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[bigmike23]

Originally Posted by Sir Rob A Lot

^^^Hopkins/Adamek not going to happen?

he offered him 500,000 to fight and hopkins would get 6 million

 

[yungmatt]

Originally Posted by Bigmike23

Originally Posted by Sir Rob A Lot

^^^Hopkins/Adamek not going to happen?

he offered him 500,000 to fight and hopkins would get 6 million

 

[proshares]

Especially with the fact that they'd be fighting at the Rock, that place would have been packed as hell for that fight. I'd rather see Glen Johnson getthe fight though since Chad ain't trying to see the rematch right now.

 

[sir rob a lot]

Originally Posted by Bigmike23


he offered him 500,000 to fight and hopkins would get 6 million

You guys have any idea who Hopkins may go after then?

 

[49ers650]

JMM vs Diaz was awesome. Didn't think Floyd would fight JMM though

 

[lesgodsonc0]

It's lookin' like Kirkland is off the Pac-Man/Hatton undercard.

SMH...how could you be so stupid. Now of all times...when your career is on the rise.

P.S. Penalosa is gonna get smashed. He really doesn't impress me, I mean...he was gettin' schooled by Jhonny Gonzalez up until the KO.

 

[dako akong otin]

Originally Posted by LESGodSonC0



P.S. Penalosa is gonna get smashed. He really doesn't impress me, I mean...he was gettin' schooled by Jhonny Gonzalez up until the KO.

 

[eagle 0n]

I don't think JuanMa is gonna KO Gerry but the fight could be one-sided like Punisher vs. Winky.

Gerry's a smart fighter though and I think he'll make it tough for JuanMa.

...
Last Ring Life episode. Behind the scenes of Punisher vs. Winky

 

[bigmike23]

We all know Floyd Mayweather's comeback is imminent. The about-to-unretire superstar, who vacated the welterweight championship and his unofficial status as the pound-for-pound best in the world when he announced his retirement last summer, has authorized adviser Al Haymon to field fight offers, and Haymon has done just that.

It's no secret that Haymon and Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer are discussing a July HBO PPV fight that would pit Mayweather against lightweight champ Juan Manuel Marquez. There have also been conversations between the Mayweather camp and HBO about a network fight against a lesser opponent, but those talks apparently have not gone very far because Mayweather's asking price is a bit more than HBO wants to spend.

Whenever and whomever Mayweather fights, he is coming back. That isn't going to surprise anyone. But here's something that probably would surprise many: Mayweather making his comeback with promoter Don King at his side.

It sure would spice things up a bit, I know that. And if you listen to King crow about the prospect, it's a distinct possibility. Nobody knows how to entice a fighter to sign with him better than King does. He's the master, and the master and Mayweather have spent a lot of time together in the past few days, much to the chagrin of Haymon and Golden Boy, who don't want Mayweather anywhere near King, according to one of King's confidants.

So when I talked to His Hairness on Tuesday afternoon, King sounded like the cat that was in the process of swallowing the canary.

"Floyd is here in Florida. He came to see me," King said. "I love Floyd. I think Floyd is the only marquee name out here now. We'll see what happens."

I could imagine King smiling from ear to ear during our talk, but he wasn't spilling any beans on the particulars of his conversations with Mayweather. However, he made it clear that he was interested and had big plans for Mayweather if something can be worked out.

I almost got the sense that Mayweather was at his side while we were talking, and that King was putting on a show for him.

"I put him in a hotel, but he's come over to my house for a barbecue and a chat and some fun," King said, barely containing his glee. "Floyd's a great fighter. He beat Oscar De La Hoya, he beat Ricky Hatton. He beat them all."

Um, so, Don … how did Mayweather just happen to wind up in your office and at your house?

"He just popped in," King said smoothly. "We're having fun and we'll get down to serious business in a few days. He's been here for a few days, and every day we talk. We had this great barbecue over at the house. We were eating some pork ribs and some lamb chops. Mmmmm, it was good. Floyd's having fun right now and I'm so very glad he's spending some time with me."

