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Baby-faced Assassin (other)
Baby-faced Assassin may refer to: Sports Combat sports *Josh Barnett, American heavyweight mixed martial arts fighter and professional wrestler *Marco Antonio Barrera, seven-time world champion boxer *Paul Butler (boxer), British professional boxer *Shannon Courtenay, British professional boxer *Jimmy McLarnin, two-time welterweight boxing champion *Daniel Roman (boxer), professional boxer *Johnny Tapia (1967–2012), boxer Other sports *Bill Corbus (1911–1998), American football player *Stephen Curry, American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors *Karim Abdel Gawad, Egyptian squash player *Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player *Endicott Peabody, known as Chub Peabody, Harvard footballer and later politician *Guro Reiten, Norwegian footballer *Wayne Rooney, English former football player *Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian former footballer Others *Endicott Peabody, known as Chub Peabody, Harvard footballer and later politician [Baidu] |
Josh Barnett
Joshua Lawrence Barnett (born November 10, 1977) is an American mixed martial artist, submission grappler, professional wrestler and color commentator currently signed to Bellator MMA, where he competes in their Heavyweight division. Barnett previously competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he was the youngest ever UFC Heavyweight Champion. In 2003, Barnett was the final Openweight King Of Pancrase and was a finalist in both the 2006 PRIDE Openweight Grand Prix and the 2012 Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship Grand Prix. He has also competed in Affliction, World Victory Road, DREAM and Impact FC. In Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Barnett was the World No-Gi Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Champion in 2009 and won the inaugural Metamoris Heavyweight Championship in 2014. As a professional wrestler, Barnett made his in-ring debut in 2003 in the main event of New Japan Pro-Wrestling's annual January 4 Tokyo Dome Show, in a bout against IWGP Heavyweight Champion Yuj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Antonio Barrera
Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia (born January 17, 1974) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2011. He held multiple world championships in three weight classes, including the WBO junior featherweight title twice between 1995 and 2001, the '' Ring'' magazine, the lineal and the WBC featherweight titles between 2001 and 2003, and the unified WBC and IBF super featherweight titles between 2004 and 2007. Barrera is well known for his trilogy with fellow Mexican legend Érik Morales, his duology with Manny Pacquiao, and his rivalry with Naseem Hamed and Juan Manuel Márquez. BoxRec currently ranks him No.89 in its ranking of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all time. ESPN ranked Barrera as number 43 on their list of the 50 greatest boxers of all time. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2017. Amateur career As an amateur, Barrera had a record of 104–4 and was a five-time Mexican national champion. Before losing his fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Butler (boxer)
Paul Butler (born 11 November 1988) is an English professional boxer and two-time bantamweight world champion, having held the IBF title in 2014 and the WBO title in 2022. He also held multiple regional titles, including the British and Commonwealth super-flyweight titles in 2012 and 2013, respectively. Amateur career Butler won the 2010 Amateur Boxing Association British flyweight title, when boxing out of the Vauxhall Motors ABC. Professional career Career beginnings Early career Butler made his professional debut against Anwar Alfadi on 11 December 2010. He won the fight on points, after four rounds were contested. Butler amassed an 8–0 record during the next 23 months, with three of those victories coming by way of stoppage. Butler faced John Donnelly for the vacant British super-flyweight title on 9 November 2012 at the Liverpool Olympia in Liverpool, England. Butler won the BoxNation broadcast bout by a first–round knockout. He floored Donnelly with a strike ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon Courtenay
Shannon Courtenay (born 3 July 1993) is a British professional boxer who held the WBA female bantamweight title between April and October 2021. Professional career Courtenay made her professional debut on 23 March 2019, scoring a four-round points decision (PTS) victory over Cristina Busuioc at the Copper Box Arena in London. The fight was televised live on Sky Sports as part of the undercard for Charlie Edwards' world title defense against Angel Moreno. One month later she defeated Roz Mari Silyanova via four-round points decision on 23 April. The fight was streamed live on Sky Sports' Facebook page as part of the preliminary undercard for Dave Allen vs. Lucas Browne at The O2 Arena, London. In June, she stopped Valerija Sepetovska by technical knockout (TKO) at 1 minute 16 seconds in the second-round of a scheduled six-round bout held at the York Hall. Her next fight was a four-round points win over Jasmina Nad on 26 October as part of the undercard for the Josh Taylor vs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy McLarnin
James Archibald McLarnin (19 December 1907 – 28 October 2004) was an Irish professional boxer who became a two-time welterweight world champion and an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee. McLarnin has been referred to as the greatest Irish boxer of all time. BoxRec ranks McLarnin as the fourth-best pound-for-pound fighter of all-time, the greatest Canadian boxer of all time, and the second greatest welterweight of all time. Background There was often confusion over McLarnin's exact place of birth and his date of birth. McLarnin himself was unsure as to the exact location and at various times claimed to be born in Inchicore, Dublin, in modern-day Ireland, or the Lisburn Road in Belfast, Ireland, modern day Northern Ireland. Adding to the confusion he went by nicknames the ''Dublin Destroyer'' and ''Belfast Spider''. It was Irish boxing historian Patrick Myler who later unearthed McLarnin's birth certificate which showed that McLarnin was born in Hillsborough, County Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Roman (boxer)
