Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Fighter Of Year Is Calzaghe Or Pacquiao, Trainer Of Year Is Enzo Or Roach!
Yes We Can! Yes We Can! I?m not echoing Obama now. I?m saying applying the donkey party?s war cry, or should I now say victory cry, to boxing and specifically to 2008.…
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Gloom And Doom Pervades Boxing: Henny Penny Doesn’t Know Tough Times Produce Better Fights, Fighters!
If Ricardo Lois is Henny Penny, rushing to tell the king that the sky is falling in boxing, then he should save his barnyard breath. That we?re in the midst of terrible…
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WBC Bossman: Pacquiao Camp Treats Us Like Beggars, Belt Merchants!
Regarding the recent news from the convention involving WBC lightweight world champion Manny Pacquiao, President Sulaiman said, ?I would like to read a press release that has been prepared because there have…
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Pundit Powell Thinks Superman’s Wonder Wheels Can Beat Calzaghe!
British boxing pundit Lord Jeff Powell likes thinks that Welsh ring hero Joe Calzaghe may not have the kryptonite necessary to beat back Roy ?Superman? Jones at Madison Square Garden Saturday night.…
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Impossible To Focus Now On Anyone Other Than Megamanny, De La Hoya!
Thirty days and counting?it?s hard to focus on anything but Oscar and Manny. I am trying to work up a smidgen of enthusiasm for Roy Jones-Joe Calzaghe. Two great warriors, no doubt,…
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Manny Pacquiao, Kelly Pavlik Belts Terrible Things To Waist!
There?s a new strip show coming to Las Vegas. There won?t be any lap dancing or twirling aerobically on poles with this one. In fact, this strip show does not require most…
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Tight-Lipped Bob Arum: Oscar’s News Flash Will Be A Treat, Not A Trick!
Bob Arum knows that loose lips sink ships. So the Admiral of Top Rank remained admirably close-mouthed Wednesday night when I asked him to reveal what Oscar de la Hoya's "major announcement"…
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Big Deal: Tuk Tuk Master Edwin Valero Becomes Oscar Sparring Partner!
LONDON--Boxingconfidential.com regulars do not have to wait for Thursday?s staged ?major announcement? about the big deal happening with Oscar de la Hoya?s training camp situation. De la Hoya has an international media…
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Face It, Oscar: Manny Pacquiao’s Wordwide Army Is On The March!
LONDON?One of the many quotes which allegedly came from the lips of baseball icon Lawrence ?Yogi? Berra is that the mental aspects of the sport are underrated. Or, as they say the…
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The Son Never Rises: JC Chavez Jr’s Career Turns Tedious!
LONDON--He was the bravest man this side of Antonio Margarito in all of Old Mexico. This man, he showed the grande huevos or huevos grande in a public way. Now I am…
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Legendary Ali Trainer Angelo Dundee Sees Cakewalk For Oscar Against Manny!
ATLANTIC CITY?Freddie Roach isn?t going to like this one. Try as I might, I could not induce all time training great Angelo Dundee to pick Roach?s prized pupil, Manny Pacquiao, to defeat…
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As Megamanny Mansion Moves To New Address, Lightweight Properties Become Crack Houses!
Don?t tell everybody but it looks there is a subprime mortgage problem in the lightweight division. The championship properties on One Hundred Thirty Five Pound Street are about to go from upper…
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Shake Those Pom Poms, Mr. Schaefer; Dry Those Crocodile Tears, Mr. Sulaiman!
Emmanuel D. Pacquiao can?t do it. He really can?t do it, folks. He's too busy training to shock the world. So I will have to be his ghost writer on this one.…
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Blinded By The Light: Floyd Mayweather Refuses To Admit Manny Pacquiao Is P4P Kingpin Now!
Call it shameless pandering, I do not care. Or call it shameless panda-ring and I will just go and eat some balsa wood. But Boxingconfidential.com has learned exclusively why Floyd Mayweather Jr.…
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Comparing Hattonites To Pacmaniacs<br>Ricky’s Rooters Vs. Manny’s Millions, Hell’s Angels As Opposed To Cub Scouts!
Back in the day, meaning when I was in junior high school, you had to take sides. You could be a Beatles fan or a Rolling Stones fan but not both. Me,…
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Worldwide Economic Meltdown Will Put Big Time Pinch On Boxing!
Sick joke ricocheting around the canyons of bloody, battered Wall Street: "Do you know the difference between 1929 and 2009?" Sick but possibly accurate answer: "Me, neither." The worldwide financial mess won?t…
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Pacquiao, De La Hoya Engaging In Clean Campaign Unlike Others!
Maybe certain politicians need to take a look at Oscar de la Hoya and Manny Pacquiao. Aside from Coach Roach?s itchy trigger finger on his cheap toy gun, the press tour for…
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Giachetti: Freddie Roach, Jack Loew Need To Concentrate Fully On Pacquiao, Pavlik!
Outspoken trainer Richie Giachetti has not been on the championship scene since he and cruiserweight titleholder Steve Cunning went their separate ways. But ?the greens-eating man from Cleveland? (fight scribe Bob Waters?…
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Put Aside Toy Guns, National Flags, Time For Manny, Oscar To Get Into High Training Gear!
The debates are finally over. No, I don?t mean between Obama and that angry white man. I mean the Oscar de la Hoya-Manny Pacquiao cross-country media tour debates. You know it?s time…
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Let Freedom Ring Across America: Manny Vs. Oscar Is Coming, Critics Be Damned!
PUNTA CANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC --Let freedom ring! Let the critics of Manny vs. Oscar be damned. I just saw boxing genius and a truly great American here at beachside. His name is…
