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Mayweather beating his old lady?

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:18:48 -0500

LAS VEGAS (AP)�Las Vegas police say they�re seeking boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. for questioning about a domestic battery complaint by his ex-girlfriend.

Officer Barbara Morgan says detectives want to get Mayweather�s account of what happened before deciding whether he will face a criminal battery domestic violence charge.

Morgan says the 33-year-old Mayweather wasn�t at a southwest Las Vegas house when officers responded to the woman�s complaint a little after 5 a.m. Thursday.

Morgan says the woman alleges Mayweather hit her during an argument. Morgan didn�t identify the woman by name.

Officer Bill Cassell says the woman was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries that were not described as serious.

La Gata weighs in!

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:48:19 -0500

WBC female light welterweight champion M�nica �La Gata� Acosta of Argentina known as �the cat� came dressed as catwoman for her official weigh-in today in Argentina. The unbeaten champion Acosta will be making the third defense of her title against challenger Lely Luz �La Roca� Florez of colombia. Acosta weighed in at 139.6 while Florez weighed in at 137.8. The bout will take place Friday in Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina where Acosta was born and resides.

Showtime Bantamweight tournament

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:16:25 -0500

Supposedly this will start on 12/11. Looks like a 4 man format, with the winners of the first two fight facing each other. 4 really good bantamweights involved, but it's too bad Montiel and Donaire weren't interested. The below is from maxboxing.com

BANTAM TOURNEY

The news was broken on Wednesday morning by Abner �Scoop� Mares on his Twitter account that Showtime�s bantamweight tournament would commence on December 11th. It just so happens that Mares will also be a part of this four-man tourney.

"Well, we were going to have an announcement when the press releases were done but my understanding is that Abner Mares has tweeted to everyone with the place- which is Leon, Mexico on December 11th. All I�m doing is confirming it," said promoter Gary Shaw, who was more amused than annoyed by how the news came to light. "It�s a doubleheader with Yonnhy Perez against Joseph Agbeko in the opening fight and then Mares and Vic Darchinyan closing the show."

The winners of the two fights will eventually face each other in 2011 (Who knows, maybe even before Andre Ward and Andre Dirrell ever lace �em up against each other).

Speaking of which, originally Ken Hershman, boxing czar of Showtime, wanted to make this a �Super Six� format but the Top Rank duo of Fernando Montiel and Nonito Donaire declined the invite. So my question is this, where does this leave them? I�m hearing Montiel may not fight again in 2010 and Donaire, well, he isn�t getting Montiel and his next assignment is anything but nailed down.

Erik Morales article/interview

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:06:15 -0500

Fun interview/article with Erik Morales. He certainly hasn't mellowed out any, in regards to his dislike for Barrera! He put a lot of thought into his picks.

Erik Morales: Best I've faced
By Doug Fischer

In his prime, and even as his hall-of-fame career began to wind down, there was no better elite-level warrior than Erik Morales. Few fighters of the past 20 years were as consistently entertaining against the sport�s best as the Tijuana native, who produced fight-of-the-year ring wars and instant-classic trilogies with fellow first-ballot hall of famers Marco Antonio Barrera and Manny Pacquiao.

Following a 2�-year �retirement,� Morales won a hard-fought 12-round decision over former lightweight beltholder Jose Alfaro in a welterweight bout this past March. Sadly, the speed, power and reflexes that aided �El Terrible� in winning his first 41 professional bouts -- a nine-year win streak that included victories over seven titleholders, including Barrera and Junior Jones -- were gone.

However, the fierce pride and warrior spirit -- intangibles that made the Mexican star special -- remain, as evidenced by a recent interview Morales (49-6, 34 knockouts) gave RingTV.com after a Los Angeles press conference announcing his second comeback fight against Scotland�s Willie Limond (33-2, 8 KOs) in a pay-per-view-televised bout Saturday from Mexico City.

Morales, 34, agreed to take part in RingTV.com�s Best I�ve faced series, the periodic feature that asks the most-accomplished fighters of our generation to list the best they've fought in 10 important categories. The former three-division titleholder had a difficult time with the first category, Best Fighter.

The obvious choice is either Barrera or Pacquiao, two arguably great fighters who Morales beat in the first bouts of their trilogies but lost the following two fights to each. However, the salty veteran refused to bestow that honor on either man. �El Terrible� takes his rivalries seriously.

