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If anyone hasn't seen Gonzalez Vs. Letterlough, and even if you have it's worth watching again, here it is..

[video=youtube;OCR1LTfr5g8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCR1LTfr5g8[/video]

[video=youtube;mYCFCZz-El4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYCFCZz-El4[/video]

[video=youtube;qJDWjyyI2HM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJDWjyyI2HM[/video]
 
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48-year-old Virgil Hill In Training For Comeback!

By James Slater - Virgil Hill, known during his prime as “Quicksilver,” achieved plenty in the ring; amateur and pro. Yet the 48-year-old who has not fought in over four years says he is currently in training to make one last comeback..
According to The Bismarck Tribune, Ace-trainer Freddie Roach, the man who guided the 1984 Olympic silver medallist to the WBA light-heavyweight title all the way back in 1987, has been working with his former charge in California. It is not known if Roach will actually participate in Hill’s planned comeback other than “checking him out” to see if Hill has anything left to offer.

So far there is no date or opponent set for Hill’s unlikely return. Virgil, who looks much younger than age 48 and who has evidently taken good care of himself since his last fight (a 12-round UD loss to Firat Arslan in a WBA cruiserweight title challenge in Germany) told The Bismarck Tribune that the recent death of his father inspired him to fight again.

Can Hill make anything of himself at this late stage in his life? Though the 50-7(23) campaigner is “only” a year older than current light-heavyweight king Bernard Hopkins, the odds are firmly against Hill making it back to title level. Presumably, seeing as how he Hill won the WBA 200-pound belt with an odds-defying upset win over Valerey Brudov in 2006, this will be the weight Virgil will fight at upon his return.

The win over Brudov was a long time ago, however, and Hill, a pro since November of ’84 (the month a number of that great Olympic squad that included Evander Holyfield, Pernel Whitaker and Meldrick Taylor punched for pay for the very first time) has had a lot of tough fights. Having been in with everyone from Thomas Hearns (his first pro defeat) to Roy Jones Junior (Hill’s first stoppage loss), Hill has all the experience in the world - at two weight classes. But can he defy Father Time?

At this point - other than to hope for all the world that nobody gets the idea of matching Hill with fellow veteran Jones Junior in a “revenge” style return meeting - all we can do is wish Virgil good luck. At almost 50 he will surely need it.

I hope somebody talk some sense into hill
 
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1-year Suspension for Juanma

Robert Jackson: Juanma’s emotional accusatory rant directed towards referee Roberto Ramirez after Saturday night’s fight ending TKO loss for the 2nd time to Orlando Salido has cost him a year, so say the WBO. The WBO yesterday suspended Juan Manuel Lopez for a year (Lopez has 5 days to respond). But what does this mean for Lopez?

At 28, Lopez will be missing out on a year of his prime for fighting.. But as far as Lopez looked Saturday nite, this brief respite could provide him some relief and rest, while also giving him time to make other arrangements as far as continuing his career is concerned. What arrangements you might ask?

Lopez before facing Salido – a journeyman type fighter, was 30-0 ; now 31-2, Lopez needs to retool his skills if he’s to advance and fulfill the promise of his Puerto Rican fighting roots. Lopez showed a lot of heart Saturday nite but he was beaten by a more skillful fighter. Any arrangements that Lopez would make could involve hiring another trainer to give him an advanced boxing education; Emanuel Steward comes to mind here. Freddie Roach is another option that could be considered, seeing how he’s improved the once one-handed Manny Pacquiao. Lopez needs to be more agile in his movement, more versatile in his offense and develop better defense, he also needs to be more relaxed in the ring. Any of the Mayweather brothers could serve Lopez well in all 4 of the aforementioned areas.

With all that being said, the year out of the ring will give Lopez a chance to rest, then go back to the drawing board so when he returns, it won’t go unnoticed. The time off will give Lopez time to perfect and burn into his muscle memory – in the gym at least, an improved style of fighting which will serve him well if he’s to advance up the boxing pyramid to the top. He may also want to return at lightweight rather than featherweight because of his struggles to make weight.
 
