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THE CIRCLE OF LIFE: THE END OF THE BERNARD HOPKINS ERA
By John McCormick

Ever since he lost two extremely close decisions to Jermain Taylor in 2005, Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins' career has been a pattern of taking risks. With wins against Antonio Tarver, Kelly Pavlik, and Jean Pascal, the risks that the 47 year old took brought him major success. However, some risks, such as his 2008 loss to Joe Calzaghe left the Philadelphia native empty handed. Hopkins’ second bout against “Bad” Chad Dawson left the former world light heavyweight and middleweight champion empty handed once again.

After re-watching their first bout, a two-round no contest, fans could only hope the rematch wouldn’t be another disappointment or that these two would fight to a draw, prompting a third bout. Luckily, Dawson had other plans. The New Haven, Connecticut native, himself a former light heavyweight champion, dominated Hopkins for a majority of the second fight, all while preventing Hopkins from setting a rhythm to the fight.

“They are going to try and take this one away from me,” said Hopkins to press row while judges Dick Flaherty, Luis Rivera and Steve Weisfeld’s scorecards were totaled up. In the past, Hopkins’ post-fight rants had substance to them. Seeing Hopkins clearly beaten over the course of a twelve round fight hasn’t exactly been a regular event over the course of his 23½ year pro career. However, on this night the clarity of the loss wasn’t debatable: Dawson beat Hopkins and beat him badly. Hopkins has no case for a controversial decision despite Luis Rivera’s atrocious 114-114 scorecard. The living legend should hang the gloves up and the New Jersey State Athletic Commission should summon Luis Rivera and have him explain round-by-round how he gave Hopkins six rounds when the Philadelphia native won, in my opinion, only two rounds at most.

On the other hand, a surging sense of hope could be felt at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on Saturday night. It was a bittersweet moment; the ugly right hand, heat-butt and clinch style of Bernard Hopkins is a thing of the past, at least until Timothy Bradley faces Manny Pacquiao on June 9th. We have a new world light heavyweight champion in Chad Dawson, a familiar position for him. However, Dawson had an intense, extremely focused look in his eyes on Saturday night that may foreshadow the future of his career. Anybody with any boxing knowledge can’t deny Chad Dawson’s talent; the man has many skills. His inconsistencies have been his downfall, specifically his 2010 loss to Jean Pascal, a loss that Dawson should now look to avenge.

Whether you’re a fan of Dawson’s style or you favor the ways of Hopkins, one thing is clear. The fact that Dawson won on Saturday night is a good thing for the sport of boxing. A young, talented champion is good for the sport. An over-the-hill ex-champion, even one that can still compete with fighters half his age, shall soon become a circus act. Hopkins should stop complaining and be thankful his championship run ended with the dignity of a gallant effort. He is getting hit more than he ever has and it would only be a matter of time before he gets hurt in the ring. A farewell fight against a mediocre fighter is understandable for Hopkins, so he can close the book on a long, unbelievable, hall-of-fame career with another name in the win column.

But except for an easy farell fight, he should hang up the gloves immediately.

Dawson, on the other hand has a bright future. Potential fights with Tavoris Cloud, Pascal, or a number of super middleweights who may head up 7 pounds north can define his legacy. The skies have opened for Dawson at the same time that they have closed for Hopkins.
 
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Cotto to make $8 million plus PPV upside for Mayweather bout on Saturday
May 2nd, 2012

(PHOTO CREDIT: Gene Blevins – Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotion) By Dan Ambrose: 31-year-old WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) is going to make a lot of money for this Saturday’s fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s).

According to boxing news from Dan Rafael at ESPN, Cotto will get a cool $8 million right off the bat for the Mayweather Jr. fight. However, it’s likely to go even higher with the pay-per-view upside. We’re talking possibly well over $10 million for a fight that Cotto is likely to lose.

If the fight brings in 1.4 million pay per view buys or higher, Cotto is going to be a a lot richer than he already is come Saturday night. Trying to predict the number of buys the Mayweather-Cotto fight will bring is difficult at this point because it’s hard to say how many boxing fans are going to be willing to pay $59.95 for what amounts to be two mismatches plus some obscure fighters on the undercard that mainly hardcore fans are aware of.

The undercard fights are as follows:

Saul Alvarez vs. Shane Mosley
Deandre Latimore vs. Carlos Quintana
Jessie Vargas vs. Steve Forbes

These are the undercard fights that will make onto the PPV card. The other additional five bouts on the undercard likely won’t be shown because there are only a limited number of fights that can be shown unless all three undercard television fights end in early knockouts, which is a definite possibility.

