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Rogue Kicks Off With Gesta Victory
By Ralph Gonzalez, The Sweet Science, Sun, 24 May 2009
The crowd of about 750 patrons at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego were barely back in their seats before the main event between lightweights Mercito Gesta and Alain Hernandez was over.
The Thursday Read Full Story >>>Like Van Winkle, Mayweather snoozed while crown was lifted by Pacquiao
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Sun, 24 May 2009
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Who knew? Floyd Mayweather has turned out to be the Rip Van Winkle of boxing.
He wasn?t snoozing for 20 years like booze loving Dutchman in the Catskills but evidently Mayweather fell Read Full Story >>> Mayweather looking for buyers
By Robert Morales, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Sun, 24 May 2009
The fight with De La Hoya did a record 2.44 million buys. But De La Hoya is the undisputed all-time pay-per-view king. Mayweather's fight with Hatton did 900,000 domestic buys on HBO, as well as 1.4 million in Great Britain.
England's Hatton has as fanatical a following as any boxer.
Mayweathe Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather Jr: The King (of contradictions) is Back
By Gabriel Montoya, MaxBoxing.com, Sun, 24 May 2009
Earlier this month at a Las Vegas press conference, former pound for pound champ and linear welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced he was returning after a little more than a year and a half layoff from the sport of Read Full Story >>> Party star-studded, but Manny is late
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Sun, 24 May 2009
MANILA, Philippines ? The invitation called for an ?intimate and exclusive? dinner with Manny Pacquiao.
And so more than 300 came and packed the ballroom of The Renaissance Hotel to toast the world?s greatest fighter in what turned out to be a star-studded affair Thursday evening.
Some of the Read Full Story >>> FREDDIE ROACH: "BOB'S GONNA DO WHAT PACQUIAO WANTS"
By Ben Thompson, FightHype.com, Sun, 24 May 2009
Is the decision to face Mayweather up to Manny Pacquiao? "Well, if Pacquiao wants the fight, Bob's gonna do what Pacquiao wants because he's our promoter and if the fighter wants to fight the fight, he'll definitely get us that fight I feel. There's a little dislike there [between Mayweather and Aru Read Full Story >>> Hatton's Boozing Lifestyle Has Affected His Boxing Career
By Edwin Ladaga, Digital Journal, Sun, 24 May 2009
There are many reasons why Hatton suffered a second round technical knockout loss to Manny Pacquiao. The inability to follow the game plan. The rumored feud between his trainers. Another overlooked factor is his life outside the ring.
The hitman is also popularly known as Ricky Fatton because of hi Read Full Story >>> A Tale of Two Floyds
By JD Camacho, DogHouseBoxing.com, Sun, 24 May 2009
One is a brash-talking, bile-spewing, voice-raising prima donna. The other is a soft-spoken, calm and collected star athlete. Floyd Mayweather Jr. has dual public personalities he chooses to flaunt. But while the latter, quieter character once only emerged in post-fight interviews, this week?s strin Read Full Story >>> FLOYD MAYWEATHER: IS HE NUTS, A FRAUD, OR COWARD?
By Matthew R. Grizzle, RingTalk.com, Sun, 24 May 2009
FLOYD AGAIN SHOWS HIS IGNORANCE
Las Vegas, NV- Floyd Mayweather, Jr (39-0, 25 KOs); will return from a brief retirement against Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KOs) in July, hasn�t changed much since we last heard from him. He still considers himself the best fighter in the game, and doesn Read Full Story >>> Marquez fighting for his own legacy
By Norm Frauenheim, CBCNews, Sun, 24 May 2009
Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s comeback puts an argument, his own, back into the pound-for-pound debate, but also obscures a fighter once forgotten but now impossible to ignore in the indelible terms of his own place in a nation's storied history.
Juan Manuel Marquez belongs there, among the best Mexica Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather: If Manny Pacquiao Is No. 1 Pound-for-Pound, Fine
By Michael David Smith, Fanhouse, Sun, 24 May 2009
Floyd Mayweather got feisty this week when Brian Kenny suggested to him that Manny Pacquiao had taken the title of No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer in the world away from him. But In an interview on British television, Mayweather said he's fine with it.
