Kevin Iole
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Triller throws in the towel on Lopez-Kambosos bout after racking up $10M in promotional costs
By Kevin Iole
Three months after a resounding success promoting a Mike Tyson exhibition match with Roy Jones Jr., Triller Fight Club rocked the boxing world on Feb. 26 when it won the right to…
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End of an era: Manny Pacquiao finally says goodbye to boxing
By Kevin Iole
We knew in August that it was over for Manny Pacquiao when he lost to Yordenis Ugas for the welterweight title. Ugas is a good fighter, but nowhere near Pacquiao’s caliber at…
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How Anthony Joshua can bounce back from devastating title loss to Oleksandr Usyk
By Kevin Iole
There have been so many comparisons between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury through the years, because they’re both giant-sized men from the United Kingdom with a special skill in beating people up.…
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Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant’s foolish scuffle was a preventable debacle
By Kevin Iole
Saul "Canelo" Alvarez has made incredible strides with his English in the past year or so. He regularly does interviews in English now and only uses his interpreter on rare occasions. But…
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Triller Fight Club changing its tune after disgusting Holyfield-Belfort card
By Kevin Iole
The last thing that should ever be questioned in a professional sporting event with bets being taken on it is if the event is a work or not. But that is precisely…
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Oscar De La Hoya tests positive for COVID-19, replaced by Evander Holyfield for Vitor Belfort fight
By Kevin Iole
Oscar De La Hoya’s return to boxing after nearly 13 years is going to have to wait. The Golden Boy, who was scheduled to fight ex-UFC light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort in…
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Oscar Valdez’s positive drug test exposes boxing’s problematic anti-doping system
By Kevin Iole
If Oscar Valdez were in the UFC, despite his positive test for the medication phentermine, he’d be able to fight on Sept. 10 as planned against Robson Conceicao without issue. That’s because…
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How Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather rivalry shaped boxing in 21st century
By Kevin Iole
If Manny Pacquiao sticks to his original instinct and opts to retire, it will signal the end of one of the strangest, least likely yet most intense rivalries in boxing history. The…
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The time has come for Manny Pacquiao to hang up his boxing gloves
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS — It’s over for Manny Pacquiao. Oh, there are plenty of guys he can still beat if he chooses to fight again. But what made Pacquiao one of the greats,…
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Yordenis Ugas upsets Manny Pacquiao via unanimous decision
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS — The WBA took the belt that Manny Pacquiao won in the ring away from him in January and gave it to Yordenis Ugas. But on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena,…
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‘This is a once in a lifetime guy’: Manny Pacquiao’s boxing records may never be broken
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS — In 2003, Marco Antonio Barrera was deep into a Hall of Fame career, but he was the lineal featherweight champion. Because he surrendered a sanctioning body belt, he didn’t…
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Who is Yordenis Ugas, the Cuban defector set to face Manny Pacquiao?
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS — The allure of Manny Pacquiao’s story is where he came from, a bony kid who hawked donuts on the street in order to try to provide for his poverty-stricken…
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A fighter at the core, Manny Pacquiao easily makes transition to new opponent
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS — Twenty years ago, Freddie Roach was a nascent trainer. His mentor, Eddie Futch, had set him off on his own and Roach was proving to be a worthy successor…
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Boxing commissions holding WBA’s ‘feet to the fire’ with scathing letter, threatening not to sanction belts
By Kevin Iole
The head of the Association of Boxing Commissions sent a letter to Gilberto Mendoza, president of the World Boxing Association, expressing concern over the way the WBA has conducted business recently. The…
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Manny Pacquiao files cross-complaint against Paradigm Sports Management, which manages Conor McGregor
By Kevin Iole
Boxer Manny Pacquiao filed a cross-complaint Friday in a California state court against Paradigm Sports Management, alleging breach of conduct, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud, among other things. Paradigm was founded…
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Why Manny Pacquiao chose to face Errol Spence Jr., despite Freddie Roach’s objections
By Kevin Iole
Manny Pacquiao sat at ringside in Arlington, Texas, at AT&T Stadium on March 16, 2019, as Errol Spence Jr. dominated Mikey Garcia and scored a shutout in their heavily hyped welterweight title…
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Jermell Charlo is showing us what boxing should be all about
By Kevin Iole
This is a story about the good things happening in boxing’s super welterweight division, but let’s start with the nonsense — the fraud, really — that the World Boxing Association is perpetrating…
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Boxing’s surprising popularity among American sports fans has a catch
By Kevin Iole
Pay-per-view sales are, just like elections, all about name recognition. If a promoter is trying to sell a fight, it’s all about whether the public recognizes the fighters involved. Name recognition, or…
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Why the end is near for the celebrity fighting craze
By Kevin Iole
In the mid-to-late 1990s, Top Rank produced a series of pay-per-view events headlined by Oscar De La Hoya that included on the undercards the modern-day equivalent of Logan and Jake Paul. We…
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Hey fight fans, brace yourselves for a jam-packed June
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS — It’s never safe to speak in absolutes, but it’s probably fair to say it’s been years since there has been a month in combat sports that will rival June.…