeNiro's role) in The Deer Hunter, the second movie of a three-movie deal with Universal Studios. However, despite being under contract, Scheider dropped out of the production before filming. Universal offered him the option of reprising his role as Martin Brody for a Jaws sequel, and would consider his contractual obligations fulfilled if he accepted. Scheider accepted and Jaws 2 was released in 1978, though it was not a happy production for Scheider, who came into conflict with the film's director Jeannot Szwarc.

In 1979, four years after he appeared in Jaws, he received his second Academy Award nomination, this time as Best Actor in All That Jazz, in which he played a fictionalized version of the film's director and co-writer Bob Fosse.

In 1983, he starred in Blue Thunder, a John Badham film about a fictitious technologically advanced prototype attack helicopter which was to be used as security over the city of Los Angeles during the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. This was followed by a role as Dr. Heywood Floyd in Peter Hyams' 2010, a 1984 sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction classic , in which William Sylvester originated the role of Floyd.

One of his later parts was that of Dr. Benway in the long-in-production 1991 film adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch. In 1990 he co-starred with Sean Connery in The Russia House as the smart-talking CIA liaison with the British MI6.

Among his later films, he appeared as the crusty father of hero Frank Castle in The Punisher (2004), and in 2007, starred in The Poet and If I Didn't Care. When Scheider died in February 2008, he had two movies upcoming: Dark Honeymoon, which had been completed, and the British thriller Iron Cross. In Iron Cross, Scheider plays the leading role of Joseph, a holocaust survivor with a propensity for justice, which was inspired by director Joshua Newton’s late father Bruno Newton. Iron Cross is in post-production and slated for 2010 release.

Other work

In 1993, Scheider signed on to be the lead star in the Steven Spielberg-produced television series SeaQuest DSV as Captain Nathan Bridger. During the second season, Scheider voiced disdain for the direction in which the series was heading. His comments were highly publicized, and the media criticized him for panning his own show. NBC made additional casting and writing changes in the third season, and Scheider decided to exit the show. His contract, however, required that he make several guest appearances that season. He also repeatedly guest-starred on the NBC television series Third Watch as fictional character Fyodor Chevchenko.

Scheider hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in the tenth (1984–1985) season and appeared on the Family Guy episode "Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey", voicing himself as the host of a toilet-training video (portions of which were censored on FOX and syndicated broadcast). Scheider also did voicework on the Family Guy episode Three Kings (which was recorded in September 2007 but aired in May 2009, a year and three months after his death in February 2008) which also featured his Jaws co-star Richard Dreyfuss. Scheider guest-starred in sixth-season episode of TV series as serial-killer, death-row-inmate Mark Ford Brady, a crucial role in that the character Brady is later revealed to be the father of one of the series' central characters.

Scheider narrated and served as associate producer of the 2006 Jaws documentary The Shark is Still Working.

In 2007, Scheider received one of two annually-presented Lifetime Achievement Awards at the SunDeis Film Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts. (Academy Award winner Patricia Neal was the recipient of the other).

Personal life

Scheider's first marriage was to Cynthia Bebout on November 8, 1962. The couple had one daughter, Maximillia, before divorcing in 1989. On February 11, 1989, he married actress Brenda King, with whom he had a son, Christian, and a daughter, Molly, aka "Kiki." They remained married until his death.

Death

In 2004, Scheider was found to have multiple myeloma. In June 2005, he underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat the cancer. Scheider died on February 10, 2008 in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Hospital.

Filmography

The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)

Paper Lion (1968)

Stiletto (1969)

Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1969)

Loving (1970)

Klute (1971)

The French Connection (1971)

Assignment: Munich (1972) (Television Movie)

The Outside Man (1972)

The Assassination (1972)

The Seven-Ups (1973)

Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975)

Jaws (1975)

Marathon Man (1976)

Sorcerer (1977)

Jaws 2 (1978)

Last Embrace (1979)

All That Jazz (1979)

Still of the Night (1982)

''Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without

Blue Thunder (1983)

Tiger Town (1983)

2010 (1984)

Terror in the Aisles (1984) (archive footage)

Saturday Night Live (1985)

The Men's Club (1986)

