Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Magnificent Manny Simply Awesome: Ricky Hatton Couldn’t Hit This Pacquiao In Arse With Bag Of Rice!
LAS VEGAS--My instant impressions after Magnificent Manny?s awesome performance on the biggest stage he?s ever had? I guess Coach Freddie Roach?s ?Oscar can?t pull the trigger? theory was a helluva lot more…
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Bell Tolls For Golden Boy De La Hoya In Vegas Emergency Room!
LAS VEGAS?Oscar De La Hoya?s gilded pro boxing career has ended with the Golden Boy taking a trip to a hospital emergency room here. A Nevada State Athletic Commission doctor ordered that…
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Season’s Beatings From Manny: Back Up Trophy Truck For Fighter Of Year Pacquiao, Trainer-Promoter Of Year Freddie Roach!
LAS VEGAS?If Manny Pacquiao were that type of person, if he was an insufferable egomaniac, he would be rubbing the faces of almost the entire boxing Establishment in embarrassment. Rightfully so, as…
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Grim Times: MGM Source Claims Not Even Manny-Oscar Getting Site Fees Now
LAS VEGAS?Notes in search of a column from Big Fight Central? Conventional wisdom is that Golden Boy garners huge site fees from the MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay but a veteran corporate…
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He’s Not Keen On Golden Boy Offer To Fight Baby Bull Juan Diaz!
LAS VEGAS--Juan Manuel Marquez, who failed to beat Manny Pacquaio in two tries, is on the big fight scene at the MGM Grand Hotel but he looks as though he feels awkward…
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Ethical Dilemma Dodged: Oscar’s Golden Hands Not In Pacquiao’s Pocket For Dream Fight!
LAS VEGAS?Inquiring minds have been asking, brace yourself, an ethical question about the Manny Pacquiao-Oscar De La Hoya fight. It?s common knowledge that, as a result of their out of court settlement…
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Pacquiao’s Got Man(n)y Ways To Victory, Oscar Only Wins If Pinoy Idol Craps Out!
LAS VEGAS--It started right after 9/11 in New York. It?s being said now in the wake of the Mumbai disaster. You know, if you don?t travel to Mumbai, then the terrorists win.…
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Moguls Schaefer, Arum Put Sunny Side Up In Rainy, Cloudy Weather!
(Editor's Note: Give the promoters credit for whistling while they work. While they were spinning on their call, the market took another beating, with the Dow falling 679.95 points for a 7.70…
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Egomaniacs Gone Wild: Manny’s Vanity Bus, De La Hoya’s Own Statue!
Everyone who ever heard of Cassius Clay or that Ali guy knows you can?t be a great boxer unless you have an ego as big as all of Wyoming. Both Manny Pacquaio…
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Leprechaun Roach: I Salute Oscar De La Hoya Statue, I Bet Pigeons Will Also!
Leprechaun-boxing trainer Freddie Roach is hitting Oscar De La Hoya with body shots even though he?s in Las Vegas with charge Manny Pacquiao and the Golden Boy is in LA. Oscar will…
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Thermometer Time For PPV; Can Manny-Oscar Do 1,000,000 Buys?
It?s called deferred gratification. How about a show of hands out there in Boxingconfidential Land? How many of you thrift-conscious folks are going to keep 55 clams in your pocket and wait…
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Bottle In Front Of DiBella Or Frontal Lobotomy?
No less a seer than Lou DiBella might sit back on his Manhattan couch, sip a fine Scotch, and economize by spending only $54.95 to watch the De La Hoya-Pacquiao fight Saturday…
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Wise Men Should Offer Ten Buck Discount For Oscar-Manny PPV!
In the old days of boxing, what some would say was a better era, you thought of Three Wise Guys rather than Three Wise Men. But the business is strictly corporate now,…
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Ricky Hatton-Manny Pacquiao Matchup Looks Like Real Sizzler For 2009!
No way the old Ricky Hatton could have stayed in the ring too long with Manny Pacquiao. But, if the glimpse of the new, improved Hatton was a portent of things to…
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Coach Roach Unloads On Former Boss De La Hoya Again!
I don?t know why they portray Hollywood as a town without pity. Beneath all the tinsel, all the plastic and all the other superficiality, there are human beings whose hearts drip with…
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If Nonito Donaire Wants Privacy, He Needs Different Job!
Nonito Donaire, young primadonna, needs a wakeup call. The Filpino Flash has issued a news flash asking the media to respect his privacy. Muhammad Ali never did that. Sugar Ray Leonard never…
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Don’t Make This Mythtake, Oscar De La Hoya Can’t Destroy Manny Pacquiao!
I don?t know if it?s the biggest myth in boxing. But it could be the biggest mythtake, if I may pull some Don King like ?trickeration? and invent my own word, that…
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Latin Snake Sergio Mora Shows Fangs: Pipsqueak Pacquaio Won’t Last 15 Minutes In Ring Against De La Hoya!
PROVIDENCE--No one calls Sergio Mora the Latin Fake any more. Not since he won and then lost title bouts against Vernon Forrest. The self-styled Latin Snake showed some bite in winning a…
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Sage Bos: Calzaghe Held Back Like Jones Did Against McCallum!
It would be simple to rip ring legend Roy Jones a new orifice for his complaining that an inept cutman caused him to lose to undefeated Joe Cazlaghe. You know, the old…
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British Alcohol Expert Opines: If Hatton Sticks With Booze, He’ll Never Lose To Malignaggi Or To Half A Man Pacquiao!
Rehab is for quitters! Ricky Hatton?s legion of fans, who follow their Mancunian idol across the globe, know that and they?re hoping their ring idol ignores a sobering warning from new trainer…
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