The Official FREE JAMES KIRKLAND Thread

Hmm so most athlets want to be thugs but they know better:huh

I agree with you that thugness is a sign of the end times. ..."they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." Romans 1:21-32 but illegally carrying a firearm is not evil especially compared with what Vick did and its not the dog fights but the other neglect and torture that he committed. bannishing Firearms is only going to empower the the evil forces and the evil ones either conciously or unconsciously know this.

Again I think only Floyd tries to be a thug and Oscar's evil Dr. Sheaffer is the sneakiest thug in all of boxing and I even can imagine him doing dastardly things to boxer's suits as they sleep at the MGM Grand and making sure the refs, judges and the abc thugs have every imaginable treat, while millions of fans and some poor warrior takes the heat.

 

With "fighters" like Floyd, Guzman, Calderon ect, theres a need for fighters like Kirkland give him another chance.

 

People serving time for doing the same thing as him though, just because hes a prize fighter... he should get a free pass? Lets say anyone of you was in jail for the same **** as kirkland.... And he got out of it just cuz he was a fighter, and your still doing a bid because your not? You guys would be down for that??? ****ing clowns

 

I just came across these two crazy pieces. Looks like Anne Wolf pissed off the cops on live T.V. and her gym is full of troubled minds. That gym need prayers and donations and Satan wants to sift it.


http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=134527
“Has anyone seen this? I just watched it. At one point she is driving a Toyota pickup truck and Kirkland is jogging with another boxer in front of the truck. Here she gets pulled over because the other boxer stole the truck and let her drive it. Wolf started freaking out. It is hilarious....... I personally love Wolf and Kirkland.
Im not sure if it was a DWB or not. The cop asked Wolfe if she knew that she was driving a stolen vehicle and her response was "**** no" then she looked at the HBO cameras and said keep that film rolling these cops like to beat people. The other part that made me laugh was that James Kirkland was across the road and he kept trying to walk over towards Ann and she would be like stay on that side of the ****in road James dont come over here and he would get all mad.

It was a great piece and very funny.”


Ann Wolfe keeps fighting, but the streets are winning.

