Michael Woods
751 articles · The Sweet Science
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THERE WAS BLOOD! Matthysse Defeats Provodnikov
Fight of the year, they said coming in, can't miss. Warriors personified, two men who were born and bred to inflict violence upon other lesser beings. Who would be the lesser being…
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NASTY NEBRASKAN Crawford Stops Dulorme in The Sixth
Terence Crawford, the BWAA 2014 Fighter of the Year, showed off his chops on Saturday night, in Texas, on HBO. He tangled with Thomas Dulorme, the Puerto Rican hitter, and started off…
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Is the chilled-out Floyd Mayweather Jr. for promotion or for real?
Could it be that he has seen the light, has been, perhaps, humbled into becoming less brash, more contemplative, more positive? Sort of seems that way, as we assess Floyd ?Money? Mayweather…
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Pacman Prefers His Justin (Fortune) To Floyd’s (Bieber)
So you know Floyd Mayweather is going to have some glitz n glam star power in his pocket on May 2, when he strolls to the ring with songster Justin Bieber as…
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Floyd?s week in review
His weeks are not like your weeks, this I guarantee. After all, you are not the most talented pugilist on the planet and, also, if you are anything like me, you don?t…
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Manny Camp Update
There will be sparring today, maybe eight or nine rounds, after doing eight on Tuesday, and there was mitt-work yesterday, about 14 rounds worth?and by all accounts, all systems are go for…
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Floyd-Judah Sparring Is Talk of the Town
Ah, the gamesmanship. My guy is looking aces in camp. Oh, but my guy is looking like aces plus. The salesmanship, the wording meant to convey to the world that their man…
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What Would The Nevada Commission Do If Floyd or Manny Tested Positive?
Really nobody wants to go there, and ponder the route to take should the unthinkable happen, and one of the fighters involved in the May 2 super fight, boxing's Super Bowl, the…
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Ex Mayweather Gym Boxer Might Be Roach’s Secret Weapon
Freddie Roach has an ace up his sleeve and try as I might to get him to spill his guts, I can't get the Massachusetts native, even when I try to soften…
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Mayweather-Pacquiao Testing Kerfuffle Pops Up
Take the test, take the test, he repeated, basically ad nauseum, for what seemed like years. Yes, Floyd Mayweather was for a long spell guns a blazing about wanting Manny Pacquiao to…
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Roach Aims Barbs At Mellow Mayweather, His Buddy Bieber
Try as he might to inject some life into that LA presser, Freddie Roach was unable to transform the last-Wednesday hype fest into much of anything beyond a respectful dog and pony…
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“No Training But Plenty of Road Work” For Manny Pacquiao
The day, a day many folks thought would never come, the day of THE PRESS CONFERENCE, started early for Manny Pacquiao. Ace publicist Fred Sternburg, a gem of a man who for…
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Strength and Conditioning Dish From Coach Roach
Nope, Freddie Roach isn't concerned if Floyd Mayweather snaps up the best known strength and conditioning coaches in the boxing sphere, Alex Ariza, and Memo Heredia, ahead of the May 2 clash…
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Roach Talks First Day of Camp At Wild Card
Freddie Roach's kid Zou Shiming didn't get the nod in his Saturday title fight, but Dedham Freddie isn't fixated on the scrap, as he has bigger fish to prepare for frying. Namely,…
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Smart and Sharp Thurman Dominates Guerrero on NBC
In the main event of the first boxing on NBC in primetime since 1985, Keith Thurman took on Robert Guerrero, and those of us that hoped for boxing to succeed as a…
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ROACH: “I Think Floyd Needs To Be Humbled, and Manny Is the One To Do It”
Floyd Mayweather has expertly cultivated an image in the last seven, eight years, one which sees him as the only boxer who is known in the US outside of the cultists that…
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Be Aware, Mayweather-Pacquiao Will Not Look Like Gatti-Ward 1
I'm worried, my friends. I am worried that we are in a place where we are setting ourselves up to over-promise, and under-deliver. The Fight, I'm talking about. On May 2, we…
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Styles, not the ABCs, make fights, says Freddie Roach
I hear no shortage of folks out and about saying this Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao fight boils down pretty simplistically. Here?s the syrup; they say?Manny Pacquiao goes life and death…
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Coach Roach, With Manny’s Blessing, Will Be in Zou Corner Saturday
The biggest fight of his life looms, duh, and one might think that Manny Pacquiao might not be OK with his trainer jetting off to China, and working with another one of…
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Bob Arum lays down the making of Mayweather-Pacquiao
All-time promotional legend Bob Arum has been at it since 1966, so when he is asked for the big-picture assessment of our Super Bowl fight, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao, ears…