By Michael Marley, Examiner.com
Handicapping the Sugar Shane Mosley-Floyd Mayweather Jr. is child's play, really.
A kid lurching around the sandbox could figure that the smart play is to bet the younger, much faster guy.
A kindergarten student might know, to draw on college and pro football parlance, that a merely good offense will not beat a nonpareil defense.
If you can't score, if you can't punch the ball over the goal line, then you won't be lighting up the scorecard.
Mosley will score no touchdowns against the mercury like swift feet and rolling shoulders of Mayweather next Saturday night in Lost Wages.
The way I see it, albeit in a blurry manner having just survived the wet and wild New Orleans Jazzfest, Mosley won't even be kicking any field goals.
Instead, he will be swinging and swatting like a man deep in the woods who forgot to cover himself with mosquito repellent.
I know I'm mixing metaphors here the way they mix Ramos Gin Fizzes and Sazeracs in the adult playground that is New Orleans (not to mention the slushy but jest right frozen dacquiris) but I'm not going to slip and fall as the big fight runup picks up the pace.
I refuse to drink the Mosley Kool Aid.
I remain steadfast in stating the only Man-ny on the planet who has the will, the skill and the unorthodox offense to beat Mayweather is a guy slightly younger than he is.
In fact, Pacquiao is the only Man-ny on the planet who can either outpoint or KO whirling dervish and Scarlet Pimpernel combination Mayweather.
Pacquiao can cripple the shoulder roll, make those come to a sudden stop.
Pacquiao can hurt Mayweather.
Pacquiao may make Mayweather quit, wave the white flag.
Pacquiao even has the firepower to knock Mayweather into the same location that Messrs. de la Hoya and Hatton went, into permanent retirement.
We may add that as a boxing category, alongside KTFO, getting KIPR or Knocked Into Permanent Retirement.
I've no axe to grind against Mosley or for Mayweather, you know that.
In the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Mosley belongs. He's also a Hall Of Fame stature fighter and his career speaks for itself. The BALCO steroid escapades are a minor blemish on his siny resume, really.
But Mayweather waited until Mosley was 38 and a step or two slower than he was in younger years.
Stepping to and slamming the mainly immobile Antonio Margarito was a big achievement but now he is fighting Margo's polar opposite.
Mayweather will win this fight going away and I mean that literally.
He will always be going away from Mosley and away from danger.
The frustration level will be extremely high from the first round to the last round.
A 12 frame shutout is a genuine possibility.
Again, I like and respect Mosley. Away from the ring, he's fired managers, promoters, trainers, cutmen and had a divorce.
But Mosley has handled such breakups, including canning his own father twice, in a discreet and take the high road manner.
That counts for something in measuring Mosley the man.
But Mosley the fighter at this point?
His chances are slim and none and slim is out of town.
Slim was last seen at the airport or the Amtrak railroad station, one or the other.
Mayweather's dipping and dancing will be too much for Mosley to handle.
You think Mosley can win?
You must be that optimistic guy who entered a Mini-Cooper in the Indianapolis 500.
I know you.
Have a nice crash.
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
Minggu, 25 April 2010
Pacquiao is a clean fighter…Absolutely! -- PhilBoxing
By Allan Recto, PhilBoxing.com
Los Angeles, California (April 25, 2010) – A certified ringside physician from the Texas Boxing Commission has conveyed the test results of WBO welterweight world champion Manny Pacquiao’s urine for steroids collected last March 13th at his dressing room, right after his clash with Joshua Clottey, in their match-up dubbed “The Event” in the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX. The test results as shown by the Medical Review Officer’s Report were negative. Dr. Oscar Molina confirmed that Manny Pacquiao is indeed a clean fighter and not using any steroids or illegal drugs.
During the day of the weigh-in, it was Dr. Molina from Dallas, TX who, accompanied by representatives from Top Rank and the TDLR’s Combative Sports Division (Texas Boxing Commission), came to Pacquiao’s suite at the Gaylord Texan Hotel to perform the mandatory pre-fight physical examination. The ring doctor took PacMan’s vital signs that read: BP – 116/64 and a resting HR of 43 per minute. “Perfect. This is indeed amazing,” he remarked and re-iterated our similar observation that elite athletes who are in top condition have this kind of measurement with regards to their heart rate being low. “Wow, this means he is in excellent condition,” the assigned Texas ringside physician revealed to us. Pacquiao was grinning but remained relax and quiet. Just like all of us, he was excited about his upcoming fight.
Immediately post-fight, at the Team Pacquiao’s dressing room, two Texas Combative Sports Division ringside physicians, Dr. Wayne Lee of San Antonio, TX and Dr. Manuel Gonzalez from Laredo, TX, showed up to monitor and collect the urine specimen of Manny Pacquiao for testing purposes. The fighter, looking a bit weary and dehydrated, was elated by his Unanimous Decision win over number one welterweight contender Joshua Clottey. The unprecedented seven title holder in seven divisions Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao gulped a couple of bottled water after the contest then declared, “I’m ready anytime, anywhere!” Pacquiao was certainly referring to any drug testing or urine collection. The PacMan, accompanied by a commission physician, went inside the restroom to do what was expected of him and came out with a half-filled specimen bottle of fresh, amber-colored urine.
The Texas ringside physicians properly labeled the urine sample and followed proper chain of custody protocol. The urine specimen was tested without delay for any illegal drugs. Pacquiao’s urine sample was negative for drugs such as Amphetamines, Marijuana, Opiates, etc. The WBO Supervisor, who was present during the urine drug screen, officially noted the results and relayed it to Pacquiao, the Texas Boxing Commissioner Dicky Cole and later on to the WBO President Francisco “Paco” Valcarcel. “The initial Urine Drug Test was negative,” affirmed the WBO Supervisor to the boxing world champion Manny Pacquiao who nodded to confirm, as he was busy preparing for the post-fight press conference.
A Texas Boxing Commission ringside physician later notified Team Pacquiao members, particularly Michael Koncz, that the rest of the urine sample would be sent to a special laboratory for steroid confirmation. The turn around time for test results would be a few weeks. SteroidConfirm Urine Test screens for commonly abused anabolic steroid agents using the latest technique of Liquid Chromatograph Tandem Mass Spectrometry, the most sensitive and sophisticated technology available. This test enables ringside physicians, sports trainers, boxing or athletic commissions, etc. to test athletes who they suspect may be abusing anabolic steroids, which are known to increase muscle mass and physical strength.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission had ordered random drug-testing to be performed to Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in late December 2009, which conformed with the World Anti- Doping Agency’s guidelines, and those test results showed Pacquiao was negative for performance enhancing as well as illegal drugs or steroids.
