Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Manny Pacquiao’s real danger man is Billy Goat Tim Bradley, Lederman says
Putting Floyd Mayweather Jr. aside, which was easy to do before he announced his ring return for Sept. 17 against live underdog Vicious Victor Ortiz, there is only one Danger Man for…
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Mayweather, Arum on side of angels as boxing world mourns Genaro Hernandez
In a strange but compassionate way, funeral services in Los Angeles Monday for former world champion and universally liked and respected Genaro Hernandez tied controversial Floyd Mayweather Jr. to his often acerbic…
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Revenge: The Rematch, Cotto-Margarito II looms for Madison Square Garden Dec. 3
?Revenge: The Rematch.? That?s a big fight nickname that various and sundry promoters have used over the years. And it?s a fitting one for what is appearing now to be a likely…
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Resurgent Miguel Cotto looks to Madison Square Garden for Dec. 3
There was something missing from the Puerto Rican Day Parade weekend this year in New York. The huge ethnic celebration did have two Boricua-flavored, club boxing shows put on by Lou DiBella…
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Carrot Top Alvarez’s boyish enthusiasm fine but Manny Pacquiao out of his league
Canelo Alvarez says he will be ready for Manny Pacquiao a year from now. No, folks, he said it. Reliable scribes have duly reported this comment on Friday as the redhaired Mexican…
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No robe, no socks, no mercy: What made Mike Tyson boxing’s most feared beast
"For three years, through 1987, 1988 and 1989, Mike Tyson was the greatest heavyweight who ever lived. He was completely unbeatable and everybody was completely terrified of him. For three years, no…
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Mayweather’s choice of Ortiz shows he wants Manny Pacquiao, Chop Chop
You could say that quick, fast and in a hurry--as soon as you can say ?Chop Chop?--that Vicious Victor Ortiz will realize come Sept. 17 that he?s stepped into he highest stratosphere…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. delivers power surge, portent of Manny Pacquiao bout
No one, least of embattled ?sexting? scandal politician Anthony Weiner is saying they felt a chill run up their leg but even Floyd Mayweather Junior?s worst critics must admit that his tweet…
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Sly devil Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr.: Laying in the cut, pressure rising for HBO
Maybe Floyd Mayweather Jr., laying in the cut, winds up with the last laugh after all. While Manny Pacquiao is going through grueling training camps, Mayweather is laying in the cut. While…
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World’s Richest Man promotes: Slim & None, Carrot Top Alvarez vs. Manny Pacquiao
The invisible ink on the nonexistent bout contracts is not even dry yet. If Don King is, as he self proclaimed long ago, the WGP, or World?s Greatest Promoter then Mexican billionaire…
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Filipino, American novices promise $75 million each to Mayweather, Pacquiao
Funny thing about the reporting business. Whether you?re covering figure skating, boxing or the price of copper futures, you?re often either knocking down someone else?s story or confirming same, maybe even adding…
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Pacquiao’s $65 million offer from billionaire Slim will be explored, Arum says
Breaking News: Manny Pacquiao pal and powerful Filipino politician-businessman Luis ?Chavit? Singson said that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has discussed a 2012 bout between Pacman and rising Mexican star Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez…
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Bob Arum: Freddie Roach surpasses even legendary Angelo Dundee
Pleased as punch. That?s an accurate way to describe Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. promoter Bob Arum?s Sunday brunch mood in Los Angeles, where on Saturday night the 25 year old son of…
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Bob Arum attacks Lou DiBella: Get off your donkey on Sergio Martinez
Bob Arum, promoter for newly crowned WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., gave Sergio Martinez handler Lou DiBella a verbal kick in the pants after the 25 year old ?Son of…
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Past time for Pacquiao, his blinded fans, to take the Mayweather test
The teeshirt makes sense even if some of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. syncophants wearing it are borderline psychopaths. The demands, in a world where it is assumed that baseball and cycling superstars…
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Showtime’s Ken Hershman: We’d like to stay in the Manny Pacquiao business
Showtime?s erudite boxing bossman Ken Hershman isn?t playing it cute or coy in terms of the prime cable network?s interest in a continuing relationship with Manny Pacquiao. Hershman hopes to go beyond…
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Pacquiao agent Koncz: Sugar Shane Mosley’s corner should’ve stopped fight
Southpaw Supremo Manny Pacquiao?s right hand man and uber agent Michael Koncz said late Wednesday night that he was ?not aware? that Sugar Shane Mosley had vociferously expressed a desire to quit…
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Ultra cocky Carl Froch: This fight is dead end for Road Warrior Glen Johnson
Cocky Carl Froch, England?s boxing star who yearns for superstardom at home and abroad, played the part at a press conference Wednesday at the Edison Hotel Ballroom in midtown Manhattan which hyped…
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Sugar Shame Mosley shocker: He tried to quit on stool in Manny Pacquiao fight
You don?t have to take my word for it on Sugar Shame Mosley and the putrid effort he rendered in his May 7 fight against Pinoy Idol Manny Pacquiao. Everyone who watched…
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DiBella warms to 2012 showdown for Martinez against legend Hopkins
Lou DiBella, known to erupt like Mt. St. Helen?s, has blabbermouth tendencies on many topics, ranging from boxing to baseball to pet care. But, as for my recently floated and quite nifty…
