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BRANDON RIOS SAYS MANNY PACQUIAO'S SPEED, NOT POWER, BOTHERED HIM THE MOST
By Ben Thompson | November 24, 2013

"It is what it is. It's part of boxing. Manny did a great job. He's very fast; that's it. Power-wise, man, I didn't feel that much, but his quickness, yeah, I think that bothered me a little bit. That was it. But other than that, I'm good, man," stated former lightweight champion Brandon Rios, who assessed his performance immediately after his disappointing unanimous decision loss to multi-division world champion Manny Pacquiao.

"Like I said, Manny Pacquiao's very fast, but guess what? I fought one of the greatest boxers in the world, you know, besides Mayweather. He's very fast, very awkward," Rios explained to HBO commentator Max Kellerman. "Other than that, you know, I stuck to my game plan. I just think that his speed got to me a little bit, you know. I had fast sparring partners, but I think he was faster than them.
 
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Manny Pacquiao Says He’s Broke; Has to Borrow Money for Typhoon Aid
by Robert Littal | Posted on Tuesday, November 26th, 2013

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It is my personal belief that Pacquiao likes to box, but no longer loves to box. It is also my belief the main reason he is fighting is because he needs the money. It has been an open secret in the boxing community for years that Pacquiao wasn’t good with his money and has likely blown through millions of dollars.

It has gotten so bad that he had to take advances from Bob Arum (with interest) before some of his fights. Now, even though he just made $18 million tax free dollars (but apparently not tax free as you will see below) from his fight with Brandon Rios, he is saying he doesn’t even have enough money to help the typhoon victims in the Philippines.

Despite returning like a hero from beating Brandon Rios over the weekend, Manny Pacquiao said Tuesday he has no money to keep his promise to help typhoon victims because Philippine revenue authorities have frozen his bank accounts.

The Bureau of Internal Revenue says Pacquiao hasn’t proved he paid taxes in 2008-2009. It has assessed that Pacquiao, once one of the world’s highest paid athletes, owed 2.2 billion pesos ($50 million) in back taxes as of July.

Pacquiao, the wealthiest member of the Philippine Congress, said Tuesday he borrowed over 1 million pesos ($22,700) to purchase relief supplies before his fight Sunday with Rios in Macau and will borrow more to keep his word to typhoon victims. Pacquiao said he plans to provide aid to more than 10,000 families.

“I appeal to them to remove the garnishment so that I can move and pay for my staff’s salaries,” Pacquiao told reporters in his southern hometown of General Santos city. “I am not a criminal or a thief.”

He said his wife’s accounts have also been frozen.

Pacquiao said if he had not paid the right taxes in the United States, he would have been arrested during one of his visits there.

“The money that was garnished by (the Bureau of Internal Revenue) is not stolen,” he said. “This came from all of the punches, beatings, blood and sweat that I endured in the ring.”

According to the Philippines auditors Pacquiao only has $22k to his name, I find that hard to believe, but once again it makes you wonder where all of his money is going and if he is being robbed blind by his promoters and yes men.

Hope he gets it all straighten out, not just for him, but for his people as well.

Read more at Manny Pacquiao Says He's Broke Can't Help Typhoon Victims | Robert Littal Presents BlackSportsOnline
 
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Looks like this will be sorted out soon. Just like it was in 2010 when the BIR tried to pull the same thing.


“Filipino authorities confirmed that Manny is not required to pay double tax. If Manny paid U.S. taxes for fights and endorsements that occurred on U.S. soil, he is not required to pay double taxes in the Philippines.

"For each of Manny’s fights that occurred in the United States, including those in 2008 and 2009, Top Rank withheld 30% of Manny's purses and paid those monies directly to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) via Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). Top Rank has deposit confirmations for each payment. Top Rank has done the same for all U.S. endorsements it has facilitated on Manny's behalf.

"Top Rank submitted copies of the EFT deposit acknowledgements to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) as proof of payment. The BIR received the documents but directed Manny to obtain “certified” documents directly from the IRS itself.

"As I am sure people appreciate, obtaining certified copies of documents from the IRS takes time. Manny made the formal request to the IRS and we have every expectation that the necessary documents will be furnished to the BIR very soon."
 
