Please lock.

Always sucks to read that Cunningham is still going through this
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a personal favorite and I know Crooks loves the guy.

Cunningham fighting for daughter's life.
When heavyweight Steve Cunningham faced Amir Mansour and defeated him by 10-round decision -- after getting knocked down twice in the fifth round -- in a terrific slugfest in April, the former cruiserweight titlist made no secret about the reason he continues to fight.

His family is dealing with the mounting medical bills for his 8-year-old daughter, Kennedy, who has a serious heart ailment.

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Steve Cunningham's 8-year-old daughter, Kennedy, needs a heart transplant.
The little girl was ringside for the fight and had a big smile on her face when Cunningham was announced the winner. But given her grave condition, smiles have been hard to come by.

She needs a heart transplant to give her a chance to survive a condition known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome, in which the left side of her heart has not completely developed.

Around the time of Cunningham’s fight with Mansour, the family received word that Kennedy, who had open heart surgery when she was 2 days old, another one six months later and spent the first year of her life in the hospital, was not a candidate for a heart transplant.

Despite numerous medical issues, she is closing in on her ninth birthday, a feat in itself. Doctors in her hometown of Philadelphia told Cunningham and his wife, Livvy, that the best they could do was give Kennedy medication to help her heart function, but that eventually it would give out and she would die.

“I was so completely heartbroken the day her doctor sat me down and gave me the news," Livvy Cunningham said. “My world collapsed. I cried for three days straight while I tried to wrap my head around the news and tried to figure out how to live without the hope of a beautiful future for our beautiful daughter. Tried to picture our lives without her. I just couldn't, it was impossible."

At that point, the Cunninghams sought a second opinion. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh agreed to evaluate her and last month accepted her into its program and put her on the list for a transplant.

"I'll never forget the day I got the call from my wife with the news (that she wasn’t a transplant candidate),” Cunningham said. “I broke down like never before. I lost it. I was in the middle of my training camp for a must-win fight. People close to me told me I should pull out of the fight, that it was too much for me.

“But I knew that I had to fight for Kennedy. She has been through so many battles in her life and has never once given up and I was not going to let her see her father quit. I turned my sadness and fear into determination and on fight night, I had to dig deep. But it was that determination that got me up off the canvas twice to win. We will never give up on Kennedy and are so blessed and excited that the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh has agreed to take her on and list her.”

The Cunninghams will take Kennedy to the hospital in Pittsburgh one or two times a month for checkups while they await a call telling them that there is an available heart. If that call comes, they’ll have four hours to get her to the hospital.

The bills are a hardship for the Cunninghams and they have set up a fund to help them cover the costs of her medical care. So far they have raised a little more than $7,000 of what they hope will be $25,000. To donate, you can go to http://www.heartbyfaith.com/.
Heartbreaking story.  I hope his daughter can get the heart transplant.  Sending well-wishes their way.
 
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with Garcia, broner, matthyse, porter all fighting before the mayweather card, do they have anybody to have as a great undercard again?
 
 
Wait what? What's this mean?
Have they NOT been licensed there?
I'm confused. I don't get it
They always "co-promoted" with GBP because they didn't have a promoting license to do it themselves. They operated under the false notion that they were an actual boxing promotion company.
Ok that makes sense. Man, for Floyd to be as "MADE" as he is, or thinks he is, I never would've thought this could be the case.

Damn
 
 
Mayweather Promotions officially licensed in Nevada
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Wait what? What's this mean?
Have they NOT been licensed there?
I'm confused. I don't get it
It's funny how I can tolerate you here but not in the NBA thread
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Here you go http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/11254041/mayweather-promotions-granted-promoters-license
Yea that's crazy right.

Some people just bring out the worst in me, Nothing I'm proud of, but I own it all the same.

Repped up on the link. 

You too lightweight champ
 
with Garcia, broner, matthyse, porter all fighting before the mayweather card, do they have anybody to have as a great undercard again?

I'm thinking they're going to load it up with Mexican fighters like the Canelo vs Lara fight since it's Mexican Independence weekend .. Hopefully that's not the case but who else is out there? Thurman?
 
Canelo isn't fighting again so soon in September I heard he's fighting in November.

Who are Broner and Matthysse fighting?
 
Broner was going to fight Emmanuel Taylor on September 6th, but thankfully that fight fell through.  No word on potential opponents for Lucas yet.
 
So will this be the first promotion to ban puncher's gloves or will that only be for the champ's fights?
 
I like Ellerbe's hustle.
Outside of his heavy Chapstick usage, nothing's really irked me about the guy
 
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