Saul Alvarez will be hauling in $1.2 million for his fight against 40-year-old Shane Mosley. Not bad money for a fight that will likely be one-sided from start to finish. Mosley will bring in $650,000. That’s really good money given that Mosley hasn’t won a fight in over three years. Can you believe that? Mosley’s last win was in January 2009 against Antonio Margarito. Mosley has fought three times since then, losing two of the bouts and getting a draw in the third. He’s fought poorly and yet the World Boxing Council has him ranked #4 in the junior middleweight division.

Mayweather’s purse hasn’t been disclosed as of yet
 
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Adrien Broner: I’m going to be the biggest star in boxing soon
May 2nd, 2012

By Scott Gilfoid: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) recognizes that he’s on the cusp of super stardom as he goes into his bout this month against fodder opponent Gary Sykes (20-2, 5 KO’s) at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Broner is destined for greatness, another Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the making.

Broner said this on his twitter “I’m going to be the biggest star in boxing soon.”

So true, so true. He’s a star waiting to be revealed to the world.

Right now, boxing fans are still lucky enough to see the 22-year-old Broner on regular HBO. That’s going to change in the near future as Broner takes over where Mayweather Jr. leaves off when he retires. Broner has got the goods and then some. He’s not only blazing fast, but also a great defensive artist. He can do everything Mayweather can do, but is much better wit when it comes to interviews and/or press conference banter. Broner is perhaps in a class all to his own, because there isn’t out there that includes great soundbites with comedy. Broner has it all.

As for his fight on May 19th, it’s basically a slaughter, but you can’t blame Broner for it. His promoters pick his opponents, not him, and there’s no one out there that can give Broner a good fight anyway.

Let’s be honest here. If they dragged out guys like Kevin Mitchell or Ricky Burns from the UK, we’d get the same results as what will be seeing on May 19th. Broner would be simply way too good for them and would smash them in one or two rounds at the most. The super featherweight division has got a lot of good quality opponents, but Broner simply is so far out in front of them that there’s no comparison.
 
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Good job Manny that just proves Mayweather's point you make $25 million a fight ( Mosley and Marquez) = $50 million. The $40 million flat fee was a fair offer almost double what you made in two fights. Mayweather made $40 million in one fight against Ortiz.

Recently, according to ESPN, reports have come out that Manny Pacquiao was one of the top paid athletes, earning 50 million dollars for his two fights in 2011 against Juan Manuel Marquez and Shane Mosley.
Mayweather himself made 40 million dollars in 2011, but that was for only one fight against Victor Ortiz.


That was for the Manny groupie and the $40 million Mayweather made against Oritz is confrimed in the same ESPN magazine with Money Mayweather on the cover. lol another fail..
 
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I'm really bummed out about this. Not sure if anyone else cares but I've been a long time subscriber but cancelled my subscription recently as a result of this BS. I also used to hold The Ring belt in the highest regard most every time because obviously you could only get it if you beat the man who beat the man, or by the #1 fighting the #2 but this is an absolute joke!

I knew it was a bad sign when editor-in-chief Nigel Collins was fired by Golden Boy Promotions, owner of The Ring, but then others were fired too and basically they cleaned house. The entire magazine is different and it's really lost it's credibility. Also if anyone has read the last two issues you know it is crap (mistakes galore, bad articles and just lost it's "Ring" feel to it).






Ring updates championship policy to fill vacancies


The fact that THE RING has championship vacancies in 11 of the 17 weight divisions is stark evidence that the Nos. 1- and 2-rated fighters rarely face one another in the modern boxing era.

The goal of THE RING has always been to determine the true champion in every division. Clearly, the long-standing policy has not been effective at meeting this objective.

The editors at THE RING had two choices – do nothing, which would perpetuate the status quo, or take action.

After many long discussions, we decided to update our Championship Policy in an effort to encourage top fighters to face one another and create more championship fights while maintaining the high standards long associated with THE RING.

“We didn’t want to sit back and continue to say, in effect, ‘Oh, well. We can’t force these guys to fight each other so there’s nothing we can do,’” said Michael Rosenthal, Editor of THE RING Magazine.

“We believe we’ve come up with a new policy that will pump more life into the sport and hopefully motivate the best to fight the best, which is what fans deserve.”

Here’s a look at the updated policy:

NEW CHAMPIONSHIP POLICY

Championship vacancies can be filled in the following two ways:

1. THE RING’s Nos. 1 and 2 contenders fight one another.

2. If the Nos. 1 and 2 contenders choose not to fight one another and either of them fights No. 3, No. 4 or No. 5, the winner may be awarded THE RING belt.

