Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Scandalous: David Haye’s ‘personal trainer’ causes wife to split the sheets
America could really use a sex scandal to liven up the heavyweight division at this point. Of course, the USA could also use some heavyweights who are real contenders and not just…
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Japan’s Rising Son Nobuhiro Ishida makes James Kirkland train wreck
This just in: James Kirkland is out of the hospital. No immediate word on whether the chin transplant was successful but, after he got floored thrice by a 35 Japanese fighter named…
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Manny nabbed, disgraced, forced into retirement but it’s not our main Man-ny
You know the headline was a fan fooler to some. The subject was "Manny." The topic was being nabbed using illegal drugs. The punchline was "Manny" announcing a forced retirement from a…
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Shaw pushes Bradley for Mayweather matchup, jabs Donaire’s loyalty level
When a bulldog like Big Gary Shaw is not barking, there has to be a reason for it. Which is why I called the fesity promoter Wednesday night, to see what's been…
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HBO may fight through balance of year without Pacquiao and Mayweather
When it comes to televising quality boxing events across America, it's been pretty much a two horse race for a long, long time. You might compare Home Box Office to Secretariat and…
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Erik Morales’ ex-promoter Bob Arum: I’m fearful for Mexican icon’s health now
I made the mistake of asking legendary matchmaker/agent Johnny Bos if he gave faded Mexican boxing icon Erik "El Terrible" Morales a chance in his Saturday night PPV TV fight against hard-charging…
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Little Bear Lawson, fight guys see Morales, Mosley being outgunned
Don't get me wrong. I like to hang out in the man cave occasionally. I enjoy Boys Night Out. In college, heavyweight boxer/football star Jay Nady told me I could join the…
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Why Sugar Shane Mosley will shock Manny Pacquiao, rest of the world
Our friends over at The Ring have a neat, 20-page spread complete with cover art by British artist Richard Slone on the Sugar Shane Mosley-Manny Pacquiao May 7 fight. Scribe Eric Raskin…
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Lien on me says Mayweather: No wonder Obama hides Pacquiao photos
Now I know why President Obama never released the photo of himself in the White House with Manny and Jinkee Pacquiao. Obama was afraid of upsetting a big taxpayer, when he is…
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If you can’t stand plain vanilla, you’ll hate runup to Mosley-Pacquiao
The boys over at Central Casting are just sitting around. Creative loafing is what they call it. They can't even find any fake busy work to fool us with when it comes…
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Arum, Trampler, Majeski, Bos fondly remember fight game icon, Gil Clancy, 88
When his former running buddy Bob Arum heard Thursday about the death of versatile boxing figure Gil Clancy at age 88, the head of Top Rank had mixed emotions. "People are saying…
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Apology to Manny Pacquaio key to promotional peace for Golden Boy, Top Rank
It's been said that no one despises war like battle-scarred veterans. When it comes to in the ring fights and courtroom battles, Top Rank's Bob Arum has won, lost and maybe had…
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No gloating by Bob Arum: I’ll promote Nonito Donaire, not punish him
Promoter Bob Arum, who just celebrated the 45th anniversary of his first promotion (1966, Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens, controversial ?draft-dodger? Muhammad Ali against Canadian George Chuvalo), has a message for wandering bantamweight…
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‘Filipino Flash’ Donaire gets hit by judicial lightning, injunction for Top Rank
Nonito Donaire's days as a Golden Boy under the promotion of Oscar De La Hoya's company are either delayed or canceled. Mediator Daniel Weinstein, the former California State Super Court judge who…
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No steroid rips as Pascal, Hopkins make nice in Manhattan press conference
From time to time, boxing fans ask if prefight press conferences are basically scripted. In other words, is there an agreement as to what the principals will and won't say? For sure,…
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Pacroid, Hoproid, Floydroid: Drug allegations are boxing’s sore spot
When he was a teenaged thug on the mean streets of Philadelphia, Bernard Hopkins was anything but a solid citizen. Robbery was Hopkins crime of choice and he wound up getting a…
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Pascal rips Hopkins as drug cheater, hits bystander Mosley with BALCO flashback
You would think that, despite all the compliments they keep trading across the ocean, Sugar Shane Mosley's worst enemy right now is Manny Pacquiao. That's what you get for thinking, old boy,…
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Caleb Grummet goes from Orbit Room to HBO because of Pacquiao absence
A totally obscure heavyweight boxer from Floyd Mayweather Junior's hometown of Grand Rapids, Mich., will be a real Cinderfella Saturday night on the HBO boxing card from Atlantic City. His name is…
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America, awake: Stand with Mayweather, repel loathsome foreign invader Pacquiao
"Ask not what your country can do for you rather ask what your country can do for Floyd Mayweather Jr."--PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, Inauguration, 1961. "We have nothing to fear but fear…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. rumor sizzles: HBO fight against Pittsburgh Kid, Spadafora
Sometimes, people wonder why reporters write about rumors. The answer is always the same, because the rumor is newsworthy because of the celebrity factor and/or because of the wide circulation of the…