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Can Mayweather really turn down 70 – 30 split offer from Manny?
March 12th, 2012

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Undefeated superstar WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) finds himself in a predicament after being offered a 70 – 30 split by Filipino icon WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s). With the estimated combined revenue from the live gate and Pay Per View (PPV) sales being in the range of $200 million a Mayweather – Pacquiao fight would easily be the hugest fight in financial terms in boxing history.

Floyd initially offered Manny a flat $40 million with the proviso that he keep the lucrative PPV revenue. It is estimated that the PPV revenue would be in the range of $160 million. $40 million is indeed a lot of money, but when you take into account that Floyd would keep the lion’s share for himself, it is really a ridiculous offer. Pacquiao realizing what Mayweather was up to said that the offer was embarrassing.

The Pacquiao camp countered Mayweather’s $40 million offer with a $50 million offer to Floyd and a 50 – 50 split of the PPV revenue. Mayweather turned that offer down.

Pacquiao by offering a 70 – 30 split with 70% going to the winner, demonstrated how serious he is about getting Floyd into the ring before he retires. The 70 – 30 split also shows how confident “Pacman” is of defeating Floyd.

So the question that begs to be asked of Mayweather is, why not take the biggest “Money” deal in boxing history?

But with Mayweather it is more than the amount of money he would make in a match with Pacquiao. It is partly about the perception of Floyd being the top pound for pound fighter in the world. Of course the importance of the “0” on Mayweather’s record cannot be overstated and now influences the choice of every opponent he faces in the ring.

Manny has successfully painted Floyd into a corner. Mayweather’s continual assertions that Manny is not in the same league as him will be difficult even for Mayweather’s own followers to swallow. Floyd is also quick to claim that he does not need Pacquiao to bring in the millions of dollars he earns for each of his fights. The reality is however Pacquiao has been outdistancing Mayweather in both PPV and live gate revenue for his last three fights. It is also a cold hard fact that Floyd would earn far more money with Manny in the opposite corner of the ring than anybody else he fights. Mayweather’s reasoning for not fighting Pacquiao just does not hold up to scrutiny.
 
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Roach: Mosley could be finished by Alvarez on May 5th
March 12th, 2012

By William Mackay: Freddie Roach sees 40-year-old Shane Mosley (46-7, 39 KO’s) in a tough situation in his fight against WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KO’s) on May 5th. Roach thinks the young 21-year-old Alvarez could finish off Mosley, who has lost two out of his last three fights and hasn’t won a bout since 2009.

Roach said to Boxingtalk.com “Canelo is going to give it to him. This might be it for Shane. For the past four fights, he hasn’t looked good and I don’t expect anything different for this fight. It is what it is. We all get old.”

Roach, the trainer for WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., would like to see Canelo move up in weight to fight the 25-year-old Chavez Jr. with the winner than taking on WBC middleweight Diamond champion Sergio Martinez. The one thing getting in the way of a Chavez-Alvarez fight is the fact that both guys fight for different promotional companies. Alvarez fights for Golden Boy Promotions, whereas Chavez Jr. fights for Top Rank. Because of that, it’s unlikely that Chavez and Alvarez can have a fight put together between them.

Mosley has been looking really old in the last couple of years, and it’s difficult to see him all of a sudden looking good against Alvarez on May 5th. Most likely, Mosley will lose and lose badly by a lopsided 12 round decision. He’s good enough defensively to survive for 12 rounds if he fights without aggression and throws few punches. But if he actually tries to win the fight then he’ll get easily beaten.

Alvarez and Golden Boy Promotions are taking a slight risk in choosing Mosley to fight, because if he can left his punches go when he sees openings from Alvarez, this will be a one-sided fight because a prime Mosley is in another dimension compared to Alvarez. Let’s be real here. Alvarez will never be as good as Mosley was. We can see that now, because Alvarez doesn’t have the hand speed or the explosive power that a younger Mosley had when he was one of the top lightweights in the world. That was Mosley’s best weight class from 1993 to 1999.
 
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Broner needs Uchiyama and Burns
March 12th, 2012

By Scott Gilfoid: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) and his promoters at Golden Boy Promotions are looking for an interesting opponent to put the talented Broner in with for his next fight after he easily took care of top WBO contender Eloy Perez by stopping him in the 4th round last month on February 25th in a huge slaughter in Saint Louis, Missouri on HBO.

