Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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There’s Smoke, Ire But Hatton-Pacquiao Will Go Off On Schedule!
Big Al Braverman would be getting a good laugh about all the smoke blowing between the Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton camps today. In Braverman?s view, boxing people never lie. Never, ever.…
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Purse Dispute May Lead To Bitter Divorce For Pacquiao, Arum!
The bloom is off the rose for Manny Pacquiao and Bob Arum. Arum told the LA Times Tuesday he ?could care less? if Pacman puts the kibosh on a May 2 Ricky…
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Major Strasser’s Been Shot: Slim Pickings For Pacman Other Than Hatton!
Major Strasser?s fatal mistake was picking up the phone at the foggy airport in ?Casablanca.? Victor Laszlo, the fugitive Nazi fighter, was about to board a plane to escape Strasser and his…
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Downsizing Don: King Lets 15 Employees Go, Selling Mansion!
The recession/depression is even getting to the incredibly wealthy Don King. The Wall Street Journal did a big story on how King is trying to sell his oceanfront manse in Palm Beach…
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‘Whacky’ Salud Wrong, Pacquiao Doesn’t Merit Lions Share Of Hatton Pot!
If he keeps this up, they will soon be calling him Whacky Salud. The Manny Pacquaio adviser seems to have forgotten that his expertise is in boxing and not in broadcasting. Maybe…
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Fat Chance Manny Pacquiao Will Retire Before Age 35 Or 36!
Pacquiao to retire in 2010 or thereabouts? Balderdash, poppycock, total nonsense or so opines your White Gorilla. Fat chance that will happen. Who the hell is Delpilar and where is from? I?ve…
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Cover Boy Manny Pacquiao Shows Editorial Fairness Of Boxing Bible, The Ring!
Boxing insiders have been griping for the past six months that only Oscar De La Hoya or fighters promoted by his Golden Boy Promotions can make the cover of Ring magazine. The…
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Outer Mongolia Will Land Pacquiao-Hatton Before Arab Nation Does!
Don King laughed his heartiest laugh when one day at his South Florida world headquarters someone asked him if he knew the difference between the white man (not Dana White, silly) fairy…
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Forget Margarito, Cotto, Pacquiao Knows Difference Between Fearless And Foolish!
Nice try, provocateur Ricardo Lois. You?re trying to find a match to light the flame in a public lamp. Even Stevie Wonder can see your conduct and we all know your motive.…
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Top Rank Adding Potential Pacquiao Foes, Edwin Valero, Joan Guzman!
File this under the rich promoter getting richer?Boxingconfidential revealed exclusively last week that Bob Arum?s Top Rank has become a co-promoter for unbeaten lightweight contender and Dominican Dandy Joan Guzman. Now Coach…
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Remove Furniture From My Corner, I Won’t Quit On My Stool!
Bang the drum quietly. I don?t think too many Oscar de la Hoya fans really want to go into the New Year hearing about how their tarnished idol is coming back to…
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Trigger Finger Freddie Roach Blazing: Pacquiao’s Coach Earned Promoter Of Year Honors!
His trigger finger has never been sharper or more accurate. That?s why I am choosing Boston homeboy Freddie Roach as Promoter of the Year for 2008. Roach wasn?t shooting any blanks as…
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Pacquiao Fans Nip Hattonites But Klitschkos, Mexicans, Kessler Bands Get Mention!
On Oscar Night, which is always in April and will certainly never be Dec. 6, the winners always tick off the names of those who helped make the capture of the nifty…
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Stop The Flights, I Mean Fights, As Vegas Keeps Bleeding Badly!
So much for Viva Las Vegas. It may be a long while before Strip properties, as the locals refer to the hotel-casinos, start booking boxing matches which might be loss leaders. The…
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Shaw: Holt Must Forget Pacquiao, Focus On Bradley In Showtime Bout!
I wouldn?t call it a holiday gift package. Big Gary Shaw isn?t sending WBO junior welterweight champion Kendall Holt any candy or nuts. But what the promoter is doing is using Boxingconfidential.com…
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Hollow Words Of Kendall Dolt, I Mean Holt He Gets Pacquiao Fight, Is He Sampling Bolivian Marching Powder?
When last heard from, his manager was sitting in a North Jersey jail cell. Henry Cortes, 34, is or was being held on a half-million dollar bond for conspiracy to distribute cocaine.…
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Don’t Be Jealous, Pinoys, Now You Have To Share Manny Pacquiao With The World!
Psst, pssst?I?m whispering because this news flash is going to upset many Filipinos. Manny Pacquiao is still your Pinoy Idol and remains your National Fist. But he has crossed over now. Megamanny…
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Pretty Boy Needs To Come Out Of Hiding After Manny Massacre!
I could demand that Floyd Mayweather come out of hiding but I doubt he?s been in a cave in a remote, mountainous area of Pakistan or anything like that. You know and…
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Pacquiao Feel Good Factor Evident In Skies Between Vegas-Newark!
JUST LANDED, NEWARK AIRPORT?There is a feel good factor in the wake of Manny The Magnificent?s virtuoso performance in battering Oscar De La Hoya into retirement. It reminds me, on a lesser…
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Who Was Playing With Scales And Why? Something Fishy In Oscar Only Gaining “Two Pounds” After Weigh In!
LAS VEGAS?Random musings of your faithful correspondent before he has a Bloody Oscar, I mean a Bloody Mary or three and heads for the airport? The site can be Manila, Manchester or…
