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May 13, 2002
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Thank god Sergio Martinez and his promoter picked the legendary Darren Barker instead of someone like Pirog or Kid Chocolate because as you can see below the sales are through the roof!!!!!



Martinez vs Barker: Ticket Sales Dead in the Water for Saturday Fight

I'm not putting this up simply to be adversarial or point and laugh or whatever, but this is really bad. Middleweight champ Sergio Martinez did an in-store appearance at a Modell's in New York City today, and there was an offer for a free pair of tickets with $20 spent on Everlast products.

A free pair of tickets, for $20 spent at Modell's.


This, combined with several discounts and an offer of 30% off for those who had bought a ticket to the now-rescheduled October 29 fight between Andre Ward and Carl Froch, really points out the extreme difficulty promoters are having moving tickets to this fight.



So why is this one so bad?

Is it the fact that nobody knows Darren Barker? He's never fought on U.S. TV and hasn't exactly had a U.K. career that made waves worldwide. He's a domestic-level British fighter, basically. In today's crap middleweight division that puts him around top ten status (we have him No. 9), and it's not meant as an insult, because he's a fine, talented fighter. But he has no name value here.

Some of this has to lie with Sergio Martinez, though, and with this going on, and Sergio not exactly filling Atlantic City for recent fights, it's a lot easier to understand Miguel Cotto almost snickering at the idea that he could make $5 million to fight Sergio Martinez, as he did at a presser for the Margarito fight last week.

How much of it is location? Atlantic City has had trouble drawing for fights since Arturo Gatti retired, with the exception of Kelly Pavlik and his traveling Youngstown audience. How much of it is simply Martinez being an Argentinean fighter with no big fanbase, and Barker not being a traveling star from overseas even on the level of, say, Carl Froch? How much of it is a promotional problem?



http://www.badlefthook.com/2011/9/27...saturday-fight
 
Jul 24, 2005
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Chavez Jr. wants Saul Alvarez to fight him at 160 lbs

By Eric Thomas: A fight between WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez is under discussion. However, the fighters and their promoters are at a sticking point over what weight that the mega fight will take place.

Alvarez, 21, only recently moved up to 154 pounds, and at 5’9″, he’s not a big junior middleweight. Chavez Jr., 6’0″, is big for the division and has had huge problems making the 160 pound limit. In his last fight against the WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik, Chavez Jr. ballooned up to 180 lbs after rehydrating following the weigh-in the day before the fight.

The chances are probably high that Chavez Jr. will again balloon up to at or near 180 lbs for a fight against the smaller Alvarez. Chavez’s promoter Bob Arum wants the Alvarez-Chavez fight to take place at a catchweight of 158 lbs, which is only two pounds under the 160 pound limit.

Oscar De La Hoya, the promoter for Alvarez, wants Chavez Jr. to meet Alvarez halfway in between 160 and 154 at a weight of 156 lbs. That sounds like a fair deal, right? Chavez Jr. doesn’t see why Alvarez won’t fight him at the full weight of 160 lbs, reportedly pointing out that Alvarez rehydrated up to 168 lbs after his recent win over Alfonso Gomez.

Of course, if Alvarez were to agree to fighting Chavez Jr. at 160, there’s nothing keeping Chavez Jr. from once again rehydrating up to 180+, meaning that Alvarez would be facing a cruiserweight-sized Chavez Jr. while weighing in the neighborhood of a super middleweight. I think that would no doubt favor Chavez Jr. because he’d still have at least a 12 round advantage if not more depending on how much weight Chavez Jr. packs on after the weigh-in.
 
Jul 24, 2005
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Mayweather: I left the fight in the ring, but Ortiz and De La Hoya keep crying

By Chris Williams: Unbeaten WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 Ko’s) says he’s since forgotten about his 4th round knockout win over Victor Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s), but Ortiz and his promoter Oscar De La Hoya won’t let it go and keep talking.

“I left the fight in the ring, but Oscar and Ortiz keep doing interviews, crying like some Golden Girl bi*****. I will f*** both of you up. You want to talk about cheating?” [Mayweather then adds a link to a photo showing Ortiz headbutting him with].