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Amir Khan urges Carl Froch to retire following George Groves controversy
Khan believes Groves would have won if the fight had not been halted

The fight would've gone the distance and Groves would've won on points

AMIR KHAN has urged a past his ‘sell-by-date’ Carl Froch to retire following the super-middleweight champion’s controversial win over George Groves. The Nottingham veteran, 36, hauled himself off the canvas in round one, and withstood subsequent raids from the underdog, before Howard Foster made what is widely perceived as a premature stoppage with Groves under fire in the ninth.

Khan and Froch have had their spats in the past, most famously when Froch suggested Khan should consider his future after a 2012 stoppage loss to Danny Garcia.

Now it is the younger man - who was a Sky Sports pundit for the British showdown - dishing out the career advice.

“He’s past his sell-by date,” Khan told the Daily Mail. “Froch should retire. He’s on top at the moment with the belts, I really think in his next fight he'll lose those belts. He got a very close win against Groves because he was losing almost every round.

"The referee stopped the fight too soon, the fight would've gone the distance and Groves
would've won on points."

Froch was four points down on one card, but just one point behind on the other two, at the time of the stoppage. Although the champion was clearly in ascendancy at the conclusion, Khan is certain that Groves would have gone on to win.

Amir, who spoke to Groves after his defeat, said: "He told me he fancied working on the inside, that's why he took a few shots getting in. That's why he got caught.

"He wanted to take a few shots, sometimes that drives a fighter. He didn't seem hurt. Even when the ref stopped the fight you could see his head was fine."

Khan predicted that Groves will return from the defeat and claim major belts in the future.

"He's got some big fights and some big names out there for him," said the former WBA and IBF light-welterweight champion.

"He can cause anyone problems. I think he has world titles ahead."
 
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Boxing results: Anthony Mundine stops Shane Mosley in round six
The veteran reaches the end of the line in Australia

THE top flight career of Shane Mosley is surely over after he was stopped in the sixth round by Anthony Mundine, 38, inside the Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia. The 42-year-old veteran looked a far cry from his glory days and was complaining of a back injury at the close of the fourth.

"The referee noticed I wasn't bobbing and weaving," explained Mosley about his demise. "It developed during the fight. I felt that I was behind and he was outpointing me but I still felt I had a puncher's chance. In the end, I couldn't move."

The American, who was paid a handsome $1million for his outing, had some success in the second round when he fired his jab to the naturally bigger Mundine's body. He landed a decent right in the third, and another in the fourth. Otherwise, it was all Mundine, who used his size, jab, and comparative youth to outbox the storied star.

"He's one of the best fighters who ever lived and this is not the way he wanted to go out," Mundine said respectfully. "He wobbled me one time and we were wary of his right hand but I was in control all the time. I was in that killer mode, though and I was fighting hard."

The pair both ruled out a rematch in the immediate aftermath.
 
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I saw the highlights. He couldnt move. I'm sure his back did go out. Either that or he got paid to take the L. That whole thing was fishy from the start.

Company XMas party on Dec 14th so I am missing the entire Broner vs Maidana card. I swear they go to fightnews.com, look at the schedule, and pick the biggest card of the month to throw the company party on. This happens to me every year. The parties are fun but I'm really just dying inside, constantly hitting refresh on my phone.
 
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FLOYD MAYWEATHER SR. ASSESSES PACQUIAO'S PERFORMANCE: "BRANDON RIOS CAN'T FIGHT...MANNY WAS LOOKING LIKE FLOYD"
By Ben Thompson | November 27, 2013

"I thought Manny Pacquiao did good with him, and I'm speaking of that particular fight. I think that Manny Pacquiao did good with him because to me, Brandon Rios can't fight, to be honest. Those are my honest opinions. From what I just saw from him, I don't see no skill, I don't see no knowledge of boxing. I think that Manny looked very, very good on him," stated world-class trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr., who shared his thoughts on Manny Pacquiao's dominant unanimous decision victory over Brandon Rios this past Saturday. As far as Mayweather Sr. is concerned, the limited technical skills of Rios allowed Pacquiao to easily have his way in the fight; so much so, in fact, that his performance reminded him of two recent performances by his own son, undefeated pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao.