For the past few years, King hasn't exactly set the world on fire with the sort of big events he had become so closely associated with. He has promoted fewer and fewer cards, thinned his once massive stable of fighters and dramatically reduced the number of employees at his Deerfield Beach, Fla., compound.

In fact, lately there has been a distinct feeling throughout the boxing business that, at 77, The High-Haired One isn't even in the game in a serious way anymore. Instead, it seemed like he was playing out the string of an epic career.

But one thing I have learned in nearly a decade of knowing the man and covering him and his fights: You never -- and I mean never -- count out Don King.

He once wooed Hasim Rahman with a duffel bag of cash. He has won over many a fighter with his money and magnetism, and what better way for King to get back into serious business than by signing Mayweather?

"He's really talented, not a fly-by-night," King said. "The man is a scientific boxer and a great talent. He's a tremendous star, and I would take him to new heights if I were to promote him. I love any talented guy. I promoted Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Mike Tyson, Larry Holmes. Those guys had talent. So now Floyd comes to see me. What a dynamic team we would be if this should come to pass. I don't have him yet, but when he gets around to committing himself, we'll shock the world. If it comes to pass, great. Right now, we just checkin' out the landscape."

Oh my, what a landscape it would be if King and the man they call "Money" teamed up.



Dont do it mayweather

 

[49ers650]

Don King? Geez

 

[jstar25]

Just saw on El Nuevo Dia Tito may be fighting Hopkins in November.

source: El Nuevo Dia

 

[sir rob a lot]

^^^Tito looking hella old. I have a feeling that RJJ and B-Hop will finally fight each other next year for both of their career finale. It would be a good wayto end, $$$-wise.


Don King should just stay in Europe and promote over there.

 

[dako akong otin]

LOPEZ-PENALOSA PRESSCON PHOTOS

PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 23 Apr 2009

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- WBO superbantam champion Juan Manuel Lopez of Puerto Rico (L) and WBO bantam champion Gerry Penalosa of the Philippines pose after 'Campeon vs Campeon' press conference at the El San Juan Hotel in Isla Verde, San Juan Wednesday afternoon. Lopez and Penalosa will fight on Saturday at the Coliseo Rubern Rodriquez in Guaybano for Lopez's belt.
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WBO superbantam champion Juan Manuel Lopez of Puerto Rico (L) and WBO bantam champion Gerry Penalosa of the Philippines face each other after 'Campeon vs Campeon' press conference at the El San Juan Hotel in Isla Verde, San Juan Wednesday afternoon. Lopez and Penalosa will fight on Saturday at the Coliseo Rubern Rodriquez in Guaybano for Lopez's belt.

WBO bantamweight champion Gerry Penalosa of the Philippines speaks during the 'Campeon vs Campeon' press conference at the El San Juan Hotel & Casino in Isla Verde, San Juan Wednesday afternoon. Lopez and Penalosa will fight on Saturday at the Coliseo Rubern Rodriquez in Guaybano for Lopez's belt.

WBO bantamweight champion Gerry Penalosa of Philippines (R) shakes hands with WBO superbantam champion Juan Manuel Lopez of Puerto Rico during the 'Campeon vs Campeon' press conference at the El San Juan Hotel & Casino in Isla Verde, San Juan Wednesday afternoon. Lopez and Penalosa will fight on Saturday at the Coliseo Rubern Rodriquez in Guaybano for Lopez's belt.

WBO superbantam champion Juan Manuel Lopez of Puerto Rico speaks during the 'Campeon vs Campeon' press conference at the El San Juan Hotel & Casino in Isla Verde, San Juan Wednesday afternoon. Lopez and Penalosa will fight on Saturday at the Coliseo Rubern Rodriquez in Guaybano for Lopez's belt.

Gerry Penalosa's manager Billy Keanne speaks during the 'Campeon vs Campeon' press conference at the El San Juan Hotel & Casino in Isla Verde, San Juan Wednesday afternoon. Lopez and Penalosa will fight on Saturday at the Coliseo Rubern Rodriquez in Guaybano for Lopez's belt.

