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Mayweather Vs. Pacquiao Ticket Pricing Goes Berserk
By Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes.com, Wed, 25 Feb 2015
Boxing fans have waited six long years to see the two greatest fighters of this generation square off in the ring. Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao finally got a deal done last week to meet on May 2 in Las Vegas, and the intense demand to see the latest ?fight of the century? is producing histori Read Full Story >>>Insulting Manny Pacquiao?s basketball skills sends one American player to the unemployment line
By Cindy Boren, Washington Post, Wed, 25 Feb 2015
Basketball officials in the Philippines delivered a low blow to an American player who dared criticize the basketball skills of Manny Pacquiao, the country?s legendary boxer/politician/wannabe hoopster.
Daniel Orton, a 6-foot-10 former NBA player who played at Kentucky, was fired and fined for qu Read Full Story >>> Mayweather vs Pacquiao: Who wins outside the ring?
By Ryan Wong, Sports Illustrated, Wed, 25 Feb 2015
What to expect from Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao
On SI Now, Sports Illustrated senior writer Chris Mannix explains what fans should expect in the mega fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
The long (long, long) awaited fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather has fi Read Full Story >>> 8 People You've Never Heard Of Who Are Way Richer Than Floyd "Money" Mayweather
By Maurice Peebles, Complex.com, Wed, 25 Feb 2015
In America, life is all about perception. Those people in the movies? Yeah, they're mostly hollow, self-centered simpletons...but they look so beautiful and important on the red carpet! Those people we elect to represent us in Washington? Yeah, they're crooked, power-hungry liars who lick the boots Read Full Story >>> TEAM PACQUIAO PLOTTING TO SPLIT MAYWEATHER?S DEFENSE
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
GENERAL SANTOS CITY ? Breaking Floyd Mayweather Jr.?s touted defensive prowess is where Manny Pacquiao?s preparations will be concentrated.
This, in a nutshell, was what assistant trainer, Buboy Fernandez said will mark th Read Full Story >>> Alan Hubbard: Record-breaking superfight between Mayweather and Pacquiao is long overdue
By Alan Hubbard, Inside the Games, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
You never hear Floyd Mayweather Jnr talk about his Olympic bronze boxing medal, gained in deeply controversial circumstances at the Atlanta Games of 1996. No doubt it has been disdainfully tossed away and nestles somewhere in his sock draw at his Las Vegas mansion amid an assorted pile of bling.
Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao doesn?t need a KO to beat Floyd ? Koncz
By Josef T. Ramos, The Manila Times, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
MANNY Pacquiao?s long-time adviser Mike Koncz believes that the reigning World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion doesn?t need a knockout to give Floyd Mayweather Jr. the very first defeat of his boxing career.
Koncz, who served as Pacquiao?s eyes and ears in the United States during Read Full Story >>> Sweet science lives on
By Edri Aznar, Sun.Star Cebu, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
IN RECENT years, boxing has slowly lost the interest of the general public. Unlike its golden age, from 1920s to the 60s, fewer people are paying attention to the sport anymore. The rapid rise of the sport of mixed-martial arts (MMA) also helped in that decline and has lured mostly the younger gener Read Full Story >>> ?Greg Bishop: Mayweather/Pacquiao Destined To Disappoint?
By Damon Amendolara, CBS Sports, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
Sports Illustrated senior writer Greg Bishop has written several stories about Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao ? about how they should fight, when it should happen, etc., etc., etc.
The first story that Bishop wrote about this? Yeah, it was 2009.
?I?ve gotten a lot more gray hair since th Read Full Story >>> Khan Salty On Mayweather-Pacquiao ?Mega-fights, they often turn out to be quite dull.?
By Victor Salazar, Tha Boxing Voice, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
Amir Khan along with Miguel Cotto seemed to be the odd men out of big fights when Floyd Mayweather announced he would be fighting Manny Pacquiao. Khan was rumored to be in the running with both fighters should the fight fall apart. But now he is on the outside looking in.
