Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez face off in New York

Manny Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38KOs) and Juan Manuel Marquez (53-5-1, 39KOs) faced off moments ago on the New York leg of the four city press tour to promote their November WBO welterweight title clash. The event kicked off with Pacquiao and Dan H

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Arum: Mayweather turned down $65 million offer to fight Pacquiao in Singapore

There’s avoiding a fight, and then there’s turning down $65 million for a fight. The former is strategy, the latter is lunacy. That’s what Floyd Mayweather Jr. reportedly said to the prospect of a fight with Manny Pacquiao in Singapore, according to Bob Arum, the head of Top Rank Promotions. If true, Mayweather’s behavior has now been upgraded from “ducking” Pacquiao to “running, screaming like a Girl Scout.” Arum told boxing reporter Elie Seckbach that as recently

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Underdog Boxing: De La Hoya's apology to Pacman, Arum paves way for big fights

Don’t you just love it when problems get sorted out? I do, specially when solving the problem means it’s finally possible to make the best matches in boxing.A few weeks ago, Oscar de la Hoya checked into a rehabilitation center for substance abuse. Curiously, after that point, the former six-division world champion started to make amends. He went to Twitter and sent out apologies to Bob Arum and Manny Pacquiao. It was mostly about him insinuating that Pacquiao was taking performance-enhancing

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Oscar De La Hoya Tweet to Bob Arum won’t speed up Pacquiao-Mayweather Plan

So Friday before the big holiday weekend, Oscar De La Hoya sent a tweet to Bob Arum asking for forgiveness. It came from the unknown Southern California rehabilitation center where De La Hoya is reportedly undergoing treatment for any number of reasons.What we do know, this must be a serious situation for De La Hoya. He reaches out to his one friend and adversary. But we should not speculate that there is now peace with Top Rank and

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