Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Espejo can share my balut but Bernie Vee is verboten
Should my response to Edwin G. Espejo of Philboxing be flight or fight? I?ve just finished 10 hours of flying back home from Rio so I say no mas for flight. And,…
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Philboxing scribe thinks small on Pacquiao
Finally, we have a fight between two willing combatants, two guys ready to rumble. If you were disappointed by the stall on the scheduled July 18 fight between Floyd Mayweather and Juan…
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Al Capone, Malcolm X, Pacquiao: They can leave their hats on
Every few months or so it seems that I read about some venerable hat shop going under. Outside of baseball caps, younger American men do not wear hats like their fathers or…
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Pacquiao?s real prize may be most Nobel one of all
He?s climbed nearly every mountain they have in the limited world of boxing. I know, I know there?s Mount Mayweather but will it turn out to be a real mountain over an…
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Getting antsy: Mayweather, Mosley, BHop sitting idle
RIO DE JANEIRO--I am getting confused. When it comes to Golden Boy, does Shane Mosley work for the promotional company? He has those all important vice presidential stripes and an equity share,…
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Body blow to UK boxing as Setanta folds tent
If you thought Manny Pacquiao sent Ricky Hatton reeling, you ought to see what crushing debt has done to UK cable broadcaster Setanta. The subscription service, which has been a Godsend to…
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Roach should do what Curry did: give Reid a shot
RIO DE JANEIRO--Can I endorse a candidate to be seated at the right hand of Coach Freddie Roach if: a) I am not sure that assistant Michael Moorer is already gone and…
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Flip, flop: Lois pretends to be FOP (Friend Of Pacquiao)
RIO DE JANEIRO--Isn?t it bad enough that I am now contemplating death by feijoada? I will have to cycle from Leme to Bogota and back to work off the tradtional Brazilian Saturday…
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Ali, Pacquiao would?ve been LA neighbors
Five years after he retires from the boxing ring, Manny Pacquiao will become a neighbor of sorts of The Greatest, Muhammad Ali. They will both be in the International Boxing Hall Of…
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Roach?s good intentions not enough with moody Moorer
RIO DE JANEIRO--Freddie Roach is, after all, capable of human error. I?ve got a news flash for you so was his training mentor, Eddie Futch, and ditto for Angelo Dundee, Gerogie Benton,…
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?Fright Doctors?look foolish on Klitschko-Chagaev
RIO DE JANEIRO--I was only halfway joking about Pretty Bad Back Boy Floyd Mayweather?s attending physicians being the Three Stooges, Doctors Moe, Larry and Curley. Now I am wondering if the American…
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Surly Shane Mosley lands low blow against puppeteers
That good gentleman Sugar Shane Mosley really knows how to step out of character. It seems that His Sugarship is a bit peeved that his endless pleas to be the next opponent…
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Valero schemes inside Pacquiao dreams for Arum
RIO DE JANEIRO--When he lays down to sleep, Uncle Bob Arum does not dream of sugar plums and magical fairies. Sorry to disappoint you as to the flying fairies, venomous comment poster…
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Fistic feijoada: Roach doesn?t believe in Tooth Fairy
RIO DE JANEIRO--They call it feijoada, the tradtional groaning weekly feast dish, and its the ultimate nightmare for those sensitive vegetarians. It is composed of about 99 various cuts of meat, including…
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Manny Steward could help Mayweather get past Pacquiao
I did not realize that Manny Steward was in the Volunteers of America program but apparently he is. Steward, the Goldfather who built the now dismantled Kronk Gym dynasty when people actually…
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No excuses permitted for Mayweather, Pacquiao in THE FIGHT
No excuses. No excuses for Manny Pacquiao, no excuses for Floyd |Mayweather Jr. Neither of these two great ring talents will have any foreseeable excuses if their super bout is put together…
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Which doctor is witch for cash cow Floyd Mayweather?
There has been a lot of speculation as to who the doctor in charge of treating boxing?s self-proclaimed ?Cash Cow? Floyd Mayweather Jr. is. Mayweather claims rib cartilage injury which caused him…
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Totoy Bato: I will eat Mayweather like wolf does lamb chop
As I gain a sliver of knowledge and insight into Filipino life and culture prior to my upcoming first visit there, I was wondering about the popular GMA ?soap opera? style program,…
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How to give someone a Pacquiao knuckle sandwich
I just got my filthy hands on a Manny Pacquaio Bobblehead and, no, I don?t sleep with it every night. I'm not taking advantage of my little doll. I only sleep with…
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Fraud Ribfaker? Baby Back Mayweather slathered with duck sauce
Clouds of suspicion linger. They look like circulus nimbus clouds to me.They are thick clouds, ones that can only be cleared away by that rarest of boxing commodities, the truth. Comment of…
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