Author Topic: Official Boxing Thread (Read 77554 times)

Sev · « **Reply #120 on:** January 07, 2010, 08:56:39 AM »

Damn.

Kinda had a feeling about it tho. Arum has been dodging since day one, so has Mayweather's camp.

L1mpk1d78 · « **Reply #121 on:** January 07, 2010, 05:51:46 PM »

Paccuiao vs. Mayweather off because the 2 cant agree on blood testing. Are you kidding me!!!!!! This is why boxing is losing so many fans. Boxing need to standardize all of its rules. This fight would be going forward if boxing had a standard practice for every fight. Everything about a fight is up for negotiation. I think that only the venue and the purse split should be the only things fighters can negotiate. Fighters with too much power = biggest fight of maybe last 5-10 years not happening.

MochaNutz · « **Reply #122 on:** January 07, 2010, 06:19:42 PM »

cuz Money doesn't wanna fight and lose. hez ScAreD YoZ!

Sev · « **Reply #123 on:** January 08, 2010, 12:46:14 PM »

Never was about Packy and Mayweather. Arum didn't want the fight from the get go, either coz Packy is epo doping or something, which i find unlikely, or some completely other reason. This Charades from the promoters is just ridiculous.

Boxing is dead, long live boxing.

L1mpk1d78 · « **Reply #124 on:** January 10, 2010, 05:57:05 PM »

Its official, the fight off. From ESPN

With his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. all but off, Manny Pacquiao has instead agreed to fight Joshua Clottey on March 13, Pacquiao's camp said Friday.

Clottey's manager told ESPN.com's Dan Rafael that he spoke to Pacquiao's promoter, Top Rank's Bob Arum, on Friday about the fight's details but would only confirm a "seven-figure" purse.

"Josh is ecstatic about it," Vinny Scolpino told ESPN.com. "I think we can get this done in a couple of days. He's coming home [to New York from Ghana] on Monday."

Boxing is dead, long live MMA

Tuffty · « **Reply #125 on:** January 10, 2010, 07:32:57 PM »

Aw man

That fight would have been on a whole other level!

Stryfe · « **Reply #126 on:** January 23, 2010, 02:35:06 PM »

Has to be the best boxing(-related) highlight I've ever seen. Ali kinda helps at that.

hellcast · « **Reply #127 on:** January 26, 2010, 05:41:09 AM »

parkinsons and boxing... it's just sad how parkinsons is linked to boxing, and the only example that can be given is Ali.

kuno_thunder · « **Reply #128 on:** January 30, 2010, 02:00:43 AM »

We're all thinking the same thing.

kuno_thunder · « **Reply #129 on:** January 31, 2010, 03:25:23 AM »

Clottey cries as embassy denies visa of trainers

MANILA, Philippines - Manny Pacquiao was beating up his sparring partner in Los Angeles the other day and Josh Clottey was home in Ghana begging US embassy officials to grant visas to his trainers so they could join him in the US as he trains for the big fight on March 13.

Pacquiao, based on reports, beat up light-middleweight Byran Brooks in four rounds of sparring at the Wild Card Gym. But if it’s the same Bryan Brooks, the one and only boxer that goes by that name in www.boxrec.com, then there’s no reason to be happy.

Records show that Brooks is a native of California, who’s turning 40 in September. Yes, he’s a light-middleweight, but one who has lost all his six fights. He hasn’t fought in four years and should consider himself lucky to get out of the famous Hollywood gym alive.

Pacquiao’s sparring should pick up next week with the arrival of the other sparring partners. It should be welcome news if Shawn Bradley, who helped the Filipino icon prepare for Miguel Cotto last November, or Amir Khan would come in and take the lead roles.

Meanwhile, Clottey, who will challenge Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight crown at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, wept as he faced the press in Ghana, saying he couldn’t understand why his trainers, led by Godwin Dzanie Kotey, are being denied US visas.

“I am very very disappointed. I am so disappointed because this is the reason why I came down to Ghana and the money I spent to buy plane ticket and time wasted have been useless. It is so disappointing and I don’t even know what to say,” he told the Ghana Web.

“It’s like Ghana is not regarded because everybody in the world knows that this fight is coming on. I am very disappointed,” said the pride of Ghana, who came home after signing the fight contract in New York, and has been working out with Kotey at the Attoh Quarshie Gym.

Since Kotey and probably an assistant will be “working” in the US while Clottey trains, they are being required to secure P-1 visa (a working visa). The problem, however, is that it’s not easy, and the soonest they could get them is two months from now.

The fight should be over by then.

The National Sports Council and Sports Ministry of Ghana has already stepped into the picture, but US embassy officials wouldn’t budge.

“Alloway is the coach I know, he can speak my language to me and make me understand things better. I am disappointed in the US embassy because now I have to go and do this difficult job with people I don’t know. Now everything is on only me, I have to do it all on my own so I have to be at my best,” Clottey said.

“I am in good shape and I am enjoying myself in training and I must say I am very ready for the fight even if its today. But I need my coach there with me, I need him,” he told Ghana Web.
as of 01/31/2010 8:03 AM

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/sports/01/31/10/clottey-cries-embassy-denies-visa-trainers

Poor bastard. Its like being ordered to go face a pissed off army of Korean Netizens with a "Korea is whack" shirt.

kuno_thunder · « **Reply #130 on:** February 11, 2010, 08:12:17 AM »

Feb 11, 2010, LOS ANGELES -- Just before Manny Pacquiao started his afternoon training today a little after 3 PM, we spotted Claude Van Damme walked in to the Wildcard Gym to pay his respects to Pacquiao and visit for a while. Van Damme was escorted to the ringside and introduced to Freddie Roach and Pacquiao by security chief, Rob Peters.

Van Damme is the famous Belgian martial arts artist best known in Hollywood and world over for his martial arts action movies.

His most successful films include Bloodsport in 1988, the Universal Soldier in 1992, Hard Target in 1993 and Timecop in 1994. Van Damme who is a former “Mr. Belgium” is also better known as the “Muscles from Belgium”.

Pacquiao invited Van Damme to Texas to see his fight with Joshua Clottey adding to the array of celebrities that will be flying or driving to Arlington ,Texas to see Pacquiao defend his WBO Welterweight Title against the fame slugger from Ghana, Africa.

P4P king Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines (L) shakes hands with martial arts expert and movie star Jean Claude Van Damme at the Wildcard Gym in Hollywood Wednesday afternoon after Van Damme paid a surprise visit to Pacquiao who is deep in training for his fight against Joshua Clottey on March 13 at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Photo by Dr Ed de la Vega.

Completely 100% plagiarized from http://philboxing.com/news/story-34170.html

Saburo · « **Reply #131 on:** February 11, 2010, 07:09:39 PM »

Damn, it's been TWENTY years since Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson?!! That's one of the "where were you when you heard..." moments for me. We gettin' old...