David A. Avila
297 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Is Manny Pacquiao Catching History On Saturday?
Much of the world is till unaware that you need no advantages when it comes to fighting anyone from flyweight to welterweight. Now, you?re stepping up to junior middleweight to fight another…
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Bob Arum Gearing Up For Another Manny Mega Fight
Twice a year or more the Manny Pacquiao show hits Hollywood like one of the many spectacular movie premieres that occurred yesteryear, but scarcely today. No longer is it Charlie Chaplin, Clark…
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Amir “King” Khan & Marcos Maidana In L.A.
LOS ANGELES-Is Amir Khan the greatest junior welterweight in the world today? We?ll be one step closer to finding out when WBA world titleholder Khan (23-1, 17 KOs) meets Argentina?s Marcos Maidana…
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Will HBO Ever Televise Female Boxing?
With a single punch Kaliesha West captured the vacant WBO bantamweight world title on a crowded card last weekend. In the past a knockout win by a female prizefighter was a rare…
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Manny Pacquiao & Antonio Margarito In L.A
LOS ANGELES-Packed inside the historic Beverly Hills Hotel where icons past and present wine, dine and circulate, a media horde showed up to the Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito press conference on…
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Melinda Cooper Dominates In Mexico
Mexico got a second glimpse of Melinda ?La Maravilla? Cooper and a second look at what she can do. Cooper (21-0, 11 KOs) battered Miriam Avila (20-4) for a second time but…
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JMM Marquez-Diaz Embodies Mexican Revolution
One hundred years ago the Mexican Revolution erupted and warriors like Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata and Francisco Madero fought against overwhelming odds and forces. It?s the same spirit that Mexican fighters are…
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Bradley Or Mayweather For Pacman?
Rumors continue to ricochet from parking lots, to casinos, to boxing gyms and through the Internet, and the center of all the rumors continue to be who will be Manny Pacquiao?s next…
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Fans want Pacquiao to take on Bradley
A recent survey revealed boxing's reigning pound-for-pound champion, Manny Pacquiao, should fight Timothy Bradley next. Hardcore boxing fans, or at least the majority of those voting on the survey, do not want…
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Shane Mosley To Fight Sergio Mora In L.A. Sept. 18
Golden Boy Promotions Richard Schaefer said Wednesday that Sugar Shane Mosley (46-6, 39 KOs) and Sergio Mora (22-1-1, 6 KOs) have agreed to terms and will fight on Sept. 18 at the…
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Ana Julaton & Maria Villalobos Title Fight; KWest & Kina Win
Losing a big fight can often spiral into worse things but in some cases it sparks a hunger to work even harder like Ana ?The Hurricane? Julaton. No resting now. Two-time world…
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A Day At Wild Card: Ana Julaton & Kaliesha West
LOS ANGELES-Too bad not a single television crew was around when two-time world champion Ana ?The Hurricane? Julaton and bantamweight contender Kaliesha ?Wild Wild? West met at the Wild Card on Monday.…
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A Tale Of Four Fighters: Mares, Perez, Vazquez, Marquez
It seems like yesterday when former 2004 Mexican Olympian Abner Mares sat down aside a table at Golden Boy Promotions headquarters with a few media reps present and signed a contract with…
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Las Vegas Journal: Mayweather-Mosley
LAS VEGAS-When one of the biggest fights in three years is about to happen and you?re a boxing writer, it can be a little more exciting than usual. Driving from Southern California…
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Kelly Pavlik Bringing Lunch Bucket To Martinez Fight
Kelly ?The Ghost? Pavlik has a tough job ahead of him when he defends against Argentina?s Sergio Martinez on Saturday. But that?s the way he likes it. ?I?m anxious to get in…
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Boxing World Is Disrespecting Mosley
Sugar Shane Mosley recently sent out a memo to the press about the basic disrespect he’s been shown by one and all in the boxing world. He has a point. Not to…
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Clottey might need shelter from tornado
Boxing's closest thing to a human tornado drops down in Texas on Saturday as Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao defends his WBO welterweight title against Joshua Clottey. All eyes will be on Dallas as…
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Ana Julaton Vs. Lisa Brown On March 27 For WBA Title
Two-time world champion Ana “The Hurricane” Julaton has agreed to venture north of the border to meet four-time world champion Lisa “Bad News” Brown for the vacant WBA junior featherweight title. “I’m…
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Calif Commission Agenda: Judges, Margarito & New Director
Whether it’s a blockbuster prizefight like next month’s Manny Pacquiao facing Joshua Clottey or a smaller boxing match featuring novice pro fighters, not all fights end with a knockout so inevitably it…
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Wild Card Talk: Pacman, Mayweather, Mosley & Khan
After picking up my secret weapon we headed toward Los Angeles with little traffic impeding our progress on the maze of freeways that makes up Southern California. Who’s my secret weapon? We’ll…