In this way, Morales is no different from Joe Frazier, who resents Muhammad Ali to this day, or Marvelous Marvin Hagler, who maintains that he won his showdown with Sugar Ray Leonard.

�What do you mean by that question, �Who�s the best fighter?�� Morales asked through interpreter Ricardo Jimenez. �Are you talking about the most complete fighter? The best skilled?�

�All of the above,� this writer replied. A second later a fan who attended the press luncheon at downtown L.A.�s El Paseo restaurant blurted out in Spanish: �Come on, Terrible! You know it�s Barrera!�

�Nah, f___ him,� Morales told the man.

If you believe the animosity between Morales and Barrera was contrived to sell tickets, think again.

�Ask the other questions,� Morales said after silencing the fan. �We�ll come back to this one.�

Morales was happy to answer the other categories:

Best boxer: Junior Jones -- This is a tough question. I faced a lot of good boxers in my career, but I think Jones might be the best. He had very good technique. He threw straight, accurate punches. He could punch too. He hurt me in our fight.

Best puncher: Jones -- I really felt it when he connected. I remember freezing for a second in the second round of our fight when he caught me with a right hand.

Quickest hands: Pacquiao -- Pacquiao had the quickest hands. Jones was faster with single punches from the outside, but Pacquiao could deliver four or five quick, short punches in combination in the blink of an eye. Both guys had the kind of speed that you couldn�t see.

Quickest feet: Hector Acero-Sanchez -- He kept running or walking around the ring the entire fight. I never knew where he was going or what he was going to do. I just wanted to fight. It was a frustrating night.

Best defense: Acero-Sanchez -- I had a hard time finding him. He kept his gloves up and he never stopped moving in and out and around me.

Best chin: In-Jin Chi -- That was one very tough guy. I should have knocked him out with the number of hard punches I landed to his chin, but he just kept coming forward all night. He was strong and he had great conditioning.�

Best jab: Zahir Raheem -- Everything he did was off his jab. That was his key punch. He was all about the jab, and that jab gave me trouble.

Strongest: Pacquiao -- Often guys who are as muscular looking as he is aren�t that strong in the ring, but he is strong. Very strong. Chi was physically strong, too. He had the strength to push me around and wrestle with me on the inside, but Pacquiao was more explosive. He is a very powerful man in the ring.

Smartest: Raheem -- I never liked the way he fought and I didn�t like that fight for me. I knew it would be difficult. I didn�t have the best camp for Raheem, but even if I had had a great camp, he would have been frustrating because he�s so cagey.

When it was time for Morales to answer the Best fighter category he was still clearly uncomfortable with the question.

�If you�re talking about the toughest opponent I�ve faced, to be honest, his name was Erik Morales,� he said in all seriousness. �When I did things the right way and had proper training, boxing was easy for me, but all too often I did not do that. So, as you know, I had a lot of struggles.

�Honestly, I had too many tough fights to say one man was tougher than all the rest. I know fans want me to say that it was either Barrera or Pacquiao, but I don�t see it that way. That�s not how a fighter views things. There are fighters who people have forgotten about or never knew that were the toughest fights, the biggest fights for me at the time I fought them.

�Jose �Pepillo� Valdez was the toughest fighter I had ever faced back when I was nothing. That fight [TKO 3 in 1994] was the biggest fight for me when I was just a Tijuana prospect.

�Enrique Jupiter (TKO 6 in 1995) was the toughest I faced when I moved on to the next level and was regarded as one of Mexico�s best young fighters. I had to beat him in order to show that I was going to go somewhere in boxing.

�Daniel Zaragoza, the old champion I beat a week before I turned 21, was the toughest fighter I faced when it was time for me to prove that I could be a Mexican star in the United States. He was by far the toughest and most skilled fighter I had faced at the time. By beating him [KO 11 in 1997], I proved that I could fight any style and that I could be a real champ.

�Junior Jones (TKO 4 in 1998) was my biggest fight when it was time for me to prove that I could go to the next level, from a champion to one of the fighters rated pound for pound. And from then on it was just tough fight after tough fight.

�My fights with Barrera and Pacquiao are among those tough fights, but I don�t see them as being any more special than my tough fights with (Wayne) McCullough, (Guty) Espadas, Chi, (Jesus) Chavez, (Carlos) Hernandez and (David) Diaz. I�ve had so many wars I forget some of them. You or anyone else can probably put together a Top 20 list of my toughest fights.�

That�s why Morales is a modern legend.

