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Boxing News: Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Manny Pacquiao: Boxing’s Double Standard

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Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Manny Pacquiao: Boxing's Double Standard
Jul 21st 2013, 02:58, by admin

By Chester Rivers: Floyd Mayweather Jr. is regarded as the best fighter of today. His name has been consistently atop all p4p list most of his career yet, it was Manny Pacquiao who was awarded “The Fighter Of The Decade”. This is just one of the double standards between these two great fighters who will [...]

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Boxing News: Schaefer wants Broner vs. Maidana after Canelo-Mayweather bout

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Schaefer wants Broner vs. Maidana after Canelo-Mayweather bout
Jul 21st 2013, 01:47, by admin

By Allan Fox: The next big fight that Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer plans on putting together is a bout between Marcos Maidana (34-3, 31 KO's), and WBA welterweight champion Adrien Broner (27-0, 22 KO's) after the September 14th card headlined by Saul "Canelo" Alvarez vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. Schaefer just finished wrapping up [...]

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Bleacher Report - Boxing: Chisora vs. Scott: Should Boxing Consider Video Replay After Controversial KO?

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Chisora vs. Scott: Should Boxing Consider Video Replay After Controversial KO?
Jul 21st 2013, 00:29, by Lyle Fitzsimmons

Take a good look. Technology is all around us.

Our smart phones are all-knowing. Our television screens are all-showing.

Heck, even our car doors and ignitions can be rigged not to operate unless the wannabe driver provides the proper passwords, fingerprints and credit checks.

And in the past decade or two, even the sports world has shown signs of catching up.

Each of the four major pro leagues in the U.S. has sewn an element of instant replay into its traditional fabricwhether to determine possession in football, home run accuracy in baseball, buzzer-beater status in basketball or the relationship of the puck to the goal line in hockey.

For the most part, boxing lags too far behind.

Oh sure, the Mexico-based WBC has offered open scoring to help offset bad judging, and the IBO down in Florida recently assembled a blue-ribbon panel to help review suspect resultsa way of applying human Band-Aids to computerized rankings by correcting errors logarithms might have missed.

But when an actual in-fight controversy arises, the means of immediate redress are a bit tougher to come by. Amazingly, in fact, while instant replay in boxing is available in some states, it’s rarely utilized.

That needs to change.

And while the reasons for ringside modernization were both plentiful and clear long before Saturday evening arrived at London’s Wembley Arena, let’s just say the stench rising from the U.K. in the aftermath ought to be enough to sway whatever interested parties had still clung to the fence.

First off, though, let’s be frank.

The match between Dereck Chisora and Malik Scott was not going to set the heavyweight world on fire under normal circumstances. Neither the slimmed-down Englishman nor the light-hitting American had done anything of value through five full rounds, and short of arriving to the ring with mask and gun, neither was likely to spike Wladimir Klitschko’s blood pressure anytime soon.

The sixth round, however, was surely one for nostalgia.

When Chisora crowded his man along the ropes late in the session and delivered an overhand right that clubbed Scott above the left ear, it appeared as if the woozy “King” would take a count from referee Phil Edwards, stand at a timely moment and enter the final four rounds with a slight scorecard deficit.

And, in reality, it looked as if he did just thatrising from one knee precisely when Edwards hit nine.

But rather than waving the men together for the final few ticks, Edwards waved his arms over his head as a means of officially ending the fray, insisting that he’d gotten to 10 and Scott had missed his chance.

The Box Nation video appeared to bolster Scott’s case, and his trainer, Jesse Reid, was picked up on microphones with impassioned screams of “bullsh*t.” But it didn’t stop the ring announcer from dutifully declaring Chisora as the winner and new claimant to the WBO’s vacant international bauble, to shrieks of joy from fans and partisan announcers alike.

Some normally rational minds like ESPN's columnist Dan Rafael even blamed Scott for the error, suggesting he should have gotten up earlier to protect himself from such an official mistake.

Good for them. Bad for us.

Unless, that is, someone realizes what it could mean down the road.

Whether it’s too late for Scott to regain his 0 or not, the uncertainty created by the dubious ending needs to be a clarion call for the players that matterthe cable networks, the pay-per-view interests, the sanctioning bodies, the promotersto cover their collective backsides going forward.

While it’s at least a little comical considering Saturday’s silliness occurred in the semifinal to an insignificant middleweight main event, it wouldn’t be near as funny to the corner-office types if a similar controversy brewed in a title bout in the Vegas desert, particularly in a $75 PPV title match involving guys named Floyd Mayweather, Saul Alvarez, Danny Garcia or Lucas Matthysse, for example.

To the momentum generated in a so-far-stellar 2013, it’d be a buzz kill of epic proportion.

And simply put, it’s a risk the Arums, De La Hoyas and Espinozas of the world can’t afford to take.

Instead, those power brokers need to make the investments, enable the logistics and clear whatever hurdles are needed to allow enough cameras in enough places to ensure every potentially decisive momentheadbutt, 10-count or otherwisestands up to scrutiny; just like the fumbles, foul balls, late jumpers and no-goals do in the sports that have long since done so.

