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Bcotton5

chi-guy wrote: »

Floyd showing Cotto a lot of respect leading up to the fight so far, I'm surprised at the lack of trash talk

lol cs Floyd being too nice


I think the Pacquiao fight gotta happen when Floyd gets out of prison

chi-guy

lol cs Floyd being too nice


I think the Pacquiao fight gotta happen when Floyd gets out of prison[/quote]

I agree. The fight is still in demand but I think it's losing some steam with all the delays and false starts . I think if it doesn't happen this year it probably will never happen

Bcotton5

chi-guy wrote: »

lol cs Floyd being too nice


I think the Pacquiao fight gotta happen when Floyd gets out of prison

I agree. The fight is still in demand but I think it's losing some steam with all the delays and false starts . I think if it doesn't happen this year it probably will never happen

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Yea the whole Floyd getting out of jail thing would be the perfect build up to it after Floyd beats Cotto and Manny beats Bradley

Vader

roach said khan will come in weighing more than what he did last fight , come fight night?

Vader

chi-guy wrote: »

lol cs Floyd being too nice


I think the Pacquiao fight gotta happen when Floyd gets out of prison

I agree. The fight is still in demand but I think it's losing some steam with all the delays and false starts . I think if it doesn't happen this year it probably will never happen

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im to the point now homie that i could care less if it happens. they been fucking us around now for 3 years

Bcotton5

Vader wrote: »

roach said khan will come in weighing more than what he did last fight , come fight night?

Yea he moving up to 147 regardless win or loss , he trying to get the pay day fight

Vader

bcotton2000@yahoo.co wrote: »

Vader wrote: »

roach said khan will come in weighing more than what he did last fight , come fight night?

Yea he moving up to 147 regardless win or loss , he trying to get the pay day fight

he was saying it like it will be an advantage for amir in the peterson fight

Vader

yea but if he lose floyd will not fight him.i wanna see him and ortiz if ortiz can make it past berto

Bcotton5

Adrien Broner on the Khan Peterson 2 undercard

Adrien Broner looks to have two fights set at the moment, with his next coming on May 19 as part of the Lamont Peterson vs Amir Khan II card in Las Vegas, live on HBO. After that, if successful, he would face Vicente Escobedo in Cincinnati on August 18, headlining an HBO Boxing After Dark card, according to ESPN.com.

Broner (23-0, 19 KO) doesn't have an opponent for May 19 yet, but is coming off of an easy knockout of Eloy Perez on February 25 in St. Louis. His WBO super featherweight title will be on the line again, and there are plenty of mediocre fighters in the WBO top 15 that could fit the bill against Broner on the date. HBO has not seemed overly concerned with Broner's opposition thus far, but it would be nice to see him face someone like Roman Martinez or Juan Carlos Burgos instead of Monty Meza Clay, for instance.

Star-divide

The originally scheduled co-feature was a fight between Humberto Soto and Lucas Matthysse, which was moved to June 23 and the Ortiz vs Berto II card on Showtime, at least for now. (There's still part of me that just assumes Soto-Matthysse isn't actually going to happen.)

Broner, 22, has thus far gotten a bit of a free pass with HBO, as he's clearly a network darling that everyone thinks is either The Future or a huge part of the future. They may be right, but don't forget that we've also seen guys like Andre Berto and Jermain Taylor in this role, more Berto than Taylor as compares to Broner.

There's no doubt he's a major league talent, but I always wonder who really benefits from these healthy pushes down Easy Street. He was brought to the network against Daniel Ponce De Leon, who really tested Broner and arguably beat him, though Broner got the cards. Since then, the competition has been scaled back, and maybe it's just me, but regarding Eloy Perez as some major test seemed a bit desperate from people who want to believe in Broner as The Next Big Thing. Maybe he is, but I don't think we find out for sure on May 19, or on August 18 for that matter, even though Escobedo did recently look terrific stopping Lonnie Smith in one round, and for the record, I think Broner-Escobedo is a fine fight.

Du_Du

broner fun to watch.. but i don't se ehim performing well on the championship level...

R.D.

Haul Judos wrote: »

broner fun to watch.. but i don't se ehim performing well on the championship level...

i wanna see him and Gamboa

Vader

broner last fight eloy tested positive for cocaine. smh niggas was doin lines before he left the locker room

Bcotton5

Vader wrote: »

broner last fight eloy tested positive for cocaine. smh niggas was doin lines before he left the locker room

lol Im not mad at him, Casamayor tested for weed I aint even know it was nothing with doing drugs before a fight lol


If it aint performance enhancing I dont see the problem

playmaker88

Tyson excited for WWE HOF, new show

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By Dan Rafael

Mike Tyson is having the time of his life, it seems. For years, the former heavyweight champ came across as a tortured soul, but he finally, at long last, seems comfortable with who he is and where he is in his life.

