Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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DiBella swears ‘In House Bob’ Arum rejected $5 million for Cotto-Martinez
Lou DiBella swears. Lou DiBella swears like a drunken sailor ending a wild and wanton shore leave and only because the MPs have arrived. Lou DiBella swears like the late comedian Redd…
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No Pacquiao, no career: Low life bum Mundine KTFO’d by novice
I hate to kick a man, or in this case an overrated loudmouth who refers to himself as 'The Man,' when he is down but I will gleefully make an exception for…
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Roach’s remark on Martinez-Pacquiao music to DiBella’s ears
Imagine, if you will, boxing's hottest attraction fighting the sport's fiery new superstar. Imagine, if you will, boxing's No. 1 and No. 2 pound for pound combatants (excluding the sidelined Floyd Mayweather…
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Low key Arum turns 79; no revised demand from Marquez for Pacquiao
Bob Arum can certainly be excused for not turning his 79th birthday Wednesday into a major bash with family and friends. It's the veteran promoter's final pre-octogenarian natal day but, given the…
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Juan Manuel Marquez must crash Manny Pacquiao’s birthday bash
Those Beastie Boys sang about how you've got to fight for your right to party. My twist on this is to say that Juan Manuel Marquez has got to fight to go…
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Garcia: Pacquaio’s tremendous but 2010 belongs to Martinez, Sarmiento
If the balloting was limited to Oxnard, the election would be over. The results would be a landslide and there would be much cheering in faraway Argentina and Spain. That's what Nonito…
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Wild Turkey Aydin: I’ll put Berto ‘to sleep’ and derail his Pacquiao dream
There is a "Wild Turkey" on the loose in the welterweight division and he threatens to disrupt any chance undefeated American Andre Berto has of landing a spring, big money title match…
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Arum makes the rules, runs the board in Pacopoly game
Bob Arum should just come out and say it explicitly. "Unless your name is Floyd Mayweather Jr., you will not be fighting Manny Pacquiao in your lifetime or in his." Of course,…
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Donaires deserve applause for giving BALCO Bad Boy Conte second chance
Nonito Doinaire Jr. has just handed Wladimir Sidorenko an expected beating at the Honda Center in Anaheim, setting the stage for a real test for the Filipino-American champ on Feb. 19 against…
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Koncz lets cat out of bag on Mosley being certain for Pacquiao April 16
Whether he meant to or not, Manny Pacquiao agent Michael Koncz, the man who routinely puts in 20-hour days toiling for his Bossman, has let the cat out of the bag. Now…
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Upbeat Arum: Pacquiao just waiting for birthday visit from ‘The Godfather’
Bob Arum had his sitdown session Friday in Anaheim with Team Miguel Cotto and, while no next fight has been decided upon, the promoter said a frank exchange of views and opinions…
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He’s still Don King but his Queen, Henrietta, is gone
Legendary fight promoter Don King has been struck a mighty blow. King, 79, perhaps the most persistent and resilient boxing figure ever since he came out of an Ohio prison, abandoned a…
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‘Unrealistic demand’ eliminates Marquez from Pacquiao Sweepstakes
And then there were two horses running in the Manny Pacquiao Sweepstakes. Going past the first run with a sizable lead of about three lengths is Sugar Shane Mosley, the wily, 38…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. shows ‘lots of love’ as Don King’s beloved wife fades
These are difficult days and nights for the uber rich boxing promoter Don King. King's beloved wife, Henrietta is a tiny dynamo of a woman who has always been the rock of…
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Exclusive Photo: Four Kings, Don, Henrietta, Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes
Famed boxing photographer Michael "Mickey" Brennan, a Fighting Irishman now based in balmy Costa Rica, checks in with yet another timely and exclusive shot. Henrietta King, age 87 and battling cancer at…
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Alexander-Bradley finds barren home in Pontiac’s White Elephant Dome
Perhaps, upon reflection, I thought I was being needlessly negative on the venue. Perhaps, I thought, I was being overly sarcastic but then I read your boy, Carlos Acevedo, at The Cruelest…
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Sugar(free) Shane Mosley has already won the Manny Pacquiao April 16 Lottery
Some people love a parade but Manny Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum is different. Uncle Bob, who turns 79 on Dec. 8 or nine days before his cash cow turns age 32, loves…
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No casino jackpot, Shaw, King deliver Alexander-Bradley to Detroit (Silverdome)
You might that think that economically depressed Motown is no town to host a major boxing event. Evidently, Big Gary Shaw and Don King, the Oddfellas co-promoters behind the Devon Alexander-Timothy Bradley…
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Martinez, Cotto camps exert pressure on Arum for big matchup
Not sure if this is a Lou DiBella self-inflated trial balloon or something precipitated by Miguel Cotto?s desire not to wait until next summer for a fight but two-way discussions are being…
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Public won’t buy Mosley, Steward says, posterity demands Marquez-Pacquiao III
Back when he was a scrawny, teenager in Detroit with big boxing dreams and fascination with hometown heroes named Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson, Emanuel Steward began to have an appreciation…