Ortiz and De La Hoya conducted a telephone conference all yesterday, asking Mayweather to give him a rematch, and basically saying Mayweather had won the fight because of a cheap shot instead of by dominating Ortiz the way many boxing fans saw it.

Mayweather doesn’t have to give Ortiz a rematch, because there’s no cry – other than from Ortiz and De La Hoya – from boxing fans for another fight between Mayweather and Ortiz. Out of the kindness of Mayweather’s heart, he gave Ortiz a ray of hope by suggesting that Ortiz take on former WBC welterweight champion and now the current IBF welterweight title holder Andre Berto next.

If Ortiz can beat Berto, Mayweather said he’ll fight him again. That’s sounds more than reasonable, considering that’s the fight that Ortiz wants anyway and he thinks he can beat Berto again. It shouldn’t take Ortiz very long to set up a fight with Berto, because he wants to fight Ortiz again to avenge his 12 round decision loss from last April. HBO also wants the fight, and it’s the best fight out there for Berto right now until someone like Manny Pacquiao and Mayweather show interest in fighting him.

In the meantime, De La Hoya and Ortiz will likely keep giving interviews and talking about how the fight ending was unfair.
 
Jul 24, 2005
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Pavlik looking to get back in the ring

By Jason Kim: 29-year-old former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (37-2, 32 KO’s) has reportedly contacted his manager Cameron Dunkin telling him that he wants to get back in the ring as soon as possible to try and restart his stalled boxing career. Pavlik, who recently went through alcohol rehab, hasn’t fought since struggling to a 10 round majority decision win over little known Alfonso Lopez last May.

According to news from Dan Rafael at ESPN, Dunkin contacted Top Rank president Todd duBoef about putting a fight together. duBoef wants to meet with Pavlik and his trainer Jack Leow to see what he can put together.

Pavlik lost his titles last year in a 12 round decision loss to Sergio Martinez in April 2010. He’s talked about moving up to super middleweight (168 lbs) due to his struggles to make the 160 lb limit. However, Pavlik is much better off at middleweight than he is at super middleweight, because there are too many fine athletes at that weight and Pavlik, with his plodding style of fighting, will likely have a ton of problems against the faster fighters.

Pavlik blew a perfect opportunity a couple of months ago when he turned down $50,000 to fight 2nd tier fighter Darryl Cunningham in Pavlik’s home city of Youngstown, Ohio. This was a fight setup for Pavlik’s proposed match-up with IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute, which would have taken place in November 2011 and payed Pavlik $1.35 million. Pavlik felt that wasn’t enough money for him, so he walked away from both fights.

Pavlik has now had a change of tune, saying this to his manager Dunkin “I will fight for $10,000. It’s not about money. I really want to do this
 
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By Eric Thomas: A fight between WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez is under discussion. However, the fighters and their promoters are at a sticking point over what weight that the mega fight will take place.

Alvarez, 21, only recently moved up to 154 pounds, and at 5’9″, he’s not a big junior middleweight. Chavez Jr., 6’0″, is big for the division and has had huge problems making the 160 pound limit. In his last fight against the WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik, Chavez Jr. ballooned up to 180 lbs after rehydrating following the weigh-in the day before the fight.

The chances are probably high that Chavez Jr. will again balloon up to at or near 180 lbs for a fight against the smaller Alvarez. Chavez’s promoter Bob Arum wants the Alvarez-Chavez fight to take place at a catchweight of 158 lbs, which is only two pounds under the 160 pound limit.

Oscar De La Hoya, the promoter for Alvarez, wants Chavez Jr. to meet Alvarez halfway in between 160 and 154 at a weight of 156 lbs. That sounds like a fair deal, right? Chavez Jr. doesn’t see why Alvarez won’t fight him at the full weight of 160 lbs, reportedly pointing out that Alvarez rehydrated up to 168 lbs after his recent win over Alfonso Gomez.

Of course, if Alvarez were to agree to fighting Chavez Jr. at 160, there’s nothing keeping Chavez Jr. from once again rehydrating up to 180+, meaning that Alvarez would be facing a cruiserweight-sized Chavez Jr. while weighing in the neighborhood of a super middleweight. I think that would no doubt favor Chavez Jr. because he’d still have at least a 12 round advantage if not more depending on how much weight Chavez Jr. packs on after the weigh-in.

