Showtime is the New King with Cotto and Pacquiao

Late Monday morning Ken Hershman, executive vice president and general manager of Showtime Sports was in the Lighhouse Room at Chelsea Piers in lower Manhattan. He greeted welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and “Sugar” Shane Mosley before the two fighters spoke with media about their May 7th championship bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in [...]

Will Someone Get Them Together?

Happy New Year!  And hopefully it will be for all of you and for the boxing world that is in limbo. Because the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. can’t seem to agree on blood testing procedures for their potential super bout that is slated for March 13th in [...]

Mayweather and Pacquiao Is Next but Where and When?

The fight generated over two million buys on pay-per-view, Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto put on quite a show, at least for the first four rounds. Now the next fight that will generate interest and tremendous revenue is Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.  The problem though is how much will it take to get it [...]

Mayweather Returns and Picks Marquez As Opponent

There was the undefeated Floyd Mayweather, the six-time world champion in five different weight classes at a podium on the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building in New York City Tuesday afternoon.  His sixteen month retirement from the ring is over for now and it is back to business. Except this was a more [...]

THERE WAS NO DOUBT ABOUT PACQUIAO

From this perspective there was no doubt that Manny Pacquiao was going to easily win this supposed junior welterweight title fight over the veteran Ricky Hatton in a ring at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas Saturday evening.  Pacquaio proved he was the best pound-for-pound fighter in the business when he dominated and put [...]

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