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Why the hell would anyone put another man's face on them? Even if I had a mission to ink every single square inch of my body, a mans face would not be on the list of things to ink on myself. I wouldn't even put a family member (father, son, etc.).

Plus of all people, Floyd Mayweather?
Then of all places, on your hand?

Has to be the one of the gayest tattoos I've ever seen.
 
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Your hand has to be the worst place for a portrait too. I mean the skin is all wrinkly and constantly shifts around as you move your hands. Worst idea haha

I can understand a historical figure like Mike Tyson's tats of Che and MAO (not sure how Arthur Ashe fits in with them though lol).
 
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No GGG. No Canelo. Best we can hope for is James Kirkland. Probably going to be Rubio....


Miguel Cotto To Return 12/13 At Madison Square Garden
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By Ryan Burton

Top Rank CEO Bob Arum has advised*BoxingScene.com*that Miguel Cotto will return to the ring on*December 13th*at Madison Square Garden and that his opponent will be finalized next week.*

"Cotto will actually be returning to the ring on*December 13th*at MSG. Todd (duBoef) is meeting with Cotto next week and they will finalize his opponent," Arum told*BoxingScene.

Arum confirmed that former 154 lb. champ Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez is not in the running to face Cotto in December, though a fight they will aggressively explore next spring.

"Canelo isn't an option for December but a fight in May is certainly a possibility," said Arum.*

Cotto last fought in June when he upset WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez and became the first Puerto Rican fighter to capture a world title in 4 weight classes.*
 
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Unfair treatment of Golovkin by elite fighters?
July 31st, 2014 | Post Comment - 145 Comments
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gennady golovkin By Robert “Big Moe” Elmore: Gennady Golovkin has called out fellow middleweight champion Miguel Cotto and Carl Froch boxing. So far it has netted him nothing. The fight that the public really seems to claiming for is GGG and Andre Ward to get it on. But on several occasions, Tom Loeffler, GGG’s promoter, said they are looking for pay per view bouts.

Gabriel Penagaricano, Cotto adviser, told the Boxing Voice, that GGG is not reached the majors in boxing. He also went on to say the Russian hasn’t participated in a pay per view event. In a recent interview, Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn said that there wasn’t enough money or fan interest yet for a fight between Froch and Golovkin to take place.

Some boxing fans are always over looking the business side of the sport and like to focus strictly on “let’s make the fight happen”. Fans get emotional when talking about getting fights made. But emotions have no room in the business world. I have said it before and I’ll say it again. When a fighter from a different country is fight on American soil, he has to capture the American audience. Period. There is no other way around it.

If GGG were fighting in his hometown of Karaganda, I’m sure he would pack the house every time he fought. His debut in Madison Square Garden against Daniel Geale drew over eight thousand fans, but HBO ratings took a hit in ratings. Why? The casual fan did not know who Daniel Geale was. I can tell you this, eight thousand fans is not going to cut it when Tom Loeffler is talking about doing a pay per view event.

Consider this. The Cotto – Sergio Martinez bout took a big hit in terms of pay per view sales (375,000). Cotto was the draw, but the problem was Martinez brought nothing to the table for this particular fight. In Martinez’s fight with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. the fight did very well (475,000 buys). But I give a lot of that credit to Chavez Jr because of the fan base he bought.

When it comes to GGG fighting Andre Ward, Loeffler has stated that it doesn’t make financial sense to make a fight. How can one get upset at Cotto and Froch when there teams say “the fight doesn’t make financial sense” when Loeffler says the same thing about making the fight with Ward? Before his fight with Saul Alvarez, Erislandy Lara called out GGG. Loeffler responded to Lara on his social media sight saying “Lara is not approved by HBO and is never on our radar, he should be calling Quillin out, if he wins, he becomes interesting. Lara fights on Showtime and had draws with Vanes and Molina, GGG vs Stevens=high ratings. Who watches Lara”?

So if I understood this quote correctly, Lara had to go fight and beat Qullin, and then he becomes interesting? So would be fair to say that GGG needs to beat Ward and then he becomes interesting to Cotto and Froch or even Saul Alvarez? And GGG’s trainer, Abel Sanchez says “they are ready to fight Ward only if Ward understands that GGG is the bigger star bigger draw”? I find that a bit hypocritical of team GGG. If Loeffler is that confident in his fighters star power, why not test that theory. There has been talks of GGG fighting IBF champ Sam Soliman. Put that fight on pay per view and see what it does.

