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Marquez/Mayweather: Who Do We Really Want to Win?
By Troy Ondrizek, BoxingScene.com, Sat, 23 May 2009
It is a wonderful time to be a boxing fan. Manny Pacquiao has the mainstream media still talking, weeks after he destroyed Ricky Hatton?s career. Floyd Mayweather Jr. has announced that he really never left the sport and has recen Read Full Story >>>Mayweather: ?I respect Pacquiao? he?s been tremendous lately, but there?s no antidote to beat Floyd Mayweather!?
FightFan.com, Sat, 23 May 2009
On his press tour this week, Floyd Mayweather Jr. spoke briefly about Manny Pacquiao in the face of a multitude of questions from international media.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.: ?I take nothing away from Manny Pacquiao. He?s gone out there and done what he?s had to do as a fighter. I respect him for w Read Full Story >>> Fools Gold: Marquez and Pacquiao have no chance
By Kelsey McCarson, EastSideBoxing.com, Sat, 23 May 2009
So Floyd Mayweather, Jr. has returned. Finally. With all the hubbub of the last few weeks, you?d think Manny Pacquiao was the next coming of Henry Armstrong, Ray Robinson and Jack Dempsey combined. Look, Manny is a great fighter and a certain hall of famer, but let?s take a step back for a minute an Read Full Story >>> Bigger, stronger Floyd Jr. looks to shoot down Marquez
By Mark Lorenzana, 8countnews, Sat, 23 May 2009
Back in high school there always seemed to be big bullies that picked on smaller kids for various reasons. Chief of these reasons was to filch lunch money off of them. Having no other recourse, majority of the smaller kids would give in, hand over their lunch money, and starve for the rest of the da Read Full Story >>> FLOYD: I KO?D RICKY CAREER
Daily Star (UK), Sat, 23 May 2009
Jnr has launched a blistering ?attack on British ring idol Ricky Hatton and told him: You were finished the day I flattened you.
Five-weight world champion ?Mayweather is seething that his ?father Floyd Snr ? who trained the Hitman for his brutal second round KO by Manny Pacquiao almost three wee Read Full Story >>> Rodel Mayol's Last Chance!
By Benjie Varella, EastSideBoxing.com, Fri, 22 May 2009
THREE years ago, Filipino fight fans were hopeful that another Manny Pacquiao would emerge from the man known in the Philippines as the ?Magnum Force?.
With all the media hypes given to the minimum weight contender Rodel Mayol, the fans were shattered and disappointed when he lost to Japan-based Read Full Story >>> The Ring Championship: Are They Winning?
By Andrew Harrison, EastSideBoxing.com, Fri, 22 May 2009
In 2002 and in a bid to restore credibility back to the sport, Ring magazine launched its current championship policy. Hoping to cut a swathe through the veritable quagmire created by the various alphabet organisations and give credence back to idea of what it means to be a world champion, Ring titl Read Full Story >>> Sanctioning Body Blows ? How to Make Sense of the Alphabet Organizations
By Scott Kraus, EastSideBoxing.com, Fri, 22 May 2009
Imagine you are a movie director and, for some reason, you cast a group of boxing writers and hardcore boxing fans in your movie. You are about to film a scene in which you need this group to communicate impassioned rage, the kind of venomous vitriol usually reserved for mass murderers and banking e Read Full Story >>> I'm your huckleberry so I'm cleaning up Manny Pacquiao Land
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Fri, 22 May 2009
I am like Doc Holliday was in Tombstone.
To the lawless varmints, to the Johnny Ringos, the wild shoot ?em up characters who abound in Pacland and environs, I say this now an Read Full Story >>> Mayweather Jr: 'I laid the blueprint for Pacquiao to beat Hatton'
By Edwin Ladaga, Digital Journal, Fri, 22 May 2009
In the London leg of the Marquez-Mayweather promotional tour, Floyd Junior shares his thoughts on the Pacquiao-Hatton fight and his views on the Marquez-Pacquiao encounters.