Funny.....I read the title and I immediately thought that if Alveraz agrees to fight Chavez at 160....that gives Chavez and advantage. And then I read the story and that's exactly what it's saying.

I really hope he doesn't agree to that. Chavez would be at 190 the time of the fight.....LOL
 
Jul 24, 2005
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Floyd Mayweather vs Victor Ortiz Rematch? Time for Oscar and Vic to let go

By Steve Kim


I thought it was rather odd that Golden Boy Promotions held a conference call for today (and not last week) with Oscar De La Hoya and Victor Ortiz, to talk about the fight between Floyd Mayweather and Ortiz that happened on the 17th of this month. Maybe it’s just me, but wasn’t the time to do this last week, when the iron was still hot?

Anyways, based on what I read on Twitter, it was an unmitigated disaster- which is not a surprise- as both De La Hoya and Ortiz said some mind-boggling things that are being lampooned all over. They don’t seem to realize that outside of them, there is no public calling for a rematch.

Believe it or not, they actually come out looking worse. Seriously, fellas, it’s time to move on.

- Talked to Bob Arum for a bit, he says that there have been discussions of matching the winner of Saturday nights bout between WBC 122-pd belt-holder Toshiaki Nishiaki and Rafael Marquez versus Nonito Donaire early on in 2012. But Donaire, still has to get past Omar Narvaez on Oct. 22nd.
 
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Doctors OK Taylor license

Dan Rafael, ESPN

Former middleweight champion Jermain Taylor's path to receiving a boxing license cleared a major hurdle Thursday, when the Nevada State Athletic Commission's medical advisory panel offered a 5-0 recommendation that the commission approve him medically, commission executive director Keith Kizer said.

Taylor is seeking to return to the ring after almost two years since stepping away from the sport when he suffered a small brain bleed in an October 2009 12th-round knockout loss to Arthur Abraham in the opening round of Showtime's "Super Six World Boxing Classic."
Taylor has undergone a battery of tests by multiple doctors, including his doctor in his hometown of Little Rock, Ark., at the Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. The results were examined by Nevada's medical advisory board, which met via teleconference to consider the reports. Taylor and adviser Al Haymon listened to the call, Kizer said.

Now that the medical advisory board has given its recommendation to the commission, Taylor's application is on the agenda for the commission's Sept. 28 meeting, at which the panel is expected to vote on whether he will receive a license.

Kizer said Taylor (28-4-1, 17 KOs), 33, must appear in person at the meeting for his application to be considered. If Taylor is licensed, he plans to fight before the end of the year, probably in Little Rock.
 
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VIRGIL HUNTER DISCUSSES ANDRE WARD'S SPARRING INJURY
By Doveed Linder

In this interview, WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward’s trainer, Virgil Hunter, discusses what happened the day Ward suffered a cut in sparring, which lead to the postponement of his fight against WBC champion Carl Froch in the finals of the Super Six World Boxing Classic. He also talks about recent remarks made by Froch, the possibility of a Ward-Bute fight, and his thoughts on Mayweather-Ortiz, Pacquiao-Marquez, Hopkins-Dawson, and Cotto-Margarito.

DL: How exactly did Andre Ward get cut? What took place in the gym?
VH: It was just a freak accident. I didn’t see a punch or anything. He had his face guard on and the whole bit. It’s really unbelievable and mind boggling how he sustained that cut. It’s nothing that I can identify, where I can say this situation here is probably how he got cut. It’s not something I can put my finger on, so I just let it go. I just have no clue.

DL: So he’s sparring and at one point you just realized that he was cut?

VH: His sparring partner saw it first. He’s sparring and the next thing you know, Brandon (the sparring partner) said, “Dre, you're bleeding.” And when he came back to the corner, I saw blood on the bridge of his nose. And my first reaction was, “How in the heck did you get a scratch on the bridge of your nose?” because he was wearing the face guard. And then as he got closer, I saw blood in other places and then I saw the cut and I wasn’t expecting to see that. So that’s pretty much all I can tell you.

DL: Is the plan now to break from camp and rest until it’s time to get ready for the later date?

