Michael Marley
2,302 articles · Boxing Confidential
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Frank Warren: Ricky Hatton Should Quit Before Food, Booze Destroy His Brain!
Fearless Frank Warren has taken the title away from Don King and Bob Arum. I?ve no doubt of this after reading Donald McCrae?s scintillating piece on the English fight promoter in The…
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Prophet Of Pacquiao Doom Speaks: Oscar Will Flatten Midget Manny In Opening Round!
He won?t sign his name to the declaration. He is afraid of business recriminations more so from Golden Boy Promotions than from Top Rank. I?m calling this veteran of four decades in…
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Oscar Had Many Choices But Chose Manny, Proving He’s Still Got That Fire In His Belly!
He had to be the last sports editor of a major American newspaper whose favorite sport was boxing. His name was Jerry Lisker, but his pals called him ?Blackie? and he dragged…
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Prefight Fight That Pacquiao Must Win: Without Same Day Weigh-In, Super Middleweight Oscar Should Crush Blown Up Lightweight Manny!
I did not get a chance to ask this pertinent question on Thursday?s conference call but I am sure it will be a factor as the lawyers for Oscar De La Hoya…
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Ten Top Things Oscar De La Hoya Will NOT Announce:
Ten Things That Oscar De La Hoya Won?t Be Announcing on Today?s Media Conference Call: 1. It wasn?t me who suggested to Bill Clinton that he get Ted Kennedy to drive Hillary…
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Oscar-Manny Official! De La Hoya Waffles On Ring Retirement Issue!
It was almost as bad as water boarding. They tortured the media by keeping us on hold for at least eight minutes. And then on what seemed like the Seventh Day, the…
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Yes, It’s Real Circus But Oscar And Manny Won’t Be Clowning Around!
I?m taking a page out of Bill Clinton?s magnificent speech in Denver last night. I am here, first and foremost, to support Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya. I am here…
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Pacquiao-De La Hoya Done Deal For December 6
Oscar and Manny is a done deal for Dec. 6. Love it, loathe it. don?t care? It?s time to take the Boxingconfidential.com Roll Call. Come on, brothers and sisters, this Tension Convention…
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White Gorilla Strolls Naked In Front Of Office If Oscar Names Tall Paul As Final Foe!
Don?t you love the ignoramuses who keep egging Oscar de la Hoya on? I am talking about the mentally challenged who insist that, to really ?man up? as the in vogue saying…
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Joe Fight Fan Should Be Cheering, Not Jeering, Pacquiao’s Fanatical Followers!
Today?s lecture is not about Manny Pacquiao. It?s about his fanatics, er, I mean his fans which is a term derived from fanatics anyway. I agree with those who believe that the…
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Arum Sees No Waves, No New Offer By De La Hoya As He Recharges On French Rivera!
Globetrotter Bob Arum and his wife, Lovee, are sunning themselves and recharging their batteries on the French Rivera. All is tranquil as the Top Rank honcho and his better half sip cocktails…
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Oscar Bends, Offers 67-33 Split, Pacquiao Has Offer He Can’t Refuse!
Oscar de la Hoya, being a man of business and a man of reason , has just made the offer that Manny Pacquiao cannot refuse. In budging ever so slightly from his…
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Dedham Destroyer Coach Freddie Roach: Manny Pacquiao’s Inspired Genius Charts Double Jumbo Jackpot Plan!
Freddie Roach is not content to play the stereotypical role of the boxing trainer. He does not drape a white towel over his shoulder or chew on cheap cigars. He does not…
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Freddie Roach Clarifies What He Meant By Working For Free!
What Freddie Roach Really Meant About His Not Getting Paid For Oscar Bout: 1. Somebody better tell that bartender over at the Stone Pony to put more cranberry in with the vodka…
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Michael Marley’s Fearless Forecast: Oscar Takes Mulligan, Rips It Into Fair Way, Manny Accepts New Deal!
Oscar De La Hoya made a mistake. Oscar De La Hoya, whose athletic prowess extends to the golf course where he shoots in the mid to low 80s, is no typical weekend…
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De La Hoya’s Trainers Who Got Fired Club: Rejecting Oscar’s Big Offer Gains Pacquiao New Cheering Section!
If Manny Pacquiao?s ?Dear Oscar? letter sticks, the blooming romance between the two boxing idols will hit the skids even worse than it did when Oscar and Golden Boy failed in their…
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Manny-Oscar: The Patient Is Either Toe Tagged In The Morgue Or Twitching In Intensive Care Unit!
There?s only two possible scenarios left for the Manny-Oscar situation. One, the public story as told from the Golden lips of Richie Rich Schaefer, young rich guy, and Bob Arum, old rich…
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Replacing Caviar With Chopped Liver: Humble Pie For Manny Pacquiao If He Humbles Soto!
Journey with me to Absurdity, a place where boxers are not concerned so much with their total purse as with their humungous egos and what ?bragging rights? they can earn in a…
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What Might’ve Been? Stunner In Vegas: Little David (Pacquiao) Outpoints Goliath (De La Hoya)!
LAS VEGAS?He promised to shock the world. And then Manny Pacquiao, the Mini-Me of boxing, went out and turned his boast into reality, taking a split, 12-round decision over the much bigger…
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White Gorilla Michael Marley’s Memo To Pacquiao, The Jackal: You Must Meet De La Hoya In The Middle, It’s A No Brainer!
When Muhammad Ali failed the US Army entrance exam, a simple test that anyone who got through high school should have no problem with, some people were shocked. But not The Louisville…
