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Margarito confirms he's 'still in the running' to face Manny Pacquiao if Floyd Mayweather Jr retires
By Rick Rockwell, Examiner.com, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
With the Floyd Mayweather Jr fight up in the air, many are speculating as to who Manny Pacquiao will face. Will it be Juan Manual Marquez, newly crowned Miguel Cotto, or Antonio Margarito?
The former welterweight champion confirmed to this reporter that he's still in the running to fight Manny P Read Full Story >>>8CN Exclusive Podcast: Steve "USS" Cunningham
By Brad Cooney, 8countnews, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
8CountNews caught up with the newly crowned two time world champion Steve "USS" Cunningham. Steve just won the vacant IBF cruiserweight world title over former Contender champion Troy Ross. The fight was stopped due to a cut suffered by Troy Ross. The referee ruled that the cut was caused by a pu Read Full Story >>> Cotto's Mirage-Like Showing Exposed Foreman
By Frank Lotierzo, The Sweet Science, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
This past Saturday night at Yankees Stadium in New York, former junior welterweight/welterweight title holder Miguel Cotto 35-2 (28) stopped Yuri Foreman 28-1 (8) in the ninth round to capture the WBA junior middleweight title. This was Cotto's first fight since he was stopped by Manny Pacquiao in t Read Full Story >>> ?Only the referee can stop the fight?
By Epifanio M. Almeda, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
The WBA 154-lb title fight between Yuri Foreman and Miguel Cotto provides a situation where the rule ?only the referee can stop the fight? is highlighted.
When Foreman?s cornerman threw in the towel during the heat of e Read Full Story >>> Gutless ducks, lame ducks: Betting on Nevada to land Mayweather-Pacquiao
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
If Floyd Mayweather finds a way to not fight Manny Pacquiao, he will be labeled a gutless duck. It might be unfair given that he's a future Hall Of Famer with a perfect 41-0 pro record but that will be the overwhelming public perception.
If Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons, trailing badly in all polls Read Full Story >>> Open letter from Marcos Maidana
FightNews.com, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
WBA Super Lightweight champ Marcos Maidana talks about the cancelled fight against Timothy Bradley and publicly asks Golden Boy Promotions and Universum to show any possible contracts with him
Dear boxing fans and press members,
The last time you have seen me I was celebrating my first victory Read Full Story >>> Antonio Margarito comments on rematch with Miguel Cotto 'he might get the courage to fight me again'
By Rick Rockwell, Examiner.com, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
Soon after Cotto's victory over Yuri Foreman, many boxing critics and fans started guessing who would be Miguel's next opponent. Immediately, talks of a rematch with Manny Pacquiao filled the New York air.
But, Manny is 'locked' in a soap opera with Floyd Mayweather Jr. The other name to pass acro Read Full Story >>> A Cuban Discipline Crisis?
By Steve Kim, MaxBoxing.com, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
It wasn?t too long ago when renowned trainer Freddie Roach was telling anyone who would listen that Guillermo Rigondeaux was among the greatest, pure natural talents he had ever worke Read Full Story >>> Jeff Mayweather speaks on Floyd's possible public baiting game, discusses Caballero-Gamboa fallout
By Chris Robinson, Examiner.com, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
Inside the newly renovated Hit Factory Gym on the East side of Las Vegas you can find trainer Jeff Mayweather working diligently with his stable of fighters on a day to day basis. Mild mannered by nature, Jeff is the least vocal of the infamous Mayweather clan but still has a way with words about hi Read Full Story >>> FUENTES-IKEHARA COULD BE ?FIGHT OF THE YEAR? IN JAPAN
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
There is a growing consensus that as of now the first title defense of Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation flyweight champion Rocky Fuentes against Japan?s power-punching challenger Shigetaka Ikehara could well be the ?Fight o Read Full Story >>> Bottom Line, Arthur Mercante Jr. Adhered To The Rulebook
By Michael Woods, The Sweet Science, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
The fight itself was no classic, as Yuri Foreman found out right quick that we'd pulled a Mark Twain deal on him and you, that the press had decided prematurely that 29-year-old Miguel Cotto was st Read Full Story >>> A corner man's sin of omission
By Jingo Quijano, Sun.Star Cebu, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
SO HOW freaking hard is it for a fighter's seconds to wipe their corner dry before they send out their man back to the fray?