"If Manny Pacquiao is now No. 1 pound-for-pound Read Full Story >>> Fight Night Round 4: a boxing judge's perspective
By Eric R. Sloan, Examiner.com, Sun, 24 May 2009
Rabid fans wait in neutral corners around the world in eager anticipation of Electronic Art, Inc.'s (EA) release of Fight Night Round 4. Roughly 50 of the sport's greatest champions and current contenders can be matched up for an exhibition or, for the more goal-oriented gamer, players can contend f Read Full Story >>> Floyd's a living legend
The Sun, Sun, 24 May 2009
JAMES DeGALE would love nothing better than to follow Floyd Mayweather Jnr into boxing folklore.
Mayweather has been in London this week promoting his return to the ring against Juan Manuel Marquez on July 18.
And DeGale jumped at the chance to see the unbeaten American in action during an ope Read Full Story >>> GESTA WINS ?THE HAVOC AT HARD ROCK? IN 44 SECONDS (WITH PHOTOS)
By Ed de la Vega, DDS, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 23 May 2009
San Diego, CA:- Amidst a near sell out crowd at the Woodstock Terrace of San Diego?s Hard Rock Hotel, Rogue Promotions held their inaugural fight card.
It was Thursday, May 21st and from someone not based in this lovely be Read Full Story >>> Who Will Get the Manny Pacquiao Call Next?
By Juan Angel Zurita, BoxingFanatics.com, Sat, 23 May 2009
Coming off an emphatic two round destruction of Britain?s Ricky Hatton, Filipino Boxing Icon, Manny Pacquiao, can now sit back and watch several prospective future opponents go to work. While the names Juan Manuel Marquez, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Edwin Valero, Humberto Soto, and Miguel Cotto have been Read Full Story >>> Edwin Valero: Lightweight contender or pretender
By Glenn Wilson, Examiner.com, Sat, 23 May 2009
Every once in a blue moon a sport gets caught up in the hype of an athlete who accomplishes an amazing feat. In the past you've had the likes of Gretzky , Manning , Bonds and Valuev. Now you're asking yourself , "who was that last person?" Exactly my point. Thus the term "get caught up in the hype " Read Full Story >>> Revisiting Manny Pacquiao v Juan Manuel Marquez I
By Eric R. Sloan, Examiner.com, Sat, 23 May 2009
Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez are the current number 1 and 2 pound for pound kings of boxing according to Ring magazine. On May 8, 2004, the two men clashed in an epic battle that ended in a draw. One judge scored the fight 115-110 for Pacquiao. Another judge scored it 115-110 for Marqu Read Full Story >>> Floyd MayweatherJr: Conquering Lion of (Zab) Judah
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Sat, 23 May 2009
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown?
Words from the flowing pen of the famed Pinoy playwright Willie Shakespeare. It is not widely know but my main Manila man Hermie Rivera informs me that ?Shakey? as he was known in his youth in Bacalod wrote nearly all of his works first in Tagalog and th Read Full Story >>> Fil-Am matchmaker 'Pacquiambo' must meet Pinoy Idol
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Sat, 23 May 2009
I vividly remember how wonderful, how stimulating it was to be a Cassius Clay fanatic. I won?t repeat my long story of the Cassius Clay International Fan Club and how I wrote letters to his Louisville home for two years before I finally met my idol.
I was nervous as a cat in a room full of rockin Read Full Story >>> Juan Manuel Marquez is all in for Mexico
By Dennis 'dSource' Guillermo, Examiner.com, Sat, 23 May 2009
For his next fight, Juan Manuel Marquez might want to take a page out of his nemesis Manny Pacquiao's career and win one for his nation.
Juan Manuel Marquez is Mexico's final link remaining from the country's glory days of dominating boxing's lower weight classes. And on July 18, he is putting ev Read Full Story >>>
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