It was announced that the light heavyweight showdown between two top 10 ranked boxers Lucian Bute (31-1, 24 KO) and Jean Pascal (27-2-1, 16 KO) —set for May 25—has been postponed due to an injury Bute sustained during training resulting in surgery to remove bone fragments from his left hand. …
Read More »Boxing Insider Notebook: Pacquiao/Rios, Kessler, Snooki, Bute/Pascal, JuanMa, more
By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of April 29th to May 6th covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. As announced earlier by InterBox earlier, Lucian Bute is injured and cannot fight Jean Pascal on …
Read More »Manny Pacquiao-Brandon Rios from Macau — Will Fans Buy It?
By Ivan G. Goldman Bob Arum, who’s fallen in love with the dollars he brings back from China, has scheduled his mauled cash cow, Manny Pacquiao, to fight Brandon Rios, another fighter in his stable who lost in his previous outing. At least that’s the word from ESPN and Yahoo, …
Read More »Brandon Rios May Have Lost to Alvarado, But He Wins a Shot at Manny Pacquiao
Brandon Rios is used to giving fans thrills and chills. And now he’ll have a chance to show some of that off on one of the biggest stages of all. Photo: Chris Farina/Top Rank It was announced that Rios, who most recently was beaten in an attempt to win the …
Read More »Floyd Mayweather, A Cobra on Hapless Robert Guerrero’s Jungle Trail
By Ivan G. Goldman Floyd Mayweather is a Mozart concerto performing in a world arena that’s generally more receptive to the likes of Justin Bieber. He moves fast, sees fast, thinks fast, and telegraphs nothing. By the time the opponent knows he’s thrown a punch, he’s been hit and Floyd’s …
Read More »Floyd Mayweather Milks the Cash Cow
by Charles Jay What do you do when there’s a fight and there’s really nothing to write about it? Well, we could say that there was some charity involved, inasmuch as anyone who gave Robert Guerrero more than one round against Floyd Mayweather was being very charitable. Photo: Tom Casino/Showtime …
Read More »Jackie Kallen: Is “The Hurricane” Ana Julation the female Pacquaio?
By Jackie Kallen Nearly 33 years ago a young girl was born in San Francisco to a proud Filipino family, Named Luciana Bonifacio Julaton, she was spunky and beautiful. When she was little, her father got her interested in martial arts. She was a huge success at it and loved …
Read More »Juan Manuel Marquez Says He’s Not Giving Manny Pacquiao Another Chance
Juan Manuel Marquez says he wants to savor the memory of his December 8 win over Manny Pacquiao and doesn’t feel any urgency to face off against the Filipino superstar for the fifth time. That is what he told reporters from the Los Angeles Times at the scene of pre-fight …
Read More »Jackie Kallen: Live Report Mayweather/ Guerrero was a Ho Hum Night
By Jackie Kallen, Ringside They say that any given man can beat any other given man on any given night. This was not the night for Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero. Photo: USA Today To most of us sitting at the MGM Garden watching the fight, it played out exactly as …
Read More »Round by Round Results: Floyd Mayweather Cruises to Easy Decision Victory
By: William Holmes The main event was preceded by an exciting undercard, but the arena did not reach filled capacity until after the end of the Mares vs. De Leon fight. Since Golden Boy televised three fights the proceedings for the main event began almost immediately after the last fight. …
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