Should Floyd “Money” Mayweather, Jr. get past Shane Mosley on May 1st next week, a potential mega-fight with Manny Pacquiao is a definite possibility. During his most recent conference call in Las Vegas, Mayweather, Jr. said, “All I'm saying, if you're a clean athlete, take your test. That's all I'm saying. That's all I've got to say. If you're a clean athlete, take the test! Show the world, you know what, I'm a natural. Take the test, that's all I say. Let them come get you at any time and take the test."
The allegations of certain individuals are truly unfounded. Pacquiao has never been tested positive for steroids or any illegal drugs. During HBO’s “Road to Dallas” TV special leading to the fight between Pacquiao and Clottey last March 13th at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, Manny Pacquiao openly denied he was using any drugs or steroid. Pacquiao said, “I’m a very clean fighter. I don’t know what is a steroid. I don’t have an idea what it is. Because for me, hard work and faith to God…that is my energy everyday.”
Source: philboxing.com
Los Angeles, California (April 25, 2010) – A certified ringside physician from the Texas Boxing Commission has conveyed the test results of WBO welterweight world champion Manny Pacquiao’s urine for steroids collected last March 13th at his dressing room, right after his clash with Joshua Clottey, in their match-up dubbed “The Event” in the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX. The test results as shown by the Medical Review Officer’s Report were negative. Dr. Oscar Molina confirmed that Manny Pacquiao is indeed a clean fighter and not using any steroids or illegal drugs.
During the day of the weigh-in, it was Dr. Molina from Dallas, TX who, accompanied by representatives from Top Rank and the TDLR’s Combative Sports Division (Texas Boxing Commission), came to Pacquiao’s suite at the Gaylord Texan Hotel to perform the mandatory pre-fight physical examination. The ring doctor took PacMan’s vital signs that read: BP – 116/64 and a resting HR of 43 per minute. “Perfect. This is indeed amazing,” he remarked and re-iterated our similar observation that elite athletes who are in top condition have this kind of measurement with regards to their heart rate being low. “Wow, this means he is in excellent condition,” the assigned Texas ringside physician revealed to us. Pacquiao was grinning but remained relax and quiet. Just like all of us, he was excited about his upcoming fight.
Immediately post-fight, at the Team Pacquiao’s dressing room, two Texas Combative Sports Division ringside physicians, Dr. Wayne Lee of San Antonio, TX and Dr. Manuel Gonzalez from Laredo, TX, showed up to monitor and collect the urine specimen of Manny Pacquiao for testing purposes. The fighter, looking a bit weary and dehydrated, was elated by his Unanimous Decision win over number one welterweight contender Joshua Clottey. The unprecedented seven title holder in seven divisions Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao gulped a couple of bottled water after the contest then declared, “I’m ready anytime, anywhere!” Pacquiao was certainly referring to any drug testing or urine collection. The PacMan, accompanied by a commission physician, went inside the restroom to do what was expected of him and came out with a half-filled specimen bottle of fresh, amber-colored urine.
The Texas ringside physicians properly labeled the urine sample and followed proper chain of custody protocol. The urine specimen was tested without delay for any illegal drugs. Pacquiao’s urine sample was negative for drugs such as Amphetamines, Marijuana, Opiates, etc. The WBO Supervisor, who was present during the urine drug screen, officially noted the results and relayed it to Pacquiao, the Texas Boxing Commissioner Dicky Cole and later on to the WBO President Francisco “Paco” Valcarcel. “The initial Urine Drug Test was negative,” affirmed the WBO Supervisor to the boxing world champion Manny Pacquiao who nodded to confirm, as he was busy preparing for the post-fight press conference.
A Texas Boxing Commission ringside physician later notified Team Pacquiao members, particularly Michael Koncz, that the rest of the urine sample would be sent to a special laboratory for steroid confirmation. The turn around time for test results would be a few weeks. SteroidConfirm Urine Test screens for commonly abused anabolic steroid agents using the latest technique of Liquid Chromatograph Tandem Mass Spectrometry, the most sensitive and sophisticated technology available. This test enables ringside physicians, sports trainers, boxing or athletic commissions, etc. to test athletes who they suspect may be abusing anabolic steroids, which are known to increase muscle mass and physical strength.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission had ordered random drug-testing to be performed to Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in late December 2009, which conformed with the World Anti- Doping Agency’s guidelines, and those test results showed Pacquiao was negative for performance enhancing as well as illegal drugs or steroids.
Should Floyd “Money” Mayweather, Jr. get past Shane Mosley on May 1st next week, a potential mega-fight with Manny Pacquiao is a definite possibility. During his most recent conference call in Las Vegas, Mayweather, Jr. said, “All I'm saying, if you're a clean athlete, take your test. That's all I'm saying. That's all I've got to say. If you're a clean athlete, take the test! Show the world, you know what, I'm a natural. Take the test, that's all I say. Let them come get you at any time and take the test."
The allegations of certain individuals are truly unfounded. Pacquiao has never been tested positive for steroids or any illegal drugs. During HBO’s “Road to Dallas” TV special leading to the fight between Pacquiao and Clottey last March 13th at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, Manny Pacquiao openly denied he was using any drugs or steroid. Pacquiao said, “I’m a very clean fighter. I don’t know what is a steroid. I don’t have an idea what it is. Because for me, hard work and faith to God…that is my energy everyday.” Renowned Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach said in that HBO documentary episode, “There’s no validation in that accusation because he’s never been tested positive. He’s been tested in every title fight and has passed every time. Just because he went from 106 lbs. to 147 lbs., does that mean he is on steroids?” Roach questioned, “Floyd Mayweather, Jr. went from 106 to 154 lbs., does that mean he is on steroids too? That’s bull---t!”
In December 30, 2009, Pacquiao filed a civil lawsuit versus Floyd, Jr., Sr. and Roger Mayweather, the Mayweather Promotions as well as Golden Boy Promotions’ Oscar De La Hoya and Richard Schaeffer, demanding trial by jury. Until now, it has not been resolved and the case is still pending.
