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Don King: Public wants Mayweather-Pacquiao but will accept other credible foes
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Entry: Don King: Public wants Mayweather-Pacquiao but will accept other credible foes
Posted/Updated: 06/03/2010 10:34 AM
treebark - Why not make Don King the arbitrator between Pacman and Money May? He might be able to pull these two together.
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Don Read Full Story >>>THE PREDICTION PAGE: Cotto-Foreman
By Michael Woods, The Sweet Science, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Two days away from the heralded return of boxing to Yankee Stadium, and we are split pretty close down the middle on who we think will prevail in the junior middleweight clash pitting Miguel Cotto against WBA champion Yuri Foreman.
Picking Foreman to upset Cotto has become the fashionable stance Read Full Story >>> COTTO LOOKS TO WRITE A NEW CHAPTER IN HIS CAREER, STARTING WITH FOREMAN
By Tim Harrison, FightHype.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Miguel Cotto's comeback from a 12-round TKO loss to Manny Pacquiao is already in full swing. The former 140 and 147-pound champion is only days away from challenging for his fourth world title in his third weight class against WBA Jr. Middleweight champion Yuri Foreman. With famed trainer Emanuel Read Full Story >>> When They Were Kings: Yankee Stadium, Ali Legacies Merged in '76
By David Steele, Fanhouse, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Nobody knew back on September 28, 1976, that five decades of uninterrupted boxing majesty would suddenly stop and go on hiatus for three decades. What everybody did know on that nig Read Full Story >>> Can Cotto take anymore punishment?
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
NEW YORK ? Miguel Cotto came to work Wednesday wearing a natty light-brown suit, a crisply starched pale blue dress shirt and a perfectly knotted tie. He would have fit in perfectly had he been trudging along Wall Street with a briefcase in hand.
Instead, he found himself in the Bronx addressing Read Full Story >>> Bringing boxing back to Yankee Stadium
By Danny Flexen, BoxingNews, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
?HISTORY? was the word on everyone?s lips at the final pre-show press conference for the first boxing show at the new Yankee Stadium this Saturday. Yuri Foreman and Miguelo Cotto may be headlining the show, the first at any Yankee Stadium for almost 34 years, but the sense of occasion permeated thro Read Full Story >>> Mayweather Jr was right 'all belts do is collect dust'. WBO disgraces Boxing by stripping Martinez
By Rick Rockwell, Examiner.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
Let me just get it out right off the bat. The WBO's decision to strip Sergio Martinez is an absolute disgrace to boxing. Here's a fighter that's proud to be a champion and wears the belts with honor. A fighter who gives it his all inside the ring and doesn't cause trouble outside of the ring. And th Read Full Story >>> Alex Ariza's dismissal of USADA testing is just foolish. Perhaps, he should just 'shut up'
By Rick Rockwell, Examiner.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
I might not always agree with everything Floyd Mayweather Jr and the USADA have to say, but I surely disagree with Alex Ariza when he says that random blood and urine testing have no place in boxing. The world class trainer of Manny Pacquiao and Amir Khan, is absolutely wrong on this topic. In a rec Read Full Story >>> MARTINEZ CONFIRMED AS "PLAN B" FOR MAYWEATHER
By Andre Zurbrug, FightHype.com, Fri, 04 Jun 2010
"I'd say it's definitely accurate," remarked Sampson Lewkowicz, adviser of Sergio Martinez, when asked if the middleweight king was "Plan B" for Floyd Mayweather should negotiations fall through with Manny Pacquiao. Martinez, who currently holds titles in both the middleweight and jr. middleweight d Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao's Alex Ariza Shreds USADA Director Travis Tygart
By Lem Satterfield, BoxingScene.com, Thu, 03 Jun 2010
As an assistant to Hall of Fame trainer, Freddie Roach, strength and conditioning guru, Alex Ariza, works with seven-division champion, Manny Pacquiao, WBA junior welterweight king, Amir Khan, and unbeaten junior middleweight prospect, Vanes Martirosyan.
