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2009 8CN Awards
8countnews, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
Fighter of the Year: Manny Pacquiao
For the second year in a row our decision was made easy by Manny Pacquiao (50-3, 38 KO’s), the fighting pride of the Philippines and boxing’s worldwide breakout star.
During the calendar year, Pacquiao won two world titles in two weight div Read Full Story >>>KEITH KIZER, NSAC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SPEAKS ON PACQUIAO-MAYWEATHER
By G. Leon, BoxingTalk.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
GL: Obviously you're aware of the all of the hoopla surrounding the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. Not the fight itself, rather the testing the fighters will udergo. After initially making some concessions, Arum has made it clear that he is leaving this to the Vegas Commission. As the Commissioner, can Read Full Story >>> Golden Boy CEO: 'Trying to Save' Mayweather-Pacquiao
By Lem Satterfield, Fanhouse, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
FanHouse caught up to Golden Boy Promotions' CEO, Richard Schaefer, whose company is handling the negotiations on behalf of Floyd Mayweather (40-0, 25 knockouts) for the potential blockbuster bout with seven-division world champion, Manny Pacquiao, who is the current, WBO welterweight (147 pounds) t Read Full Story >>> Arum to find another opponent for Pacquiao
By Simon Evans, Reuters, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
MIAMI (Reuters) - World champion Manny Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum will choose another opponent for the Filipino fighter after failing to reach a deal for the WBO welterweight title bout with American Floyd Mayweather.
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Talks between Arum's Top Rank and Mayweather's Golden Boy promoters Read Full Story >>> MAYWEATHER PROMOTIONS AND GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
LOS ANGELES (December 28, 2009) . . . After a Christmas weekend filled with comments and reports related to the potential mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions are issuing the following statement in order to set the record straight. Read Full Story >>> Nevada orders testing for Mayweather, Pacquiao
By Martin Rogers, Yahoo! Sports, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. have both been ordered to take immediate drug tests by the Nevada Athletic Commission.
NAC chairman Pat Lundvall issued the demand on Monday in line with the commission’s random testing policy, which conforms to the World Anti Doping Agency’s gu Read Full Story >>> Getty Testy - Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao
By Natasha Aiello, The Boxing Truth, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
The very latest scandal in the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Manny Pacquiao super-fight is the demand by the Mayweather camp for Manny Pacquiao to undergo Olympic-style drug testing leading up to the fight March 13, 2010.
Perhaps the smartest thing Mayweather has done so far is to partner up with Golde Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Mayweather impasse at critical stage
By Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
The dispute between the camps of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. has moved into a perilous time window, with Pacquiao's promoter saying he's ready to announce a fight with an alternate opponent Tuesday if he and the head of Golden Boy Promotions can't resolve the pre-fight drug-testing proce Read Full Story >>> Floyd Jr. Has Just Triggered a More Furious and Focused Pacquiao
By Edwin Ladaga, Digital Journal, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
There are reasons behind Floyd's drug testing demands in the Manny-Mayweather fight negotiations. But fans and scribes have not possibly realized,not even Mayweather Jr, that the drug testing issue would likely create a more furious and focused Pacquiao.
The major reason, as expounded by the Maywe Read Full Story >>> Mayweather, Jr. continues to "hostage" the Nevada Athletic Commission
By Simeon Vergara, Maharlikan Times, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is not withdrawing his insistense to require Pound-for-Pound King Manny Pacquiao for random drug-testing by blood inside 30 days of fight date, according to inside report today with this writer from Leonard Ellerbe, formidable adviser of the Mayweather camp.
And as May Read Full Story >>> Mayweather, ski patrol, dogs seek Pacquiao promoter
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
Calling all Ski Patrol and St. Bernards in the Greater Aspen, Colorado, area:
You and maybe only you can save the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao megafight from crashing like that ski jumper on the famous open video montage of ABC’s “Wide World of Sports.”
It’s been Read Full Story >>> Malignaggi: "Pacquiao, I Don't Like Him or Respect Him"
By Rick Reeno, BoxingScene.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
There is certainly no love between former junior welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi and WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. Because of the ongoing complications to finalize a fight between Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., Malignaggi is the frontrunner to replace Mayweather as Pacquiao's Read Full Story >>> Dougie's MASSIVE Monday Mailbag
By Doug Fischer, The Ring, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
MAYWEATHER & THE PACMAN
Dougie:
Got a couple points. I'm not a Floyd Mayweather fan. While I acknowledge that he's a technically superior fighter, his style leaves me cold, and I much prefer watching Manny Pacquiao.
That said a couple points regarding drug testing:
1) I doubt that we're ac Read Full Story >>> Bring the New Year with Paulie vs. Manny? Just say no!
By Ricardo Lois, Examiner.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
Bob Arum informed Sports Illustrated that if Floyd Mayweather does not agree to let the Nevada States Athletic Commission handle the messy decision of how and when to drug test Manny Pacquiao for performance enhancing drugs, a bout between his Filipino star and Paulie Malignaggi is looming.
Arum Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao is Fighter of the Year
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
If you are surprised by the pick for 2009 ESPN.com fighter of the year, well, you haven't paid attention to boxing for the past 12 months.
It's Manny Pacquiao, the biggest no-brainer selection s Read Full Story >>> 2009 Year-End Boxing Pound-For-Pound Top 20 Update
By Tim Starks, The Queensberry Rules, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
I have to invoke The Queensberry Rules mascot in the art of constructing pound-for-pound lists, Rene Descartes, to modify a guiding principle or two for the last pound-for-pound list of 2009. By the way, doesn't Rene look dashing sans mustache?
Anyway, the major guiding principle for my list as a Read Full Story >>> Time for the NSAC to step in and end the testing nonsense
By Scott Heritage, Examiner.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
SAC chief Keith Kizer (AP Photo)
Many are blaming Floyd Mayweather and Golden Boy for the testing issue that look to have scrapped the March 13th bout between Floyd and Manny Pacquiao. While accusations from both sides have been thrown back and forth for several days, there is another party who h Read Full Story >>> Worse than cancer: Golden Boy's piece of Pacquiao
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
Imagine the screaming, the howling, the outrage if the Indianapolis Colts were playing the San Diego Chargers in the Super Bowl and it was divulged that one of the owners had a piece of both teams.
Under NFL rules, it could never happen but just suppose it did. There would be calls for Congressio Read Full Story >>> Arum sets Mayweather deadline
CNN.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
Manny Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum has given Floyd Mayweather Jnr's camp a Monday deadline to resolve a blood-testing row which has threatened to derail the proposed supe Read Full Story >>> Blood Feud: Mayweather Vs. Pacquiao
By Jesse Campbell, FightHype.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2009
When one party perceives itself to have been attacked or wronged by another, a feud can begin when both sides begin responding to one another in a cycle of retaliation.
The only feuds in boxing should happen inside of the ring. “Arturo Gatti vs. Mickey Ward” and “Jose Luis Casti Read Full Story >>>
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