When interviewed yesterday at the Wild Card Boxing Club of Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza told this writer, “I’m not surprised that Manny Pacquiao tested negative again, Doc. He is a clean fighter! Manny is the pinnacle of an athlete that other fighters should emulate. He doesn’t berate his opponents. He is very respectful and professional.” With a melancholic voice, Ariza added, “It is sad that people say things that cast a shadow on his accomplishments. Manny has never tested positive for PED (perfomance enhancing drugs) or steroids.”
Finally, the latest test results in Texas show that Manny Pacquiao, the current best pound per pound boxer in the world, is indeed a clean athlete. When this boxing writer/physician queried his colleague from the Texas Boxing Commission - “Does this mean that Manny Pacquiao is a clean fighter and not using any steroids
?” Dr. Molina simply answered, “Absolutely!”
?” Dr. Molina simply answered, “Absolutely!”Source: philboxing.com
Shane Mosley says he's ready to unleash a mountain of trouble on Floyd Mayweather Jr. -- Los Angeles Times
By Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times
Before a fight, Shane Mosley's ritual is to lock himself away from the world in his Big Bear Lake training compound.
"You have to drive all the way up here to have something to say and then I have to agree to let you in," Mosley said recently at Big Bear. "I'm up here because boxing is a mental game."
The WBA welterweight champion on Saturday faces his stiffest challenge yet in taking on unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. in Las Vegas.
Mosley is 38 and hasn't fought since a stirring technical-knockout win over Antonio Margarito in January 2009, and oddsmakers peg Mayweather as a 9-2 favorite. Mosley ignores it all.
"The boxing game is right here," Mosley said, pointing to his right temple. "Getting ready for a fight means going to war. This is the hurt business. I can't accept a thought like, ‘This might be my last fight,' or ‘I'm getting old.' "
Before the Margarito fight, Mosley heard the same concerns. He and trainer Naazim Richardson kept saying, "Don't de-fang the monster after we beat him." Then, Mosley pounded Margarito until the fight was stopped in the ninth round.
"Shutting down naysayers, I love that," Mosley said. "That's why Margarito got what he did. This is why I chose boxing. It's a one-on-one sport, and I've always believed no one can beat me one on one when I do the right things."
Mayweather, 33, "is a great fighter," Mosley added. "I'm the best in the world."
Why is Mosley so confident? One reason is Richardson, who has often formulated strategies to beat foes who appeared unstoppable. The trainer orchestrated Bernard Hopkins' upset of then-unbeaten middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik in 2008. And he devised Mosley's game plan against Margarito. Richardson also spotted the plaster-of-Paris inserts confiscated from Margarito's hand wraps before their bout.
"I'm very confident," Richardson said. "Shane prepares like a gladiator going to war. . . . I feel if we present the very best Shane Mosley, we win the [Mayweather] fight."
Richardson's main concern for Mosley is ring rust. After beating Margarito, Mosley hoped to quickly fight Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao. It didn't happen. So Mosley accepted a title unification bout against Andre Berto scheduled for January. But Berto backed out over concerns about his family in Haiti after the devastating earthquake there.
Around then, the Mayweather-Pacquiao mega-fight collapsed after Mayweather insisted on Olympic-style drug tests. So Mosley stepped into the void and accepted the strict drug-testing procedures to fight Mayweather, years after Mosley's own involvement with performance-enhancing drugs.
Mosley, before his rematch win over Oscar De La Hoya in 2003, worked with Victor Conte, founder of the infamous steroid-distributing Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO). Conte and Mosley's ex-trainer Darryl Hudson say the fighter took designer steroids and the oxygen-boosting drug EPO. Mosley said he believed he was injecting legal vitamins, and taking EPO. Conte has publicly called Mosley a liar and Mosley has sued for defamation.
For the Mayweather bout, Mosley has followed the drug testing conducted by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. "I have to write an e-mail telling [testers] if I want to go somewhere," Mosley said.
"I actually think this is working to my favor. . . . [Mayweather] likes to go out to clubs until 2, 3 in the morning. I'm not sure he wants USADA there. Me? You know where I'm at. I'm here in Big Bear."
Indeed, Mosley is a gym rat who plays basketball and snowboards outside training and religiously works out.
"I don't care about how fast [Mayweather] is or how good his defense is," Mosley said. "I'm a boxer, a puncher. I can move. I can knock you out with both hands."
Those close to Mosley say he has the same mind-set going into this fight that he did before his first win over De La Hoya in 2000.
Soon after that breakthrough victory, Mosley fell in love with a woman he married, Jin, and they had three children. She also served as his business manager. But the burden of that pairing took a toll. The two are getting divorced. Friends of the boxer say the marriage became a toxic situation that visibly distracted Mosley and, under California's community property laws, he faces a costly divorce.
"Anything Mayweather says is nothing compared to the things she said to me," Mosley said of his wife. The pair separated in 2008.
"Look at the timeline," Mosley said, referring to his marriage. "When I was losing. When I was ready to retire. When people said I was washed up. . . ."
Mosley said more about his wife but didn't want it to be published, so he reached into a reporter's notebook, tore out a page and tossed it in a trash can.
"Now, I feel great," Mosley said. "I'm ready to fight."
Attempts to reach Jin Mosley for comment were unsuccessful.
The divorce "is like a huge cloud has been lifted," said Mosley's attorney Judd Burstein. "In the Margarito fight, you saw his freedom from the craziness."
Richardson, Mosley's trainer, also feels confident about the Mayweather fight.
"I have a guy who's about not taking prisoners, who wants to leave his opponents lying on the battlefield," Richardson said.
"So now I'm telling everyone I know Mayweather is the best of all time. Better than Ali. Better than Frazier. The best that God has ever molded. But if he's the greatest of all time and we knock him on his back, what's that make Shane?"
lance.pugmire@latimes.com
Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times
Source: latimes.com
Before a fight, Shane Mosley's ritual is to lock himself away from the world in his Big Bear Lake training compound.
"You have to drive all the way up here to have something to say and then I have to agree to let you in," Mosley said recently at Big Bear. "I'm up here because boxing is a mental game."
The WBA welterweight champion on Saturday faces his stiffest challenge yet in taking on unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. in Las Vegas.
