Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Manny Pacquiao’s Monster/Critic Ricardo Lois: I created a Fistic Frankenstein
Hi Mike, your boy Ricardo must be smoking some funny stuff again. Ricardo must have had some bad childhood experience with a Filipino kid. I bet he was beaten up by a…
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Lion of (Zab) Judah: Targets Manny Pacquiao with respect, reverence for God
LAS VEGAS--Who would have thunk it? At age 33, five time world champion Zab Judah, who has been fined and suspended for misconduct inside the ring and had misadventures outside it, now…
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Miguel Cotto brilliant in complete domination, TKO 12 over Ricardo Mayorga
LAS VEGAS?A rejuvenated Miguel Cotto completely dominated willing and wild slugger Ricardo Mayorga to score a TKO in the 12th and final round of their WBA junior middleweight title bout Sautrday night…
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Cotto upset by Madman Mayorga sets up good versus evil Pacquiao fight
LAS VEGAS--I think Dirty Harry Callahan, the rebellious San Francisco movie detective played by the iconic Clint Eastwood said it best when he said on screen, ?A man's got to know his…
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Hometown reporter: ‘Everyone here wants to see Pacquiao kick Mayweather’s ass’
LAS VEGAS--I showed up in Courtroom 7-D at the Justice Center where Judge Melissa Saragosa was presiding bright and early Thursday morning but felony case defendant Floyd Mayweather Jr. did not. No…
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It’s war for Golden Boy-Top Rank over promo rights to Donaire, JM Marquez
LAS VEGAS?The Bloods and the Crips are planning joint outings for barbecues and roller skating excursions. Friends and foes of Moammar Daffy Khadafy (one of 107 spellings of his surname) are getting…
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Living La Vida Mayorga: Ricardo hits Miguel Cotto with Ricky Martin gay slur
LAS VEGAS ? Never let it be said that the swamp of boxing is no longer a place where you cannot be as politically incorrect as you want to be. Everyone in…
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Ricardo Mayorga: Miguel Cotto is “my golden ticket to Manny Pacquiao”
LAS VEGAS?In a city whose glistening cathedrals of chance attest to the fact that ?the house always wins,? a prospector named Ricardo Mayorga is looking to get lucky. Mayorga, the loudmouth from…
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Armageddon draws nigh: Could Ali walk through hell wearing gasoline sportcoat?
Michael Marley's Part 2, remembrance of Boxing's Greatest Night, Greatest Fight: March 8, 1971 The streets around Madison Square Garden were, as I recall now 40 years on, eerily calm on the…
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Mister Clean? Pacquiao steroid accuser 50 Cent was target in 2008 drug probe
Rap star and Floyd Mayweather Jr. shadow 50 Cent has been blasting out tweets accusing Manny Pacquiao, the fighter who so far the undefeated Mayweather has refused to fight, of being on…
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Muhammad Ali gave broke college student ringside seat to history, March 8, 1971
(THIS TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011, MARKS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOXING'S GENUINE 'FIGHT OF THE CENTURY,' WHEN UNBEATEN MUHAMMAD ALI WAS SHOCKED BY UNDEFEATED SMOKIN' JOE FRAZIER AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.) Aretha…
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Floyd Mayweather’s personal bobo: Price of ignorance in America is Fifty Cent
BULLETIN: We now know the market price of ignorance in the United States. It is Fifty Cent. What with Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. headed into criminal court in Las Vegas on Thursday,…
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Donaire Drama: Lawyer for ‘Filipino Flash’ is former Nevada boxing bossman
If Nonito Donaire Jr. was just looking to rattle the cashier's cage at Bob Arum's Las Vegas-based Top Rank Promotions office, he may have done so simply by his lawyer selection. If,…
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Bob Arum: This is absurd we’ve got Nonito Donaire tied up until 2012
My exclusive breaking story about "Filipino Flash" Nonito Donaire flexing his free agent boxing muscles had only been posted for less than 30 minutes before my mobile phone with a familiar number…
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Exclusive: Bidding war begins, free agent Nonito Donaire may break bank
"Filipino Flash" Nonito Donaire Jr., who just electrified his already sizzling boxing career with a two punch KO over Mexican world champion Fernando Montiel, is taking a cue from professional athletes in…
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Hatton’s brother like an open book, pop quiz for Mexico’s Carrot Top Alvarez
If they ever match Saul "Canelo" Alvarez against the goofy comedian named Carrot Top, then I say bet on the redhead. Maybe, by that time, the extreme, high pressure buildup of the…
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Ray ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini at 50: ‘I was like Manny Pacquiao but on smaller scale’
Certain celebrity names and words then attached to them just do not fit. For example, Charlie Sheen and "abstinence" do not seem to belong paired in the same sentence, paraggraph or story.…
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Pilipino Pride: Pacquiao, Donaire dominate US TV boxing networks
if Charlie Sheen wants to learn what good times really are, he could talk to Filipino and Filpino-American fight fans right now. Pilipino Pride stock must be soaring to a new, all-time…
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Garcia enthused: Nonito Donaire will top out at 130, maybe 135 pounds
Trainer Robert Garcia, who knows what it takes to be a world champion at 130 pounds, sees Growing Boy Nonito Donaire Jr., one of his two prized pupils along with new lightweight…
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Robert Garcia: Only thing Vicious about Victor Ortiz is family feud he sparked
You think the Donaire Clan has boxing's most searing Family Feud going on? There's an ongoing, internecine war of actions, words and emotions which makes the divided Donaires, where world champ Nonito…
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