Can Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero upset Floyd Mayweather this weekend? Duan Greally and GG preview the fight.
Posts tagged "Manny Pacquiao"
Juan Manuel Marquez Gets His Redemption In A Big Way: The Squared Circle
Juan Manuel Marquez’s knockout of Manny Pacquiao surprised the boxing world. GG and Duan discuss the fight and the aftermath.
The Squared Circle – A Look Back At The Pacquiao-Bradley Fiasco
The first sign of weirdness in the Manny Pacquiao-Tim Bradley fiasco actually started during game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. As LeBron, DWade, and a three-point shooting Chris Bosh with bad abs were bringing the Heat back against a very tired Boston Celtics, Manny Pacquiao was so engaged with the game that he started his warm-up late. It was expected that the fighters would start their ring entrances around 15-30 minutes after the end of the basketball game. Fifteen […]
The Squared Circle – Floyd Mayweather Is King Of The Ring
On Cinco de Mayo Saturday (or Cinco de Mayweather as some called it), Floyd Mayweather proved yet again that he’s arguably the top boxer in the world. Mayweather faced a larger, more powerful and very game Miguel Cotto and did what he’s done 43 other times — turn him away the loser. Save for a few rounds in which Cotto looked like the hungrier fighter, Mayweather’s spotless record wasn’t in any trouble of being undone. Mayweather looked like he was […]
The Squared Circle – Juan Manuel Marquez Gives Manny Pacquiao More Than He Bargained For … Again
In the third act of their trilogy of fights, Manny Pacquiao was supposed to decisively solve the Juan Manuel Marquez riddle. Marquez was now 38 years old, much smaller in real weight than Pacquiao, and not supposed to be at his level any longer. To borrow a slangy phrase from one of my favorite sitcoms of my youth, Marquez looked at us all and said, “Somebody done told you wrong.” On Saturday night, Juan Manuel Marquez fought one of the […]
The Squared Circle – Mayweather Mayhem
Last Saturday, Floyd Mayweather made $25 million for stepping into the ring to face Oscar De La Hoya’s young fighter, Victor Ortiz. (Mayweather will probably end up with much more than that by the time it’s all said and done.) Ortiz made about 10% of that, which is meaningful. It’s not meaningful because of whether or not it’s a lot of money (not much compared to Mayweather, but a ton compared to most everyone reading). It’s meaningful because in the […]