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Oscar’s Smoking Gun of a Tweet Contradicts His Own Publicity Machine

By Ivan G. Goldman “Everyone don't forget to fallow (sic) @ringmagazine for all upcoming goldenboy boxing events and all the latest and breaking news in boxing.” That’s the tweet that…

Staff 04/09/2012

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The Sad James Toney Saga Continues With His Win over Bobby Gunn

By Johnny Walker The tragicomedy that James “Lights Out” Toney’s career has become is set to continue after Toney was a the beneficiary of an injury to his opponent last…

Gutter 04/08/2012

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Jilted Showtime in Ratty Robe Pining for Ken Hershman and Yesteryear

By Ivan G. Goldman I hope I’m wrong, but Showtime boxing may be in the throes of a nervous breakdown. I mean I’m really getting worried. It’s trotting Antonio Tarver,…

Staff 04/06/2012

Columns Featured 1 Olympic Boxing

US Olympic Boxing: From Muhammad Ali to Sugar Ray Leonard to Floyd Mayweather Jr. to…?

By: William Holmes “U.S.A.!! U.S.A.!! U.S.A.!!” I can hear the chants already. The Olympics are coming, and national pride will be on full display throughout the entire Olympic Games. To…

Staff 04/05/2012

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Floyd Mayweather’s Mind Games with Face Off

By Kirk Jackson Last night HBO aired their pre-fight interview, stylized show between Floyd Mayweather and Miguel Cotto called Face Off, a series that debuted with Mayweather and Shane Mosley…

Staff 04/04/2012

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JuanMa Interview Was Descent into Reality Programming Sewer

By Ivan G. Goldman Sticking a Showtime microphone in the face of Juan Manuel Lopez moments after he was stopped by Orlando Salido was a grievous act. The man needed…

Staff 04/04/2012

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Manny Pacquiao Upping Stakes on Political Future

by Charles Jay Some see it as an inevitability. Manny Pacquiao, who is currently a member of the legislature in the Philippines and finds himself mired in possible scandal, is…

Staff 04/03/2012

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Canelo Alvarez Needs Pacquiao’s English Lessons

By Ivan G. Goldman If someone offered you $10 million to learn a foreign language, would you buckle down and learn it? You bet your sweet lottery losses you would.…

Staff 04/02/2012

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BIR on Manny Pacquiao Move – Not So Fast

by Charles Jay Manny Pacquiao has expressed in two different things, both major, over the course of the last week - a run for governor OF General Santos and a…

Staff 04/02/2012

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Could “Mystery Woman” Defense Work for Manny Pacquiao?

by Charles Jay Another twist came up this past week in the Manny Pacquiao tax case - the claim that when the BIR did serve their "letter of authority" to…

Staff 04/01/2012

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Is There a Political Vendetta Against Manny Pacquiao?

By Charles Jay Manny Pacquiao may have formulated a pretty good (in his mind) reason why he has been asked to provide information about his income to the Bureau of…

Staff 03/31/2012

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Manny Pacquiao Persists in Claim of Lost Endorsements

by Charles Jay Manny Pacquiao may be an elected member of Congress in the Philippines, but he seems uncomfortable these days in being treated, by some of the current powers-that-be,…

Staff 03/30/2012

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Manny Pacquiao Might Be #1 Pound-for-Pound, But He’s 113th in Tax-Paying

by Charles Jay Business of Boxing PacMoney - Marketing, Millions and Manny Pacquiao Manny Pacquiao could lay claim to being the #1 fighter in the world, on a pound-for-pound basis.…

Staff 03/30/2012

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Shane Mosley and Canelo Alvarez: Good Time To Go Out for Popcorn

By Ivan G. Goldman There’s a pivotal scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid when Etta tells Sundance, “I'll do anything you ask of me, except one thing: I…

Staff 03/30/2012

Columns Featured 1 Jackie Kallen

Jackie Kallen On Boxing: The Hebrew Hammer

By Jackie Kallen Being a Jewish fighter was not so unusual or special back when Benny Leonard, Barney Ross and Maxie Rosenbloom were competing. But in recent years, the only…

Staff 03/29/2012