With his father’s support, Emmanuel Pacquiao Jr. is paving his own path toward a professional boxing career. He’ll fight as an amateur Saturday in Las Vegas.
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Hard-punching Earnie Shavers, who fought Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes for the heavyweight title, dies at age 78.
WBC lightweight champion and Las Vegas resident Devin Haney fights unified champion George Kambosos Jr. on Saturday for the undisputed 135-pound champion.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a smart, calculating, defensive genius when a bell rings. The most hyped fight in history was, for the most part, a nice sparring session between a bigger, stronger, longer Mayweather and a fellow champion in Manny Pacquiao.
Oscar De La Hoya strikes me as a man who doesn’t buy the idea that recognizing power in another doesn’t diminish his own.
TBE, Floyd Mayweather’s latest acronym to describe his place in boxing history — The Best Ever — falls short on the reality side of the ledger. He never has been. He never will be.
In those times over the past few years when media from all dots on a global map heard from Robert Guerrero’s people, I would think of the Inyo National Forest, which covers parts of California and Nevada and stretches some 2 million acres.
Whew. I’m sure glad Dr. Robert Voy’s prognosis that day in June 2012 proved wrong. So is boxing.
Mark Kriegel, author of biographies on Joe Namath and Pete Maravich, has produced his most poignant work yet with “The Good Son,” the story of Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini and how one tragic moment in November 1982 altered the course of two families.