Mosley is 38 and hasn't fought since a stirring technical-knockout win over Antonio Margarito in January 2009, and oddsmakers peg Mayweather as a 9-2 favorite. Mosley ignores it all.
"The boxing game is right here," Mosley said, pointing to his right temple. "Getting ready for a fight means going to war. This is the hurt business. I can't accept a thought like, ‘This might be my last fight,' or ‘I'm getting old.' "
Before the Margarito fight, Mosley heard the same concerns. He and trainer Naazim Richardson kept saying, "Don't de-fang the monster after we beat him." Then, Mosley pounded Margarito until the fight was stopped in the ninth round.
"Shutting down naysayers, I love that," Mosley said. "That's why Margarito got what he did. This is why I chose boxing. It's a one-on-one sport, and I've always believed no one can beat me one on one when I do the right things."
Mayweather, 33, "is a great fighter," Mosley added. "I'm the best in the world."
Why is Mosley so confident? One reason is Richardson, who has often formulated strategies to beat foes who appeared unstoppable. The trainer orchestrated Bernard Hopkins' upset of then-unbeaten middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik in 2008. And he devised Mosley's game plan against Margarito. Richardson also spotted the plaster-of-Paris inserts confiscated from Margarito's hand wraps before their bout.
"I'm very confident," Richardson said. "Shane prepares like a gladiator going to war. . . . I feel if we present the very best Shane Mosley, we win the [Mayweather] fight."
Richardson's main concern for Mosley is ring rust. After beating Margarito, Mosley hoped to quickly fight Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao. It didn't happen. So Mosley accepted a title unification bout against Andre Berto scheduled for January. But Berto backed out over concerns about his family in Haiti after the devastating earthquake there.
Around then, the Mayweather-Pacquiao mega-fight collapsed after Mayweather insisted on Olympic-style drug tests. So Mosley stepped into the void and accepted the strict drug-testing procedures to fight Mayweather, years after Mosley's own involvement with performance-enhancing drugs.
Mosley, before his rematch win over Oscar De La Hoya in 2003, worked with Victor Conte, founder of the infamous steroid-distributing Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO). Conte and Mosley's ex-trainer Darryl Hudson say the fighter took designer steroids and the oxygen-boosting drug EPO. Mosley said he believed he was injecting legal vitamins, and taking EPO. Conte has publicly called Mosley a liar and Mosley has sued for defamation.
For the Mayweather bout, Mosley has followed the drug testing conducted by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. "I have to write an e-mail telling [testers] if I want to go somewhere," Mosley said.
"I actually think this is working to my favor. . . . [Mayweather] likes to go out to clubs until 2, 3 in the morning. I'm not sure he wants USADA there. Me? You know where I'm at. I'm here in Big Bear."
Indeed, Mosley is a gym rat who plays basketball and snowboards outside training and religiously works out.
"I don't care about how fast [Mayweather] is or how good his defense is," Mosley said. "I'm a boxer, a puncher. I can move. I can knock you out with both hands."
Those close to Mosley say he has the same mind-set going into this fight that he did before his first win over De La Hoya in 2000.
Soon after that breakthrough victory, Mosley fell in love with a woman he married, Jin, and they had three children. She also served as his business manager. But the burden of that pairing took a toll. The two are getting divorced. Friends of the boxer say the marriage became a toxic situation that visibly distracted Mosley and, under California's community property laws, he faces a costly divorce.
"Anything Mayweather says is nothing compared to the things she said to me," Mosley said of his wife. The pair separated in 2008.
"Look at the timeline," Mosley said, referring to his marriage. "When I was losing. When I was ready to retire. When people said I was washed up. . . ."
Mosley said more about his wife but didn't want it to be published, so he reached into a reporter's notebook, tore out a page and tossed it in a trash can.
"Now, I feel great," Mosley said. "I'm ready to fight."
Attempts to reach Jin Mosley for comment were unsuccessful.
The divorce "is like a huge cloud has been lifted," said Mosley's attorney Judd Burstein. "In the Margarito fight, you saw his freedom from the craziness."
Richardson, Mosley's trainer, also feels confident about the Mayweather fight.
"I have a guy who's about not taking prisoners, who wants to leave his opponents lying on the battlefield," Richardson said.
"So now I'm telling everyone I know Mayweather is the best of all time. Better than Ali. Better than Frazier. The best that God has ever molded. But if he's the greatest of all time and we knock him on his back, what's that make Shane?"
lance.pugmire@latimes.com
Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times
Source: latimes.com
Does Barrera legend seemingly overshadow Chavez, Jr vs. Duddy main event? -- Examiner
By Matt Stolow, Examiner.com
I never knew what Big George Foreman meant by saying he originally came back to soon until he stood over Michael Moore and had reclaimed the heavyweight world championship as dramatically as it could ever be done.
Now I'm looking over names Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. and John Duddy, and fight friendly San Antonio and thinking marketing whiz Lester Bedford already owes me for the piece I did on him on the Pacquiao card recently.
This is Cowboys Stadium vs. San Antonio AlamoDome and it just seems the "Whataburger Man" should naturally be doing the play by play like the late NFL's John Facenda.
So its got to be about come backing Marco Antonio Barrera
. He came back a year ago on actually a decent and necessary pay-per-view card in England I bought one Saturday afternoon to both redeem Amir Khan coming off a first round KO loss and for Frank Warren to pay back Don King who delivered MAB with a quick, bloody technical knockout for Khan but here we are and all I can believe is previous reincarnations of Barrera have been premature.
I know Erik "El Terrible" Morales came back recently and promoter Bob Arum is trying to maneuver Antonio Margarito into the Manny Pacquiao sweepstakes but Marco Antonio Barrera?
Haven't we and MAB suffered enough? "I can't explain it, " said Bedford." It's hard to tell these guys "No". It's hard to tell these great fighters to see an end. Who knows, maybe he has a lot more to offer. I know there will be lots of fans in San Antonio glad to see him, either way."
This card with Chavez, Jr. and Duddy would be going on without MAB anyway.
This card is being set up for 17,000 fans and is the first big event for new Alamodome chief Marc Solis, a San Antonio native, boxing friendly, who has been toiling for a few years and with wife building a family in Corpus Christi.
I see this event as a better fit for San Antonio than Dallas.