All three are under similar programs, Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao in Pain
By Robbie Pangilinan, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 03 Jun 2010
Manny Pacquiao, the world?s pound-for-pound king, in pain? It is unthinkable, probably impossible, for the only boxer to
win seven world titles in seven different weight classes to give pain a big deal. But the People?s Champ d Read Full Story >>> PACQUIAO THRILLED TO RECEIVE 'FIGHTER OF THE YEAR' AWARD FROM JOE FRAZIER
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 03 Jun 2010
Joe Frazier.
Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao was thrilled on learning that former world heavyweight champion ?Smokin? Joe Frazier will present him with the ?Fighter of the Year? award of the prestigious Boxing Writers A Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao?s BWAA awards based on inspiration, ability, and defying the odds (part 1 of 2)
By Chris Robinson, Examiner.com, Thu, 03 Jun 2010
March 19th, 2005 was likely a humbling night for Manny Pacquiao. Inside of the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada Pacquiao would stage a memorable back and forth affai Read Full Story >>> Foreman ?locked and loaded,? heads into title bout
By Joseph D. Robbins, The Jerusalem Post, Thu, 03 Jun 2010
NEW YORK ? Israel?s first major boxing champion Yuri Foreman was relaxed and confident on Wednesday as the build up to his super welterweight title defense went into overdrive.
Foreman will fight Puerto Rico?s Miguel Cotto on Saturday night in the first bout to be held at New York?s Yankee Stadiu Read Full Story >>> A Profoundly Inspiring Parcel of The Life?s Story of Manny Pacquiao
By Unofre Pili, Bukisa.com, Thu, 03 Jun 2010
The from-rags-to-riches story of Manny Pacquiao has been a household familiarity among boxing-loving homes in the world for many years now. Conceivably there can be thousands of beings right now who are lurking in deep obscurity but are slowly toiling every minute of their days so as to achieve thei Read Full Story >>> Stadium Doubleheader: A Reception and a Bout
By Richard Sandomir, The New York Times, Thu, 03 Jun 2010
In the grand hall at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, Scotty Ballan, 12, handed two of his pinstriped bar mitzvah yarmulkes to Yuri Foreman, the super welterweight champ Read Full Story >>> Offers are flooding in, but who will win the bidding war to host Pacquiao vs. Mayweather?
By Scott Heritage, Examiner.com, Thu, 03 Jun 2010
The fight has yet to be finalized or announced yet the offers are already pouring in to stage the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao showdown.
Top Rank head honcho and Pacman promoter Bob Arum has revealed to BoxingScene that offers from both Qatar and Abu Dhabi have been put on the table, and that they ar Read Full Story >>> Show And Tell: Previews And Predictions For Miguel Cotto Vs. Yuri Foreman And Vanes Martirosyan Vs. Joe Greene
By Tim Starks, The Queensberry Rules, Thu, 03 Jun 2010
You have to hand it to Uncle Bob on this one: The wily old promoter has taken a moderately interesting fight between a light-punching junior middleweight and a potentially war-drained welterweight and turned it into an event, a regular media sensation, even.
Arum's boxing brand of identity politi Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather's path to recognition lies through facing Manny Pacquiao
By Scott Heritage, Examiner.com, Thu, 03 Jun 2010
Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn't have anywhere near the amount of awards or accolades that his rival Manny Pacquiao does, despite the fact that some regard him as the better fighter.
Some of this is undoubtedly his own fault; he's not as friendly with the media as he could be and at times has an inab Read Full Story >>> Two Pounds of ring widsom: Sagacious Stevie Forbes dissects Cotto-Foreman
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Thu, 03 Jun 2010
Unless and until we come up with a quicker, slicker name for this new semi-regular feature on both my Examiner.com page and on Boxingconfidential, we're calling it "Two Pounds of Ring Wisdom."
The words and thoughts that follow belong to one of the higher wattage lights in the boxing library Stev Read Full Story >>>
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