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Its one of the weakest divisions, if hes so tough why doesn't he move up to 140? Ill tell u why hes scared his power wont have the same effect against fighters that are actually his size and bigger
Damn dude Broner just moved up to 135 and had only 1 fight there. Dude is only 23. Can the dude go up accordingly and make sure he does it the right way? He will be at 140 pretty soon Im sure and then 147 not to longer after that. U act like dude been at 135 for forever fighting chumps. U just hatin to hate! Broner is the real deal and soon enough u will have to give props! Got Em!!
 
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Its one of the weakest divisions, if hes so tough why doesn't he move up to 140? Ill tell u why hes scared his power wont have the same effect against fighters that are actually his size and bigger
Damn man, he's 23 years old and not even in his prime imo, no need to rush things. He's putting on great shows and breaking records on hbo. U can't be serious about the power lol! broner is a nightmare for any fighter from 135-147 and mabye 154 later in his career.
 
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Khan: I’ve fixed all my mistakes from past fights; I’m the new Khan
Boxing article posted on December 13th, 2012 | Post Comment


Khan Molina Khan vs Molina Carlos Molina amir khan (Photo: Esther Lin/Showtime) By William Mackay: Amir Khan (26-3, 18 KO’s) says he’s fixed all the flaws on his game and that he’s ready to unveil what he calls the “new Amir Khan” on Saturday night against the lightweight fighter 5’6” Carlos Molina (17-0, 7 KO’s) that Golden Boy found for Khan to fight on HBO.

Khan said “I know what mistakes I made in previous fights, and we’re not going to make them again. You will see the new Amir Khan in this fight.”

The mistakes that Khan made in his past fights were attempting to mix it up with his opponents, staying on the ropes too much and shoving. If Khan is going to avoid trading with his opponents he’s going to be a very boring fighter indeed, and that will take a lot of the interest that boxing fans had in seeing him fight.

If you take away Khan’s tendency to slug with his opponents then all you’ve got left is another Paulie Malignaggi type fighter, who jabs, shoves, clinches and runs. That’s not interesting to watch, and if Golden Boy is hoping to turn Khan into a pay per view star someday it’s going to be hard to ask boxing fans to pay to see that kind of fighter.

Even if Khan does fight defensively by jabbing, the good fighters will still be able to clock him by timing his shots, and countering his jabs. They’ll also be able to pressure him and force him against the ropes.

Besides not being very big, Molina doesn’t have much power, which is probably why he was given the fight. Khan was knocked out in his last fight against Danny Garcia last July, and it looks like they didn’t want to take any chances by putting him in with someone from his own division.
 
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He's a hard trainer. I wish he would learn how to really punch, put some weight into at least
Thing is Bradley can train to have power. That extra thump that many of the hard hitters have. Dude takes good care of his body and all but he ain't got shit for power......

Khan: I’ve fixed all my mistakes from past fights; I’m the new Khan
You can't fix a glass chin bro...............


just go away....
 
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Bradley wins, that's all that matters to me. Adjusting and having the will to win no matter who's In front of u. It's not all about power, people said the same shit about Andre ward and look what he did to chad Dawson(shocked everyone) Knockouts will come
 
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Arum on Board With Testing For Pacquiao-Marquez 5


By Ronnie Nathanielsz

Houston, Texas - Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has come out in support of random drug testing for boxers after WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito "The Filipino Flash" Donaire unilaterally underwent WADA year round testing.

Arum told the Manila Standard and ABS CBN following the press conference for this Saturday's title fight between Donaire and Mexican warrior Jorge "Travieso" Arce that he is not capable of determining whether a fighter is on performance enhancing drugs and would not wish to cast aspersions on any fighter, but that as promoter he would "insist" that prior to a fifth fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez - that both fighters agree to undergo random drug tests.

Donaire told us "I think its important because its enhancement , but I do it for myself and for my fans and for the love of the sport. Its a clean sport and I hope they do it . Its good for the sport and it proves they are clean. "

Arum made it clear that any drug testing must be done under the aegis of the Commission where the fight takes place.

Donaire supported Arum's position that the various boxing commissions and promoters should insist that fighters take the test stating "Its good because if people are doing it, they are going to get caught."

Because of the threat of lawsuits nobody is prepared to come out publicly and accuse a fighter of taking performance enhancing drugs although some boxers, trainers and managers talk about it privately.

Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach had accused Marquez' strength and conditioning coach Angel Heredia of using performance enhancing drugs on the Mexican who scored a crushing sixth round knockout of Pacquiao at the MGM Grand last Saturday before a stunned crowd of over 16,500 and millions more watching on television around the world.

Roach made the charge after seeing a muscular, broad-shouldered Marquez who looked even bigger than Pacquiao but weighed four pounds less at the official weigh-in on the eve of the fight.

Remarkably it was Pacquiao's strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza who defended both Heredia and Marquez by claiming it was because went through a grueling regimen which included plyometrics, isometrics, weight training, swimming and work on the track aside from his regular boxing training in the gym.


Now 3 years later after Manny gets knocked out Bob Arum wants random drug testing. lol.. But I thought Top Rank and Manny agreed to random testing 3 years ago. I just can't stop laughing at the 180 by Manny fans on testing.
 
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Boxing makes a bullish return to network TV
by Joseph Santoliquito
Dec 13th, 2012
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CBS will showcase the pro debut of 2012 U.S. Olympian Joseph Diaz Jr. (left) and a title defense by IBF bantamweight beltholder Leo Santa Cruz (right) on Saturday afternoon. It's the network's first live boxing broadcast since 1997.



There is a generation of boxing fans that never had the chance to plop down in a recliner on a Saturday afternoon, channel hop (when you actually had to get up to change the channel) and catch boxing on network TV.

It’s probably inconceivable to today’s fans that the most popular heavyweight champion of the 20th Century, Muhammad Ali, fought Jimmy Young, Ernie Shavers, Leon Spinks and other contenders on network TV. These days a fan may shell out $59.95 to see a pair of fighters that can’t even sniff the bottom of the “The Greatest’s” shoes.

But something quite seismic will occur on consecutive weekends this month – for the first time in many years live boxing will be featured on network TV, starting with CBS’s broadcast bantamweight beltholder Leo Santa Cruz defending his IBF title against fellow unbeaten Alberto Guevara at the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena, in Los Angeles, Calif., on Saturday.

On the following Saturday, Dec. 22, NBC will feature aheavyweight clash between Tomasz Adamek and Steve Cunningham from the Sands Casino Resort, in Bethlehem, Pa., in a rematch of their classic 2008 Fight of the Year nominee.

The CBS show marks the first time the network will air live boxing since 1997. CBS, which is owned by Viacom, the parent company of Showtime, is working in conjunction with the premium cable network’s Amir Kahn-Carlos Molina broadcast later Saturday nightand airing Santa Cruz-Guevara as, “Showtime Boxing on CBS.”

The Cunningham-Adamek fight is the first NBC boxing show since 2004.

The time slot for both fights is 4-6 p.m. EST, a Saturday network TV time frame that hasn’t been occupied by boxing in at least two decades.

But what happened to boxing on network TV in the first place? It was a Saturday afternoon staple throughout the 1980s and into the early-1990s. Then it slowly withered.

“I think network boxing disappeared because the promoters, and quite honestly, the fighters, were more concerned about a payday than growing their fighters and growing the sport,” said Jon Miller, the president of programming for NBC Sports and the NBC Sports Network. “Boxing just migrated to cable from there, then eventually to pay cable, choking off any kind of development for a good, young fighter to build a fanbase.

“We, at one point, back in the early-1990s, I want to say 1992-93, were doing 25-to-30 fights a year on the network. We had a lot of fights on our air. We had NBC Ringsideand the NBC boxing series. The problem was pay cable came along and they needed a way to drive subscriptions and they went and bought all of these fighters that we had on our air. We had a strong library of fights and fighters. Marv Albert was our ringside blow-by-blow announcer with Ferdie Pacheco.”

Though ratings were solid, boxing became a tough sell to advertisers. It wasn’t a dependable sports property at the time, because promoters weren’t willing to put their name fighters in against comparable competition. Consequently, the result was a lopsided fight.

“The problem was the tomato can would go down after one round and then you’d be stuck with 90 minutes of programming that you couldn’t fill with live boxing, so the advertisers would under deliver,” Miller said.

Advertisers needed to go some place where they knew they’d get value, so they plunged their resources into college football and college basketball. Programming they knew was dependable, that was going to endure and be competitive throughout the time window.

“Eventually, we knew (we were) not getting good matchups and the fighters we were interested in had migrated to pay cable, so there were other options that came down the pike. Boxing did a terrible job of managing their future,” Miller said.