The Egg's Sunset on the Upside Down Turned Ramp (1986)

52 Pick-Up (1986)

'' (1987) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cohen and Tate (1988)

Listen to Me (1989)

Night Game (1989)

The Fourth War (1989)

The Russia House (1990)

Somebody has to Shoot the Picture (1990)

Naked Lunch (1991)

Wild Justice (1993)

seaQuest DSV (1993) (Television Series)

Romeo is Bleeding (1994)

The Peacekeeper (1996)

Money Play$ (1997)

Executive Target (1997)

The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)

The Rainmaker (1997)

The Definite Maybe (1997)

The Rage (1997)

Plato's Run (1997)

The White Raven (1998)

Silver Wolf (1998) (Television Movie)

Evasive Action (1998)

Better Living (1998)

The Seventh Scroll (1999) (Television Mini-Series)

RKO 281 (1999)

Chain of Command (2000)

Falling Through (2000)

Daybreak (2000)

The Doorway (2000)

Time Lapse (2001)

Diamond Hunters (2001) (Television Movie)

Red Serpent (2002)

King of Texas (2002) (Television Movie)

Third Watch (2002) (Television Series)

Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines (2002)

Texas 46 (2002) aka The Good War (USA)

Citizen Verdict (2003)

(2003)

The Punisher (2004)

(2005)

Carrier: Arsenal of the Sea (2005)

The Shark is Still Working (2006)

Last Chance (2006) (Short)

(2007) (Television Series)

The Poet (2007)

If I Didn't Care (2007)

Hearts of War (2007)

Chicago 10 (2007)

Family Guy ("Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey") (2007)

Dark Honeymoon (2008)

Family Guy ("Three Kings") (2009)

Iron Cross (2010) (in post-production)

References

External links

Obituary in The Times

Roy Scheider at the Starpulse Biography site

Roy Scheider at The New York Times

Roy Scheider - Obituary and public tribute

Plum TV Hamptons Tribute

William Friedkin on Roy Scheider

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Realname	Jesus Soto Karass
Nickname	Renuente
Weight	Light MiddleweightWelterweight
Height	5 ft 11 in (182 cm)
Reach	74 in (189 cm)
Nationality	Mexican
Birth date	October 15, 1982
Birth place	Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
Home town	Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
Style	Orthodox
Total	33
Wins	24
Ko	16
Losses	5
Draws	3
No contests	1

Jesus Soto Karass (born October 15, 1982 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a Mexican boxer in the Welterweight division. He is the former WBC Continental Americas and the NABF Welterweight Champion.

Pro career

Soto Karass holds wins over Michel Rosales, Saul Roman, Carson Jones, Vince Phillips, and David Estrada. He is signed to Bob Arum's Top Rank. His fight with Gabriel Martinez was ruled a No Contest after an unintentional headbutt.

Jesus lost to Mike Jones on the undercard of Margarito vs. Pacquiao in Dallas on November 13, 2010. This fight was a huge controversy after the fight when the decision ruled in favor of Mike Jones after it was evident that Jesus Soto Karass was the one who deserved to win. A rematch for this fight will occur on February 19 2010.

Personal life

Jesus has a brother who is also a boxer, José Luis Soto Karass.

See also

Notable boxing families

References

External links

Category:Mexican boxers Category:People from Los Mochis Category:People from Sinaloa Category:Welterweights Category:1982 births Category:Living people

Name	Robert Guerrero
Realname	Robert Joseph Guerrero
Nickname	The Ghost
Nationality	American
Weight	Featherweight
Height	5 ft. 8 in. (172 cm.)
Birth date	March 27, 1983
Birth place	Gilroy, California
Style	Southpaw
Total	32
Wins	28
Ko	18
Losses	1
Draws	1
No contests	2

Robert Joseph Guerrero (born March 27, 1983 in Gilroy, California) is a professional American boxer of Mexican descent. He is the former IBF Super Featherweight champion and a former two-time IBF featherweight champion of the world. Nicknamed The Ghost, Guerrero's record is 28 wins, 1 loss, and 1 draw, and 2 no contest, with 18 of his wins coming by way of knockout. He vacated the IBF Super Featherweight champion due to his wife's battle with leukemia.

