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Glad to see pwill in good spirits, true champion!
Good advise to maidana too, go for broke
Good advise to maidana too, go for broke
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Awesome the rumors were true. This fight will be a Banger!
Kirkland-Rosado Targeted For 156-Pound Catch-Weight
By Rick Reeno
MGM Grand, Las Vegas - As BoxingScene.com previously reported, junior middleweight contender James Kirkland (32-1, 28KOs) is strongly being considered to open up HBO's November 8th card from the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
BoxingScene has heard that negotiations to match him against Gabe Rosado (21-8, 13KOs)*are heating up and it's only a matter of working out the weight limit. Kirkland will not move up to 160-pounds, so his team is attempting to meet Rosado in the middle with a catch-weight of 156-pounds.
The event, co-promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and Main Events, will be headlined by a highly anticipated light heavyweight unification between Bernard Hopkins and Sergey Kovalev.
Kirkland was last seen in action last December, at the same venue, stopping previously undefeated Glen Tapia in six rounds.
Kirkland-Rosado Targeted For 156-Pound Catch-Weight
By Rick Reeno
MGM Grand, Las Vegas - As BoxingScene.com previously reported, junior middleweight contender James Kirkland (32-1, 28KOs) is strongly being considered to open up HBO's November 8th card from the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
BoxingScene has heard that negotiations to match him against Gabe Rosado (21-8, 13KOs)*are heating up and it's only a matter of working out the weight limit. Kirkland will not move up to 160-pounds, so his team is attempting to meet Rosado in the middle with a catch-weight of 156-pounds.
The event, co-promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and Main Events, will be headlined by a highly anticipated light heavyweight unification between Bernard Hopkins and Sergey Kovalev.
Kirkland was last seen in action last December, at the same venue, stopping previously undefeated Glen Tapia in six rounds.
Just a heads up, The Fight Game is on tonight on HBO, you know the lil show with Jim Lampley and he talks about boxing. What's interesting is HBO tweeted that Oscar and Bob Arum will be guests. One can only speculate this means they will announce a co-promoted fight or perhaps some other announcement.
Well that was kind of strange. I think Arum called him an idiot on the slick and Arum seemed way more willing to work with him than vice versa.
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So Erislandy Lara vs. Ishe Smith is in the works.
They should put Bey vs Vazquez II and Carlos Molina vs K9 Bundrage on the undercard, make this a PPV. $95 HD.
Seriosly do they have a competition at Al Haymon headquarters of who can make the worst possible stylistic match ups? Because if they are who ever is making these matches is killin it!
They should put Bey vs Vazquez II and Carlos Molina vs K9 Bundrage on the undercard, make this a PPV. $95 HD.
Seriosly do they have a competition at Al Haymon headquarters of who can make the worst possible stylistic match ups? Because if they are who ever is making these matches is killin it!
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My bad I didn't see this post before. I'm really not sure but I could swear I remember hearing a link to Andrade/Haymon back when he fighting on ESPN coming up but I really have no idea.
I wouldn't doubt it though. Seems everyone else is signing with him. How funny would it be if he is with Haymon and Andrade/Korobov goes to a purse bid and RN wins it.
I wouldn't doubt it though. Seems everyone else is signing with him. How funny would it be if he is with Haymon and Andrade/Korobov goes to a purse bid and RN wins it.
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Looks like Ellerbe about to be gone at TMT... watch Schaeffer come in
FLOYD MAYWEATHER MAKING MAJOR CHANGES TO HIS TEAM: "WHEN MAY COMES AROUND...I'LL HAVE A TOTALLY NEW TEAM"|| FIGHTHYPE.COM
BT: There's also been some rumors regarding Leonard Ellerbe and Mayweather Promotions...
FM: (Cutting in) Leonard, I think we're just getting to a point where we're outgrowing each other. I think I just see things my way and I think he sees things in another way. For example, this time around when I went out and fought, my WBC and WBA titles in both weight classes were on the line and I didn't approve of that at all. That's something I didn't approve of. Also, my daughter was sitting in the front row and her mother wasn't sitting next to her, so the ticket arrangements were totally wrong. It just got to a point to where everyone wants to do what they want to do instead of communicating and compromising like we used to. We got to this point by us communicating and compromising. If I'm not mistaken, my dad wasn't able to work [Andrew] Tabiti's corner, his fighter. My dad, he got all his stuff, the things that he needed for the fight, extremely late. That's just very unprofessional. There's just a lot of other things within our team that's just not right. Leonard wasn't in my corner, so, you know, it's not any hard feelings. It's just people outgrow one another. I'm not mad at him. There's no hard feeling like I hate the guy; not at all. No hard feelings whatsoever. People just outgrow one another, just like when people get a divorce. They're no longer on the same page mentally.
