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Preparing for a career-defining fight
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
Every generation has its superfight. Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, however their showdown turns out on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, are -- at long last -- giving their generation its big one.
It's a fight that fans have waited more than five years for through numerous ups Read Full Story >>>Snakebite: Roger Mayweather in the 1980s
By Carlos Acevedo, The Cruelest Sport, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
Long before Roger Mayweather became famous for twelve-letter expletives and for discovering A-side Meth, he was a bold case study in hot-and-cold, up-and-down, and what-goes-around-comes-around. With a skull-and-crossbones stitched on his trunks and a right hand that could have doubled as a maul, Ma Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather Sr. ?Manny Pacquiao better be clean. That?s the only way that he can win, if he takes something!?
By Jenna Jay, OTR Boxing Radio, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
The fight the world has been waiting is now only five days away, and with the bout now entering fight week, the anticipation from the fans has reached a fever pitch. The trainers for both fighters has been anticipating the fight more than anyone, as for five years they could only talk about the figh Read Full Story >>> Cut men can keep Mayweather and Pacquiao in the fight
By Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
The two boxing cut men have spent nearly 100 years combined devoted to their craft of easing panic, patching damage and restoring calm in the 60 seconds between rounds, when a sudden injury threatens to alter the outcome of a fight.
So Rafael Garcia, 85, and Miguel Diaz, 77, cut men for Floyd May Read Full Story >>> My Take: Undefeated, unwatchable
By Mike Anthony, Statesboro Herald, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
Despite my personal preference for baseball and football, one of my first sports-related memories stems from the boxing ring.
Back in the summer of 1989, I took my dad?s hand and walked across the street to a neighbor?s house to watch Mike Tyson take on Carl Williams. It wasn?t a thrilling matc Read Full Story >>> A Pay-Per-View Knockout Unites Two Rival Networks
By Richard Sandomir, The New York Times, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
HBO and Showtime usually operate in separate orbits of the boxing universe: Linked to different promoters, they feature different fighters.
But on Saturday night, the interests of the rival networks will align as Floyd Mayweather Jr. fights Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in a welter Read Full Story >>> Why Pacquiao-Mayweather would have been better and worse five years ago
By George Willis, New York Post, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
It was the winter of 2009. Manny Pacquiao had just beaten Miguel Cotto to a pulp a few months after Floyd Mayweather had dominated Juan Manuel Marquez. The natural progression would be for Mayweather and Pacquiao to fight each other to decide supremacy in the pound-for-pound rankings.
But before Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao have drug testing, but some aren't sure that's enough
By Rick Maese, The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
For weeks, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather have been met at all hours by strangers. They've been visited in their homes and in their gyms, voluntarily giving blood and urine aimed at ensuring both boxers enter the ring for Sunday's much-anticipated fight completely drug-free.
Travis Tygart, c Read Full Story >>> Sam Watson Says if May-Pac is Good Then They?ll Do the Rematch
By Mario Mungia, Tha Boxing Voice, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
Fight week is upon us, and the big question is who will win between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao? Well, some people think they already have it figured out. While some have Floyd winning, and others see Manny victorious on May 2nd in Vegas, the conspiracy theorists believe that the stage i Read Full Story >>> Muhammad Ali tells Floyd: Don?t forget I?m the greatest
news.com.au, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
LAST week Floyd Mayweather arrogantly went where no fighter ever should ? questioning the legacy of Muhammad Ali.
Mayweather, who squares off against Manny Pacquiao on Sunday, said he had no doubt he was the greatest fighter of all-time ? not Ali or Sugar Ray Robinson.
?No one can ever brainw Read Full Story >>> Anticipation for Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight helped build up gate
By Greg Logan, NewsDay.com, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
LAS VEGAS - Boxing trainers will tell you styles make fights, but as vice president of the MGM Resorts Race and Sports Book, Jay Rood has a different perspective. The magic ingredient that has turned Saturday's Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao fight into the biggest moneymaker of all time is anti Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao combined for $1.6 billion in PPV sales
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
LAS VEGAS -- It's hardly a secret that Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao are going to sell a lot of pay-per-views on Saturday when they meet at the MGM Grand Garden for the WBA-WBC-WBO welterweight title in what is expected to be the largest grossing fight in boxing history.
Their full pay- Read Full Story >>> Oscar De La Hoya: My pick to win the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight
By Oscar de la Hoya, Los Angeles Times, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
scar De La Hoya says the will to win is what separated Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao from other foes
Oscar De La Hoya is one of five men who have fought both Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. The "Golden Boy" from East Los Angeles lost to both, and each battle was historic.
Insi Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao has plenty of hype ? let's hope the glory is worth weighting for
By Dave Kidd, mirror.co.uk, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
Demand to see the best of their era face off means even the WEIGH-IN is all-ticket but it's feared the fight is five years too late to be as good as it needs to be, writes Dave Kidd
On Friday night in Sin City, ten thousand punters will sardine themselves into the MGM Grand?s Garden Arena, having Read Full Story >>> Mayweather v Pacquiao: 'Muhammad Ali v Joe Frazier was easy to fix up compared to this'
By Gareth A Davies, Telegraph.co.uk, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
Bob Arum exhales a deep sigh as he weighs up the question - but the answer is yes. The man who has spent a lifetime promoting super-fights for legends such as Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns says that Floyd Mayweather versus Manny Pacquiao has surpassed everything for Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao takes road to greatness
By Francis Ochoa, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
HOLLYWOOD?This chase for greatness has begun with one final push across state lines.
His quest to cement his boxing legacy less than a week away, Manny Pacquiao was to roll out to Las Vegas in style Monday afternoon (Tuesday in Manila) for the final phase of his bid to put a blot on Floyd Mayweat Read Full Story >>> Family fight over, Floyd Mayweather Sr. says Junior is going to kick Manny Pacquiao's [bleep]
By Jerry Izenberg, nj.com, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
LAS VEGAS ? It wasn't always Father's Day at the Floyd Mayweather Jr. Boxing Club. Fifteen years ago, Senior and Junior parted ways for highly personal reasons, and Junior brought in his uncle Roger as the new trainer. It took well over a decade for that rift to heal. Among the things Floyd said at Read Full Story >>> 4.2-magnitude quake hits sea off Pacquiao?s Sarangani
Philippine Daily Inquirer, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
Days before Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. rock Las Vegas with their megafight, a magnitude 4.2 quake shook the sea off the Filipino champions hometown of Sarangani in Mindanao.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported that the quake occurred under water Read Full Story >>> Where Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao rank among all-time boxing greats
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
LAS VEGAS ? A few years ago, after another impressive victory by Manny Pacquiao, Top Rank CEO Bob Arum declared that the Filipino superstar was the greatest fighter he'd ever seen.
Given that in his half-century in boxing he'd promoted Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Tho Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather v Manny Pacquiao: Sugar Ray Leonard expects surprises
By Kevin Mitchell, The Guardian, Tue, 28 Apr 2015
There is nothing Sugar Ray Leonard does not know about boxing and there is quite a lot he knows about Floyd Mayweather, the man behind the image, the fighter behind the attitude.
It is his admiration of Mayweather?s ring craft, mental toughness and self-confidence bordering on arrogance ? qualiti Read Full Story >>>
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