Kevin Iole
1,466 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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A changed Tyson gets his day in the sun
It was a great day for Mike Tyson on Tuesday. He was still around, by all accounts, at 44 years old, happy, and very much healthy to receive the news that he…
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Donaire travels path Pacquiao blazed
It?s easy to forget now that, five years ago, Manny Pacquiao was not as highly regarded in boxing circles as Nonito Donaire Jr. is now. Pacquiao was considered one of the game?s…
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?10 in review: The fight we didn?t get
Boxing is a star-driven sport and there are no bigger individual stars in the game now than welterweights Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. They?re the top two fighters in the Yahoo!…
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Arum narrows list of Pac-Man foes
LAS VEGAS ? Promoter Bob Arum said Monday he doesn?t believe Floyd Mayweather will be available to fight Manny Pacquiao in May, so he?s narrowed his choices for the pound-for-pound king?s next…
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Pacquiao suitors plead for his next fight
LAS VEGAS ? Less than an hour after Juan Manuel Marquez had stopped Michael Katsidis with an electrifying ninth-round technical knockout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday in a bout…
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Pavlik in rehab for alcohol issues
Former middleweight boxing champion Kelly Pavlik has been in the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage, Calif., since Nov. 4 for treatment of a problem with alcohol, the fighter?s father, Mike Pavlik,…
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Katsidis fights in spite of tragedy
LAS VEGAS ? Pretend like it didn?t happen, you tell yourself. Pretend that you?ve never heard that Michael Katsidis? 31-year-old brother, Stathi, his best friend, died tragically a few weeks ago. Pretend…
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Rankings: Time to play matchmaker
For the past year, the top question in boxing has been the same: Do you think Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather will ever fight each other? But with the latest Yahoo! Sports…
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Unbeaten Berto battles perceptions
LAS VEGAS ? It never hurts to have good connections and clearly, few elite boxers have better connections than World Boxing Council welterweight champion Andre Berto. The unbeaten former Haitian Olympian is…
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Savor the greatness of Juan Manuel Marquez
LAS VEGAS ? Charley Burley is one of the greatest boxers who ever lived. No less an authority than the late Hall of Fame trainer Eddie Futch regarded Burley as the finest…
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Pac-Man fight tops a million buys
Amid his many troubles, Floyd Mayweather Jr. probably cracked a smile on Tuesday because he remains boxing?s undisputed pay-per-view champion. Mark Taffet, the senior vice president of sports operations and pay-per-view at…
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Martinez?s dominance could cost him
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. ? Sergio Martinez did himself a world of good on Saturday, knocking out nemesis Paul Williams with one crushing left hook in the second round before a shocked crowd…
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One fight at a time for Williams
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. ? George Peterson has been involved in training fighters for around 60 years. And never in those 60 years, a period which dates back to the Truman administration, has…
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Martinez took long road to the good life
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. ? Stretched out on a couch in a spacious hotel suite, a dazzling view of the Atlantic Ocean to his left and an NBA game flickering on the high-definition…
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Pac-Man payday eludes Williams-Martinez winner
The world middleweight championship is one of the marquee titles in professional boxing, a prize held by some of the greatest fighters who ever lived. It?s not, apparently, good enough for Paul…
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Mailbag: The Pacquiao show
Manny Pacquiao?s victory over Antonio Margarito elicited a flood of responses, as many Yahoo! Sports readers wanted to sound off about some aspect of the bout. As has become typical, I received…
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Margarito needs face surgery after Pacquiao
ARLINGTON, Texas ? Antonio Margarito was determined to make it to the end of his fight with Manny Pacquiao on Saturday no matter what, and he wound up paying a severe price…
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Is Pacquiao the best ever?
ARLINGTON, Texas ? When Top Rank chairman Bob Arum said last November that he considered Manny Pacquiao the best fighter he?d ever seen, it seemed at the time as little more than…
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Pac-man a few pounds light at weigh-in
ARLINGTON, Texas ? Manny Pacquiao had no concerns Friday despite weighing a stunningly low 144.6 pounds for his World Boxing Council super welterweight title fight at Cowboys Stadium with Antonio Margarito. The…
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Mayweather still in Pacquiao?s sights
GRAPEVINE, Texas ? In the days and weeks before he would fight Diego Corrales in Las Vegas in 2001 in the first major fight of his career, Floyd Mayweather Jr. railed against…
