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Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, and the fight that may never take place!
Floyd Mayweather Jr., the pound for pound best boxer in the business who for the second straight year topped Sports Illustrator’s list of the highest-paid American athletes, generated $90 million in earnings last year — with an in-many-ways-more-remarkable $0 coming from endorsements. Mayweather is one of the most popular sports characters on the planet, on the level of a LeBron...
Joe Calzaghe claims ‘he would have beaten’ Andre Ward
Former undefeated super middleweight titlist Joe “The Pride of Wales” Calzaghe told Sky Sports he would have handled WBA, WBC and The Ring super middleweight champion Andre Ward had they ever fought. A southpaw who Ring Magazine rated as a top ten pound-for-pounder from 2006 through 2008, Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KOs) retired after earning a unanimous decision victory over a shopworn...
Lamont Peterson-Lucas Matthysse weigh-in results, photos & video
The Lamont Peterson vs. Lucas Matthysse weigh-in was held this afternoon in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in advance of Saturday night's Showtime televised match-up between two of the top junior welterweights in the world -- who are ironically fighting this fight at a catch-weight above the division, without any of their titles at stake. So there's that. Right here, you'...
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Boxer has his eye battered in loss
Denis Lebedev (25-2, 19 KOs) was defeated by Guillermo Jones (39-3-2, 31 KOs) by 11th-round KO in their WBA cruiserweight title fight in Crocus City Hall in Moscow on Friday, and it was apparently a pretty ugly show. ESPN’s Dan Rafael was covering the fight and called it a fight of the year candidate. He says Lebedev suffered a cut above his right eye in the first round and that...
With England’s Martin Murray removed from the equation, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will knock Bryan Vera onto Queer Street
World Boxing News reports that negotiations between former middleweight titlist Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and England’s Martin Murray have unraveled and the bout will not occur. The 27-year-old Chavez (46-1-1-1, 32 KOs) was tentatively slated to scrap the 30-year-old Murray (25-1-1, 11 KOs) on August 3 in Mexico City. Chavez last exited the squared circle in September as a unanimous...
Carl Froch will knockout Mikkel Kessler in roughly nine days
IBF super middleweight titlist “The Cobra” Carl Froch is set to again battle WBA regular super middleweight champion “The Viking Warrior” Mikkel Kessler on May 25 at the O2 Arena in North Greenwich, London. The 34-year-old Kessler (46-2, 35 KOs) managed to trump the 35-year-old Froch (30-2, 22 KO) by a unanimous decision in their initial April 2010 bout during the Super Six...
Manny Pacquiao & his fight against human trafficking in the Philippines
A new article and story on CNN profiles Manny Pacquiao, and his fight against the issue of human trafficking in his home country of the Philippines, where he currently serves as a congressman and harbors not-so-secret ambitions of a one day presidency, perhaps within the next decade. For Pacquiao, this problem has become somewhat of a personal cause for him, and something he believes...
Zab Judah credits Danny Garcia as a great champion, says beef with Angel Garcia over with
So whats been going on with Zab Judah since his last performance against Danny Garcia at The Barclays Center? Well the former unified welterweight champion has been back home in Las Vegas, where Marcos Villegas was able to get a hold of him and have a nice little chit chat about his Garcia bout in which Judah surged in the last four rounds to make what was turning into a blow out...
MONEY DESIGN
Fan shows off ridiculous Floyd Mayweather tattoo
At times, us sports fans often forget that the word “fan” is short for “fanatic,” as in crazy person. Luckily, every once in a while a true fanatic comes along to keep the rest of us grounded: Floyd Mayweather might want to start looking into getting a restraining order. Eh, actually, knowing ‘Money’ he is probably receiving royalties for this. H/T Floyd Mayweather/Instagram
The Week's Boxing Schedule, Featuring Lucas Matthysse, Shane Mosley And Alexander Povetkin
Get excited, there are some good fights this week. There is also a ridiculously cool Game of Thrones poster at the top of this post, designed by Saul Bass and available for $40. We’d really like to see someone do something similar for some vintage fight posters – how cool would that be?
Anyway – from Moscow to Cancun, let’s get to the fights.
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Danny Garcia sees no new improvements in Amir Khan, favors Peterson over Matthysse
Over the past two years Danny Garcia has come up from relative obscurity and slowly worked his way to the top of the junior welterweight division quietly dispatching the likes of Nate Campbell and Kendall Holt while scoring spectacular KO wins over Amir Khan, and Erik Morales. With Garcia now at the top of the heap of the division, having beaten Zab Judah, attention has turned to...
Adult Swim announces plans for a Mike Tyson cartoon series
In a concept as genius as it is surprising that no one has ever thought of it before, Adult Swim, the grown-up-skewed arm of Cartoon Network, announced on Friday its plans to air an cartoon series starring an animated version of Mike Tyson. Tyson will be the title character in “Mike Tyson Mysteries,” in which, [...]The post Adult Swim announces plans for a Mike Tyson cartoon...
Garcia to face Lopez for WBO title in Dallas
Mikey Garcia will put his minor WBO featherweight title on the line against Juan Manuel Lopez on June 15 in Dallas.
The bout at American Airlines Center will be the first for Garcia since taking the crown from Orlando Salido on a unanimous decision in New York in January. Garcia is 31-0 with 26 knockouts.
Both of Lopez's professional losses have been to Salido in the past two...
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Mayweather's tour bus involved in accident
Tweet A tour bus belonging to pound for pound boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. was involved in a five-car accident in Albuquerque, New Mexico earlier Wednesday, according to a report from the local ABC affiliate KOAT: Interstate 40 has reopened after a five-car crash near University Boulevard slowed traffic for most of the afternoon. One of [...]
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Guerrero: I'm going Buster Douglas on Floyd
Robert Guerrero and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will meet on Saturday in Las Vegas for the WBC welterweight title, and Guerrero is confident entering the fight despite being a heavy underdog. Guerrero has started a #BeatFloyd social media movement, and he has been talking a lot of trash leading up to the bout. Guerrero, who is from Gilroy, Calif., has a long-standing relationship with...
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