VH: We have a routine that we have that calls for rest AND activity. So we’re going to stick to our routine and then we’ll ease back to where we were at the appropriate time, whenever they come up with the new date.

DL: Carl Froch has gone on record that he is dissatisfied with the situation. He puts the blame on Andre. What are your thoughts on some of these remarks?

VH: I’m not surprised at his response, but I’m kind of disappointed because he’s displaying an abundance of amnesia. If you go to his fight with Arthur Abraham, he stalled Abraham for months. Five days before the fight, he came up with a back injury that was never verified that put the fight back two months. He came up with a back injury AND a chest cold. And his statement was, “I’ve done some things in the past, but in a fight like this I would be foolish to fight in this condition.” So it sounds pretty foolish for him to comment like that (on Andre’s cut), but that’s who he is, that’s what he’s about, and you just take it for who he is. But he needs to remember his situation with Abraham.

DL: What is your assessment of Carl Froch as a fighter? What makes him effective and what holes do you see in his game?

VH: He’s been effective against guys who are shorter than him, guys he has a reach on. But guys who have boxing ability, I’ve seen him lose to them. They gave him the [victory by split decision] against [Andre] Dirrell, but Dirrell [deserved to] beat him. And Mikkel Kessler beat him. They gave him the Dirrell fight, because they were in Nottingham [Froch's hometown]. So really, he’s 2-2 in the tournament [Editor's note: Officially, Froch is 3-1 in the Super Six. He beat Andre Dirrell and Arthur Abraham, lost to Mikkel Kessler and beat Glen Johnson in the semi-finals. Except for Abraham, which was a clear victory for Froch, all the other fights were close]. So what do you look for? I see a guy who boxes shorter guys and I see he has problems with boxing ability and speed. So somewhere along the line, we find our niche.

DL: Provided you win the Super Six, are you looking at a fight with Lucian Bute if Bute beats Glen Johnson?

VH: Not necessarily. Showtime promised Mikkel Kessler a fight with the Super Six winner. I think Bute should really beat a Carl Froch or an Andre Dirrell, because it would make the fight more interesting [Editor's note: Dirrell has not fought since defeating Abraham and has health concerns]. He should either fight the guy who loses in the finals or he should fight a guy who is Super Six caliber. I don’t think he should get rewarded with the Super Six winner and just hop, skip and jump over high end competition. Kessler is the [WBC] champion emeritus and Showtime promised him the fight. And we intend to keep that obligation if we win. For two reasons… Number one, it’s the obligation. And number two, we’re not pleased with him using the excuses that he’s used on why he lost to us. So we want to give him an opportunity to prove that the fight was a fluke. We want him to really be there this time, so there are no more excuses. He’s lived off of excuses for two years now. [Editor's note: Kessler was defeated by a wide points margin by Ward but complained about head butts]. We want to give him the opportunity to prove that that wasn’t the real Mikkel Kessler. If that wasn’t the real Mikkel Kessler, then we want to beat the real one.

DL: As far as Bute goes, do you not consider Glen Johnson an opponent that catapults him to the winner of the Super Six?

VH: I would see that as a fight for him to fight the loser of the Super Six, but not the winner.

DL: How do you see Bute-Johnson playing out?

VH: First of all, I’m a Glen Johnson fan. But from what I saw in the Froch fight, he’s slowing up. I can’t say he’s slowing up because of his age. But you can only go back so many times and make this weight after all these years. The first time he did it, it was okay. But the second time he did it, it had an impact. He faded in the later rounds. I don’t care who you are. You just can’t go back and take your body through this at his age and expect to perform at the highest level. No matter what kind of nutrition, no matter what kind of conditioning… So I see Bute winning that fight based on the fact that Johnson has to go through a lot of changes to make 168.

DL: I would like to get your thoughts on a few other fights, starting with Floyd Mayweather's win over Victor Ortiz. There was quite a bit of controversy in that fight. What’s your take?

