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| | HOLYFIELD-BOTHA TO BE SHOWN ON PAY-PER-VIEW
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Press Release: Living legend and former undisputed cruiserweight and heavyweight world champion Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield will face Frans “The White Buffalo” Botha in a twelve-round main event April 10th, headlining “The Legend Returns” pay-per-view event, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. Tickets are available to purchase at www.UNLVtickets.com or by calling 702.739.3267. The show is also being broadcast in the United States and Canada by Integrated Sports Media for live viewing at 9 PM/ET – 6 PM/PT on both cable and satellite pay-per-view via iN Demand, DIRECTV, Viewer’s Choice and Bell TV.
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| TEAM ALEXANDER TO BRADLEY AND HBO: FORGET THE TUNE-UPS, LET'S GET IT ON NOW!
By G. Leon
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GL: What's the latest as it relates to the Great Homecoming slated to take place on HBO sometime this July? "We're not sure in terms of an opponent yet. But the fight that Devon wants, the fight that Team Alexander is the same fights the boxing fans want. We're here to please the boxing fans and the fight that we want is Tim Bradley."
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| EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: PAUL MALIGNAGGI
By G. Leon
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GL: What can we expect to see from Paul Malignaggi on May 15? "I'm expecting a great fight. I'm expecting a good promotion. Based on the fight almost selling out already, it should probably be based in the big arena at Madison Square Garden. It's still exciting for me, because I haven't fought in the Theater since my amatuer days and it'll be a little bit nostalgic fighting there, especially walking out of there with a world title, that's going to be pretty cool."
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| | JOSE SULAIMAN HANDS WBC JUNIOR LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE TO VITALY TAJBERT
More "comic strips" from the WBC
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Press Release: The WBC has officially appointing Vitaly Tajbert, from Germany, as the WBC 130-pound champion today. Tajbert won the WBC interim title by defeating Humberto Gutierrez, from Mexico, last November 11th. Then-champion Humberto Soto was ordered to meet the interim champion Tajbert but he requested permission to remain as champion until he climbed into the ring to fight for the WBC lightweight championship, which he won by beating David Diaz this past Saturday night at the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas. For reasonst still unclear, the WBC stripped the lightweight title away from Edwin Valero since he defended it last month. WBC president Jose Sulaiman said in his press statement, "Humberto Soto is now the WBC lightweight champion and in strict adherence to the WBC Rules and Regulations, Vitaly Tajbert becomes the undisputed superfeatherweight champion of the world and we wish him the best of luck in his career."
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| GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT: MORALES WANTS FOURTH PACQUIAO FIGHT
Ex 122-pound champion now campaigning at 147
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PRESS RELEASE: Erik “El Terrible” Morales, the last opponent to defeat Manny Pacquiao, returns from a 2 1/2-year layoff March 27 to headline “The Champion Returns” pay-per-view event, live from Monterrey, Mexico. Morales (48-6, 34 KOs) may have his sights set on a fourth fight against Pacquaio in the not too distant future, but the iconic Mexican warrior must first get past Jose “Jicaras” Alfaro (23-5, 20 KOs), Mar. 27 in the twelve-round main event. [Editor's note: Alfaro is a very safe opponent, as he is coming off a stoppage loss vs. Antonio DeMarco at lightweight.]
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| FROCH-KESSLER DATE STAYS PUT ON APRIL 24TH
Super Six World Boxing Classic Update
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PRESS RELEASE: As reported, WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward says he has suffered an injury and is unable to fight Allan Green on April 24th. The scheduled Group Stage 2 tournament matchup between WBC champion Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler will take place as planned on Saturday, April 24th, from Herning Denmark, airing on Showtime at 9 p.m. ET/PT as a one-fight card (same-day delay).
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| BOXINGTALK'S DAILY BREAD
By Stephen Edwards
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Hey Breadman, Just want to share this thought: I believe Pacquiao's reluctance on blood testing close to the fight is purely cultural. You see, a lot of people from countries in SouthEast Asia like the Philippines have a mindset that taking blood from the body weakens them regardless of the amount. This is an old folk tale passed down from older generations and is very prevalent especially in the rural areas where Pacquiao came from. You could attribute it to superstition. Many people from Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines have this stigma about blood drawing. Pacquiao grew up with this beliefs and that drawing the blood close to the fight will weaken him mentally and physically. And for this reason alone, we should all respect that. But the big problem is, he cannot relay this message clearly and explain himself to the boxing fans because of language barrier. He should always use an interpreter so he can relay all his message effectively. As for Pretty Boy Floyd - Just shut your mouth, get in the ring and FIGHT!
Bread’s Response: I definitely believe Manny has trouble articulating his feelings and he suffers from that in this situation.
