By Ivan G Goldman After many communications between me and a group of nerds at their secret Silicon Valley startup they finally agreed to launch me through the fifth dimension to visit Floyd Mayweather in the year 2044. I found the ex-champ at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip, …
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By Sean Crose So yeah, it looks like Britain’s Amir Khan has won the “Mayweather Sweepstakes.” No announcement has been made yet, but the Englishman won the Twitter poll Floyd held against him and Argentina’s Marcos Maidana. What’s more, a fight with the European fan favorite promises to bring in …
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By Kirk Jackson Throughout the history of the sport, as well as every other sport, there has been gay athletes. With boxing, this being such a gladiator-esque, masculine sport, it’s difficult to picture a gay boxer. Many may have various opinions on the matter and many believe a gay boxer …
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By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of February 4th to February 11th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Chisora Gives Statement on Johnson and Fury Dereck Chisora aims to make quick work of Kevin …
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By: William Holmes Golden Boy Promotions presented tonight’s installment of Golden Boy Live from the Cowboys Dance Hall in San Antonio Texas for a Monday night fight card. The main event featured a welterweight bout between Fidel Maldonado Jr. and John Nater as well as an undercard with two Olympians, …
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By Ivan G. Goldman Negotiating with Floyd Mayweather can be a distinctly unpleasant experience, but recently a frustrated Bob Arum stuck his foot in his mouth by apparently likening the activity to negotiating with Hitler. According to Dan Rafael of ESPN.com, Arum told him, “This is like a tactic — …
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By: Sergio Luis Martinez On February 10, 2014, the Cowboy Dance Hall in San Antonio, Texas will be the site of an eleven fight boxing card scheduled to be televised on Fox Sports 1. The event is co-promoted by the Lone Star State’s own boxing outfit, Leija*Battah Promotions. The upstart …
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By: William Holmes Greg Robinson’s Power Productions is one of the few, if only, boxing promoters still putting on shows in Philadelphia. Ever since the closing of the blue horizon Peltz Boxing has mainly put on shows in Atlantic City and the Sands Casino in Bethlehem. Joey Eye Promotions puts …
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By Sean Crose Many people, myself included, thought Pacquiao-Bradley II would be a high-end chess match. We may all have been wrong. Perhaps even Manny Pacquiao and Freddie Roach themselves are mistaken in their assumptions. Photo: Chris Farina/Top Rank Talking to a fit, easygoing Roach before the fight’s New York …
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By Sean Crose It may sound harsh, but life basically consists of those who overcome and those who crumble. We all meet challenges – there is no exception to the rule. How we react to those challenges, however, makes us who we are. A journalists’ job is to be unbiased, …
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