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Mayweather?s May 3 challenge isn?t Maidana, it?s doing big PPV numbers
By Tim Smith, RingTV.com, Thu, 01 May 2014
LAS VEGAS ? There are those entertainers whose fame is so transcendent that they are known by a single name ? Madonna, Cher, Prince.
The more he fights, the more Floyd ?Money? Mayweather joins that single name club. Money has beaten every single opponent that he has faced and there doesn?t seem Read Full Story >>>Main Events lawsuit in Stevenson case has potential to shake boxing to its core
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports, Thu, 01 May 2014
Kathy Duva of Main Events isn't one to be pushed around. The CEO of Main Events has long asserted that promoter Yvon Michel of Group Yvon Michel (GYM) had agreed to pit Adonis Stevenson against her fighter, Sergey Kovalev, in a light heavyweight bout that would be televised on HBO.
The WBC champi Read Full Story >>> "Ishe Smith vs. Ryan Davis" Final Press Conference Quotes
PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 01 May 2014
ISHE SMITH, Former IBF Junior Middleweight World Champion
"The focus right now is on Ryan Davis. We've had a tremendous camp and I just want to thank everyone who has helped me get back into shape.
"I'm very focused on the Read Full Story >>> Schaefer, Mayweather Take Veiled Shots at Arum
By Carlos Arias, BoxingScene.com, Thu, 01 May 2014
LAS VEGAS --- Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya spent last week offering an olive branch to Top Rank Promotions' Bob Arum, but apparently Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer and Floyd Mayweather didn't get the memo.
Schaefer and Mayweather never mentioned Arum by name, but they took ve Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather, Richard Schaefer stand by MGM Grand, in stark contrast to Bob Arum
By David Mayo, mlive.com, Thu, 01 May 2014
LAS VEGAS ? The final formal press conference before the Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana turned into an anti-Bob Arum referendum, though Manny Pacquiao's promoter never was mentioned by name.
Three weeks after Arum blasted MGM Grand and its president, Richard Sturm, for having Mayweather-Maidana Read Full Story >>> Robert Garcia: ?In this fight Mayweather is going to suffer, he?s going to be in a street fight?
By José Manuel Martino, BoxeoMundial, Thu, 01 May 2014
Yesterday afternoon Team Maidana made their grand arrivals to the MGM Grand Hotel Lobby to officially kick off fight week activities leading up to this Saturday night?s SHOWTIME PPV? event. Afterwards they would speak to the press about their fight on Saturday Night.
?I think I can knock him out Read Full Story >>> Donaire-Vetyeka: Interesting match-up
By Philip Ella Juico, The Philippine Star, Thu, 01 May 2014
Exactly a month ago, on March 30, we bumped into three-division world boxing champion Nonito Donaire Jr and wife Rachel at the hallway of the EDSA Shangri-La hotel. The Donaires were with friends and were on their way to their rooms to call it a night when we stepped out into the hallway. We were lo Read Full Story >>> Mayweather says he thinks of retiring, settling down
By Bob Velin, USA Today, Thu, 01 May 2014
LAS VEGAS - This time, he even took his closest friend and advisor by surprise.
Leonard Ellerbe, CEO of Mayweather Promotions, said during Wednesday's final press conference that when Floyd Mayweather mentioned in passing during a reporters' roundtable, and reiterated later that Saturday night's Read Full Story >>> Marcos Maidana on Floyd Mayweather Jr.: ?I don?t give a f?k about him?
By Lem Satterfield, RingTV.com, Thu, 01 May 2014
LAS VEGAS ? Marcos Maidana wore dark shades, a glittering black suit and a bowtie as he stepped to the podium for the final press conference at the Hollywood Theater of the MGM Grand, site of Saturday's defense of his WBA belt against RING and WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Showti Read Full Story >>> A purchase of the Clippers will require money, and much more
Los Angeles Times, Thu, 01 May 2014
The Los Angeles Clippers are not on the market just yet, but the prospect has the city, and the monied people who like to own Big Things, buzzing about who might become the next boss of one of pro basketball's most star-crossed, and now promising, franchises.