Daniel "Danny" Roman (born May 10, 1990) is an American former professional boxer. He is a former unified super bantamweight champion, having held the WBA (Unified), and IBF titles from 2019 to 2020, and previously the WBA (Regular) title from 2017 to 2019. As of June 2022, Roman is ranked as the world's fourth-best active super bantamweight by ''The Ring'' and the Transnational Boxing Ratings Board. Professional career Early career Roman made his professional debut against Christian Cruz on October 8, 2010. He won the fight by a first-round technical knockout. Roman amassed a 15-2-1 record during the next five years, with five stoppage victories, before being scheduled to fight Daniel Noriega for the vacant WBA- NABA super bantamweight title on July 24, 2015. He won the fight by unanimous decision. Roman made his first title defense against Erik Ruiz on September 25, 2015. He won the fight by unanimous decision. Roman made his second title defense against Ramiro Robles on Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Tapia
John Lee Anthony Tapia (February 13, 1967 – May 27, 2012) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2011. He held multiple world championships in three weight classes, including the unified IBF and WBO super flyweight titles between 1994 and 1998, the unified WBA and WBO bantamweight titles between 1998 and 2000, and the IBF featherweight title in 2002. His 1999 loss by decision to Paulie Ayala was named the Fight of the Year by '' The Ring'' magazine. Tapia was inducted during 2017, posthumously, to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Early life Tapia was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Mexican American parents. His father had reportedly been murdered while his mother was pregnant with him. When he was eight years old, his mother, Virginia, was kidnapped, raped, repeatedly stabbed, and left for dead by her assailant. Raised thereafter by his grandmother, Tapia turned to boxing at the age of nine. Amateur career Tapia had an outstanding amateur ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Corbus
William Corbus (October 5, 1911 – January 8, 1998) was an American football guard who played for Stanford University. College career Nicknamed ''The Baby-Faced Assassin'' due to his youthful appearance and athletic ferocity, Corbus, who acted as placekicker as well as offensive lineman, was Stanford's first two-time All-American in 1932 and 1933. In 1933, Corbus kicked two late field goals to defeat USC 13-7, helping to fulfill a promise made by his teammates from the class of 1936—a group known as the Vow Boys—to never again lose to USC. That year, Corbus helped Stanford the first of three straight Rose Bowls before graduating as an honor student and student body president. After football Corbus played in the era before the NFL draft, and did not continue in professional football. He worked for the A&P grocery store chain, retiring as vice-chairman in 1977. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1957 and is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Curry
Wardell Stephen Curry II ( ; born March 14, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, and as the greatest shooter in NBA history, Curry is credited with revolutionizing the sport by inspiring teams and players to take more three-point shots. An eight-time NBA All-Star and eight-time All-NBA selection, including four times on the first team, he has been named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) twice, has won four NBA championships, and received an NBA Finals MVP Award and an NBA All-Star Game MVP Award. Curry is the son of former NBA player Dell Curry and the older brother of current NBA player Seth Curry. He played college basketball for the Davidson Wildcats, where he set career scoring records for Davidson and the Southern Conference, was twice named conference player of the year, and set the single-season NCAA r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karim Abdel Gawad
Karim Abdel Gawad (born July 30, 1991, in Alexandria) is a professional squash player who has represented Egypt. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 1 in May 2017. In November 2016, he won the 2016 World Open Squash Championship in Cairo in Egypt against Ramy Ashour. He became the third Egyptian to win the World Championship after Amr Shabana and Ramy Ashour. World Open final appearances 1 title & 0 runner-up Major World Series final appearances Qatar Classic: 1 finals (1 title, 0 runner-up) Hong Kong Open: 1 finals (0 title, 1 runner-up) Al-Ahram International The Al-Ahram International is a men's squash tournament held in the Giza Plateau just in front of the pyramids in Cairo, Egypt. It is part of the PSA Super Series The PSA World Series (formerly known as the PSA Super Series) was a series of men' ...: 1 final (1 title, 0 runner-up) References External links * * 1991 births Living people Egyptian male squash players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fergal O'Brien
Fergal O'Brien (born 8 March 1972) is an Irish professional snooker player who plays on the main professional tour since 1991. Ranked within the world's top 64 players from 1994 to 2022, he has reached his highest position of 9th in the 2000–01 season. He has won one ranking title, the 1999 British Open, defeating Anthony Hamilton 9–7 in the final. He has reached two other major finals, notably the 2001 Masters, where he lost 9–10 to Paul Hunter. O'Brien was relegated from the professional tour after losing to 15-year-old Welsh amateur Liam Davies in the 2022 World Snooker Championship qualifying rounds. However, he regained his professional status immediately by coming through Event 1 of Q School. Career O'Brien is, along with Yan Bingtao, one of only two players to score a century in their first frame at the World Championships in the Crucible, which he achieved against Alan McManus in 1994 (though he lost the match 10–7 and did not qualify again until 1998). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endicott Peabody
Endicott Howard Peabody (February 15, 1920 – December 2, 1997) was an American politician from Massachusetts. A Democrat, he served a single two-year term as the 62nd Governor of Massachusetts, from 1963 to 1965. His tenure is probably best known for his categorical opposition to the death penalty and for signing into law the bill establishing the University of Massachusetts Boston. After losing the 1964 Democratic gubernatorial primary, Peabody made several more failed bids for office in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, including failed campaigns for the U.S. Senate in 1966 and 1986. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts to a family with deep colonial roots, Peabody played college football at Harvard University, where he earned honors as an All-American lineman. He served in the United States Navy in World War II before embarking on a political career noted more for its failures than its successes. He made multiple unsuccessful attempts to win the position of Mass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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