Guerrero's coaches are Rubin Guerrero and Bob Santos.

Professional career

Featherweight

After an impressive amateur career begun at a very young age, Guerrero turned professional, at the age of 18, on May 22, 2001 with a four-round unanimous decision win against Alejandro Cruz. After several wins and only a single draw later, Guerrero won the WBC NABF Featherweight title against Cesar Figueroa on December 9, 2004. Defending his NABF title twice, Guerrero was seen as a rising prospect, until meeting Gamaliel Diaz in a bout televised on ShoBox, on the Showtime channel, on December 12, 2005. An aggressive Diaz upset Guerrero, winning by split decision and taking the NABF belt in the process.

Guerrero rebounded from his first loss by defeating Sandros Marcos via third-round technical knock-out, setting up a rematch against Diaz, again on Showtime. Guerrero knocked down Diaz in the first round, and eventually knocking out Diaz early in the sixth round. The win set him up to face IBF champion Eric Aiken.

Winning the title

In his first world championship fight on September 2, 2006, Guerrero defeated Aiken by an eighth-round technical knockout in Los Angeles. Guerrero used inside fighting, neutralizing Aiken's power, and eventually making Aiken quit on his stool after the eighth round to earn his first world title belt.

Guerrero lost the belt in his next fight in a mandatory defense to unheralded Orlando Salido in Las Vegas. Salido dominated the majority of the bout and pulled off an upset decision win with scores of 115-113, 117-111, 118-110 . However, Salido would subsequently be stripped of the IBF title after testing positive for steroids, thus vacating the belt; the result of the bout would also be changed to a twelve-round no decision by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

The IBF subsequently gave Guerrero the shot at the vacant featherweight title, which he won by ninth-round technical knockout in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 23, 2007, against local Spend Abazi.

Guerrero's first defense of his second title was to be against Rocky Juarez (27-3, 19 KOs); however, Juarez chose to meet WBC Super Featherweight Champion Juan Manuel Márquez in a money fight instead. Guerrero's first defense was scheduled to be against Martin Honorio (24-3-1) on November 3, 2007, and was televised on Showtime, on the undercard of the Marquez-Juarez match. Guerrero was unable to attend the final press conference before the match after his wife was diagnosed with leukemia. Guerrero defeated Honorio in a first round knock-out.

On February 29, 2008, Guerrero defeated Jason Litzau via an eighth round knock out. Guerrero then vacated the title to move up in weight.

Super Featherweight

On March 7, 2009, Guerrero fought Daud Yordan in his HBO debut. The fight ended in a second round "no contest" decision after Guerrero suffered a headbutt resulting in a gash above his eye. After the bout Guerrero offered Yordan a rematch, however, Yordan reportedly declined.

On June 12, 2009, Guerrero faced Efren Hinojosa (30-5-1). He suffered another deep cut near his left eye from a head-butt in the seventh round, but this time it didn't slow his progress as he scored an 8th round TKO victory. After the bout, the media described him as having redeemed himself for his previous lackluster effort.

On August 22, 2009, Guerrero challenged Malcolm Klassen for his IBF Super Featherweight title. Guerrero won the fight by a unanimous decision to claim the world title. The scores were 117-112, 116-112 and 115-113 in his favor.

In February 2010, Guerrero vacated his Featherweight title in order to care for his ailing wife.

Moving up in weight

On April 30, 2010, Guerrero moved up to the lightweight division to fight Robert Arrieta (35-15-4). The bout took place at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Guerrero won the fight by TKO in the 8th round.

After the bout, Guerrero expressed his interest in fighting Mexican champion Juan Manuel Márquez.

On July 31, 2010, Guerrero moved up to the junior welterweight division and faced Cuban fighter Joel Casamayor on the undercard of the Marquez vs. Diaz pay-per-view at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Guerrero defeated Casamayor by a 10 round unanimous decision. On November 6, 2010, he faced Vicente Escobedo for the vacant WBO Inter-Continental lightweight title. Guerrero knocked Escobedo down in the third and sixth rounds en route to a ten round unanimous decision.

Documentary

In production, "The Ghost" (2010) documents the life of three-time world champion boxer Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero. Directed by Andrew Johnston, in association with Golden Boy Promotions.