Marciano Vs Adamek

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:11:51 -0500

Who wins and why?

In what fashion?

Pac - Margarito size difference.

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:49:44 -0500

They look a right pair of twots too in this pic.

espn 30 for 30 one night in vegas

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:43:41 -0500

WTF this wasn't on because of fucking tennis. I'm pissed. I have to wait until the end of the month when they replay it now.

Well the Super 6 was a good idea in theory...

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:16:00 -0500

But I think we all knew it was going to be damn near impossible to see this whole thing through. In boxing, two years is an eternity. There were bound to be some things that would happen to deter this thing. From Taylor dropping out, to know it looks like Kessler is done, and who knows what's going to happen with Ward-Dirrell, I guess we can consider it a failure. However, I was happy with the quality fights it gave us while it lasted and it at least forced guys who probably wouldn't have normally fought each other at this stage in their careers to get in their mix it up. I think in the future tho, if we see any more tournaments, they're going to be of the single elimination variety. Way simpler to put together a 4 or 8-man single elimination tournament, than a 6-man round-robin stage set up.

Mike McCallum vs. Paul Williams who would have won?

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:16:52 -0500

Williams has a couple impressive wins over Wright and a loaded gloves Margarito.
Is he on the level of a McCallum though? McCallum was big but not at big as Williams.

I think McCallum's better body punching would lead him to a UD.

Fraudley Gaye funny presser

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:55:17 -0500

http://www.skysports.com/video/clips/0,237...6363501,00.html

Get on board the A-TRAIN...now!!

Holy wants Gaye

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:45:49 -0500

Evander 'Real Deal' Holyfield, 48 next month, insists that he will fight on until he becomes undisputed world heavyweight champion again.

Holyfield, in London to promote a poker tournament, also had strong views about David Haye, the World Boxing Association heavyweight champion. "I think he may have his work cut out against Audley Harrison. He is tall, athletic, and this is Harrison's last chance at world title glory. He has a dangerous long left hand."

"It doesn't make any difference what people are saying. There will be some risks for David Haye in this fight. Haye is young, athletic and hungry. He creates difficult angles with the way he moves about in the ring. He has a natural arrogance about him which comes from being young and ambitious."

Holyfield is the only fighter in history to have won the world heavyweight title four times. He has been fighting in the division since 1988. "I am hungry too, hungry to be world heavyweight champion for the fifth time. I'm not listening to no one who says look at what you are doing to yourself, look at what happened to Muhammad Ali. No one has ever done what I have done, and I'll know when it is time for me to leave the sport."

Holyfield also revealed to Telegraph Sport that he would happily step into the ring against Haye, who idolised the 'Real Deal' for stepping up from being world cruiserweight champion, to become world heavyweight champion. Haye has done the same, though has yet to unify the heavyweight belts.

"I'm also looking forward to facing David Haye down the line. It doesn't matter that I was once his hero, you often have to meet your heroes in the ring." Holyfield has fought and defeated the likes of George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson and Riddick Bowe in his 22-year career in boxing's blue riband division.

Evander Holyfield is in London promoting RealDealPoker.com, the world's only online poker room that uses real decks of cards. Evander will be at Poker in the Park on Thursday and Friday in Leicester Square.

I've seen the light and am now thoroughly on board the A-TRAIN

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:22:39 -0500

QUOTE

"Hearing that while talks are underway between the camps of heavyweight titlists, Wlad Klitschko and David Haye, Sky TV of Britain, is pushing for a Haye- Audley Harrison fight. I wish I were joking but I swear, that�s what I�m told"

That's from Steve Kim's maxboxing members only blog.

No way will Gaye risk the impossible task of getting in there with big Audley, when a much easier fight vs Wlad is such a sure thing. He will keep ducking him, I'm sure.

A Force is fearless and would bomb him out of there within 6 with Tysonesque aggression. Hope SKY get their way and somehow make it happen so Gaye gets KTFO in such fashion.

What is Espn3.com

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:02:31 -0500

I heard the fight this weekend was on Espn3.com. Can I just go to the website and get it? Do I have to sign up? Hey, at least the tape delay is on Espn deportes.

The Yao Ming fan club rallies against Money May

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:53:13 -0500

Uh oh.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/ne...tory?id=5542975

If Mora beats Mosley, Floyd's win is diminished greatly

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:09:54 -0500

Seriously dont label me as a Floyd hater but I dont see how any other conclusion could be reached. It is relatively close to when they fought. Mora is never really considered anything more than a b level fighter. If he beats Mosley then there are problems.

