The Phantom Punch at 50 Interactive guide to our stories, photos, audio and video | Audio: Listen to the radio broadcast from the fight | Video: Can you see the punch? | Interactive timeline of the fighters’ careers | Newspaper coverage & readers’ memories from 1965 In 1965, both the Twin Cities travel agent and the world heavyweight champion were off to a pretty good start […]
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Paris man charged with assaulting woman
PARIS — Police said a local man is charged with blocking a woman’s windpipe and striking her in the face at a residence on Alpine Street. Christopher John Bradbury, 44, was arrested at the home Wednesday morning after police received a complaint from a neighbor about a loud fight, according to Paris police Lt. Jeffrey Lange. […]
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NEF XV: Mladin Holman, 56, loses MMA bout, but wins hearts at the Colisee in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Mladin Holman had the courage to pack up his family and emigrate from war-ravaged Croatia to the United States 15 years ago. Which makes it infinitely easier to understand why letting somebody lock the door of a mixed martial arts cage behind him at age 56 isn’t an overwhelming deal. “He’s very emotional […]
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MMA main event canceled
By Ernie Clark Bangor Daily Staff LEWISTON — Injuries can have a destabilizing effect on a mixed martial arts show. The Maine-based New England Fights promotion is experiencing that reality with its Sept. 6 show at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee, as both fighters in its scheduled main event have had to back out due to […]
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Gardiner ear biter cleared of assault charges
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine man who bit off a portion of another man’s ear during a fight has been acquitted of assault charges. A Kennebec County Superior Court jury on Wednesday cleared Dylan Nathaniel Hendsbee of charges connected to the fight in April 2013 in which a third man suffered a fractured jaw. The […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Jay, Chesterville men charged in connection to Jay fight
JAY — Police said two men face charges stemming from a fight Sunday night on Old Jay Hill Road. When officer Nicholas Gulliver arrived, he saw someone running across the road, acting police Chief Richard Caton IV said Tuesday. Gulliver chased the man on foot for a short distance and caught up to Dillian Burnham, […]