Boxing Breakfast: Pacquiao Heads to Vegas, Roach Ready for Naazim
by Scott Christ on May 3, 2011 5:00 AM EDT
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I usually put these together around 2-2:30 my time (CDT) and it's turning into quite a tradition to type up the Boxing Breakfast and watch "The Golden Girls" on Hallmark Channel. Here's tonight's lead episode. Little insight into my exciting, exciting life.
Manny Pacquiao Leaves for Vegas, Freddie Roach Hears Things About Naazim
Manny Pacquiao finished up his time at the Wild Card Gym on Monday, but the most interesting part of that link pertains to trainer Freddie Roach.
The boxing coach reportedly heard rumors that Mosley’s trainer, Naazim Richardson, intend to complain about Pacquiao’s hand wraps.
"All I hear about is that they’re going to complain about the hand wraps," said Roach.
"That’s what Naazim’s an expert at and try to get at Manny’s head. I won’t let that happen. I won’t allow that argument," he added.
Freddie and Naazim are both master trainers in and out of the ring. They're great spokesmen for their fighters, get the best of their fighters, and understand the mental game. Maybe Freddie really heard the rumors. Maybe he didn't. Maybe he just expects it. Maybe he doesn't. I put nothing past either of them. They're smart, smart guys.
Klitschko Review from Tribeca
The documentary Klitschko was reviewed by Mel Zahnd at Washington Square News, from the Tribeca Film Festival:
"Klitschko," however — which follows brothers and boxing phenoms Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko — lavishes attention on the aesthetic beauty of boxing. It has no call to action, no interest in politics. Instead, filmmaker Sebastian Dehnhardt focuses on the ethereal blue lights in the boxing ring and the slow-motion uncoiling of muscles. Dehnhardt knows that documentaries do not have to be gritty or even realist.
New Dr. Dre Song to Premiere on Fight Camp 360
It's been 19 years since The Chronic. 19 years!
After the jump: Link Parade! and the Song of the Day
Link Parade!
- Des Lynam remembers Sir Henry Cooper as a "friend who was modest to a fault."
- Q&A with Deandre Latimore at 15rounds.com.
- Jorge Arce is promising an upset. Of course he is.
Song of the Day
Look it's only a matter of time before I post this on a Tuesday, so let's just get it over with.
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Re: 19 years since "The Chronic"
I had “California Love” stuck in my head the other day, and was thinking about this lyric:
I been in the game for ten years makin rap tunes
ever since honeys was wearin sassoon
Now it’s ’95 and they clock me and watch me
Diamonds shinin lookin like I robbed Liberace
So if he’d been in the game for ten years in ‘95, and now it’s 2011 then my calculations state that we are all …
… really fucking old.
Most people don't know shit about boxing. At all. Period. - Roger Mayweather
by The Kittitas Kid on May 3, 2011 11:37 AM EDT reply actions
Good thing the internet didn't exist when NWA hit it big
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
re: hand wraps
Nazim is a stickler for doing those right, and that attention to detail has obviously served him well in the past. cough Margarito *cough
Anyone going in to fight one of his guys should just be prepared for the fact that he’s going to watch the wrapping like a hawk and ask once or twice for the wraps to be redone.
Learn the rules and follow them. Then he’s got nothing to say.
Most people don't know shit about boxing. At all. Period. - Roger Mayweather
by The Kittitas Kid on May 3, 2011 11:39 AM EDT reply actions
Isn't Washington Square News a school newspaper for NYU?
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
yeah
Most of the reviews I’d read for Klitschko are along the same lines. I figured I’d give the student paper a link.
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