by Geoffrey Ciani
This week’s 87th edition of On the Ropes Boxing Radio featured an exclusive interview with former undisputed middleweight champion of the world ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1993. Hagler was involved in high profile bouts against the likes of …

By Manny Pacquiao
MANILA — Magandang araw po ulit sa lahat ng masusugid na tagasubaybay ng kolum na ito. Sana ay nasa mabuti kayong kalagayan saan mang panig ng mundo kayo naroroon. Kung ako po ang inyong tatanungin ay nasa mabuting kalagayan naman po ako.
(Good day again to all avid …

By Leo Reyes
Having fought Floyd Mayweather, Jr once and Manny Pacquiao twice in his boxing career, popular Mexican boxer and WBO/WBA lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez is in the best position to say who among the two great boxers hits much harder in the ring.
While training for his rematch with …

By Leo Reyes
Floyd Mayweather, Jr seems exasperated with the way Oscar de la Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions is handling his proposed mega fight with Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao.
News reports about a series of meetings between Lil Floyd and promoter Don King have fueled speculations the undefeated American boxer is courting …

By Kevin Iole
HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg released a four-paragraph, five-sentence statement Monday which cast doubt upon the veracity of Floyd Mayweather Jr.; Mayweather’s best friend, Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe; Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya and Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer and which forever eliminated any …

By Kevin Iole
Manny Pacquiao will fight Antonio Margarito on Nov. 13 for a vacant super welterweight championship, either in Las Vegas if Margarito can get licensed or in Monterrey, Mexico, if he can’t, promoter Bob Arum said.
That ends any possibility of a match between Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., the …

ESPN staff
Floyd Mayweather Jnr insists he will not be rushed into the ring after negotiations to fight Manny Pacquiao fell through.
According to Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum, Mayweather missed Friday’s deadline to agree a deal.
Pacquiao’s camp will now look into securing another opponent for the welterweight champion on November 13, with …

ESPN’s Dan Rafael on Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s silence in the wake of a deadline from Manny Pacquiao’s camp
Boxing could be enjoying a major B-12 shot right now. Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. could be hyping the second in a highly lucrative series of fights. They could be setting up …

By Ricardo Lois
Los Angeles - During his visit to The Boxing Truth Radio, HBO broadcaster Larry Merchant displayed his dry classic wit when discussing the unwillingness of Floyd Mayweather Junior to sign a contact which would put him inside a ring against Manny Pacquiao this Fall.
Using Mayweather’s moniker of “Money” …

After a July 17 deadline for Floyd Mayweather Jr. to express interest in a fall showdown with Manny Pacquiao came and went without a reply, ‘Money’ Mayweather spoke to the Associated Press on Sunday in Florida. Read on to hear more and to see footage of Floyd on vacation!

By Mark Vester
At the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0, 30KOs) busted up John Duddy (29-2, 18KOs) for twelve rounds to win a unanimous decision, and picked up the WBC’s silver middleweight title. The scores were 120-108, 116-112 and 117-111.
Duddy came out pressing the fight with …

By Brad Cooney
8CountNews sat down with the former 4 time heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield and got the latest on what’s going on with his career. Holyfield looks to make his return sometime in August, and would like to fight again after that in December. Evander has no desire to retire, …

By Superstar Billy Graham
Since that infamous satellite radio unscheduled interview with RA The Rugged Man and Floyd Mayweather Jr back on October 2009, all Floyd Mayweather knew about the Philippines as he revealed on that no holds barred interview “Don’t we know the Philippines, the Philippines makes the …

By Lem Satterfield
Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer told FanHouse that Oscar de la Hoya, has been misrepresented in regard to the negotiations for a potential bout between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
De la Hoya reportedly told some Internet outlets that a deal is “very close” to completion, to which Schaefer …

“Manny” is Manny Pacquiao, the multiple-weight world champion from the Philippines who, as it stands, ended Hatton’s career in the ring when he knocked him out last year.

While Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr continue to posture over their super-fight bout to decide the world’s best pound-for-pound boxer, Hatton’s future is less clear.

By Edward Castro
So Floyd Mayweather Jr. wants to go on vacation.
Hey Floyd, Palm Springs is a nice getaway at this time of the year!
It shouldn’t be frowned upon to hear that “Money” Mayweather is preoccupied with selecting a vacation getaway or planning his retirement. Matter of fact, fight fans …

SecondsOut.com
According to promoter Bob Arum, Manny Pacquiao has agreed to undergo blood tests as per Floyd Mayweather Jr’s request so the onus is now on Mayweather whether or not he wants to fight it out for boxing’s pound for pound No.1 position.
The camps of Pacquiao and Mayweather had initially agreed …

By Matt Richardson and Mariano A. Agmi

Former two division world champion Miguel Cotto (34-2,27 KOs) has taken over another division, dethroning WBA super welterweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-0, 8 KOs) in nine rounds on Saturday night in the first fight card at New York City’s famed Yankee Stadium site in 34 years. Now trained by Emanuel Steward, Cotto looked extremely sharp outboxing Foreman over the first six rounds and in the seventh round Foreman’s right knee buckled compromising his mobility. Someone at ringside threw in a towel in the eighth round and people entered the ring, but referee Arthur Mercante Jr. threw everyone out and continued the fight. Cotto continued to batter Foreman dropping him with a left to the body in round nine and the bout was waved off. Time was :42. read more

by Felix Strunk
“It’s not just the blood testing now. Floyd has done double the buys as Pacquiao, even against the same opponents, so Floyd is saying to himself, ‘Why should I do 50/50?’ The fans are going to turn on Floyd,” remarked a reliable source with behind-the-scenes knowledge of contract …

Malaya.com.ph
FORMER world heavyweight champion Joe Frazier will present the Fighter of the Year and Fighter of the Decade Award of the Boxing Writers Association of America to world pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao in a gala dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York this Friday.
A report by Philboxing.com said Pacquiao, …

www.gmanews.tv
CHICAGO – Manny Pacquiao is asking the U.S. District Court of Nevada in Las Vegas to dismiss the motion to dismiss and the Anti- Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) motion filed by Golden Boy Promotions, Inc (GBP). founder Oscar Dela Hoya and CEO Richard Schaefer.
Aside from dismissing both motions, …

by Leo Reyes
In order to determine who gets the bigger share of the fight purse in the proposed Mayweather-Pacquiao match, popular Fight Sports Examiner Rick Rockwell came up with some criteria in which a reasonable conclusion can be drawn.
Rick has successfully laid the basis for his conclusion by listing …

By Lem Satterfield
NEW YORK — Colombian-born, junior welterweight (140 pounds) Breidis Prescott twice floored Jason Davis with third-round body shots — the second of which ended the fight at 1:11 of the round — at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.
The victory improve the 27-year-old Prescott …

By Dan Rafael
NEW YORK — There was no title at stake, but maybe there was even more for junior welterweights Victor Ortiz and Nate Campbell: their careers as money players in one of boxing’s deepest divisions.
It was Ortiz, 15 years younger, who cruised to the unanimous decision win Saturday night …