Neither Ward or Golovkin are big draws for certain reasons. Ward has the better resume and GGG brings excitement because of his ability to produce knockouts. The fight would be on regular HBO because I stated neither fighter are big draws. In GGG, they have to create an opportunity instead of waiting on them. The Ward fight can do that. There is a bigger picture that I believe Loeffler is failing to see in fighting Ward. If GGG beats Ward, then GGG steals Wards crowd. At that point, like Loeffler said that Lara would become interesting if he were to beat Quillin, then GGG, becomes interesting to bigger names if he beats Ward.

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Khan: The Mayweather Super fight is within touching distance
July 31st, 2014 | Post Comment - 92 Comments
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floyd mayweather jr amir khan By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan (29-3, 19 KOs) believes that he’s nearer to getting the big fight that he’s been talking about for ages against WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. Khan thinks the Mayweather fight could take place next May if he looks good in his upcoming bout on December 6th this year.

Khan is waiting for his adviser Al Haymon and his promoters at Golden Boy Promotions to pick out the opponent for that date. As usual, Khan is mentioning Robert Guerrero and Devon Alexander as two of the top names that are being looked at for his December 6th fight

Guerrero is the slower and arguably weaker puncher, so it wouldn’t be surprising if he’s the one that gets picked out for Khan to fight. Alexander has more hand speed and pop in his punches, and he could potentially beat Khan if he connected with enough of his shots.

“The Mayweather fight is within touching distance. It’s very close,” Khan said to Skysports.com. “I don’t want a long wait until May. I want to get a fight in December and look good in that fight. I want to fight nice and comfortable and then go into a super-fight in May. That’s what my idea is and I’ve left it to my team and management to take me to that route.”

I wish Khan a lot of luck in trying to get the Mayweather fight, because it doesn’t look like something that has any chance of happening. I mean, Khan could definitely help himself get to that fight, but it’ll take a couple of risks on his part to make it happen.

The first thing that Khan needs to do is tell Haymon and Golden Boy that he wants Keith Thurman or the winner of the Shawn Porter vs. Kell Brook for his December 6th fight. Those guys hold a lot more weight right now than the likes of Alexander and Guerrero. Alexander is still rebuilding after a loss to Porter, so it’s not as if Khan is going to get a huge bump up in status if he beats him.

As for Guerrero, he’s pretty much in the same boat as Alexander, but he’s arguably worse off because he was easily beaten by Mayweather last year in May in a one-sided 12 round decision loss. And in Guerrero’s first fight since that loss, he looked horrible in beating fringe contender Yoshihiro Kamegai by a 12 round decision last June.

If Khan wants to get the status that he’s going to need to get a Mayweather fight, he’ll need to fight the winner of Brook-Porter or face Keith Thurman. The question is will Golden Boy and Haymon match Khan against one of those fighters? I’d say that’s a big no. He’s going to likely be put in with the safer option of fighting Alexander or Guerrero. As such, Khan won’t get much from a victory over one of those guys if he can actually beat them, and believe me, I have serious doubts whether he can do that.

The other thing that Khan needs to do in order to get a Mayweather fight is he needs to stop holding, shoving and pulling down on his opponent’s heads when he fights. Khan needs to prove that he can win his next fight in December without resorting to those fouling tactics to win. Mayweather is likely not too excited about facing someone that fouls constantly by grabbing his opponent’s heads and then bending them over in an ‘r’ shape with their heads facing the canvas while Khan leans on the back of their necks with all of his weight.

Mayweather probably doesn’t want to be put in headlocks all night long either the way Khan does with his opponents. The roughhouse tactics that Marcos Maidana does in the ring is kid stuff compared to the things that Khan does, because he basically shuts down his opponent’s offense with these fouling tactics, and the referees that have worked his recent fights have let him get away with it. The last referee that attempted to put a stop to Khan’s roughhouse tactics was Joseph Cooper when he took two points off from Khan for his shoving in the Lamont Peterson fight.

I’m not really sure that Khan can win his fights without these roughhouse tactics though. If you take away Khan’s shoving, head-locks, and pulling down on the head of his opponents, it would mean that he’d be forced to take a lot more shots from his opponents because they wouldn’t have their offense stamped out routinely by these tactics.

