A shit load of people serve time for tax fraud and come out and still fuckin rich. But with Manny its different cuz he can lose his image amongst boxing fans as the whole $40 milli keeps coming up. I think this is being blown out of proportion because of the whole $40 milli thing but its crazy how this is going down
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Top Rank Will Kiss Off HBO to Get Floyd Mayweather Deal with Manny Pacquiao
December 5th, 2013
By Ivan G. Goldman
If Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather get it on next year, the U.S. network that carries the Big Kahuna of all money fights will be Showtime, not HBO. That much is settled.
I determined this in a conversation today with Todd DuBoef, president of Top Rank, which promotes Pacquiao’s boxing events, handles his deal-
making, and is entitled to speak for him.
It’s important to take particular note of these last points, because in this business it’s not unusual for people who have no right to conduct business in someone’s behalf to claim that they do. I’m talking specifically about Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, who often speaks for Mayweather but isn’t entitled to do so. No one stops him, because Mayweather, who acts as his own promoter, doesn’t really have a public-relations apparatus set up and his “advisor” Al Haymon doesn’t speak to the media, not even to correct obvious false claims and mistruths. Also entitled to speak for Floyd is his right-hand man, Leonard Ellerbe.
Back to the network question: Bob Arum, who runs Top Rank with DuBoef, his son, has lately been saying that there’s room for the Godzilla welterweight event – the fight the public thirsts for more than any other — in the autumn of 2014, after Pacquiao faces someone in April and Mayweather in May. Floyd’s “someone” may or may not be Britain’s Amir Khan. Getting Floyd to sit down and sign that contract is like asking cats to swim.
Among the many impediments to the Monster Event is that Pacquiao fights on HBO, and Mayweather on Showtime, where he is under contract for six events — two down and four to go.
“We’ve always been willing to deal with Showtime,” DuBoef said. “We’re not going to be dismissive to anything.”
That was a signal, folks. It’s clear that the DuBoef knows more than he’s saying about the Showtime-Mayweather deal, and rather than try to blast through it, he’s decided to throw HBO under the bus. HBO, the dominant boxing network for most of the last two decades, won’t be a part of the Mother of all Mega-fights.
For a while now, Top Rank has dealt with HBO almost exclusively, and Golden Boy has gone way past heavy petting with Showtime, whose sports president Stephen Espinoza used to do legal work for Golden Boy. HBO so despises its former pal Golden Boy that the network once made a special announcement to make sure everyone understood the firm was henceforth banned from the channel.
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Manny: will 2014 finally see him meet Floyd in the ring?
Which brings up another hurdle to the Humongous Contest: the war between Top Rank and Golden Boy. Schaefer says Top Rank can have no part of the Big Event, but that’s wishful thinking. His company doesn’t make deals for Mayweather. It may or may not get called in after the deal is made, and Money wants someone to handle the details of the ticketing, the venue, the marketing, the undercard, and the ten thousand other issues that must be solved so a big boxing card can move from broad agreement to reality.
But as Schaefer well knows, his company, like HBO, could easily be discarded.
This particular fight, DuBoef noted, has “been talked about for four years. We’ve done a lot to try to make it. It just became more complicated in the last 18 months. At one time we had a contract for the fight with economic terms spelled out. Then came the whole drug testing thing after we had agreed to all terms. Contacts had gone back and forth.”
Brief summary: Mayweather, who made lots of accusations against Pacquiao, demanded blood testing for banned substances. Back then, it was a relatively new issue. Those who take Pacquiao’s side said Floyd was suddenly ordering Manny around and that by submitting Manny would play a subservient role and give Floyd a big psychological advantage.
Those who took Mayweather’s side mostly decided to believe his accusations. Eventually Pacquiao sued Floyd, who refused to answer questions under oath and settled out of court by writing Pacquiao a big check. But drug testing is no longer an issue. Both fighters are willing to submit to surprise blood and urine testing conducted by a third party.
Mayweather made somewhere between $80 million and $90 million for dispensing of Canelo Alvarez. Pacquiao could use a check like that right about now, though clearly, undefeated Mayweather would get a bigger share. Philippines authorities, claiming tax fraud, recently froze Pacquiao’s bank accounts. He’s a congressional representative who won’t heel to the ruling powers in a country awash in political corruption and violence, and it looks very much like the tax action was politically motivated.
It was Pacquiao’s manhandling of tough Brandon Rios that made the Mayweather match-up viable again. It’s a showdown that still matters, but would have mattered more three or four years ago. In September Pac-Man will be 35 and Floyd 37.
Still, I’m crossing my fingers.
December 5th, 2013
By Ivan G. Goldman
If Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather get it on next year, the U.S. network that carries the Big Kahuna of all money fights will be Showtime, not HBO. That much is settled.
I determined this in a conversation today with Todd DuBoef, president of Top Rank, which promotes Pacquiao’s boxing events, handles his deal-
making, and is entitled to speak for him.
