Dan Rafael of espn.com is reporting that WBA Super Lightweight champion Amir Khan will battle interim champion Marcos Maidana on December 11 in Las Vegas.
“We came to an agreement [Tuesday] night. Khan is on board. Maidana is on board and I am finalizing everything with Mandalay Bay,” Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer said outside of Staples Center during a news conference promoting Saturday night’s Shane Mosley-Sergio Mora HBO PPV card.
“Amir wanted to have this fight in the U.K. and Maidana wanted the fight to be in the United States, but we worked on things and I was informed by Amir’s lawyer that he would fight in the U.S.,” Schaefer said. “There was some urgency for us to make a deal because of the purse bid coming up, but now we have a deal and I will inform the WBA that the fighters have reached agreement.”
“We worked it out financially where everyone was happy,” Schaefer said. “It was a difficult fight to put together but this was the fight I kept hearing from fans and media that they wanted to see. Golden Boy made some concessions and we got the fight done.”
“I want this fight and the fans want to see this fight,” said Khan, who had called Schaefer’s cell phone from England and spoke to ESPN.com. “It’s two explosive styles meeting up. It’s the explosive puncher [Maidana] against the quick and explosive boxer. They say Maidana has a style to beat a boxer, so let’s see how good he is. Maidana wants to stop me from having my legacy, but that is not going to happen. But let him try.”
“I’m coming to fight him where he wants to fight. But I want this fight, so I am going where he wants to fight,” Khan said. “That’s how much I want this fight.”
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE POW WOW KEEPS CIRCLE UNBROKEN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 25, 1994 Byline: CHRIS STURGIS Staff writer GLENVILLE A roped-off circle at the Schenectady County Airport designated blessed ground. Bunches of sage purified the area. At the center, smoke was rising from a pine-bough fire.
“We give it tobacco and it carries our wishes to the skies,” said Ruby Beaulieu, a Chippewa of the White Earth Nation in Minnesota and chairwoman of the Keepers of the Circle, a Capital Region organization honoring NativeAmerican culture. website native american culture
Beaulieu’s words commenced Saturday’s opening ceremony of the Keepers of Circle’s third annual pow wow.
The event featured performances of traditional dancing, participatory dancing, vendors of Native American textiles, artwork, decorations, jewelry and novelties, such as a teddy bear in buckskin dress.
A fund-raising event for the group’s future meeting house, the pow wow continues from noon to 8 p.m. today at the airport. Food offerings ranged from familiar fare, such as barbecued chicken and fried dough, to exotic meats, like venison, caribou and buffalo.
Beaulieu said Keepers of the Circle has 300 members, with only the members of the small Native American minority allowed to vote or sit on the governing board. Keepers of the Circle meets at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month at the Friends Meeting House, 727 Madison Ave., Albany.
The pow wow included many people of other ethnic groups who are interested in Native American culture.
One of them, Allen Sun, is the treasurer of the Native American Council at the University at Albany. He said the council was selling T-shirts to raise money for a scholarship for Native American students, in hopes of increasing their numbers.
“I’m afraid the club will fade away. I want the club to survive,” he said.
Across the field at the Micmac Chef, Louis Matarazzo from Waterbury, Conn., grilled buffalo burgers, which he ordered from the Dakotas, and buffalo sausage. The Micmac Nation is from New Brunswick-New Castle, Canada. go to site native american culture
He said buffalo meat is so lean that fat must be added so it will cook.
Donn Byrne of Albany enjoyed his buffalo burger.
“It tastes like a hamburger,” he said, surrounded by his wife, Kathryn Kelly, and daughters, Lindsey, 11, and Rebecka, 5. Kelley sampled the succotash, a medley of corn, green beans, kidney beans and onions.
Pam Ramsey, an Onondaga from Nedrow, Onondaga County, sold steak sandwiches containing venison, which she said is low in cholesterol, and chili made with chunks of caribou meat.
“It gives everybody a good taste of caribou,”she said.
Chairwoman Beaulieu said the organization appreciated the assistance of County Legislators Frank Potter and Michael Iacobucci, who said the event is an opportunity learn about another culture.
“I hope today we’ll leave here a little smarter,” Iacobucci said.
