by Boxing Insider News An article on the Forbes magazine website last week was illustrative of the high hopes for the intake for last Saturday’s Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero bout: Showtime appears headed for a massive PPV audience on par with some of Mayweather’s biggest fights based on early purchase data. …
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Fast Hands and Fast Talking: Malignaggi and Broner Get Things Underway At Press Conference
By Chris Cella When the fight between WBA world welterweight champion Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi and WBC lightweight champion Adrien “The Problem” Broner first materialized, there wasn’t much of a reception by fans worldwide. But as things got underway at the press conference, we saw a glimpse of the …
Read More »Floyd Mayweather On Jimmy Fallon – He Makes Big Bets
Jimmy congratulates Floyd on one of the most accomplished boxing careers in history, and Floyd breaks down a gambling ticket for Jimmy. Leave a Comment
Read More »Lucian Bute Injury Postpones Fight With Jean Pascal
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 …
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