Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Olympic guru: Blood AND urine testing must for Mayweather-Pacquiao
Not to come off as any kind of bleeding heart but this random testing controversy between demanding Floyd Mayweather Jr. and so far refusing Manny Pacquiao may soon become academic. Whether or…
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Sugar Shane Mosley sour: Forget Pacquiao, Mayweather, I’m Numero Uno
I had a strange malady known as laboratory fever. I needed relief and I don’t mean a strenuous stay up all night studying urine exam. So I put aside my syringes, my…
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Mayweather-Pacquiao deal will be sealed now
No more histrionics. No mas with the promotional blather. All the public wants to hear from the opposing sides, after they sit down at the Santa Monica conference table of familiar mediator…
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Mayweather mastermind Haymon secretive as Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden speaks directly to the media more than Floyd Mayweather mastermind and longtime music promoter Al Haymon does. At least Osama sends out those squirrely videos. Haymon pays front men…
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Humble Pie: Mayweather’s sincere apology to Pacquiao
Is you ready for this? I am here today to spin my nonsensical spin about how I am a superior fighter to any that has come before me, Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr.…
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Mayweather camp puts damper on Pacquiao optimism
Team Floyd Mayweather is not humming the same happy, optimistic tune that Manny Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum is. Arum told me that he will show up in California next week for a…
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Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight surges back to life
BREAKING NEWS Frankenfight has been jolted to life. Quick, somebody call the morgue right away. We’ve got to postpone that autopsy on Floyd Mayweather Jr. versus Manny Pacquiao, a fight in which…
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Dirtiest blow: Manny Pacquiao wanted test coverup
Q. Manny Pacquiao, when did you STOP beating your wife? Some allegations cannot be whisked away. Not when they are cleverly posed. Q. Manny Pacquiao, did your team really want a dirty…
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Floyd Mayweather’s Plan B: Dismantling all Hatttons
Now, it can be revealed…Floyd Mayweather’s all Hattons, all the time Plan “B.” I was only sworn to secrecy on this through Dec. 31 so now I can tip all my loyal…
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Bruised ego: Brian Viloria wrong in Nonito Donaire flap
Sorry to hear about that minor injury suffered by Fil-Am world champion Brian Viloria. But I’ve got a quick, easy cure for the fighter known as “Hawaiian Punch.” As they say in…
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Wizz-ards: Mayweather, Pacquiao BOTH comply on urine tests
Jim Croce sang about “Time In A Bottle” when he wasn’t crooning about why you just don’t mess around with Jim. You remember the latter, how you don’t expectorate into the wind,…
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Mayweather wanted to defer Pacquiao showdown
Where is Madam Auring, the rotund Pinay psychic, when I need her? If only the omniscient one could tell me what the future holds for Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. I still…
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For $40 million, I’d fight Pacquiao if he had steroids, machine gun
n boxing, with all the bitterness and backbiting, the laughs can be few and far between. But Murray Wilson, the restaurant owner who manages next Pacman foe and WBA junior middleweight champion…
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Manny Pacquiao challenges Yuri Foreman March 20
I told you that Manny Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum was completely frustrated. Now the Pacman promoter, unable to get the Floyd Mayweather camp to come off its persistent demand for random blood…
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Filching Manny Pacquiao’s good name worse than stealing
Iago: Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has…
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Pacquiao will accept injections for blood and money
It is about 7:30 pm, EST as I pen this update from my igloo on the frozen tundra of Cape Cod. It’s so cold around here the polar bears from the New…
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Ring no house organ for Oscar on Manny mud
MOST UNFAIR Accusing Pacquiao of taking PEDs: Pacquiao doesn’t deserve this. The man lifted himself out of poverty to become the greatest boxer in the world and a hero to his countrymen,…
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Two phone calls will revive or kill Mayweather-Pacquiao
"When we have their final proposal, Manny will make the final decision. He will be the master of his own fate on this. "--PACMAN PROMOTER BOB ARUM, speaking from Mexico. Two telephone…
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Pushing Mayweather-Pacquiao back until fall an option
It may seem that the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight could not get any hotter than it is today but octogenarian Bob Arum takes the long view. If the random blood testing issue…
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HBO, MGM may have to choose Pacquiao OR Mayweather
HBO PPV and the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino wanted Mayweather versus Pacquiao on March 13. Now the prime cable network and the corporate owner of 20 casinos might have to choose…