It’s important to take particular note of these last points, because in this business it’s not unusual for people who have no right to conduct business in someone’s behalf to claim that they do. I’m talking specifically about Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, who often speaks for Mayweather but isn’t entitled to do so. No one stops him, because Mayweather, who acts as his own promoter, doesn’t really have a public-relations apparatus set up and his “advisor” Al Haymon doesn’t speak to the media, not even to correct obvious false claims and mistruths. Also entitled to speak for Floyd is his right-hand man, Leonard Ellerbe.
Back to the network question: Bob Arum, who runs Top Rank with DuBoef, his son, has lately been saying that there’s room for the Godzilla welterweight event – the fight the public thirsts for more than any other — in the autumn of 2014, after Pacquiao faces someone in April and Mayweather in May. Floyd’s “someone” may or may not be Britain’s Amir Khan. Getting Floyd to sit down and sign that contract is like asking cats to swim.
Among the many impediments to the Monster Event is that Pacquiao fights on HBO, and Mayweather on Showtime, where he is under contract for six events — two down and four to go.
“We’ve always been willing to deal with Showtime,” DuBoef said. “We’re not going to be dismissive to anything.”
That was a signal, folks. It’s clear that the DuBoef knows more than he’s saying about the Showtime-Mayweather deal, and rather than try to blast through it, he’s decided to throw HBO under the bus. HBO, the dominant boxing network for most of the last two decades, won’t be a part of the Mother of all Mega-fights.
For a while now, Top Rank has dealt with HBO almost exclusively, and Golden Boy has gone way past heavy petting with Showtime, whose sports president Stephen Espinoza used to do legal work for Golden Boy. HBO so despises its former pal Golden Boy that the network once made a special announcement to make sure everyone understood the firm was henceforth banned from the channel.
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Manny: will 2014 finally see him meet Floyd in the ring?
Which brings up another hurdle to the Humongous Contest: the war between Top Rank and Golden Boy. Schaefer says Top Rank can have no part of the Big Event, but that’s wishful thinking. His company doesn’t make deals for Mayweather. It may or may not get called in after the deal is made, and Money wants someone to handle the details of the ticketing, the venue, the marketing, the undercard, and the ten thousand other issues that must be solved so a big boxing card can move from broad agreement to reality.
But as Schaefer well knows, his company, like HBO, could easily be discarded.
This particular fight, DuBoef noted, has “been talked about for four years. We’ve done a lot to try to make it. It just became more complicated in the last 18 months. At one time we had a contract for the fight with economic terms spelled out. Then came the whole drug testing thing after we had agreed to all terms. Contacts had gone back and forth.”
Brief summary: Mayweather, who made lots of accusations against Pacquiao, demanded blood testing for banned substances. Back then, it was a relatively new issue. Those who take Pacquiao’s side said Floyd was suddenly ordering Manny around and that by submitting Manny would play a subservient role and give Floyd a big psychological advantage.
Those who took Mayweather’s side mostly decided to believe his accusations. Eventually Pacquiao sued Floyd, who refused to answer questions under oath and settled out of court by writing Pacquiao a big check. But drug testing is no longer an issue. Both fighters are willing to submit to surprise blood and urine testing conducted by a third party.
Mayweather made somewhere between $80 million and $90 million for dispensing of Canelo Alvarez. Pacquiao could use a check like that right about now, though clearly, undefeated Mayweather would get a bigger share. Philippines authorities, claiming tax fraud, recently froze Pacquiao’s bank accounts. He’s a congressional representative who won’t heel to the ruling powers in a country awash in political corruption and violence, and it looks very much like the tax action was politically motivated.
It was Pacquiao’s manhandling of tough Brandon Rios that made the Mayweather match-up viable again. It’s a showdown that still matters, but would have mattered more three or four years ago. In September Pac-Man will be 35 and Floyd 37.
Still, I’m crossing my fingers.
Hearn trying to match Froch against Chavez Jr., Golovkin or Ward
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julio cesar chavez jr gennady golovkin carl froch andre ward By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/W BA super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn saying he had a conversation with HBO about potentially matching Froch against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Gennady Golovkin or Andre Ward in that order. Ward was the last name that Hearn mentioned, and that doesn’t surprise me at all because he beat Froch already in 2011.
Hearn said to Sky Ringside “The fight I want to make is Froch vs. George Groves. Carl’s got a lot of options. I was talking to HBO last week, talking about Chavez, talking about Golovkin, talking about Ward. I appreciate what the fans want [Froch vs. Groves], and I want it too. Hopefully, we can get it made.”
If Hearn is going to get the Froch-Groves rematch made then he’s going to need to convince Froch to take that fight because Froch was saying on the same show that he’s not interested in fighting Groves again. If Froch is the one that is the decider in who he fights, then I don’t think it’s going to be Groves again.
Froch said last Thursday “Do I want to go over old ground? Not at the minute, no. I like to move forward with my career and the only old ground I like to go over again is for a defeat. It would be nice to avenge the Andre Ward defeat if that can possibly be made.”