Khunt - Maidana

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:00:37 -0500

Dec 11

Venue TBC

Roy Jones 'comeback'

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:23:59 -0500

From fightnews.com

Roy Jones Jr. returns

Former multiple world champion and future hall of famer Roy Jones Jr. (54-7, 40 KOs) will again return to the ring. Jones will meet former world title challenger Danny Santiago (31-4-1, 19 KOs) on October 7th in Jones� hometown of Pensacola, Florida. An official announcement naming the site of the fight will take place next week.

Alexander Accepts The Bradley Fight

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:39:31 -0500

After alot of shit and posturing, this fight is (probably) gonna happen. Huge fight, IMO. The winner goes on to hold 3 belts and become the near undisputed "man"; the loser will stay relevant as well, barring an early KO or a 12 round whitewash. The winner lines up a fight with Amir Khan, potential fights with Andre Berto or maybe Shane Mosley, even potential fights with Pacquiao and/or Mayweather (though that probably waits until the winner of Bradley/Maidana/Alexander/Khan).

Who you guys got?

Some interesting fights coming up

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:55:15 -0500

Saturday, Sept. 11 -- at Frankfurt, Germany
IBF/WBO heavyweight titles: Wladimir Klitschko vs. Samuel Peter

Saturday, Sept. 25 -- at TBA, USA (Showtime)
WBA super middleweight title: Andre Ward vs. Andre Dirrell

Saturday, Oct. 2 -- at Monaco (Showtime)
Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham

Saturday, Oct. 16 -- at Hamburg, Germany
WBC heavyweight title: Vitali Klitschko vs. Shannon Briggs

Saturday, Nov. 13 -- at Arlington, TX (HBO-PPV)
Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito

Saturday, Nov. 13 -- at Manchester, England
WBA heavyweight title: David Haye vs. Audley Harrison

Saturday, Nov. 20 -- at TBA, USA
WBC middleweight title: Sergio Martinez vs. Paul Williams

Saturday, Dec. 4 -- at TBA, USA
WBA light middleweight title: Miguel Cotto vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

Saturday, Dec. 11 -- at TBA, England
WBA light welterweight title: Amir Khan vs. Marcos Maidana

Saturday, Dec. 18 -- at TBA, Canada
WBC light heavyweight title: Jean Pascal vs. Bernard Hopkins

Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 -- at TBA, USA (HBO)
Devon Alexander vs. Timothy Bradley

Kirkland is Released on the 17th

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:10:15 -0500

Can he get back on track? JammedinJames rated him, mate.

Floyd Resorting To Desperate Meaures to Get Manny To Agree

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:35:07 -0500

QUOTE

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum's son has been reported missing, forcing Arum to leave the three-city press tour that kicked off in Los Angeles on Tuesday to promote the Nov. 13 Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito junior middleweight title bout.

John Arum, 49, was reported missing Sunday after hiking in mountains north of Seattle, Top Rank spokesman Lee Samuels said.

"We got a call today that he had gone hiking and is missing, so Bob told the staff this morning that he would leave the tour and take a flight to Seattle," Samuels said. "Bob and his wife, Lovee, have left the tour and proceeded to Seattle."

Arum could not be reached for comment, but he told the Los Angeles Times before leaving for Seattle, "They've got search parties looking for him right now."

The tour continues on Wednesday in New York and then will move to Dallas on Thursday for two days. Top Rank president Todd duBoef, Arum's stepson, will run the press conferences in place of Arum.

The fight will take place at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where Pacquiao will fight for the second consecutive bout. He outpointed Joshua Clottey there on March 13 in a welterweight title bout.

50% to get Manny to agree, 50% because Floyd could probably use the ransom money to pay his utility bills.

Borenard and Jean Claude Pascal agree to fight

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:49:04 -0500

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/ne...tory?id=5518403

Pascal looked pretty good against Chad.

BHOP UD 12 boring ass rounds.

r.a. the rugged man boxing song.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:17:02 -0500

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw0WPiYist8

sorry if it's already been posted.

enjoy.

Floyd's ustream rant

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:26:37 -0500

He's really off the hook now. Oh and Floyd, 65 million for that last fight? Please.

anyone seen this?

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:05:27 -0500

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umBqh_zm-c0