Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Schaefer Huddles With Network Brass; I Bet Edwin Valero-Manny Pacquiao Was Discussed!
Richie Rich Schaefer, Golden Boy?s boss with the salsa picante (hot sauce), was in New York this past week. While in my city, Schaefer made a bee line for?where else??the Sixth Avenue…
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Manny Pacquaio Can Handle Himself Nicely On TV With Lantern Jaw Jay Leno!
The question popped up on the Pacland chat board as to whether Megamanny Manny Pacquiao could handle himself one-on-one with ?Tonight Show? host Jay Leno. It's funny because I was pondering the…
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Domestic Scandal Explodes In Pacland<br>Deanna Koncz: Pacquiao’s Shadow Left Me Homeless, Childless, Destitute!
Editor?s Note: In ordinary circumstances, I would leave this heart-wrenching story of domestic disaster a private matter. But, in publishing this heartfelt email from Deanna Koncz, I am making her side of…
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Skip The Duck Sauce, Floyd, Miguel Cotto Is Only Fight That Matters To Us In 2008!
would make myself out to be the back end of a donkey if I were to suggest that Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr., to use the current expression, ?man up.? You can?t say…
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First Day Salute To All You Fanaticos: Hattonites, Mexicanos, Pinoys, Boricuas: Well-Tossed Salad Makes Boxing Great!
Gushing fan walks up to the great Groucho Marx. The scene is a hot and steamy restaurant in the Hollywood area. Maybe it was mid-July, maybe this story precedes air conditioning. Just…
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Michael Marley’s Peerless, Fearless Forecast: DeLaHoya Stuns Cotto; Manny Whips JMM, Hatton; Linares Threat To Pretty Boy Floyd!
Headline on a newspaper I spotted on Cape Cod: Bhutto Killing Throws Pakistan Into Chaos. I guess even headline writers take the holidays off because how do you throw a Stone Age…
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Michael Marley Opines: Megamanny’s Megafight For 2008, Go Mug Ricky Hatton!
Dear Sir Michael: Greetings coming all the way from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a hope for you to be always in the best of health that you may keep successfully…
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Teflon Don: Give Me $2 Million, I’ll Clear Path For Manny Pacquiao-Juan Diaz Blockbuster!
Don King never played high school football in Cleveland. His father died in a work accident when he was a boy and King had to hustle on the streets. His real alma…
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Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Venom As King-Diaz Contract War Rages On!
Christmas cheer? Bah, humbug! Sharing a cup of wassail and crooning ?Auld Lang Syne?? Not hardly. The spirit of the season has not affected the continuing legal war between promoter Don King…
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To He Who Must Not Be Named, To His Fans And, Yes, To The Haters: Merry & Happy!
Editor?s Note: I am on the fourth or fifth day of my 21 day Twelve Step attempt to break the He Who Must Not Be Named habit. Please do not regard what…
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HBO Fortifies Schedule By Plugging Kastidis In March 22 Against Casamayor!
Sources at HBO tell Boxingconfidential.com that the prremium cable network is ready to March into into the first quarter of 2008 with a strong lineup of fights. One Home Box Office Only…
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KO Artist Edwin Valero: Pacquiao Is Afraid But Coach Roach Is Totally Scared!
CANCUN--If his younger stablemate Jorge Linares is a Young Frankenstein, then what do we all make of fellow Venezuelan and also unbeaten world boxing champion Edwin Valero. How about Dracula since Valero…
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Edwin Valero Turns Down Joan Guzman, Guzman Turns Down Rocky Kastidis!
CANCUN--First, Edwin Valero turned down a fight with fellow unbeaten 130-pound world champion Joan Guzman. The Venezuelan slugger?s estimable promoter, Honda-San of Teiken would like to get Valero licensed in the United…
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This Generation’s Super Dream Fight<br>Marley’s Verdict: Pacquiao Takes 5-3-2 Spit Decision Over Money Mayweather!
Remember the old Broadway show tune that went, ?Anything you can do, I can do better!? That got me thinking about being effective worldwide and, in doing so, I feel the time…
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Juan Manuel Marquez Scratched Up In Recent Automobile Accident; No Date Change For Defense Against Pacman!
Crash, boom, bang. Juan Manuel Marquez, who defends his WBC 130-pound title against Filipino idol Manny Pacquiao March 15 in Las Vegas, showed up in that city this week showing the physical…
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L”Affaire Donaire Cools
Now for the third side of the Nonito Donaire-Gary Shaw-Cameron Dunkin triangle. Manager Dunkin is not looking to restoke the fires that have been blazing this week after the IBF flyweight champion…
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Dominican Avoided Like Bubonic Plague: Now It’s Unbeaten KO Master Valero Who Puts Joan Guzman On Stay Away List!
Manny Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach, nobody?s fistic fool, has made it crystal clear that if he has way, Pacman will avoid unbeaten stylist Joan Guzman like the Bubonic Plague. The plague, also…
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Papa Donaire Speaks Out: My Son Nonito Is Gary Shaw’s Superstar, Not Punched Tickets Tarver, Forrest!
I get the distinct feeling from speaking with a gentleman named Nonito Donaire Sr., who works as shop foreman in Concord, Calif., when he?s not busy training his IBF flyweight champion son,…
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Infantile Complaints Against Shaw Rejected In Toto
I was just getting down to the letter ?D? on my holiday shopping list when I heard and read about flyweight champ Nonito Doniare?s public complaints about his promoter. Big Gary Shaw,…
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Recycled Excuse: Strictly Shoe Business
Shoe business. That?s what caused Manny Pacquiao not to look so hot in hirst fight against Juan Manuel Marquez according to Sampson Lewkowicz, the globetrotting adviser to five world champions including Pinoy…
