Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Manimal Pacquiao: Agent 007 Koncz says he won’t quit ring soon
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS--Forget Megamanny. Put aside the Pinoy Idol tag. Ditto for Pambansang Kamao or National Fist. I've even grown bored of Pacman which was a video game before it became the fighter's…
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How GMA’s Chino Trindad ‘trashed’ Floyd Mayweather
It's been some time since American boxing had such an enthusiastic, creative and earnest reporter as AOL Fanhouse video maven Elie Sekbach. Leave it to the garrulous Israeli to come up wth…
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Dallas Cowboys great Michael Irvin: Mayweather afraid to tackle Pacquiao
MICHAEL MARLEY'S BIG MANNY PACQUIAO FIGHT NOTEBOOK CONTINUES: GRAPEVINE, TEXAS—Mark pro football superstar turned broadcaster Michael Irvin down as a guy who thinks Floyd Mayweather should be arrested... Arrested on suspicion of…
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Floyd Mayweather to jail rumors out of control, unfounded
Michael Marley's Manny Pacquiao Big Fight Quotebook GRAPEVINE, TEXAS—We live in a world, like it or not, of uncontrollable rumors. So when there was some Floyd Mayweather related news out of Las…
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Angry Pacman Coach Roach: Clottey’s trainer called me gashole
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS—He's been living in Hollywood for a long time but there is still a lot of the Boston street kid left in 50 year old Coach Freddie Roach. You will never…
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Pacquiao Army breaks Ali entourage record, 140 strong, including dog
GRAPEVINE—That's actually where the world record breaking Manny Pacquiao Entourage, which makes the old Muhammad Ali carnival troupe look like a ragtag and smallish assembly, has landed. Megamanny, gorgeous wife Jinkee, Pacman…
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Filipino media reps were on time but Mayweather stiffed them
DALLAS--Not to belabor the issue as it was Floyd Mayweather Jr. who flatly refused to discuss either drug testing or Manny Pacquiao at that Los Angeles press conference on Thursday. There is…
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KTFIR, what Pacquiao did to De La Hoya, Hatton, maybe Mayweather
DALLAS--By now, you know what KTFO stands for. It's not the call letters of some radio station west of the Mississippi. But I think we need a new boxing acronym to describe…
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Manny Pacquiao assault turns Joshua Clottey into ground chuck
DALLAS--Tiger Woods occasionally shanks a golf shot. He's hit a few deep into the woods or buried a "fried egg" into an impossible bunker. The smooth Frank Sinatra's vocal inflections were usually…
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Mayweather spits in journalists’ faces, tell them it’s raining
"I don't really have time to read the secondary sites. I know that Floyd Mayweather gave interviews. And I don't want to get involved in a back and forth with Bob Arum,"…
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Mayweather’s zany antics carefully scripted, Arum says
HOLLYWOOD—It's a bridge too far to label Floyd Mayweather a racist. He may be jealous, may be envious of the widening popularity gap between he and Manny Pacquiao, but he doesn't harbor…
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Mind control: Manny Pacquiao invades Floyd Mayweather’s head
HOLLYWOOD—Like the proverbial blind squirrel who occasionally finds an acorn, I can get lucky. On Thursday, I had such good fortune in my decision to skip the Shane Mosley-Floyd Mayweather outdoor, public…
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Arum on Darchinyan-Donaire II: How much cash for the Filipino Flash?
HOLLYWOOD—How much cash for the Filipino Flash? While blabbermouth Big Gary Shaw has been huffing and puffing about Bob Arum not returning his phone calls to make a rematch between Nonito Donaire…
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Pacquiao’s bumps, bruises; Manny imitates ‘Braveheart’
EXCLUSIVE: MICHAEL MARLEY'S MANNY PACQUIAO TRAINING CAMP NOTEBOOK HOLLYWOOD--Fighters, especially veterans of 55 fights like Manny Pacquiao, often go into battle with bumps and bruises, especially with sore or tender hands. “That's…
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No crutch for Pacquiao but Mayweather leans on rematch clause in Mosley bout
HOLLYWOOD--His undefeated record is so precious to him they might have to put an emotionally fragile Floyd Mayweather Jr. on suicide watch if Sugar Shane Mosley. If such a ring miracle occurs,…
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Bob Arum: Why would Manny Pacquiao quit at top of his game?
HOLLYWOOD--As befits a fight promoter, particularly a giant of the industry for four decades, Bob Arum is rooting for his pocketbook. The Top Rank top honcho showed up at Manny Pacquiao's dog…
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Battered performer: Rodela serves as Pacquiao punching bag
MICHAEL MARLEY REPORTING LIVE FROM MANNY PACQUIAO'S TRAINING CAMP (Michael Marley's saturation coverage of Manny Pacquiao goes on. There are eight million stories in Pacman City and he may wind up covering…
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‘Look Of Love’–Mayweather and Mosley pair of gagsters
HOLLYWOOD--Couldn't somebody have sprayed ginger ale on somebody? Why no hyphenated curse words? After seeing this pictures of the Floyd Mayweather-Sugar Shane Mosley kickoff press conference in New York, I am glad…
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Pacquiao: Rebounding from KO losses made my career
MANNY PACQUIAO EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW PART 3 HOLLYWOOD—Manny Pacquiao doesn't think he needs a fight against Floyd Mayweather to validate his place in boxing history. It's not so much what he says, it's…
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Floyd Mayweather: Inside the mind of a complete lunatic
He is Mister Clean. He is Mr. All Natural. His body is his temple you must know. Like a babbling brook, Floyd Mayweather continued his raving like a certified lunatic at Tuesday's…
