Norm Frauenheim
No off-the-scale mayhem: Mayweather, Maidana all business at the weigh-in
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LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Marcos Maidana were all business Friday at a weigh-in that sounded like a rap...
May-vinci Code is just one of Mayweather’s puzzles
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LAS VEGAS -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. has his "May-vinci Code.'' Nobody can crack it, he says. And nobody has. His...
Mayweather, Ellerbe fight to quell controversy over comments about Rice
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his promotional partner Leonard Ellerbe tried to put an end to questions about the...
Read This: 50 Cent should issue a public apology to Mayweather
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Now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has publicly addressed questions about his reading skills from rapper 50 Cent, here’s another question:
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Mayweather’s many options leave him with no choice?
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been called the face of boxing about as often as Caesar has been called the face of...
Happy Warrior: Leo Santa Cruz fights the way Pharrell Williams sings
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Leo Santa Cruz is known for volume. In boxing speak, that means one thing. Translation: Lots of punches. But...
Mayweather’s List: Porter and Brook fighting to get on it
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Getting a shot at Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been called a derby and a sweepstakes. There are no rules on how...
Game-changer: Hopkins offers a chance at one in dangerous fight against...
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A few days after Oscar De La Hoya talked about upsets during a contentious conference call involving Danny Garcia's perceived mismatch...
Ya’ll Must Have Forgot: Jones could have been singing about Ward
By Norm Frauenheim-
Roy Jones Jr. continues to fight and we wish he wouldn't. Andre Ward doesn't fight and we wish he would....
Jose Benavidez Jr., Oscar Valdez win in Phoenix
PHOENIX — Jose Benavidez Jr. didn’t waste time. He had something to say. A message, he said.
Consider it delivered.
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Grown-up message: Benavidez hopes to deliver one
By Norm Frauenheim
PHOENIX –- He was a 16-year-old prodigy. Then, he was a 17-year-old prospect with a contract before he had a high-school diploma....
Time is becoming Golovkin’s biggest fight
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Gennady Golovkin has one title he’d like to keep for as long as possible and another one he’d prefer to shed as...
Canelo wins a split decision in fight that figured to be...
LAS VEGAS – It wasn’t pretty. In terms of style, it was more of a miss than a hit. More whiff than wow. A...
Catch-weight controversy fades as both Canelo and Lara make the 155...
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A catch-weight clause in the Canelo Alvarez-Erslandy Lara contract quickly became a forgotten controversy Friday when each fighter weighed in at 155-pounds...
In Canelo, De La Hoya can get a glimpse at where...
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Oscar De La Hoya often talks about Canelo Alvarez as though he is looking at himself, or maybe at what he had...
Lara fighting for his version of The Dream against Canelo
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Erislandy Lara, a Cuban defector, calls himself The American Dream. Nothing new about the nickname.
David Reid, a...
Feud Fallout: Falling pay-per-view numbers are a sign of the times
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It's a season of declining expectations. Miguel Cotto's dramatic victory over Sergio Martinez represents the third straight time that pay-per-view numbers...
A Look Beyond The Feud: Russell and Lomachenko might provide a...
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Much has been attached to the Golden Boy Promotions card Saturday night at the SubHub Center in Carson, Calif.
Too...
Forbes or Future? Mayweather’s money wins one debate and starts another
By Norm Frauenheim
Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s top spot on the Forbes' latest edition of the world's highest-paid athletes is a counter to the tired...
Hall of Fame induction just the opening bell for the biggest...
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Oscar De La Hoya's induction to the International Boxing Hall of Fame Sunday a few days after the tumult of Richard...
Business Sense: Froch-Groves at Wembley is a lesson to feuding promoters...
By Norm Frauenheim
London’s Wembley Stadium will be the stage Saturday for what figures to be a terrific rematch in the second edition...
Cotto’s ring skill is still his best social skill in fight...
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Sergio Martinez probably won’t ever invite Miguel Cotto to a backyard barbecue. Martinez talks as if he just doesn’t like Cotto....
Back to the Future: Arum’s return to The Forum takes him...
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Boxing returns to a place Saturday that helped re-define the business in a way that allowed it to move beyond the Sugar...
Options? Chavez Jr. running on empty
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There are losers aplenty in the wake of the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Gennady Golovkin possibility headed to never-never land, right...
Mayweather escapes with a majority decision over Maidana
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LAS VEGAS – It was supposed to be easy. It wasn’t.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. got the victory that oddsmakers,...
De La Hoya: Nobody is going to fire Richard Schaefer
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Oscar De La Hoya, founder of Golden Boy Promotions, said he is fighting for his company and that...
UPDATE–Glovegate breaks out in controversy before Mayweather-Maidana
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LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. complained about the lack of padding at the knuckles of Marcos Maidana’s gloves in a...
What Distractions? Glovegate breaks out in controversy before Mayweather-Maidana
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. complained about the lack of padding at the knuckles of Marcos Maidana’s gloves in a...
Schaefer gets some B-Hop support in his rift with De La...
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LAS VEGAS – The Golden Boy Promotions divide between CEO Richard Schaefer and founder Oscar De La Hoya appeared to widen...
The Show: The news-conference stage belonged to Mayweather
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LAS VEGAS – Showtime executive Stephen Espinoza called Floyd Mayweather Jr. “a show” and Mayweather proved him right throughout a news conference...
No promises, but does Mayweather’s ‘A’ game mean a KO?
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said repeatedly during the promotional push to his May 3 bout with Marcos Maidana that nobody has...
Lots of noise, but one fan said it all about the...
By Norm Frauenheim
During a noisy week when the shouting got louder and the insults grew more insulting, there was a moment of relief...
It’s Unanimous: Pacquiao gets back what he lost with a decision...
LAS VEGAS – It wasn’t everything Manny Pacquiao promised. But it was enough, more than enough to put his Filipino presidential ambitions...
No Villains: On any scale, Bradley and Pacquiao make for a...
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – It’s a fight without a villain. Timothy Bradley tried to play the role Friday at the weigh-in for...
Compassion a double-edged dilemma for Pacquiao
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LAS VEGAS – A compassionate Manny Pacquiao can’t win. That’s the popular theory, anyway. Pacquiao Freddie Roach introduced it. Media...