San Antonio once hosted Barrera vs. a young Manny Pacquiao in 2003 and years later a more mature well-known Pacquiao vs. Mexico 's Jorge Solis.
But today, Dallas, is DALLAS and it already looking down at all but a Pacquiao vs. Mayweather, Jr. at its 100,000 seat, $1.2 billion temple in nearby Arlington.
So Monday afternoon they will host a big press conference with Mexican food and BBQ to welcome Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr, John Duddy, Bob Arum, and even come backing Marc Solis and Marco Antonio Barrera.
It will quickly be drowned out by fight week for Mayweather vs. Mosley but it will be good fun while it lasts.
Source: examiner.com
I never knew what Big George Foreman meant by saying he originally came back to soon until he stood over Michael Moore and had reclaimed the heavyweight world championship as dramatically as it could ever be done.
Now I'm looking over names Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. and John Duddy, and fight friendly San Antonio and thinking marketing whiz Lester Bedford already owes me for the piece I did on him on the Pacquiao card recently.
This is Cowboys Stadium vs. San Antonio AlamoDome and it just seems the "Whataburger Man" should naturally be doing the play by play like the late NFL's John Facenda.
So its got to be about come backing Marco Antonio Barrera. He came back a year ago on actually a decent and necessary pay-per-view card in England I bought one Saturday afternoon to both redeem Amir Khan coming off a first round KO loss and for Frank Warren to pay back Don King who delivered MAB with a quick, bloody technical knockout for Khan but here we are and all I can believe is previous reincarnations of Barrera have been premature.I know Erik "El Terrible" Morales came back recently and promoter Bob Arum is trying to maneuver Antonio Margarito into the Manny Pacquiao sweepstakes but Marco Antonio Barrera?
Haven't we and MAB suffered enough? "I can't explain it, " said Bedford." It's hard to tell these guys "No". It's hard to tell these great fighters to see an end. Who knows, maybe he has a lot more to offer. I know there will be lots of fans in San Antonio glad to see him, either way."
This card with Chavez, Jr. and Duddy would be going on without MAB anyway.
This card is being set up for 17,000 fans and is the first big event for new Alamodome chief Marc Solis, a San Antonio native, boxing friendly, who has been toiling for a few years and with wife building a family in Corpus Christi.
I see this event as a better fit for San Antonio than Dallas.
San Antonio once hosted Barrera vs. a young Manny Pacquiao in 2003 and years later a more mature well-known Pacquiao vs. Mexico 's Jorge Solis.
But today, Dallas, is DALLAS and it already looking down at all but a Pacquiao vs. Mayweather, Jr. at its 100,000 seat, $1.2 billion temple in nearby Arlington.
So Monday afternoon they will host a big press conference with Mexican food and BBQ to welcome Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr, John Duddy, Bob Arum, and even come backing Marc Solis and Marco Antonio Barrera.
It will quickly be drowned out by fight week for Mayweather vs. Mosley but it will be good fun while it lasts.
Source: examiner.com
Carl Froch Vows To Bounce Back, But Can He Beat The Mighty Arthur Abraham? -- Eastside Boxing
By James Slater, Eastside Boxing
One of the great things about the "Super-Six" tournament, is the way a fighter, even if he loses a bout, is not out of the tournament. Twice now, two favourites to win the Boxing Classic have lost and been criticised for doing so, only to bounce back in their very next "Super-Six" outing. Last night's winner over Carl Froch, Mikkel Kessler, lost to Andre Ward, yet now he is back amongst the picks to win the tournament. And Andre Dirrell, who dropped a close decision to Froch in a disappointing affair, came back to hand Arthur Abraham his first pro loss.
Former WBC 168-pound champ Froch, who lost in a war with Kessler last night, now has the chance to come roaring back in his own dramatic way when he boxes his third fight in the tourney. And, like a true champion, "The Cobra" has vowed to do just that.
"I'll be back. I'll definitely be back," Froch said. "I'm still in the tournament and will still get the chance to win the [WBC] belt back. I've got to beat Arthur Abraham in my next fight to get to the semi-finals of the tournament.."
And though Froch, now 26-1(20) will almost certainly be an underdog in the eyes of many when he enters the ring against the tough and very dangerous Armenian, no-one can write off the 32-year-old and his chances of doing what Kessler and Dirrell did. But in facing "King" Arthur, will Froch be facing the one man in the whole "Super-Six" tournament who has the best chance of KO'ing him?
The Kessler fight was always going to be a tough one for Froch (indeed, for both fighters), but the Abraham fight, due to the style of the former middleweight champ, looks to be even tougher. Quite simply, though Froch's own punching power and sheer hardness - both mentally and physically - will give him a shot at beating Abraham, I fear for Froch if he holds his hands as low as he did last night. Again and again, Kessler got home with right hands to the head (not with impunity, it must be said), and though Froch took them there is no guarantee he will be able to do so against Abraham.
As former "Super-Six" participant Jermain Taylor can attest, Abraham's right hand to the head is brutal; not only that, but he needs to land just one to get the job done. Chances are, unless he somehow tightens up his less than airtight defence, Froch will get hit by Abraham's best punch. Thus far, Froch's amazing chin has held him in good stead, but how many of Abraham's bombs will he be hit with and how many of them will his beard stand up to?
The possible advantage the fight being held in his hometown of Nottingham may bring him aside (and there is still a chance Froch-Abraham could take place in Germany), Froch appears to have one hell of an uphill battle awaiting him. Sure, this could both inspire and bring out the best in Froch, but another thing that springs to mind is how soon the fight will take place. Set for August 21st, the Abraham fight will come a mere four months after the brutal and draining battle Froch had last night - a fight that is sure to have taken something from him (Kessler too for that matter).
We've already seen two quite amazing comebacks take place during the six months that "Super-Six" has been going, yet if Froch CAN bounce back and defeat Abraham we will be witness to an even greater one.
Interestingly, on the issue of the venue for Froch-Abraham, Froch has made it clear he will not face Abraham anywhere other than his home country.
According to a news article on The Sporting Life, Froch said the following:
"I'm adamant that the next fight, with Arthur Abraham, will be taking place in Britain. I won't be fighting in Germany, it's as simple as that. It would mean me pulling out of the tournament if they forced me to fight in Berlin.
