Tag: Final Tribute

Special Final Tribute: Mericia Quinones Passes Away

On June 13, 2019, Mericia Quinones, 27 years old passed away.  WBAN would like to give our condolences to family and friends of Mericia.   WBAN had a story written on September 18, 2013, entitled, Through the Tragic Floods of Colorado Emerges a Triple Threat”. In that story in 2013, the following was written:  “Mericia Quinones,

Tribute: Photographer Roger Williams

  WBAN recently learned that top photographer Roger Williams passed away on January 26th, in Phoenix, Arizona.   Williams shot photos for boxing sites, and he was also a UPI, Washington Post, and a White House Photographer. Roger covered boxing for 20 plus years, and he was very well-known around the boxing circles.  You could see

A Final Tribute for Junior Middleweight Champion Giselle Salandy

On Sunday morning shortly before 7:00 a.m., female multi-world Champion, Giselle Salandy, of Trinidad and Tobago, was involved in a fatality when she had a vehicular accident, crashing into a concrete pillar on Beetham Highway, located on the outskirts of Port of Spain. Salandy, just 21 years old, just two weeks short of turning 22, was rushed to the