Professional boxing record

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References

External links

Official website

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Realname	Rico Dashon Ramos
Nickname	Sauvecito
Weight	Super Bantamweight
Height	5 ft 5 in (165 cm)
Reach	68 in (172 cm)
Nationality	American
Birth date	June 20, 1987
Birth place	Pico Rivera, California
Home town	Pico Rivera, California
Style	Orthodox
Total	18
Wins	18
Ko	10
Losses	0
Draws	0
No contests	0

Rico Dashon Ramos (born June 20, 1987 in Pico Rivera, California) is an Puerto Rican-American Super Bantamweight boxer and current WBO NABO Youth super bantamweight champion.

Amateur career

Ramos began boxing when he was 8 years old at South LA's Broadway Boxing Gym. During his amateur career he was an Olympic alternate and won the 2007 National PAL championship.

In 2007 he also was the runner up at the U.S. National Championships, losing to U.S. Olympian Raynell Williams.

Pro Career

On March 5, 2010 Rico got a 4th round K.O. over veteran Cecilio Santos, on ESPN's Friday Night Fights.

On November 8, 2010 Rico got a 2nd round K.O. over Heriberto Ruiz in Jacksonville, N.C.

References

External links

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Realname	Kevin Kelley
Nickname	The Flushing Flash
Weight	Featherweight
Nationality	American
Birth date	June 29, 1967
Birth place	Brooklyn, New York, United States
Home	Flushing, New York, United States
Style	Southpaw
Total	72
Wins	60
Ko	39
Losses	10
Draws	2
No contests	0

Kevin Kelley (born Kevin Philip Kelley on June 29, 1967, in Brooklyn, New York but grew up in Flushing Queens) is a professional boxer and former television commentator.

Amateur career

Kelley won two New York Golden Gloves Championships as well as the 1985 119 lb Sub-Novice Championship and the 1986 119 lb Open Championship. In 1988 Kelley advanced to the finals of the 125 lb Open division and was to have met Fred Liberatore in the finals. Kelley was injured and could not fight. Liberatore was declared the Champion by Default-Injury.

In the Olympic box-offs he lost to Carl Daniels. His record was 62-5.

Professional career

WBC Featherweight Championship

Known as the "Flushing Flash", Kelley held the WBC Featherweight title and defended it until he lost he TKO to, [[Mexican people| Mexican]] Alejandro Martín González, after Kelley failed to come out for the 11th round. Kelley won the title by defeating Gregorio Vargas by unanimous decision in 1993.

Kelley was then signed to an HBO contract, and remained in title contention for the next decade. More known for being in big fights rather than gaining big victories, Kelley's resume includes TKO losses to boxing legends Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales, both of which came during Kelley's career decline.

Loss to Hamed

Kelley's defeats include losses to Naseem Hamed. In 1997 Hamed flew to the United States to fight there for the first time. His ceremonious arrival on the British Airways Concorde was covered by multiple media outlets. There, he and former two-time WBC Featherweight champion of the world Kevin Kelley fought in Ring Magazine's fight of the year at the Madison Square Garden in New York. This fight marks something of a watershed in Hamed's career, as he was forced, for the first time, to abandon his hands-down style of fighting throughout the entire course of the bout, given the calibre of Kelley. In addition, many of the speed and stamina-related hallmarks of his career, i.e. the prevalence of combination punching, ability to dodge blows etc, seemed to have degraded somewhat; debate still rages as to whether this was the result of increasing age, or of increasing quality of opponent, or both. Nonetheless, despite being dropped three times himself, Hamed put Kelley down for a third and final time to win by a fourth round knockout. This was his first of many fights on HBO. The fight was ranked 100th in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Sporting Moments in 2002.

Kelley knocked out former WBA featherweight champion Derrick Gainer in 1996, a loss which Gainer later avenged via unanimous decision in 1998.

Loss to Bobby Pacquiao

Kelley was then outclassed and KO'd by Bobby Pacquiao. On September 28, 2006, Kelley met Carlos Hernández in the ring. In an upset victory, Kelly put on his best performance in years, dropping Hernandez in the 4th round on route to a UD victory. Hernandez announced his retirement right after this fight.