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| | EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: SHAWN PORTER
By Stephen Edwards
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BOXINGTALK: First off, what did you think of your last performance? "We thought the fight was very necessary for my career. There was a lot to be learned from that fight. As far as the performance I could have done a lot better. We are working in the gym to correct things now."
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| | STONE'S SLANT: THE MAILBAG EDITION
By Alex Stone
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The media writes so negatively against Floyd Mayweather and so positive against Manny Pacquiao, it's frustrating. Manny beat a drained Oscar De La Hoya and a drained Miguel Cotto. Why is it that no one mentions that? Floyd went up to Oscar's weight. He has fought none of his opponents with stipulations or advantages. [Editor's note: not true, Floyd came in overweight vs. Juan Manuel Marquez, and paid a penalty instead of sweating off the weight thanks to a clause in his contract] Manny's claim to fame is an already knocked out Hatton, a hand picked David Diaz, a drained Cotto, etc. Floyd beat the top dude in every division at their weight. How do you own a 147 belt without fighting the beltholder at that weight? Bob should be shot for letting Miguel Cotto fight for the vacant WBO title. Stone's Response: I agree with you here, partially. For the most part, Mayweather has gone after and beaten the top guys, until he got to 140 and 147. More so in 140, as he only had a brief stint there. If Mayweather beats Mosley and Pacquiao this year, I don't think there is much arguing that he is one of the best ever. The Pac-Man has always had my respect, and I think people lose sight of that. Just because I support Mayweather doesn't mean I'm not a Pacquiao fan either. It's not like were talking about the Yankees and the Red Sox here.
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| | KENNY PORTER SPEAKS TO BOXINGTALK
By Stephen Edwards
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BOXINGTALK: First what did you think of Shawn Porter's performance in his last fight? "Shawn's last fight was a big learning experience for him. There is no one that can be more critical of Shawn than me. I wanted Shawn to do things a certain way that fight. We were out LA training with Freddie Roach. Shawn was going up against one of Freddie's top left handers. A 6'2" middleweight named Craig McCuen who is 18-0. I thought we had it down to a science what we wanted to do. But there was a combination of things that happened. Shawn fighting in his hometown, Shawn still being very young, Shawn having to fight in front of a lot of family and close friends, it took him off the game plan. After things got going a little bit he started doing some things we worked on. Some positives I pull from the fight is he went 10 good rounds. He was cut and he overcame that. So I think he learned more from that one fight than he did from all his previous fights put together."
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| | DKP PULLS PLUG ON ESPN CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLEHEADER
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Press Release: An IBF championship doubleheader scheduled for March 26th in Las Vegas featuring Steve Cunningham vs. Matt Godfrey and Cory Spinks vs. Cornelius Bundrage has been postponed, according to promoter Don King Productions. Editor's note: the reason for the cancellation of the date is a dispute between promoter Don King Productions and broadcaster ESPN2.
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| | TRAVIS KAUFFMAN TO FACE CHRIS KOVAL
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Press Release: Heavyweight Travis Kauffman will return to his hometown of Reading, PA in his first title fight against Chris Koval of Youngstown, OH on May 22nd at the Sovereign Center. The bout is scheduled for ten rounds. Kauffman-Koval will headline King's Promotions' night of boxing action featuring seven pro fights and five amateur bouts. Kauffman (19-1 with 15 KOs), is coming off a technical showcase against Mike Miller just two weeks ago in Allentown, PA and is eager to show his hometown fans he is better than ever since his only pro loss to Tony Grano last September. The 24-year-old Kauffman understands that if he is to move on to bigger and better things he must get past the heavy hands of Chris Koval, (24-6 with 18 KOs).
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| BOXINGTALK'S DAILY MAILBAG
By G. Leon
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I know the Andre Ward-Allan Green fight was just postoned, but I've been meaning to ask - as Green's advisor, does it concern you any about Ward being a client of the "reformed" Victor Conte [former steroid dealer to pro athletes]? And as an advisor, would you advise any of your clients to become clients of Conte? Thanks, J.
Leon's Response: Does it concern me? Hell yeah. I'm shocked that the press hasn't really followed up on Ring Magazine's piece. I don't know anybody who spends $4k on vitamins. Do you?
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| HOLYFIELD SPEAKS ON TYSON, VALUEV AND THE HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
By Mauricio Karelisky Deho
Quotes Courtesy of UOL.com.br
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About a third fight with Mike Tyson: “If Tyson can get his weight down, I would fight him. My goal is to be the champion, but a fight like these brings lot of people to boxing and gets lot of attention... I didn't’ know about it (the rumors about Tyson return), but there’s always a lot of talk. There’s nothing about it, inless he can get his weight down... It was good for him (Tyson) to go to the Oprah show. I hope now he can take the right decisions and move on.”
