by Charles Jay C.J. Ross resigned her position as a judge with the Nevada Athletic Commission after 22 years. She had been called “corrupt” and “crooked” by the likes of Teddy Atlas, and that may indeed turn out to be the case, although if he had any substantial basis for …
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By Ivan G. Goldman The dull shadow cast by the match last Saturday between Floyd Mayweather and Canelo Alvarez promises to subtract pay-per-view buys from the Timothy Bradley-versus-Juan Manuel Marquez bout on Oct. 12 in Las Vegas. Bradley-Marquez will probably be a better fight, but it will suffer from pay-per-view …
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By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of September 9th to September 16th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Algieri and Clottey Post Wins in Huntington Undefeated junior welterweight Chris Algieri and former world champion …
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By Bryanna Fissori Legal Analyst When two big names like Floyd Mayweather and Canelo Alvarez are scheduled to stand toe to toe, you can bet most boxing fans are going to make it a point to be wherever they need to be to watch the fight. Many sports bars across …
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By: William Holmes The most anticipated fight in years took place tonight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada as Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0) and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0) went toe to toe in the junior middleweight division. The Mexico National Anthem was sung first by Pedro Fernandez and …
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by John Walker The thing about a Floyd Mayweather fight is that you wake up from it feeling like your pocket has been picked. And if you paid to watch it, it most certainly was. Yes, Floydie boy has great “skillz” alright, and the greatest of them is doing very …
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By Ivan G. Goldman It was instructive to see the conversation between Floyd Mayweather and his father Floyd Senior in the corner before round twelve. Why? Because there wasn’t any. In this, the biggest fight of the year, everything was so under control that smiling Senior was talking to someone …
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By: William Holmes The biggest fight in years was supported tonight by a stacked undercard featuring a highly anticipated light welterweight matchup between Danny Garcia and Lucas Matthysse for the WBA and WBC title and a junior middleweight fight between Ishe Smith and Carlos Molina for the IBF title. The …
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by Charles Jay How happy will Showtime be on Tuesday morning? That is generally when the people who have access to all the numbers that come out of a pay-per-view get an estimate of how they did, within about 50,000 buys. Stephen Espinoza, the head of Showtime Sports, has from …
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by Charles Jay Some of the late reports out of Las Vegas are that there has been quite a bit of money coming in on Floyd Mayweather as his junior middleweight championship fight against Canelo Alvarez approaches. It has been reported that the “sharp money” came in a little earlier …
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