Would be heir-apparent (of sorts) to Oscar De La Hoya, Victor Ortiz (24-2-1 with 19 knockouts) gets stopped in a stunning shocker by Marcos Maidana (26-1, 25 KOs) of Argentina at The Staples Center.
Victor Ortiz dropped Marcos Maidana in the first. Maidana gets up throws a beautiful one-two on the button and drops Vicious Ortiz hard.
Ortiz then dropped Maidana twice in the second round and appeared to be taking over.
However, Maidana refused to lose.
In round 5, a monster left hook by Maidana opened up a huge cut on Ortiz.
A overhand right thrown all the way from the streets of Buenos Aires to the beaches of Oxnard California landed right on the mug of Ortiz. Could be the punch of the year.
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Thomas Hearns/Juan Roldan boxing match Segment 5-round 4
His early work was a little too disco for my tastes, but when Off The Wall came out in ’79, I think he really came into their own, commercial and artistically.
The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost.
He’s been compared to Prince, but I think Michael has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humor…
In 1982 Michael released Thiller, his most accomplished album.
I think I his undisputed masterpiece is “Human Nature,” a song so catchy that most people probably don’t listen to the lyrics.
But they should because it’s not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends.
It’s a personal statement about the man itself.
Sabrina. Remove your dress.
I wonder where this guy got the idea for this video:
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Jackson is believed to have gone into cardiac arrest and paramedics performed CPR on him en route to UCLA hospital.
The website quoted family members as saying the Thriller singer was in “really bad shape.”
“We just got off the phone with Joe Jackson, Michael’s dad, who says ‘he is not doing well.” the website reported.
Jackson Five – ABC
Jackson was reportedly planning a comeback and was living in Los Angeles while rehearsing a series of 50 sold-out shows in London, the LATimes has reported.
Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics had rushed to the singer’s $100,00-a-month rented home near Sunset Boulevard to find him not breathing, the newspaper reported.
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Former mega-smuggler Jon Roberts, who flooded Miami with $2 billion worth of cocaine in the ’80s, naps away his days in a quiet lakefront Hollywood home. But soon, if what he says is true, a book, a high-octane movie, and videogame contracts will again make him a player. But he doesn’t want you to know this. He’s worried this article could spoil the publicity for his book deal. When I told him last week this story would be published, the craggy, gray-mustached ex-gangster vowed, “You will never write another word in this town again… I will go on TV and tell them everything in your article is bold-faced lies. I hope you get hit by a truck, you little scumbag.”
The outburst is in character with Roberts’s gangster-flick biography, which he described in an on-the-record interview before changing his mind about publication. It begins with a hardscrabble childhood, continues through an astronomic ascent, and concludes with the inevitable prison reckoning. What probably won’t make the official cut, however, is his post-incarceration life, which his ex-wife claims included snitching on friends for cash.
Roberts was born and raised in New York’s Little Italy in 1948. His Mafioso dad was deported when the future smuggler was still a kid, he says. His mother died during a medical operation when he was a young teen. “Everybody told me it was a hysterectomy,” he recalls. “I don’t believe that was true. I think she went into the hospital to have an abortion, which was illegal at the time.”
Cocaine Cowboys : John Roberts Fabulous Life
A budding violent criminal as a teenager, he bounced among relatives’ homes. His sister, who lived in Brunswick, Maine, booted him when he was around 16, he says, and he drove back to Mulberry Street, where he entered the family business. He worked as an enforcer for a loan-sharking uncle, he says, augmenting his income with two-bit capers. “This was the early ’60s — everybody was ‘love, peace, and hope,'” Roberts says. “So I’d tell some hippie I had 20 pounds of pot. He’d give me $10,000. I’d take the money and not give him any pot.”
After a failed kidnapping involving a debtor escaping from a basement “with a chair tied to him and no clothes on,” the adolescent mobster shipped off to Vietnam for five years. “I thought it was great,” he says. “There were no rules. You could kill people, do whatever you want.”
After an explosion in an ammunition dump, he was sent home with four screws and a metal plate in his head, he says. Back in New York, he began opening nightclubs — until the late ’70s, when one of his partners turned up dead after taking 11 bullets. Roberts headed to Miami. He explains simply: “I heard there was a lot of coke down here.”
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AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
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Drug dealer Hector Rodriguez Estrada had a feeling he was next.
His boss was beaten to death and dumped in an empty lot, his teeth and fingers missing. Then one of Rodriguez’s underlings turned up in a soccer field, his head next to his body.
Rodriguez, 30, knew his enemies could only get him if he was asleep or high. But the thought made the longtime addict, who sold methamphetamine in his eastern Tijuana neighborhood, more jittery than usual.
“He felt like something was about to happen,” said his mother, Maria de la Luz Estrada.
With good reason.
Much attention is given Mexican drug cartels warring over lucrative transport routes to the U.S. But more and more, they’re battling for an exploding number of Mexican consumers, a market that barely existed a decade ago. While the U.S. is expected to remain the largest and most-coveted market, local consumers are a big and rapidly growing source of cash.
That makes street dealers like Rodriguez prime targets for assassins. Low-level sellers are easy prey for rivals seeking to expand turf, because they work openly on street corners without bodyguards or armored cars.
Drug dealers account for many of the 10,800 people killed since Mexican President Felipe Calderon began a crackdown on cartels in 2006 – particularly in border cities where the battles are fiercest. In Tijuana, they fill at least 90 percent of the body bags, according to top law enforcement officials.
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AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK, Jr.
AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
AKA The Voodoo Child
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