Michael Woods
751 articles · The Sweet Science
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Team Crawford Cool With WBO’s Plan of 4-18 Winner Fighting Algieri
The WBO 140 pound crown will be up for grabs when Terence Crawford and Thomas Dulorme clash for it, site TBD--we are hearing Texas is in the top spot as platform--and you…
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Ruslan Provodnikov-Lucas Matthysse fight close to sold out
The announcement of the Ruslan Provodnikov-Lucas Matthysse fight on Wednesday didn?t exactly BREAK Twitter, but the buzz was definitely astir on the net, and if it didn?t quite bump #MayweatherPacquiao from trending…
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No trash-talk from Roach, but he says Pacquiao can stop Mayweather
One element of boxing?s Super Bowl being made which bears watching is the trash-talk, or lack thereof, between the principals and parties affiliated with Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. Hardcore fans…
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Team Golovkin targets Miguel Cotto, responds to Chavez Jr.?s tweets
Now that Gennady Golovkin has done the expected, and dispensed with another foe, this time the most worthy adversary Martin Murray, our focus turns to his next date, which is targeted for…
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HBO Star Golovkin Aims To Deal With Murray, But Would Love Mayweather At 154 After
Boxing needs stars. Has always, always will. The ones we got now, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto are, don't want to break it to you rudely, not young. Mayweather is…
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MORE MERCHANT: Larry on Money-Manny, Haymon Takeover
He remains skeptical, does Larry Merchant, that MayPac gets made. But, he admitted to me, his main source of lowdown on whether Money-Manny gets made is Dan Rafael. In other words, he's…
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#MayPac Nearing Home Stretch?
Some of you, I dare say many of you, have tuned out. The saturation of attention to the fifth, and hopefully last, round of negotiations for a proposed Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao bout…
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Floyd to Manny: “We Have To Make This Fight Happen”
Some of you doubt that Floyd Mayweather really, truly, completely, wants to get in the ring with Manny Pacquiao. He fears a loss, he doesn?t want to give even a morsel of…
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Pesky Press Corners HBO’s Hershman on #MayPac
HBO boxing boss Ken Hershman isn?t so keen on regular back and forths with media. But of course, that is his right. He will chat with us, but not on an intermittent…
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Prince Talks Ward-Golovkin, Ward-Kovalev
Some of your top fight game managers are, maybe surprisingly, not in fact loud, or flashy, or seeking attention sorts. Al Haymon, Cameron Dunkin, James Prince, all spotlight shunners. Prince is a…
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THE WAITING GAME Team Golovkin Hasn’t Heard From Team Cotto
K2's Tom Loeffler, the US-based promoter for Gennady Golovkin, told me he hadn?t heard from Team Cotto, about a unification fight, days after he and I spoke about Team Golovkins? hunger to…
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HBO Responds To Mayo Column
The headline of this morning's David Mayo story rang alarm bells in my head: Column: Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao happens only if latter leans on Time Warner/HBO. Why? Because I wondered…
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Manny In LA, Then It’s Off To DC, Before Heading Back Home
Will the silence be seen in retrospect as golden, as a "gag order" period where the principals and their people hunkered down and ironed out details for the super fight five five…
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Provodnikov Still in Running For Pacquiao Fight
Don?t block off that date and tussle in your head just yet, boxing addicts. The Ruslan Provodnikov-Lucas Matthysse potentiality, a lead dog as potential Fight of the Year for 2015, IF it…
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Trying To Make Sense of Manny-Khan Meeting, and Floyd’s Next Move
So Manny Pacquiao is meeting with Brit royalty, and now fight-game UK royalty, in Amir Khan. What to make of it? Purely a negotiating shove in the direction of the "Money" man,…
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Terence Crawford Has Possibles List For April 18 Fight
Terence Crawford got some loving' from people choosing their 2014 Fighter of the Year, and the Nebraskan is keen to conjure even more buzz in 2015, his trainer Brian McIntyre told me…
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Jab-Happy Wilder BOXES His Way To WBC Belt, Win Over Stiverne
In the main event on Showtime, Bermane Stiverne defended his WBC heavyweight crown against Alabaman Deontay Wilder. Stiverne was too passive throughout, but credit has to go to Wilder, and trainer Mark…
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Rios and Alavarado on Collision Course For Third Time
They rumbled in 2012, and then again in 2013. The series stands at 1-1 and the tie-breaker will unfold on January 24, in Denver. Brandon Rios, the gritty 'n busy Cali based…
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Checking in With Robert Garcia, On Mikey Status, and T.O.T.Y. Desire
Last week was unofficially Freddie Roach week on TSS. Dedham Freddie was the first to tell us just how close we are to seeing The Fight that we've been craving since 2009,…
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If No Floyd, What Next For Manny? Khan’s An Option, Says Roach
And what if a Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather fight doesn't get made for May? What then? Who does The Congressman select for his next violent waltz? I posed that query to Freddie Roach,…