Skysports mentioned Pacquiao's one sided demolition of Hatton to Floyd Jr during his recent visit in the UK. Mayweather humbl Read Full Story >>> Floyd: My desire never faded
By Gavin Glicksman, The Sun, Fri, 22 May 2009
FLOYD MAYWEATHER JNR admits it took him just a WEEK to miss boxing.
Mayweather retired as the best pound-for-pound fighter after knocking out Ricky Hatton in December 2007.
But in an exclusive interview with The Sun, he revealed his desire for the sport never faded.
The 32-year-old said: " Read Full Story >>> Floyd's better than Pacquiao
The Sun, Fri, 22 May 2009
ROGER MAYWEATHER claims Manny Pacquiao would not provide Floyd Mayweather Jnr with the stiffest test of his career.
Mayweather, 32, is widely expected to face Pacquiao if he wins his comeback fight against Juan Manuel Marquez on July 18.
But uncle Roger, who trains the unbeaten American, insis Read Full Story >>> No One Plays the Bad Guy Like Mayweather
By Chris Littmann, SportingNews.com, Fri, 22 May 2009
If you'd watched ESPN or ESPNEWS for the last 24-36 hours, you've probably seen some snippet of Brian Kenny and Floyd Mayweather going at it. There's a lot of wild gesturing by Mayweather and, well, I'm just going to say it's probably the most entertaining 13 minutes of sports you'll see today now t Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather Jr reaches out to a global theatre
By Ron Lewis, Times Online, Fri, 22 May 2009
?So there was Floyd Mayweather Jr and Juan Manuel M?rquez stood on the back of a No 18 bus outside Marylebone Station.? Perhaps not the most believable anecdote told by commuters arriving home late last night ? not least because the bus said it was headed to Las Vegas instead of Willesden Junction, Read Full Story >>> Fans give boxing legend Ricky Hatton a rapturous welcome to Southport Floral Hall
Southport Visiter, Fri, 22 May 2009
WITH a pint of Guinness in one hand and a cheeky smile, boxing legend Ricky Hatton tells me that ?it?s not just what you do inside the ring? that counts.
He is speaking before a triumphant Homecoming Dinner at Southport Floral Hall in aid of cerebral palsy charity, Stick ?N? Step.
?Its what yo Read Full Story >>> Floyd Sr still in favour
By Ed Damerell, SkySports.com, Fri, 22 May 2009
If Ricky Hatton does make a return to the ring it could still be under the guidance of trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr.
There was plenty of criticism levelled at the colourful head trainer following the Hitman's two-round defeat at the hands of Manny Pacquiao.
Hatton's father Ray has said the camp Read Full Story >>> Money: Hatton should quit
SkySports.com, Fri, 22 May 2009
Floyd Mayweather Jnr has urged Ricky Hatton to quit boxing - even saying that he should have walked away from the ring after losing to the American in 2007.
Hatton is still considering his future three weeks after being knocked cold by Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas, but Mayweather - in Britain to p Read Full Story >>> 'WAR IN OZAMIS' WEIGH-IN RESULTS
PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 22 May 2009
OZAMIS CITY--The official weigh-in took place a couple of hours ago at the Public Mall here, with all fighters seeing action in tomorrow's "War in Ozamis" easily making weight.
Supervised by WBO Asia Pacific Chairman Leon Panoncillo, the weigh-in was also attended by North Cotabato Vice Governor Read Full Story >>> WEIGHTS FROM THE ?HAVOC AT THE HARD ROCK SAN DIEGO
By Ed de la Vega, DDS, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 22 May 2009
They held the official weight-in yesterday at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, California for the inaugural fight card promoted by Derek Pierce of the Rogue Boxing Promotions.
Mercito Gesta of Mandaue, Cebu who will be headlining the fight card, came in at 135.5 lbs while his opponent from Tiju Read Full Story >>> Filipino Gesta Looking To Enter Prospect Status
By Ralph Gonzalez, The Sweet Science, Fri, 22 May 2009
?It was difficult at first,? remembers 21 year-old Mercito Gesta when he first arrived in San Diego from Cebu City, Philippines. ?I didn?t want to leave my home-town but those are the sacrifices boxers sometimes Read Full Story >>>
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