It might add time between rounds. It might overturn verdicts in raucous hometowns. But it also might save a new generation of fans from being introduced to the phrase “another black eye for boxing” every time the same old nonsense is allowed to pass with little more than the same old flaccid outrage.

Commissioners in the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL saw the problems, suffered the traditionalists and went ahead with measures to bring their respective sports nearer the cutting edges of technology.

For a sport long conditioned to do the least it can do to treat its ills, now’s the time to do a little more.

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Bleacher Report - Boxing: Floyd Mayweather Shows Promotion Skills with Requirements for Manny Pacquiao

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Floyd Mayweather Shows Promotion Skills with Requirements for Manny Pacquiao
Jul 20th 2013, 21:48, by Alex Ballentine

We already know about Floyd Mayweather's superb skills in the ring, but his latest requirements of Manny Pacquiao for a potential match show his promotion skills aren't far behind. 

In an interview with Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports, the man they call "Money" laid out the hoops that "Pac-Man" must jump through if he wants to set up a fight that was once the biggest that boxing could possibly make. 

Everybody's like, 'Aw, Pacquiao,' but I'm just letting you know he's not getting a fight with me... The only way he's getting the fight with me is if he signs with Mayweather Promotions. He's got to give me fights with Mayweather Promotions. If he don't give me no fights under Mayweather Promotions, then he's not getting the fight. That's how it is working now, because the ball is in my court. The ball has been in my court. I have been the A side.

While some are going to cry "duck" at the fact that Mayweather is demanding that Pacquiao sign with his promotion in order to fight him, this a genius move from the 36-year-old. 

Mayweather told Iole that he once offered Pacquiao $40 million for the fight but hung up on him when the eight-division champion said that he wanted a 50-50 split.

Ever since these two fighters were at the top of the sport, the reasons for the fight not happening have always been a "he-said, she said" type of affair, so it's difficult to take Mayweather's words as gospel. However, he is right about one thing. 

He holds the cards now. 

At one point, there was a case to be made that the boxers were even. Pacquiao had the right to ask for a 50-50 split, if Money's version of the story is correct. 

Mayweather was undefeated, but Pacquiao was a destroyer of men in multiple divisions. He was also regarded as the only boxer with the tools to end Mayweather's undefeated streak. 

Two consecutive Pacquiao losses later, the fight would mean much less for Mayweather now than it did then. We've seen Pacquiao lose to a slick boxer in Bradley (although this loss could have an asterisk as the scorecards were dubious) and a dangerous counterpuncher in Juan Manuel Marquez.

The problem for Pac-Man is that Mayweather is slicker than Bradley and a better counterpuncher than Marquez.

Sure, people will tune in. Even if these two finally lace up the gloves when they're 50, we'll gladly watch. But it's not going to be nearly the spectacle it would have been just a few years ago. 

So how can Mayweather make up for the money he lost out on because the two didn't make the fight when its stock was highest?

By convincing Pacquiao to join Mayweather's promotion. 

Despite the loss to Bradley, Pacquiao showed once again that he's still one of the biggest draws in boxing. His fourth fight against Marquez garnered 1.15 million buys, according to ESPN.

Mayweather realizes that Pac-Man's drawing power would be a huge boost to his own promotion. Especially because it would mean taking away one of Top Rank's top fighters. 

With two straight losses and not much time left in the sport at 34 years old, Pacquiao would enhance his already Hall of Fame-worthy resume with a win over Mayweather.

The question is, would he be willing to line Money's pockets to get the chance?

It's probably a long shot, but Mayweather has shown that he's a savvy businessman by creating the possibility. 

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Boxing News: Chisora stops Scott in massive upset

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Chisora stops Scott in massive upset
Jul 20th 2013, 22:11, by ciaran123

By Ciaran McKinney: The first round in this intriguing bout between Dereck Chisora and the undefeated Malik Scott finished without any real fireworks. With Del Boy catching Scott with a nice right hand leaving his opponent with mild swelling beneath the eye. However Scott was the aggressor and caught Chisora with some lovely combinations and [...]

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Boxing News: Kell Brook hungry is back and hungrer than ever to take what he wants

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Kell Brook hungry is back and hungrer than ever to take what he wants
Jul 20th 2013, 22:16, by Chris Hodgkiss

By Chris Hodgkiss: The #1 IBF 147 lb. contender Kell Brook (30-0, 20 KO's) is back and seems more ready than ever to take what he has always wanted ever since he stepped in the gym and saw Prince Naseem Hamed training while taking the world by storm and knocking just about every opponent he [...]

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Boxing News: Guillermo Rigondeaux and His Unfortunate Situation

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Guillermo Rigondeaux and His Unfortunate Situation
Jul 20th 2013, 22:44, by admin

By Sevak Sarkisian: On April 13th of this year, Guillermo Rigondeaux (12-0 8KO's) not only pulled off a huge upset over Jr. Featherweight King and pound for pound fighter Nonito Donaire. But he also did it by outclassing his opponent and putting on a Picasso like performance. It was the art of the sweet science [...]

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