Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Manny Pacquiao to Jinkee: I only look at Playboy for the articles, honest
The Americanization of Manny Pacquiao continues but I don't think wife Jinkee is going to like hearing about, let alone, seeing this one. Pacman is featured in the November issue of Playboy--what's…
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Tackling dummy Chad Dawson bears 60 percent blame for 3-way donkey collision
Shameful faker. Outright malingerer. Keeping the "con" in ex-convict. And those are the nice things people are saying about Bernard Hopkins, the boxing Methusaleh who was not even fitted for goat horns--they…
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Ripley’s paid for a freak show and Chad Dawson, Bernard Hopkins delivered it
Maybe the title sponsor should have been a tipoff for boxing fans. "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" is all about freak shows, about trickeration and about disappearing acts. So why is anyone…
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Attention Mayweather, Pacquiao: Pro football union skeptical on HGH blood tests
Although he follows and wagers on NBA games, I think it's fair to say that Manny Pacquiao doesn't know if the Dallas Cowboys play football or participate in rodeos. For that matter,…
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HBO poaches Ken Hershman from Showtime to replace Ross Greenburg
HBO Sports "executive search" to find a replacement for longtime department president Ross Greenburg went all the way from Sixth Avenue, across Seventh Avenue and then over to Broadway and the main…
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Nine, nine, nine: Herman Cain’s best guess on Ortiz-Mayweather PPV TV buy rate
"I hold in my hand the envelopes. As a child of four can plainly see, these envelopes have been hermetically sealed. They've been kept in a #2 mayonnaise jar under Funk and…
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Even Bob Arum will speak no ‘Evel’ on Ortiz-Mayweather PPV TV buy rate
"I never would root for someone to die, couldn't do that, but I wouldn't mind seeing this guy bounced around a little bit in that rocket."--BOB ARUM, before promoting Evel Knievel's ridiculous…
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Boycott Bernard Hopkins PPV, I’d pay to watch this legend shadowbox
Like most normal people, fight promoters like to sleep in their own beds from time to time. Working for a major boxing promoter, and I worked for the (Don) King himself, is…
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Manny Pacquiao owes the public a sizzler, not more tedium
Manny Pacquiao has "a marker" out in Las Vegas and, on Nov. 12, he should make sure that he squares his debt with the live audience at the MGM Grand Hotel &…
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Mexican standoff for Sergio Martinez: JC Chavez Jr. will fight Canelo Alvarez
An upbeat Bob Arum, bubbling over and saying that as of Thursday morning 11,000 tickets have been sold for the Dec. 3 Grudge Match at Madison Square Garden between Miguel Cotto and…
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Sugar Ray Leonard to Floyd Mayweather Jr.: Fight Manny Pacquiao but don’t change
If Floyd Mayweather Jr. needs a hug outside the ring, not the foolhardy kind that crunched opponent Victor Ortiz sought, then "Money" just got a big one from his "Uncle Ray." Fresh…
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Turkey time: Floyd Mayweather Jr. charitable efforts panned as needy get little
"'If I?m making it rain, I?m throwing it to American citizens. In a recession!'" Those are the words of philanthropist Floyd Mayweather Jr., who claims that charity does indeed begin at home.…
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Freddie Roach, Thomas Hearns, Michael Buffer: Let’s get ready to be enshrined
Coach Freddie Roach, gretaest trainer of his generation, is looking at a huge 2012, above and beyond his continuing success with ring superstars Manny Pacquiao, Amir Khan and the rest of a…
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Manny Pacquiao: American patriot renders green to red, white and blue
At the risk of being branded unpatriotic, a poor excuse for an American citizen, I don't share Floyd Mayweather Junior's fake outrage about Manny Pacquiao striking it rich in the USA and…
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Mayweather, Pacquiao see Martinez fade in Pound For Pound rear view mirrors
Sergio Martinez, a Class A fighter and mentioned by many (including me) as the world's third best fighter, handled Grade B fighter and European champion Dazzling Darren Barker with expected ease Saturday…
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Lou DiBella willing to co-promote to lift Sergio Martinez to next level
His recent war of wards with rival promoter Bob Arum is pretty much exhausted. They volleyed back and forth like Serena and Venus preparing to smash their next opponents. But, in the…
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Bob Arum failed to make Floyd Mayweather Jr. ring superstar, Lou DiBella says
Like a combination puncher waiting until he was sure his veteran opponent was vulernable, combative promoter Lou DiBella's vituperative response to rival Bob Arum went far beyond defending his handling of middleweight…
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Bob Arum blast triggers Lou DiBella explosion on marketing of Sergio Martinez
Maybe Bob Arum thought he was offering constructive criticism when he told me Thursday night that rival promoter Lou DiBella has botched the mass marketing of stylish world middleweight champion Sergio Martinez.…
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Sergio Martinez marketing is mishandled, Bob Arum says
Common sense would dictate that a world title bout held in the neutral zone of Atlantic City between a formidable champion from Argentina and a little-known challenger from the UK is not…
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Seven reasons why Khan should get to Mayweather before Pacquiao does
As far as we know, Amir Khan can whip anybody not named Breidis Prescott. And, don't kid yourself, because as time flies by, his KO loss to the unheralded Colombian looks more…