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Golovkin gets exposed by Hopkins at 160, says Angel Garcia
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gennady golovkin bernard hopkins By Dan Ambrose: Angel Garcia, the father of WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia, thinks that 49-year-old IBF/WBA light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (55-6-2, 32 KOs) would beat WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs) if Hopkins were to come down to 160 to fight Golovkin for his title. Angel believes that Hopkins, even at 50, would still beat Golovkin.

“Bernard should fight this Triple G, and come down to middleweight. I bet Bernard exposes him,” Angel said. “I’m saying Bernard would expose him at [age] 50.”

Hopkins hasn’t fought at middleweight in the past nine years since his loss to Jermain Taylor in 2005. Hopkins moved up to light heavyweight after that fight. The closest that Hopkins has come to the middleweight division is when he fought former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik at a catch-weight of 170 pounds in 2008.

Hopkins easily beat Pavlik by a 12 round decision in that fight. However, 170 pounds = light heavyweight, not middleweight, and it’s highly unlikely that Hopkins could come anywhere near the 160 pound weight limit for a fight against Golovkin. I doubt that Hopkins would even try to make 160 for a fight against Golovkin.

If a fight were made between the two of them, Hopkins would probably use his popularity to get Golokin to fight him in the neighborhood of 166-170 rather than Hopkins moving down in weight to fight Golovkin. Hopkins would likely be weakened and totally ineffective if he had to come down to 160 to fight Golovkin.

Golovkin would be a big problem for Hopkins if that fight were to be made because of his power. Hopkins doesn’t throw a lot of punches anymore, and he’s not fought a good opponent since his loss to Chad Dawson in 2012. Hopkins has won his last three fights against Tavoris Cloud, Karo Murat and Beibut Shumenov.

Those aren’t great fighters, and Hopkins is still pretty much the same fighter that Dawson beat in 2012, only a little slower than he was in that fight. Golovkin would be putting hands on Hopkins and hitting him with shots that he’s not been hit by in a long time. While Hopkins fights at 175, he’s not been fighting guys with Golovkin’s type of power since he moved up in weight in 2005. The guys that Hopkins has faced at 175 haven’t been huge punchers like Golovkin, and they didn’t have his skill-set. Golovkin’s heavy shots would be a problem for Hopkins no matter how good his chin is.

Hopkins wants to fight WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev in the near future. That’s going to be a major battle for Hopkins because his low work rate won’t be high enough to keep Kovalev off of him. Besides that, Hopkins’ head movement and shoulder roll won’t be enough to keep him from getting hit with a lot of hard head shots.

The only way Hopkins wins that fight is if he can find the fountain of youth to help him increase his low work rate, because he’s not going to be able to depend on Kovalev just staying on the outside throwing occasional wild power shots the way Shumenov did recently against him.

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Bob's connection with Senator Reid is what allowed Chaves into the US:


The government computer malfunction left the U.S. Immigration courts virtually handcuffed as upwards of 400,000 cases have been delayed. Among them was Chaves (23-1, 19KOs), whose visa application was actually approved, but unable to process due to the system bug.

As recent as Wednesday morning, Chaves himself was under the impression that his fight with Rios (31-2-1, 23KOs) would be canceled and forced to reschedule at another time once he was able to more easily enter the United States. Top Rank wasn’t having it, however, insisting that the show must go on.

“We are very fortunate here in Nevada to have the Majority Senate Leader, Harry Reid who is a tremendous boxing fan,” Arum recognized of the political figure who was key in pushing through the fighter’s case to help salvage the fight, which airs live on HBO. “Chaves was approved for a visa, but the computer wouldn't spit out.

“As days went by, it became doubtful that he would be able to get his visa in time. I'm happy to report that the show is on.”
 
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heyzel said:
Golovkin gets exposed by Hopkins at 160, says Angel Garcia


gennady golovkin bernard hopkins By Dan Ambrose: Angel Garcia, the father of WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia, thinks that 49-year-old IBF/WBA light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (55-6-2, 32 KOs) would beat WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs) if Hopkins were to come down to 160 to fight Golovkin for his title. Angel believes that Hopkins, even at 50, would still beat Golovkin.

“Bernard should fight this Triple G, and come down to middleweight. I bet Bernard exposes him,” Angel said. “I’m saying Bernard would expose him at [age] 50.”
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Angel said a lot more than just that, he's just hatin. Saying what has Golovkin done for America, shit like that. Nearly as bad as Peter Quillin talking about how It's a shame these foreigners are making all this money, but at the same time loves to promote that he's half Cuban (his dad was from Cuba). Idiots.

 
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