WBO President Francisco 'Paco' Valcarcel speaks during the 'Campeon vs Campeon' press conference at the El San Juan Hotel & Casino in Isla Verde, San Juan Wednesday afternoon. Lopez and Penalosa will fight on Saturday at the Coliseo Rubern Rodriquez in Guaybano for Lopez's belt.
i'm actually more pumped about this fight than Pac/Hatton.... of course I'm more nervous too

 

[kicks4days]

 

[mextra45]

Maybe in trippin but Gerry looks like Manny Fresh lol

 

[proshares]

Hopkins-Trinidad II? Say it ain't so

Thursday, April 23, 2009 | Print Entry

Your weekly random thoughts …

• I've been hearing rumblings of a Bernard Hopkins-Felix Trinidad rematch at 168 pounds being discussed for the fall. What a bad, bad joke of a fight that would be. Hopkins crushed Trinidad in 2001 and remains a top fighter. But Trinidad, who hasn't fought since being dominated by Roy Jones in January 2008, is a spent bullet with nothing left. Even if they can make the fight, which I sort of doubt, why would anyone on earth pay 5 cents to see such an utterly uninteresting and pointless rematch? There is that old saying though about a sucker being born every minute.

• Next week's Ricky Hatton-Manny Pacquiao fight can't get here soon enough.

• Condolences to the family and friends of Stanley Levin, the boxing-loving attorney who considered Jones like a member of the family. Levin, of Pensacola, Fla., died last week at age 70. He was one of the good guys in boxing, a generous man whose word was his bond. He was never a guy you'd see out front doing a lot of talking. Behind the scenes, however, especially with regard to Jones' career, Levin made things happen. As Jones' co-manager for much of his career, along with his brother, Fred Levin, they were voted co-managers of the year in 1995 by the Boxing Writers Association of America. Levin, recognizable by his neck brace, stayed with Jones until the earlier part of the decade until going their separate ways, in part because he was disappointed in some of Jones' business decisions and because of his frail health. I always liked Stan the Man. One time, when I was covering Jones' HBO PPV fight against Eric Harding in New Orleans in September 2000, I spent a good part of fight day with him. New Orleans was getting crushed by thunderstorms that day and lightning streaked across the sky non-stop. I had a pretty darn good view of the lightning storm because Levin invited me to his suite at the top of the hotel where we were staying several hours before the fight to watch HBO's afternoon "KO Nation" card featuring Winky Wright-Bronco McKart II. It was just the two of us. We watched the fights, watched the storm and talked boxing. Those were good times.

• It seems unlikely, but I'm still holding out hope that HBO or Showtime decides to buy the proposed Tomasz Adamek-Glen Johnson cruiserweight championship fight this summer. I don't think it can be anything less than a crowd-pleasing action fight between aggressive fighters with great chins and never-say-die attitudes in the ring. It's the epitome of a fans' fight.

• What on earth was James Kirkland thinking?

• I have to say I was thoroughly impressed by flyweight titleholder Nonito Donaire's fourth-round TKO of Raul Martinez last week. Donaire is darn good and deserves pound-for-pound list consideration. I was also impressed with Brian Viloria, who dethroned junior flyweight titlist Ulises Solis with an 11th-round knockout on the undercard of the entertaining Top Rank PPV card. Finally, Viloria put it all together against a quality opponent.

• So anyone out there willing and available to fight Paul Williams?

• Nikolai Valuev and Ruslan Chagaev are finally going to meet May 30 in their mandated heavyweight title rematch. Yawn.

• The lunacy of some fighters never ceases to amaze me. The latest example comes from virtual unknown Tavoris Cloud, whose lone claim to fame is a nice knockout of faded Julio Gonzalez on Aug. 8, 2008, on ESPN2. Since then, Cloud (19-0, 18 KOs), the mandatory challenger for titleholder Chad Dawson, has not fought. Yet, suddenly, he popped up this week with a silly open letter demanding a fight with Dawson, one which he is already mandatory for. How ridiculous is that?

