Browsing Tag Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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  The Limits of Ambition

  We’re about six weeks away from Mayweather vs Pacquiao, and while the boxing world celebrates finally getting the mega-fight it has wanted for so long, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez ...

  On March 22, 2015 / By Rafael García
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  Floyd vs Cotto II For May 2? For Real?

  Here we are in the dying moments of 2014 and the battle for next year’s coveted May 2 date keeps getting weirder by the day. Rumors swirl that ...

  On December 30, 2014 / By Rafael García
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  Canelo Makes his Move

  Mexican star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Golden Boy Promotions announced yesterday that the 24-year-old super welterweight signed a long-term deal with HBO, which is as big a development ...

  On September 24, 2014 / By Rafael García
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  Bernard & Floyd: Who Did It Better?

  Both have built Hall of Fame resumes while earning millions and millions of dollars. Revealingly, they’ve done so by relying on their personal interpretation of the art of ...

  On September 19, 2014 / By Rafael García
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  Fight Report: Mayweather vs Maidana II

  The Event Mayweather vs Maidana II, dubbed ‘Mayhem’ for the fireworks it would supposedly provide, took place last night at the MGM Grand. It was a rematch of ...

  On September 15, 2014 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Mayhem or Bust

  Despite all the marketing dollars that a Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight naturally generates, there isn’t all that much buzz in the boxing world surrounding this Saturday’s rematch between ...

  On September 10, 2014 / By Rafael García
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  An oral (and entirely fictional) history of Mayweather vs Maidana

  Brian Kenny – Mayweather vs Maidana is one of those contests in sports you never forget. In all my years of working boxing broadcasts, in terms of drama ...

  On May 1, 2014 / By Rafael García
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  Mayweather’s Misjudgments: Why Floyd Will Never Be ‘TBE’

  We’re less than two weeks away from Floyd Mayweather vs. Marcos Maidana, and the boxing world is (sort of) abuzz in anticipation of the return of the sport’s ...

  On April 24, 2014 / By Rafael García
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  The Man Who Would Be King

  By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. – Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I If Bono is right when he sings that “ambition bites the ...

  On April 17, 2014 / By Rafael García
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  In Praise of Defensive Genius

  The buildup to the recent Bernard Hopkins vs Chad Dawson fiasco provided ample opportunity for boxing commentators (as well as bloggers) to throw around the term “defensive genius” like it ...

  On October 22, 2011 / By Rafael García
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  Mayweather vs Ortiz: The Last Word

  It looks like the dust is finally settling after last Saturday’s bizarre fight between Victor Ortiz and Floyd Mayweather Jr. and we’re going to take a crack at ...

  On September 2, 2011 / By Michael Carbert