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The Sport's Greatest Rivalry Going...
by Jeff Pryor Perhaps the greatest rivalry in boxing right now has created explosive action in the ring, and their battles have spilled from the squared circle, to boardrooms, to websites and courtroo...
Timothy Bradley-Lamont Peterson headed to purse bid
Timothy Bradley's mandatory defense of the WBO junior welterweight title against Lamont Peterson will head to a purse bid, according to Rick Reeno. No deal could be reached between Bradley's promoter ...
HBO trying to make Pavlik-Williams a reality
The negotiations to match middleweight world champion Kelly Pavlik and pound-for-pound contender Paul Williams look to be getting more serious, with HBO playing deal-maker or deal-breaker, depending o...
Tuesday Night Notes: Top Rank signs Samuel Peter
Former heavyweight titlist Samuel Peter (30-3, 23 KO) has signed a deal with Top Rank and will fight on this weekend's Latin Fury 10 card in Mexico. Peter will take on Marcus McGee (22-16, 11 KO), who...
Early Tuesday Notes: Miguel Cotto re-signs with Top Rank through 2011
Miguel Cotto has re-signed with Top Rank for two more years as part of his deal to fight Manny Pacquiao in November. The new deal figures to last through 2011. It's not a surprise that Arum and Top Ra...
Top Rank talking Lopez, Gamboa as possible Luevano opponents
Top Rank's Bob Arum has said recently that his long-term vision is to match 122-pound titlist Juan Manuel Lopez and 126-pound phenom Yuriorkis Gamboa, both under his banner, somewhere down the line. B...
Bob Arum candid on Victor Ortiz, Golden Boy and HBO
In what I can only hope isn't the first series of grenades thrown to start a new cold war between the two biggest promotional firms in boxing, Top Rank chief Bob Arum spoke very candidly to reporters ...
Cotto open to leaving Top Rank in 2010
Source: Lance Pugmire of the Los Angeles Times Welterweight contender Miguel Cotto, whose only career loss came to Antonio Margarito last July, is not letting Bob Arum's intense backing of Margarito...
Is Kelly Pavlik ripe for the picking as middleweight king?
When the calendar turned and 2008 began, Kelly Pavlik was king of the world, the toast of the boxing universe. He was three months removed from his stunning, epic win over Jermain Taylor, a comeback...
HBO cutting back on pay-per-views, boxing not
When HBO Sports said that they would be cutting back on the number of boxing pay-per-views, which had to be at least somewhat influenced by a brutal American economy and the massive flops of Calzaghe...
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