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Joshua Clottey: Preparing to fail against Manny Pacquiao?
Author: Michael Marley
2/6/2010
Maybe Joshua Clottey's teeshirt should say "Neverlast."
By my calendar, next Saturday night is not only the night before that cracksmoking cherub, Cupid, starts shooting love arrows to and fro.
I'm hoping the icon of romance will zap Floyd Mayweather who is throwing not flowers or boxes of chocolates at Sugar Shane Mosley and Bernard Hopkins even going so far as to label SSM as “a puppet” for Weekend t Bernie's.
I understand Mosley's rapid reply was: “Hey, I resemble that!”
Hopkins was a bit more severe, saying, "Wait until my boy Shane turns Flippant Flomo into Howdy Doddy."
But I digress, back to the timeline, back to next Saturday night.
It is also, this Feb. 13, one month before Joshua Clottey tries to cash in on his Power Ball/Mega Millions ticket against Pinoy Idol Manny Pacquiao in the Cowboys football playpen in Arlington, Tejas.
No playtime, no long plane flights for Pacquiao, in midseason form at Wild Card Gym (Top Rank/Chris Farina).......
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No Snowmageddon in Newark: Adamek headlines big show tonight!
Author: Press Release
2/6/2010
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Adamek - Estrada fight is on! There was barely a dusting of snow in Newark, NJ, the streets are clear. Tickets in the lower bowl have completely sold out, but Prudential Center will continue to open up sections of $53 seats as long as there is a demand.
An exciting card is on hand, including the IBF Heavyweight International Championship fight featuring Tomasz "Goral" Adamek, Gilowice, Poland & Jersey City, NJ, 39-1, 27 KO's, vs. Jason "Big Six" Estrada, Providence, R.I., 16-2, 4 KO's. Doors open at 7:00pm. The first fight will begin at 7:10pm. Tickets can be purchased at Prudential Center Box Office, or by calling TicketMaster 800-745-3000 until 6pm. Visit www.prucenter.com for more info.
MAIN EVENTS/ZIGGY PROMOTIONS
FEBRUARY 6, 2010 - PRUDENTIAL CENTER, NEWARK, NJ
AP Photo - Power Pole, Tomasz Adamek attracts young, lively followers to his fights in Newark, NJ
RED BLUE
6 Rounds – L
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Edwin Valero invades Mexico: Don't ask about his stinking badges!
Author: Michael Marley
Top Rank Photo (Chris Farina)
2/5/2010
 If baseball immortal Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat, what does that make awesome puncher Edwin Valero?
The Potentate of Punching? The Supreme Slugger? The man who put both the "K" and the "O" in knockout?
The 28 year old southpaw's unblemished record puts him in the home run hitting class of a Ruth, Lou Gherig, a Hank Aaron.
Valero is 26-0 and all his foes have been banged out. If boxing came up with more guys like Valero, we wouldn't have to worry about lousy judging because judges and irregular scorecards would be irrelevant.
There is so much to like about Valero. Personally, I make no bones about rooting for the Vicious Venezuelan unless and until he lands his ultimate dream fight against Manny Pacquiao.
He's got the Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan flag tattoo but Edwin Valero has tattooed all 26 opponents (Showtime Photo/Tom Casino)
Then I'll be, ahem, "neutral" like a former Swiss banker named Richie Rich surely will be in the Mayweather-Mosley bout.
Valero has go.......
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Just my imagination, Mayweather runs back to Big Daddy Bob Arum!
Author: Michael Marley
AP Photo
2/3/2010
I think I have belabored the obvious, pounded it home that that Floyd Mayweather WILL NOT, repeat WILL NOT back out of the May 1 Sugar Shane Mosley bout.
I mean, come on, Money would have to wait for 45 year old Bernie Hopkins to beat battered performer Roy Jones April 3 in order to find a big name foe older than Mosley.
As I've written ad nauseum, Mayweather's only other exit, one only a real braniac would take, is to sit on the sidelines and wait for Manny Pacquiao to handle his business against Joshua “I'm Not Joshing” Clottey in Arlington, Tx., on March 13.
But Mayweather is an Everlast Einstein only between the ropes, not outside of it, we all know this even the most ardent of Flomos.
