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Sinatra, Mancini, and how Bob Arum discovered the Latino market
By Jerry Izenberg, nj.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
NEW YORK -- If it weren't for Boom Boom Mancini's bad shoulder, Frank Sinatra's feeling for Italian-American boxers, a posh casino in Bophuthatswana, Africa, and Nelson Mandela's vision, who is to say where promoter Bob Arum would be Saturday night?
The answer almost certainly isn't Yankee Stadiu Read Full Story >>>The wider implications of Cotto vs. Foreman
By Scott Heritage, Examiner.com, Sat, 05 Jun 2010
On the face of it, Yuri Foreman vs. Miguel Cotto this weekend is just one more example of a young untested champion defending his title against a veteran making one last challenge before his retirement.
Look a little closer though, and the fight could have much wider ramifications not only at lig Read Full Story >>> ?Pasalamat sa Diretso 3? Boxing in Lapu-lapu City This Sunday
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr., PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Promoters Rex ?Wakee? Salud, Aljoe Jaro and Naris Singwangcha of Thailand will stage a boxing event this June 6 Sunday at the Lapu-lapu City Auditorium. The event billed as ?Pasalamat sa Diretso 3? is headlined by a double main event - a ten round bout between superflyweights Marco Demecillo of Ilig Read Full Story >>> FUENTES READY FOR A TOUGH OPBF TITLE DEFENSE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Rocky Fuentes.
Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation flyweight champion Rocky Fuentes of the famed ALA Gym knows he has a really tough first title defense on his hands against world-rated Japanese mandatory challe Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather grants teenager a 'Make-A-Wish'
By Marv Dumon, Examiner.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr (41-0, 25 KOs) took time from his schedule to grant a wish to a teenage through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
The foundation grants va Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao can't back down and give into the demands of Floyd Mayweather Jr
By Rick Rockwell, Examiner.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
According to an unnamed source close to the negotiations, Mayweather Jr is standing firm on his demands to get a larger percentage of the fight purse. Apparently, Floyd Jr feels that his PPV numbers from the Mosley fight earns him the larger share. I'm here to tell you, Floyd Jr can stand by his dem Read Full Story >>> Bad Left Hook Fight Preview: Yuri Foreman v. Miguel Cotto
Bad Left Hook, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
On many Saturday nights in June, Yankee Stadium in the Bronx is filled with passionate fans. But this Saturday night will be different. The fans won't be there to catch the Yankees, they'll be there to see Miguel Cotto step up to 154 pounds and challenge alphabet titlist Yuri Foreman, as boxing make Read Full Story >>> Miguel Cotto must handle WBA 154-pound champion Yuri Foreman at Yankee Stadium to KO doubters
By Tim Smith, New York Daily News, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
There have never been so many doubts hovering above Miguel Cotto before a fight than there are for his 12-round match against WBA 154-pound champion Yuri Foreman at Yankee Stadium Saturday night.
Cotto is coming off a devastating loss to Manny Pacquiao. That - and a severe beating he took at the Read Full Story >>> Trainer not seeking war of words
NorthJersey.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
NEW YORK ? Joe Grier is a humble man, a 61-year-old grandfather who isn't interested in waging a war of words with Emanuel Steward, his training adversary Saturday night.
Steward suspects that the Yuri Foreman-Miguel Cotto super welterweight title fight at Yankee Stadium means more to Paterson's Read Full Story >>> Miguel Diaz? unadulterated look at Miguel Cotto (1 of 2): Life in Puerto Rico and early memories
By Chris Robinson, Examiner.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
There was always a certain buzz about Miguel Cotto. Growing up in Caguas, Puerto Rico,
boxing was instilled in him at a young age and his family was also involved in the sport from his late father Miguel Sr. to his uncle Evangelista and brother Jose. Bairoa Gym was Cotto?s home away from home and Read Full Story >>> Boxing Historian Picks Yuri Foreman-Miguel Cotto Winner
By Lem Satterfield, Fanhouse, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Bronx, N.Y.-- On Friday night, noted boxing historian, Jerry Izenberg, will receive The John F.X. Condon Award for "Long and Meritorious Service" from the Boxing Writers' Association of America.
Also a 1978 winner of the BWAA's Nat Fleisher Award for "Excellence in Boxing Journalism," the 79-year Read Full Story >>> Dougie's FAT Friday Mailbag
By Doug Fischer, The Ring, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
MIGUEL COTTO
What's good Dougie,
I just read an article where they were talking about Miguel Cotto may already be a shot fighter. I don't necessarily disagree, but if it's true, let's give the man his due. He's fought nothing but bad mofo's and anybody that knows anything about the current state Read Full Story >>> PACQUIAO ENJOYS TRIBUTE TO ARUM
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Pound-for-pound king and ?Fighter of the Decade? Manny Pacquiao had an enjoyable evening at a gala dinner in honor of Top Rank promoter Bob Arum at the Friar?s Club on East 55th Street in downtown Read Full Story >>> Miguel Cotto ? A Different Kind of Faith
By Thomas Gerbasi, BoxingScene.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
In the lead-up to Saturday?s junior middleweight title bout at Yankee Stadium between Yuri Foreman and Miguel Cotto, much of the attention has been focused on the faith of the champion, a Rabbi in training whose adherence to his studies is not only admirable, but a goldmine for those looking for the Read Full Story >>> FOREMAN, COTTO AT YANKEES-ORIOLES PRE-GAME CEREMONY
PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Yankee Stadium, NY -- Prior to today?s Yankees-Orioles game at Yankee Stadium, [From L to R] three-time world champ Miguel Cotto (34-2, 28KOs), Yankees Manager Joe Girardi and undefeated WBA super welterweight cha Read Full Story >>> 'LEGENDARY WORLD CHAMPIONS' AT FRIARS CLUB
PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
6/3/10, New York, N.Y. -- "LEGENDARY WORLD CHAMPIONS" --- Six-time former world champion Thomas 'Hitman' Hearns, seven-time world champion and "Fighter of the Decade" Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao and Read Full Story >>> A Bronx tale, or two, in bout between Foreman and Cotto
By Bob Velin, USA Today, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
There are story lines galore for Saturday's WBA junior middleweight title fight between champion Yuri Foreman and former welterweight champion Miguel Cotto in New York:
?Foreman is the first Israeli world champion Read Full Story >>> These private fight negotiations are a smash hit so far
By Matt Stolow, Examiner.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
The late Irving Rudd is certainly looking down at his old boss Bob Arum these days with a big smile. Rudd, was Arum's press agent from the 1970s through late 1980s.
Anyway, what "Swerving Irving" would be pleased about is the way Arum has skillfully turned a silly self-imposed gag order into the Read Full Story >>> Sound & Fury: The Amir Khan Caravan, Donaire Disappointed, The Klitschko Conundrum, Alexander-Bradley Waste Spittle, Vengeful Promoters & Why Websites Kowtow to Them
By Carlos Acevedo, The Cruelest Sport, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Nice to see that the road to superstardom Amir Khan is traveling on will be paved with gold flagstones for the foreseeable future. According to Boxing Scene, Richard Schaefer would like to put Khan in with a lightweight, Michael Katsidis, or an ancient former junior lightweight, Joel Casamayor. This Read Full Story >>> Cotto ? Foreman: Stadium Slugfest Predictions
Diamond Boxing, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Rick Assad - On paper, the Miguel Cotto-Yuri Foreman fight may appear to be a mismatch. That is, if one only looks at the four-inch height, and five-inch reach advantage Foreman has. It could be an entirely different matter when the pair meet inside the ring at the new Yankee Stadium this Saturday, Read Full Story >>>
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