Pacquiao, who retired from boxing for a while so he could learn the ropes of governing, is back. He has won a record eight division titles in his now 59-6-2 career, and has now won the won the World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title for a...
Some kings wear easily the crown. Or, in the case of boxing, the title belt. ÓSCAR VALDEZ, a Mexican marvel, is doing exactly that these days. And he has had to be a quick learner. In April, on the undercard of the third Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bra...
Boxing writers tend to look toward the event they are covering differently than you might think. Lousy fight? That’s O.K., as long as the people fighting, or the people promoting, or the people training, are good talkers. Great reading does not...
Over the years, as a sports columnist for The Los Angeles Times, I received no fewer than 200 emails that asked a version of the same question: How can you write so favorably and passionately about boxing when you keep ripping the NFL and its concus...
Tim Bradley and Terence Crawford represent a rosy future for boxing. Also, a dilemma. They won’t fight each other. Say Bradley beats Manny Pacquiao in their widely anticipated April 9 match at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. The whose-got-...
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It is conceivable that Monica Bradley has the second toughest job in the world. Give Barack Obama the nod for No. 1. Bradley is the wife of word-class boxer TIM BRADLEY. She is also his manager. She has given birth to his children and felt a di...
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Unlike many of the boxers he has promoted, Top Rank's Bob Arum never goes down for a ten count. Last week, his prized fighter and current main meal ticket, MANNY PACQUIAO, hit Arum with one of the most vicious left hooks he has ever thrown. It wa...
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Wednesday brought another boxing news conference and another masterpiece of salesmanship and jaw-dropping from the master of that, Bob Arum. Arum is the chief executive of Top Rank Promotions. He is 84 years old, going on 52. He seems to have the...
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What do MANNY 'Pacman' PACQUIAO and TIMOTHY 'Desert Storm BRADLEY JR., have in common with Cam Newton? Fortunately, for boxing, nothing. We all saw Sunday’s Super Bowl. If we didn’t, we need to make sure next year to get the key to the cave i...
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The TV images from boxing last Saturday night were of a glassy-eyed Jean Pascal and a worried Freddie Roach. It was the end of the sixth round of the light heavyweight title fight between Pascal and Sergey Kovalev in Montreal, Pascal’s hometown....
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