So there it is. Froch once again is saying he’s not interested in giving Groves a rematch. Here’s the thing: I don’t see Chavez Jr. and Golovkin being available or interested in fighting Froch in the early part of 2014, and possibly not at all next year. What is Froch going to do then? I don’t buy for a second that Froch is honestly interested in fighting Ward next. I do think he might fight him again, but only if it’s his last fight of his career. I see Ward as Froch’s cash out fight and nothing more than that. So if Chavez Jr. and Golovkin aren’t willing to fight him or aren’t available then who is Froch going to fight next? Will he wait them out until they do change their mind or will Froch do the smart thing and agree to fight Groves in a rematch? I hope Froch is mature about it and makes an adult decision, because if he gets stubborn about it, then I can see him sitting around waiting for a heck of a long time for nothing.
It’s funny how Froch is perfectly okay with the middleweight Golovkin moving up to fight him at the full weight of the super middleweight division, and yet Froch won’t meet him for a catch-weight, and he won’t move up in weight to fight WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson. So in other words, Golovkin has to move up and fight Froch at his weight if he wants the fight. And Stevenson doesn’t get the fight because Froch doesn’t want to move up 7 pounds and fight a career-long super middleweight in Stevenson at 175. We’re not talking about a fighter who has always fought at light heavyweight. Stevenson just moved up in recently from 168 because he was tired off waiting around for Froch to fight him as Froch’s mandatory challenger.
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julio cesar chavez jr gennady golovkin carl froch andre ward By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/W BA super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn saying he had a conversation with HBO about potentially matching Froch against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Gennady Golovkin or Andre Ward in that order. Ward was the last name that Hearn mentioned, and that doesn’t surprise me at all because he beat Froch already in 2011.
Hearn said to Sky Ringside “The fight I want to make is Froch vs. George Groves. Carl’s got a lot of options. I was talking to HBO last week, talking about Chavez, talking about Golovkin, talking about Ward. I appreciate what the fans want [Froch vs. Groves], and I want it too. Hopefully, we can get it made.”
If Hearn is going to get the Froch-Groves rematch made then he’s going to need to convince Froch to take that fight because Froch was saying on the same show that he’s not interested in fighting Groves again. If Froch is the one that is the decider in who he fights, then I don’t think it’s going to be Groves again.
Froch said last Thursday “Do I want to go over old ground? Not at the minute, no. I like to move forward with my career and the only old ground I like to go over again is for a defeat. It would be nice to avenge the Andre Ward defeat if that can possibly be made.”
So there it is. Froch once again is saying he’s not interested in giving Groves a rematch. Here’s the thing: I don’t see Chavez Jr. and Golovkin being available or interested in fighting Froch in the early part of 2014, and possibly not at all next year. What is Froch going to do then? I don’t buy for a second that Froch is honestly interested in fighting Ward next. I do think he might fight him again, but only if it’s his last fight of his career. I see Ward as Froch’s cash out fight and nothing more than that. So if Chavez Jr. and Golovkin aren’t willing to fight him or aren’t available then who is Froch going to fight next? Will he wait them out until they do change their mind or will Froch do the smart thing and agree to fight Groves in a rematch? I hope Froch is mature about it and makes an adult decision, because if he gets stubborn about it, then I can see him sitting around waiting for a heck of a long time for nothing.
It’s funny how Froch is perfectly okay with the middleweight Golovkin moving up to fight him at the full weight of the super middleweight division, and yet Froch won’t meet him for a catch-weight, and he won’t move up in weight to fight WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson. So in other words, Golovkin has to move up and fight Froch at his weight if he wants the fight. And Stevenson doesn’t get the fight because Froch doesn’t want to move up 7 pounds and fight a career-long super middleweight in Stevenson at 175. We’re not talking about a fighter who has always fought at light heavyweight. Stevenson just moved up in recently from 168 because he was tired off waiting around for Froch to fight him as Froch’s mandatory challenger.
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Froch: I’m not moving up to fight Adonis Stevenson at 175
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carl froch adonis stevenson By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch says he doesn’t have any plans on moving up to 175 to fight WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson despite the fact that he called him out last Saturday night after knocking out his sparring partner Tony Bellew in the 6th round. Froch says that he thinks Stevenson was just calling him out because of the crowd but not because he really wants the fight.
Froch said to Sky Ringside “I don’t think he [Adonis] has any plans on coming back down to super middleweight , and I certainly don’t have any plans on going up to light heavyweight. I can’t see that fight happening, to be honest. I think Stevenson has found his feet at light heavyweight, and he’s doing really, really well.”
Froch still didn’t fight Stevenson even when he was at super middleweight. One of the reasons Stevenson moved up in weight to light heavyweight was because he couldn’t get Froch to fight him when he was Froch’s mandatory for his IBF belt. Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn maneuvered around Stevenson and had Froch fight Mikkel Kessler again rather than defend his title against Stevenson.
