Charles Jay
146 articles · The Sweet Science
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Business of Boxing: Family Business With Manny Pacquiao, ?The Godfather?
By Charles Jay
These guys with the Top Rank PR machine are great at getting people in important places to write stories about Manny Pacquiao. But now they?ve got me all confused. Last week I…
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Sergio Martinez represents ?Next Frontier? For Manny Pacquiao
By Charles Jay
With Floyd Mayweather apparently not too anxious to come to the table, Manny Pacquiao will continue to look for options where he can make some big money via the pay-per-view route. He?s…
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Pacquiao-Marquez: The Question of ?Muscles?
By Charles Jay
This week Alex Ariza, the strength and conditioning coach for Manny Pacquiao, is communicating to Juan Manuel Marquez that ?muscles don?t win fights.? Obviously he is referring to the routine Marquez has…
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Incentive Money Would Send a Message to Fans
By Charles Jay
I think most people understand when they are watching a guy who is just going through the motions, trying to get to the end of the fight. It?s one thing, I suppose,…
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Pacquiao vs. Marquez ? Steroid Dealer/Federal Snitch Raises Questions
By Charles Jay
Floyd Mayweather keeps imploring Manny Pacquiao to ?take the tests, take the tests.? Isn?t it ironic that such a thing is exactly what Pacquiao could be demanding of his next opponent? It…
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Business of Boxing: Winner-Take-All Bonuses? Not a Bad Idea
By Charles Jay
So at least Omar Narvaez inspired SOMETHING. The flyweight and super flyweight champion, who infamously affected a do-nothing performance against Nonito Donaire on the biggest stage of his career, has brought about…
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Regardless of Verdict, Mayweather and His ?Homies? Are a Neighborhood Problem
By Charles Jay
The four-rounder is over for Floyd Mayweather. Upcoming: a series of ten-rounders that could really put him in the jackpot. Mayweather?s misdemeanor harassment charge against two homeowner?s association security guards, which was…
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The Eight Count Notebook: Pacquiao Gets Ferrari, Boswell, Taylor, more
By Charles Jay
(1) NEWS ITEM ? PACQUIAO GETS A FERRARI Reports coming from, of all things, an orthodontist in Los Angeles, are that Manny Pacquiao has purchased a new Ferrari 458 Italia at a…
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Do We Really Need To See Narvaez?s Kind of Fight?
By Charles Jay
The fight looked good on paper, with Narvaez taking his shiny undefeated record and two world titles into the fray. In the matchup and in the ring it was quite a different…
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You?ve Got to Salute Manny Pacquiao?.Literally
By Charles Jay
He is world champion Manny Pacquiao. At the same time, he is also Congressman Manny Pacquiao, recording artist Manny Pacquiao, game show host Manny Pacquiao and all-around celebrity spokesman Manny Pacquiao. Now…
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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Goes Into ?Safe? Mode ? Could He Crash?
By Charles Jay
At this point, if you are in the Houston area, you are no doubt rushing out to buy your tickets for the November 14 middleweight title fight between two fighters who have…
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The Great Mystery ? How Many People Bought Mayweather-Ortiz?
By Charles Jay
Surprisingly, to some, the pay-per-view figures on the Floyd Mayweather-Victor Ortiz fight have not yet been released. Please understand that this is something that customarily comes within four or five business days…
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Klitschko vs. Mormeck ? Everyone?s Entitled To a Breather, I Guess
By Charles Jay
Jean-Marc Mormeck is 39 years old, five-foot-eleven and a puffed-up cruiserweight to boot. Are these the kind of title defenses that will truly create a ?legacy? for Wladimir Klitschko? Only if he…
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Could Dana White and Bob Arum Both Be Right?
By Charles Jay
Is Bob Arum really a ?big, fat, lying, dirty, two-faced, scumbag pig,? as Dana White suggested recently in an interview at a network affiliate? Well, I don?t know about those remarks, but…
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Does Darren Barker Have What It Takes To ?Dazzle? Sergio Martinez?
By Charles Jay
Is there going to be something ?dazzling? about Darren Barker, who is about to challenge Sergio Martinez for the middleweight championship of the world on Saturday night? Well, Martinez IS 36 years…
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Everyone Shooting For Bernard Hopkins Again; At Age 46, That Must Feel Good
By Charles Jay
There?s no better way to feel like a kid again than to have a lot of youngsters (at least by comparison) lining up to get a piece of you. That?s what Bernard…
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Let?s Be ?Fair But Firm? About All This Mayweather Fight Stuff
By Charles Jay
?Live by the slogan, die by the slogan,? is what I always say. That having been said, in Saturday night?s fight between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz, Joe Cortez was hardly firm.…
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Business of Boxing: Does Floyd Mayweather?s Image Sell, or Smell?
By Charles Jay
Bob Arum has inferred that Floyd Mayweather is ?insane.? Richard Schaefer has referred to him as a ?marketing genius.? My guess is that it kind of falls somewhere in between. Look ?…
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Message to Floyd: If You Don?t Want to be ?Exploited,? Don?t Exploit it Yourself
By Charles Jay
??..There?s a lot of bad people out there which are trying to shake people up for some money and so on. I really think that in many of those cases, Floyd is…
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What Floyd Mayweather Needs To Avoid on Saturday
By Charles Jay
This is a companion piece to our story about ?What Victor Ortiz Needs To Do,? and in some ways it?s a flip side to it. But the WBC welterweight title fight this…