Ben, It's just I'm growing in a different direction from everybody else. I'm at a new place in my life and I'm trying to get better. Even though I'm 37, I'm trying to get better and I want to become better and I want my team to become better, and if you're not on the same page as me, then there's nothing I can really say or do but say it's time for you to do your own thing since people may not want to do things the way I want to do things or communicate or compromise. There's no way that I go beat these fighters for these titles and then without me saying anything, someone tells me I got four titles on the line at two different weight classes. When I beat that guy for just one belt, I had three belts and beat him for one belt, and the next fight, after he already loses to me, I come back and say, here, I'm gonna fight you for four belts in two different weight classes? Come on, man. It doesn't make any sense; I don't think so
FLOYD MAYWEATHER MAKING MAJOR CHANGES TO HIS TEAM: "WHEN MAY COMES AROUND...I'LL HAVE A TOTALLY NEW TEAM"|| FIGHTHYPE.COM
BT: There's also been some rumors regarding Leonard Ellerbe and Mayweather Promotions...
FM: (Cutting in) Leonard, I think we're just getting to a point where we're outgrowing each other. I think I just see things my way and I think he sees things in another way. For example, this time around when I went out and fought, my WBC and WBA titles in both weight classes were on the line and I didn't approve of that at all. That's something I didn't approve of. Also, my daughter was sitting in the front row and her mother wasn't sitting next to her, so the ticket arrangements were totally wrong. It just got to a point to where everyone wants to do what they want to do instead of communicating and compromising like we used to. We got to this point by us communicating and compromising. If I'm not mistaken, my dad wasn't able to work [Andrew] Tabiti's corner, his fighter. My dad, he got all his stuff, the things that he needed for the fight, extremely late. That's just very unprofessional. There's just a lot of other things within our team that's just not right. Leonard wasn't in my corner, so, you know, it's not any hard feelings. It's just people outgrow one another. I'm not mad at him. There's no hard feeling like I hate the guy; not at all. No hard feelings whatsoever. People just outgrow one another, just like when people get a divorce. They're no longer on the same page mentally.
Ben, It's just I'm growing in a different direction from everybody else. I'm at a new place in my life and I'm trying to get better. Even though I'm 37, I'm trying to get better and I want to become better and I want my team to become better, and if you're not on the same page as me, then there's nothing I can really say or do but say it's time for you to do your own thing since people may not want to do things the way I want to do things or communicate or compromise. There's no way that I go beat these fighters for these titles and then without me saying anything, someone tells me I got four titles on the line at two different weight classes. When I beat that guy for just one belt, I had three belts and beat him for one belt, and the next fight, after he already loses to me, I come back and say, here, I'm gonna fight you for four belts in two different weight classes? Come on, man. It doesn't make any sense; I don't think so
The reality is that he knew the ppv numbers were coming in
low before the fight started so now he wants someone to blame. Everyone wondered whats so different about Floyd when he walked down the ring that's what it was. Then for Showtime to ask him to fight Manny is a spit to Floyds face, really. He left HBO so he won't have to cough up so much to fight Manny, and get an L, now Showtime is asking to do the same. They pressured him to fight Canelo and now they will do the same for his May fight. If it's not Khan in London or Manny, it's a wrap for Floyd.
low before the fight started so now he wants someone to blame. Everyone wondered whats so different about Floyd when he walked down the ring that's what it was. Then for Showtime to ask him to fight Manny is a spit to Floyds face, really. He left HBO so he won't have to cough up so much to fight Manny, and get an L, now Showtime is asking to do the same. They pressured him to fight Canelo and now they will do the same for his May fight. If it's not Khan in London or Manny, it's a wrap for Floyd.
Here's the bullshit about it all. Both Garcia Vs. Postol & Stiverne Vs. Wilder were supposed to go to purse bids on 09/13 in Vegas since everyone was supposed to be there already and they were both pushed back to 10/01 for "undisclosed" reasons.
