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Gesta puts in some overtime for 7th-round stoppage
TUCSON – No Mercy is the nickname, the message and the plan. But it would have to wait. Time was more important than a...
California denial is first step in Margarito’s Texas two-step
It was a show trial. Antonio Margarito had to show up in a procedural step that fulfilled, if not satisfied, bureaucratic protocol. The...
King is back, but hurdles, like the hair, are still there
He’s back, the good, the bad and the hair-do.
If there’s any doubt that Don King has been missed, just listen to...
Alexander is a good story trying to be great
Devon Alexander is the irresistible story that explains the battered game’s inexhaustible resiliency.
As reports of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather talks continue to sound like...
Marquez-Diaz deliver some reality and a crowd instead of talk, just...
LAS VEGAS – In the beginning, the arena looked like a vacant warehouse. The Mandalay Bay Events Center felt empty. It didn’t stay that...
Mendy’s only victory was a trip to the hospital
LAS VEGAS – A trip to the hospital is no victory.
But that’s about all Jean Paul Mendy won in a scary moment Saturday night...
Mosley having fun and back at work
LAS VEGAS – Shane Mosley likes to play basketball when he isn’t pounding a heavy bag. He did a little bit of both a...
Jacobs is fighting for his late grandmother
LAS VEGAS – Long before management and marketing promoted him as The Golden Child, his grandmother called him Baby Maniac.
Cordelia Jacobs...
De La Hoya sees “racism” in Arizona law
LAS VEGAS – Oscar De La Hoya said Wednesday that the Arizona immigration law is racist if it is allowed to stand as it...
The Rematch is real relief from talk and only talk
The Juan Manuel Marquez-Juan Diaz sequel to the 2009 Fight of the Year on July 31 at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay has a simple...
Deadline passes with no word from Mayweather
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said early Saturday that he had not heard from Floyd Mayweather, Jr., by a midnight deadline about whether he...
Tick-talk-tick-talk, Mayweather on his own clock
There is Greenwich Mean Time and Daylight Savings and maybe even “Money” Time, but there is nothing standard about the digital countdown Top...
Margarito’s fate is in his hands
By now, Antonio Margarito knows the questions like he knows an old sparring partner. He has heard them from the California State...
Mayweather-Pacquiao: Talks are back at a familiar crossroads
A reported agreement on terms for Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. should be reason for optimism. Maybe, the biggest fight in years will finally happen....
Chavez Jr. is fighting for a grown-up identity against Duddy
No telling who was first to say that fathers fight so their sons don’t have to. But I’m guessing it was a mom, who...
Doubters arm Ward with critical punch
It was 2004 in Athens. The city’s ancient temples and columns seemed to be a symbol of what had happened to American boxing...
Nevada, USADA meeting is first step in a renewal of talks...
The silence isn’t exactly deafening. But it is encouraging. Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer isn’t saying anything at all. Bob Arum is...
Steward is back in a corner that fits him better than...
Emanuel Steward in a corner is a little bit like seeing an old soldier back in uniform. It fits. Amid the clutter and craziness...
Immigration flap forces Top Rank to move Benavidez’ homecoming out of...
Concern from a sponsor and Mexican television network about controversy over Arizona’s immigration law is forcing Top Rank to move a July 17 card...
Marquez ends the fourth within three
LOS ANGELES – In the end, a fourth time meant most of the punches and all of the momentum were there for Rafael...
For Vazquez-Marquez, history is about what they do instead of say
He sat at a table a year ago in a New York restaurant, dressed in a conservative suit and unknown to most in a...
Pacquiao wins the election, but he still has to get Mayweather’s...
Campaign promises in politics are like noses in boxing. They are there to be broken. But Filipino Congressman-elect Manny Pacquiao has one promise he...
From Malignaggi to Arizona, the immigration fight is everywhere
Paulie Malignaggi is not from Arizona. I am, which must mean there is reasonable cause to suspect my sanity.
As I sit...
Mayweather backs up the talk with one sided win
LAS VEGAS – Who R U Picking?
Dumb question.
Turns out, Shane Mosley picked the wrong guy. He picked Floyd Mayweather Jr. as an opponent. But...
Mayweather not good enough for Leonard, Hearns era
LAS VEGAS – Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns were two of the defining faces of the 1980s. Floyd Mayweather Jr. calls himself the...
Mayweather or Mosley? It might be a role for a legend
LAS VEGAS – There wasn’t much to say about the weigh-in. In fact, Floyd Mayweather Jr. said nothing at all to Sugar Shane Mosley...
Mosley’s camp thinks it saw a second of doubt in Mayweather
LAS VEGAS – Interpreting body language is an inexact science at best, but Shane Mosley’s camp thinks it might have detected doubt – perhaps...
Benavidez to fight in Arizona despite WBC condemnation of immigration law
LAS VEGAS – Junior-welterweight prospect Jose Benavidez Jr. of Phoenix will return to his hometown on July 17 for his first bout since...
It’s all sugar from Mayweather in a news-conference upset
LAS VEGAS – Only news conferences are supposed to be predictable. But one Wednesday for Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Shane Mosley wasn’t. It was tame, almost...
Mayweather without the profanity is worth every word
Maybe, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was celebrating Earth Day. Or, maybe, he was being a good dad. His daughter was said to be nearby. Whatever...