Khan told the The Sun th Read Full Story >>> Klitschko: I?m glad Golovkin is not in my division!
By Phil D. Jay, World Boxing News, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
Reigning heavyweight king Wladimir Klitschko was obviously impressed with middleweight counterpart Gennady Golokvin's performance last Saturday night as the Ukrainian has tweeted his congratulations to the Kazakh puncher.
'Dr. Steelhammer,' who is undefeated in over a decade, breathed a cheeky si Read Full Story >>> DIAZ: PACQUIAO?S SPEED WILL BE THE KEY IN BEATING MAYWEATHER
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
Former World Boxing Council lightweight champion David Diaz, the likeable southpaw from Chicago who was battered into submission in nine rounds by Manny Pacquiao on June 28, 2008 at the Mandalay Bay Resort Hotel and Casino, Read Full Story >>> CHINESE BOXERS SWEEP FIVE WBC TITLES IN KUNMING
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
In an unprecedented night of boxing in what the WBC itself described as ?a quality packed card? by Zovi Boxing Promotions which was broadcast nationwide in China five title fights endorsed by the WBC were all won by Chin Read Full Story >>> Parties involved in Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao fight finally get to cash in
By Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
The science of splitting $200 million is not left to the destitute or desperate. For Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, all the king?s horses, and all the king?s men, arriving at that destination was an act of desperation.
Those already inclined to romanticize the road to getting the May 2 fight f Read Full Story >>> Mayweather, Paquiao could disappoint
By Steve Bunce, iOL Sport, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
One day in January 1990, at a hotel in Beverly Hills, Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson announced the world's most lucrative fight, with Don King boldly talking of both boxers making $40m.
The pair finally met in November 1996 after they had each survived and suffered through either years in pris Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao mourns passing of grandmother
By Celest R. Flores, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
MANILA, Philippines?Manny Pacquiao?s grandmother Cristina Dapidran passed away last February 18. She was 92.
In an Instagram post, Pacquiao posted photos of her grandmother?s wake in General Santos City.
?We will miss you Lola Cristina Mejia Dapidran. R.I.P Lola?We missed you Lola,? the captio Read Full Story >>> Luis Arias: ?Pacquiao is fast and he does a lot of very good things but he also makes a lot of mistakes?
By Chris Robinson, Hustle Boss, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
If ever there was a fighter who fit the description of a hardcore fight fan, it very well may be Luis ?Cuba? Arias.
A Milwaukee native who made the move to Vegas years back, Arias is as down to earth as they come and always keeps his eye on the latest the sport has to offer.
Arias (10-0, 4 KO Read Full Story >>> Eddie Chambers: ?Manny Pacquiao will get in there and he?ll be kind of shocked of how strong Floyd Mayweather is?
By Robert Brown, OTR Boxing Radio, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
I recently had a chance to speak with heavyweight contender, ?Fast? Eddie Chambers. After a rough patch in his career, Chambers reinvented himself by teaming up with UK trainer, Peter Fury. Now under the tutelage of Fury, Eddie experienced a successful return to the sport, winning five fights in 201 Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr. PPV fight, who is the underdog.
ThyBlackMan.com, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
(ThyBlackMan.com) WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao says he doesn?t mind being the underdog in his upcoming fight against WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 2nd. Manny Pacquiao probably hasn?t been an underdog too many times during his career, and perhaps not since his Read Full Story >>> In-Ring Monster Golovkin Must Relent To Get Big Fight
By Lyle Fitzsimmons, BoxingScene.com, Tue, 24 Feb 2015
Let?s say you?re Miguel Cotto.
You?re 34 years old. You?ve earned title belts in every weight class from 140 to 160 pounds.
And you?re such a fixture on Puerto Rican Day parade weekend in New York City that 20,000 people would gladly drop a couple hundred bucks to watch you go a few rounds wi Read Full Story >>>
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