Kevin Iole
1,466 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Credit card fraud nearly leads Manny Pacquiao?s publicist to embarrassing purchase
Credit card fraud is never a good thing. And, sadly, there was a case of fraud with an American Express card owned by Denver resident Fred Sternburg in the early hours of…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s defensive wizardry the key to his long-term success
LAS VEGAS ? Floyd Mayweather Jr. was not shown a thing about how to throw a punch the first day he walked into a boxing gym as a young boy in Grand…
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Floyd Mayweather ?will never, ever go broke,? and a potential $100 million payday Saturday won?t hurt
LAS VEGAS -- Leonard Ellerbe, the CEO of Mayweather Promotions, has heard all of the stories about the voluminous number of boxers who blew their earnings from the ring and wound up…
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Floyd Mayweather-Canelo Alvarez bout reaching for historic heights
LAS VEGAS ? He's promoting a fight that will generate unimaginable amounts of money in one night, equivalent to the GDP of some countries and roughly the size of Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s…
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Floyd Mayweather praises team for ?good job? of hand-picking opponents
One of the themes the many critics of Floyd Mayweather Jr. have harped upon in the second half of his career is what they contend is his habit of hand-picking opponents. Largely,…
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Jhonny Gonzalez ruins Golden Boy’s best-laid plans, upsetting Abner Mares in opening round
CARSON, Calif. ? After Leo Santa Cruz put on a boxing clinic in a third-round destruction of Victor Terrazas on Saturday at the StubHub Center, Golden Boy promoter Richard Schaefer was asked…
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All Access returns with Floyd Mayweather touting his records and Oscar De La Hoya predicting ?A new rooster? will emerge
Showtime's All Access series returns on Saturday at 10 p.m. ET, for the first of four installments previewing the highly anticipated Sept. 14 pay-per-view bout at the MGM Grand Garden in Las…
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Canelo Alvarez believes he’s the man who will stop Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Canelo Alvarez speaks the words that every underdog in every sport speaks before facing the most significant opponent he or she has ever faced: I'm different. What's happened in the past won't…
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Manny Pacquiao intent on proving he still packs a punch
LOS ANGELES ? Fight night is still more than three months away and a grueling media tour of more than 22,000 miles was finally coming to an end. Manny Pacquiao was unusually…
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Alex Ariza defends his work, says Freddie Roach became more interested in being a TV star than a trainer
Alex Ariza, who was let go Wednesday after five years as Manny Pacquiao's strength and conditioning coach, said he wants nothing but the best for Pacquiao but said trainer Freddie Roach has…
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Manny Pacquiao signs on the dotted line to do drug tests for Brandon Rios fight
Manny Pacquiao signed a contract Wednesday morning to accept the kind of Olympic-style drug testing that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been demanding his opponents agree to since 2010. Pacquiao's deal with the…
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Freddie Roach ousts Alex Ariza as Manny Pacquiao?s strength and conditioning coach
Trainer Freddie Roach told Yahoo! Sports Wednesday that he dismissed Alex Ariza as Manny Pacquiao's strength and conditioning coach, ending a five-year run for Ariza with one of the world's most successful…
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Al Bernstein scores a hat trick, chosen for third boxing Hall of Fame in just over a year
I have long loved Al Bernstein's work as a boxing analyst, first at ESPN and now at Showtime. He's the pro's pro, always prepared, always with something insightful to say, and never…
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Casinos? off month shows significance of boxers such as Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather
Anyone who still doesn't understand why boxers such as Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao earn so much money and are treated so reverentially in Nevada's casinos -- And now, in Pacquiao's…
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CBS Corporation?s second quarter earnings reflect Floyd Mayweather?s impact on its business
Details of the six-fight, 30-month contract that Floyd Mayweather Jr. signed with Showtime in February still have not been made public, and no specific figure for Mayweather's pay-per-view bout with Robert Guerrero…
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Thirty fighters worth the price of admission and three who don?t deserve your money
In April, after I came away not all that interested in watching Guillermo Rigondeaux fight again, a small but boisterous segment of boxing fans let me have it. My take was that…
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NBC trying to do its part to promote boxing’s long-term health
For the last 25 years or so, the major leagues, when it comes to boxing, is fighting on either HBO or Showtime. That is not going to change at any point in…
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Manny Pacquiao, Brandon Rios visit Great Wall, Tiananmen Square on promotional tour
Manny Pacquiao and Brandon Rios are in China on business, to promote their Nov. 24 pay-per-view bout. But that didn't stop the star boxers from doing a little sightseeing when the 23,722-mile…
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Nothing cowardly about Garcia v Matthysse
For months, boxing fans were desperate to see Danny Garcia fight Lucas Matthysse in what projected to be a violent slugfest. But when Garcia and Matthysse finally signed their contracts last week,…
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Floyd Mayweather lays out requirements for Manny Pacquiao to fight him, talks Canelo and more
LAS VEGAS -- Floyd Mayweather was in an engaging mood following a strenuous workout at the Mayweather Boxing Club on Thursday, only the fourth day of training camp in preparation for his…
