CHICAGO -- After a huge win over the Miami Heat on Sunday, the Chicago Bulls came out flat Tuesday night and were manhandled by the San Antonio Spurs, 106-94, at the United Center. Manu Ginobili led San Antonio's charge  

Brandon Rios expresses curiosity towards the Manny Pacquiao vs. Tim Bradley rematch
By Chris Robinson, Hustle Boss, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
Having caught up with Brandon Rios this past weekend in Las Vegas, it was nice to see the affable former champion in good spirits as he discussed several key aspects related to his career while touching on some current storylines in the sport. Rios is coming off of a one-sided points loss to Mann  Read Full Story >>>

Floyd Mayweather Allegedly Involved in Kidnapping & Brutal Beating Over Missing Jewelry
TMZ.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
Floyd Mayweather allegedly orchestrated a savage attack on two of his employees he suspected of stealing his jewelry ... TMZ has learned. Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ Sports ... the two men had been hired to work on Floyd's Vegas homes ... but when jewelry went missing, Floyd poin  Read Full Story >>>

Judges can’t please everyone
By Ron Jackson, SuperSport, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
It does not happen often but high-profile fights are sometimes spoiled by dubious decisions. When Timothy Bradley was handed a split-decision win over Manny Pacquiao in June 2012, the resulting controversy brought back arguments and debates that had been part of boxing for as long as anyone can  Read Full Story >>>

Arum: I Have No Confidence That Rios Can Make 140
By Bill Emes, BoxingScene.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who promotes former champion Brandon Rios, is not confident in Rios' belief that he can make the junior welterweight limit of 140-pounds. Rios has been pushing for a fight with WBO 140-pound champion Ruslan Provodnikov, who returns to HBO on June 14th. Provodnikov's p  Read Full Story >>>

Peek Into the Soul of a Prizefighter—Part Seven
By Peter Wood, Boxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
“This is a book of poetry. I got it from a hooker in 1963. She was a beautiful woman—gorgeous. We’d just sit and discuss the book over tea…” I asked professional fighters to finish this sentence: “MY FAVORITE BOOK IS…” Their responses were fascinating and illuminating; sometimes surprising and so  Read Full Story >>>

MARTINEZ TOO FAST AND TOO BIG FOR COTTO?
By Carlos Costa, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014

It will be a great boxing treat for New York boxing fans during the 56th annual Puerto Rican Day Parade on June 8 in the Big Apple. The night before, their long time hero Miguel Cotto battles Sergio "Maravilla"   Read Full Story >>>

‘The Great’ returns
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014

Today Michael Katsidis came face to face with the man he will be standing across from come Friday night, Indonesia’s Eddy Comarro. Katsidis spoke at the press conference today thanking his sponsors and trainer Brendon Smith   Read Full Story >>>

RANDY PETALCORIN TRAINING UPDATE
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014

Today WBA # 2 Randy Petalcorin (R) sparred 8 quality rounds with former Australia professional Bantamweight champion Mark Quon (L, above photo) and also two other Australia Amateur champions sparring partners at boxingfi  Read Full Story >>>

Manny Pacquiao's 'strategy' for his rematch against Timothy Bradley
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
The journey toward redemption for Manny Pacquiao resumed on Tuesday, when his workout was so difficult that all he wanted to do when he stepped out of trainer Freddie Roach's Wild Card Gym was to go to sleep. Pacquiao had arrived in Los Angeles late Saturday after conducting the first part of his  Read Full Story >>>

TIMOTHY BRADLEY LEAVING NO STONE UNTURNED AS HE PREPARES FOR MANNY PACQUIAO: "I'M HERE STUDYING HIM ALL DAY"
By Ben Thompson, FightHype.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
"Dude, I'm a student, man. I watch all these cats, man. I'm looking at everybody. That's all I do, man. Everybody that's around my weight, I got a game plan, for you. I check out everybody, man. If you got a video on YouTube, I probably done seen you already because I go through those ranks; I gotta  Read Full Story >>>

