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Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao: The biggest fight of all time, or maybe just the most lucrative?
By Alan Hubbard, The Independent, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
The huge billboards dotted along Las Vegas? neon-lit Strip declare it ?the Fight of a Lifetime? and the long-awaited coupling of Floyd Mayweather Jnr and Manny Pacquiao next weekend has the potential to be an epic confrontation.
The build-up has been enormous, with interest phenomenal on both sid Read Full Story >>>Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight of the Century breaks another record
By Sean Wagner-McGough, CBS Sports, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
Add another record to the Fight of the Century's running tally. And this record, like many of the others, involves money.
According to a report published by ESPN, the fight featuring Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will break the record for most money generated by sponsors. ESPN spoke with To Read Full Story >>> The Mayweathers are in this fight together
By Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
The ride of a lifetime that is fatherhood began for Floyd Mayweather Sr. by pushing a stroller around his former Grand Rapids, Mich., neighborhood.
"Used to walk my son every day ? maybe someone would think I was some kind of gay person or something ? but every day I walked him everywhere with me Read Full Story >>> What The Fuck Is Wrong With Stephen A. Smith?
By Iron Mike Gallego, Deadspin.com, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
Stephen A. Smith is the ultimate low-hanging fruit. His job is to be low-hanging fruit; just noticing anything he says feels like dead-horse beating. But over the past few weeks, Stephen A. has transformed himself from garden-variety shill and troll into a kind of cartoonish super-troll. He?s the ul Read Full Story >>> Mayweather difficult to peg, even outside ring
By Todd Harmonson, OCRegister.com, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
Labels are as easy to throw at him as punches and every bit as difficult to land.
For a brief moment, Floyd Mayweather aptly is defined in 140 characters or a six-second video. In the next, a five-act Shakespearean tragicomedy is required to begin to understand one of the most complex athletes of Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao: Is the welterweight challenger a heavyweight contender to the President of the Philippines?
By Kathy Marks, The Independent, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
Manila?s traffic-choked streets will be almost deserted next Saturday. Across the violence-racked Philippines, the crime rate will plummet.
And on Manny Pacquiao?s home island of Mindanao, separatist rebels will come down from the hills and just for one day join with their enemies to cheer on the Read Full Story >>> Mayweather v Pacquiao: Floyd cannot keep gambling, he should retire once he has 'schooled' Manny Pacquiao
By Gareth A Davies, Telegraph.co.uk, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
Floyd Mayweather Snr and Roger Mayweather, father and uncle respectively of the world?s most enigmatic and gifted boxer, are holding court at the Mayweather Boxing Club off Valley View, in a strip mall on the edge of Chinatown.
This is the Las Vegas office of the Mayweather clan. The rectangular Read Full Story >>> Mayweather vs. Pacquiao Fight Week Survival Guide for the real boxing fan
By Frank Ingiosi, ProBoxing-fans.com, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
How to Survive Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao Mania for the Next 7 Days:
This time next week you?ll be waking up from your usual Friday night bender to what amounts to Christmas/birthday/pro football -championship-game-that-we-legally-can?t-put-into-writing-lest-we-be-sued, all rolled into one. Read Full Story >>> Raissman: Whoever wins Mayweather-Pacquiao, fans will lose
By Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
In the run-up to next Saturday?s Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight, media minds are more concerned about how much moo-la-dee the event will generate than whether you, the fan, can even afford to watch it.
The consumer can go directly to hell. There is almost as little concern for financial r Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather eyes Las Vegas jackpot against Manny Pacquiao
By Kevin Mitchell, The Guardian, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
Floyd Mayweather is not often called Junior these days, which is a pleasing development for a 38-year-old father of four who is responsible for the financial well-being of an entire sport as well as his adopted city. (Even his publicist calls him ?Mister? in public.)
From the garden of his echoin Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao has won so much, some wonder what he might have lost
By Rick Maese, Washington Post, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
LOS ANGELES ? The Hollywood strip mall near Sunset and Vine contains a nail salon, a massage parlor, a Thai takeout joint, an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting place and, for several hours every afternoon, one of the best fighters on the planet.
Manny Pacquiao is training for what will surely be the b Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather 2015: 10 Thoughts Opinionated Viewers Should Consider Before Watching Fight
By Bobby Ilich, International Business Times, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
The upcoming megafight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will at the very least be a memorable event in boxing history. The sight next week of the two superstar welterweights in the ring together after five years of contentious debate to get the fight signed will make for perhaps one of th Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather Jr is (still) a terrible person
By Jordan Freiman , Death and Taxes, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao are gearing up for their fight that comes about 8 years after everyone wanted it. Boxing is in such a dismal state though that this is still the only fight people care about. It would be really great if everyone would just refuse to watch it though, if for no o Read Full Story >>> Too late to count: Mayweather's Pacquiao bout can?t match the greatest fights
By Neil Fissler, Express.co.uk, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
Social media has been in meltdown since the showdown ? almost six years in the making ? was finally announced.
The bout is set to make around ?273million in revenue, with the 1,000 tickets that went on sale to the general public selling out in less than a minute and then starting to change hands Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather on his Manny Pacquiao battle:
By Simon Boyle, mirror.co.uk, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
It?s the biggest sporting event in history, with the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world ready to do battle.
And Floyd ?Money? Mayweather tells me he?s completely confident of a win on May 2 ? and is worth every penny of the ?100million he?s set to pocket.
Floyd, 38, who takes on Manny Read Full Story >>> Running with Pacquiao: Excuse his dust, swallow your pride
By Artemio T. Engracia, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
HOLLYWOOD?It was 6:30 on Thursday morning and the Kayote Boyz had gathered on the street, stretching and warming up in front of Manny Pacquiao?s house in West Hollywood. They were waiting for the champion to come out for his short run to a nearby park and they were to make sure that nothing bad happ Read Full Story >>> Five sponsors of Mayweather-Pacquiao fight chip in a record $13.2M
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
The Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao welterweight unification megafight on May 2 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas is expected to shatter all revenue records in boxing history, including for most money generated by sponsors.
Todd duBoef, president of Top Rank, Pacquiao's promoter, told ESPN.com on Fri Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao Turns To God, The Bible, And His Faith For May 2 Fight Against Floyd Mayweather
The Inquisitr, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
According to the Christian Post, Manny Pacquiao has turned to God, the Bible, and his faith in preparation for what has been called ?The Fight of the Century? to settle the debate about who is the best boxer.
The highly anticipated boxing match that has been talked about for five years between Fl Read Full Story >>> ROACH: "IT'S THEM WHO HAVE PROBLEMS, NOT US"
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
LOS ANGELES, Cal. ? Problems? What problems?
This, in essence was how Manny Pacquiao?s chief trainer Freddie Roach reacted to reports that all is not well in the World Boxing Organization welterweight champion?s camp and th Read Full Story >>> 2ND PRE-FIGHT PRIMER ON ?BATTLE FOR GREATNESS? OVER PBO ON SKY CABLE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 26 Apr 2015
Watch the second pre-fight primer on ?BATTLE FOR GREATNESS? over Pinoy Box Office (OBO) over Sky Cable nationwide at 10:30 today, Sunday.
Listen to boxing analysts Ryan Sngalia of Ring Magazine and Rappler as well as Mik Read Full Story >>>
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