I think Stevenson would move back down to 168 in a heartbeat if he could get Froch to fight him, but what’s the point of Stevenson doing that if he’s still not going to get the fight. If Hearn wasn’t making the fight before when Adonis was Froch’s mandatory challenger then why would Hearn make the fight now that Stevenson is the WBC 175 lb. champion?
I don’t see why Froch doesn’t move up to 175 to fight Stevenson. I mean, Froch would have a ready- made excuse if he gets thrashed by Adonis. He could just blame it on the fact that he moved up in weight and wasn’t comfortable at the weight.
The thing is Froch doesn’t have an excuse for looking as bad as he did for 9 rounds against George Grove at 168. That was just simply awful fighting by Froch, and he’s lucky that the referee halted the fight prematurely because Groves was nailing him with big power shots in that fight.
Even in the 9th round, Groves was still tagging Froch with huge shots, and he was the better puncher. It looked like Froch hit Groves with a forearm to the head at one point in the 9th round, and the referee didn’t stop the fight to give Froch a warning when it seemed painfully obvious he’d nailed him with a forearm. This happened right before Groves was backed up to the ropes and right before the referee jumped on him while he was still fighting back.
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carl froch adonis stevenson By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch says he doesn’t have any plans on moving up to 175 to fight WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson despite the fact that he called him out last Saturday night after knocking out his sparring partner Tony Bellew in the 6th round. Froch says that he thinks Stevenson was just calling him out because of the crowd but not because he really wants the fight.
Froch said to Sky Ringside “I don’t think he [Adonis] has any plans on coming back down to super middleweight , and I certainly don’t have any plans on going up to light heavyweight. I can’t see that fight happening, to be honest. I think Stevenson has found his feet at light heavyweight, and he’s doing really, really well.”
Froch still didn’t fight Stevenson even when he was at super middleweight. One of the reasons Stevenson moved up in weight to light heavyweight was because he couldn’t get Froch to fight him when he was Froch’s mandatory for his IBF belt. Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn maneuvered around Stevenson and had Froch fight Mikkel Kessler again rather than defend his title against Stevenson.
I think Stevenson would move back down to 168 in a heartbeat if he could get Froch to fight him, but what’s the point of Stevenson doing that if he’s still not going to get the fight. If Hearn wasn’t making the fight before when Adonis was Froch’s mandatory challenger then why would Hearn make the fight now that Stevenson is the WBC 175 lb. champion?
I don’t see why Froch doesn’t move up to 175 to fight Stevenson. I mean, Froch would have a ready- made excuse if he gets thrashed by Adonis. He could just blame it on the fact that he moved up in weight and wasn’t comfortable at the weight.
The thing is Froch doesn’t have an excuse for looking as bad as he did for 9 rounds against George Grove at 168. That was just simply awful fighting by Froch, and he’s lucky that the referee halted the fight prematurely because Groves was nailing him with big power shots in that fight.
Even in the 9th round, Groves was still tagging Froch with huge shots, and he was the better puncher. It looked like Froch hit Groves with a forearm to the head at one point in the 9th round, and the referee didn’t stop the fight to give Froch a warning when it seemed painfully obvious he’d nailed him with a forearm. This happened right before Groves was backed up to the ropes and right before the referee jumped on him while he was still fighting back.
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Hopkins wants Kovalev and Stevenson in 2014
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SERGEY KOVALEV bernard hopkins adonis stevenson By Dan Ambrose: IBF light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (54-6-2, 32 KO’s) says he wants to fight the top two 175 lb. champions Adonis Stevenson and Sergey Kovalev in 2014 before his 50th birthday in January 2015. Hopkins will be turning 49 next month, and he doesn’t have much time to set up and face both of these big punchers.
A loss for Hopkins to one of them will pretty much rule out a fight against the 2nd guy, especially if it’s a bad knockout loss for the soon to be 49-year-old.
“I think that it should be done before the summer of next year, and before I turn 50,” Hopkins said to RingTV. “The problem for them is that I like guys that come forward, and that people know that Bernard Hopkins does well with guys like them.
They’re perfect for my style. They would fall right into my traps.”
Hopkins remembers his win over the lanky Kelly Pavlik from 2008, and probably feels he can do the same thing to Kovalev and Stevenson like he did against Pavlik. Those guys are much better punchers than Pavlik, and more skilled. Even if this way the 2008 version of Hopkins, I still think he’d be knocked out by Stevenson and Kovalev.
It’s admirable that Hopkins is talking about wanting to fight Stevenson and Kovalev, but there’s nothing in what Hopkins has left in his game that would lead one to believe that he’ll be able to beat either guy. I think it would be a major victory for Hopkins if he were to make it the full 12 rounds against these guys, because they hit so hard and Hopkins’ defense is no longer impregnable, as we saw in his recent win over Karo Murat. Hopkins gets hit now, and he’s no longer able to slip the shots that are thrown at him. These guys are a level above former Hopkins opponents Chad Dawson and Jean Pascal, and Hopkins is at the wrong point in his career to be fighting them.
