David A. Avila
297 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Money-Sugar match gets helping hand
We've been down this road before with Floyd "Money" Mayweather, but this time should be different. Mayweather (40-0, 25 KOs) has agreed to all conditions to fight Pomona's Sugar Shane Mosley (46-5,…
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2010 likely a big year for area prizefighters
Sugar Shane Mosley spearheads a load of Southern California prizefighters who will be busy in the near future. Mosley's potential showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. is being discussed and could take place…
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Mayweather & Mosley May Happen Now, Schaefer Says
If a window closes another opens and that might be the case for Sugar Shane Mosley. Golden Boy Promotions says that negotiations between Pomona’s Mosley and Floyd “Money” Mayweather are underway for…
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Female Fighters of the Year
The co-Fighters of the Year female pro boxers for 2009 are Kina Malpartida and Olivia Gerula. Ironically they both fight in the 130-pound weight division known as the junior lightweight or super…
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Boxing’s January Fastball Calendar
From heavyweights to flyweights here’s a view of what’s coming down the pipe like a Justin Verlander fastball. Everything that’s heading for fight fans in the month of January including a world…
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Timothy Bradley Gets Standby Call For Manny Pacquiao
WBO junior welterweight titleholder Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley has received the standby call to fight Manny Pacquiao on Thursday should Floyd “Money” Mayweather pull out of the mega fight with the Filipino…
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The Best Referees & Judges For 2009
Mostly invisible to the boxing public are those men and women wearing blue or light green that often have an impact on the sport greater than a Manny Pacquiao or Kelly Pavlik…
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Avila’s list of the best
Ten years into the 21st century Manny Pacquiao, a rather diminutive prizefighter from the island nation of the Philippines, has emerged as the foremost professional boxer of the decade and also for…
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Pacman is the Fighter of the Year and Decade
It’s been a decade since Manny Pacquiao thrust into the American boxing scene with his flashing fists and aggressive attacking style. In the last 10 years he’s proven to be as captivating…
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Ana “The Hurricane” Julaton & Donna Biggers WBO Title Fight
In the loaded junior featherweight division Ana “The Hurricane” Julaton seeks to anchor herself with another world title when she faces North Carolina’s Donna “Nature Girl” Biggers for the vacant WBO junior…
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Cotto Says No Way To Number 7 For Pacman
FYI: With most of the world stuck in the middle of the recession blues, it’s important to peruse any means necessary to imbibe in one’s vices; be they drinking a 12-pack of…
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JC Chavez Jr., Troy Rowland, Soto-Karass & Alfonso Gomez
WEST L.A.-The big fight looms in a couple of days in the neon lit streets of Las Vegas, so that means a lot of traveling from my residence in slow-paced Riverside to…
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Cotto stands in way of Pac-Man’s title run
Every day Manny Pacquiao arrives with his entourage at the now famous Wild Card Boxing gym in Hollywood. And it's not uncommon to see a member of the television series "Entourage" present…
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Pacman Packs Them In On Media Day L.A.
With a bright colored bus outside the Wild Card Boxing gym painted with the pound for pound champion’s name it wasn’t a surprise to see several hundred people waiting in the parking…
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Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto Hits A Hot L.A
WEST L.A.-Reeking of sweat, heat and the scent of more than 100 body odors in the small West L.A. boxing gym, Miguel Cotto seemed right at home as he used the ropes,…
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Floyd Mayweather The New Crossover Star
In 2009 BMM, that’s Before Mayweather-Marquez, the world of boxing wondered who would be the next blockbuster pay-per-view star. That’s no longer a question mark. Floyd “Money” Mayweather has arrived with his…
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Jorge Linares Loses?? The Golden Boy Jinx Continues
Who the heck put a hex on Golden Boy Promotions? Recently signed WBA junior lightweight titleholder Jorge Linares was knocked out by Mexico’s Juan Carlos Salgado last Saturday in Tokyo before a…
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Floyd Is The New Oscar Says HBO’s Greenburg
Four years ago a dozen or so boxing writers were invited to a luncheon with HBO’s Ross Greenburg and other television executives in an Algonquin-type roundtable to thrash out the future of…
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Israel Vazquez & Juanma Compete For Fans Saturday
Mexico’s Israel Vazquez or Puerto Rico’s Juan Manuel Lopez, take your pick. One a current pound for pound champion returning to the ring wars, and the other a quick-rising power-punching mini giant…
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Floyd Mayweather Steamrolls Mexico’s JM Marquez
LAS VEGAS-It was a sadist’s delight as Floyd Mayweather made his return to basically prove that it was a pipedream to believe that Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez had the tools to beat…
