Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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‘Eye of the Tiger’ for Pacquiao, ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’ for Mosley
LAS VEGAS?Inside word from one of the producers of the prefight festivities has it both Sugar Shane Mosley and Manny Pacquiao will go ?Old School? when it comes to their ring walk…
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Manny Pacquiao: Obama KO’d bin Laden; Mayweather doesn’t want to fight me
LAS VEGAS?The World According to Manny Pacquiao: On the execution of Osama Bin Laden ?That was a good result for Barack Obama...? On those who are jealous of his huge success ?You…
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Coach Freddie Roach: If Mayweather never fights again, I won’t be shocked
LAS VEGAS ? It has been one year and two days since undefeated Floyd Mayweather Junior's last fight. That was, of course, his unanimous, 12 round decision over the ubiquitous Sugar Shane…
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Arum: Golden Boy, Mayweathers impinged on Pacquiao endorsements
Those who have known him for a long time probably refrain from mentioning elephants around liberal Democrat and onetime Robert F. Kennedy regime Assistant United States Attorney, Bob Arum. Arum doesn?t party…
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Manny Pacquiao’s biggest fight might be Pac-Mart versus Wal-Mart
This may lose a little or a lot if it has to be translated into Tagalog or any other Filipino dialect. But, in the Brooklyn neighborhood where 79 year old promoter Bob…
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Manny Pacquiao Riding a Big Endorsement Deal Wave
This may lose a little or a lot if it has to be translated into Tagalog or any other Filipino dialect. But, in the Brooklyn neighborhood where 79 year old promoter Bob…
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Cash cow Mayweather shows up at Mosley-Pacquiao, returns to pasture
Let's get ready to mumble. Let's get ready to stumble. Which reminds me, capable Jimmy Lennon Jr., whose father was my favorite ring announcer ("King Carlos Palo--MEEE-no!") of all time, is the…
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Pacquaio’s scathing review of Mosley: I hit Mayweather like that, i finish Floyd
Today (Sunday) is May 1 and marks one full year since Sugar Shane Mosley, now less than a week away from a fight against Manny Pacquiao, dropped a one-sided, unanimous decision to…
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Sugar Shane Mosley shocks Manny Pacquiao, former promoter Kushner says
Diogenes, he and his crusty, flickering lamp, trudged from street to street, from byway to back alley to broad avenues in ancient Athens in his perpetual search for the truly honest man.…
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Arum must sprinkle some devil’s dust on saccharine Mosley-Pacquiao promotion
The Sugar Shane Mosley-Manny Pacquiao fight, running in high gear but lacking in drama, needs to get infused to get more people enthused. What's sadly lacking among the dramatis personae, starting with…
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Manny Pacquiao: I’ll outdo Floyd Mayweather Jr. against Sugar Shane Mosley
"Nothing is more inane than these conference calls in my opinion...Now you can ask Freddie Roach the same questions he's asked and answered the the last six months." PROMOTER BOB ARUM, leading…
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“Nothing else matters right now” – Shane Mosley relishing an upset over Pacquiao
Earlier today former five-time champion 'Sugar' Shane Mosley participated in an international media conference call in advance of his May 7th clash against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. Fighting inside of the…
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Trainer: No excuses when Sugar Shane Mosley declaws Monstruous Manny Pacquiao
Trainer Naazim Richardson has sounded the alarm on behalf of his huge underdog Manny Pacquiao foe, Sugar Shane Mosley. When Mosley upsets the odds in Las Vegas on May 7, the philosophical…
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Anatomy of a Pacquiao hater: Give venomous Gupta the Gandhi treatment
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Be aware there are tens if not hundreds of people named Ravi Gupta on Facebook. Please do not spew Gupta-like venom at any innocent parties.) Your first instinct is a…
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Face of Vegas Boxing Halloran: We need Mayweather-Pacquiao trilogy
If there has been a familiar face on the Las Vegas boxing scene for the past 33 years, it's been that of Bob Halloran. Halloran, who helped make a young fighter named…
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Manny Pacquiao referee pattern: Bet on Bayless, Weeks or Drakulich for Mosley
Here's a sure bet in Nevada. On Wednesday, the state athletic commission will officially name the referee and the judges for the May 7 Sugar Shane Mosley-Manny Pacquiao welterweight title bout at…
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Only Mosley can wreck plan for Marquez-Pacquiao III in November
The best Manny Pacquiao fight than can be made this year is going to get made. That means that, assuming he fends off 39 year old Sugar Shane Mosley on May 7…
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Don Rickles meets Manny Pacquiao: Pacman shticks and moves with king of comedy
Manny Pacquiao may now consider himself Hollywood royalty. When the original insult comic, the octogenarian (meaning he's even older than Bob Arum) Don Rickles pays personal attention to a boxer, that is…
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David Haye: Wladimir Klitschko turns into headless body in topless ring July 2
Some regard him as a chinless wonder who has verbal diarrhea. Others view him as sort of a savior, the hard-hitting, verbose character who brings the heavyweight division in the United King,…
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Estranged Robert Garcia praises brother Danny, Vicious Victor Ortiz
Prefight fussing and feuding with his own brother and his ex-fighter Vicious Victor Ortiz aside, trainer Robert Garcia is taking the high road in the wake of his former pupil's smashing, upset…