Broner, 22, needs better opposition than this and my list for him to face next would be WBA World super featherweight champion Takashi Uchiyama (18-0, 15 KO’s) or WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns. Either one of those guys would be good, Uchiyama, 32, is the much more interesting fight because he’s got major power and really comes to fight. He doesn’t run and doesn’t hold on any time his opponents get near him. The guy is a warrior and a fight between him and Broner would be big in a major way in the boxing world.

As for a fight between Broner and Burns, I can’t see Burns agreeing to move down in weight to fight Broner at super featherweight because he supposedly cant make super featherweight anymore. And I still think that fight would be doable even if Broner moved up to lightweight, because I think Burns might vacate his title and move up again if Broner shows up on the horizon. I’d hate to see Broner move up in weight just to have Burns drop the WBO strap and move up again. It might not be worth the trouble if Broner can’t get a guarantee that Burns won’t give up his title at the first hint of a Broner fight.

What Broner needs is Uchiyama most of all. Burns probably won’t be an interesting fight for Broner because he’ll pick him apart with ease and drill him each time Burns tries to grab him in one of his bear-hug clinches to try and smother his offense. That’s dull. Broner needs a prime time opponent, not a grabber or a runner. Uchiyama reminds me a lot of a smaller, less skilled version of Kostya Tszyu. He’ll make it interesting for a little while at least with his aggressive style of fighting, but ultimately Broner will take him out in five or six rounds.
 
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Peterson is gonna really have to put it on Khan this time around, he knows what khan can bring. Peterson had Khan looking amateurish last fight, he should bang up that body early. Khans gonna be on that juice, so he better be in tip top shape
 
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Adrien Broner has the potential to be an even higher paid PPV star than Floyd Mayweather
March 13th, 2012

By Frank Gaskins: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) is definitely on the fast track to become one of boxing’s next mega stars. At this stage in his career as early as it is, skill set wise he already seems to have all you could want in a fighter. Broner has the blazing hand speed with the foot speed to match, great foot work, exceptional defense, KO power in each hand, boxing IQ, ring generalship, showmanship and he talks big and walks even bigger.

Dare I say it, but it sounds like I just described undefeated pound for pound king Floyd “Money” Mayweather (though Money’s KO power doesn’t seem to be on display very often, he does have a 62% KO percentage). Since the Oscar De La Hoya fight, Mayweather has taken over boxing as the sports cash cow; this is FACT (I’m sure Pacquiao fans will call me a hater). Mayweather recently stated , “if I had Al Haymon backing me when I started I’d be a billionaire by now”. Well he may not be a billionaire, but he’d certainly be far more wealthy than he currently stands.

Most people seem to think that Mayweather piggy backed off of De La Hoya’s name to become a PPV attraction, I beg to differ. It was actually Mayweather’s idea for HBO to do the first “24/7”. Floyd wanted another avenue besides the press conference where he could trash his opponent, freely use his foul language and flash his money, knowing that he would gain two things, Fans and Haters. It didn’t matter to him whether he was loved or hated, either way they would tune in to watch him, I’m sure there are more people that buy his fights to see him lose that to see him win. It all translates to dollars; make sense? Now we have Mayweather 2.0 in Broner; this guy as hard as it is to believe, talks probably MORE than Floyd, he dances in the ring, raps on his way to the ring and once even asked his promoter Oscar De La Hoya to brush his hair…(Oscar did it). Personally I think it’s funny the things Broner does, but most fans and non-fans won’t think so, they will surely tune in hoping to see Broner take a loss. The thing is that Broner IS backed by Al Haymon early in his career, he also has Golden Boy Promotions as his promoter. All Broner has to do is keep winning, keep shining, keep talking big and keep backing it up and we may just see him changing his name from “The Problem to Adrien “Cash” Broner in the future.
 
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Peterson-Khan II: Lamont Says He’s “Ready To Die To Win” - Amir Says “You Can See By Peterson’s Face He Knows He Lost”

By James Slater: Bitter 140-pound rivals Lamont Peterson and Amir Khan met face-to-face for the first time since their exciting, controversial December 2011 meeting today, the two attending an official press conference in London. The eagerly anticipated return is, as we know, on for May 19th in Las Vegas, and both men naturally feel they are going to win.

There were some interesting quotes from both men at today’s press conference.

