The most dominant player in NBA and a grand entertainer, Shaquille O’Neal nicknamed Shaq, is a rare gregarious personality in the history of sports. The hulking 7 feet, 315 pound giant American basket ball player has a controversial success story in other areas of entertainment like rap music and movies. Renowned for his witty and humorous comments in media, the professional NBA athlete has a Net worth of $250 million making him one of the wealthiest sportsperson in the world.
The NBA superstar was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1972, and graduated from the Louisiana State University. He is in fact the only NBA player with an MBA degree. Nicknamed Diesel and Superman, the entertainer after reaping success in the ball game, turned his attention to films appearing in Kazaam, Blue Chips and Steel which earned decent public reviews. Off the court, Shaquille also reinvented himself as a rap artist. His solo debut album achieved the prestigious platinum status and overwhelmed with its grand success, the great entertainer has launched four rap albums till date.
Starting his career playing for Orlando Magic, and carrying the good work till Boston Celtics, Shaquille covered an extensive journey sweating hard work and earning fame and wealth in return. The professional athlete has also been a spokesman for reputed brands like Reebok and Pepsi. During his 19 year career, the NBA superstar earned approximate $292 million in salary and nearly as much from the various endorsements. The big hearted man adored spending as much as earning it, which is quite clear from his monthly expenses on vacations ($110,505), dry cleanings ($6,730) and possessions of plush cars which include Rolls Royce Phantom, Lamborghini Gallardo and Mercedes-Benz SL550.
Hulk Shaquille’s expertise in scoring, blocking, rebounding and shooting during the course of play brought nightmares for his opponents and a flurry of eminence and affluence for himself. With prestigious 15 All-star game appearances, 4 NBA titles and a league MVP award, Shaquille has earned the repute of being termed the connoisseur of basket ball. He also became the first player in the NBA history to be named Player of the week in his first week in the league.
World Liberty TV, Team was on hand at CES 2015,Moster Press Conference where shaq was the Spokesperson for The Products ,and that’s where we did the interview with him.
Two days packed full of keynotes, sessions and exhibits:
Sessions on:
Creative Storage: Looking for Storage for High Resolution Content Capture and Production
Finding and Keeping It Safe: Protecting, Finding, Storing and Recovering
Personal and Commercial Content
Analyst Perspectives: What Will Cloud Storage Do to Local Storage?
Evolve or Die! : Storage Developments Drive New Storage System Options
What we Want: A Conversation with Digital Storage End Users
Taking It To The Streets: Getting Content Where it Needs to Go
Young Users Speak Out: What will Drive Future Consumer Devices
Saving the Best to Last: Long Term Content Protection and Archiving
New Applications, New Technologies—What’s Ahead for Content Storage?
Storage for Consumers and Business: Making, Saving, Sharing and
Protecting Family and Business Content.
Snail Games, the parent company to LA-based Snail Games USA, has been a dominant figure in the Chinese gaming industry for over a decade. As the gaming landscape continues to change and the importance of mobile grows, Snail has set its sights on developing new concepts in gaming hardware and services, a peek at which it will allow this January.
Key to its innovation strategy is the integration of software, hardware and services. Snail has already made the move into telecom, providing network services in China since early 2014. Snail has developed specialized data packages for mobile gaming, with free data and special rewards when used together with certain apps from Snail’s large library of mobile games.
This combination of content publishing and development with telephony services, along with the enhanced experience of gaming hardware designed by Snail, has been a successful model in China, and is one Snail looks to bring to the US. Taking the first step on this path, Snail will reveal its latest cutting edge hardware at CES. The Snail W and W 3D will run on an Android-based system, as will the OBox using an adapted OS, allowing users access to a wide range of games and applications. “Our devices come with pre-installed, free gaming content, but you can play any of the popular titles on them,” said Snail Games USA President Jim Tsai, “We want to provide our customers a complete gaming experience through our devices.”WorldLiberty TV, team met up with Snail Games USA President Jim Tsai and interviewed him at there Debut Party During CES 2015 week, see what he had to say about his company in our World Liberty TV, Gaming Channel.