But I was just cogitating over my morning jolt of java and contemplating what would the wildest rumor, the craziest story of all in the Mayweather-Mosley-Pacman Triangle?
What would really put all the drama queens into a tizzy?
How about this it will ne.......
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Make pretend time: Act surprised when L'il Floyd signs L'il Mosley contract!
Author: Michael Marley
2/3/2010
Fake, fake, fake, fake.
That's all this Flomo Fomentation, this Floyd Mayweather “hesitance” to sign the bout contract for Sugar Shane Mosley, really is.
It's the (Al) Haymon Factor at work. It's Richie Rich Schaefer reading his Haymon written talking points verbatim to Dan Rafael at ESPN.
Figure it out, Paclanders and Flomos alike.
Andre Berto, understandably emotionally shaken by the earthquake in Haiti, got a nice step aside fee to release Golden Boy chattel Mosley from their Jan. 30 bout contract.
Berto is controlled by Haymon who used Lou DiBella as his front man.
Well, guess who controls Mayweather? No, Leonard Ellerbe is the wrong answer.
Bingo! It's Uncle Al, of course.
Does anyone in their right mind think Haymon would've arranged a payout to pacify Berto WITHOUT KNOWING Floyd's intentions?
Michael Marley will eat his own sombrero without salt or pepper if Mayweather does not ink Mosley bout deal (AP Photo)
Come.......
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Groundhog Day: SI Chuck compares Mayweather fans to bilge rats!
Author: Michael Marley
AP Photo/Karsten
2/2/2010
It's not the first time in boxing that rodents have disagreed.
Look at how Team Mayweather and Team Pacquiao could not find common ground.
Now comes Staten Island Chuck, who advocates blood testing only after he has chomped on your finger.
Staten Island Chuck, known on legal papers as Chuck C. Hogg, takes issue with his better known colleague Punxsatawney Phil on two fronts.
“I thought I would get more attention today, Groundhog Day, because I didn't bite Mayor Bloomberg this year,” SI Chuck said Tuesday.
(See fascinating Manila Bulletin piece on how Madam Auring held Muhammad Ali's hand to predict he would beat Joe Frazier in epic "Thrilla In Manila" and how, even today, young men fight for her delight. All hail Madam A!)
“I was hoping that idiot Bill Murray would show up so I could give him some payback not only for the dumb movie, Groundhog Day, but also for what he did to my cousins in that silly Caddyshack.
It's PPB, or Pay Per Bite, for Staten Isl
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Mayweather signed for Mosley bout (invisible ink trick)!
Author: Michael Marley
AP Photo
2/2/2010
 People, people, people, don't fall for the scripted propaganda.
It might shock you. It might amaze you.
But I wouldn't hit the panic button just because two business days have passed without Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. inking his contract for a May 1 bout against Sugar Shane Mosley.
There's really only two scenarios here.
Secnario 1 is it is a staged play.
Richie Rich Schaefer's quotes to Dan Rafael seem to have the Lester Lanin Orchestra playing behind them.
It could be that the Golden Guy, the former Swiss banker, is trying to milk a bit more interest in the fight before it is formally announced at the Super Bowl this weekend in Miami.
Similarly, attorney Judd Burstein, who reps Mosley, made some remarks which sound like they coming from the same well rehearsed script.
They both sound like Vichy official who was “shocked, shocked” to find out that Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart from West 106 Street by my office) had gamblers gamb.......
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Flomos, Pactoids alert: How Mayweather can overtake Megamanny!
Author: Michael Marley
AP Photo
2/1/2010
If President Obama can extend the olive branch to those Bolshevik-hating elephants, then why can't I do the same?
I'm calling a 24 moratorium on hate, a one day respite in the endless wars between the Pactoids and the Flomos, the boxing equivalent of those hillbilly rivals the Hatfields and the McCoys.
Many of the haters are exceedingly confused. One minute, I am on Bob Arum's payroll. Scroll down four comments and I am sucking up to the Golden Boys.
Truth is I am only on the Examiner payroll and why would I hate Floyd Mayweather, anyway? Besides his super skills, Mayweather is the salt to Manny Pacquiao's pepper, the milk to the Manny coffee.
