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Tony McMinn

2019-06-17T14:52:22Z

Johnmcminn:

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Trained by his father [[Clarence McMinn]], McMinn first boxed competitively at age five, beginning a career that spanned two decades and over 150 amateur and professional fights. The Oklahoma-based boxer turned pro at 18 - while still in high school - after winning over 30 amateur tournaments, including numerous Golden Gloves and Silver Mittens competitions. As an amateur, McMinn compiled a record of 93-9 with 57 knockouts. As a professional, he won the Southern States Middleweight title. At the height of his career, Tony was ranked 16th in the world by the [[WBC]] and 12th in North America by the [[NABF]] and [[Ring Magazine]].

==Highlights==
*Began boxing at age 5
*Amateur record of 93-9 with 57 knockouts
*Fought in the 1974 Golden Gloves Nationals in Denver
*Fought in the 1975 AAU Nationals in Shreveport
*Fought in the 1976 Golden Gloves Nationals in Miami
*Fought [[Michael Spinks]], [[James Tillis]], [[Lee Roy Murphy]], [[Tony Chiaverini]], [[Mike Hallacy]], and [[Frankie Suarez]] as an amateur
*Turned professional in 1976 while still in high school, debuting in Topeka
*Professional record of 51-8 with 46 knockouts
*Ranked #16 by the [[WBC]] 1981-1982 and #12 by the [[NABF]] and [[Ring Magazine]]
*Fought future light heavyweight title challenger [[Jerry Celestine]]
*Fought 1976 Olympian [[Charles Walker]]
*Fought future [[WBC]] junior middleweight champion [[Duane Thomas]]
*Won the US Southern States Middleweight Championship
*Featured in an article in the [[Hank Kaplan's Boxing Digest: December 1981|December 1981]] issue of Hank Kaplan's Boxing Digest
*Boxed an exhibition match with his father [[Clarence McMinn]] on April 13th, 1990 at Memorial Hall, Carthage, Missouri. It was promoted as the "Brawl at the Hall."

=== External Link===
*[http://vimeo.com/9653710/| "Tony McMinn - The Irish Express"]

Tony McMinn

2019-02-06T17:20:59Z

Johnmcminn:

[[File:Tony McMinn.jpeg|left|250px]]<human>22086</human>
Trained by his father [[Clarence McMinn]], McMinn first boxed competitively at age five, beginning a career that spanned two decades and over 150 amateur and professional fights. The Oklahoma-based boxer turned pro at 18 - while still in high school - after winning over 30 amateur tournaments, including numerous Golden Gloves and Silver Mittens competitions. As an amateur, McMinn compiled a record of 93-9 with 57 knockouts. As a professional, he won the Southern States Middleweight title. At the height of his career, Tony was ranked 16th in the world by the [[WBC]] and 12th in North America by the [[NABF]] and [[Ring Magazine]].

==Highlights==
*Began boxing at age 5
*Amateur record of 93-9 with 57 knockouts
*Fought in the 1974 Golden Gloves Nationals in Denver
*Fought in the 1975 AAU Nationals in Shreveport
*Fought in the 1976 Golden Gloves Nationals in Miami
*Fought [[Michael Spinks]], [[James Tillis]], [[Lee Roy Murphy]], [[Tony Chiaverini]], and [[Frankie Suarez]] as an amateur
*Turned professional in 1976 while still in high school
*Professional record of 51-8 with 46 knockouts
*Ranked #16 by the [[WBC]] 1981-1982 and #12 by the [[NABF]] and [[Ring Magazine]]
*Fought future light heavyweight contender [[Jerry Celestine]]
*Fought 1976 Olympian [[Charles Walker]]
*Fought future [[WBC]] champion [[Duane Thomas]]
*Won the Southern States Middleweight Championship
*Featured in an article in the [[Hank Kaplan's Boxing Digest: December 1981|December 1981]] issue of Hank Kaplan's Boxing Digest

=== External Link===
*[http://vimeo.com/9653710/| "Tony McMinn - The Irish Express"]

Tony McMinn

2019-02-05T16:28:35Z

Johnmcminn:

[[File:Tony McMinn.jpeg|left|250px]]<human>22086</human>
Trained by his father [[Clarence McMinn]], McMinn first boxed competitively at age five, beginning a career that spanned two decades and over 150 amateur and professional fights. The Oklahoma-based boxer turned pro at 18 - while still in high school - after winning over 30 amateur tournaments, including numerous Golden Gloves and Silver Mittens competitions. As an amateur, McMinn compiled a record of 93-9 with 57 knockouts. As a professional, he won the Southern States Middleweight title. At the height of his career, Tony was ranked 16th in the world by the [[WBC]] and 12th in North America by the [[NABF]] and [[Ring Magazine]].

==Highlights==
*Began boxing at age 5
*Amateur record of 93-9 with 57 knockouts
*Fought in the 1974 Golden Gloves Nationals in Denver
*Fought in the 1975 AAU Nationals in Shreveport
*Fought in the 1976 Golden Gloves Nationals in Miami
*Fought [[Michael Spinks]], [[James Tillis]], [[Lee Roy Murphy]], [[Tony Chiaverini]], and [[Frankie Suarez]] as an amateur
*Turned professional in 1976 while still in high school
*Professional record of 51-8 with 46 knockouts
*Ranked #16 by the [[WBC]] 1981-1982 and #12 by the [[NABF]] and [[Ring Magazine]]
*Fought future light heavyweight contender [[Jerry Celestine]]
*Fought 1976 Olympian [[Charles Walker]]
*Fought future [[WBC]] champion [[Duane Thomas]]
*Won the Southern States Middleweight Championship

=== External Link===
*[http://vimeo.com/9653710/| "Tony McMinn - The Irish Express"]

Tony McMinn

2018-02-06T16:12:49Z

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Tony McMinn

2018-01-24T23:03:33Z

Johnmcminn:

Fight:2165606

2017-08-31T15:37:40Z

Johnmcminn: Created page with "<fight>2165606</fight> photo McMinn - the Irish Express - got the quick kayo, using a devastating left hook to the temple to deck Hu..."

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McMinn - the Irish Express - got the quick kayo, using a devastating left hook to the temple to deck Hunter at the 40 second mark of the second round.

"When you're out there, you don't think about anything...you're just trying to do your job," said McMinn, winning his first fight in nine years.

"Before the fight, I was thinking both ways. It would be nice to go out and end it with the first punch or in the first minute. But I was thinking I might need to go a few rounds to test myself. I know I can go the rounds because I'm in condition."

McMinn, running his pro record to 51-8 with 46 knockouts, had dropped Hunter in the first with a double left hook.

He managed to survive the count and the rest of the first, but the end was near.

Hunter bobbed out of the way of one second round punch by McMinn. That strategy proved disastrous.

As Hunter dropped his right, McMinn responded with the left hook to the head.

"It was just reflex," McMinn said. "I saw the opening, and man, it was there...right on the temple."

- The Miami News Record

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2017-08-31T15:31:19Z

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Fight:468852

2017-08-29T14:46:04Z

Johnmcminn: Created page with "<fight>468852</fight> "Tony McMinn of Quapaw, Okla., won his sixth straight knockout Tuesday night with a victory over Phillip Sotello, Fort Worth, Tex. Following three knock..."

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"Tony McMinn of Quapaw, Okla., won his sixth straight knockout Tuesday night with a victory over Phillip Sotello, Fort Worth, Tex. Following three knockdowns in the first round, McMinn delivered the knockout punch at 2:03 in the second round in the Middleweight Main Event at Ramada Inn Central." - The Lawton Constitution, 17 August 1977

Fight:468851

2017-08-29T14:22:20Z

Johnmcminn: Created page with "<fight>468851</fight> "Will the real Alfonso Aguirre please stand up. . .if he can? Alfonso Aguirre, according to a story out of Oklahoma City, was knocked out by Tony McMinn..."

