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  • Heavyweight Amir "Hardcore" Mansour Defeats Maurice Harris, Becomes #5 Heavyweight Boxer in U.S.

     

    Undefeated heavyweight boxer Amir "Hardcore" Mansour, the first boxer to train using GelDefender head pads, won a unanimous decision August 23 over Maurice Harris, improving his record to 19-0 (14 KO). The fight, which also was a defense of Mansour’s WBF Intercontinental title, was the feature of a nine-bout card at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in Dover, DE.

     

    The 12-round victory earned Mansour the USBA (United States Boxing Association, a division of the WBA) heavyweight title and an elimination fight for the WBF title at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in November. The winner of that elimination fight becomes the mandatory opponent for WBF heavyweight champ Carlos Takam for a title fight in January or February of 2014.

     

    This was the first time in his career that Mansour was pushed to fight a full 12 rounds, and only the second time that he needed to go the distance in a fight. The lengthy fight was made more difficult for Mansour due to a tough, veteran opponent and Mansour’s severe kidney inflammation and dehydration.

     

    With his win, his spot in the computer rankings jumped to No. 5 in the U.S., No. 6 in North America, and No. 19 in the world.

     

    *Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefenderTM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.

  • Issues Facing Boxing

    Some have speculated recently about the future of football, given recent head injury issues. So far, most seem to think that football will not be unseated from America’s sports throne and that, with better equipment and several rules changes, it’ll get through.

    But, according to a recent Reuters report, another sport could be in more imminent danger: boxing. In the words of Dr. Calvin Inalsingh, head of the World Boxing Association’s medical advisory committee, “Boxing is the only sport in which the objective is to render blows to the head and body of the opponent so as to cause the opponent to be incapacitated."

    It’s easier to alter football’s rules while keeping the goal of the game the same. Score touchdowns. Kick field goals. Keep the other team from scoring.

    In boxing, the goal is to hurt the opponent. Hard hits aren’t a means to an end; they are the end. And while violence is somewhat inherent in football, it’s doubly true that violence is the essence of boxing. Not senseless violence, but violence none-the-less.

    Boxing, like football, incorporates contact into its practices as well as its matches. Sparring sessions in boxing can lead to much head and body contact, even with pads that have been used for years in such practices.

    One boxer taking the next step with his equipment is undefeated heavyweight Amir Mansour. The Wilmington, Del., native recently became the first boxer to supplement traditional sparring head gear with the new GelDefender head pad.

     

    *Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefenderTM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.

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