A group dedicated to bringing attention to athletes accused of domestic violence is speaking out against boxer Floyd Mayweather ahead of his megafight — and mega payday — against Manny Pacquiao.
Boxing
There are many great moments in Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s career. He has dominated several weight classes and has yet to taste defeat.
A Hollywood waiter is getting some credit for helping get the ball rolling on the most coveted match-up in boxing: Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao.
After six years of backs-and-forths, the fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is finally happening at the MGM Saturday night.
Manny Pacquiao’s career has so many highlights that it’s tough to boil it down to just five greatest moments.
Early money favored Manny Pacquiao, and now money is coming in on Floyd Mayweather. It might not be Super Bowl big, but Las Vegas oddsmakers figure the betting handle on the fight will be $50 million to $80 million.
Manny Pacquiao had heard it all from Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his family. And for a while, he was angry about it. How angry? He sued the Mayweathers for defamation of character after they publicly alleged Pacquiao was using performance-enhancing drugs in 2009. But Pacquiao claims to no longer bear any grudges against Mayweather.
Ray Beltran didn’t make weight for his fight with Takahiro Ao of Japan on Friday at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas for the vacant WBO lightweight championship. The fight now will be 10 rounds and only Ao can win the title. Jessie Magdaleno of Las Vegas also will fight on the card.
Floyd Mayweather Sr., who trains his son, was his entertaining self Thursday with the media. Most of the questions he couldn’t understand, especially from the foreign journalists. Those he did understand, he answered with equal parts alacrity and disdain.
Ishe Smith, a former junior middleweight champion from Las Vegas, left no doubt he still has something left, winning a 10-round unanimous decision over Cecil McCalla on Thursday in the main event of a boxing card at the Palms.
Freddie Roach is a Hall of Fame trainer who for years has gone over in his mind every detail, every form of strategy, every potential surprise and counteraction, every movement that could decide a fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
For a boxing match hyped as the “fight of the century,” there sure are a lot of available tickets out there. Here’s where you can find over 1,000 tickets as of Thursday night for Saturday’s showdown between Mayweather and Pacquiao.
Even a screenwriter might have trouble scripting Manny Pacquiao’s rise from abject poverty to stardom in ring and hero status in the Philippines. “I am fighting this fight for the honor of my country and for the people of the Philippines,” Pacquiao said of the megafight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. “It is a responsibility I take very seriously.”
Rates for the cheapest rooms at MGM Grand, the host hotel for Saturday’s so-called fight of the century boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquaio, plummeted Thursday when the room cost fell to $499 a night from more than $1,500 for Friday and Saturday nights, according to Vegas.com.
Even before he could walk, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was wearing boxing gloves and throwing punches. He’s undefeated as a professional but faces the biggest fight of his career on Saturday when he faces Manny Pacquiao.
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