• Besides all those bogus interim titles, champion in recess designations and super titles, is the IBF junior lightweight title the most pathetic belt in boxing today or what? Since Marco Antonio Barrera was forced to give it up in late 2005, four men -- Cassius Baloyi, Gairy St. Clair, Mzonke Fana and Malcolm Klassen -- have held it and it has changed hands five times in eight bouts with seven of the fights taking place in South Africa, which apparently has become IBF 130-pound central. Nobody has made it through two successful defenses either. Klassen is the latest to hold the title in the seemingly never-ending round-robin, having regained it last Saturday from Baloyi.

• Just a quick note of congratulations to one of boxing's more colorful characters, England's Frank Maloney, who is celebrating 25 years as a promoter this week with a small card in London. Maloney, who always seems to enjoy wearing outfits decorated with Britain's Union Jack, has managed or promoted the likes of former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, former cruiserweight champ David Haye and former featherweight titleholders Paul Ingle and Scott Harrison.

• Congratulations to HBO Sports, which picked up 18 nominations for the 30th annual Sports Emmys. Many of its nominations were for boxing-related programming. "Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed" was nominated for outstanding sports documentary. "De La Hoya/Pacquiao 24/7" and the network's various countdown specials were nominated for outstanding sports series/anthologies. "De La Hoya/Pacquiao 24/7" was also nominated for the $#%$ Schaap writing award. "Calzaghe/Jones 24/7" garnered four nomination for edited sports special, editing, camera work and post produced audio. HBO's "Ring Life" Internet series was nominated in the outstanding new approaches to sports programming category. Congrats to HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg and his entire staff. Awards will be handed out Monday in New York.

• DVD pick of the week: I've been on a bit of an '80s binge having received a handful of classics from a friend I trade with, so this week I went for one of those bouts. It was June 27, 1987, in Montreal when 21-year-old Matthew Hilton faced tenacious Buster Drayton. Hilton dropped Drayton in the first round and it looked like it was going to be a quick fight. Instead, it was a 15-round slugfest. But Hilton, younger and quicker, won the unanimous decision to claim a junior middleweight title in front of his adoring fans and become the first Canadian to win a world title in 44 years. And you didn't need cable to watch the fight or need to spend cash on a pay-per-view. It was live on ABC and called by Jim Lampley in his pre-HBO days.

 

[gunna get it]

HBO's "Ring Life" Internet series was nominated in the outstanding new approaches to sports programming category.


thats good work rite there

So anyone out there willing and available to fight Paul Williams?


Im waitin to see who they linin' up too

 

[proshares]

I dunno if you saw my question a few pages back Jay, but Dan was talking about no one from 147-160 could beat or be favored against Paul you agree with that?

But if Kelly/Arthur goes through and it's a classic first fight, I'm not trying to see Paul get in the way of a potential trilogy you know what I'msaying? He's talking like he'd be willing to go to 168, there he could make some big matches as well. I think even a fight with him and Sergio Martinezwould be a good one.

 

[shannonscrooks]

No love for Taylor v. Froch? You chumps are slipping. I'll be there, drunk as hell from watching the draft, but there nonetheless. JT's name is goingto ring bells once again.

 

[jaygunna]

My dude!

What happened? U just bonded out or somethin !?

I'm still iffy on JT esp the way he looked vs Lacy. I'm not sold. Ill change the title tho

 

[shannonscrooks]

Had some outstanding issues that needed clearing up but ended up getting me in some hot water, everything good now. Good to be back. Missed this place.

 

[proshares]

I got Froch my decision.

 

[sir rob a lot]

Originally Posted by Proshares

I got JT Froch by split-decision.

Would we get in trouble doing bets on here?

 

[eagle 0n]

I think JT got this.

But I wouldn't put money on it.

 

[proshares]

I'm still iffy on JT esp the way he looked vs Lacy. I'm not sold.
And Froch isn't a paper titleholder and isn't a pushover.

But I'm a little blinded by some hate of JT for beating B-Hop twice