The television mics had not even gone Read Full Story >>> The Worst Boxer in History
By Ted Sares, The Boxing Tribune, Thu, 01 May 2014
I wish I could have seen more, but that guy (Briggs) is going to destroy anybody you put in front of him?Promoter Zach Walters
Another piece of rubbish in the Briggs build-up. One ?punch? to the body and the obese Mexican folded after just 20 seconds?Even Deontay Wilder never dug this deep to fin Read Full Story >>> The polarization of boxing
By Nigel Collins, ESPN.com, Thu, 01 May 2014
When ring announcer Johnny Addie grabbed the microphone suspended above the ring at New York's Madison Square Garden and faced the TV cameras, the raucous crowd watching on closed circuit inside the Philadelphia Arena suddenly went silent. There were no long-winded preambles or catchphrases, Addie g Read Full Story >>> Against the Odds
By Steve Kim, MaxBoxing.com, Thu, 01 May 2014
If you haven?t heard, Marcos Maidana, who faces Floyd Mayweather this Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, is a heavy underdog. Some books have ?Money? as high as a 14-1 favorite. Is that reflective of Mayweather?s superlative skills of Mayweather or Maidana?s limitations? And is this numbe Read Full Story >>> Mayweather vs Maidana: Be Still the Trembling Hand
By Marc Livitz, Fight Saga, Thu, 01 May 2014
This weekend?s proceedings in Las Vegas have already begun to roll straightforward and with a great head of steam.
Let?s not confuse that with the proverbial steam that may protrude from our ears when we get our respective cable bills in a month or so and see the toll charges of nearly eighty Am Read Full Story >>> Short on Time
By Joseph Santoliquito, Sherdog.com, Thu, 01 May 2014
Floyd Mayweather sat there, elbows on knees, dressed in a sharp black T-shirt, and cast a childlike gaze at the circus of humanity in front of him. They came in all shapes and sizes and they all wanted a piece of him, to touch him, to see him and to pay homage to him like he was some sort of shaman Read Full Story >>> Five keys for Floyd Mayweather Jr.
By Bernardo Pilatti , ESPN.com, Thu, 01 May 2014
The undisputed pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. returns to action Saturday in a welterweight title unification bout with dangerous Argentine puncher Marcos Maidana.
The fight takes place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and offers a distinct clash of styles.
On one side, Read Full Story >>> Five keys for Marcos Maidana
By Bernardo Pilatti , ESPN.com, Thu, 01 May 2014
Welterweight titlist Marcos Maidana enters the biggest fight of his career when he faces pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. in Saturday's title unification bout.
Maidana (35-3, 31 KOs), of Argentina, squares off with Mayweather (45-0, 26 KOs) in his own backyard at the MGM Grand Garden Are Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather Jr.?s not-so-secret weapon: The shoulder roll
By Bernard Fernandez, RingTV.com, Thu, 01 May 2014
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but there is nothing quite like true originals. Larry Donald and the late Greg Page were pretty good heavyweights, but their paint-by-numbers attempts to duplicate the distinctive style of their idol, Muhammad Ali, often came across as strai Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao to lead Palarong Pambansa opening ceremony
GMA News Online, Thu, 01 May 2014
Filipino boxing champ and Sarangani Rep. Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao will lead a star-studded opening ceremony of the Palarong Pambansa in Laguna this coming Monday, state-run Philippines News Agency reported Wednesday.
The PNA report said Pacquiao will join Filipino Winter Olympian Michael Martin Read Full Story >>> Ahead of One FC 15, Eduard Folayang Strives to Become Manny Pacquiao of MMA
By Trula Howe, Sherdog.com, Thu, 01 May 2014
Known around Southeast Asia as the Pinoy MMA counterpart to boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao, One Fighting Championship?s Eduard Folayang wants to be the next reason the world turns its eyes to Filipino combat sports.
?Manny is a great influence and encouragement,? Folayang said. ?He is one of o Read Full Story >>>
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