VH: It’s very simple. If Ortiz hadn’t blatantly butted him, we wouldn’t have had that conclusion. I’m not going to judge the conclusion, because the average person on the outside of the ring, in their right frame of mind so to speak, as a fan and as a spectator, quite naturally, they’re going to comprehend it negatively. But you get a person who’s been fouled who has that adrenaline flowing, he’s going to respond differently. You have a fan’s response, you have an anti-Mayweather response, and you have an opinionated response. And if he did something wrong, he should have been penalized. But if he wasn’t penalized, he didn’t do anything wrong. So people have to draw their own conclusions. But there’s a written rule in boxing: Protect yourself at all times. Ortiz left himself open and it was a bone-headed move. He should have been ready to fight and he shouldn’t have head butted the kid. And not only did he head butt him, he threw a punch after that. He instigated a situation that caused the fight to end that way. So me personally, I put the responsibility on Ortiz.

DL: What’s your take on the third fight between Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez?

VH: I think it’s a matter of size. I think the size difference and the age difference. Marquez is a great technician and I expect him to have his moments. But he’s in a situation where he could literally be overwhelmed. He’s just giving up too much. I don’t expect him to weigh 144. He might come in at 139. It’s just too much for him. I might be wrong. But if I have to make a prediction, I just see him being overwhelmed in this situation.

DL: How about Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson?

VH: You can never count Bernard Hopkins out of a fight. And we really see that now. Although, Chad Dawson and Jean Pascal are two different fighters. Given the best Chad Dawson I’ve seen, you still can’t count Bernard Hopkins out of the fight. There are just some things he understands and he knows that he can exploit. It just depends if Chad can impose his youth on Bernard and if Bernard can impose his guile on Chad. And the reason I’m saying this is because Chad did fight a lackluster fight against Pascal. So once you see a fighter fight a certain way, the potential that he’s going to fight that way again is there. It’s not like a faucet where you can turn it on and off. I haven’t picked a winner in this fight. I think it’s going to be a great fight and an interesting fight. I do think Chad is motivated. I think it’s good that he’s staying at home (for training). He needs to be with Scully (his trainer), he needs to be who he originally was. But you can never ever count out Bernard Hopkins and Naazim Richardson. Naazim is a chemist and he knows what to mix up in the lab. It’s going to be an interesting fight, but I have no clear cut winner. But Bernard has found his niche. He’s standing his ground. And it’s very interesting to see a guy like Archie Moore, when Moore stood his ground at that age. At forty-six, he was knocking people out. So it’s going to be youth versus experience. Simple as that.

DL: Lastly, what are your thoughts on the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito rematch?

VH: I don’t think Margarito is the same fighter he was when he fought him the first time, and I think Cotto knows what he has to do. There are a lot of questions as far as, what if he did and what if he didn’t (referring to the possibility of Margarito having a plaster-like substance in his handwraps in their first fight). It was shocking to see Cotto go downhill all of a sudden and the way he looked in that fight. He looked like he was mugged with a black jack. But there’s no proof, so I can’t say in fact that Margarito was out of compliance. Cotto seems anxious to get on with the fight. He has the confidence to know that this will be a fair fight. If he feels like he was cheated in the first fight, he’s not saying. But I think Margarito has definitely slowed up. I think he’s burned out. And the way he moved against Pacquiao, I think he over-trains. Although he’s at a weight that he can make. But you don’t recover from the kind of punishment he took against Pacquiao. Not at that age. That stays with you. That really affects you. You just can’t get beat on like that and be the same person. He is NOT the same fighter. I don’t care how he looks, how he trains… He is not the same fighter after taking that kind of punishment. And now he’s getting ready to spar and do everything else and you take punishment in sparring. At that age, it catches up to you. So I’m favoring Cotto in that fight.

DL: Anything in closing?

VH: No, nothing really. We’re on track. And I’ve been saying all along that we’ve only been seeing seventy percent of Andre Ward. And when he fights Froch, I think he’s going to be ninety percent. Every time people think he’s one thing, every time they put a definition on him, they always end up being wrong. And this is the fight that’s going to prove that. This fight will not go the distance. He’s going to stop Carl Froch.
 
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BERNARD HOPKINS: I WILL BEAT HIM EASIER THAN I BEAT TARVER
By G. Leon

"Dawson is just a lil' better than Robert Allen"

GL: What's the latest and greatest X? How is everything in going in preparation for your October 15 HBO PPV showdown with Chad Dawson? "Everything is going good here Greg, we're on our busy schedule like we've been for the last five weeks. I'm just coming down to the final stretch as far as training, and after 10 years you know you're getting before the rest of the media next week. But I feel good, I feel more rejuvenated than ever before. Sparring has been fantastic and I cannot wait to put on another ageless performance."

