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'The Nightmare's' dream comes true
By Danny Flexen, BoxingNews, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
VANES MARTIROSYAN has found a key ally ahead of his biggest fight yet ? Britain?s WBA light-welterweight champion Amir Khan. The pair have shared history in that they both appeared at the 2004 Athens Olympics ? Khan winning silver for Great Britain at lightweight, while US welter Martirosyan crashed Read Full Story >>>Image gallery: Cotto and Foreman weigh in amidst electric crowd at Yankee Stadium
By Chris Robinson, Examiner.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
There is nothing quite like the weigh in to a meaningful professional boxing event. It is then that the suspense is further heightened as we are able to s Read Full Story >>> Yankees like Cotto to win fight in their ballpark
By Associated Press, USA Today, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
NEW YORK ? The first fight in more than three decades at Yankee Stadium has just about everybody offering a prediction, including players on the team that usually calls the place home.
Several members of the Yankees are picking former three-time champion Miguel Cotto to defeat junior middleweight Read Full Story >>> FOREMAN - 154 LBS, COTTO - 153.5 LBS
PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
6/4/10, Bronx,N.Y. -- (L-R) Undefeated WBA World Super Welterweight champion Yuri Foreman,Brooklyn, N.Y. and three-time world champion Miguel Cotto, Caguas, Puerto Rico pose after weighing in (Foreman 154 lb, Cotto 1 Read Full Story >>> CONTROVERSIAL ALI-NORTON FIGHT WAS THE LAST TITLE FIGHT AT YANKEE STADIUM
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
The controversial decision that marked the third fight between heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton was the last title fight at Yankee Stadium in New York.
That was on September 28, 1976. On Saturday June 5, Sunda Read Full Story >>> Roach: We'll craft blueprint to beat Mayweather in Cebu or Baguio
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
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Guess they don't have a "Trainer of the Decade" Award at the Boxing Writers Association of America. But they should.
Coach Freddie Roach picks up his fourth best tra Read Full Story >>> Freddie Roach: Manny Pacquiao Could Fight Floyd Mayweather, Juan Marquez, Then Retire
By Lem Satterfield, Fanhouse, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
New York City -- WBO and WBA lightweight (135 pounds) champion, Juan Manuel Marquez, told FanHouse last month that he believes seven-division champion, Manny Pacquiao, to be afraid to Read Full Story >>> Juan Manuel Lopez vs. Bernabe Concepcion Preview & Prediction
By Scott Levinson, ProBoxing-fans.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
JuanMa Makes Another Title Defense on July 10th
Juan Manuel Lopez defends his WBO title against upstart challenger Bernabe Concepcion on July 10 in his native Puerto Rico. He enters this bout as a heavy favorite, though Concepcion is a good young fighter who just might have a few surprises up his Read Full Story >>> The Pugilist - Ten Greatest Stadium Fights
By Marty Mulcahey, MaxBoxing.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
On Saturday, Miguel Cotto and Yuri Foreman revive a great New York City boxing tradition, squaring off against one another before a packed house at Yankee Stadium. From the 1930s to late 1950s, these summer stadium fights were nearly as common as playoff baseball, and not just in New York City. Some Read Full Story >>> MEMORABLE FIGHTS AT NEW YORK?S YANKEE STADIUM
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
As fight fans around the world eagerly look forward to an intriguing light middleweight title fight between WBA champion Yuri Foreman and former WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto this Sunday, Manila Time at the state-of- Read Full Story >>> Cotto confident with Steward at the helm
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
NEW YORK -- Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has been touting Miguel Cotto, the former welterweight and junior welterweight titlist, as New York's No. 1 boxing attraction.
After all, the pride of Puerto Rico has sold approximately 93,000 tickets for his six headline fights at Madison Square Garden, Read Full Story >>> Miguel Diaz? unadulterated look at Miguel Cotto (2 of 2): Defeat, fallout, and a date with Foreman
By Chris Robinson, Examiner.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
In the first part of my interview with Miguel Diaz the wise Argentinean told me that from the minute Top Rank signed Miguel Cotto that he knew the Puerto Rican would be a star. Cotto would go on to make those proclamations true with a fine run of success at 140 pounds that included six defenses of h Read Full Story >>> Exclusive 8CN interview: Nonito Donaire
By Kenneth Ragpala, 8countnews, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
Nonito Donaire, Jr. is one of Philippine?s most prolific boxing icons, no doubt. With an impressive record of 23 wins against one defeat, 15 wins by way of knockout, there is no way to go but up for the fighter whom pundits dubbed as the Filipino Flash. Currently ranked #4 by The Ring magazine in th Read Full Story >>> Arum: Cotto-Foreman at Yankee Stadium has spirit of Louis-Schmelling
By Gareth A Davies, Telegraph.co.uk, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
Yuri Foreman, the man who has in his soul the appetite to punch faces for a living but in his spirit a rabbinical calling, finds himself in a collision on Saturday night with teak-tough Puerto Rican talisman Miguel Cotto in New York.
Cotto, the three time world champion, will attempt to take the Read Full Story >>> Miguel Cotto: A Legacy Cemented?
By Brian Gorman, DogHouseBoxing.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
It was June of 2008, and several boxing writers noted the 25th anniversary of one of the most notorious crimes in pugilistic history, the June 1983 assault by Luis Resto of undefeated Bob Arum prospect ?Irish? Billy Collins by way of Panama Lewis? removal of the stuffing from Resto?s gloves.
Eve Read Full Story >>> Exclusive interview and photos Part I: Rachel Donaire leaves Nonito...not for long
By Granville Ampong, Examiner.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
Celebrity Headlines Examiner Exclusive, Hollywood, California, June 4, 2010 - Love and fashion, not passion, are sometimes strange companions. But in the case of rising fashion Read Full Story >>> Mayweather gives back gets hate in return
By Brad Cooney, Examiner.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
Recently Floyd Mayweather Jr made a wish come true for an 18 year old fan. The Make a Wish Foundation is a wonderful organization that grants wishes for kids who are fighting cancer. Floyd made a dream come true for a young man, and it's a beautiful gesture no matter how some of his detractors wan Read Full Story >>> TKO In Manny Pacquiao Camp: 'Lizardo' Salvador put smackdown on Koncz
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
While the Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao camps keep talking about a fight between the two superstars, there is a fight result to report from within the Pacman inner circle.
Several sources have confirmed that veteran Pinoy actor and onetime political candidate Philllip Salvador, a popular, Read Full Story >>> 5 Questions For ... Jim Lampley
By Justin Terranova, American Chronicle, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
BIG-TIME boxing is back in The Bronx. Yuri Foreman will defend his junior middleweight championship against Miguel Cotto at the new Yankee Stadium on Saturday night. HBO play-by-play man Jim Lampley talks about the significance of calling the first fight at a Yankee Stadium since 1976 and the import Read Full Story >>> RON FRAZIER: "FOREMAN OUTBOXES HIM...ARUM KNOWS THAT"
By Percy Crawford, FightHype.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
"I think Foreman outboxes him. Yuri is a natural 154-pounder and Miguel Cotto is not. People forget, he wasn't a big welterweight. This is a guy that has spent most of his career at 140. I think 28 of his bouts were at 140 pounds, where I think he was at his best. He moved up to 147 and he fought ot Read Full Story >>>
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