"Manny moved when he wanted to, touched him when he wanted to and Manny was doing everything. Manny was giving side angles, cracking him; I mean, dude just, to me, he didn't win a round. I think the fight was a total shutout," Mayweather Sr. explained to ProBoxingInsider.com. "It wasn't no problem with this guy because this guy never did really hit; he never really hit Manny with anything. Manny was slippin' and slidin'. Manny was looking like Floyd. Manny was looking like the way Floyd looked over Alvarez and Guerrero. That's the way Manny looked against him. He didn't look like no fighter that was in the top 10 ranking, period."
 
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VIRGIL HUNTER DISCUSSES CARL FROCH'S VICTORY OVER GEORGE GROVES: "IT WAS A CORRECT STOPPAGE"
By Ben Thompson | November 27, 2013

"I thought, personally, it was a correct stoppage, and the reason I say that is because, let's face it, if you saw it in slow motion, he hit him 6 times flush. One of those punches was on top of the head right above the ear, and that hook he hit him with in that exchange, Groves never saw it; it literally just snapped his neck around. He was hurt. If I shoot you with a bullet and I know that bullet went into you, I don't need to see you stagger to know you're wounded...I saw Froch turn the fight around. Even though it's debatable he lost the round, it's almost like Chavez and Meldrick Taylor; the type of punches that Chavez was placing on Meldrick Taylor. I saw this happening in the 8th round," stated world-class trainer Virgil Hunter, who shared his thoughts on Carl Froch's victory over George Groves. Check it out!

BT: There was an interesting scrap over the weekend that I'm sure you probably had your eye on. What did you think of Carl Froch's performance against George Groves?

VH: That was an interesting fight. You know, Groves, he had the right game plan, but I think what hurt him the most was him landing that right hand early in the fight because he tried to continuously land it after that. He did land it, but I think he took away from some other things that he could've been doing and maybe he could've came back to it later on in the fight. Once he knocked him down, I mean, he was literally intent on knocking him out, so I think that kind of hurt him after round 5 and round 6. Because, you know, Froch started landing some body shots that people weren't talking about, and he was putting them right on the money. I was talking to Andre about it. I said, "They're not talking about these body shots Froch is hitting him with and he's hitting him right on the money with these body shots. He's getting hit back, but the type of body shots he's allowing Froch to land is gonna have an effect on him." And sure enough, after the 6th round, you could see him physically starting to tire, and Froch started closing the distance on him. You know, Froch, if you don't have an inside game when he swings forward, because his momentum comes forward with his punches. His momentum can knock you off balance; he can wear you down rather quick.

I thought, personally, it was a correct stoppage, and the reason I say that is because, let's face it, if you saw it in slow motion, he hit him 6 times flush. One of those punches was on top of the head right above the ear, and that hook he hit him with in that exchange, Groves never saw it; it literally just snapped his neck around. He was hurt. If I shoot you with a bullet and I know that bullet went into you, I don't need to see you stagger to know you're wounded, you know. A lot of people say, "Well, his legs weren't buckled." That doesn't mean you're not hurt. Now he was hurt. It's always going to be debatable because he was on his feet, but if you look at the course what led to that, the past two rounds led to that situation happening. The reason why he [Froch] was able to get those punches off is because he [Groves] was tiring and he was starting to get to him.

[Rounds] 6 and 7, I saw Froch turn the fight around. Even though it's debatable he lost the round, it's almost like Chavez and Meldrick Taylor; the type of punches that Chavez was placing on Meldrick Taylor. I saw this happening in the 8th round, the type of punches that he was hitting Taylor with; that "Boy, I hope he can make it to the finish line because these punches are catching up with him rather quick." You know. And I think it was the manner in which the referee grabbed Groves and, you know, he really should've grabbed Froch. He made some bad moves that caused it to be debatable, but Groves was hurt. He was hurt. And all this career-finishing talk and all this kind of talk, I mean, that's just talk, but I didn't see him making it out of that round if that fight would've continued. He was hurt.

It's debatable. I mean, he could've let it go on; I see the points made, but I have to say, I can't fault the ref for stopping the fight. I just kind of fault him how he stopped the fight, you know, grabbing Groves instead of grabbing Froch. Or, I think they were saying the 8-count was in effect. If it was, then he made a bad mistake because he should've gave him the 8-count (laughing).
 