Kelly was David Díaz's mandatory for the WBC Interim Lightweight Championship, but in his most recent bout, a close decision to former titleist Manuel Medina.

His current record is 60 wins, 10 losses, and two draws. He has 39 wins by knockout.

Outside the ring

While fighting, Kelley also has moonlighted as a color commentator, most notably for HBO. He was the lead on HBO's short lived KO Nation television show. The show served as a "hip hop" based boxing broadcast, and was hosted by Ed Lover.

See also

List of famous Puerto Ricans

Irish immigration to Puerto Rico

External links

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Name	Jesús Rafael Soto
Birthdate	June 05, 1923
Birthplace	Ciudad Bolívar
Deathdate	January 14, 2005
Deathplace	Paris
Nationality	Venezuelan
Training	Escuela de Artes Plasticas y Aplicadas
Movement	Kinetic and Op Art
Works	Penetrables

Jesús Rafael Soto (June 5, 1923 - January 14, 2005) was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist, a sculptor and a painter.

He was born in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. He began his artistic career as a boy painting cinema posters in his native city. He received his artistic training in Caracas. He directed the Escuela de Artes Plasticas in Maracaibo from 1947 to 1950, when he left for Paris and began associating with Yaacov Agam, Jean Tinguely, Victor Vasarely, and other artists connected with the Salon des Realités Nouvelles and the Galerie Denise René.

Soto has created penetrables, interactive sculptures which consist of square arrays of thin, dangling tubes through which observers can walk. It has been said of Soto's art that it is inseparable from the viewer; it can only stand completed in the illusion perceived by the mind as a result of observing the piece.

From 1970 until the early 1990s, Soto's works appeared in places such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, as well as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. In 1973, the Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art opened in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela with a collection of his work - a large number of the exhibits are wired to the electricity supply so that they can move. The Venezuelan architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva designed the building for the museum and the Italian op artist Getulio Alviani was called to direct it.

Some of Soto's work adorns the ceiling of the main hall of Caracas' arts centre, the Teatro Teresa Carreño.

Jesús Rafael Soto died in 2005 in Paris, and is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse.

References

External links

Artist's Official Website

Mike-Art-Kunst Gallery, Belgian Commercial Site

Category:People from Ciudad Bolívar Category:Modern artists Category:Venezuelan sculptors Category:Modern sculptors Category:Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery Category:1923 births Category:2005 deaths

Name	Jean Pascal
Realname	Jean-Thenistor Pascal
Weight	Light Middleweight (Amateur) Super Middleweight Light Heavyweight (Current)
Height
Reach	72"
Nationality	Canadian
Birth date	October 28, 1982
Birth place	Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Home	Laval, Quebec, Canada
Style	Orthodox
Total	28
Wins	26
Ko	16
Loss	1
Draw	1
No contests	0}}

Jean-Thenistor Pascal (born October 28, 1982 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a professional boxer and the current WBC, IBO and Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight Champion.

Early life

When Pascal was 4, his mother (a nurse) and older brother (Nicholson Poulard) left Haiti for a better life and education. They settled in Laval, Quebec, just outside of Montreal. His father, a well-respected politician, remained in Haiti. Pascal played hockey and football, but watching his older brother become the Quebec boxing champion in 1996—Pascal, at 13 years of age, started to visit boxing gym "Club Champions St-Michel" once or twice every week. His first trainer was Sylvain Gagnon, who considered Pascal to be very talented. According to an interview from May 2005, Pascal's idol was Roy Jones Jr..

Professional career

Super middleweight

Pascal made his professional debut on February 3, 2005, defeating Justin Hahn by second round technical knockout. After nine professional fights Pascal fought for the Canada National Super Middleweight title and the Quebec boxing Council (CQB) title in a national bout against Martin Desjardins, Winning the fight by KO 7. After two more fights Pascal bagged the TAB (Trans America Boxing) super middleweight title against Darnell Boone in his first ten round contest. Soon after Pascal fought Lucas Green Arias on September 30, 2006, at the Montreal Casino. The fight was for the vacant WBC Latino super middleweight title. Pascal sent him to the canvas with a flurry of punches in the sixth round. Arias got up for the final second of the round, but moments later slid off the stool in his corner, vigorously rubbing his head. He was unable to get up for the seventh round, making Pascal the winner. He was given oxygen in the ring and then was taken to the hospital on a stretcher. It was revealed that he suffered a subdural hematoma.