GL: What do you feel is your biggest advantage coming into this fight?

Bernard Hopkins: "My IQ."

GL: In your opinion has Dawson's IQ stagnated or decreased from a few years back when he was fighting Adamek and first fought Tarver?

BH: "Far as his level and where he's at, he's right where he needs to be. But I set the bar so high that to me, I go by his last performance and that was a B. I gave him a B and I know he was trying to work on some new things with Emanuel Steward. I can rate him as one of the top light heavyweights out there, but there's not a whole pool out there like when I was representing the middleweights. You had a pool of three or four guys who could have been champion if I wasn't there. I will say this, he still brings everything he brought two years ago when they were trying to shove him down my throat for charity. Now I've created an atmosphere where I give him a higher lesson and do him a favor by putting a few more bucks in his pocket than he would have made then. I'll say this man, I will say I'm coming to put on a performance and I hope he is, because that will bring out the best in Bernard Hopkins.

"When guys come and they're trying to prove a point that it's their time, then I will be at my best. I just can't dance without having a dance partner. I can, but when you're stepping on your dance partners feet it's not going to look as good."

GL: Your track record against southpaws speaks for itself. As a student of the game where you rank Dawson amongst the southpaws you've already faced?

BH: "I fought a lot of southpaws Greg, I'll say he's about the tallest southpaw I fought, but he don't fight tall. I will say he's a little bit better than Robert Allen, but just a lil' bit."

GL: Earlier you said that your biggest advantage was your IQ? Would you care to elaborate or do you prefer to leave it at that?

BH: "I think I can leave it at that. People know what I mean. They know what IQ means. I will just show the level of where I'm at compared to where he's at. That doesn't make him a bad fighter. It just shows that this is one stage of a guys career and this is another stage of a guys career. You don't take a Mercedes to race a Ferrari and I'm that Ferrari.. The Mercedes is a good car, it's fast, but the Ferrari speaks for itself."

GL: How much longer can you compete at the highest level?

BH: "As long as I'm motivated and it's a challenge and I have something to prove, which I have on October 15. I'm going to prove that not only can I win the light heavyweight championship, I can defend in grand fashion like the Ol' Mongoose Archie Moore. I'm not looking at time right now, I'm just saying once there's nobody to bring that challenge to me and I don't have the spirit to train as hard as I do, because I can make a person tired by watching me train, I'm not going to disrespect this game or go through it half heartedly and not being motivated because that's when you get hurt. That's when you embarrass yourself and that's when you do it for the wrong reason. That's not my style. I'm a real proud person and Greg you've known me for many years. Anybody who reads knows that you could love me or hate me, but at the end of the day I will not go into a situation where I will embarrass myself."

GL: This fight is taking place on HBO PPV, what is your expectation PPV buy wise and are you disappointed that a one of a kind living legend like yourself wasn't provided with any 24/7?

BH: "Not really. I mean, the PPV is going to do what it's going to do. If it does more than 200,000 something buys that's ok. I'm guaranteed what I'm guaranteed and my contract is not predicated on PPV. I'm good, the PPV is just the gravy. I came into this deal with Jean Pascal already with the Chad Dawson numbers, so I'm cool. Chad Dawson might not be in that situation, but I'm good. Anything that comes out from PPV, I hope the fans are watching, but I call that extra gravy. The people who thought I didn't want to fight Chad Dawson are going to have their mouth open and after the fight they're going to be saying he beat Chad Dawson even easier than he beat Antonio Tarver."

GL: Gravy is an interested word. After all of you've accomplished is Chad Dawson the gravy on your legacy?