I want to go back to my theme of yesterday and reassert, first, that Mayweather's voluntary retirement was ill advised and he suffers from it because he left the stage and the Pound for Pound emperor's throne empty, a vacuum which the Pinoy Idol quickly filled.
By contrast, look at the super middleweights .......
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Nickname for Mosley-Mayweather: Second To One!
Author: Michael Marley
1/31/2010
Creative minds are at work trying to come up with an exciting and also credible nickname for the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Sugar Shane Mosley fight.
Like a former Boy Scout, which I was at the Quadruple Eagle level (Scout's honor), I decided to try to be helpful to the Golden Boy promotional team on the May 1 bout even though I already gave them a nickname which it looks as tough former UBS banker Richie Rich Schaefer is not keeping secret by any means.
The All American Fight with all the red, white and blue trimmings. I knew RR, a former star yodeler back in his high school days in the Swiss Alps, would find that one appealing.
One of my Los Angeles based hearing aides whispers that BALCO Bum Victor Conte might be the celebrity guest referee and all I can say is, hide those needles, friends.
You remember the BALCO Lab where Mosley thought they made the hot dogs served at San Francico Giants home games. Hey, want some extra EPO on that dog, buddy?
Here's some other poss.......
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Unless he beats "ordinary" Pacman, Mayweather can't regain P4P crown!
Author: Michael Marley
1/31/2010
Unless and until they fight, Floyd Mayweather Jr. will be haunted.
He’s made few mistakes inside the professional boxing record, none of them big enough to cause him to suffer a defeat.
But, in taking a 20 month hiatus from boxing and abdicating his Pound for Pound crown when it looked like his so called competitors were really just commoners suffering from grandiose delusions, Mayweather dropped the ball.
He dropped the ball big-time because his absence left the prestigious P4P ruler’s roost wide open for a train from General Santos City to come roaring down the empty tracks and take that place of importance.
Which brings me, you, Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao back to the unless and until part.
What I mean is that all of Mayweather’s claims to being the greatest fighter of his generation will not be verified unless and until he fights and defeats the Pinoy Idol.
The world, including anyone named Mayweather, just got an unneeded reminder of t.......
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Flomos take orgasmic flight, L'il Floyd fights Mosley in May!
Author: Michael Marley
AP Photo
1/29/2010
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Flomos are about to go into orgasmic flight.
Finally, they are about to have some news to slightly fend off the Paclanders and all the others with their childish Duckweather and Fraudweather namecalling.
L'il Floyd is taking a big fight, he's accepting the call of Sugar Shane Mosley for the All American Matchup and, even though Mosley is edging age 40, it's no mismatch along the lines of Mayweather's 12 round playtime with too small, that's all urine imbiber Juan Manuel Marquez.
Mosley is a crafty, full-fledged welterweight. Seeing the Andre Berto bout, which would have taken place this Saturday night go bye bye, was a good thing for the Shanester.
There was the possibility th.......
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No Josh-ing: Five guys Clottey can beat, five he cannot beat!
Author: Michael Marley
Top Rank Photo (Chris Farina)
1/28/2010
Obviously, Joshua Clottey is a marketable commodity. But his pre Manny Pacquiao fight remarks must be taken with grains of salt, maybe 12 million grains of salt.
Like President Bam Bam in his feisty State of the Union speech Wednesday night, Clottey is hitting all the right notes.
The Ghanaian is saying that Megamanny is not superman. He says he knows how to handle southpaws. He says he won’t be in the Cowboys Stadium on march 13 merely to collect the biggest purse of his distinguished if hardly remarkable career.
Speculative promises are one thing and hot air is another. Surely, Clottey is entitled to the preflight palaver but, when he says his prayers and tucks himself into bed at night, does he believe what he says?
I don’t think so because he is not The Man who will stop The Manny.
Which brings me to a little list of fighters Clottey won’t beat and fighters he can beat:
JOSHUA CLOTTEY CANNOT BEAT:
1. MANNY PACQUIAO: The Pacm.......
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Mayweather trial: If lamp didn't burn, Roger will never learn!
Author: Michael Marley
1/28/2010
I’m sure the Nevada court system, like any governmental entity in these perilous times, can use some added revenue.