If Hopkins just wants to cash out against them then it sounds go, but he really doesn’t have much of a chance to beat either of them in way shape or form. He can’t beat Kovalev or Stevenson by knockout, and he won’t be able to win a decision against them because they have so much better power than him.
Hopkins might not get a chance to fight either of these guys due to the HBO-Showtime obstacle. In that case it would be a lucky break for Hopkins because he could avoid inevitable knockout loss.
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SERGEY KOVALEV bernard hopkins adonis stevenson By Dan Ambrose: IBF light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (54-6-2, 32 KO’s) says he wants to fight the top two 175 lb. champions Adonis Stevenson and Sergey Kovalev in 2014 before his 50th birthday in January 2015. Hopkins will be turning 49 next month, and he doesn’t have much time to set up and face both of these big punchers.
A loss for Hopkins to one of them will pretty much rule out a fight against the 2nd guy, especially if it’s a bad knockout loss for the soon to be 49-year-old.
“I think that it should be done before the summer of next year, and before I turn 50,” Hopkins said to RingTV. “The problem for them is that I like guys that come forward, and that people know that Bernard Hopkins does well with guys like them.
They’re perfect for my style. They would fall right into my traps.”
Hopkins remembers his win over the lanky Kelly Pavlik from 2008, and probably feels he can do the same thing to Kovalev and Stevenson like he did against Pavlik. Those guys are much better punchers than Pavlik, and more skilled. Even if this way the 2008 version of Hopkins, I still think he’d be knocked out by Stevenson and Kovalev.
It’s admirable that Hopkins is talking about wanting to fight Stevenson and Kovalev, but there’s nothing in what Hopkins has left in his game that would lead one to believe that he’ll be able to beat either guy. I think it would be a major victory for Hopkins if he were to make it the full 12 rounds against these guys, because they hit so hard and Hopkins’ defense is no longer impregnable, as we saw in his recent win over Karo Murat. Hopkins gets hit now, and he’s no longer able to slip the shots that are thrown at him. These guys are a level above former Hopkins opponents Chad Dawson and Jean Pascal, and Hopkins is at the wrong point in his career to be fighting them.
If Hopkins just wants to cash out against them then it sounds go, but he really doesn’t have much of a chance to beat either of them in way shape or form. He can’t beat Kovalev or Stevenson by knockout, and he won’t be able to win a decision against them because they have so much better power than him.
Hopkins might not get a chance to fight either of these guys due to the HBO-Showtime obstacle. In that case it would be a lucky break for Hopkins because he could avoid inevitable knockout loss.
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Lol @ Dawson. That dude is damaged goods and would get annihilated by Kovalev. He already got annihilated by Stevenson and Im sure he wouldnt fight him again lol. Got Em!!
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Austin Trout not discouraged by loss to Lara
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Lara Trout Lara vs. Trout erislandy lara austin trout By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-2, 14 KO’s) lost a disappointing 12 round unanimous decision last Saturday night to Erislandy Lara (19-1-2, 12 KO’s) at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York, USA. For Trout, this was his second consecutive loss after having been beaten by Saul “Canelo” Alvarez earlier this year. But what makes this defeat so much tougher on Trout was how easily he was beaten by Lara.
Trout didn’t take a bad beating or anything close to that, but he was definitely out-boxed by Lara. The judges scores showed that pretty clearly with Lara getting the victory by the scores of 118-109, 117-110, 117-110.
Trout said after the fight “I’m coming back. Who can say that they fought such high caliber fighters as Cotto, Canelo and Lara back to back to back? His style was tricky, but I don’t sign up for easy fights.”
For Trout to succeed against the quicker fighters like Lara he’s going to have to go after them by throwing a lot of shots, and he needs to be willing to mix it up. Trout can’t beat these kinds of fighters flicking jabs at his waist and throwing an occasional hook. If he Sergey Kovalev type of power then he could fight this way, but he doesn’t. Trout needs to be able to take things to another gear against the quick fighters without big power. Trout needs to be able to adapt his fights and come up with a plan B, C and D. Against Canelo, Trout had only made one change in his game by going from boxing mode to the slugging mode. That didn’t work, at least not with the three judges that was working the fight. Trout needed to go into plan C, which would involve him going in and throwing fast 3-4 punch combinations against the slower Canelo. That would have worked a lot better than Trout coming in and throwing one shot and then moving away.
Golden Boy needs to give Trout a few confidence boosters to bring him back to where he was before his losses to Canelo and Lara. Trout would do good against guys like Delvin Rodriguez, Yuri Foreman, Ishe Smith or Carlos Molina. Those guys are the types that Trout shines against and I could see him beating all of them easily. Once he picks up 2-3 victories, Trout needs to be matched tough again and put in with Lara and Canelo for rematches. I think he’d do a lot better the second time around.
