Jesse Tangen-Mills
13 articles · The Faster Times
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Cotto and Margacheato in Madison Square
While the young Chicano Victor Ortiz has signed up to ruin his career in a fight against one of the world?s two best boxers, Floyd Mayweather in September, Miguel Cotto might fight…
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Pacquiao?s Five Best Brawls
Showtime has thrown in everything but the adobo to make Pacquiao-Mosley enticing: Dr. Dre, Eminem, Rick Ross, a Kelly Pavlik comeback. But hip-hop world aside, boxing promoter Bob Arum decided to recruit…
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Bob Arum: Against De la Hoya, but for Don King
Bob Arum, boxing?s big bucks promoter, has been running his mouth more than usual lately. On one hand he has berated perhaps his only real competitor in the game, De la Hoya,…
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Is Nonito The New Pacquiao?
With Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao in the White House robbing headlines (albethey about his ill-fitting blazer), some may have forgotten the other pinoy boy and rising star Nonito Donaire is up…
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What does boxing need in 2011? Marketing
Change is never easy, less so in sports. Nevertheless, boxing has gone through some major changes in the last hundred years. First there was the move from bare-knuckle boxing, then the televising…
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A Look Ahead to the Nice Guy Fight: Pacquiao v. Mosley
Boxing?s most popular living fighters are Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley. Proof? Pacquiao was featured on 60 Minutes. Mosley was the subject of a New Yorker profile. That translates to a lot…
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Manny Pacquiao Against?Mayorga?
You remember Nicaraguan boxer Ricardo Mayorga, the only boxer I can think of that smokes a pack a day? That?s right, the same Mayorga who tried to move over to the MMA,…
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Malignaggi Trains With Former Adversary, Khan
If you haven?t heard already, Brooklyn went West Coast last week. Bensonhurst boxer Paulie ?Magic Man? Malignaggi (27-4) left to train in Californian trainer Freddie Roach?s Wild Card Gym. This means Malignaggi…
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The Super Six Tournament is Super Weird
I began watching Showtimes? Super Six tournament in part because I?m about super middleweight size. Overall, the fights were okay, but then things started getting strange. First there was Carl Froch, an…
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Argentina On the Up and Up
It?s been over thirty years since the fighter Carlos Monz?n was on top of the middleweight division, although you might say in his native Argentina he was on top of the world.…
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Post-Pacquiao: Where are we now?
Seeing Manny Pacquiao, outweighed some 17 pounds, fly under and around a physically imposing but frozen ?Tijuana Tornado? last Saturday was better than most expected. Margarito?s broken eye socket in need of…
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Roach Says Margarito Down in Three; The Inside Scoop on the Undercard
A few days ago a video on youtube ?surfaced? of Californian Chicano boxers Brandon Rios, Antonio Margairto and trainer Robert Garcia mimicking Manny Pacquiao?s trainer Freddie Roach, who suffers from Parkinson?s. Not…
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Boxing Season Begins with a Bang or Two
With the end of the World Series, the thumping lull of basketball season, and football limited mostly to Sundays, Saturday nights from this week until mid-December will be fight nights. A result…
