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Jeff Mayweather Interview: “One of the Biggest fights in History that never happened”
Official Scorecard, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
Officialscorecard.com had the time to catch up with Jeff Mayweather the uncle of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the other brother of Floyd Sr. and Roger. We had to get his opinion Read Full Story >>>Say It Ain't So
By Anthony Wilson, SportingNews.com, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
Maybe they are right.
There is a legion of Floyd Mayweather haters amongst boxing fans, and personally I've always found them a rather unfortunate bunch. My main problem with them has been that they've always seemed so unwilling to give Mayweather the benefit of the doubt. They've labled him a Read Full Story >>> Perspective: Why This Could Be a Good Thing
By Avi "Shoefly" Korine, SportingNews.com, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
I'm as disappointed as anyone that Pacquiao/Mayweather looks to be off for March, but let's keep this in perspective. Boxing has survived events like this before. It's unlike any other sport in that the fighter controls his own destiny, and, as such, is subject to the uncertainties of whims and pers Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao puts kibosh on Yuri Foreman bout
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
UPDATE AT 4:50 PM EST:
PROMOTER BOB ARUM ADMITS PACQUIAO "IS A BIT RELUCTANT" (TO FIGHT YURI FOREMAN)I BUT SAYS "I AM WORKING ON IT."
Manny Pacquiao may fight in Las Vegas or the Dallas area in March but the opponent won’t be unbeaten WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman.
T Read Full Story >>> Oh the madness! Fans outraged by failure to save Pacquiao-Mayweather
By Dennis 'dSource' Guillermo, Examiner.com, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
It's the fight the world truly wanted to see. The fight that would put Boxing front and center and mark its return to prominence.
Fans of differe Read Full Story >>> Floyd Jr., cowardice, and his myriad of reasons
By Mark Lorenzana, 8countnews, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
I remember a Philippine proverb as I write this piece.
Kung gusto, maraming paraan, kung ayaw, maraming dahilan. A rough translation to English would be: "Those who want (to do something) (find) many ways; Those who don't want (to do something) (find) many excuses.
This saying seems particular Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao's Army: Chicken A La Mayweather leaves us cold
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
We’ve delved into the rabid reaction of Floyd Killjoy Mayweather’s fan base. But what will be the response by the Pacquiao Worldwide Army, the troops who back the Pinoy Idol all the way to the idea that a Pacman-Mayweather fight may be DOA?
I thought you would never ask. As the Ernie Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Floyd Fight Fiasco Falls Primarily on Promoters
By Edwin Ladaga, Digital Journal, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
The boxing public seems to be pointing their fingers towards Pacquiao and Floyd Jr. for their failure to agree on a fight contract. The fiasco are not totally their fault. The boxing promoters also played a key role in how the negotiations fell through.
Everyone knew beforehand that Floyd Jr. and Read Full Story >>> PACQUIAO IS VERY DISAPPOINTED. AREN'T WE ALL?
By Felix Strunk, FightHype.com, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
"I am very disappointed that we could not make this fight for the fans," remarked pound-for-pound champion in an official statement regarding the cancellation of his highly-anticipated clash with Floyd Mayweather Jr. After days of mediation, Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, revealed that the fight was Read Full Story >>> I figured Arum would come back to Texas sometime with Pacquiao - but not this soon
By Matt Stolow, Examiner.com, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
With the end of the last gasp mediation and ultimate collapse of "The Fight," I found myself with some free time on my hands so I went to bed for a couple of hours to catch up on some sleep and quickly was in dream land.
In my dream I saw Bob Arum dramatically storm out of a posh meeting room and Read Full Story >>> The Micky Ward-Manny Pacquiao Encounter
By Scoop Malinowski, Boxing Insider, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
“Manny Pacquiao, he’s a great fighter. He’s the best there is,” said Micky Ward Thursday morning at the end of our quick Q&A about the upcoming Paramount film “The Fighter,” which portrays his life and boxing career (Mark Wahlberg stars as Ward). “I gave De Read Full Story >>> Foreman Out Of Manny Sweepstakes; Who Should Manny Meet Next?
By Michael Woods, The Sweet Science, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
Yuri Foreman wasn't crushed when he got the news that as of today, he would not be gloving up with Manny Pacquaio, giving Pacman a shot at an unprecedented eighth belt in an eighth weight divisio Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Mayweather Canceled - What A Shock!
By Frank Lotierzo, The Sweet Science, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
The news of the Pacquiao-Mayweather super-fight being canceled cannot come as a shock to anyone who closely follows professional boxing. When this fight was being put together as fast as it was it was, that was a dead give away. Super-fights just don't come together that quickly and that's ten-fold Read Full Story >>> Tim Bradley Asks Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao 'What About Me?'
By Lem Satterfield, Fanhouse, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
Now that the welterweight (147 pounds) megabout between five-time titlist Floyd Mayweather and seven-division champ Manny Pacquiao appears to be off, WBO junior welterweight (140 pounds) king Tim Bradley has one question.
"The real question is what about Tim Bradley," said the 26-year-old titlist Read Full Story >>> No megafight is no good for Vegas
By Howard Stutz, Casino City Times, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Boxing fans aren't the only ones upset about the apparent demise of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao championship fight that had been scheduled for March 13 at the MGM Grand.
Wall Street said Las Vegas could be losing out on a potentially lucrative payday.
Macquar Read Full Story >>> THE FIGHT MAY BE OFF, BUT MOSLEY AND BERTO ARE READY TO FILL THE VOID
By Jonathan Ramirez, FightHype.com, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
As the boxing world waited patiently on pins and needles in hopes that negotiations between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao would produce the fight of the century, I couldn't help but to look ahead and realize that what I thought was a light at the end of the tunnel was nothing more than a train Read Full Story >>> Mayweather and Pacquiao remind us why the world tuned out on boxing
Bad Left Hook, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
They agreed to the split. They agreed to the gloves. They had a mostly for-show search for a venue that put them at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, boxing's grandest stage. Hell, they even worked out whose name would go first on what promotional devices.
It was going to have both fighters earning up Read Full Story >>> Haymon Disputes That He Tried To Convince Mayweather
By Rick Reeno, BoxingScene.com, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
A reliable source has advised BoxingScene.com that adviser/manager Al Haymon is disputing reports that he tried to convince Floyd Mayweather Jr. to accept Manny Pacquiao's proposal for a 24-day cut-off on random drug testing. Mayweather-Pacquiao died on Wednesday when Floyd continued to demand rando Read Full Story >>> You do know, Manny’s really to blame for this, right?
By Paul Magno, Inside Fights, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
Ok, at the risk of irritating all those who would blindly believe that Manny Pacquiao sits on a throne of benevolent love and spends his free time curing kids of cancer while Floyd Mayweather Jr cowers under a rock, looking to steal peanut butter cookies from girl scouts…here I go.
Manny is Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather spurns compromise to end hope of Manny Pacquiao fight
By Kevin Mitchell, guardian.co.uk, Fri, 08 Jan 2010
Floyd Mayweather Jr, smarter in the ring than out of it, may have made the costliest blunder of his career by rejecting the late compromise Manny Pacquiao offered him to save their $200m (?125m) fight in March.
The Filipino yesterday reluctantly agreed to take a blood test for drugs 24 days befor Read Full Story >>>
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