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 Boxing:
From the age of 15 Ron
Lipton has been close to professional boxing. His
youth was filled with fights and a mania for physical fitness. He
attained a black belt in Judo at age 19 and had a goal to be a one
shot puncher with both hands. He would buy 16 mm films and collect
them of the great punchers. Archie
Moore, Bob Satterfiled,
Marciano, and realized they all punched in different ways,
as did the lighter fighters. He developed his handspeed to such a
degree that he could deliver 4 punch combinations with all his strength
and accuracy. He got himself to the point of being able to do 82 widegrip
chinups in one set, all the way down and up to the chest again, and
a 1000 pushups and 1000 situps. He won 39 of 42 amateur fights with
38 KO's and 3 losses as a young fighter, while setting a NJ record
of two back to back 6 second knockouts in the first round against
Felix Ortega of NYC and against
Steve Quinn
of Chatam NJ televised live on channel 47 from Symphony Hall in Newark
N.J. 7/5/66. Ron sparred in the training camps of Rubin
Carter, Dick Tiger, Carlos Ortiz, and Muhammad
Ali. World Boxing Magazine in 1973 said, "Ron
Lipton was the hardest punching lightweight in amateur
competition." A 3 time Golden Glove Champion at 135 lbs and twice
at 147 with 23 knockouts in the first round.
 Police
Work: Ron Lipton is a retired
police officer who worked first with the New York Waterfont Commission,
and then went on to serve on the Verona Police Department in Essex County
N.J. From there he went on to serve as a Detective in the Hudson County
N.J. Prosecutor's Office where he worked in various capacities as the
Head of the S.W.A.T. team for both the Prosecutor's office and the Hudson
County Sheriff's Department as Police Firearm Instructor, graduating
the FBI Police Firearm Instructor's School held at the Picatinny Arsenal,
where he came out #1 in a class of 50 instructors. He also worked on
the Hudson County Narcotic Strike Force and Pre-Grand Jury Squad handling
30 Felony cases per day. When Lipton moved to NY State in the 1980's
he went back to police school in Rockland County Police Academy in 1986
and came out #1 with a 99 average and the firearm award again. He received
police instructor status there also and worked for Woodridge and Walden
Police departments as well as the New York City H.R.A. police. He retired
in 1987 and was an officer in two P.B.A.'s for Verona Police and the
Hudson County Prosecutor's office. HIs son Brett
was a graduate of the Orange County Police Academy where he graduated
in 2/98 and made the Deans' list. Both father and son are champion combat
shooters winning the 1997 combat championships in Newburgh N.Y. where
they both shot iron sighted .45's, competing against 30 shooters in
the combat league shooting higher scores than shooters using laser sighting
at 25 yds, over a 10 week period with a total of 720 rounds fired in
the competition. Ron Lipton came
in first, Brett Lipton second.
Referee: As an internaitonal boxing refereee Ron
Lipton has refereed title fights in the United States, Ireland
and Italy, refereeing Evander
Holyfield twice on HBO and Pay Per View as well as
6 HBO title fights and 26 title fights including Roy
Jones jr vs Bryant Brannon,
which was shown in the movie with Al Pacino,
"The Devil's Advocate," as well as a clip from the same fight
in the Mel Gibson movie, "Payback."
He has refereed title fights with Pernell
Whitiker, Oscar Delahoya,
and has refereed Roberto
Duran and all major contenders and Champions in all
divisions. He refereed the gruelling fight which set boxing history
with a double tko, tech draw with Merqui Sosa
and Prince Charles Williams I
on ESPN.
Boxing
Consultant & Choreography:
He was the Senior Boxing Consultant for the Movie "Muhammad
Ali, The Whole Story," and won the Choreography Award for
the Play "ALI" which starred Geoffrey Ewing
in NY, London, and toured the United States. His pupil Mr.
Ewing, who played Ali,
won the Obie Award in NY for his portrayal. Lipton's
other pupil David Roberson, who
starred in director Michael Mann's
"The Insider," was taught to imitate
Ali's style to such perfection in
his performance, that Dr. Ferdie Pacheco,
the fight doctor and Muhammad Ali
himself said Ron Lipton's boxing
choreography was perfect.
Additional
Accolades:
He was a member of the Boxing Writers Association
of America and had published articles in Ring
Magazine, International Boxing Digest, World Boxing, International Boxing,
Boxing Illustrated and wrote an award winning article called
"Ringleader" for Ulster
Magazine about Floyd Patterson.
He won the Lifetime Civil Rights Achievement Award in Poughkeepsie
N.Y. on 2/26/2000, for a lifetime of helping others and lives in Newburgh
N.Y. with his son Brett.
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