Mark Whicker
108 articles · OCRegister.com
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Perhaps Manny Pacquiao should be worried
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Three times they stood face to face, for the classic staredown, the type of thing that made you call the National Guard whenever Mike Tyson or James Toney…
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HBO examines life of Freddie Roach
LOS ANGELES ? Freddie Roach trains boxers to excel in the same sport that, most likely, gave him Parkinson's disease. You can play psychological gymnastics with that, or point moralistic foam fingers.…
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Pacquiao vs. Marquez: Ready for four?
There was no Fourth Battle Of The Marne. There wasn't even a Godfather IV. And as Saturday night became Sunday morning at the MGM Grand, Juan Manuel Marquez found it intolerable to…
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Hopkins handlers likely to file protest over his TKO loss
That is the date of the next California State Athletic Commission meeting. By then Hopkins' promoters probably will have filed a protest over his TKO loss to Chad Dawson on Saturday night,…
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Controversy erupts as Dawson wins by TKO after Hopkins hurts shoulder
LOS ANGELES - In the latest bizarre night of alleged championship boxing, Bernard Hopkins hurt his left shoulder in a late second-round entanglement with Chad Dawson, and lost his WBC light-heavyweight title.…
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Undefeated Bradley ready to go beyond almost famous
BEVERLY HILLS ? Basically, he was tired of the road games. For his first title, Tim Bradley met Junior Witter, who is from England. The fight was in Nottingham. That was OK,…
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Ortiz says he’s ready to rock Mayweather
VENTURA ? They wouldn't be upsets if you could see them coming. Coffee cups dropped on floors all over the world when Leon Spinks knocked off Muhammad Ali. The unofficial "Yeah, right"…
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Roach gives U.S. boxing professional help it needs
LOS ANGELES ? Freddie Roach did not make the 1976 U.S. Olympic team, the one with Ray Leonard and Leon Spinks, the one that produced a fresh batch of marketable boxers. However,…
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Rios shows his potential with big victory over Antillon
CARSON, Calif. It was furious, it was fast and if it was a metaphor for Brandon Rios' future, he won't argue. He and Urbano Antillon turned the tennis center at The Home…
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A Rios victory would put him closer to his dream confrontation
OXNARD, Calif. -- Boxing's desperate attempt to lure the heavy-breathing MMA fan is coming down to two guys who wish they weren't confined to fisticuffs. Brandon Rios will not be executing the…
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Chavez Jr. is turning around his persona, one bruise at a time
LOS ANGELES -- At the end he was a lot less pretty and a lot more real than he was at the beginning. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. looked like a fighter Saturday…
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Chavez Jr. making name in father’s game
LOS ANGELES ? The worst part of boxing telecasts is the hideous shot of the family of the beaten. When Manny Pacquiao was jumbling the facial composition of Miguel Cotto, HBO went…
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Boxing needs more than another Pacquiao-Marquez fight
LOS ANGELES ? Whenever the speed bag stops thumping and the bells stop ringing, this is what you hear at the gym: ?Manny Pacquiao hasn't signed yet, but the deal is done…
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Up next for Pacquiao: Do we care?
LAS VEGAS ? It was a promising day and night for boxing, until the fight started. On Saturday morning , top trainer Freddie Roach and USA boxing announced a partnership. Roach will…
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No-name fight still has some intrigue
INDIO ? Tim Bradley learned boxing here, at the Indio Boys & Girls Club, in a spacious room that, on this particular morning, is not devoted to recreational weight loss. These young…
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Redemption on the line for Margarito
OXNARD ? On the wall next to the ring, someone put a newspaper photo of a man carrying a crying baby in his arms. The man looked a lot like trainer Freddie…
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Roar is fading for old lion Bob Arum
There is a heaviness to Bob Arum these days, to his walk and his voice, as if a cassette recording was just a touch low on juice. On Monday, he was at…
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Time to let go of Mayweather vs. Pacquiao
Thanks to Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s video, the one he issued from one of his more opulent caves, he has achieved the impossible. He has cured us of Mayweather-Pacquiao fever. Suddenly we can…
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Arum not ready to give up on Mayweather-Pacquiao
The empathy of Bob Arum comes out after midnight. He was on the phone as Friday turned into Saturday, PDT. It was 3 a.m. for the New York-based writers in the conference…
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Forget peace, the world needs Mayweather-Pacquiao
LAS VEGAS ? Is Jimmy Carter doing anything these next few months? He is the President who got Menachem Begin to shake hands with Anwar Sadat. He might be the only man…
