Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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My True Confession: Why Pacquiao’s New Ring Walk Music Will Be When Saints Go Marching In!
Bless me, Father, it has been about a year and a half since my last Confession. Padre, since some of my Boxingconfidential.com readers accuse me of being a Manny Pacquaio hugger and…
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Bob Arum: Manny’s Weighty Decision Can Wait Until After Marquez-Juarez, Guzman-Soto Sort Things Out!
It?s a weighty subject to be sure. But, as of today, promoter Bob Arum is not sure of what Manny Pacquiao wants to do. Will MP and trainer Freddie Roach decide that…
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Boxing Politricks: Why Is Manny Pacquiao Suddenly Pushing Edwin Valero?
I know he got blown out in his first election try by Dazzling Darlene but Manny Pacquiao knows how to play politricks, I mean politics. In fact, if he keeps blowing smoke…
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Top Ten Things To Love About Juan Diaz
My Top Ten Things You?ve Got To Love About Juan Diaz: 1. Juan is not a guy who just talks the talk, he walks the walk. You?ve should seen his prideful smile…
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Rick Glaser: Manny Pacquiao Is Punched Ticket, Juan Diaz Will Finish His Boxing Career!
CHICAGO --Rick ?Racoon? Glaser, the boxing agent, is based in Buffalo which is all the more appropriate given that he is the furtive operative who delivered ?Baby Bull? Juan Diaz to Don…
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Intergalactic Exclusive: Done Deal, Pacquiao Heads To San Diego, To Sycuan Resort & Casino For His Next Big Fight!
CHICAGO ?This is your official Michael Marley Monday Morning Memo. Quick hits after a long, satisfactory weekend of boxing near this great city: More I think about it, Manny Pacquiao and Juan…
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Attention Promoter Bob Arum: WBC Lightweight Champ David Diaz Wants Megamoney To Fight Megamanny!
CHICAGO--There was a third world lightweight champion named Diaz in the house at the Sears Centre Saturday night. Front row spectator and Chicagoan David Diaz, recent conqueror of Erik Morales, David Diaz…
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Galaxxy Warrior Nate Campbell Wants Pacquiao Also
CHICAGO--Willie Savannah and Juan Diaz re thisclose. In fact,. The ?Babty Bull? often refers publicly to the Houston manager-trainer and gym owner as ?my second father.? He did that here after his…
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Juan Diaz Runs Rampant, Looks For Manny Pacquiao Next!
CHICAGO--It was the end of the eighth round. IBF lightweight champion Julio Diaz?s fight plan, which was the total opposite of the one he followed while in training, had proven disastrous. Instead…
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Willie Savannah: Juan Diaz Not Thinking About Manny Pacquaio But I Am So Bring It On!
CHICAGO?His unbeaten world lightweight champion Juan ?Baby Bull? Diaz is going to go off as a 4-1, maybe even a 5-1, favorite in the HBO main event Saturday night at the Sears…
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Don King: Diaz Vs. Diaz Won’t Put People To Sleep Like Pacquaio-Barrera Did!
CHICAGO--Don King hates to knock the boxing product of any competitors. He hates to be a nattering nabob of negativity but, sometimes, DK can?t help himself. When I caught up The Donald…
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Paclanders Pen Open Letter To No Joke Coach Roach; In Support Of Joey Gilbert: Letting Manny (Steward) Be Manny On Manny!
At Boxingconfidential.com, the customer is always right and, lately, the customer is always writing. So let?s take a hip trip though the Marley Mailbag and see what?s happening: Q: Michael Marley, we…
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Julio Diaz Not “Kidd-ing,” Praises Pacquaio Style, Warns Manny To Beware Of Big Boy Lightweights!
He?s three days away from the biggest fight of his professional career but IBF lightweight champion Julio ?The Kidd? Diaz took time to offer some praise for and some advice to Filipino…
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Inside The Mind Of Marco Antonio Barrera: I Walked Through Hell Wearing Gasoiline Suit!
PULP FICTION DEPT: Hello, there. My name is Dr. Harry Fosheem. I am a psychiatrist, a shrink, a head doctor and I specialize in treating some real nut jobs, professional boxers. This,…
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First National Bank Of Pacquaio: Money Hungry Wanna Be’s View Manny As Their Cash Cow, Golden Buddha!
When you and I close our eyes and think of Manny Pacquaio, we envision a near-perfect fighting machine. We see the black hair flying, the arms in constant motion, always on the…
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Save Trees, Save Planet, Save Diaz Boys: All To Fight Manny Pacquaio In 2008!
Let?s not be insulting. Let?s not call Golden Boy Promotions and Bob Arum?s Top Rank Cheap and Cheaper. Let?s take the high road and refer to the boxing promotional companies as So…
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Manny Steward, Former Heathen, Now Worships At Manny Pacquaio Altar!
(Editor's Note: Butter wouldn't melt in Manny Steward's mouth Saturday night on HBO as he raved incessantly about the sizzling skills of Manny Pacquaio. But, in this exclusive Boxingconfidential.com interview last January…
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What Would Or Should Manny Pacquaio Do Next? Michael Marley Made His Own List!
WWJD. You know, that one. What would Jesus do? I have no special insight in what He could or should do except that I know that you know that He knows whenver…
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They Came To Lose And Lose They Did, Marco Antonio Barrera, Jameel McCline: Sometimes No Honor In Defeat!
Some nights it?s the losers who get top billing. Certainly, it was that way when it comes time to explain the final results in New York and Las Vegas Saturday night. Marco…
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Cool Cat Fearless Freddie Roach Tells Boxingconfidential: Manny Is Coming Out Guns Blazing!
Fearless Freddie Roach had many attributes when he was a pro boxer but defense wasn?t one of them. Before he was Coach Roach, he was all offense all the time. In that…