"I want to get that straight from the start: it has already been agreed that I will fight back at home. It has been agreed with Ken Hersham (of Showtime)."
We will have to see what happens, because promoter for Abraham, Wilfred Sauerland, very much wants the fight to take place in Germany and says any agreement Froch had was merely for the bout to take place in Europe.
It sure would be a shame if Froch were pushed into making good his threat of pulling out of the tournament.
Source: eastsideboxing.com
One of the great things about the "Super-Six" tournament, is the way a fighter, even if he loses a bout, is not out of the tournament. Twice now, two favourites to win the Boxing Classic have lost and been criticised for doing so, only to bounce back in their very next "Super-Six" outing. Last night's winner over Carl Froch, Mikkel Kessler, lost to Andre Ward, yet now he is back amongst the picks to win the tournament. And Andre Dirrell, who dropped a close decision to Froch in a disappointing affair, came back to hand Arthur Abraham his first pro loss.
Former WBC 168-pound champ Froch, who lost in a war with Kessler last night, now has the chance to come roaring back in his own dramatic way when he boxes his third fight in the tourney. And, like a true champion, "The Cobra" has vowed to do just that.
"I'll be back. I'll definitely be back," Froch said. "I'm still in the tournament and will still get the chance to win the [WBC] belt back. I've got to beat Arthur Abraham in my next fight to get to the semi-finals of the tournament.."
And though Froch, now 26-1(20) will almost certainly be an underdog in the eyes of many when he enters the ring against the tough and very dangerous Armenian, no-one can write off the 32-year-old and his chances of doing what Kessler and Dirrell did. But in facing "King" Arthur, will Froch be facing the one man in the whole "Super-Six" tournament who has the best chance of KO'ing him?
The Kessler fight was always going to be a tough one for Froch (indeed, for both fighters), but the Abraham fight, due to the style of the former middleweight champ, looks to be even tougher. Quite simply, though Froch's own punching power and sheer hardness - both mentally and physically - will give him a shot at beating Abraham, I fear for Froch if he holds his hands as low as he did last night. Again and again, Kessler got home with right hands to the head (not with impunity, it must be said), and though Froch took them there is no guarantee he will be able to do so against Abraham.
As former "Super-Six" participant Jermain Taylor can attest, Abraham's right hand to the head is brutal; not only that, but he needs to land just one to get the job done. Chances are, unless he somehow tightens up his less than airtight defence, Froch will get hit by Abraham's best punch. Thus far, Froch's amazing chin has held him in good stead, but how many of Abraham's bombs will he be hit with and how many of them will his beard stand up to?
The possible advantage the fight being held in his hometown of Nottingham may bring him aside (and there is still a chance Froch-Abraham could take place in Germany), Froch appears to have one hell of an uphill battle awaiting him. Sure, this could both inspire and bring out the best in Froch, but another thing that springs to mind is how soon the fight will take place. Set for August 21st, the Abraham fight will come a mere four months after the brutal and draining battle Froch had last night - a fight that is sure to have taken something from him (Kessler too for that matter).
We've already seen two quite amazing comebacks take place during the six months that "Super-Six" has been going, yet if Froch CAN bounce back and defeat Abraham we will be witness to an even greater one.
Interestingly, on the issue of the venue for Froch-Abraham, Froch has made it clear he will not face Abraham anywhere other than his home country.
According to a news article on The Sporting Life, Froch said the following:
"I'm adamant that the next fight, with Arthur Abraham, will be taking place in Britain. I won't be fighting in Germany, it's as simple as that. It would mean me pulling out of the tournament if they forced me to fight in Berlin.
"I want to get that straight from the start: it has already been agreed that I will fight back at home. It has been agreed with Ken Hersham (of Showtime)."
We will have to see what happens, because promoter for Abraham, Wilfred Sauerland, very much wants the fight to take place in Germany and says any agreement Froch had was merely for the bout to take place in Europe.
It sure would be a shame if Froch were pushed into making good his threat of pulling out of the tournament.
Source: eastsideboxing.com
“Money, Bragging rights, or is it, just the timing is right” -- PhilBoxing
By Gary Todd, PhilBoxing.com
When Shane Mosley stepped through the ropes to ruin Floyd Mayweather’s post fight celebrations, on the night of his comeback fight against Juan Manual Marquez, did he think he would say enough to entice Mayweather into a showdown, sometime down the track? I would say no. No doubt, Mayweather was pissed, but he would get over it. Anyways, he had come back to fight Pacquaio, not Mosley. It was all about the Filipino, the fight, his own legacy, and the millions he could make along the way.
With the Pacquaio fight on hold, who else could he fight? Margarito, Cotto?
Mosley was like a mosquito, who bit in to him, which gave him, an itch he had to scratch.
At 39 years old, Mosley has done it all, with massive fights against Oscar De La Hoya, in 2000, and 2003, he has won multiple world championships in 3 weight divisions. He was a boxing superstar. Shane Mosley [Won 46. Lost 5. with 39 wins by way of ko.] He has had a great career.
When Mosley stepped through the ropes to sting Mayweather, he looked like a desperate man. A man with no place to go. He couldn’t fight Margarito, or Cotto.
Since 2000, after the De La Hoya fight, at welterweight, Mosley has lost in big fights to Vernon Forest, and Winky Wright, and Miguel Cotto, and he has beaten De La Hoya, Fernando Vargas, Luiz Collazo, Ricardo Mayorga, and Antonio Margarito in his last outing in January, 2009.
When I watched him in New York against Cotto, I thought I saw him grow old in the ring that night, and I hoped he would retire.
Cotto beat him up to the body and won the fight with his jab.
As Mosley was recuperating from the Cotto fight, Mayweather had taken Ricky Hatton to school, with an unbelievable display of power and punching perfection, knocking him from pillar to post in the 10th round.
After 39 fights, and dominating in every weight division since 1996, he announced his retirement to the stunned media, straight after the Hatton press conference. As he left the room, I asked him if he would be back. He didn’t say a word, just smiled, and winked at me.
Mayweather didn’t need to come back. “Money’s” got plenty.
With this fight just one week away, the works been done, the media and the fans have had a tremendous build up, even likening the fight to the legendary fights of Hagler v Hearns, and Leonard v Duran. Me, I wouldn’t go that far. If this fight was fought in 2006, then maybe?