On November 18, 2006, Pascal defeated Jermain Mackey by unanimous decision to win the WBO NABO super middleweight title. Pascal then defeated Lafarrell Bunteng by unanimous decision on March 10, 2007, Defending the NABO belt.

With his win over Bunteng, Pascal fought for the NABO, NABA, and NABF national championships against Christian Cruz. This win solidified his reputation at the national level. After defeating Christian Cruz by technical knockout in the tenth round, Pascal fought former world title challenger Kingsley Ikeke on August 3, 2007. Pascal dominated Ikeke and won by unanimous decision. Later that year, he defeated Esteban Camou and Brian Norman.

His next fight took place on January 11, 2008 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida against Omar Pittman. Pascal dropped Pittman with a left hook in round two and was in control for the first six rounds, but Pittman managed to hurt Pascal in rounds seven and eight. Pascal came back strong in the last two rounds and won by unanimous decision. After the fight with Pittman, Pascal got in a verbal conflict with Edison Miranda. There were brief talks of a possible fight between Pascal and Miranda for the summer of 2008 but it quickly fell apart.

Pascal fought for the vacant WBC Super Middleweight title on December 6, 2008 at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham, England against unbeaten British fighter and top contender Carl Froch. Pascal held his own, with both men consistently tagging each other throughout the bout. In the end he was outpointed in a close exciting contest. The scorecards read 112-116 |111-117 | 110-118. Froch went on to defeat world class Jermain Taylor and top contender Andre Dirrell. After that fight Pascal fought Pablo Daniel Zamora Nievas on April 4, 2009 and won the fight by knockout in the fifth round.

Light heavyweight

After losing to Carl Froch and jumping back after knocking out Pablo Daniel Zamora Nievas, Pascal decided to go up in weight and fight as a light heavyweight.

He then went onto win the WBC light heavyweight title from Adrian Diaconu on June 19, 2009 at the Bell Centre in Montreal. About two months after the fight on August 12, 2009 the city of Laval honored Pascal.

Pascal defended his newly crowned WBC light heavyweight title for the first time on September 25, 2009 against the WBC mandatory opponent, aged Italian veteran Silvio Branco. Pascal won the fight by a 10th round TKO. After knocking Branco down once in round 7 and twice in round 10.

Pascal's second title defense came on December 11, 2009 in a rematch against Adrian Diaconu. Just like the first fight against Diaconu the fight ended in another win by decision. Throughout the fight Pascal seemed to be having problems with his right arm, starting around round 5. However it did appear that his cutman was able to pop the shoulder back in before the start of round 11. Five days after the fight on December 16, 2009 Pascal went under arthroscopic surgery for his right shoulder. Doctors removed a bone chip and repaired the labrum in his shoulder.

At the end of 2009, Ring Magazine rated Pascal as the 65th best boxer in the world as part of their yearly Top One Hundred Boxers ranking. This was the first time Pascal had been featured on the list.

In June 2010, Pascal re-signed a major multi-million dollar contract with promoter Groupe Yvon Michel. In which he was guaranteed $1,050,000 to defend his WBC light heavyweight title against Chad Dawson. As well as a another $1,500,000 guaranteed in the fight following Dawson, which happened to be Bernard Hopkins. The contract is the most lucrative ever given out to a boxer in Quebec boxing history. Pascal has become the first Canadian boxer to receive more than a million dollars for a fight in Canada.

For Pascal's third title defense he fought, Chad Dawson for his WBC light heavyweight title, Dawson's IBO light heavyweight title, and Ring Magazine's vacant light heavyweight title. Pascal dominated the early action and worked well in the middle rounds but seemed to tire late and get frequently caught by the favored Dawson. Pascal won the fight by a technical decision part way through the eleventh round due to a accidental headbut that caused a major cut over Dawson's right eye and was stopped by the ring side doctor. However Pascal easily won the fight according to the judge's scorecards with scores of 108-101 and 106-103.