A somewhat tired but no less distasteful “I’m ready to die to keep my titles” statement came from Peterson (how may fighters, from Fernando Vargas to Julio Cesar Chavez Junior, have made this vow in recent years?). While a more-relaxed Khan said “You can see by Lamont Peterson’s eyes, he knows he lost the first fight.”

Peterson, who will be making his first title defence, said he ultimately agreed to the rematch “for the fans.”

“We fought and it was a great fight and I want to please the fans and that’s why I took the fight,” he said. “The Khan camp seems to have some problems about what happened in the first fight. Nothing shady happened.”

Well, it did, because the infamous “man in the hat” was present, he wasn’t supposed to be yet he was, and his ringside presence was a large part in the demand for a return fight. Khan will never believe he was a just points loser last December. But the former champ says he does have a lot of respect for Peterson - only the second man to have beaten him at pro level - and that he feels the return fight is “make or break” for him.

“I’ll train like a challenger,” Khan said. “I’ve got so much to lose. I’m going back to the drawing board to do things right.”

Khan simply has to get it right on the night, as it has been reported that there will be no rematch clause when the two rumble again. Should Peterson win once again, he is certain to move on (maybe move up in weight) and fight another big name.

It’s a cliché, but a fighter’s very career will be on the line in this fight: Amir Khan’s.

Will it be repeat or will it be revenge come May 19th? Khan may be the bookies favourite, but no-one will be betting the house on the outcome of this one.
 
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Peterson is gonna really have to put it on Khan this time around, he knows what khan can bring. Peterson had Khan looking amateurish last fight, he should bang up that body early. Khans gonna be on that juice, so he better be in tip top shape
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You do realize since Khan is an English fighter he has to submit to random, completely unannounced, year round, blood tests right? He gave one not long ago between fights, they just showed up at his house and took blood.
 
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1-year Suspension for Juanma

Robert Jackson: Juanma’s emotional accusatory rant directed towards referee Roberto Ramirez after Saturday night’s fight ending TKO loss for the 2nd time to Orlando Salido has cost him a year, so say the WBO. The WBO yesterday suspended Juan Manuel Lopez for a year (Lopez has 5 days to respond). But what does this mean for Lopez?

At 28, Lopez will be missing out on a year of his prime for fighting.. But as far as Lopez looked Saturday nite, this brief respite could provide him some relief and rest, while also giving him time to make other arrangements as far as continuing his career is concerned. What arrangements you might ask?

Lopez before facing Salido – a journeyman type fighter, was 30-0 ; now 31-2, Lopez needs to retool his skills if he’s to advance and fulfill the promise of his Puerto Rican fighting roots. Lopez showed a lot of heart Saturday nite but he was beaten by a more skillful fighter. Any arrangements that Lopez would make could involve hiring another trainer to give him an advanced boxing education; Emanuel Steward comes to mind here. Freddie Roach is another option that could be considered, seeing how he’s improved the once one-handed Manny Pacquiao. Lopez needs to be more agile in his movement, more versatile in his offense and develop better defense, he also needs to be more relaxed in the ring. Any of the Mayweather brothers could serve Lopez well in all 4 of the aforementioned areas.

With all that being said, the year out of the ring will give Lopez a chance to rest, then go back to the drawing board so when he returns, it won’t go unnoticed. The time off will give Lopez time to perfect and burn into his muscle memory – in the gym at least, an improved style of fighting which will serve him well if he’s to advance up the boxing pyramid to the top. He may also want to return at lightweight rather than featherweight because of his struggles to make weight.
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that's absolutely retarded. People say weird/dumb things all the time, especially after being KO'd. And even if he meant it, that's no reason for a 1 year suspension, which is very harsh. A fine, or a shorter suspension would have sent the same message.

Now, it would probably do Lopez some good not to fight for a year, but that's beside the point.

Regardless, all this means is Lopez can't fight under the WBO. He can still fight, it will just have to be under the WBC, WBA, etc.
 
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Its random. I remember last year khan posting about it on twitter, saying something like he was about to eat dinner and two guys showed up for a blood test, something like that. He used to it though been drug tested like that since the Olympics
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hes done it in the Olympics, but I got my reasons I stand by that shit(with Manny too). not even hating
 
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