BH: "He is gravy, but I always have something to prove and he's a page that is going to be added to the stacked legacy and the stacked history that I'm putting in the book. He ain't just somebody that I'm going in just to do it, I have something to prove to the point where a lot of people out there were thinking I was ducking this guy. I just want to show people I was never ducking this guy. I beat Jean Pascal twice and really didn't fight Chad then because I wasn't motivated. All the fans have to do is look through our interviews in the archive. I mean if the guy couldn't sell in Hartford, Connecticut and he can't sell out where he lives, what am I fighting him for? I sold 14,000 plus when I fought Howard Eastman in my twentieth middleweight defense in Los Angeles. The 40 and up club is alive and well in boxing. That's my brand. My brand is anybody going onto forties or in their forties or older is supposed to be rooting for me at all times. This is not normal. If I have to bang my own drum, I will and I will continue to tell people that I AM NOT NORMAL.

GL: We're going to leave it at that. I don't even want closing thoughts.
 
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Mayweather no longer needs Pacquiao; De La Hoya and Ortiz rematches are beckoning for

By Chris Williams: It’s too bad Manny Pacquiao didn’t agree to the random blood testing that Floyd Mayweather Jr. wanted last year because Pacquiao would have faced Mayweather instead of the like of Joshua Clottey, Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito.

Now it looks like Pacquiao has blown his chance to get Money May in the ring, because Mayweather has the options of fighting rematches against Oscar De La Hoya and Victor Ortiz if he wants them. Those fights will bring Mayweather as much as $90 million or possibly even more than that. And after Mayweather gets through with them, he can take on Amir Khan.

Hopefully, Khan is better known among casual boxing fans in the U.S. by then, because right now only hardcore boxing fans know of him in the U.S. But Pacquiao isn’t really needed anymore by Mayweather for him to get a big payday. It would be nice for Mayweather to fight the Filipino fighter and add his scalp to Mayweather’s resume, but if Pacquiao isn’t willing to stay in the U.S so that he can be tested by the USADA, then what’s the point? If Pacquiao wanted the fight, he’d stay in the U.S, wouldn’t he?

On Tuesday, De La Hoya said that if Mayweather gives Ortiz a rematch, De La Hoya might fight him. De La Hoya is using himself as bait in order to get Mayweather to take a rematch that he doesn’t really want with Ortiz. Although Mayweather did say yesterday that he would fight Ortiz again if he takes on and beats Andre Berto in a rematch. However, De La Hoya has something more immediate in mind. He doesn’t want Ortiz to have to wait to get another crack at Mayweather. And the only way to ensure that Mayweather fights this bout is for De La Hoya to make a deal with Mayweather by sacrificing himself.
 
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De La Hoya may come out of retirement to fight Mayweather if he gives Ortiz a rematch

By Chris Williams: “Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya is talking about coming out of retirement to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. again if Mayweather will agree to give a rematch to De La Hoya’s fighter Victor Ortiz.

De La Hoya said this on his twitter: “It’s so sad mayweather has to bash people and flaunt money he’s not going to when he retires. Give Ortiz a rematch. Try beat him fair…And then maybe just maybe i will give you a another chance at me.”

It looks like De La Hoya wants to get in on the act and get a fight with Mayweather himself. A Fight between De La Hoya and Mayweather would be huge, even now after De La Hoya being retired since 2008. His fight with Mayweather in 2007, which De La Hoya lost by a 12 round split decision, brought in 2.4 million pay per view buys, the all the all-time high in that department.

A rematch would likely bring in as much as 1.7 million buys on up. De La Hoya has so many fans and a fight with Mayweather would likely be even bigger than Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao.

By dangling a rematch between him and Mayweather to get Floyd to fight Ortiz again, De La Hoya is being smart. He knows Mayweather wants another fight with him so he can make another bundle of money.

There’s not much risk for Mayweather in fighting Ortiz again because h was so far out of his league against Mayweatheit that it wasn’t even interesting. Mayweather can repeat what h just did against Ortiz, and then get a huge fight with De La Hoya in 2012, if De La Hoya doesn’t change his mind and decide against fighting Mayweather again. There’s less risk for De La Hoya compared to when he fought Manny Pacquiao, because De La Hoya doesn’t have to starve himself to get down to a lower weight. Mayweather wouldn’t be trying to take Oscar’s head off. Instead, he’ll look to outbox him again like he did last time.
 
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I told everyone before the Ortiz fight that ODLH wanted to fight again. He's been running his mouth too much, he's getting the fighting bug again. Mayweather would kill ODLH at 147lb. I want Mayweather vs Manny fuck that coke head ODLH.