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Early Talk: Mayweather-Mosley at 1.1-1.2 million buys
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! said on his Twitter that he's heard from "good sources" that Saturday night's fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley did around 1.1-1.2 million buys on pay-per-view, a figure that while impressive and realistically should be celebrated, would have to be seen...
Salt in the Wound: Jones likely made no money against Hopkins
As you probably have already heard, Saturday's PPV fight between Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins was not a live success in Las Vegas. Almost anybody could have predicted that would be the case. Dan Rafael of ESPN.com said that the attendance was reported as 6,792, and that that wasn't paid in...
Mandatory Eight Count: Mundine having weight issues
The Fight Isn't On, but 'the Cold War' Could Resume (MaxBoxing.com)Steve Kim looks at the potentially very ugly possibility that Top Rank and Golden Boy go back to refusing to work together after two relatively peaceful years. Both Mayweather and Pacquiao plan to fight on March 13, and Kim asks the...
Distractions lead Kelly Pavlik to train in Las Vegas
It's not often that Las Vegas would be a place for a 27-year-old man of money and fame to head to get away from distractions, but that's just what Kelly Pavlik is doing. The middleweight champion will train in Sin City for his December 19 fight against Miguel Espino. Pavlik, who is billed as the...
Arum will talk, but won't "play games" with Mayweather
Bob Arum, who used to promote Floyd Mayweather Jr. and now promotes Manny Pacquiao, has been one of the suspected roadblocks in the making of a Mayweather-Pacquiao. But the longtime promoter told Yahoo! Sports columnist Kevin Iole he will make the fight against his better judgment...if he...
Mosley-Berto made official for January 30
via www.goldenboypromotions.com The press conference to announce the January 30 welterweight title unification (perhaps) between WBA titlist Shane Mosley and WBC titleholder Andre Berto is underway in Las Vegas, meaning that fight is now a 100% good to go, ready to roll, gonna happen without an...
Bob Arum uneasy about Cotto-Pacquiao fight
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports has an excellent feature up on Saturday's Cotto-Pacquiao showdown. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum isn't necessarily looking forward to watching his two biggest fighters rip into one another. "On Sunday, I called Bob and told him we were getting great [coverage] of the fight...
The Other Side of the Coin: Potential letdown for Mayweather-Marquez buys
Since we've talked a lot about the potential mass success that's floating around as a projection for the pay-per-views sold this past Saturday, it really is only only fair that tonight we talk about the other possible outcome. What if it's a more normal number, even if it's what would have been...
Mayweather-Marquez buys could reach 1.6 million
As if Kevin Iole saying last night that one million buys was possible for Mayweather-Marquez didn't kick off enough of a strange, near-violent reaction, I did some asking around myself last night after being somewhat perplexed by the venom the very idea of this brought forth. In short, I went...
Spin begins for Money Mayweather's weight
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports is reporting a different take on the saga of Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s failure to make weight for tomorrow night's fight against Juan Manuel Marquez. From Iole: [Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard] Schaefer said the contract the fighters signed in May was for the bout to be...
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