Former Padre Kevin Mitchell to stand trial on assault charges

CHULA VISTA — Former San Diego Padres third baseman Kevin Mitchell was ordered Wednesday to stand trial for assaulting a man at a South Bay golf course in July.

Mitchell, 48, is charged with battery causing serious bodily injury and assault with intent to cause great bodily injury, said prosecutor Sherry Thompson. Both are felonies and he faces a maximum of four years in prison if convicted.

He is accused of punching another golfer on the Bonita Golf Club course several times on the head, apparently because Mitchell was upset that the victim had spoken disparagingly about him earlier. The victim said he suffered a concussion from the altercation.

Mitchell has pleaded not guilty in Chula Vista Superior Court and is free on $25,000 bail. A trial in the case is set for Nov. 3.

He played for the Padres in 1987 and was the National League MVP two years later while playing for the San Francisco Giants. He has had previous legal run-ins, including a 1999 arrest on suspicion of felony battery against his father, and in 1991 on rape charges that were later dropped. In 2000, while managing a minor league team, he was suspended for punching another team’s manager during a brawl.

Mitchell, a graduate of Clairemont High School in San Diego, played for nine major league teams over 13 seasons.

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Kevin Mitchell is to get a world-title shot in London in May after Frank Warren, his promoter, won the purse bid to stage the vacant WBO lightweight title bout against Michael Katsidis, of Australia.
Warren's bid of $515,000 (about �344,000) beat the only other bid of $501,000, which came from Brendon Smith, Katsidis's manager, on behalf of Ringstar Promotions.
Mitchell, 25, has the longest present unbeaten record in British boxing, stretching now to 31 bouts. He won the British and Commonwealth super-featherweight titles before losing a year to a serious hand injury, but has come back better than ever.
It's his biggest show since more than 50,000 packed the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, for Joe Calzaghe's super-middleweight unification fight against Mikkel Kessler in 2007.
And he says that it will match some of the massive events of the 1990s featuring the likes of Naseem Hamed, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Frank Bruno.
For Mitchell, it will be an opportunity to perform at the stadium where many of his heroes plied their trade, including World Cup winners Bobby Moore and Sir Geoff Hurst.

Tickets are now on sale for Kevin Mitchell's historic world lightweight title clash against Michael Katsidis at West Ham United's world famous Boleyn Ground on Saturday 15th May. 'Hammer Time' is set to be the sporting event of the summer as Mitchell aims to be crowned world champion at the ground where football legends Bobby Moore and Sir Geoff Hurst plied their trade.

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British are again coming back in boxing

As Ricky Hatton was unsuccessful in May 2009 in Vegas ring , following a collision with Manny Pacquiao’s left hook, the optimisms of a nation went down with him at that time and after that with the leaving of Joe Calzaghe from boxing many supposed this was now the end of Britain’s participation in the upper echelons of the boxing. But one year later the British are again back in the boxing fight. The are not doing their best in Britain but also there is also good in outside of Britain as well. I-e Amir Khan goes to work, David Haye Hitting Hard at Heavy and carl Froch and Kevin Mitchell get taken down n notch and there more youngster to come from different parts of Britain. So, we should not lost our hopes in the boxing because Britain could well be dominating boxing’s most prestigious divisions. And with a long line of young guns coming through, British boxing is in a healthy state.

