It was announced Monday that Canelo Alvarez, training for his unified middleweight world title match against Gennady Golovkin at T-Mobile Arena, tested positive and has blamed tainted meat in Mexico for his dirty sample.
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Those savvy business types who have so brilliantly crafted the illusion that Floyd Mayweather has engaged a catalog of deserving and worthy opponents in the past decade just might have met their match in Andre Berto.
A lawsuit has been filed claiming Manny Pacquiao deceived pay-per-view fans by not disclosing his injury before his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. If you paid to watch the fight, you were owed a championship fight. You got it — a typical Mayweather one.
If you click on the website, you immediately hear the theme song from “Rocky IV,” one that talks about there being no easy way out, no shortcut home, that some things are worth fighting for, that giving in can’t be wrong.
And on the first matchup of a six-fight contract with CBS/Showtime that could earn Floyd Mayweather Jr. $200 million over the next 30 months, we learned a few things:
The elephant in the room is shrinking. He is news only when others boo him at sporting events or the next story about his legal issues hits the Internet or he tweets a picture of a winning sports gaming ticket for amounts that many people don’t earn in a year.
It didn’t sound any better a few days later. It didn’t play any less disgusting on YouTube. It wasn’t any less racist, any less hateful, any less ignorant. As for the apology Floyd Mayweather Jr. subsequently released via another video, well, there are kiddie pools all around Summerlin that aren’t as shallow.
My mother is a small, forgetful, cheerful Irish immigrant who never drove a day in her life, is convinced mashed potatoes aren’t the same without mixing in that fourth stick of butter and always thinks the next cup of coffee she drinks is the best of her lifetime.