I'm sure someone went to the WBC needing more time. I will say this, I could see Garcia not giving a fuck and dropping the belt but I can't see Wilder being too happy about missing a title fight if RN wins the purse bid.
I'm sure someone went to the WBC needing more time. I will say this, I could see Garcia not giving a fuck and dropping the belt but I can't see Wilder being too happy about missing a title fight if RN wins the purse bid.
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I'm sure they are trying to make a deal with Stiverne so that Roc Nation can't snatch it. For some reason Stiverne/Don King seem reluctant, I remember King said he wanted Stiverne to fight someone before Wilder. So if they can't reach a deal in the next couple weeks it will obviously be interesting to see what happens Oct 1st.
As for Garcia they could easily avoid this whole situation by fighting Peterson since a unification bout overrides a mandatory defense, which was the damn fight they tried to make us believe would happen next by having that Garcia vs Salka/Peterson vs Santana crap card. But they are so scared to potentially lose a Pacquiao or Mayweather shot they won't even make that fight!
As for Garcia they could easily avoid this whole situation by fighting Peterson since a unification bout overrides a mandatory defense, which was the damn fight they tried to make us believe would happen next by having that Garcia vs Salka/Peterson vs Santana crap card. But they are so scared to potentially lose a Pacquiao or Mayweather shot they won't even make that fight!
Pacquiao Applies Pressure, Dares Mayweather To Fight
WBO welterweight champion*Manny Pacquiao threw down a fresh challenge to Floyd Mayweather Jr., daring*"Money" to "fight me" instead of setting terms that could torpedo the dream bout.
"He's all talk. Until now he has not yet agreed to fight me. Instead of blabbing, he should face me atop the ring," Pacquiao told AFP in an interview.
Ring fans the world over have been baying for a mega-fight between two of the world's greatest boxers of their generation, but previous talks have always broken down before a deal could be signed.
Pacquiao, 35, has held world titles in eight separate weight divisions.
Mayweather, who scored a lopsided victory over Marcos Maidana in a rematch in Las Vegas on Saturday, pushing his record to 47-0, later denied he was trying to safeguard his unblemished record by avoiding Pacquiao.
However, he said a Pacquiao bout would have to be on his terms.
Pacquiao retorted Thursday that great fighters did not duck facing the best and did not let any challenge pass by.
"I'm tired of his alibis. If he really wants to fight me, he knows how to reach me. We can fight anytime, anywhere," Pacquiao added.
"To me, Maidana won that fight. Mayweather's face and lips were swelling compared to Maidana's unblemished face."
Ahead of his bout in Macau, Pacquiao said he would not underestimate Algieri, 30.
"I'm not taking Algieri lightly. He's taller than me and moves around the ring with savvy. That's why I started my training early," Pacquiao said.
WBO welterweight champion*Manny Pacquiao threw down a fresh challenge to Floyd Mayweather Jr., daring*"Money" to "fight me" instead of setting terms that could torpedo the dream bout.
"He's all talk. Until now he has not yet agreed to fight me. Instead of blabbing, he should face me atop the ring," Pacquiao told AFP in an interview.
Ring fans the world over have been baying for a mega-fight between two of the world's greatest boxers of their generation, but previous talks have always broken down before a deal could be signed.
Pacquiao, 35, has held world titles in eight separate weight divisions.
Mayweather, who scored a lopsided victory over Marcos Maidana in a rematch in Las Vegas on Saturday, pushing his record to 47-0, later denied he was trying to safeguard his unblemished record by avoiding Pacquiao.
However, he said a Pacquiao bout would have to be on his terms.
Pacquiao retorted Thursday that great fighters did not duck facing the best and did not let any challenge pass by.
"I'm tired of his alibis. If he really wants to fight me, he knows how to reach me. We can fight anytime, anywhere," Pacquiao added.
"To me, Maidana won that fight. Mayweather's face and lips were swelling compared to Maidana's unblemished face."
Ahead of his bout in Macau, Pacquiao said he would not underestimate Algieri, 30.
"I'm not taking Algieri lightly. He's taller than me and moves around the ring with savvy. That's why I started my training early," Pacquiao said.
What Manny should do is fight Maidana and keep Mayweather out of his mouth. That only gives Mayweather leverage on why he doesn't need to fight Manny. Manny would kill Maidana then people will start bringing more heat to Floyd.
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