Kevin Iole
1,466 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Just say no to another tournament
As Showtime?s Super Six World Boxing Classic grinds along at a glacial pace, nine months into it and still stuck in the round robin phase, there are now calls by some for…
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Mailbag: Pacquiao?s inspiring political punch
It?s not quite all Manny, all Floyd, all the time in the mailbag here at Yahoo! Sports, but it?s getting close. Manny Pacquiao?s inauguration as a congressman in the Philippines brought another…
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Can Cotto take anymore punishment?
NEW YORK ? Miguel Cotto came to work Wednesday wearing a natty light-brown suit, a crisply starched pale blue dress shirt and a perfectly knotted tie. He would have fit in perfectly…
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Mayweather-Mosley test dates revealed
The United States Anti-Doping Agency confirmed Friday that the final blood sample taken from Shane Mosley was April 12 and the final one taken from Floyd Mayweather was April 13 as part…
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Mailbag: Manny unhappy returns
When 20 of 33 boxing writers voted for Floyd Mayweather Jr. and not Manny Pacquiao as No. 1 in the May Yahoo! Sports boxing rankings, it created quite a firestorm among Pacquiao…
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Power on stage when Malignaggi meets Khan
Boxing is a strange sport. There are a lot of folks who call themselves boxing fans, but who are among the first to boo a classic exhibition of pure boxing. Power is…
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Rankings: Mayweather rises to the top
Now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has dispatched of Shane Mosley and risen to the top of the May Yahoo! Sports rankings, attention once again has focused on getting Mayweather and Congressman-elect Manny…
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Mayweather mauls Mosley; must meet Manny
LAS VEGAS ? All of the attributes that have made Floyd Mayweather Jr. one of the elite fighters to have stepped into a boxing ring were on display in his one-sided victory…
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Mosley keeps clear head amid chaos
LAS VEGAS ? Hardly a day goes by in which Shane Mosley?s current nemesis, Victor Conte, doesn?t release some piece of derogatory information to the media. Conte is the founder of the…
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Jones-Hopkins rematch highlights boxing?s ills
LAS VEGAS ? Imagine this: The public flat-out demands to see a fight made between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, the two best in the world, yet it wasn?t made and…
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Pac-man primed for Clottey showdown
ARLINGTON, Texas – Manny Pacquiao has ascended to the level of the boxing legends. He faces a difficult test on Saturday at Cowboys Stadium when he defends his World Boxing Organization welterweight…
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Pacquiao a sure thing – almost
ARLINGTON, Texas – Manny Pacquiao has been saying all the right things as he prepares to defend his World Boxing Organization welterweight title on Saturday at Cowboys Stadium against Joshua Clottey. He…
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Boxing’s road to revival
ARLINGTON, Texas – Promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank desperately wanted to bring Manny Pacquiao, the pound-for-pound finest boxer in the world, to Cowboys Stadium as soon as he completed a deal…
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Clottey savors arduous journey to title fight
GRAPEVINE, Texas – Manny Pacquiao arrived in Dallas on a charter plane on Monday with an entourage of about 130 people in tow. A crowd of about half that many on Tuesday…
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The rebirth of Freddie Roach
The calendar will tell you that on Friday, Freddie Roach – boxing’s greatest trainer since Eddie Futch – will turn 50 years old. Don’t believe it. The calendar lies. In boxing terms,…
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Mailbag: Getting testy
Joshua Clottey will get the opportunity to fight Manny Pacquiao, the top-rated fighter in the Yahoo! Sports rankings, on March 13 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, simply because he did not…
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Mailbag: Why Williams?
Readers were surprised that Paul Williams climbed past Shane Mosley and moved into third place on the Yahoo! Sports boxing rankings. And, as usual, they had a lot to say, positive and…
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Rankings: Floyd’s mouth roars
Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. continue to hold the top two spots in the Yahoo! Sports boxing rankings. And it continues to seem as if they’ll never meet each other. The…
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Donaire is the latest Filipino contender
LAS VEGAS – It’s not lost on Nonito Donaire, the World Boxing Association interim super flyweight champion, what it means to be a headline act at the Las Vegas Hilton. This is…
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Mailbag: Making a point
Boxing’s about to head into a busy season and Edwin Valero and Antonio DeMarco kicked it off with an entertaining fight on Showtime on Saturday. The mailbag is stuffed with comments regarding…