ANGEL "MEMO" HEREDIA CONFIRMED FOR INAUGURAL BOX FAN EXPO THIS SEPTEMBER IN LAS VEGAS
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
Meet the world's biggest fighters, promoters and industry people at the 1st time, one of a kind event Las Vegas (MARCH 10, 2014)--Top strength and conditioning Guru Angel "Memo" Heredia announcing his Juan Manuel Marquez line "Dynamite" in the US. He will join the talented list of champions at th  Read Full Story >>>

Danny "Swift" Garcia Arrives in Puerto Rico for Defense Against Mexican Mauricio Herrera This Saturday
By Carlos Costa, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014

Welcomed at the airport by several former Puerto Rican world champions, unified WBC/WBA Jr. Welterweight (140 lbs) World Champion Danny "Swift" Garcia (L) arrived in Puerto Rico for the 5th defense of his belts against   Read Full Story >>>

JOEBERT "LITTLE PACMAN" ALVAREZ FIGHTS "CHICANO" RIVERA ON APRIL 4 IN MEXICO
By Carlos Costa, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014

World-rated Filipino flyweight Joebert "Little Pacman" Alvarez (L) of Sultan Kudarat will make his fighting debut in the international arena when he faces Mexican national champion Julian "Chicano" Rivera (13-8-1, 2 KO's) fo  Read Full Story >>>

Bernard Hopkins & Beibut Shumenov Washington D.C. Presser Quotes
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014

BERNARD “THE ALIEN” HOPKINS AND BEIBUT SHUMENOV WASHINGTON, D.C. KICK-OFF PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES FOR APRIL 19 LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP UNIFICATION Saturday, April 19, LIVE ON SHOWTIME® at 9 p.m. ET/PT Fr  Read Full Story >>>

DANNY "SWIFT" GARCIA MAKES HIS GRAND ARRIVAL IN PUERTO RICO
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014

FANS AND MEDIA GREET UNIFIED SUPER LIGHTWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION, WHO WILL FIGHT THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 15, LIVE ON SHOWTIME IN BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO; TICKETS STILL ON SALE SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING TELECAST STA  Read Full Story >>>

ESCALANTE TO DEFEND IBA TITLE AGAINST VICTOR RUIZ ON APRIL 5
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014

Super Flyweight Champion, Bruno Escalante(12-1-1, 6 KOs), will defend his title against Victor Ruiz (12-2, 9 KOs) on April 5 in the main event of a Don Chargin Productions and Paco Presents fight card at the Cache Creek   Read Full Story >>>

GAB chair bucks stripping of PBA player’s license
By Jerome S. Galunan Jr., PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
Games and Amusement Board (GAB) chairman Juan Ramon “Monju” Guanzon yesterday opined he does not favor the cancellation of licenses of professional basketball cagers who refused to render service for the upcoming FIBA World Cup in Spain this August. Cavite Rep. Elpidio Barzaga, head of the House   Read Full Story >>>

ESPN Thursday Night Fights at 'The World's Most Beautiful Race Course'
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
Warriors Boxing Presents 'Noche de Combates' At Hialeah Park on Thursday May 1, Live International Television Broadcast on ESPN. Historic Hialeah Park, "the world's most beautiful race course," will enter into a new and exciting era of sports entertainment when Warriors Boxing presents "Noche de  Read Full Story >>>

Martinez Calls Cotto a “Ballerina” as the Two Head Into Garden Showdown
By Tim Smith, Wall Street Journal, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
If New York is like a second home to Miguel Cotto, a three-time world champion from Caguas, Puerto Rico, then Madison Square Garden is like his living room and the boxing ring there has become like a well-worn, comfortable couch. Of the 10 times Cotto (38-4-0) has fought in New York (including on  Read Full Story >>>

Feisty Martinez rips Cotto on tour
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez and three-division titleholder Miguel Cotto are two days and two cities into the media tour to promote their June 7 (HBO PPV) showdown at Madison Square Garden in New York and the heat is building. They kicked things off in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday a  Read Full Story >>>

The NYC Press Event: Sergio Martinez and Miguel Cotto Get In A Bitch Fight
By John Gatling, Examiner.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
Only in New York City can a fight of this magnitude exist and still get lost in a sea of lights. Its not everyday that a 3-time world champion from Puerto Rico gets to vie for the WBC middleweight championship of the world, against a come-backing and proud physical marvel. While negotiating wi  Read Full Story >>>