CHAMPIONSHIP RETENTION

THE RING also wants to encourage its champions to face worthy opponents. With that in mind, here are the six situations in which a champion may lose his belt:

1. The Champion loses a fight in the weight class in which he is champion.

2. The Champion moves to another weight class.

3. The Champion does not schedule a fight in any weight class for 18 months.

4. The Champion does not schedule a fight at his championship weight for 18 months (even if he fights at another weight).

5. The Champion does not schedule a fight with a Top-5 contender from any weight class for two years.

6. The Champion retires.
 

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for the floyd groupies that were saying pac only made $6 million or whatever his last fight...ESPN highest paid athletes of 2011 (pac #1 at $50,000,000 (list excludes endorsements and all other earnings))

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7858863/racing-boxing-highest-paying-sports-espn-magazine
Huh? U just made Floyd's offer look good actually. Got Em!!

Good job Manny that just proves Mayweather's point you make $25 million a fight ( Mosley and Marquez) = $50 million. The $40 million flat fee was a fair offer almost double what you made in two fights. Mayweather made $40 million in one fight against Ortiz.

Recently, according to ESPN, reports have come out that Manny Pacquiao was one of the top paid athletes, earning 50 million dollars for his two fights in 2011 against Juan Manuel Marquez and Shane Mosley.
Mayweather himself made 40 million dollars in 2011, but that was for only one fight against Victor Ortiz.


That was for the Manny groupie and the $40 million Mayweather made against Oritz is confrimed in the same ESPN magazine with Money Mayweather on the cover. lol another fail..
Agreed. Got Em!!
 
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Why do floyd hate manny so much.... manny and floyd make 25 a mill a fight plus ppv how much total we dont know. But manny said floyd dont make more than him.who should we belive i dont know. I just look at the facts and floyd cant sell out the mgm whos the superstar? Floyd cuz he sayz he makes more money hes a proven liar lol. Tell floyd to fight berto after he gets out no canelo in the under card see how many tickets he sells and ppv. Manny vs clottey no 24/7 it did good.mayweather cant sell appv event by him self against a no name fighter he has no fans.manny has fans up the ass. Everyone knows whos the top dog in boxing
 
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If u know u the ppv king make more money the better fighter and u say u the face of boxing.why the hate and anger towards little manny. And manny has never said anything bad about u. You know why cuz floyd knows hes number 2 and manny is number 1. And hes trying to convince evrebody and him self hes 1. And why manny dont say nothing cuz he knows hes the chingon period win or lose
 
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I guarantee you the ring stipulation only comes into play with GBP fighters or a big marquee fighter. I can't wait to see bumps in the rankings for GBP fighters as well. I still watch most title fights and don't really care about the Ring belt itself. IMO the only thing that matters in a division is being the lineal champ which guarantees that you're the man to beat in the division.
 
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Huh? U just made Floyd's offer look good actually. Got Em!!



Agreed. Got Em!!
Read son:



^^^Mayweather had about 95/5 split with Ortiz though, whereas Marquez made well over $10 million dollars plus upside of the PPV, you have to factor that in as well. Obviously floyd is going to make bank in one fight if he has almost 100% of the purse
 
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So Mayweather is guaranteed $32 million plus PPV money vs Cotto tomorrow, and the Manny fans still want to act like the $40 million flat fee was a unfair offer, to a fighter that only makes $25 million his last two fights and that's including PPV money. lol. If Marquez vs. Manny 3 did 1.3 million PPV buys like the Manny fans love to claim, how come Manny only made $25 million and Mayweather with his 1.25 million confrimed by HBO PPV buys made $40 million?? Please answer these questions for me Manny fans. Manny doesn't even get a 50% split of his own in-house Top Rank fights, but you want a 50/50 split with Mayweather. LoL First Manny backs out of the fight because you don't want to give blood, then you back out of the fight because $40 million is not enough for the BEATING Mayweather is going to give you. And the whole time you have lame ass Manny nuthuggers co-signing this man ducking Mayweather. lol It's just too funny to me. Remember just 7 months ago Mayweather was scared and ducking Cotto too. Manny fans and Mayweather haters are too funny.
 
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32 mill plus ppv ok how much he getting total we can talk numbers but we dont know the final nal numbers. Tomorow u going to see a full house of mexicans and puerto rican at the mgm rooting for canelo and cotto now thatz a fact. 32 mill is a pr stunt to hype floyd cuz in reality he aint no where neer mannys level espn magazine please look around turn on the tv the top dog is every where. A month later floyd going to say he made 1billion dollar all floyd fans are going to squirt tbem selfs lol floyd a froud but i admit he a good fucken boxer