Following Pascal's upset of Chad Dawson, 45-year old Bernard Hopkins was soon named his next opponent for him to defend his WBC, IBO, and Ring Magazine light heavyweight titles. Within the first 48 hours of tickets being on sale for Pascal/Hopkins more than 15,000 tickets were sold. In preparation for the fight Pascal spent forty days training in Miami.

The fight took place at the Colisée Pepsi in Quebec City on December 18, 2010. Pascal started strong in the fight, scoring two knockdowns in the first three rounds. One knockdown in the first round, which was disputed by Hopkins as a illegal blow to the back of the head and another knockdown in the third round. However following the early rounds, the two fighters each held their own. However only to have the fight end in a controversial majority draw.

At the end of 2010, Ring Magazine rated Pascal as the 14th best boxer in the world as part of their yearly Top One Hundred Boxers ranking. Pascal moved up fifty one places on the list, compared to his 2009 ranking of 65. The jump in the rankings was directly attributed to Pascal's upset of Chad Dawson, since the list came out before Pascal fought Bernard Hopkins.

Upcoming fights and future

Following the controversial majority draw of Pascal/Hopkins in December 2010. Hopkins expressed a number of mixed emotions following the fight, the most noted of which was frustration. Hopkins, who had refused to fight outside of the United States since 1994, felt there was a judging bias based on the fight being held in Quebec, Canada. As well as a discrimination of his age.

:Hopkins later criticized Pascal's performance, claiming that Pascal took more damage during the fight and that he clinched frequently. However when Hopkins was asked about a potential rematch, he was hesitant to answer, only to claim that he was "too dangerous for anybody" and then went on to complain that GYM promotions was dragging the fight out to make him older so that he would lose.

:However, Pascal defended his performance, by noting his two knockdowns he scored early in the fight and defending the legitimacy of the judges. Pascal then expressed that he was unsatisfied with the decision and preferred to have won the fight rather then settle with a draw. When asked about a potential rematch he responded, "If he wants a rematch, anytime". However it should be noted that Pascal will likely have to commit to a rematch with Chad Dawson from their August 2010 fight, in which there was a contractual agreement for a rematch.

Immediately following Pascal's win over Chad Dawson in August 2010, Dawson expressed a desire to have a rematch according to a rematch clause in the agreed fight contract, however according to this clause Dawson does not have to be the next person to have to fight Pascal.

Following Pascal/Dawson the commentators of HBO World Championship Boxing who televised the fight speculated about a possible match up between Pascal and Lucian Bute, claiming that it has the chance of being the biggest fight between two Canadians on Canadian soil. However as of September 2010 the fight is unlikely to happen, due to Bute having no interest in moving up in weight from super middleweight to light heavyweight and Pascal has stated that he feels no need to "chase" Bute. However it was not until a report in March 2010 that Froch admitted to making a verbal agreement to fight Pascal again as soon as the Super Six tournament is over in 2011. As Froch says he has plans to move up to the light heavyweight division. According to Froch, "...We have had a handshake on it that we would fight each other. He wants to get the blemish off his record and I said I would give him the chance to do it. I will step up and fight him for the world title."

Titles

WBC Light Heavyweight World Champion (June 19, 2009–Present)

* Won title from Adrian Diaconu on June 19, 2009.

* First defense was against Silvio Branco on September 25, 2009.

* Second defense was against Adrian Diaconu on December 11, 2009.

* Third defense was against Chad Dawson on August 14, 2010.

* Fourth defense was against Bernard Hopkins on December 18, 2010.

IBO Light Heavyweight World Champion (August 14, 2010-Present)

* Won title from Chad Dawson on August 14, 2010.

* First defense was against Bernard Hopkins on December 18, 2010.

Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Champion (August 14, 2010-Present)

* Won the vacant title over Chad Dawson on August 14, 2010.

* First defense was against Bernard Hopkins on December 18, 2010.