About striving to regain a heavyweight championship: “I still haven’t talked with anyone of the current heavyweight champions, but I wouldn’t turned down the chance to fight any of them... George Foreman’s Record is still a motivation for me. I feel great in the ring, looks like I’m 21 years old, but smarter. You have to keep focus, takes lots of vitamins. If you don’t take care of yourself, there’s nothing you can do”
About his controversial 2008 loss to Nikolai Valuev"
“I still think about this fight, for sure. I beat him, but didn’t win. So, it’s been a hard situation”
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| ROY JONES JR TALKING IT UP
By G.Leon
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In addition to his recent bashing of Bernard Hopkins on Boxingtalk.com his Royness is sounding off big time as he answers questions from fans our friends at 8countnews.com Boxingtalkers can scroll through our archive for a plethora of exclusive interviews with fellow legend Bernard Hopkins.
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| BERTO LAUNCHES ONLINE STORE
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PRESS RELEASE: WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (Winter Haven, Fla.) (25-0, 19 KOs) launched his official online store on Tuesday via his website, www.andreberto.com. Made for the boxing enthusiast, Andre Berto apparel is available exclusively through Berto’s signature website. The collection prices range from $22 to $26 and includes women’s logo tees, men’s logo t-shirts in red and black, Uppercut t-shirts and logo hats. “I worked hard to create items for both men and women that showcase the Andre Berto brand, and I know that my fans will love them,” Berto said. “My fans have always been the driving force behind my success, and I can’t wait to see them in the stands in their official Andre Berto gear.”
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| BOXINGTALK'S DAILY BREAD
By Stephen Edwards
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Wow! Breadman, I just read your mail bag post from the March 15, 2010 (below) and we finally agree on something. You stated, “The more I watch Manny the more I think Floyd’s chance is to catch Manny coming in… I am much more confident that Manny will beat him than Shane because of the work rate, foot work, and straight punches.” What caught my attention is that I had a chat conversation with my buddy (Pac Man fan) and he said practically the same thing. I told him that I like Manny’s chances more and more after watching this fight. If Floyd wins, it would be via KO within the first four rounds by walking Manny into a hook he doesn’t see (the punch that hurts the most) otherwise it’s going to be a long night for Floyd. The only other scenario that I can see play out in Floyd’s favor is that his speed eventually renders Manny hesitant to dart in (much like Roy Jones against his opponents in his prime) but something tells me that Manny is coming in anyway. That’s the way he fights. I’m starting to respect Manny’s boxing ability. DC Stretch
Bread’s Response:Appreciate him my man, he is truly special. And you better believe that Manny will keep coming. That is in his make up. He will come until he can’t come no more. Manny comes from a part of the Philippines so poor that they reportedly had no toilet paper. Therefore they wiped themselves with their hands. LMAO Do you think he gives a shit about Mayweather! That was a good one.
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| ALLAN GREEN: ANDRE WARD WILL NEVER FIGHT ME
By B. Artest Photo Courtesy of Howard Schatz
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BA: Earlier today Boxingtalk broke the news about Andre Ward's knee injury and the bout getting postponed. What are your thoughts on this whole situation? "It's messed up. I really don't understand the whole situation. I told my advisor that something like this was going to happen over two weeks ago. Either him pulling out or having an injury, but all I know is if he were fighting Jermain Taylor or Sakio Bika, I'm sure he'd be good to go right now. I'm a fighter. I fight through bumps, bruises and injuries and we go through that. I fought Tarvis Simms with a bad right shoulder. If you're knee keeps getting hurt it could be something chronic and you're probably not going to be ready in six weeks. If your knee is swollen, just take a cortisone shot, stop bitching and get your ass in the ring."
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| BOXINGTALK'S DAILY BREAD
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whats up Bread! its B from philly thanks for throwing me in the mail bag and addressing my fight prediction speaking of which it went exactly as I thought except for the fact clottey was simply unwilling to open up, but breadman as I was watching the fight I kept thinking if clottey managed to mark up manny pretty good without throwing that manny punches what would happen when he fights either mayweather or mosley 2 guys who wont be so front foot heavy as cotto,clottey or hatton? will manny be able to throw that manny punches against 2 guys that will be using a jab and be looking to counter him? I mean manny looked good but what can we take from that fight when we try to think what a pac man vs money or pac man vs sugar match up would like? and by the way why didnt we get a better undercard? I mean dosent Arum have some young fighters he could have thrown on there? Jose Luis Lopez was horrible and soto vs diaz was boaring when is bob arum going to be held accountable? I mean HBO was saying he was thinking about trying to get a pacquaio vs margarito fight set up? some one tell Bob he better get it togeather!