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Lara Trout Lara vs. Trout erislandy lara austin trout By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-2, 14 KO’s) lost a disappointing 12 round unanimous decision last Saturday night to Erislandy Lara (19-1-2, 12 KO’s) at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York, USA. For Trout, this was his second consecutive loss after having been beaten by Saul “Canelo” Alvarez earlier this year. But what makes this defeat so much tougher on Trout was how easily he was beaten by Lara.
Trout didn’t take a bad beating or anything close to that, but he was definitely out-boxed by Lara. The judges scores showed that pretty clearly with Lara getting the victory by the scores of 118-109, 117-110, 117-110.
Trout said after the fight “I’m coming back. Who can say that they fought such high caliber fighters as Cotto, Canelo and Lara back to back to back? His style was tricky, but I don’t sign up for easy fights.”
For Trout to succeed against the quicker fighters like Lara he’s going to have to go after them by throwing a lot of shots, and he needs to be willing to mix it up. Trout can’t beat these kinds of fighters flicking jabs at his waist and throwing an occasional hook. If he Sergey Kovalev type of power then he could fight this way, but he doesn’t. Trout needs to be able to take things to another gear against the quick fighters without big power. Trout needs to be able to adapt his fights and come up with a plan B, C and D. Against Canelo, Trout had only made one change in his game by going from boxing mode to the slugging mode. That didn’t work, at least not with the three judges that was working the fight. Trout needed to go into plan C, which would involve him going in and throwing fast 3-4 punch combinations against the slower Canelo. That would have worked a lot better than Trout coming in and throwing one shot and then moving away.
Golden Boy needs to give Trout a few confidence boosters to bring him back to where he was before his losses to Canelo and Lara. Trout would do good against guys like Delvin Rodriguez, Yuri Foreman, Ishe Smith or Carlos Molina. Those guys are the types that Trout shines against and I could see him beating all of them easily. Once he picks up 2-3 victories, Trout needs to be matched tough again and put in with Lara and Canelo for rematches. I think he’d do a lot better the second time around.
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Hearn reaches agreement with Top Rank for Burns vs. Crawford fight in February
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Terence Crawford Burns Crawford Burns vs. Crawford ricky burns By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn has reportedly reached agreement with Top Rank, the promoter for #1 WBO Tererence Crawford (22-0, 16 KO’s), for Match between Crawford ans Hearn’s fighter WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns (36-2-1, 11 KO’s) for next year in February in Glasgow, Scotland, the home city of Burns. This is where Burns recently was given A gift draw in his fight against challenger Raymundo Beltran last September.
The interesting thing about that fight was that Beltran totally dominated the fight from the 2nd round on and appeared to win 11 of the 12 rounds of the fight, yet the three judges scored the fight a draw. Now it’s Crawford’s turn to travel over to Scotland and try his hand at unseating Burns in his own hometown.
Hearn said on his twitter “Delighted to confirm we have agreed [to] terms with Top Rank for Ricky Burns to face Terence Crawford in Glasgow in February. Date confirmed soon.”
Wow! I always figured that Burns would vacate his strap before he’d ever take the move to get in the ring with a talent like Crawford, because this guy is so much better than Burns on every level. Crawford is one of those Guillermo Rigondeaux type of fighters, and it’s going to take someone really special and really powerful to beat this guy one of these days. Burns obviously isn’t the one to defeat Crawford or even come close to doing that.
I got to say that this is pretty much the end of Burns’ time as the World Boxing Organization 135 lb. champion unless he can get another one of those nice gift decisions like the one that he was given in the Beltran fight.
This is bad news for Beltran, because he had been hoping to get a rematch against Burns in his next fight, but that’s not going to happen now. The way it is now, Beltran will have to be satisfied with fighting Burns without title at stake if he wants to fight him in the future.
Crawford has looked out of this world in his last few fights in beating Andrey Klimov, Alejandro Sanabria and Breidis Prescott.
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Terence Crawford Burns Crawford Burns vs. Crawford ricky burns By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn has reportedly reached agreement with Top Rank, the promoter for #1 WBO Tererence Crawford (22-0, 16 KO’s), for Match between Crawford ans Hearn’s fighter WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns (36-2-1, 11 KO’s) for next year in February in Glasgow, Scotland, the home city of Burns. This is where Burns recently was given A gift draw in his fight against challenger Raymundo Beltran last September.
The interesting thing about that fight was that Beltran totally dominated the fight from the 2nd round on and appeared to win 11 of the 12 rounds of the fight, yet the three judges scored the fight a draw. Now it’s Crawford’s turn to travel over to Scotland and try his hand at unseating Burns in his own hometown.
Hearn said on his twitter “Delighted to confirm we have agreed [to] terms with Top Rank for Ricky Burns to face Terence Crawford in Glasgow in February. Date confirmed soon.”
