Only five boxers can talk about what it’s like to defeat Manny Pacquiao. Timothy Bradley is one of them.
Boxing
In about the time it takes to cook an egg, the anger that has been building up inside Freddie Roach for the last three years boiled over in a makeshift gym in Macau Wednesday, fueling the promotion of Saturday’s welterweight fight between Manny Pacquiao and Brandon Rios.
For many experienced boxers, old habits are hard to break.
Andre Ward returned from a 14-month ring absence with a lopsided unanimous decision over Edwin Rodriguez on Saturday night to retain his WBA super middleweight title.
Mike Tyson fought Spike Lee and lost. “Spike Lee took it and made me all by myself. Put me onstage pretty much emotionally naked, just baring my soul to people,” Tyson recalls. “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” makes its televised debut at 8 p.m. Saturday on HBO.
At one time he was the baddest man on the planet, a heavyweight champion who terrorized anyone who got in his way, inside the ring or out. More recently he’s unburdened himself as perhaps the most tortured soul on earth.
Francisco Aguilar thought he needed more time before accepting the responsibility of serving as chairman of the Nevada Athletic Commission. But now he believes he’s ready to be that person.
I look at most major boxing fights nowadays as a pickup basketball game at the Y.
Paulie Malignaggi doesn’t know how much longer he’s going to continue to fight. But he’s got at least one big fight left in him.
Juan Manuel Marquez knows he isn’t going to fight much longer. He’s 40 years old and has been in too many wars over an illustrious 21-year professional career that has produced world championships in four different weight classes, a 55-6-1 record with 40 knockouts, including his sensational sixth-round KO of Manny Pacquiao last December at the MGM Grand Garden.
Timothy Bradley is taking life’s journey seriously, following the idea that our legacy should be etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about us.
If your name was Jessie and you were from Las Vegas, Friday was a good night.
When Diego Magdaleno left trainers Pat Barry and Augie Sanchez in May and hired Joel Diaz to train him and Frank Espinoza to manage him, it figured his younger brother Jessie wouldn’t be far behind.
