a lot more. In May 2015, he scored a 10-round decision over Mike Ruiz, picked up the WBC USNBC title, his first as a pro, and retired.

A year and a half later, he was back. It wasn’t because he had something left in the basement, but because he had another cause that he wanted people to know about. He was about to announce that he was running for a congressional seat in Staten Island, with his focus on the drug epidemic tearing through the borough. And what better way to bring awareness to the problem than by trading punches?

“When I was working towards trying to bring attention to paralysis, I saw what the difference would be every time I had a fight coming up versus no fight comingBEIJING — In a show of strength before an international court’s ruling on China’s claims in the South China Sea, the United States Navy sent two aircraft carriers and their accompanying ships on training drills in the western Pacific Ocean on Saturday.

The carriers John C. Stennis and Ronald Reagan sailed close together in the Philippine Sea as part of air defense and sea surveillance operations that involved 12,000 sailors, 140 aircraft and six smaller warships, the United States Pacific Fleet in Hawaii said in a statement.

“We must take advantage of these opportunities to practice war-fighting techniques that are required to prevail in modern naval operations,” Rear Adm. John D. Alexander said in a statement.

The operations occurred on the eastern side of the Philippines, in a body of water