Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Pacquiao’s road to retirement: Mayweather can get three chances or one
Maybe Bob Arum is planning to retire from boxing simultaneously with Manny Pacquiao. Recently, Uncle Bob, a spry 79 year old, has been saying that he thinks Pacman will box twice each…
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Pacquiao, Roach step aside: Sergio Martinez, Trainer Sarmiento cop top honors
All indications are that on Friday, May 6, in Las Vegas--the night before the Sugar Shane Mosley-Manny Pacquiao bout at the MGM Grand Hotel we'll see some new faces copping the top…
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Box office bomb, yes, let’s hope Alexander-Bradley produce firecracker fight
I made a few calls and from what I am told that is simply not accurate reporting. I am told by those in the know that the real number is more than…
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Pontiac Disaster: 339 tickets sold for Alexander-Bradley HBO showdown
Tickets for the hotly anticipated boxing showdown between undefeated junior welterweight champions Tim Bradley and Devon Alexander are moving like coldcakes--no, make that frozen cakes--at the Pontiac Silverdome, site of the bout…
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Beyond Tiny Tim Bradley, Devon Alexander seeks Pacquiao, Mayweather
Showing some imagination, undefeated WBC junior welterweight champion Devon Alexander's manager-trainer, Kevin Cunningham, compared Jan. 29 HBO foe, the also unbeaten 140 pound beltholder Tim "Desert Storm" Bradley, to ukelele virtuoso and…
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Smokin’ Joe Frazier turns 67: ‘Me and Muhammad, we had a lot of fun’
(Editor's Note: Joe Frazier's chronic unresolved relationship with Muhammad Ali seems resolved and happily so. There's more sweetness than bitterness now in their final years, these formerly "baddest men on the planet."…
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Larry Holmes: I’m proud of Pacquiao, disgusted by Mayweather
Former world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes must have felt like the guy who was called on stage to sing after Frank Sinatra just wowed an audience. The "Easton Assassin" nobly ruled the…
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Ebony, Ivory, working in perfect (?) harmony, King, Arum bring on real circus
Maybe, by joining formidable forces, they can deliver Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao, the super fight the world is getting tired of waiting for. Or maybe not. But what I do know is that…
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Kevin Cunningham: Alexander will ‘rain’ on Bradley’s bad attitude parade
Kevin Cunningham, formerly in the Army and then for 8 1/2 years a cop on the meanest streets of St. Louis, is all about attitude and discipline. The manager-trainer of undefeated junior…
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For Klitschko Brothers, Pacquiao Brothers: No winner in fraternal fights
If there is one rhetorical question that both Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko must be sick of, it's asking when the two world heavyweight champions and brothers of the same mother will fight.…
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Teddy Atlas axed, says ‘backstabbing’ Sauerlands mishandling Alex Povetkin
Trainer-commentator Teddy Atlas has put Alexander Povetkin promoter Kalle Sauerland on blast, labeling Wilfried Sauerland's son as a spoiled rich kid ("a wolf in sheep's clothing") and telling Bokser.org in a video…
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Sariwang Bata strikes: Public chanting puts shame in Mayweather’s game
We often casually toss around the expression "public demand" for a particular fight. In my five decades around big-time boxing, I've either been a part of or borne witness to huge, visceral…
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Arum: Pacquiao nemesis Marquez is misinformed or financially illiterate
Bob Arum, who it must be conceded is one of the two best 79 year old boxing promoters extant, thinks that disappointed Manny Pacquiao "suitor" Juan Manuel Marquez is either woefully misinformed…
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Bravo for Hopkins-Pascal II but direct rematches part of boxing’s insanity
In one sense, I applaud Don Jose Sulaiman of the World Boxing Council for mandating that super middleweight champ Jean Pascal give 45 year old Bernard Hopkins an immediate rematch. (On Jan.…
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Heayvweight Klitschko, ‘fleaweight’ Panettiere BOTH rip David Haye
Just when it looked like Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye were about to deliver a sorely-needed stimulus package for the moribund heavyweight division, plans for a sure to be explosive fight between…
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Wladimir Klitschko speaks out: ‘I’m fighting David Haymaker Haye on July 2’
(Editor's Note: Naturally, this being boxing, the David Haye camp is crying foul. It's unclear to me whether they object to the July 2 TV date to challenge the 55-3, 49 KOs…
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America weeps: Floyd Mayweather Jr. report to your office now
If I was called as a character witness for Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr., I would gladly step to the witness stand. I would gladly be sworn to tell the truth. And then…
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Final call: Murray Wilson; Danny Kapilow; Mac Foster; Flash Elorde foe Gallardo
It wasn't such a busy year, in boxing at least, for Floyd Mayweather Jr. But the year 2010 was another banner year for the Grim Reaper, who took too many boxing figures…
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Contortionist Bob Arum does backflips, cartwheels on Sugar Shane Mosley
It's no coincidence that through 43 years, Bob Arum has stood on the top of the boxing promotional totem pole, much of that with his archrival Don King being the other grand…
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Spanning the globe with Bahay Bata; Tyson; Ward; Pacquiao; Donaire
It's that day of reckoning of the year past and a blank page for 2011. Time to make personal resolutions here which are too easily labeled 11 for 11. I ran short,…
