Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Godfather Arum stacked deck for Mosley, Pacquiao says deal
If you want drama, go to a Broadway play. Looking for suspense, you say? Pick up a Raymond Chandler novel. There is no drama and zero suspense as to who will be…
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Golden Boy locked in May 7 date before Pacquiao, ‘Stinko de Mayo’
Richard Schaefer has publicly vowed not to badmouth the Sugar Shane Mosley-Manny Pacquiao bout even though Mosley abandoned his Golden Boy VP post and is off Oscar's Reservation. For his part, contentious…
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Kizer: Inspectors prevented mayhem after Maidana-Khan scrap
From what they're saying about each other, nasty words and invective, I just don't see Manny Pacquiao/Amir Khan strength, conditioning, nutrition guru Alex Ariza inviting cutman/trainer Miguel Diaz over to the Casa…
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Disgusted Coach Freddie Roach: Ariza, Diaz acting like two little kids
Our telephone connection from Manhattan to Manila was not the strongest. On my end, Coach Freddie Roach sounded as though he was speaking into a Dixie cup with string attached to it.…
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Mosley-Pacquiao may shift to May 7; Arum offers olive branch to Golden Boys
It was breakfast time in Metro Manila and 79 year old Bob Arum was not in a fighting mood. Arum, who with wife Lovee and stepdaughter Dena will be among the VIP…
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O Canada! Bernard Hopkins’ age, guile, treachery too much for Pascal
A casual observer might think that Jean Pascal is running for elective office in the Province of Quebec. Pascal's "campaign slogan" is that "youth, speed, ambition" will propel him to a victory,…
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Don King left the gun but did he take the cannoli?
No word on any cannolis yet but it does look like Don King left the gun(s) in Cleveland or Florida. A stressed out King, the flamboyant, 79 year old Hall Of Fame…
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Left Hook to Leftover: Jeff Lacy’s one way ticket to Palookaville
"I'm overly excited about this," Lacy said, the excitement speeding up his speech. "My feelings for Dec. 11, I guarantee you when I look out into that audience when that fight is…
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Manny Pacquiao ‘Crime Family’ plays ‘Godfather’ party game
I'll play Manny Pacquiao's silly little 32nd birthday game, all right. Perhaps based on Bob Arum's quote to me that Pacman was just waiting for "The Godfather," meaning the 79 year old…
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Khan made Great Escape; Cortez was odious; Ortiz got robbed
Sergio Martinez, in the smallish crowd of 4,632 at the Mandalay Bay for the Marcos Maidana-Amir Khan main event Saturday night, may not know it but Khan's Great Escape surely secured the…
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When RA, the Rugged Man, mopped the floor with L’il Floyd Mayweather Jr.
I have stop living a lie and so does Floyd Mayweather Jr. He is not undefeated in the public arena, only in the prize ring. He is undefeated, by virtue of abudant…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. acts like real charmer on European trip
If it's Saturday, it must be Belgium for troubled American boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather, saddled with a slew of legal issues back home in Las Vegas, seems to be enjoying…
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Volcanic DiBella explodes, then accepts “accident” in wild Belgium brawl
In a too rare display of sportsmanship and common sense in boxing, volcanic promoter Lou DiBella just informed me that, after repeated views of the video of the wild and wooly Antwerp,…
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Real shocker: Joan Guzman fails to make weight…gasp!
Stop me if you've read this boxing headline any more than, let's say, 30 to 40 times... JOAN GUZMAN FAILS TO MAKE WEIGHT! Oops, it happened against to the seemingly cursed "Dominican…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. in middle of fight controversy in Belgium
Floyd Mayweather must have packed his penchant for being involved in controversial situations in his suitcase. On a rare trip overseas, the undefeated Mayweather was wearing his promoter's hat an IBF junior…
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Vague but vicious, Arum alleges Golden Boy bleeding red ink
He doesn't offer financial specifics, or any actual numbers or dollar figures, but rival promoter Bob Arum claims that Oscar de la Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions is drowning in red ink. Arum…
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Miguel Cotto, other opponents running away from, not to, Sergio Martinez
Sergio Martinez probably figured, using logic which has no place in the boxing swamp, that he would have opponents flocking to line up a fight with him after his one-punch blasting of…
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Alexander-Bradley to suffer as Detroit is a Kronk town, not fight town
Manny Steward makes no bones about it. His St. Patrick's celebration won't be complete unless his Irish Andy Lee fights and beats sensational slugger Sergio Martinez. The Kronk Gym Godfather was supposed…
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Arum: Pacquiao party will be huge Thrilla In Manila (Makati)
Mark your calendars. There are only 364 shopping days until fight promoter Bob Arum officially becomes an octogenarian. Be advised, however, that Octomom and octogenarians have nothing in common. But, if you…
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Floyd Mayweather’s rent a cop accuser should turn in his Man Card
Man bites dog. Barack Obama and John Boehner hit some D.C. nightclubs on a "Boys Night Out." Michael Marley is in Floyd Mayweather's corner. Okay, the first two will never happen. But…