Aaron Pryor is a former boxer from Cincinnati, Ohio. He was World Junior Welterweight Champion from 1980 to 1985 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1996. Pryor was voted by the Associated Press as the #1 junior welterweight of the 20th century in 1999.
Pryor, nicknamed The Hawk, had a record of 204 wins and 16 losses as an amateur. He won the National AAU Lightweight Championship in 1973. In 1975, Pryor again won the National AAU Lightweight Championship and a silver medal at the Pan American Games. He beat future great Thomas Hearns in the lightweight finals of the 1976 National Golden Gloves but lost to Howard Davis Jr. at the 1976 Olympic Trials. Pryor participated as an alternate in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Pryor fought eight times in 1977, winning all but two by knockout. The only two fighters who heard the final bell versus Pryor that year were Jose Resto and Johnny Summerhayes, each losing by an eight-round unanimous decision. After the fight with Summerhayes, Pryor won 26 fights in a row by knockout. It was one of the longest knockout streaks in the history of boxing.
On August 2, 1980, Pryor faced two-time world champion Antonio Cervantes of Colombia for the WBA junior welterweight championship. His purse was $50,000. The fight took place in Pryor’s hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio and was nationally televised by CBS. Pryor was dropped in round one, but he rose and knocked out Cervantes in round four to become champion. He made his first title defense on November 22, 1980, knocking out Gaetan Hart in the sixth round. Pryor made $100,000 for the fight.
On November 12, 1982, Pryor defended his title with a fourteenth-round TKO of Alexis Arguello before a crowd of 23,800 at Miami’s Orange Bowl and a live HBO audience. The fight, dubbed The Battle of The Champions by promoter Bob Arum, was eventually named the Fight of the Decade by The Ring.
Pryor made $1.6 million while Arguello was paid $1.5 million. Arguello, a 12-5 favorite, was attempting to become the first boxer to win world titles in four weight divisions.
The end of the fight was controversial. Arguello landed a punch in the thirteenth round that seemed to stun Pryor, and despite trailing on two of three scorecards, Arguello had things tilting in his direction. Between the thirteenth and fourteenth rounds, HBO’s microphones caught Pryor’s trainer, Panama Lewis, telling cutman Artie Curley, “Give me the other bottle, the one I mixed.”
It seemed to revive Pryor. Coming out quickly for the fourteenth round, Pryor landed a barrage of unanswered blows before referee Stanley Christodoulou stopped it. Arguello collapsed to the canvas near the ropes, where he lay for several minutes.
Many speculated that there was something illegal in the bottle, but nobody checked the contents and the Miami Boxing Commission failed to administer a post-fight urine test to the boxers. Lewis and Pryor steadfastly denied that there was anything illegal in the bottle.
Pryor had a rematch with Arguello at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 9, 1983. Pryor made a career high $2.25 million and Arguello made $1.75 million.
Panama Lewis had his license revoked after he removed the padding from the gloves of Luis Resto before his fight with Billy Collins Jr. on June 16, 1983. Pryor hired Richie Giachetti to train him, but they had a falling out. Two weeks before the Arguello rematch, Pryor brought in Emanuel Steward as his trainer.
The rematch was not as competitive as their first one. Pryor dropped Arguello with a right cross in the first round and again with a left hook in the fourth. Pryor put Arguello down for the count in the tenth round.
After the fight, both Arguello and Pryor announced that they were retiring from boxing.
By the mid-1980s, Pryor’s life had become consumed by drugs. In December of 1985, Pryor was stripped of the IBF title for failure to defend. Alexis Arguello said he saw Pryor in December of 1986 and “was shocked at his appearance. He must have weighed 110 pounds. I went up to him and said, ‘Help yourself, Aaron, help yourself.’ But I don`t even know if he heard me or understood what I was saying.”
After 29 months out of the ring, Pryor, insisting he was now clean from drugs, attempted a comeback. He fought welterweight journeyman Bobby Joe Young in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on August 8, 1987. Pryor was a shell of his former self and was knocked out in the seventh round.