Boxing trail-off for NBC occurred in the mid-1990s and by 1998-‘99 the network was out completely, dabbling a little into the sport in 2004.

“The ratings were fine,” Miller said. “There was no problem with the delivery. In fact, the ratings were better than a lot of other programming out there, but at end of the day, if a network can’t sell advertising and the affiliates aren’t supportive, it becomes a losing proposition.”

What changed NBC’s thought process toward boxing has been the success of Fight Night, which debuted in January of this year on the NBC Sports Network, owned by powerful Comcast. Gary Quinn, the senior director of programming for NBC Sports and the NBC Sports Network, oversaw the network’s new foray into boxing. He put together a template, along with Main Events’ Kathy Duva and Hall of Fame promoter J Russell Peltz, which received strong feedback.

“We didn’t originally plan to get back into boxing on the network side until we saw how well Fight Night went,” Miller admitted. “It’s been successful because of the concept of putting together good, even-matched compelling fighters, with good stories who understand the value of being on linear television, getting their names out there and growing their brands. When the guys came to the table and we saw how successful it was, we jumped on it.”

NBC is looking at six-to-eight Fight Night shows in 2013 and possibly a few that could make the network.

“And I’ll never say never about primetime if the right fight comes up on a Saturday night, but right now, we’re slotted for weekend afternoons,” Miller said. “I’m not ruling out the possibility that something could be prime time, but the financials of that could make it difficult to pull off.”

As for CBS, their plan is more nebulous. Santa Cruz-Guevara, in what promises to be an action fight, is more of a lead into Showtime’s Kahn-Molina broadcast.

Still, Showtime Sports executive vice president Stephen Espinoza is excited about the prospect of being part of something that hasn’t been shown on CBS in over a decade. Espinoza grew up watching boxing on Saturday afternoons on network TV, and witnessed the sport’s subsequent exodus the sport made to cable.

“I think the pendulum is swinging back the other way,” he said. “I think boxing has been more active and more vibrant in the last 18 months to two years than probably any point in a couple of decades.

“I’m very bullish on the sport and the future of it on network TV. If this works well, I would love to see more shows on network TV. I can’t imagine any other way for fighters to get more exposure. I won’t rule out a possibility that there could be more shows on network TV. Right now, we want to take our best foot forward and be grateful to CBS for giving us this opportunity on a one-time basis.”
 
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Money May: I'm Thinking About Working Back With My Father.


At this particular time, I'm thinking about working back with my father," stated undefeated pound-for-pound champion Floyd Mayweather, who revealed that he strongly considering working with his father, world-class trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr., when he makes his return to the ring next year. According to Mayweather, his uncle and current trainer, Roger Mayweather, isn't quite as sharp as he once was due to his ongoing battle with diabetes. Concerned about his uncle's health, Mayweather is seriously considering making a change in his corner.

"He's not eating well; he's not healthy. I want him to get healthy and eat better so he can have a sharp mind, because his mind is not as sharp as it once was," Mayweather explained during a recent conversation. "Roger, you know, he's very, very sick at this particular time, so I'm thinking about working back with my father. We really don't know what the future holds for Floyd Mayweather as far as who's gonna be the trainer, but I'm leaning towards my father at this particular time."

Although they've had their ups and downs in the past, Mayweather doesn't believe there will be any problems working with his father so long as they can both agree on one thing. "My dad has to realize I'm an adult, you know. I just want my dad to accept and respect me as an adult. I think my dad, the thing is, he still looks at me as his 10-year-old son. I'm a lot closer to 40 than I am to 21, but I have a lot left in the tank and I want to go out there and give the fans nothing but excitement," he added.
 
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Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez "almost a done deal"[

Canelo Alvarez said tonight on his official Facebook page that a May 4 fight with Floyd Mayweather is "close," meaning that we could be seeing what is now arguably boxing's biggest-money fight come to life on what has become the biggest fight date in the sport annually.

Mayweather (43-0, 26 KO) recently announced intentions to fight on May 4 and September 14 next year, but it was also no secret that Alvarez (41-0-1 30 KO) and Golden Boy wanted that date for the 22-year-old Mexican phenom, whose popularity has soared over the last couple of years.

A fight between the two -- which could unify the WBA (Mayweather) and WBC (Alvarez) titles at 154 pounds -- would be absolutely massive, and it is now the biggest fight Mayweather can make, more likely than not. It's easily the biggest fight Alvarez can make.

