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Glen Johnson managed to turn back the clock early Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden.
Juan Manuel Lopez not only wanted to win, he wanted to look good doing it.
Representatives for Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. abided by a mediator’s gag order Tuesday after meeting for nine hours in a desperate attempt to rescue the lucrative March 13 welterweight megafight in Las Vegas.
The creation of a fund earmarked for catastrophic injuries to boxers and martial arts fighters is being studied by the Nevada Athletic Commission, its chairwoman said Tuesday.
The megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. won’t take place in March, Top Rank chairman Bob Arum said Wednesday.
Mayweather refused to accept a compromise agreement struck during Tuesday’s marathon mediation session in Santa Monica, Calif., according to an anonymous source with knowledge of those talks. At issue was Pacquiao’s refusal to submit to random blood tests as part of prefight drug testing for the bout that had been tentatively scheduled for March 13.
Arum said he is still under a gag order from the mediator, retired judge Daniel Weinstein, regarding the situation. But Arum said he expects to announce today plans for a March 13 or 20 fight in Las Vegas between Pacquiao and WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman.