Geoffrey Gray
18 articles · The New York Times
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Pacquiao injury story Inconsistent
Mike Koncz, Manny Pacquiao's longtime business adviser, is missing a key detail in his mea culpa in Shouldergate. Koncz is taking the heat, claiming in interviews that the reason Pacquiao, one of…
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Meet the Artist Responsible for Painting the Mayweather?Pacquiao Ring Mat
One of the most expensive pieces of cloth on Earth right now spent the week stuffed in a small box inside the production office at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The…
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Mayweather Outmaneuvers Pacquiao
LAS VEGAS -- In the beginning of training camp, once he'd landed in Los Angeles and started his preparations in the Wild Card Gym for the so-called "fight of the century," Manny…
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Why Pacquiao Can’t Lose
LAS VEGAS -- As the undisputed master of mind games, Floyd Mayweather must be puzzled with Manny Pacquiao's choice of words. The Filipino fighter did not bring a chicken on stage to…
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Mayweather Jr., famous and alone
Taking his seat on the dais, Floyd Mayweather Jr. looked out into the crowd. There were his friends and uncles and cut man in the front row. And there his fans, who'd…
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Manny Pacquiao’s Bone Soup
Unlike Floyd Mayweather, who trains and runs at odd hours, Manny Pacquiao is a believer in the old-school boxing ritual of morning roadwork. He?s up and ready to run at dawn. But…
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Manny Pacquiao?s Trainer Has a Plan for Beating Floyd Mayweather ? It Involves Blood and a Different Kind of Bible Study
Freddie Roach is struggling to walk up the stairs to the Wild Card, the boxing gym in Los Angeles he made famous by training the most elite crop of talent in recent…
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Manny Pacquiao?s Trainer Has a Plan for Beating Floyd Mayweather ? It Involves Blood and a Different Kind of Bible Study
Freddie Roach is struggling to walk up the stairs to the Wild Card, the boxing gym in Los Angeles he made famous by training the most elite crop of talent in recent…
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The Great Chinese Hope
Resting over the ring ropes, Freddie Roach watches the sparring session go on and does not like what he sees. Zou Shiming, his fighter, is still doing all the kinds of things…
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The Great Chinese Hope
Resting over the ring ropes, Freddie Roach watches the sparring session go on and does not like what he sees. Zou Shiming, his fighter, is still doing all the kinds of things…
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A Boxing Clinic
NEW YORK -- After the ninth round, Sergio Martinez came back to his corner, the water from the cutman's sponge washing the blood from cuts over both eyes. His trainer grabbed him…
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Bloodied, But Unbowed
Marcos Maidana did everything the way he was supposed to. From the first bell, he stalked Floyd Mayweather Jr. like a shadow, then charged him and threw his signature overhand right punch…
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Training for the Impossible
The activity is standard in a fighter's training camp. There's the morning run, the morning meal and nap, some sparring in the gym, then exercises and weights and early dinner. And then,…
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Pacquiao’s Next Step
LAS VEGAS -- Forget the judge's scorecards. After this fight, it was hard to pick the winner from the loser. Preparing for the fight that would define his career, Timothy Bradley Jr.…
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Pacquiao’s Counterpunch
LAS VEGAS -- For all the pre-fight hype about faith and will and killer instinct, it was Manny Pacquiao's superior technical ability and hand speed that were able to stop a game…
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A Born Fighter
LAS VEGAS -- There is consensus among boxing trainers that big muscles are no good for a fighter. The bigger the muscles, the more energy they burn. They are slower to move…
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Studying to Be a Rabbi, Fighting to Be a Champion
Yuri Foreman stepped up to the top bench of the banya to embrace the soothing power of the heat. The beads of sweat bubbled and greased his skin. He shuttered his eyes…
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Choice of gloves in boxers’ hands<br>Fighters benefitting from new rules that leave them in control
Champion's choice? No more. Since the last bare-knuckle days of the 1880s, when boxers began protecting their hands with leather mittens, it had been the privilege of the champion and his promoter…