Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Manny Pacquiao: Punches furiously in final campaign round
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 17: FAST AND FURIOUS, PACMAN FINISHED STRONG WITH THREE WHISTLE STOPS IN SARANGANI PROVINCE; SIR BOB ARUM, 78 YEARS YOUNG, FOLLOWS HIS TOP CLIENT TO EACH LAST…
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Manny Pacquiao’s Sancho Panza, Buboy: Congress is stepping stone to presidency
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 16: ELECTION DAY LOOMS; PACMAN CO-TRAINER 'NOT SCARED' OF FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR.; BOB ARUM TREATED LIKE LOCAL HERO AROUND PACQUIAO HOME CITY; FINAL CONGRESSIONAL RACE RALLY TODAY…
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Manny Pacquiao camp exuberant: KO Chiongbian first, Mayweather second
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 15: GENERAL SANTOS CITY--It may turn out to be irrational exuberance in hindsight. "I smell a big, big electoral triumph for Manny (Pacquiao)," promoter Bob Arum exclaimed…
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Pacquiao, Philippines: Fantastic fighter, fantastic country
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 14: ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN SARANGANI WITH MANNY PACQUIAO SARANGANI PROVINCE?I have one but one regret after one night in Manila and six nights in General…
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Impassioned Manny Pacquiao makes final pitch to the people: Give me one chance
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 13: BARANGAY SULI, SARANGANI PROVINCE?The fight of his life figures to be the inevitable one against American antihero Floyd Mayweather Jr. But Congressional candidate from this rural,…
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Optimistic Arum: We can make Mayweather-Pacquiao for November
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 12: BOB ARUM SPEAKS UPON LANDING IN GENSAN: ?No question now, especially since both of their last fights are perceived as walkovers, that 99.5 percent of the…
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A-Side Meth required: Filipino elections make Mayweather-Pacquiao look like tea party
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 11: GENERAL SANTOS CITY?Dirty laundry is flying everywhere now. The headlines in the Filipino newspapers, on the websites and the blaring news over the radio and TV…
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Manny Pacquiao: Mosley hurt Mayweather, I can destroy him
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 9: BEHIND THE WALLS OF THE PACMAN MANSION, INSIDE MP'S BILLIARDS PALACE AND BUSINESS COMPLEX IN GENERAL SANTOS CITY What did Manny Pacquiao say and when did…
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Behind walls at Pacquiao mansion: Mayweather’s got nobody else for mega fight
MICHAEL MARLEY PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 9: Exclusive Report From Behind The Tall Walls Of Manny Pacquiao's Mansion GENERAL SANTOS CITY?First things come first. The ?news? that Manny Pacquiao has backed down to…
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Mother’s Day: Aleng Dionesia can prevent Mayweather-Pacquiao blockbuster
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 8: GENERAL SANTOS CITY?There is one Pacquiao that Floyd Mayweather Jr. will never beat. Her name is Aleng Dionesia Pacquiao, better know nationally as ?Pacmom? and as…
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Manny Pacquiao snoozes through Shane Mosley-Floyd Mayweather bout
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 6: GENERAL SANTOS CITY?If I could pick hot stocks the uncanny way I analzye big fights, I would have been in Nebraska this weekend, hanging with billionaire…
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Pacquiao says Mosley has ‘big chance’ as he surges ahead, 70-30 in polls
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 5: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MANNY PACQUIAO GENERAL SANTOS CITY?Just seconds before he and his political ally, presidential hopeful Manny Villar took the stage amidst fireworks, the sexy…
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Who R U Kidding: Manny Pacquiao pound for pound title secure
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINES DIARY, PART 4 DATELINE, GENERAL SANTOS CITY 7 Things That Will Not Be Proven Or Disproven As Mosley-Mayweather Fight Unfolds: 1.No matter how this bout turns out, the Number…
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Manny Pacquiao foe gets tough: Roy Chiongbian says Sarangani not for sale
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 3: Bullet Points, Balut Points From Big Electoral Fight Central, ROY CHIONGBIAN VERSUS MANNY PACQUIAO, Congressional seat from Sarangani Province... DATELINE: GENERAL SANTOS CITY 1. OMELETTES?I have…
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Manny’s on the ropes in Philippines but it’s not Pacquiao
PART 1, MICHAEL WHITE GORILLA MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY GENERAL SANTOS CITY?Manny is on the ropes and he is taking punches in bunches. Manny is uncharacteristically using a defensive style. Many pundits think…
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Manny Pacquiao lawyer Daniel Petrocelli putting Golden Boys on firing line
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 2 GENERAL SANTOS CITY--In about a fornight, which is the British way of saying in two weeks time, the ducking and the doding will have ended. Does…
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Catfight In Vegas: Mayweather gaybird, Mosley jailbird?
HONG KONG--I have put some serious air miles between myself and that awful catfight in Las Vegas. Maybe I should keep going, past Manila where I land in about three hours, and…
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It will be chilla, thrilla when White Gorilla Michael Marley lands in Manila
It will be a chilla and thrilla when the White Gorilla gets to Manila. Which is why I'm wondering why my pal Floyd Kill Joy Mayweather Jr. couldn't lend me one of…
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Bob Arum: Bombastic Burstein has lost his mind on Mosley, Pacquiao cases
"The cases that I've really focused on are the cases against Richard and Oscar, because we're working together on this. I don't think that Jesus Christ could come down off of the…
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Hugo Chavez pimping Edwin Valero’s moldy grave
Both Edwin Valero, drug and alchol plagued boxing champion, lies a mouldering in his Venezuelan grave. So does the wife and mother of their two now parentless children, Jennifer Viera Valero, stabbed…