Senate Bill sb3070

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 3070

    By Senator Miller





    18-2176-04

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing Ronald "Winky" Wright.

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  4         WHEREAS, Ronald "Winky" Wright was born November 26,

  5  1971, in Washington, D.C., moved to St. Petersburg at the age

  6  of sixteen, and began his career as a boxer while still a high

  7  school student, when he began working out at the St.

  8  Petersburg Boxing Club on 49th Street South, and

  9         WHEREAS, Ronald Wright's talent was spotted and

10  encouraged by the club's owners, Dan and Mike Birmingham, who

11  became his first trainers and remain his coaches to this day,

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13         WHEREAS, Mr. Wright entered his first amateur fight in

14  1987 and continued amateur boxing until 1990, when he won a

15  bronze medal in the 1990 USA Boxing Championships, a national

16  Police Athletic Title, and a U.S. Olympic Festival Gold Medal,

17  achieving a 53-4 win-loss record in the Junior Middleweight

18  Class, and

19         WHEREAS, in the years since 1990, Mr. Wright made a

20  name for himself as a professional boxer in Europe and,

21  following his victory over Bronco McKart in 1996 for his first

22  pro boxing title, established a name and a following here in

23  the United States as well, achieving a professional win-loss

24  record of 47-3, and

25         WHEREAS, Mr. Wright has kept St. Petersburg as his

26  home, continues to train with Dan and Mike Birmingham with

27  whom he is now coowner of the St. Petersburg Boxing Club, and

28  has a wide following of enthusiastic hometown fans, 200 of

29  whom followed him to Las Vegas on March 13, 2004, where he

30  defeated Shane Mosely to win the International Boxing

31  Federation Junior Middleweight Championship Title, and

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 3070
    18-2176-04




 1         WHEREAS, Ronald "Winky" Wright has a reputation for

 2  being a dedicated athlete, a fine family man, and a loyal

 3  friend, and brings recognition to St. Petersburg and the State

 4  of Florida for his achievements in the world of sports, NOW,

 5  THEREFORE,

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 7  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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 9         That Ronald "Winky" Wright is commended for his success

10  in the sport of boxing and for his example of discipline,

11  excellence, and fine sportsmanship.

12         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

13  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Ronald

14  "Winky" Wright as a token of the good will and esteem of the

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