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Can Floyd Mayweather Help Rebuild Adrien Broner?
By Paul Magno, Yahoo! Sports, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
COMMENTARY | Most truly informed fans recognized the fact that Adrien Broner was missing a few key ingredients in his effort to duplicate the Floyd Mayweather rise to boxing super-stardom.
In the ring, Broner was quick, athletic and, just like Mayweather, utilized the shoulder roll defense. Unli Read Full Story >>>Cornelius J. O?Leary: Poet, Philosopher, Pug and Counterfeiter
By Pete Ehrmann, Boxing.com, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
Con O?Leary was 16 and studying to become a priest when he saw his first fight and switched vocations on the spot?
Heralded in the Milwaukee Sentinel as a ?poet, philosopher, former pug and barkeeper,? Cornelius J. O?Leary was 60 years old when his life turned on a dime in 1918.
It was a count Read Full Story >>> John Scully: ?For Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather to refuse to fight for more than 40 million, is literally an insult to struggling fighters?
By Jenna Jay, OTR Boxing Radio, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
John Scully is a renowned boxing trainer, 2 time world title challenger, analyst and boxing commentator. He has trained the likes of former light/heavy weight champion Chad Dawson. As well as many other top fighters. In this interview Scully discusses recent boxing events and the ramifications of t Read Full Story >>> Q&A with Stephen Espinoza: The man behind Showtime's rise in boxing
By Chris Mannix, Sports Illustrated, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
NEW YORK -- By any measurement, it's been a banner year for Showtime Sports. With a newfound commitment to boxing, Showtime has seen its ratings soar. In 2013, the network's championship boxing telecasts increased by 24 percent from last year and by 64 percent since 2011. The rise has positioned Sho Read Full Story >>> SULEM URBINA PERSEVERES TO WIN GOLD IN MEXICO
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
Sulem Urbina captures the flyweight gold medal at the Mexican Amateur Boxing Nationals in Guadalajara, Mexico, and looks forward to international competition in 2014.
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, U.S.A. ? Amateur boxer Sulem Urbina, a Mexican born, U.S. resident, returned to the Knockout Boxing Club in Pho Read Full Story >>> Greg Cohen Promotions (GCP) off to a Big Start in 2014
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
New York-based promoter Greg Cohen of Greg Cohen Promotions has a very busy schedule set up for the start of 2014, with several high-profile events he is either promoting or co-promoting and featuring many of his premier fighters.
On Friday, January 10, Greg Cohen Promotions, DiBella Entertainmen Read Full Story >>> Who is boxing's prospect of the year?
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
Boxing has finished arguably its finest year of the century, a year filled with compelling fights, dramatic finishes and magnificent performances by its biggest stars.
The greatest news, perhaps, is the emergence of a slew of young, talented boxers, in a myriad of weight classes, who appear poise Read Full Story >>> HBO Boxing presents its top fights of 2013 December 23-27
By Gayle Falkenthal, The Washington Times, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
SAN DIEGO, December 23, 2013 ? In what is becoming a holiday tradition, HBO will replay the best boxing aired on its network in 2013 for fight fans to enjoy again, or perhaps for the first time. For five nights straight, HBO will air two top bouts back to back.
There were many exceptional moments Read Full Story >>> New Money Christmas Jeer
By Robert Ecksel, Boxing.com, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
If you were to put Arum, Schaefer, De La Hoya, Mayweather, and Pacquiao in a room for a week, there would be nothing left but bones?
I admire those who believe Mayweather vs. Pacquiao will someday happen. Their pluck is splendid. Their patience is commendable. Their fidelity verges on the miracul Read Full Story >>> MIGUEL COTTO: "I WANT TO GO WITH MARTINEZ"
By Ben Thompson, FightHype.com, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
"I want to go with Martinez," stated three-division world champion Miguel Cotto, who held an informal luncheon today with select members of the local media at the Caribe Hilton in Puerto Rico earlier today, announcing his intentions to move forward with a planned June 7 showdown with middleweight ki Read Full Story >>> Broner?s Not the Problem, Only a Symptom
By Sam Geraci, Boxing Insider, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
What?s Really Ailing Boxing?
