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Manny Pacquiao has lost his past two bouts, so his next scrap, against Brandon Rios in Macau on Nov. 24 (Nov. 23 in the U.S.) is beyond crucial. I checked in with Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, and asked him for his take on the bout, Rios as ...

Many, if not most, fight fans expected Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez to renew their rivarly this fall, and were eager to see if Pacquiao could shrug off the KO loss at Marquez's hands last December. But Marquez threw us a curveball, deciding...

Tim Bradley would love another shot at Manny Pacquiao, and manager Cameron Dunkin is hopeful that will happen in September or October, when Manny gets back on the horse. Word is that Juan Manuel Marquez might be pricing himself out of a fifth figh...

The two best 122-pound professional fighters will face off on Saturday night in New York City, on a show promoted by Brooklyn-born Bob Arum, the 81-year-old sage who presided over a press conference at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday to hype the c...

Bob Arum is looking to determine who will get the coveted slot to fight Manny Pacquiao in his next bout by Sunday, he told NYFightblog during a Wednesday press conference at Madison Square Garden. The press conference was called to hype the Saturday ...

The 88th annual awards banquet of the Boxing Writers Association of America will take place on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at Capitale in New York City, and marquee players in the game, like Fighter of the Year Nonito Donaire, and Juan Manuel Marquez, w...

Brooklyn-born promoter Bob Arum hasn't had time to even contemplate lightening his load in the last few days. He put together the fight which is the early lock for the 2013 Fight of the Year, Timothy Bradley-Ruslan Provodnikov, which ran on HBO f...

There was a fair amount of grumbling in certain cynical circles when Bob Arum made the fourth Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez fight, which unfolded Dec. 8 in Las Vegas. Been there, done that, wanna see something else, grumblers on Twitter tweet...

For Manny Pacquiao fans, the best-case scenario heading into his Dec. 8 clash with Juan Manuel Marquez was that he'd conclusively beat Marquez, preferably by KO, and then hammer out a deal to meet Floyd Mayweather in the spring. Things went off th...

Trainer Robert Garcia has a pretty good read on what Orlando Salido brings to the table at the Madison Square Garden Theater on the Top Rank-HBO show Saturday. Robert has done his due diligence ahead of younger brother Mikey's clash against the fe...

Bob Arum is a dream interview in that he works without the sort of filter a reporter is used to dealing with. The Brooklyn-born dealmaker lives in Vegas now, but he still has that NYC bite, and candor. It was on display at the Kingsway Gym in NYC on ...

He looked tanned and fit and yes, Bob Arum was his typical delightfully feisty self during a workout featuring the fighters taking part in a Saturday card at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. As Mikey Garcia and Orlando Salido, the headliners,...

Not long after Juan Manuel Marquez's counter right hand dropped and stopped Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on Saturday night, the chatter on the Twittersphere shifted from amazement and excitement to something else. Not many folks out in punditland had ...

I asked Austin Trout, who defeated Miguel Cotto Dec. 1 at Madison Square Garden, if strength, speed or mobility would be most important if Juan Manuel Marquez were to beat Manny Pacquiao for the first time. All of the above, Trout told me. Indeed,...

Mitt Romney, who lost to incumbent President Barack Obama on Nov. 6, visited the dressing room of Manny Pacquiao, and Juan Manuel Marquez, before their big rumble at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Romney greeted a seated Pacquiao, and said, "Hello M...

Featherweight Patrick Hyland of Dublin, Ireland, residing in Marlboro, NY, took on Javier Fortuna in the TV opener on the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez pay-per-view card in Las Vegas. He came on late, as Fortuna faded, but not enough. After t...