So why wouldn’t the City of Las Vegas want to put the June 1 trial of Floyd Mayweather Jr. uncle and trainer Roger “Black Mamba” Mayweather on PPV TV?
I, for one, would gladly pay a $10 or even a $20 fee to watch the proceedings as Rajah and his defense attorney put the prosecution to the test on assault charges involving female boxer Melissa St. Vil.
They could title it “Guard Your Grill (the boxer’s chosen nickname) Versus Black Mamba, Who Hit Who?”
I am telling you there are is some rich, even comedic material within this case.
The judge has already referred that Roger may not be referred to as "Snaggletooth" by anyone whether they are character witnesses or just characters.
Police will testify that they arrived at an apartment only to see former world champion Mayweather applying a choke hold to Ms. St. Vil. For her part, she told
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BALCO Bum Victor Conte: Like Boston Strangler teaching Heimlich!
Author: Michael Marley
AP Photo
1/27/2010
Some people want to compare boxers hiring BALCO crook Victor Conte to hiring an ex-burglar to tell you how to protect your house from yeggs.
I said yeggs meaning second story men, not eggs as in Filipino street delicacy balut.
I don't buy it. Hiring Conte is more like hiring the Boston Strangler to demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver.
You know the Boston Strangler, he was what soul stirrer Joe Simon used to sing about, "The Choking Kind."
I guess heavyweight contender Fast Eddie Chambers and a few others have worked with Conte.
That is beyond stupid.
Here's the guy who brought Sugar Shane Mosley to BALCO, who handed Mosley his illegal substances and his doping calendar.
He and Mosley are still locked in a defamation suit in which Conte, the "honest criminal" says Mosley knew he was cheating and Mosley persists in saying he was duped.
Anyone in boxing working with Conte....well, the expression "brainless" does come to mind.
When I told Olympic drug test guru, Dr. Don Ca.......
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Arum: Time for De La Hoya to come clean on PED usage himself!
Author: Michael Marley
Top Rank Photo (Chris Farina)
1/27/2010
 "I'm actually disgusted by the fact they're going over California and weaseling their way into Texas to get a license," De La Hoya said. "Whatever type of cheating you're doing, it's wrong. You should be banned for life." (Associated Press)
Oscar de la Hoya says he is “disgusted” about the boxing return of former welterweight champion Antonio Margarito.
To hear the Golden Boy tell it, the Mexican fighter is doing things the wrong way by coming back from a one year California commission suspension without going public and spilling his guts about the loaded handwraps he and trainer Javier Capetillo were nabbed with in the dressing room before a loss Jan. 24, 2009, in Los Angeles to admitted steroid user Sugar Shane Mosley.
Without such a "mea culpa," de la Hoya opined that Margarito should remain banned from boxing for life.
GBP rival Bob Arum plans to have “Margocheato” as he has not so laughingly become known as launch his comeback underneath the Joshua Clot.......
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De La Hoya verifies: Mosley-Mayweather talks move nicely, nicely!
Author: Michael Marley
AP Photo
1/27/2010
(Editor's Note: Oscar de la Hoya confirmed my exclusive report as to Mayweather-Mosley getting close to being closed Tuesday.
ODLH said: "Is that fight going to happen? I'm confident it will," De La Hoya told reporters today...
(Source: LA Times at 6:37 pm EST)
Calling all Flomos, calling all Sugarshanesters.
And, I guess, disappointing all Paclanders, so quick to mock him as Fraudweather, Duckweather, Balut Boy and worse.
But the phone lines between Los Angeles, New York and Las Vegas are humming.
The emails are flowing gently like a mountain stream in winter.
And, when you ask people who know about the Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley fight negotiations, they do not wrinkle their noses and they do not resort to invective.
Their descriptions rum the gamut from A to B, from “cordial” last week (Mayweather camp) to “cordial” Monday (Mosley camp) and improving to “very cordial” Tuesday (Mosley camp).
The key words, from both .......
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Bob Arum shows no imagination on Manny Pacquiao Dallas ticket sales!
Author: Michael Marley
1/27/2010
 The number, according to Bob “I Never Lie” Arum, is about 24,000.