He is, it seems, happily married and enjoying his children and life in general. And he is about to embark on some fun stuff. I had a chance to catch up with Tyson the other day in a half-hour phone conversation. Last time I spoke with Tyson was last summer, just a few days before his induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He was very emotional in that interview as he recounted his rise to the top under mentor and father figure Cus D'Amato.

It was a different Tyson when we recently spoke. He was excited, happy and looking forward to a pair of big events. The first comes Saturday night when he will be inducted into the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame at ceremonies in Miami on the eve of wrestling's biggest pay-per-view show of the year, WrestleMania 28.

Tyson, a lifelong pro wrestling fan who said he used to steal money and use it to buy wrestling magazines when he was a kid in the 1970s, said his experiences with WWE were some of the funnest times in his life. In 1998, when he was at one of his lowest points after his suspension from boxing for biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear during their heavyweight championship rematch, WWE boss Vince McMahon, hoping to boost interest in that year's WrestleMania, threw Tyson a lifeline and invited him to participate in an angle with Stone Cold Steve Austin in which Tyson was eventually named "special enforcer" for the main event between Austin and Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 14. In the memorable match, Tyson knocked out Michaels after he disputed Tyson's ruling of Austin as the winner of the match.

In January 2010, Tyson returned to WWE to guest star on "Monday Night Raw" and teamed with Chris Jericho in a tag-team match against Michaels and Triple H. This is sports entertainment, so Tyson naturally turned on Jericho and knocked him out, allowing Michaels to pin Jericho for the victory.

Tyson said his kids were not all that interested in his boxing HOF induction, but that they can't wait for the WWE event.

"They all want to go to the WWE Hall of Fame event," Tyson said. "We all love wrestling. It's like a soap opera for men. ... When I give my speech, you won't have to worry about me breaking down and crying at that one like I did at the boxing Hall of Fame. You'll hear every sentence loud and crackling and clear. This one goes straight to my ego. It's like, 'I'm so cool.' This is going to be fun. I'm just very ecstatic about it. It's a very big honor to me."

USA Network will air the WWE HOF inductions on tape delay Monday night (8 ET).

"I had a ball doing WWE," Tyson said. "I was with [Michaels and Triple H tag team] Degeneration X [in 2010] and I was a pretty in-your-face kind of guy. We were the crotch choppers."

Tyson said the WrestleMania experience was huge for him. Not only was it fun at the low point after the suspension for the Holyfield incident, but it "really helped me out financially at the time," he said.

Tyson rattled off a list of some of his favorite WWE superstars, including old-timers Bruno Samartino, Junkyard Dog and Moondog Mayne, as well as Michaels, Austin and Triple H.

"I just loved doing it and I really appreciated Vince McMahon," Tyson said. "He knew how to get me when times were hard. Usually when times are hard, everyone knows how to run away from you, but he came to get me and I am extremely grateful. This is real and I am not just sucking up. I don't want to kiss no a--, but I don't know where I would have been without WWE at that particular time in my life."

Besides his WWE HOF gig this weekend, Tyson is also about to embark on a one-man show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. He fought many of his biggest fights in the Grand Garden Arena, but now he will stand on stage alone inside the much smaller Hollywood Theatre (where many of the final news conferences for major fights also take place) for his "Mike Tyson: The Undisputed Truth" show, which will run April 13-18. If it's a success, the 70-minute show could see its run extended, according to Tyson.

"The prodigal son has returned home," he said of returning to the MGM. "I will enjoy my time there."

Tyson said he will pull no punches in discussing a variety of topics about his life. In fact, while we were talking, he asked me which topics I'd be interested in hearing about.

"Everyone knows about my situations, but I will talk about them and tell people what they don't know about them," Tyson said. "Everyone knows me and [first wife] Robin Givens were divorced and separated, but they don't know we were still sleeping together. One day, I went over to her house and I saw her come home with Brad Pitt. That s--- really depressed me."

Tyson said he has tons of stories that he wants to share with a public that has found him so fascinating. It will be something of a catharsis for him, he said, to just let it all hang out.