Robert Guerrero has also been pushed by Golden Boy as a potential Mayweather opponent, but with all due respect to Guerrero, that fight's just not in this fight's league right now, in terms of marketing and money to be made.

Nothing is official (far from it, in fact), but the talks appear to have intensified, and no matter which way it goes, Mayweather likes to take his time promoting a fight, so we could know within the next couple of weeks what he'll be doing on May 4

Floyd Mayweather vs Canelo Alvarez is 'close' for May 4, says Alvarez - Bad Left Hook
 
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Roach: Khan can’t change his fighting style; he’ll be like he always is
Boxing article posted on December 14th, 2012 | Post Comment


Khan Molina Khan vs Molina Carlos Molina freddie roach amir khan By William Mackay: Amir Khan’s former trainer Freddie Roach doesn’t see Khan being able to change his aggressive fighting style, and he questions whether that would even be a smart thing for him to try to do at this point in his career.

Roach believes that Khan will only put himself in danger if he fights in a conservative manner by standing in the pocket more like his new trainer Virgil Hunter wants him to do, and he doesn’t see Khan being able to turn into a counter puncher all of a sudden because that’s not something that’s easily done. Roach believes Khan is better off staying the aggressive fighter he’s always been, but being a little more cautious instead of looking to throw so many flurries.

Speaking with thesun.co.uk, Roach said “I think Amir is going to be aggressive [against Carlos Molina on Saturday] and throw combinations like he always does. I don’t see him changing. I think it’s impossible to change his mindset…If Khan hurts the guy [Molina], he’ll jump on him, like he always does…he can pay for it.”

Roach is right. Khan will always fight in an aggressive manner, and he probably is better off fighting like that. If Khan fights defensively, he’s going to extend his fights a lot longer and that’s going to give his opponents a better chance of landing a big shot that can hurt him the way that Danny Garcia did last July. And Khan will go after Molina or any of his opponents if he gets them hurt, and that’s not going to change with him ever.

If Khan stands in front of his opponents without throwing flurries and moving around, he’s going to have problems because he doesn’t have the strong chin to take return fire. He might be okay for this fight because Golden Boy Promotions has picked out a weak puncher for him to fight but Khan wants to fight better opposition after this fight and he can’t just stand in front of his opponents trying to imitate Andre Ward.
 
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Broner: I hope Ricky Burns doesn’t try to avoid fighting me again
Boxing article posted on December 14th, 2012 | Post Comment


Broner Burns Broner vs. Burns ricky burns adrien broner By Scott Gilfoid: WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) is starting to get the sinking suspicion that WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns (35-2, 10 KO’s) will be looking to avoid fighting him now that Broner has gotten past Antonio DeMarco with an impressive knockout victory and is setting his laser sights on the UK fighter.

With Burn’s cancelled fight this Saturday against Jose Ocampo, Broner was hoping Burns would agree to fight him on February 16th next year, and his promoter Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions said he was going to try and persuade Burns to accept a fight with Broner. But we’ve learned is that Burns won’t be fighting Broner, and that he instead will be fighting on January 26th against an opponent still to be determined.

Broner said to the mirror.co.uk “I’m ready for Ricky Burns…I wanted to fight him for the WBO [super featherweight] title, but he moved up. I hope he doesn’t try and avoid me again.”

Gosh, I hope Burns doesn’t avoid Broner. It would be such a pity to see Burns choosing not to fight Broner, and instead looking to fight guys like Gavin Rees and Liam Walsh. However, that’s kind of what I see happening. I think it comes down to the danger that Broner presents for him. Walsh and Gavin are good title milking fights for Burns, but Broner has got to be seen as the end of the line for Burns as the WBO champ.

That’s not to say that he can’t pick up the title after Broner gets bored with having it. Broner just wants to whip Burns, take his title and hold onto it for a little while before moving onto much, much bigger and better things in the boxing world.

The Burns fight is like real low in terms of the goals that Broner is looking to accomplish with his career. Once Broner vacates the straps, then Burns can move in and hopefully win it back in the ring this time instead of having the World Boxing Organization give it to him.

With Burns apparently scheduled to fight on a different date, Broner is scheduled to fight Richard Abril (17-3-1, 8 KO’s) on February 16th in a still to be determined venue in the United States. I see Abril as a better fighter than Burns, but he doesn’t have Burns’s fan base, and he doesn’t have a title like