Michael Woods
751 articles · The Sweet Science
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Roach On What He Thinks Main Reason Floyd Hasn’t Embraced Manny Fight
Freddie Roach was asked what he thought was the top reason why we haven't seen Floyd Mayweather go after that Manny Pacquiao fight with gusto, sending a message with words and deeds…
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ROACH: Cotto-Canelo May 2 Could Quite Likely Push Floyd To Make Pacman Fight
Freddie Roach can easily envision a scenario in which a fight he REALLY wants to see get made gets blown up because a fight he REALLY, REALLY wants to see get made…
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Roach Tells TSS He’s Made It Clear Canelo Is Best Fight NOW For Cotto
Freddie Roach on Wednesday afternoon watched over one of his students, South African welterweight Chris Van Heerden (21-1-1 with 11 KOs), who fights Friday night at the Madison Square Garden Theater, on…
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YEAR IN REVIEW: Loose Cannon Arum Drops the H Word, A Superfight Gets Made in Feb. ’14
Indulging in a look-back at the past year in boxing can be a slightly discouraging task, if one chooses to acknowledge how naggingly repetitive some of the issues that bedevil us as…
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YEAR IN REVIEW: January ’14 Got Off To A “Shady” Start
As always, we aspired to start the new year in boxing 2014 with something approximating a blank slate, with our default setting switched to OPTIMISTIC, or, at least, measured skepticism, instead of…
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MY NEW YEAR FEAR: Gennady Golovkin vs. Ricardo Mayorga
Wait, what. Mayorga? That beer swiller, that tobacco huffer, is still in the mix? And he wants to fight who?? Golovkin? Is he still even active?and if yes, has he progressed from…
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Lampley Ends 2014 With Flurry At Al Haymon on HBO’s “The Fight Game”
Soon to be Hall of Famer Jim Lampley trotted out on HBO the final 2014 installment of "The Fight Game", his news/opinion magazine show, and offered up a rock-solid performance with some…
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Jumbo Size Helping Of Teddy Atlas! ESPNer & Tim Smith Starting “Sirius” Show
Teddy Atlas is out in Cali, visiting his son, who works for the Raiders NFL franchise, and he was kind enough to take time from his visit to Alcatraz to talk a…
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HBO Boxing Boss Ken Hershman Looks Back, Forward
The interview got off to a rough start, because I missed my call time. My excuse was good, as excuses go: I was cleaning out the cat litter box. That?s why I…
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GONNA BE A RUMBLE OUT ON THE PROMENADE: Verdejo Wins in Philly
Looking ahead to 2015...Gosh, I think that's such a strong idea considering this year in boxing has been largely underwhelming, what with the Super Fight still being MIA, and Floyd fighting the…
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Tim Bradley Out-Throws Chaves, But Judges See Split Draw
The former junior welter and welter champ Tim Bradley took on rugged man Diego Chaves in the main event on HBO, from the Cosmo in Vegas, and this was wiseman Tim, who…
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Checking In With Lampley, Getting Thoughts on Bradley-Chaves
Jim Lampley has seen Tim Bradley at his best and his worst and he, like me, doesn't have a totally firm sense which Bradley will show up on Saturday night, in Las…
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Algieri Wants To Get Back in the Ring Quickly
You noted the degree of sureness he had in himself before the Pacquiao scrap. What, you thought Chris Algieri was rendered into a shuffling shell of himself because one of the five…
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Malignaggi: “I Would Beat Pacquiao Right Now, So Imagine What Floyd Does To Him?”
Fighter/analyst Paul Malignaggi owns more pop in the verbal department than in the fistic one, it must be said. That's no slam on his power quotient, but as a boxer he relies…
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Speculation City: How Did The Pacquiao-Algieri PPV Do?
Ah, yes, the American obsession with numbers. I semi deplore it, yet fall prey to it. As I am right now, as I focus on the Pay Per View buy numbers for…
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WOODS: I’m Liking Sergey Kovalev For Fighter of the Year
Terence Crawford, a lot there to like, for sure. Gennady Golovkin, breakout year for the good boy with the worst of fistic intentions when he gloves up. But for me, my Fighter…
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How Pacquiao Pays Roach
I've always found it a bit ludicrous the way we view talking about money in our nation. Money is a complete fixation for us, yet so often, we dance around the topic.…
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BUD SMOKES BELTRAN Crawford Too Slick For Challenger, Gets UD12 Win
Terence Crawford didn't have as many moments that left his hometown legion of rooters buzzing as maybe they would've expected coming into the main event from the Century Link Center in Omaha,…
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Roach Isn’t Sold On Idea That We Are In a Total Cold War Thaw
You can be excused if you feel somewhat cynical in regards to the level of optimism in the minds of some regarding a possible Manny Pacquiao-Flotd Mayweather match. Lord knows, the topic…
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Roach on Pacquiao-Mayweather: “I Think It’s Gonna Happen”
He's a boxing guy, through and through, a lifer, it's what he knows, loves, adores?it is his reason for being, is boxing, and so today, which is Thanksgiving, Freddie Roach will be…