After Marcos ?Chino? Maidana outclassed Adrien ?The Problem? Broner in a WBA welterweight title fight in which I was hard-pressed to find three rounds to score in Broner?s favor from my couch-side view, I, like many of the sport?s writers and truest fans, wanted to ju Read Full Story >>> Nothing Can Get Floyd Mayweather to Fight Manny Pacquiao; Now We Know Why
By Ivan G. Goldman, Boxing Insider, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
The things Floyd Mayweather says are frequently at odds with the things he does, so predicting his moves based on his comments can be a foolish task. But a recent interview with ?Fight Hype? makes it abundantly clear he won?t fight Manny Pacquiao next year or any other year, not even if pressured by Read Full Story >>> Mayweather Jr. taunts Pacquiao with holiday meme
By Rich Mazon , PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
It looks like the Christmas spirit may have gotten to Floyd Mayweather Jr. too - or so it seems.
The undefeated boxing champ, who alongside off-ring rival, Manny Pacquiao has once again permeated the world of boxing w Read Full Story >>> 2013 FIGHT OF THE YEAR TIMOTHY BRADLEY JR. vs. RUSLAN PROVODNIKOV TO BE REPLAYED ON CHRISTMAS EVE
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
Tomorrow! Thursday, Dec. 24 at 11 P.M. ET/PT
Exclusively on HBO 2
NEW YORK (December 23, 2013) -- Boxing fans can wrap last-minute Christmas gifts by the glow of the 2013 Fight of the Year between the year's t Read Full Story >>> ?Like putting an arsonist to be fire department chief?
By Recah Trinidad, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
The first reaction to the assignment of Canadian Michael Koncz to straighten out Manny Pacquiao?s crooked tax record in the United States was one of disbelief.
There were also those who swore Pacquiao could be pulling their leg.
Well, nothing has so far been heard from that heavily taxed edg Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather next fight: Khan, Maidana, Manny Pacquiao or Jon Jones
NVO News, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
He is set to face another opponent inside the ring in May 2014. Floyd Mayweather Jr next fight may be against Amir Khan, Marcos Maidana, Manny Pacquiao or Jon Jones. I have put Jon Jones? name in the list as he seems to be the only man who may be able to beat the boxing world?s undisputed king. The Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez V May Happen After All
By Brian Ethridge, iSportstimes, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
Not too long ago it seemed like a fifth fight between rivals Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez would never happen. It seemed like Marquez was happy with the way their fourth fight ended (he knocked Pacquiao out cold) and would refuse to take a fifth fight because he had nothing left to prove.
Read Full Story >>> OBSERVE AND FIGHT: BOXING'S CHRISTMAS WISH LIST HEADING INTO 2014
By David Kassel , FightHype.com, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
It's Monday. Welcome back for another edition of Observe and Fight, The Boxing Observer's compilation of observations and random thoughts from the week that was in boxing. It's Christmas week and I've got a few requests for jolly ole St. Nick. Hopefully, when I wake up Christmas morning, Santa Claus Read Full Story >>> '12 Days': Stevenson-Kovalev
By Eric Raskin, ESPN.com, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
The clich?d "irresistible force versus immovable object" paradox makes for a pretty darned good stylistic showdown in the boxing ring. But it's second-best in terms of excitement to when the irresistible force meets another irresistible force.
The truth is, we don't really know how immovable eith Read Full Story >>> The Mega-Fight Edition [Vol. IV]: Muhammad Ali vs. Mike Tyson
By John Gatling, Examiner.com, Tue, 24 Dec 2013
My very first impression of Muhammad Ali came in the den while sitting with my late grandfather. He loved him. He thought of him as far more than a boxer, rather, a fighter for mankind.
He wasn?t kind in his description of Mike Tyson.
Long after the day I watched a replay of Ali?s emotional an Read Full Story >>>
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