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.
It is the most bizarre of sagas, a spasmodically woven tale of speculation, innuendo, litigation and public feuding, and boxing awaits its outcome with feverish anticipation. The political, legal and tactical wrangling that has overshadowed what is supposed to be 2010’s greatest battle, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao, has often been so outlandish that it could not have been scripted.
Yet the emergence of Paulie Malignaggi as Pacquiao’s proposed next opponent, as the Filipino’s... Read Full Story
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) -- 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... Read Full Story
If you are surprised by the pick for 2009 ESPN.com fighter of the year, well, you haven’t paid attention to boxing for the past 12 months.
It’s Manny Pacquiao, the biggest no-brainer selection since, well, 2008, when Pacquiao was also the obvious pick.
In fact, the pound-for-pound king and icon of the Philippines has claimed fighter of the year honors in three of the past four years, as he concluded yet another tremendous campaign in 2009.
In 2008, Pacquiao raced up the scale, winning... Read Full Story
Despite the massive campaign to discredit Manny Pacquiao for allegedly taking performance enhancing drugs to gain undue advantage over his opponents, the Filipino WBO welterweight champion remains popular among millions of boxing fans around the world.
Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao remains popular despite a massive campaign by Floyd Mayweather and his team to check to see if he is taking performance enhancing drugs.
Pacquiao is scheduled to fight undefeated American boxer... Read Full Story
ESPN presents a highly anticipated match between two accomplished warriors of the ring when UFC 107 : B.J. Penn vs Diego Sanchez is presented live Saturday December 12 2009 from FedExForum, Memphis, Tennessee,USA. UFC 107 BOXING team will be ringside for the event, which will be presented in HDTV .you can also Watch this super match live online on LIVE SPORTS TV. MATCH DETAILS Date: Saturday December 12 2009 Time: 9 PM ET Competition: UFC 107 Live/Repeat: Live You can easily find live match... Read Full Story
This is all so silly. The two sides (Floyd Mayweather, Jr. / Golden Boy vs. Manny Pacquiao / Top Rank) have to wake up pretty early each morning to determine who is mad at whom and why each day.
What I’m picking up on is these daily turf wars; everything from the “100,000 vs.16,200″ to “blood vs. urine” is setting back our once quaint boxing civilization.
Somebody with some clout must have a serious secret that he’s fighting to keep in his vault. And I mean it’s such a deep dark secret... Read Full Story
If there’s a single item that can help put into perspective how terrific of a year it’s been for boxing, it’s the honoring of 2009’s Fighter of the Year.
In most other years, fighters such as Vitali Klitschko, Tim Bradley and Andre Ward warrant consideration for top honors for the campaigns each have led in the past 12 months.
But 2009 was not like most other years. It was a year in which terrific fights were made and the history books were rewritten.
The latter has everything to do... Read Full Story
SARANGANI, Philippines, Dec. 30 (UPI) --
Welterweight boxing champion Manny Pacquiao Wednesday filed a federal court defamation lawsuit in Las Vegas against challenger Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Pacquiao, 31, named Mayweather, Floyd Mayweather Sr., and promoters Oscar De La Hoya and Richard Schaefer as defendants.
The suit claims allegations by Mayweather that Pacquiao used performance-enhancing drugs are false and are intended to hurt his reputation. The suit seeks more than $75,000, plus... Read Full Story
MANILA, Philippines – A retired federal judge once voted as Bay Area’s most popular mediator will sit down with representatives of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather on Tuesday (tomorrow in Manila) in a determined effort to save the March 13 showdown between the two boxing superstars.
Daniel Weinstein will receive Top Rank’s Bob Arum and Todd duBoef, for Pacquiao, and most likely Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer and Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonad Ellerbe, for Mayweather, at his Judicial... Read Full Story
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MANILA, December 26 (Reuters): Manny Pacquiao plans to sue Floyd Mayweather, the American's father and Golden Boy Promotions in the next few days following a row over doping procedures, the Filipino world champion said in a statement on Friday. "Enough is enough. These people, Mayweather Sr., Jr., and Golden Boy Promotions, think it is a joke and a right to accuse someone wrongly of using... Read Full Story