The probable maximum number, according to Arum when speaking to Steve Kim at Maxboxing, is 45,000.
I say Uncle Bob is too conservative. I say he’s showing a real lack of imagination with his red hot and smoking Manny Pacquiao product.
We’re talking about the Joshua Clottey-Pacman WBO welterweight title bout set for March 13 at Jerry’s World, Mr. Jones’ swanky football playpen in Arlington.
I say Arum is not shooting for the moon when he should be.
They are calling this “The Event,” aren’t they?
The head of Top Rank is aiming low by margins of 18,315 tickets sold and also by 13,891 ducats peddled.
The magic numbers—attention Dallas Cowbys marketing and publicity machines—are 63,315 and 58,891.
Let me explain as I was at both of these magical boxing events
(Click here to see Freddie Roach irritated at Floyd Mayweather Jr.)
The 63,315 was the paid att.......
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'Clueless' Pacquiao should get out of political jungle!
Author: Michael Marley
1/27/2010
When he is inside a boxing ring, the last adjective anyone would ever use to describe Manny Pacquiao is “clueless.” Under the tutelage of Coach Freddie Roach, Pacquiao has steadily improved and become the most ferocious and one of the slickest fighters of his generation.
But, when it comes to political games people play in his homeland, some observers think that the Pinoy Idol is heading towards another fight he cannot possibly win, a second electoral thrashing as the “National Fist” seeks a congressional seat from wife Jinkee’s home province of Sarangani.
I stumbled upon this fascinating story on Philboxing.com, a substantive piece authored by the highly educated Granville Ampong. In the column, Ampong quotes a prominent professor and Monsignor from Cebu named Roger Fuentes and Congresswoman Jocelyn Limkaichong and they both opine that Manny should throw in the towel rather than lose his second election in as many tries.
It’s no secret that, when Dazzling Darl.......
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Pinoy star Marvin Sonsona invades PR to fight Wilfredo Vazquez Jr.!
Author: Michael Marley
1/25/2010
 HOBOKEN, N.J. (Jan. 25, 2010) -- Integrated Sports Media, North America’s leading distributor of International Pay-Per-View and Closed Circuit sports events, delivers the best of two live championship shows, featuring a pair of world title fights, Saturday night, Feb. 27 from Puerto Rico and Mexico.
The action starts at 9 PM/ET live from Reben Rodriquez Coliseum in Baymon, Puerto Rico. Hometown hero Wilfredo “WV2” Vasquez, Jr. battles former WBO Super Flyweight champion “Marvelous” Martin Sonsona for the vacant WBO junior featherweight belt. Unbeaten cruiserweight prospect Carlos Negron (7-0, 6 KOs), 2008 Puerto Rican Olympian, supports in a 6-round bout against an opponent to be determined.
The spotlight will then shift to El Poloforim Benito Juarez in Cancun, Mexico, where former WBA light heavyweight champion Hugo Hernan “Pigu” Garay takes on highly world rated “Hard Hittin’” Chris Henry for the WBA Inte.......
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Cuban greats Ramos, Fernandez bring glitter to the Garden!
Author: Michael Marley
Hank Kaplan Boxing Archives (Facebook)
1/25/2010
 The two best fighters, other than Felix “Tito” Trinidad, inside Madison Square Garden Saturday night were a 73 year old, bull-necked former middleweight contender named Florentino Fernandez and a 68 year old, 5-4 1/2 ring legend named Ultiminio “Sugar” Ramos.
I was excited and delighted when Newsday fight scribe Bobby Cassidy Jr., himself the son of a light heavyweight contender, asked me if wanted to meet and greet these two wonderful ex-fighters from Cuba.
I shook both their hands, the “Ox” as Fernandez was known still looking like he could work as a bouncer in the roughest of bars, and the tiny but wiry Ramos. Both fighters left Cuiba after Castro took over, Fernandez becoming a staple with promoter Chris Dundee in Miami Beach and on national TV and Ramos, a great featherweight champion who finished up a Hall Of Fame career 55-7-4 (40 knockouts), relocating to Mexico where that boxing mad nation quickly adopted him much like it did Cuban transplant and all .......
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