"I'm just going to tell the truth about all this [stuff]," he said. "I'm born to be in front of people and I hope they enjoy it. All I've been taught to do is entertain people in some sort of form. I get nervous, but I'm not intimidated by that stuff. Now I understand myself. Before, I thought that was for punks and chumps. I always thought it was about bragging rights and showing off and flaunting your money. Now I'm just going to keep it real."

Tyson said he'll talk about how D'Amato, who took him in and trained him to fight, changed his life. He'll talk about his marriages, being in a youth detention center, his rape conviction, promoter Don King, the ear-biting, the epic Buster Douglas fight, "all that sex s--- people always hear about," and his time in a psychiatric center. He also said he was considering dishing on his dispute and fallout with D'Amato disciple and former amateur trainer Teddy Atlas, now the ESPN2 ringside analyst for "Friday Night Fights."

Of the psych center experience, Tyson said, "I had all these Harvard doctors examining me like I was the missing link."

Tyson said he can't wait to get on stage and say his peace.

"I will be brutally honest," he said. "I'm open to using foul words, but I'm not going to be too hardcore. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson either.

"We're gonna talk about everything. It will be the truth, the highlights and the lowlights."

Boxing offered many of both, but he said he is content to remain a fight fan and not a participant.

"I just love fighting. I love to be a part of it and part of the fraternity," he said. "I'm so happy I became a fighter. But I'm so happy with this [stuff] now. The best moment of my life was my retirement from boxing."

Mr.Forte

Timothy Bradley inks one-year Nike deal

http://www.mydesert.com/article/2012...TS03/203280316


When Cathedral City boxer Timothy Bradley signed a one-year endorsement deal with shoe giant Nike in early March, he knew it was really an audition.

Bradley will fight boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao on June 9, and will be the subject of the HBO series “24/7” in preparation for the fight.

Bradley said an HBO crew will be in town next week to begin shooting but wasn't sure if it was for “24/7.”

Nike will provide apparel for Bradley, including his robe, trunks and training gear.

“Tim Bradley's visibility is about to increase tenfold,” said Lucia McKelvey, executive vice president of marketing for Top Ranks in a Sports Business Journal article. “With ‘24/7' following him around, he's going to be in the public eye all the time. So why not be polished with his look?”

In addition to Bradley, his entire team will be wearing Nike gear in his corner. And Bradley said he's excited to sport the swoosh.

“They'll make it for everyone, the whole team,” Bradley said. “We'll sport Nike. We'll bleed Nike.”

Bradley would not discuss the financial terms of this contract but said it's almost like an audition for the company.

And if Bradley upsets Pacquiao on June 9, he's excited about the prospects with Nike.

“If I beat their boxing superstar, I'll be the next boxing superstar for Nike,” Bradley said. “I have to prove myself. But if I win, then I'm like, ‘What's happening? Show me the money.'”

In addition to sporting Nike apparel, Bradley will have a fan event at the Las Vegas Niketown at the Forum Shops inside Caesars Palace during the week of the fight.

“It feels awesome to join the Nike clan,” Bradley said. “I can't wait to shine on June 9 in Nike apparel.

“All the best athletes sign with Nike, and I consider myself the best.”

Nike is the third company that has an endorsement deal with Bradley.

The other two are health science company Usana, and Bite Tech, which provides Bradley's mouthpiece.

KeepOnPushing

Broner fighting again already? damn that was quick

Omega_Conflict

i will never understand Tim Brad vs Pacman

Bcotton5

Conflict210 wrote: »

i will never understand Tim Brad vs Pacman

I think its an interesting matchup, prolly fixed since they need to build Pacman up again after that last fight though

Du_Du

Conflict210 wrote: »

i will never understand Tim Brad vs Pacman

that's bob's style...as soon as timmy got signed to Top rank i was like

"watch he fight manny next"

in house money... that's all that has to be said...

Vader

i hope bradley wins shit will be fucking epic

3rd_Time_Charm

I wish Timothy had a shot. He's chinny as Kendall Holt showed. Manny in a boring UD, Sportcenter Highlight worthy KO if Tim is brave.

R.D.

3rd_Time_Charm wrote: »

I wish Timothy had a shot. He's chinny as Kendall Holt showed. Manny in a boring UD, Sportcenter Highlight worthy KO if Tim is brave.

if the fight goes 12, manny aint winning

Vader

manny will connect at some point and we will see how bradley reacts

Bcotton5

I think Bradley got a style that will frustrate almost anyone but I think the fix is in lol

Omega_Conflict

Vader wrote: »

manny will connect at some point and we will see how bradley reacts

i see manny tagging redskull all night. No homo just boxing