THE FIGHT.
Mosley is a slow starter, which could be a big mistake for him against Mayweather. If he does that, Mayweather is a master of slowing down the fight to his tempo, then raising it, while countering as he needs to. The double jab will be a big factor in this fight, as I see Mayweather fighting long, with the full jab coming in, followed with the left hook. Mosley drops his right hand, way too much, leaving himself open to the hook. I feel Mayweather will also go to Mosley’s body and just box and move all night.
For Mosley to win, he has to start fast, pressurize Mayweather, and throw his half jab, then straight right hand, wide left hook, then try and land the power punching over hand right. If he can do this, he could win this fight.
A lot of people are talking about the two fighters speed, and power, and how they will each react to it.
MY PREDICTION.
For me, this fight will be decided on not just speed, and power, but timing, and while I agree, both fighters have speed and power, only one of them still has timing and that’s Floyd Mayweather Jnr. This fight is about money, bragging rights, but for me, it's about the timing is right. Mayweather on points.
Source: philboxing.com
When Shane Mosley stepped through the ropes to ruin Floyd Mayweather’s post fight celebrations, on the night of his comeback fight against Juan Manual Marquez, did he think he would say enough to entice Mayweather into a showdown, sometime down the track? I would say no. No doubt, Mayweather was pissed, but he would get over it. Anyways, he had come back to fight Pacquaio, not Mosley. It was all about the Filipino, the fight, his own legacy, and the millions he could make along the way.
With the Pacquaio fight on hold, who else could he fight? Margarito, Cotto?
Mosley was like a mosquito, who bit in to him, which gave him, an itch he had to scratch.
At 39 years old, Mosley has done it all, with massive fights against Oscar De La Hoya, in 2000, and 2003, he has won multiple world championships in 3 weight divisions. He was a boxing superstar. Shane Mosley [Won 46. Lost 5. with 39 wins by way of ko.] He has had a great career.
When Mosley stepped through the ropes to sting Mayweather, he looked like a desperate man. A man with no place to go. He couldn’t fight Margarito, or Cotto.
Since 2000, after the De La Hoya fight, at welterweight, Mosley has lost in big fights to Vernon Forest, and Winky Wright, and Miguel Cotto, and he has beaten De La Hoya, Fernando Vargas, Luiz Collazo, Ricardo Mayorga, and Antonio Margarito in his last outing in January, 2009.
When I watched him in New York against Cotto, I thought I saw him grow old in the ring that night, and I hoped he would retire.
Cotto beat him up to the body and won the fight with his jab.
As Mosley was recuperating from the Cotto fight, Mayweather had taken Ricky Hatton to school, with an unbelievable display of power and punching perfection, knocking him from pillar to post in the 10th round.
After 39 fights, and dominating in every weight division since 1996, he announced his retirement to the stunned media, straight after the Hatton press conference. As he left the room, I asked him if he would be back. He didn’t say a word, just smiled, and winked at me.
Mayweather didn’t need to come back. “Money’s” got plenty.
With this fight just one week away, the works been done, the media and the fans have had a tremendous build up, even likening the fight to the legendary fights of Hagler v Hearns, and Leonard v Duran. Me, I wouldn’t go that far. If this fight was fought in 2006, then maybe?
THE FIGHT.
Mosley is a slow starter, which could be a big mistake for him against Mayweather. If he does that, Mayweather is a master of slowing down the fight to his tempo, then raising it, while countering as he needs to. The double jab will be a big factor in this fight, as I see Mayweather fighting long, with the full jab coming in, followed with the left hook. Mosley drops his right hand, way too much, leaving himself open to the hook. I feel Mayweather will also go to Mosley’s body and just box and move all night.
For Mosley to win, he has to start fast, pressurize Mayweather, and throw his half jab, then straight right hand, wide left hook, then try and land the power punching over hand right. If he can do this, he could win this fight.
A lot of people are talking about the two fighters speed, and power, and how they will each react to it.
MY PREDICTION.
For me, this fight will be decided on not just speed, and power, but timing, and while I agree, both fighters have speed and power, only one of them still has timing and that’s Floyd Mayweather Jnr. This fight is about money, bragging rights, but for me, it's about the timing is right. Mayweather on points. * * *
Gary Todd is an international author with his book, “Workouts From Boxings Greatest Champs
” Look out for his follow up “Workouts from Boxings Greatest Champs VOLUME 2” Coming out across the world on May the 4th, 2010. www.pennantbooks.com. and also at www.amazonbooks.com Mayweather, Pacquaio, Tyson, Cotto, Hearns, Duran, and many more.
” Look out for his follow up “Workouts from Boxings Greatest Champs VOLUME 2” Coming out across the world on May the 4th, 2010. www.pennantbooks.com. and also at www.amazonbooks.com Mayweather, Pacquaio, Tyson, Cotto, Hearns, Duran, and many more.Source: philboxing.com
Floyd Mayweather Sr. back as son's trainer? Court date looms for Roger Mayweather -- Grand Rapids Press
By David Mayo, The Grand Rapids Press
LAS VEGAS -- Eleven years ago, in a training camp in the California desert where Floyd Mayweather prepared for his third championship fight, his father said he easily could walk away from training a budding superstar if his son’s work ethic ever deteriorated.
“As long as it stays like this,” he said proudly, as his son rat-a-tat-tatted the speed bag, “we can do this forever.”
With the arrival of another fight week, featuring Mayweather in a dangerous showdown Saturday against Shane Mosley, Floyd Mayweather Sr. -- who indeed did walk away from his job a year after that 1999 remark, to be replaced by his brother Roger -- is playing a bigger role than at any point since.
How prominent that role ultimately becomes won’t be evident until the next training camp, after a totally different fight, pitting the State of Nevada vs. Roger Mayweather.
Pending that resolution, the differences between the late 1990s and the early 2010s are stark enough.
Remote training camps long ago were abandoned in favor of a Las Vegas base, as was any thought of borrowing space in someone else’s gym.
Security personnel, once nonexistent in the Mayweather camp, have multiplied to cover all corners of Mayweather Boxing, inside and out. They congenially stop anyone they don’t recognize at the entrance. Even someone who has covered the Mayweather camp before there was such a thing has his credentials challenged.
Inside, the reason for the ramped-up security becomes clearer.
People mill around at all edges of the gym, more than for any previous Mayweather camp, all of them to participate in the periphery of boxing greatness. No one gains admission without advance approval, and no one granted such approval can take photographs without yet another level of security clearance.
Several camp members come early to perform preparatory routines. Hand-wrap specialist Rafael Garcia, among the first to arrive, meticulously tears thin tape strips. One man brings in the equipment bag and lays out workout clothing. Another ices drinks.
Roger Mayweather typically is among the last to arrive. Even the fighter himself pulls his silver Cadillac Escalade -- a modest choice, by his standards -- into his reserved space at the gym entrance before his uncle appears.
The fighter, during the hand-wrapping ritual, sticks a piece of licorice in his mouth and hands another to his son, Koraun. Throughout the workout, the rare emotion Mayweather shows will be a beaming smile whenever the oldest of his four children appears.
HBO cameras and microphones follow every move, and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has been here five or six times -- they’ve lost count here -- for blood and urine testing, neither of which happened at the earliest Mayweather camps.
But on fight week, the focus falls solely on boxing, regardless all the attendant hubbub.
They all know the unspoken fight that looms.
Roger Mayweather, who turned 49 Saturday, faces trial in five weeks on an assault charge involving a female boxer he once trained. He vehemently denies wrongdoing.
A conviction could put him in prison for a decade. Given his six-month incarceration in 2006-07 on a similar charge, the legal situation is ominous.
At his place of business, he seems unconcerned, although that surely is not the case.
Floyd Mayweather trains as hard as ever, through the hypnotic handpad work with his, the blurring speed-bag sessions, the graceful rope-skipping drills. During a half-hour’s uninterrupted work on the heavy bag, his father watches intently, rarely speaking, though when he utters the words “Feint, feint, walk, touch,” his son obligingly double-feints, takes a sidestep and fires a body shot.
This is the work that Floyd Mayweather Sr., 11 years ago, said would keep him in his job as long as his son wanted him.
There has been no discussion of what happens if things go wrong for Roger Mayweather at trial, although the general assumption is that Mayweather Sr. would resume the role he walked away from during a dispute with his son in 2000.
Mayweather Sr. skirts the issue, merely pointing at his son and cryptically saying he will do whatever is asked, that he’s set for life -- primarily through his six years training Oscar De La Hoya -- and that fulfilling any duty his son requires wouldn’t be about money.
This fight week, one thing is certain.
Work ethic might be the only thing that hasn’t changed.
E-mail David Mayo: dmayo@grpress.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/David_Mayo
Source: mlive.com
LAS VEGAS -- Eleven years ago, in a training camp in the California desert where Floyd Mayweather prepared for his third championship fight, his father said he easily could walk away from training a budding superstar if his son’s work ethic ever deteriorated.
“As long as it stays like this,” he said proudly, as his son rat-a-tat-tatted the speed bag, “we can do this forever.”
With the arrival of another fight week, featuring Mayweather in a dangerous showdown Saturday against Shane Mosley, Floyd Mayweather Sr. -- who indeed did walk away from his job a year after that 1999 remark, to be replaced by his brother Roger -- is playing a bigger role than at any point since.
How prominent that role ultimately becomes won’t be evident until the next training camp, after a totally different fight, pitting the State of Nevada vs. Roger Mayweather.
Pending that resolution, the differences between the late 1990s and the early 2010s are stark enough.
Remote training camps long ago were abandoned in favor of a Las Vegas base, as was any thought of borrowing space in someone else’s gym.
Security personnel, once nonexistent in the Mayweather camp, have multiplied to cover all corners of Mayweather Boxing, inside and out. They congenially stop anyone they don’t recognize at the entrance. Even someone who has covered the Mayweather camp before there was such a thing has his credentials challenged.
Inside, the reason for the ramped-up security becomes clearer.
People mill around at all edges of the gym, more than for any previous Mayweather camp, all of them to participate in the periphery of boxing greatness. No one gains admission without advance approval, and no one granted such approval can take photographs without yet another level of security clearance.
Several camp members come early to perform preparatory routines. Hand-wrap specialist Rafael Garcia, among the first to arrive, meticulously tears thin tape strips. One man brings in the equipment bag and lays out workout clothing. Another ices drinks.
Roger Mayweather typically is among the last to arrive. Even the fighter himself pulls his silver Cadillac Escalade -- a modest choice, by his standards -- into his reserved space at the gym entrance before his uncle appears.
The fighter, during the hand-wrapping ritual, sticks a piece of licorice in his mouth and hands another to his son, Koraun. Throughout the workout, the rare emotion Mayweather shows will be a beaming smile whenever the oldest of his four children appears.
HBO cameras and microphones follow every move, and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has been here five or six times -- they’ve lost count here -- for blood and urine testing, neither of which happened at the earliest Mayweather camps.
But on fight week, the focus falls solely on boxing, regardless all the attendant hubbub.
They all know the unspoken fight that looms.
Roger Mayweather, who turned 49 Saturday, faces trial in five weeks on an assault charge involving a female boxer he once trained. He vehemently denies wrongdoing.
A conviction could put him in prison for a decade. Given his six-month incarceration in 2006-07 on a similar charge, the legal situation is ominous.
At his place of business, he seems unconcerned, although that surely is not the case.
Floyd Mayweather trains as hard as ever, through the hypnotic handpad work with his, the blurring speed-bag sessions, the graceful rope-skipping drills. During a half-hour’s uninterrupted work on the heavy bag, his father watches intently, rarely speaking, though when he utters the words “Feint, feint, walk, touch,” his son obligingly double-feints, takes a sidestep and fires a body shot.
This is the work that Floyd Mayweather Sr., 11 years ago, said would keep him in his job as long as his son wanted him.
There has been no discussion of what happens if things go wrong for Roger Mayweather at trial, although the general assumption is that Mayweather Sr. would resume the role he walked away from during a dispute with his son in 2000.
Mayweather Sr. skirts the issue, merely pointing at his son and cryptically saying he will do whatever is asked, that he’s set for life -- primarily through his six years training Oscar De La Hoya -- and that fulfilling any duty his son requires wouldn’t be about money.
This fight week, one thing is certain.
Work ethic might be the only thing that hasn’t changed.
E-mail David Mayo: dmayo@grpress.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/David_Mayo
Source: mlive.com
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