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Mayweather Stands Firm on Maidana's Gloves, Tactics
LOS ANGELES -- Marcos Maidana seems resigned to the fact that he won't be able to use his favorite gloves in the rematch with Floyd Maywather Jr. on Sept. 13. That was an issue before the first fight in May, when Mayweather objected to Maidana's c...
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Glen Tapia on Training With Roach, Canelo vs. Lara
Glen Tapia wasn't quite prepared for his first day at Wild Card Gym with trainer Freddie Roach. "He said, 'You're doing this, this and this wrong," Tapia said. "He made me think I sucked. I walked away from there thinking I couldn't fight anymore....
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Golovkin Focused on Unifying Titles at Middleweight
Promoter Tom Loeffler said Wednesday that WBA/IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin wants to concentrate on unifying the titles in that division, provided he gets by Daniel Geale in Madison Square Garden July 26. That means Golovkin has his e...
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Arum on Pacquiao-Algieri Promotion, Eyes Cotto-Canelo
Bob Arum said Tuesday he plans to promote Chris Algieri as "the modern-day Gene Tunney" when Algieri meets Manny Pacquiao on Nov. 22, in Macau. First, the Top Rank chief might have to remind people who Tunney was. Tunney was heavyweight champio...
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Porter: I Can't Figure Out What's Special About Brook
IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter says he wants to reach across the Cold War battlefield and fight a Top-Rank affiliated fighter at some point. Porter, who meets Kell Brook at Stub Hub Center Aug. 16, is managed by Al Haymon and promoted by G...
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Mikey Garcia Patiently Waits For Legal Beef To Play Out
Mikey Garcia showed up at Tuesday's press conference in Hollywood, but he was as far away from the stage at Avalon Hollywood as he is from a ring. "I'm retired," he joked. "I'm retired from boxing now." Not at 26, and not with a 34-0 record. Bu...
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Brandon Rios Closes The Book on Conditioning Coaches
Brandon Rios has not won a fight since October of 2012. That also was the last time he didn’t use a strength and conditioning coach. That might be a coincidence, but Rios is taking no chances. With Alex Ariza no longer employed by trainer Robert G...
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Juanma Sees Vargas, Every Future Fight as 'Do or Die'
A moving pile of hangers-on obscured Erislandy Lara after he left his public workout in the MGM Grand lobby Wednesday. Didn't that used to be Juan Manuel Lopez? Instead, yesterday's next-great-fighter did his run-throughto minimal applause, as...