Tag: Mayweather-Pacquiao
HBO’s Greenburg acknowledges Pacquiao – Mayweather negotiations
According to Dan Rafael of espn.com, attempts to make a fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather did occur through intermediary Ross Greenburg of...
Call to discuss “super”fight, anything but
No news is good news. At least that has been the case for the last year and a half with regards to a...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Olympic-style drug testing sounds good, but can it last?
To say that Olympic-style drug testing is the right thing to do is the equivalent of a beauty-pageant contestant saying she believes in world...
Consistency about blood testing looms as a mandatory for Mayweather
There’s been plenty of speculation about whom Floyd Mayweather Jr. could or should fight in the wake of abortive talks for a showdown with...
Mayweather to face Pacquiao on March 13; Just not in the...
According to Dan Rafael of espn.com, the saga that is or was a proposed bout between pound for pound kings, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd...
After the Pacquiao-Mayweather talks fail, boxing looks for survival and...
Relief might be best thing about the apparent end Wednesday of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather negotiations. Maybe, we won’t have to hear about them,...
Mega-fight canceled: Why boxing set itself back twenty years
So Floyd Mayweather is going to fight Manny Pacquiao? Awesome. Finally, there is a fight that the sports world and beyond could really get...
MAYWEATHER – PACQUIAO IS OFF!!!
According to various reports, the much anticipated bout between Pound for Pound King's Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather will NOT happen on March 13th...
First day of Mayweather – Pacquiao mediation has no resolution
According to Dan Rafael of espn.com, the first day of a mediation process to hopefully resolve the differences between the camps of Manny Pacquiao...
Pacquiao – Mayweather: Mediation or surgery
Today in a room in a Santa Monica, California, boxing will be going under for its own form of major surgery.
The kind of surgery...
Pacquiao – Mayweather to go to mediation tomorrow
According to Dan Rafael of espn.com, the saga between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather will take another turn on Tuesday as the sides will...
A contrarian’s dry-eyed look at the (possible) collapse of Pacquiao-Mayweather
“This one storm is going to change the face of our planet. When this storm is over, we’ll be in a new ice...
Here’s one resolution for a New Year: Pacquiao-Mayweather before 2011
“When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.”
-- John Barrymore
The late...