Wow! I always figured that Burns would vacate his strap before he’d ever take the move to get in the ring with a talent like Crawford, because this guy is so much better than Burns on every level. Crawford is one of those Guillermo Rigondeaux type of fighters, and it’s going to take someone really special and really powerful to beat this guy one of these days. Burns obviously isn’t the one to defeat Crawford or even come close to doing that.
I got to say that this is pretty much the end of Burns’ time as the World Boxing Organization 135 lb. champion unless he can get another one of those nice gift decisions like the one that he was given in the Beltran fight.
This is bad news for Beltran, because he had been hoping to get a rematch against Burns in his next fight, but that’s not going to happen now. The way it is now, Beltran will have to be satisfied with fighting Burns without title at stake if he wants to fight him in the future.
Crawford has looked out of this world in his last few fights in beating Andrey Klimov, Alejandro Sanabria and Breidis Prescott.
Read more at Hearn reaches agreement with Top Rank for Burns vs. Crawford fight in February
WBC ranks Pacquiao No.1 at 147, below Mayweather
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WBC manny pacquiao floyd mayweather jr By Chris Williams: The World Boxing Council has pushed Manny Pacquiao to their No.1 spot in the welterweight rankings this month despite the fact that Pacquiao wasn’t even ranked in WBC’s top 15 before that. It looks like the WBC is trying to set it up to where Mayweather will have to fight Pacquiao if he wants to keep the WBC 147 lb. title. By pushing Pacquiao to the top spot, it’s going to give Mayweather a choice – either to fight Pacquiao or vacate the WBC’s 147 lb. title.
Pacquiao replaced Luis Carlos Abregu at #1. He was ranked at the top for a while, but Mayweather showed zero interest in fighting him. It’s unclear why the WBC ranked Abregu at the number 1 because he doesn’t have any wins over really quality opponents on his resume, and when he did step it up a little against Tim Bradley, he was beaten in 2010.
Abregu slides down to #2 in the WBC’s rankings. They might as well slide him down another 10 spots, because Mayweather will never fight this guy and if the WBC tries to force it, he’ll vacate rather than waste a valuable fight against a guy that no one wants to see him fight.
Amir Khan goes from #2 to #3 in the WBC rankings, but unlike Abregu and Pacquiao, he actually has a good chance of getting a fight against Mayweather.
Sanctioning bodies can control fights that take place with lesser fighters by ranking them high and putting them in position for a title fight by making them mandatory challengers. But the WBC – or any sanctioning body – can’t force Mayweather to defend their titles against the guys they want him to, because he’ll just vacate the title if they try and play hardball with it.
The WBC is probably better off having Mayweather as their champion right now rather than Pacquiao, because Mayweather is fighting at a really high level, and he’s not someone that can lose from fight to fight depending on who he’s facing. With Pacquiao, you put him in with a fighter that’s not a stiff, he could very lose. He does well against guys that are slow and hittable like Brandon Rios, but Juan Manuel Marquez has got his number, and Tim Bradley will likely beat him again when and if that fight is made in the future
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WBC manny pacquiao floyd mayweather jr By Chris Williams: The World Boxing Council has pushed Manny Pacquiao to their No.1 spot in the welterweight rankings this month despite the fact that Pacquiao wasn’t even ranked in WBC’s top 15 before that. It looks like the WBC is trying to set it up to where Mayweather will have to fight Pacquiao if he wants to keep the WBC 147 lb. title. By pushing Pacquiao to the top spot, it’s going to give Mayweather a choice – either to fight Pacquiao or vacate the WBC’s 147 lb. title.
Pacquiao replaced Luis Carlos Abregu at #1. He was ranked at the top for a while, but Mayweather showed zero interest in fighting him. It’s unclear why the WBC ranked Abregu at the number 1 because he doesn’t have any wins over really quality opponents on his resume, and when he did step it up a little against Tim Bradley, he was beaten in 2010.
Abregu slides down to #2 in the WBC’s rankings. They might as well slide him down another 10 spots, because Mayweather will never fight this guy and if the WBC tries to force it, he’ll vacate rather than waste a valuable fight against a guy that no one wants to see him fight.
Amir Khan goes from #2 to #3 in the WBC rankings, but unlike Abregu and Pacquiao, he actually has a good chance of getting a fight against Mayweather.
Sanctioning bodies can control fights that take place with lesser fighters by ranking them high and putting them in position for a title fight by making them mandatory challengers. But the WBC – or any sanctioning body – can’t force Mayweather to defend their titles against the guys they want him to, because he’ll just vacate the title if they try and play hardball with it.
The WBC is probably better off having Mayweather as their champion right now rather than Pacquiao, because Mayweather is fighting at a really high level, and he’s not someone that can lose from fight to fight depending on who he’s facing. With Pacquiao, you put him in with a fighter that’s not a stiff, he could very lose. He does well against guys that are slow and hittable like Brandon Rios, but Juan Manuel Marquez has got his number, and Tim Bradley will likely beat him again when and if that fight is made in the future
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'Sugar' Shane Mosley Announces Retirement from Boxing at Age 42
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Eighteen months after announcing his first retirement from the sport of boxing, "Sugar" Shane Mosley is walking away from the sport for good.