WBO Inter-Continental Super Middleweight Champion (2009)

NABO, NABA, NABF Super Middleweight Champion (2006–2008)

WBC Latino Super Middleweight Champion (2006–2007)

Trans-American Boxing Super Middleweight Champion (2005–2007)

Canadian and Quebec Super Middleweight Champion (2005–2006)

Bronze medalist at the 2003 Pan American Games

Gold medalist at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

Boxer of the Year in Canada (2001–2003)

Professional record

|- | style="text-align:center;" colspan="8"|26 Wins (16 knockouts, 10 decisions), 1 Loss (1 by decision), 1 Draw |- style="text-align:center; background:#e3e3e3;" | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Res. | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Record | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Opponent | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Type | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Rd., Time | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Date | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Location | style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Notes |- align=center | |26-1-1 |align=left| Bernard Hopkins | - || - |2011 || |align=left| |- align=center In a rematch due to the controversial draw, Fifth defence of WBC, IBO & The Ring Magazine light heavyweight title. |style="background:#dae2f1;"|Draw |26-1-1 |align=left| Bernard Hopkins |MD|| 12 |2010-12-18 || align=left| Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |26-1 |align=left| Chad Dawson | TD || 11 |2010-08-14 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |25-1 |align=left| Adrian Diaconu | UD || 12 |2009-12-11 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |24-1 |align=left| Silvio Branco |TKO || 10 , 2:19 |2009-09-25 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |23-1 |align=left| Adrian Diaconu |UD || 12 |2009-06-19 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |22-1 |align=left| Pablo Daniel Zamora Nievas |KO || 5 , 0:42 |2009-04-04 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Loss |21-1 |align=left| Carl Froch |UD || 12 |2008-12-06 || align=left| Nottingham, United Kingdom |align=left| |- align=center |Win |21-0 |align=left| Omar Pittman |UD || 10 |2008-01-11 || align=left| Hollywood, Florida, USA |align=left| |- align=center |Win |20-0 |align=left| Brian Norman |UD || 10 |2007-12-07 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |19-0 |align=left| Esteban Camou |KO || 3 , 2:37 |2007-10-06 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |18-0 |align=left| Kingsley Ikeke |UD || 12 |2007-08-03 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |17-0 |align=left| Christian Cruz |TKO || 10 , 2:00 |2007-06-08 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |16-0 |align=left| Lafarrell Bunting |UD || 12 |2007-03-10 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |15-0 |align=left| Jermain Mackey |UD || 12 |2006-11-18 || align=left| Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |14-0 |align=left| Lucas Green Arias |TKO || 6 , 3:00 |2006-09-30 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |13-0 |align=left| Darnell Boone |UD || 10 |2006-06-23 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |12-0 |align=left| Melroy Corbin |TKO || 5 , 2:37 |2006-03-11 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |11-0 |align=left| Eric Howard |TKO || 2 , 2:30 |2006-02-25 || align=left| Gatineau, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |10-0 |align=left| Martin Desjardins |TKO || 7 , 2:16 |2005-12-10 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |9-0 |align=left| Gerardo Soria |TKO || 4 , 2:36 |2005-11-19 || align=left| Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |8-0 |align=left| James Crawford |TKO || 3 , 1:47 |2005-10-29 || align=left| Gatineau, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |7-0 |align=left| Jesse Sanders |KO || 1 , 1:45 |2005-10-15 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |6-0 |align=left| Ricardo Kellman |TKO || 2 , 2:50 |2005-09-10 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |5-0 |align=left| Homer Gibbins |TKO || 2 , 1:45 |2005-07-13 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |4-0 |align=left| Donnie Pendelton |TKO || 2 , 3:00 |2005-06-18 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |3-0 |align=left| Eddie O'Neal |UD || 4 |2005-03-03 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |2-0 |align=left| Jesse Londo |KO || 1 , 0:50 |2005-02-12 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left| |- align=center |Win |1-0 |align=left| Justin Hahn |TKO || 2 , 2:17 |2005-02-03 || align=left| Montreal, Quebec, Canada |align=left|

References

External links

The 9th of august 2010, www.jeanpascalboxing.com Jean Pascal's official revamp website came out (English, French)

bio -- file interview with Jean Pascal

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Category:1982 births Category:Canadian boxers Category:Haitian boxers Category:Living people Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada Category:Super-middleweights Category:People from Laval, Quebec Category:Boxers at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Category:Boxers at the 2003 Pan American Games