Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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WBO requires only postfight urine test for Clottey-Pacquiao
WBO President Francisco “Paco” Valcartcel has confirmed that his organization will require no blood testing for welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao or top contender Joshua Clottey regarding their March 13 bout at Cowboys…
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Bob Arum jabs: Oscar De La Hoya no mental genius
Bob Arum, basking in the glow of one of his most masterful coups since he sold the world on the idea that Evel Knievel was actually going to jump the Snake River…
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Big Gary Shaw: No pounding table for Bradley versus Mayweather, Pacquiao
It must be a New Year’s resolution because, when I spoke to the usually bombastic Big Gary Shaw Tuesday, he wasn’t his bull in a China shop self. No insults were hurled,…
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Floyd Mayweather’s checklist: Soupy Campbell hits five out of six
Floyd Mayweather’s crack team is going down their usual checklist in search of a March stay busy opponent for the undefeated fighter. I understand there is an actual form for this and…
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HBO can’t let inmates Mayweather, Pacquiao run aslyum
If HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg lets the inmates run this asylum this time, then we may never see Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao collide. I mean collide with their gloves…
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Sugar Shane Mosley: Pacquiao-Mayweather a 47 minute nap
I didn’t realize it was such a tragedy. I mean the bollixed Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao mega bout. Some folks, including some weepy scribes, are acting as though the bullies and egomaniacs…
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President Bush: Everybody wants Pacquiao, not Mayweather
Not that Manny Pacquiao promoter and well known Democratic Party backer and liberal leaning Bob Arum is above a bit of puffery but it's interesting to note that Arum claims former President…
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Michael Moorer: No dirt, only respect for Manny Pacquiao
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH EX-MANNY PACQUIAO TRAINER MICHAEL MOORER Manny Pacquiao isn’t the only boxing personality who feels his name has been slandered and defamed. I just spoke to former Coach Freddie Roach…
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Touchdown, Cowboys: Jerrry Jones confirms Manny Pacquiao fight
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Posted at 4:15 EDT (New York time). God may have rested on the seventh day but Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones doesn’t. I just got off the phone, after a…
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Punk this: Juvenile Floyd Mayweather’s street cred laughable
Manny Pacquiao usually gives respect to his colleagues. He gives it and he has a right, based on his record and incredible accomplishments, has a right to demand such professional courtesy in…
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Teddy Atlas gives Manny Pacquiao the needle
Would anyone except "a punk ass bitch" send this out? Mr. Schaefer, reference to our last conversation regarding blood testing, I would like to ask the following: What would the penalty be…
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Bob Arum confesses: I blew it on Mayweather-Pacquiao
Normally they bestow nicknames on a big fight before it happens. (Click here to join the fastest growing Mayweather-Pacquiao related fan page!) But nothing about the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao train wreck has…
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Arum’s wrong about being wrong, he protected Pacquiao
Pluperfect Robert Arum is not now nor has he ever been. Uncle Bob has human failings and his famed “yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth” quote hangs around…
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Mudlsinging 101: Disgruntled Moorer ratted Pacquaio out to Mayweather
The negotiations, if you can call them that, exploded. The two sides, the Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao camps, are now reduced to their second favorite sport, slinging mud at each other.…
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Team Mayweather muzzled as Arum screams coward
UPDATE: AP scribe Greg Beachman just reported that Floyd Mayweather says he's still ready to sign to fight Manny Pacquiao, that he answered a 24-day before the fight blood test offer with…
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Manny Pacquiao, Antonio Margarito may ride in Cowboys stadium
Ride ‘em, cowboy(s). That could be the latest English phrase that Manny Pacquiao puts into his always expanding English language vocabulary. Examiner.com and Boxingconfidential.com has learned that, in the rupture of the…
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Manny Pacquiao puts kibosh on Yuri Foreman bout
UPDATE AT 4:50 PM EST: PROMOTER BOB ARUM ADMITS PACQUIAO "IS A BIT RELUCTANT" (TO FIGHT YURI FOREMAN)I BUT SAYS "I AM WORKING ON IT." Manny Pacquiao may fight in Las Vegas…
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Pacquiao’s Army: Chicken A La Mayweather leaves us cold
We’ve delved into the rabid reaction of Floyd Killjoy Mayweather’s fan base. But what will be the response by the Pacquiao Worldwide Army, the troops who back the Pinoy Idol all the…
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Midnight Pacific time: Witching hour for Pacquiao-Mayweather fight
A little boxing birdie just informed your battered correspondent that like Cinderella the clock will toll for the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight at midnight tonight. This means midnight Wednesday, Pacific Coast time,…
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De la Hoya ego bruised: Arum throws tantrum, 86’d from talks
Update: A phone call answered by Bubbly Bob Arum at 3:57 pm EST was brief. "I can't talk," Arum said. Then I heard that familiar clicking sound. My train then pulled out…