http://www.wbcboxing.com/WBCboxing/...docId=2284&docTipo=9&orderby=docid&sortby=ASC
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Boxer-turned-trainer Ann Wolfe lost only one fight in her professional career. But her latest foe has floored several of her pupils — and keeps throwing punches.
Wolfe is battling to help her boxers beat the streets.
And the streets have the upper hand right now
A visit this week to her gym near the airport showed Wolfe in the role of mother hen surrounded by about 30 gym members, ages 3 to 45. Gospel music was blaring from two large speakers as Wolfe led her unlikely dance troupe through number after number. It was cardio day at Ann Wolfe Boxing and Fitness, and it felt like 100 degrees in that sweatbox.
"You should be here when we turn the heater on,'' she said.”That will get you in shape real quick."
Afterward, she helped to load a few youngsters into a dilapidated old van, which her mentor Pops Billingsley drives to take them home.
It's the usual routine for Wolfe, who is working on a shoestring budget to keep her gym afloat. While her resolve can't be questioned, Wolfe admits to the frustrations that come with trying to do a difficult job under even more difficult circumstances.
That point was illustrated on national television last month when HBO's "Real Sports" visited Austin to film Wolfe preparing her prized pupil James Kirkland for an upcoming bout. All seemed to be going well until Travis County sheriff's officers pulled up and placed Wolfe and one of her boxers, Isaiah Nash, in handcuffs.
It turns out Nash was driving a stolen truck.
"I try to help these (expletive) kids and this (expletive) happens," she yelled as the cameras rolled.
It turned out to be a real source of embarrassment and frustration for Wolfe, who hasn't had any trouble with the law since serving time in prison in Florida during her teen years for drug dealing.
To know Wolfe is to respect where she is after looking into the rearview mirror of her life. Abused as a child. Prison. The murder of her father in a drug deal. A stint in prison. Illiteracy. Life as a homeless mother.
Now she wants to help those who have gone through similar issues. Wolfe believes she was put on the planet to help disadvantaged kids become productive citizens but hasn't gotten the assistance she needs to make any real headway.
That may be changing, thanks to Travis County Sheriff Greg Hamilton.
When Hamilton heard that Wolfe had been detained by his officers — she was later uncuffed because she had nothing to do with the stolen vehicle — he thought back to Wolfe's speech to the Building Bridges Brick by Brick foundation, a local crime prevention council. He was asked whether, in light of the "Real Sports" fiasco, he still planned on helping her boxing club through proceeds from his department's annual charity basketball tournament — the Travis County Sheriff's Shoot-out June 12-14 at the Delco Center. "You damn right I am,'' was the answer.
"I admire Ann,'' the sheriff said. "Plus I have what they call a good bull monitor. She's real. That thing on HBO didn't change my feelings about her. She is working every day in that gym trying to help out kids who come to her with nothing. My department wants to do everything it can to assist her."
Wolfe had also hoped that her boxers would benefit from a new Police Activities League organized by Austin police and appealed to Chief Art Acevedo for help. But to Wolfe's chagrin, those resources went instead to the A.B. Cantu Pan American Recreation Center and not to her boxers. (Calls to Acevedo this week and last were not returned.)
Wolfe struggles to keep the gym open. A $1,100 check every month from Waco businessman Brian Pardo — the man who got her started in professional boxing — helps cover living expenses, but she has to come up with another $2,000 every month to pay rent for the gym and help keep the old van running. Wolfe said she earned 7.5 percent of Kirkland's purses, which amounted to $40,000, half of which went to gym expenses over the past year.
She is the first to admit that many of the people who walk into Ann Wolfe Boxing and Fitness are far from angelic. The rules are simple: No weapons. No profanity. No quit.
Some of the young ones show up hungry. No deodorant. No shoes. It's a refuge from a bad home life for some, a pathway to a boxing career for others.
"A lot these kids aren't normal, and a lot of them don't want to work," she said. "They grew up on the streets. The older ones don't want to wash dishes for seven bucks an hour when they know they can go out and sell drugs for 700 bucks in one day. The same thrill they get on the streets is the thrill they can get in boxing."
Wolfe has spent as much time in courtrooms and jailhouses than she has in the gym lately.
Her star student, Kirkland, rose quickly up the ranks to become the world's No. 1 contender at 154 pounds. That is, until he ran into an opponent who made his 25-0 record seem largely irrelevant. Himself.
Kirkland was set to earn $235,000 to fight Michael Walker on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton title match three weeks ago and would have fought Daniel Santos for more had he won. That was before he was charged with felony possession of a firearm. Career interrupted. His lawyer, Michael Miller, told me Kirkland could have earned millions in very little time had he played his cards right. Now he's in a federal facility in Seguin, facing another prison term.
Kirkland's childhood buddy Curtis Meeks — a Wolfe boxer who finished third in the National Golden Gloves at age 16 — is on trial for manslaughter after a man died when Meeks allegedly ran into him while behind the wheel of a car.
Nash's arrest in front of the cameras for the use of an unauthorized vehicle charge is the least of his problems. The 21-year-old was arrested on aggravated assault charges (a Class B felony) last month and is locked up in Travis County jail.
Another Gold Gloves boxer, 21-year-old Sir Lawrence Smith, was shot by an Austin police officer this month in the same high-profile confrontation that left 18-year-old Nathaniel Sanders II dead.
Former McCallum track star Kurtiss Colvin was acquitted of manslaughter but convicted of aggravated assault last October in connection with the beating death of David Morales at a Juneteenth celebration. Now out of jail, Colvin, a member of the Agape Boxing Gym, advanced to the national Golden Gloves in Salt Lake City earlier this month, losing in the quarterfinals of the 165-pound division.
While some are quick to dismiss them as common street thugs, Wolfe isn't turning her back on her students.
"I see what she is doing to help us and it makes me try harder,'' said 15-year-old Dante Webber, who dreams of becoming a professional boxer. "When I met her for the first time, from the look on her face, I could tell she meant business."
Wolfe hopes more kids like Webber will come. And she hopes she will be able to help steer in a positive direction. She's smart enough to realize sometimes you can't help kids who don't want to help themselves, but the ones who want to be helped are well worth saving. That invisible opponent will continue to throw punches and Wolfe has never been one to back down from a fight.