The doorstep calls them all at some point. It beckons with truths about age and fading skills and stories about greatness abating from one’s Hall of Fame resume. Manny Pacquiao is being called, but is convinced it’s far too early.
Boxing
Super middleweight Gilberto Ramirez remained undefeated with a fifth-round technical knockout over Giovanni Lorenzo in the main event of Friday’s Top Rank boxing card at Mandalay Bay.
From the moment ring announcer Michael Buffer read the scores the night of June 9, 2012, many fans and boxing media members were demanding an immediate rematch between Timothy Bradley and Manny Pacquiao. Saturday night, they’ll get it.
Timothy Bradley may have won over some new fans with his recent victories over Ruslan Provodnikov and Juan Manuel Marquez but if Friday’s weigh-in at the MGM Grand garden was any indication, Bradley’s popularity has a ways to go if he wants to be comparable to Manny Pacquiao.
Interviews are scheduled Saturday for five finalists to replace Keith Kizer as executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission.
Four finalists to be interviewed from original pool of 350 candidates as three-month process to replace Keith Kizer wraps up.
The 24-year-old Las Vegan fights for a world title for the first time when he meets WBA junior welterweight champ Khabib Allakhverdiev Saturday on the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley undercard at the MGM Grand Garden.
Super middleweight Gilberto Ramirez (27-0, 21 knockouts) will meet veteran Giovanni Lorenzo (33-6, 25 KOs) in tonight’s 10-round main event of Top Rank’s boxing card at Mandalay Bay.
Less than 24 hours after Top Rank chairman Bob Arum’s tirade against the MGM Grand for posting signs for Floyd Mayweather’s upcoming May 3 fight against Marcos Maidana in competition with Saturday’s Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley rematch, the MGM removed most of the Mayweather signs from the property.
The reigning WBO welterweight champion has newfound fans and improved confidence thanks to impressive wins since his controversial split-decision victory over Manny Pacquiao in 2012. The two meet again on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden.
Things have been, well, docile, in the run-up to Saturday’s Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley rematch. So Top Rank chairman Bob Arum decided to spice things up at Wednesday’s final news conference by taking a swipe at the host property for the fight — the MGM Grand.
The eight-time world champion boxer and the Hall of Fame trainer bond like family and have stayed together during the good times and the darkest moments. Both Pacquiao and Roach are looked to avenge the controversial 2012 split-decision loss to Timothy Bradley this Saturday.
Canada’s Craig Metcalfe selected by Nevada Athletic Commission to replace Great Britain’s John Keane after viral infection keeps English judge bedridden.
Top Rank objects to the Nevada Athletic Commision’s approving dates for promoter when no fight has been made for the date. President Todd duBoef says it’s an unfair business practice which hurts Las Vegas and hurts boxing as well.
The Nevada Athletic Commission Tuesday approved the judges for the April 12 rematch between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley at the MGM Grand Garden. Two are from Las Vegas: Glenn Trowbridge as a judge and Kenny Bayless as the referee.
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