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 [...]

Interesting first fight for a return of boxing at Yankee Stadium

Like the old days Saturday, it will be, because on the same day in New York City there is the traditional Belmont Stakes horse race at Belmont Park. And later in the evening a major championship pro boxing card at Yankee Stadium. Though Miguel Cotto and Yuri Foreman are not Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, [...]

Boxing Notebook

CLOTTEY READY FOR PACQUIAO:   Before leaving for Dallas Texas last week for the biggest fight of his career against welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, Joshua Clottey showed his skills sparring in the Bronx and at the Kingsway Gym in Manhattan.  Pacquaio-Clottey Saturday evening on HBO pay-per-view is the replacement for what was supposed to be the [...]

Will Someone Get Them Together?

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Kids at Morris Park Looking for Another Gym After Inferno

They came to their second home Wednesday. The professionals who train at the Morris Park Boxing Gym, the prospects preparing for the upcoming Golden Gloves tournament, and the kids who live in the community, stunned to see their gym destroyed by a fire earlier in the day that also left two families homeless. “We will [...]

Pacquiao Dominates Cotto with 12th Round Stoppage

Las Vegas – Manny Pacquiao had another epic performance and for Miguel Cotto it was a fight for survival as referee Kenny Bayless stepped in and stopped the fight at 0:55 of the  12-round in the most anticipated fight of the year. With his win, Pacquiao once again secured his position as the best pound-for-pound [...]

Cotto faces tough challenge with Clottey at Garden

Miguel Cotto the WBO welterweight champion defends his title at Madison Square Garden Saturday evening against Joshua Clottey with the IBF title also up for grabs and there are those in the boxing community who give Clottey a chance to dethrone the champion. It is one of those intriguing fights that could go either way [...]

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 [...]

Cotto Match Set For June Amid Problems

Cotto was very quiet and not saying much NEW YORK – There was Miguel Cotto the WBO welterweight champion at Madison Square Garden Tuesday afternoon but there was something noticeably different. Cotto was very quiet and not saying much about his headlining a boxing card at the Garden for the fourth time in five years [...]

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