Boxing
It was a fight that took 17 years to happen, and sometimes seemed it would take that long to complete.
Bernard Hopkins talks about Saturday’s light heavyweight fight against Roy Jones Jr. at Mandalay Bay — a rematch 17 years in the making — in terms of unfinished business.
MANILA, Philippines — Manny Pacquiao is still open to fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr., but is waiting for the challenge to come from the other side and for promoters to iron out a spat over drug testing.
LOS ANGELES — The frantic ferocity of Manny Pacquiao’s training camps at the stuffy Wild Card Gym clearly indicate he believes every fight could be his last. This time around, the 31-year-old Pacquiao knows he truly might be done with boxing — for a while at least. Pacquiao is training in Hollywood for his March 13 welterweight fight against Joshua Clottey while simultaneously running for a congressional seat in his native Philippines.
NEW YORK — Music blared, smoke billowed across the stage, and the curtain dropped to reveal Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley dressed to the nines as a crowd of several thousand inside the Nokia Theater let out a roar.