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By Scoop Malinowski This is supposed to be a set up. A Big Set Up for America’s most protected, Floyd Mayweather, to shine on centerstage in beating the UFC hero Conor McGregor. But the best laid plans often go awry and boy oh boy, are they going awry. Conor McGregor ...

Conor McGregor is the real superstar with Ali like charisma and flair. Floyd Mayweather is the B side personality-wise. For sure, the producers and protectors did a masterful job manufacturing Floyd into mega star. Yesterday at the Los Angeles press conference, Conor was brilliant but he was clearly censored and ...

By Scoop Malinowski   Manny Pacquiao has every right to be disenchanted with Bob Arum. The legendary Filipino wonder of the world is one of the most electrifying champions the sport has ever witnessed. Pacquiao single-handedly carried Bob Arum and Top Rank on  his back the last decade as the ...

  ESPN is back into boxing in a big way thanks to Manny Pacquiao’s sensational performance against Australian Jeff Horn. *** ESPN’s Telecast of the “Battle of Brisbane” and The WBO World Welterweight Championship Fight between Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn is Cable Television’s Highest-Rated and Most-Watched Boxing Telecast since 2006 and ...

Manny Pacquiao defeated Jeff Horn by unanimous decision yesterday in Brisbane, Australia, though the three judges awarded the “decision” to the hometown Aussie. Pacquiao looked superb at 38, far better than previous welterweight legends Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Ray Robinson, Oscar De La Hoya. Pacquiao still has the form ...

By Scoop Malinowski Status: WBC International Light Heavyweight champion. Ht: 6-0  Wt: 175 DOB: September 20, 1989  In: Long Island, NY Record:  23-1 (19 KOs). First Boxing Memory:  “I guess walking into the gym at thirteen. My father brought me down there. I sparred. I got into the ring and ...

“It’s not personal, it’s business…” A nature of boxing is that the powers that be sometimes decide to remove the reigning champion and replace him with the fresh, new, more marketable, and/or more popular champion. The most recent example was Sergey Kovalev’s two losses in a row to Andre Ward ...

Gennady Golovkin is on the verge of the biggest fight of his life September 16 in Las Vegas against Canelo Alvarez. But the unbeaten 35-year-old middleweight king is taking the humble, play nice approach during this week’s press activities. I was able to pop a few questions to the man ...

Experts Contemplate: Bernard Hopkins vs. Jermain Taylor By Scoop Malinowski The hugely-anticipated Bernard Hopkins vs. Jermain Taylor undisputed Middleweight championship showdown may be off supposedly because Hopkins was not satisfied with the terms of the rematch clause, should he lose to the young danger man. But we decided to ask ...

World Light Heavweight champion Andre Ward has accepted a ten million dollar offer to fight Sergey Kovalev for a third straight time, this time in St Petersburg, Russia on August 18. Upset by cries of fix and inside job, Ward was offered the gigantic guarantee to face Kovalev in Russia ...