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Keidel: Is Mayweather-Pacquiao Bout Five Years Too Late?
By Jason Keidel » More Columns Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, the two remaining monoliths of a sport desperate for an infusion of money and mojo, had their red carpet presser this week. And...
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Silverman: Floyd’s Head Games Simply Won’t Work Against Savvy, Skilled Pacquiao
By Steve Silverman » More Columns If you don’t think the battle between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao has already started, you haven’t been paying attention. Floyd started fighting as the...
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Boxing Insider Talk: Stephen Espinoza, Showtime Sports
By Jason Keidel Twitter: @JasonKeidel We’re used to a montage of athletes splashed against these online walls, though we give no regard to the people behind the lights, camera, and action. The public...
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Payout For Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight Soars To Staggering Amount
http://media.newyork.cbslocal.com/CBSNY_20150325111351943AA.mp4 LAS VEGAS (CBSNewYork/AP) — The first ticket has yet to be sold, but the richest fight in boxing history is getting richer by the day....
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Keidel: Mind Games Have Begun For Mayweather-Pacquiao Bout
By Jason Keidel » More Columns The mind games have begun, the semantic subterfuge and machismo that has become a boxing tableau. First it was Floyd Mayweather, Jr. poaching all potential sparring...
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Boxing Insider Talk: Virgil Hunter, Boxing Trainer And Analyst
By Jason Keidel Twitter: @JasonKeidel Virgil Hunter, renowned boxing trainer out of the Oakland area, has worked with a roll call of current luminaries, like Andre Berto, Andre Ward and Amir Khan. For...
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Pricey! Up To $99.95 To Watch Mayweather-Pacquiao On Pay-Per-View
LAS VEGAS (CBSNewYork/AP) — It’s going to cost you. Don’t expect much change back from a $100 bill to watch the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao fight at home. The suggested retail price for the May...
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Keidel: Mayweather-Pacquiao Bout A Boon To Las Vegas Wagers
By Jason Keidel » More Columns So far, I’ve spoken to Thomas Hearns, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Deontay Wilder, Mark Breland, Bob Arum, Virgil Hunter, Leonard Ellerbe, and Freddy Roach, and I have yet to...
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Boxing Insider Talk: Jimmy Lennon Jr, Boxing Ring Announcer
By Jason Keidel Twitter: @JasonKeidel In boxing, we so rarely see the periphery — the refs, cornermen and timekeeper. After watching the fighters and ogling at the ring card girls, everything else is...
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Keidel: Countdown To Mayweather-Pacquiao Bout
By Jason Keidel » More Columns Three weeks. 21 days. 504 hours. 30,240 minutes. 1,814,400 seconds. That’s how long it is until Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. finally bump gloves in Las Vegas....
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Manny Pacquiao Fights Back At Mayweather’s ‘Reckless’ Jabs
LOS ANGELES (CBSNewYork/AP) — Manny Pacquiao intends to put on a show when he faces Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2 1/2 weeks. The 36-year-old really hopes Mayweather is also coming to fight, for the fans’...
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Boxing Insider Talk: Al Bernstein, Boxing Commentator
By Jason Keidel Twitter: @JasonKeidel Renowned boxing commentator Al Bernstein, a Showtime monolith for many years, will be on the broadcast team on May 2 in Las Vegas, covering the megafight between...
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Keidel: Freddie Roach Is Pacquiao’s Trainer, Mentor, And Mouthpiece
By Jason Keidel » More Columns Here we are, a fortnight until fight night. And the palpable pomp is only building. There are so many physical and metaphysical factors that go into a big boxing match....
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5 Of Boxing’s Most Controversial Fights Ever
By Colin Linneweber There are first-round knockouts, unanimous decisions, disqualifications and even highway robberies. The outcome of a boxing match can be determined by an incompetent judge or a...
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Ticket ‘Scandal’? Promoter Upset As Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight Looms
LAS VEGAS (CBSNewYork/AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. got his license to fight Manny Pacquiao, along with a question about domestic abuse. Veteran referee Kenny Bayless got a spot in boxing’s richest fight...
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Boxing Insider Talk: David Dinkins Jr, Boxing TV Producer
By Jason Keidel Twitter: @JasonKeidel When you mention David Dinkins in New York City, you think of Hizzoner, the man who ran Gotham in the late 1980s and early ’90s. But his progeny is a prodigy in...
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Mayweather-Pacquiao Tickets To Go On Sale Thursday
LAS VEGAS (CBSNewYork/AP) — Tickets to the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao fight will finally go on sale Thursday to the public, little more than a week before the bout. Don’t expect to snag one at...
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.: I’m Better Than Muhammad Ali
LAS VEGAS (CBSNewYork/AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. refused Wednesday to back off earlier comments declaring himself a better fighter than Muhammad Ali. Mayweather said he respects Ali’s great career and...
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Watch: Boxing Experts Predict The Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight
The biggest fight of the year in boxing is less than two weeks away. Floyd Mayweather Jr. will square off with Manny Pacquiao May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The two fighters are considered two...
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WATCH: See Who Celebrities Are Picking To Win Mayweather-Pacquiao
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The biggest fight in recent memory is a little more than a week away. And while it remains to be seen who will emerge triumphant when Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao...
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