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VIRGIL HUNTER NOT SURE IF IT'S SAFE FOR CARL FROCH TO FIGHT ANDRE WARD: "HE WOULD JUST GET BEAT ON AND STOPPED"
By Ben Thompson | November 27, 2013

"I don't dislike anyone to the point where you have to really stop now and say wait a minute, this man's got two kids, he's got a lovely partner, he's got a mother, father, brothers and stuff; I mean, you know, look, you might just have one more left in you. You really need to start implementing an exit strategy because the punishment in that fight is not good, and these hard fights that he's had over the years, you would hate to see this take effect on anybody, you know, who has children and things like that. So I'm almost right now, man, maybe we don't even want to fight him no more, you know, because it would just be devastating because he would never have an opportunity like he did against Groves. He would just get beat on and stopped," stated world-class trainer Virgil Hunter, who spoke more about Carl Froch's performance against George Groves and whether or not Team Ward was still interested in a potential rematch with him. Check it out!

BT: After seeing Froch's performance against Groves, is a rematch with him something that you guys might still be interested in?

VH: I think Froch underestimated the kid, you know, in his cocky way and just couldn't see that coming. And when it came, you know, it shook him. But you gotta give him credit for hanging in there, taking a beating, and turning it around, but I don't dislike anyone to the point where you have to really stop now and say wait a minute, this man's got two kids, he's got a lovely partner, he's got a mother, father, brothers and stuff; I mean, you know, look, you might just have one more left in you. You really need to start implementing an exit strategy because the punishment in that fight is not good, and these hard fights that he's had over the years, you would hate to see this take effect on anybody, you know, who has children and things like that. So I'm almost right now, man, maybe we don't even want to fight him no more, you know, because it would just be devastating because he would never have an opportunity like he did against Groves. He would just get beat on and stopped. You know, it's just hard to say. But I thought that he showed great courage. Sometimes he can hurt himself saying some of the stuff he says after the fight was over. What he really should've said was, "Look man, this man whooped on me, but, you know, I hung in there and found a way to turn the fight around." But, you know, people remember the horse that crosses the finish line, not the one who started.

BT: Was there anything about Froch that looked different to you or did he look like the same guy that you guys already beat?

VH: No, I saw the same guy, but what I saw was a guy who was fighting George Groves 4 years ago when they were sparring, and he didn't take heed to who George Groves was now. You know, he trained hard, that's probably true, but in his mind, he had no example of what Groves was capable of other than him throwing his weight around with lesser competition. So that's what happens when you elevate yourself to this godly status, like Froch elevates himself, setting yourself up for a hard fall. And it almost happened, you know; it almost happened. Just like he says, "I challenge any man to take the right hand I took and get up from it." You know, and I'm like, what kind of statement is that? First of all, you shouldn't have took that right hand (laughing). First of all, you should've done your homework and jabbed him and not even let him land the right hand. You see. So I mean, that's really arrogant to say, "I challenge any man...nobody else could've took this punch and got up but me." That's absurd. Do you know how many journeyman and lower ranked guys that have gone the distance with George Groves? Okay, so he hit some of them with it and they didn't go down, you know. You're making some off-beat comments there. I think a rematch is in order for them. I don't think he wants to rematch; he has a hard time with guys with speed.

BT: So you think Froch would rather fight Groves again instead of fighting Dre?

VH: He already said he didn't want to fight him. He said the only way he would fight him is if the media pushed it, the networks pushed it, and even then he said, "I would try to knock him out; there's no way I can win a decision." You know, so he's basically saying, "I don't want this fight." That's what he's saying. You know, I would pick him in the rematch [with Groves] if they made some adjustments. I mean, his defense should be better. It's not that Groves...Groves is faster than Froch, but Groves is not quick; he's fast. You can always make adjustments with a fast fighter. A quick fighter is a little harder, but Groves is just fast, so he can make certain adjustments in that fight and win the rematch. You know, I know Groves would come in with a lot of confidence and things like that, but he has some things that he really needs to work on. I'm not going to say them because we might one day fight him ourselves.
 
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