Apparently, Yuri Foreman's team found this to be an extremely difficult job and they could possibly have caused Foreman his junior middleweight crown.
Foreman, who was Read Full Story >>> Stevie Forbes: Ref Mercante's conduct appreciated by any fighter
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
Leyla Leidecker, the loving wife of former WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman, is still as mad as a hornet about how referee Arthur Mercante Jr. handled her husband's TKO 9 defeat Saturday night at Yankee Stadium.
"Maybe I should have punched him (Mercante) in the face," Leidecker told Read Full Story >>> Mercante was 1st man in ring at Yankee Stadium, not 3rd
By Chris Iorfida, CBCNews, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
Boxing returned to Yankee Stadium for the first time since Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton engaged in a much-debated bout 34 years ago, and befitting the sport, a bizarre night was in store for over 20,000 fans.
Miguel Cotto was leading in the 154-pound bout when the right leg of titleholder (and rab Read Full Story >>> Emmanuel Stewart Ready to Keep Freddie Roach's Mouth Shut on November 13, 2010?
By Granville Ampong, Associated Content, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
New York City, New York - After technically knocking out WBA Superwelterweight Champion Yuri Foreman in
round 9 at the Yankie Stadium in New York City last Saturday, Miguel Cotto rather makes it big onward
for his
new head trainer, Emmanuel Stewart.
Cotto's win gives Stewart, also an indu Read Full Story >>> MAYWEATHER WON?T TAKE TWO YEARS OFF, BUT HE MAY BE DONE FOR 2010
By Andre Zurbrug, FightHype.com, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
?At this particular time, Floyd Mayweather is taking probably a year off, a couple of years off, from the sport of boxing. I don?t really know what the future holds for Floyd Mayweather at this particular time, but, you know, I can probably take a couple of years off,? stated multi-division champion Read Full Story >>> Miguel Cotto earns victory, Yuri Foreman earns respect?
By Robert Przybylo, NewsOK.com, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
I didn?t want to get too hasty after watching it live, but after watching it again Sunday, I?m still miffed at how the whole Miguel Cotto-Yuri Foreman bout transpired.
Cotto earned a TKO victory in the ninth round, dropping Foreman with a left to the body. But that really wasn?t the story of the Read Full Story >>> Yuri Foreman's wife Leyla Leidecker on Cotto fight: 'Maybe I should punch the referee in his face'
By Tim Smith, New York Daily News, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
Don't mess with the boxer's wife - especially not if it's Leyla Leidecker, the wife of Yuri Foreman.
Foreman lost his WBA super welterweight title on a ninth-round TKO to Miguel Cotto Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao decisions Floyd Mayweather - outside the boxing ring
Democrat and Chronicle, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
The Boxing Writers Association of America last week overwhelmingly selected Manny Pacquiao Fighter of the Decade. In his acceptance speech Friday night in New York City he said: "I confronted poverty by trusting in God and dreaming big. I was convinced I could succeed in boxing and that the boxing r Read Full Story >>> By beating Yuri Foreman at Yankee Stadium, Miguel Cotto may have resurrected career
By Jerry Izenberg, The Star- Ledger, Tue, 08 Jun 2010
NEW YORK ? This was in April. Emanuel Steward was in the San Juan airport and running late. Miguel Cotto was already in Tampa, Fla., waiting for his trainer. Now Manny was trying to clear security when the TSA guy recognized him in the security line and began to talk about Cotto?s chances against su Read Full Story >>>
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