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"Will the real Alfonso Aguirre please stand up. . .if he can? Alfonso Aguirre, according to a story out of Oklahoma City, was knocked out by Tony McMinn Tuesday might in the second round of a middleweight boxing match. But just 24 hours earlier, middleweight [[Tony Chiaverini]] also knocked out an Alfonso Aguirre during the third round of a bout in Topeka. Is Aguirre merely a glutton for punishment, a straight-A student in the school of hard knocks? Or were there two different fighters in Topeka and Oklahoma City on those nights?

Everyone seems to agree that Aguirre was kayoed by Chiaverini, an upcoming fighter from Shawnee, Kan. A year ago Chiaverini knocked out Alfonso's brother, Raoul. "I know Alfonso and I know Raoul," , said Peyton Sher, Chiaverini's manager. "I've seen them fight before. I know who Tony fought. He fought Alfonso Aguirre."

Blackie Ramon, who manages both of the Aguirres. out of San Antonio, says McMinn sent Raoul to the mat. "Raoul fought in Oklahoma City last (Tuesday) night," Ramon muttered after being awakened by a reporter's telephone call. "You got me out of the sack for that?"

But Alfonso was billed as McMinn's opponent and Pat O'Grady, the Oklahoma City fight promoter, says that's who it was. "He's fought here before. We've always known him as Alfonso," he claimed. And David St. Mary, sports editor of the : San Antonio News, says sources have confirmed that Alfonso fought both nights. Then there is this weighty evidence: Sher believes Raoul checks in at less than 150 pounds, while the two fighters in Oklahoma City weighed 161 and 159. But Sher says Chiaverini left a cut above Alfonso's eye, and O'Grady claims both fighters in Oklahoma City were examined before that bout and declared fit to fight.

Both Kansas and Oklahoma have a rule prohibiting boxers from fighting within 30 days of being knocked out. O'Grady insisted that he obeyed the 30-day wait rule, but he did not appear to be too upset that Alfonso may have fought two straight nights. "He fought in Topeka, huh?" O'Grady asked. "Why, he's a busy young man." The promoter said he had not talked to Alfonso -- but with good reason. "He can't speak English," O'Grady said." - The Lawton Constitution, 4 August 1977

Tony McMinn

2017-08-29T14:09:18Z

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Tony McMinn

2017-08-29T14:09:05Z

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Tony McMinn

2017-08-29T14:07:07Z

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Fight:128096

2017-08-29T14:02:19Z

Johnmcminn:

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*Strauss fought under his "Ruben Bardot" alias

Fight:40578

2017-08-29T13:56:44Z

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*Strauss fought under his "Ruben Bardot" alias

File:McMinnVsStrauss1.jpg

2017-08-29T13:55:15Z

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Fight:612487

2017-08-29T13:52:53Z

Johnmcminn:

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"The muscular Oklahoman knocked out Rafael Pagan of Juarez, Mexico, in his latest outing. A combination of punches ended the bout, McMinn’s toughest test since returning to the punch-for-pay ranks. A crisp left hook to the head set up the knockout punch, a whistling right hand that caught Pagan flush on the point of the chin. McMinn led on all the judges’ cards when the end came." - The Joplin Globe, 2 June 1981

Fight:612487

2017-08-29T13:51:53Z

Johnmcminn: Created page with "photo "The muscular Oklahoman knocked out Rafael Pagan of Juarez, Mexico, in his latest outing. A combination of punches ended the bo..."

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"The muscular Oklahoman knocked out Rafael Pagan of Juarez, Mexico, in his latest outing. A combination of punches ended the bout, McMinn’s toughest test since returning to the punch-for-pay ranks. A crisp left hook to the head set up the knockout punch, a whistling right hand that caught Pagan flush on the point of the chin. McMinn led on all the judges’ cards when the end came." - The Joplin Globe, 2 June 1981

File:McMinnVsPagan1.jpg

2017-08-29T13:46:35Z

Johnmcminn: Fight:612487

Fight:612487

Fight:128096

2017-08-29T13:37:20Z

Johnmcminn: Created page with "*Strauss fought under his "Ruben Bardot" alias"

*Strauss fought under his "Ruben Bardot" alias