The 42-year-old American announced his decision on Saturday at a press conference prior to the Paulie Malignaggi-Zab Judah fight at the Barclays Center, per Tim Smith of Ring TV.
“It’s a young man’s game. It’s time to step aside and let some of these young guys do their thing,” Mosley said.
Mosley's retirement comes just over a week after suffering a sixth-round technical knockout loss to Australian Anthony Mundine. The 38-year-old Mundine was leading on all three cards when Mosley decided to stop the fight before the seventh round, citing back issues. After the bout, Mosely hinted that his trip to Sydney may have been his last time in the ring.
"What's done is done," Mosley said, per the Associated Press (via ESPN).
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This is the second time Mosley has retired in the past two years. Mosley's first retirement came in June of 2012, about a month after his unanimous-decision loss to Saul "Canelo" Alvarez.
However, that reprieve from the ring was short-lived, as he announced his return to the ring in January. Initially expected to face welterweight champion Malignaggi, Mosley instead wound up fighting Pablo Cesar Cano after the title was vacated and won in a unanimous decision.
While that success gave Mosley some hope that he could have the same late-career success of 48-year-old light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins, last Wednesday's loss to Mundine proved that wasn't the case.
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Mosley, once a dominant force in the lightweight and welterweight divisions, has won only one fight since 2009. In that time, his status within the sport has dropped from fighting the likes of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, to whom Mosley lost, to scuffling to find funding for his bouts. Mundine and his camp had to cover $1 million worth of fees to get Mosley into the ring.
Overall, though, Mosley will be remembered far more for his peak than the disappointing end. His career ends with a 47-9-1 record and 39 knockouts. He defeated Oscar De La Hoya twice, Antonio Margarito once and held belts inside of three weight classes.
Mosley indicated he will stay around boxing by increasing his workload as a trainer, per ESPN's Dan Rafael:
His son, Shane Mosley Jr., is expected to be chief among his post-boxing projects.
“I’m going to stay around the sport and work as a trainer,” Mosley said. “I’m training my son (Shane, Jr.) and a couple of other young fighters.”
All boxing retirements understandably come with their share of skepticism. Just a year ago, it seemed like Mosley was done for good, only for him to step back in the ring. But after such a thorough loss to a second-tier fighter like Mundine, it seems Mosley is picking the right time to walk away.
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Eighteen months after announcing his first retirement from the sport of boxing, "Sugar" Shane Mosley is walking away from the sport for good.
The 42-year-old American announced his decision on Saturday at a press conference prior to the Paulie Malignaggi-Zab Judah fight at the Barclays Center, per Tim Smith of Ring TV.
“It’s a young man’s game. It’s time to step aside and let some of these young guys do their thing,” Mosley said.
Mosley's retirement comes just over a week after suffering a sixth-round technical knockout loss to Australian Anthony Mundine. The 38-year-old Mundine was leading on all three cards when Mosley decided to stop the fight before the seventh round, citing back issues. After the bout, Mosely hinted that his trip to Sydney may have been his last time in the ring.
"What's done is done," Mosley said, per the Associated Press (via ESPN).
Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
This is the second time Mosley has retired in the past two years. Mosley's first retirement came in June of 2012, about a month after his unanimous-decision loss to Saul "Canelo" Alvarez.
However, that reprieve from the ring was short-lived, as he announced his return to the ring in January. Initially expected to face welterweight champion Malignaggi, Mosley instead wound up fighting Pablo Cesar Cano after the title was vacated and won in a unanimous decision.
While that success gave Mosley some hope that he could have the same late-career success of 48-year-old light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins, last Wednesday's loss to Mundine proved that wasn't the case.
Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
Mosley, once a dominant force in the lightweight and welterweight divisions, has won only one fight since 2009. In that time, his status within the sport has dropped from fighting the likes of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, to whom Mosley lost, to scuffling to find funding for his bouts. Mundine and his camp had to cover $1 million worth of fees to get Mosley into the ring.
Overall, though, Mosley will be remembered far more for his peak than the disappointing end. His career ends with a 47-9-1 record and 39 knockouts. He defeated Oscar De La Hoya twice, Antonio Margarito once and held belts inside of three weight classes.
Mosley indicated he will stay around boxing by increasing his workload as a trainer, per ESPN's Dan Rafael:
His son, Shane Mosley Jr., is expected to be chief among his post-boxing projects.
“I’m going to stay around the sport and work as a trainer,” Mosley said. “I’m training my son (Shane, Jr.) and a couple of other young fighters.”
All boxing retirements understandably come with their share of skepticism. Just a year ago, it seemed like Mosley was done for good, only for him to step back in the ring. But after such a thorough loss to a second-tier fighter like Mundine, it seems Mosley is picking the right time to walk away.