Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Dictators R Us: Manny Pacquiao tops list of world’s worst despots
Manny Pacquiao has made another of those Top 10 lists but this time it’s an unsavory one. You have heard of the “No Fear” brand? You might call this list “All Fear.”…
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No doubt on bout as Arum proclaims: Cotto-Pacquiao, 145
Hoya…and that the little “birdie” told Cotto to demand that Manny Pacquiao fight him at the 147 pound welterweight limit or, barring that, at least at 145 pounds. o stick with golf…
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Big scandal: De La Hoya, Cotto shared a sand wedge
I really hate it when a good, clean sport like golf gets dragged down into the sewer with boxing. I mean boxing knows its place but golf has higher aspirations. In golf…
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Shades of Corrales: sources say Gatti assaulted wife in past
The drunken street fight in Pernambuco, Brazil, early Saturday morning between former world champion boxer Arturo Gatti and his wife, Brazilian native Amanda Carina Barbosa Rodrigues was not the first physical confrontation…
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Don King show draws 10,000 fans head to head with UFC 100
Boxing lives! Despite its perpetual mistakes, boxing remains alive and this was proven Saturday night in South Florida when just under 10,000 people, many of them skewing young and in the “UFC…
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Pacquiao, Gatti: Thrillgivers with much in common
If you did not enjoy watching Human Highlight Film Arturo Gatti fight, then you shouldn’t call yourself a boxing fan. The comparisons are inevitable. When it comes to being a fan friendly…
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Worldwide missing Floyd Mayweather alert issued
I am genuinely worried about Floyd Mayweather. I’m on the verge of contacting Skip Tracer, Finder of Lost Persons. I am not talking about Floyd Jr. He’s been busy in Vegas massaging…
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Manny Pacquiao, Kobe Bryant slam dunk Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Jekyll and Hyde had nothing on Mean Manny Pacquiao. The Pinoy Idol plays the nice guy role convincingly away from his office but, as it turns out, he really knows how to…
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How Manny Pacquiao rocks Michael Jackson songbook
Now that the casket is about to be put down, and Michael Jackson’s worldly burdens are gone, it can be told. The Michael Jackson songbook is filled with songs about Manny Pacquiao…
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Mosley claims Pacquiao ducked him but he dodges Mayweather
Like a good soldier, Richard Schaefer knows how to follow orders. That’s nice to know but it also proves that the inmates are indeed running the asylum at Golden Boy Promotions. Now…
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Manny Pacquiao, Michael Jackson linked through Freddie Roach
Not only do I see a boxing link to the tasteful Michael Jackson Tribute going on right now live at the Staples Center, it’s a Manny Pacquia link. How’s that for an…
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Arguello knew: Pinoy Ganigan hit harder than Pacquiao
He was a better puncher, believe it or not, than Manny Pacquiao. In the category of Pinoy lefthanded boxers, it can be argued that “Hawaiian Punch” Andrew Ganigan was the hardest hitter…
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Manila Ice: Pacquiao gives new meaning to ‘coldcocked’
The cheerleader outfit is on. The pom poms are waving. And Oscar De La Hoya is happy to tell you, me and anyone else with ears that “the biggest fight” of of…
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Jockey Roach will ride Kid Khan to victory in UK
British boxing is hurting. The amazingly devoted fight fans throughout the UK are in dire need of a new ring hero. Joe Calzaghe quit in what might prove to be the most…
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Prejudiced Pacquiao had African American Muslim promoter
Sending this one out to my boy Dennis is Indianapolis. Who's the bad cat who says that Dennis "owned" me? Such a lie, really. I can be rented but never owned. I…
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Pacquiao straw that stirs drink, Campbell only stirs it bad
It’s a slender reed, I admit, but Soupy Campbell is getting desperate now. Campbell, old and creaking at 37, is trying to puff up his own fistic feathers going into a crucial…
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Pacquiao ducked many, Campbell can’t name any
Stupid is as stupid does. All those years my childhood TV hero, The Lone Ranger, called his faithful Native American sidekick "Tonto." Fortunately, the sidekick did not comprende Spanish. If he had,…
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Pacquiao’s threats: Kessler, Williams, Lopez, Donaire, Dawson
It should be a worldwide scandal but it?s not. Maybe I will have to blow the lid off this deep, dark secret about life in the Philippines. Male babies who are righthanded…
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Mayweather talks trash, won’t pay garbage man
Did you hear Floyd Mayweather?s new ring entrance music? The lyrics go a little something like this: ?Hi, ho, hi ho, I ain't nobody's ho but I owe, I owe, so it?s…
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Filipino Flash Elorde belongs among Magnificent Seven
Did I need a reminder that the Dream Match between Roberto Duran, legendary lightweight, and dominant junior lightweight Alexis Arguello was never made? Chief reason for the Panama-Nicaragua showdown never occuring was…