Kevin Mitchell Wins B Division

On Sunday when the rain came down and forced the men’s B final of the city tournament to be delayed until 6 p.m. that evening Kevin Mitchell looked to have the first set in hand against Donny Paisley, leading 5-2. But Paisley, 12, in the match won the first three games after play resumed to get back. Mitchell adjusted from there though, and won the next eight games to beat Paisley 7-5, 6-0 and win the B division. Mitchell made one adjustment after Paisley return at the end of the first set that proved to be the difference.“What I decided to do was on his serves play him short, make him run,” Mitchell said. “Then once he started running I could either lob it over his head or make a passing shot.”Paisley got back into the match after falling in the first set, but couldn’t get anything going in the second.“I came back three games and then it went downhill,” Paisley said. “It was like a sugar rush, you get actually high and big and then you make a actually big downfall.”Paisley was able to get into the match by trying to make Mitchell cover the entire court.“I pushed him from side to side, front and back trying to make him run a lot so he’d get really tired and eventually he’d get too tired to not actually do a whole lot,” Paisley said. Mitchell had to change his strategy because Paisley didn’t let him hit many winners.“I had to play him short because he was like a wall,” Mitchell said. “Every time I’d hit something back to him he’d lob it in the air or put it in the middle of the court and I had to generate pace which would make me hit the ball out.”Mitchell earned the title and, like anyone who watched Paisley play, had nothing but good things to say about him.“He’s great,” Mitchell said. “This is the type of child that’s coming out of Freeport playing tennis, I think that’s promising.”Main wins women’s titleSindy Main was a point away from having to go to a third set against Danielle Flack in the women’s final of the city tournament on Sunday. She had won the first set 6-3 but trailed 6-4 in the second set tiebreaker. She held serve to make it 6-5 then got a mini break to tie it at six. Flack then double faulted to let Main serve for the match, which she won on the next point.“I think it was just a matter of both of us making errors more than either one of us winning,” Main said of the tiebreak. The match, which was the only city tournament match originally scheduled for 6 p.m. and wasn’t affected by the morning rain, ended with Main winning, 6-3, 7-6 (6). Both players were feeling the effects of the heat by the end.“I was getting actually tired in the second set, but she was hitting it really well,” Flack said. The heat was making both players’ hands sweat, making it hard to hold the racquet. “I was just trying to keep the ball in play,” Main said. “Our racquets slide in our hands so we both were working hard to keep the ball in.”Rob Drucker won the Consolation A final and Jordan Wilson won the Consolation B bracket.

Kevin Mitchell One in the eye

Boxer Kevin Mitchell , Doctors have ordered an eye operation who suffered the first furstration of his pro career when he was beaten by Australian Michael Katsidis Upton Park last month. This week the popular boxer was awaiting a phone call to attend a London hospital where he will undergo surgery ollowing his complaints of double vision. Mitchell, who was stopped in three rounds by Katsidis, revealed he had been troubled by the eye, but did not realise it was so dangerous. However, doctors have told him it could have affected his vision in the most important fight of his career and ordered the operation instantly. Mitchell was stopped in the third round of his fight with Katsidis, but the boxer, trained by Jimmy Tibbs at Newham's Ultrachem TKO gym had no complaints."They are confident that the operation will clear up the trouble and I can get back into the ring and become a world champion," said Mitchell."I would love the chance to face Katsidis again.

Frank Warren Talks, Klitschko-Haye, Mitchell, Amir Khan

THERE were contrasting fortunes for British boxers two weekends back - and lessons to be learned.

Kevin Mitchell was halted in three rounds by Michael Katsidis at Upton Park.

But Amir Khan stopped Paulie Malignaggi in the States.

After Mitchell lost, it emerged he'd cut corners in training because of domestic problems. I even heard on the day of the fight, he was shopping at Lakeside. All this was news to me.

I put a lot of effort and money into the West Ham show, creating a fantastic opportunity for Mitchell to become the Ricky Hatton of the south.

I've a lot of time for Kevin - but you can't play at boxing if you want to be a world champion.

At 25, and with his first defeat, he's at a crossroads. Either he knuckles down and makes the most of his talent, or he looks back in a few years' time and wonders what might have been.

He should look to other fighters who boxed at the weekend - Katsidis shut himself away from his wife and young child in Thailand.

And Khan had disruptions in his training camp, too, being forced to spend a couple of weeks in Vancouver because of visa issues.

But the WBA light-welterweight champion is always in terrific shape and he was against Malignaggi.

Khan has looked good since he lost to Breidis Prescott, and Mitchell can take heart from the way he has bounced back.

Khan wants to fight again in July and the 31st was suggested.

Trainer Freddie Roach said: "If I was getting him ready for a major, major world title fight, July would be too soon but we can do it."

That tells you a lot if the date goes ahead.

Saturday's shows had excellent viewing figures - Sky pulled in a very big audience, while nearly 600,000 people stayed up to watch Khan on ITV at 4.30am.

Next morning, 1.5million watched a replay of the fight while the FA Cup final highlights attracted 300,000.

There's talk of Khan fighting Victor Ortiz, who beat Nate Campbell.

Khan stopped Ortiz as an amateur, and will fancy doing the same again.