A community portal about Boxing with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Boxing, also called pugilism, prizefighting or the sweet science, is a sport and martial art in which two participants of similar weight fight...
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A community portal about Boxing with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Boxing, also called pugilism, prizefighting or the sweet science, is a sport and martial art in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called "rounds". In both Olympic and professional divisions, the combatants avoid their opponent's punches while trying to land punches of their own. Points are awarded for clean, solid blows to the legal area on the front of the opponent's body above the waistline, with hits to the head and torso being especially valuable. The fighter with the most points after the scheduled number of rounds is declared the winner. Victory may also be achieved if the opponent is knocked down and unable to get up before the referee counts to ten or if the opponent is deemed too injured to continue. For record-keeping purposes, a TKO is usually counted as a knockout when calculating the total knockouts.
Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions has effectively told Bob Arum and Top Rank to take a hike. The disagreement over random blood testing of the fighters is apparently more of an obstacle than it really should be.
“It does not make sense for this to be a commission matter, “Schaefer told Yahoo Sports. He continued, “This is a contractual matter. The commission did not decide the weights or the purse split or how the foreign television rights would be sold.”
So my question is this... Read Full Story
Pacquiao vs Mayweather may not be off, as Floyd Mayweather Jr and his entourage may be backing off their previous insistence on using the USADA and Olympic Style drug tests for drug testing the fighters. Statements that were made on Mayweather’s Web site have also started speculation that Pacquiao may sue his potential opponent for defamation. Although there’s still no word that he landmark fight will take place on March 13th in Las Vegas as previously planned, fans on both sides are very... Read Full Story
In crushing blow in the continuing saga of negotiations between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, moments ago Mayweather adviser Leonard Ellerbe and Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefe, according to Yahoo Sports, rejected the final offer put forth by Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum, who had set a deadline for Monday for the offer to be accepted. As such, this means, according to Arum, that Pacquiao will instead be fighting Paulie... Read Full Story
The dispute between the camps of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. has moved into a perilous time window, with Pacquiao’s promoter saying he’s ready to announce a fight with an alternate opponent Tuesday if he and the head of Golden Boy Promotions can’t resolve the pre-fight drug-testing procedure.
The Pacquiao-Mayweather mega-fight is scheduled for March 13 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, but the deal has not been signed by either fighter yet.
Pacquiao promoter Bob... Read Full Story
The chairman of the Nevada State Athletic Commission has ordered Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to take immediate out-of-competition urine tests, even as the sides bicker heatedly over a drug-testing policy that threatens to scrap their scheduled March 13 mega-fight in Las Vegas.
Nevada Athletic Commission Chairman Pat Lundvall ordered Executive Director Keith Kizer to point Mayweather and Pacquiao to accredited drug-testing labs in the United States and Philippines, respectively... Read Full Story
Promoters for Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather continued talks Saturday in hopes of reviving a mega-fight that has been scuttled by disagreements over unprecedented blood tests. But no progress was made in securing a deal to stage the welterweight showdown, what could be the richest fight in boxing history March 13 at Las Vegas even with both sides budging off hard-line positions, ESPN reported. Mayweather wanted US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) protocols, including random blood tests at any... Read Full Story
Manny Pacquiao is ready to fight Floyd Mayweather after all, but the venue looks to be a court room rather than a boxing ring thanks to Pacquiao's Christmas gift to Mayweater - a lawsuit. In a statement from the Phillipines that came early on Christmas morning in America, Pacquiao issued his first comments on the subject of his proposed March 13 fight with Mayweather being wiped out over blood test issues. "Enough is enough," Pacquiao said. "I have tried to just brush it off as a mere pre... Read Full Story
After all the talk about Pacquiao vs Mayweather not pushing through, some fans lost interest in the fight, well who can blame them? With all the drama it caused. Some say it was just to hype the fight. If it will happen then it will be great if not, let’s take a look at Pacquaio’s alternative for 2010.
A few weeks ago, I mention a great fighter that would be a great match up for Pacquiao or Mayweather. You can read it here: Who Else Wants to Know the Next Fighter for Pacquiao or... Read Full Story
Manny Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, says the Filipino hero's planned welterweight mega-fight against unbeaten US star Floyd Mayweather is off because the sides cannot agree on drug testing. Arum told the Grand Rapids Press, Mayweather's hometown newspaper, that he thought the American never really wanted to fight "Pac-Man", who took his pound-for-pound throne during a retirement that Mayweather ended in September. "We?re going in a different direction," Arum told the newspaper. "What I... Read Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The World Boxing Organization welterweight title bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao next March will not go ahead because of Mayweather's demands for Olympic-style dope testing procedures, Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said on Wednesday. Arum said using blood tests for the highly anticipated fight on March 13 was unprecedented for professional fights in Las Vegas. "As far as I'm concerned, the fight is off." he told Reuters in a telephone interview. "We don... Read Full Story
