Associated Press MIAMI — Floyd Mayweather Jr. allowed a deadline for striking a deal on a superfight with Manny Pacquiao to pass without saying anything. A day later, Mayweather indicated that his stance wouldn’t be changing anytime soon. “I’m not interested in rushing to do anything,” Mayweather told The Associated Press. Appearing in Miami on...
Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Timothy Bradley kept his unbeaten record intact with a bruising unanimous decision over Argentina’s Luis Carlos Abregu on Saturday night. Bradley (26-0, 11 KOs) was tested and tagged throughout his move up to welterweight, but the WBO 140-pound champion did enough work to win comfortably on all three scorecards...
By Dan Rafael ESPN.com Top Rank promoter Bob Arum’s deadline of 3 a.m. ET came and went Saturday morning with no response from Floyd Mayweather Jr. or his representatives about whether he would accept the terms of a deal for a Nov. 13 fight with Manny Pacquiao. So there is no deal, Arum said, and...
Por Luis Santiago Arce / larce@elnuevodia.com Las vacaciones de Miguel ‘Junito’ Cotto ya terminaron. Es hora de volver a la ‘oficina’. Con miras a su oportunidad titular del próximo 5 de junio ante Yuri Foreman, monarca junior mediano de la Asociación Mundial de Boxeo (AMB), en el Yankee Stadium de Nueva York, el ex bicampeón cagüeño...
Dan Rafael ESPN.com Manny Pacquiao’s lopsided unanimous decision against Joshua Clottey generated 700,000 pay-per-view buys and $35.3 million in domestic television revenue, HBO PPV’s Mark Taffet said Tuesday. The pound-for-pound king routed Clottey to retain his welterweight title on March 13 in the first boxing event staged at Jerry Jones’ $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium in...
Former welterweight titleholder Antonio Margarito is coming back, presumably without trying to load his gloves this time. Margarito (37-6, 27 KOs) will make his ring return against untested Roberto Garcia (28-2, 21 KOs) on May 8 in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Top Rank’s Bob Arum told ESPN.com on Wednesday. The scheduled 10-round junior middleweight fight will headline...
3rd largest U.S. boxing crowd in 50 years WBO welterweight champion and pound-for-pound superstar Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) scored a one-sided twelve round unanimous decision against former IBF champion Joshua Clottey (35-4, 20 KOs) in front of 50,994 on Saturday night at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. From the opening bell, Pacman outworked Clottey...
“He wants to show the world he’s the greatest,” Jones said. “It took this guy four days to get in shape, and he’ll keep training up until about three, four days before the fight. I’ve told him, ‘Floyd, you’re getting scary.’ He says, ‘Nate, I gotta beat this [guy].’ ”
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