Bread’s Response: Arum needs to do something about his undercards. Soto/Diaz seemed to be exciting on paper but it failed. I have an idea ,thesePPV shows should stop starting at 9pm with the Main event not starting until around 1130 est. One fight should come before it. A championship caliber Boxing After Dark contest then the main event. If anything happens that is worth seeing on the undercard they can show us highlights. Arum is being very innovative holding these big fights at other venues besides the Vegas casinos. He just needs to put on better shows.
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| WARD "INJURES" KNEE, BOUT WITH GREEN POSTPONED 6 WEEKS
By B. Artest
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Undefeated WBA super middleweight champion Andre "Son Of God" Ward allegedly hurt his knee recently, forcing a six week postponement of his April 24 Super Six stage 2 bout with world class super middleweight Allan "Sweetness" Green. Regardless of what doctor's notes are sure to follow, Team Green questions the legitimacy of this alleged injury and is of the opinion that several of the rumors regading the in-house issues between Ward co-promoters Dan Goossen and Antonio Leonard, and manager James Prince must obviously have some truth to them. There was no mention of any knee injury as of Saturday evening, the last time Team's Green and Ward were finalizing the details surrounding their April 24 on Showtime. Remember where you heard it first! 1:27 PM ET
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| EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: BOB ARUM
By G. Leon
Bobfather doesn't budge: Only way Pac-Mayweather happens is without additional testing
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GL: Can you give us some thoughts on the Pacquiao's performance and the undercard? "Well The Event was the greatest presented boxing event in history. From the electronics in the arena, the thunder and lightning, the screen, the emphasis of the fighters. I don't know how it came across on television, but in the arena it was amazing and everybody was blown away. They had never seen this before in the sport of boxing and I think that's important because it elevates boxing to a new level having 51,000 people and everyone of them with a good view of the action because most of the people don't watch the event in the ring, the watch it on the screen because the screen is better than watching it in the ring. You have to be there to realize how unbelievable that screen is. It's a television picture better than on any television you've ever seen."
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| | EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: KARIM MAYFIELD
By Doveed Linder
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DL: From what I understand, you’re an undefeated welterweight (11-0-1, 7 KOs ) who has been beating guys in their own backyard. How are things going with your career? "Everything’s good so far. My (managerial) contract with Jackie Kallen just ended, so everything’s looking good."
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| | BOXINGTALK PROSPECT WATCH: JULIAN WILLIAMS
By Stephen Edwards
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Boxingtalk: I'm sitting with here with Philadelphia's 19 year-old Julian Williams. How are you doing today Julian? Julian Williams: "I'm doing good. Getting ready for my debut on the Hopkins-Jones undercard [April 3rd], so I'm excited but nervous at the same time."
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| SINCE DK WON'T DEAL WITH JUDAH: GREAT HOMECOMING VS. SPADAFORA OR MAIDANA MORE LIKELY
By G. Leon
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Boxingtalk has been informed that the Scott Trade Center in St. Louis, Missouri is holding July dates for the homecoming og undefeated WBC and IBF junior welterweight champion Devon Alexander "The Great". It first appeared that Zab Judah would get the fight when he shared Devon's post fight interview following his stoppage over Urango. With Judah's previous victory over St. Louisan Cory Spinks, the fight would have sold itself, but Boxingtalk understands that Don King will not do any further business with Judah until he is repaid what he feels Judah owes him. With Judah out of the equation, former lightweight champ Paul Spadafora and Victor Ortiz conqueror Marcos Maidana appear to be the frontrunners to land the bout. Remember where you heard it first! 3:00 PM ET
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| | CHAMBERS ARRIVES IN GERMANY
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PRESS RELEASE: American heavyweight “Fast Eddie” Chambers – rated #1 in the WBO – arrives in Dusseldorf, Germany with his team a week before his scheduled World Championship bout against WBO/IBF Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko. “I am on a mission to beat Wladimir Klitschko and bring those titles back home to the United States. This is serious business and I am going for it, but I also know that I want to take in this experience and enjoy the ride. I am not going to make any fancy predictions. I’m just going to win.”
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| | PAVLIK-MARTINEZ OFFICIAL FOR APRIL 17
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PRESS RELEASE: World Middleweight Champion KELLY “The Ghost” PAVLIK returns to his old haunt, Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall, on Saturday, April 17, to defend his titles against World Boxing Council (WBC) super welterweight champion SERGIO “Maravilla” MARTINEZ. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with DiBella Entertainment and Caesars Atlantic City, Pavlik vs. Martinez will be broadcast live on HBO World Championship Boxing, beginning at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT.
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