MSG set to sizzle for Martinez-Cotto
By Michael Woods, ESPN.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
Among the three most high-profile bouts set for the next few months, the Sergio Martinez-Miguel Cotto scrap set for June 7 at Madison Square Garden is perhaps getting the most amount of respect from fight fans. On April 26, Manny Pacquiao will show the world if Timothy Bradley has supplanted him  Read Full Story >>>

Is Beibut Shumenov another puppet in the Bernard Hopkins show?
By Lem Satterfield, RingTV.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Their 175-pound unification bout is not until April 19, but IBF beltholder Bernard Hopkins already claims to have begun to control WBA counterpart Beibut Shumenov as if having placed him under a spell. Speaking to a cluster of reporters during Tuesday's press conference at th  Read Full Story >>>

Why Bradley is gun-shy
By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
Unbeaten WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley recently said he hopes to dance his way through five more fights before hanging up his gloves without taking any chances in the ring. That means Bradley will avoid engaging an opponent or battling toe-to-toe because he’s risk-averse. How the approac  Read Full Story >>>

Manny Pacquiao vs Tim Bradley 2: Leave no doubt this time
By Chris Murray, Fight Saga, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
Travesty, farce, scandal, disgrace and crime were just some of the words associated with the first Manny Pacquiao (55-5-2 38 KO) vs Tim Bradley (31-0 12KO) bout on June 9, 2012. For all the wrong reasons, boxing was under the spotlight again. Even though a case can be made Tim Bradley mad  Read Full Story >>>

Miguel Cotto, Sergio Martinez trade verbal jabs ahead of title fight at Madison Square Garden
By Mitch Abramson, New York Daily News, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
It was a bit unusual to hear boxers bickering over pleasantries and minor slights when fighters are used to rougher conditions in the ring. But when Miguel Cotto and Sergio Martinez crossed paths in Mexico during a chance meeting at a television studio several years ago, it left a bad impression  Read Full Story >>>

Promotional squabbles aired at Sergio Martinez-Miguel Cotto presser
By Tim Smith, RingTV.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
NEW YORK – Respect, or the lack thereof, seems to be the running theme between RING and WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez and Miguel Cotto leading up to their match at Madison Square Garden on June 7. It seems it was the primary hangup that dragged out negotiations for what will be one   Read Full Story >>>

Martinez-Cotto NYC Presser Report, Part 1: Arum Thunders Next To Mella DiBella
By Michael Woods, The Sweet Science, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
They are two certified characters in a sport, and a world, which is losing them, because conformity is rewarded, and dissent discouraged all the more in an economic context dominated ever more so by fewer and fewer large entities. Lou DiBella and Bob Arum, two Brooklyn-born dealmakers, sipped cof  Read Full Story >>>

Cotto, Martinez on a quest for history
By Ramon Aranda, 3MoreRounds.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
When middleweight champ Sergio Martinez and Miguel Cotto step into the ring on June 7 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, each man will look to enhance their legacy with another signature win. For Cotto (38-4, 31 KOs), he will attempt to become the first Puerto Rican to win a world title i  Read Full Story >>>

Sergio Martinez: Miguel Cotto ‘will be sleeping before the ninth’
By Lem Satterfield, RingTV.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
As Sergio Martinez stared, face-to-face, into the eyes of Miguel Cotto on Monday at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, he saw a smaller, yet fearless man. Even so, he predicted that Cotto "will be sleeping before the ninth round" when they meet on June 7 at New York's Madison Square Garden. "Seeing hi  Read Full Story >>>

Danny Garcia: Puerto Rico's Lone Champion Goes Home
By Gabriel Montoya, MaxBoxing.com, Wed, 12 Mar 2014
Danny Garcia takes exception at the idea that Puerto Rico is - for the first time in a long time - without a boxing champion to call its own. “I don’t think it’s fair that you can say I’m not a Puerto Rican fighter because I wasn’t born in Puerto Rico, when my blood is Puerto Rican. So I had to   Read Full Story >>>