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Five things we learned from Saturday's Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez IV card in Las Vegas.

How has Juan Manuel Marquez matched the great Manny Pacquiao in three classic thrillers? Simple: the art of the counterpunch.

LAS VEGAS -- His relationship with Floyd Mayweather Jr., at the center of so many episodes of "24/7," may have cratered, and with it the ballyhooed TMT Promotions. But 50 Cent's interest in boxing remains fully intact, as do his promotional designs, ...

LAS VEGAS -- Not everybody is completely enamored with the idea of Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez meeting in the ring for a fourth time. Among them, it seems, is Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach. "I thought Manny won all three fights. I d...

How might the storied rivalry between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez have been different (if it existed at all) had the three-knockdown rule been in effect for their first fight?

LAS VEGAS -- Five things we learned from Saturday's Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley Jr. card at the MGM Grand: 1. Anyone can fall victim to a bad decision Conventional wisdom, for whatever it's worth, holds that close, controversial decisions wi...

Timothy Bradley Jr. is not, it would seem, the kind of fighter who goes out of the way to sing his own praises. "I'm the kind of fighter that I don't look pretty. I don't look spectacular," he told reporters at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Wednes...

LAS VEGAS -- Whatever happens on Saturday night, the weekend is guaranteed to be a memorable one for Freddie Roach. On Sunday, the trainer for Manny Pacquiao, Amir Khan and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., among others, will be inducted into the International...

LAS VEGAS -- Manny Pacquiao will fight Timothy Bradley Jr. at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday night, but inevitably conversation with the Filipino star turns, sooner or later, to another undefeated American. While Pacquiao and Bradley do ba...

LAS VEGAS -- Five things we learned from Saturday's Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Miguel Cotto card at the MGM Grand: 1. There's good, there's very good, and there's great With every fight, Mayweather is moving up the all-time list. For years, one knock...

On Saturday, boxing fans will celebrate the Mexican festival of Cinco de Mayo by watching an American and a Puerto Rican do battle in the Nevada desert. More than anybody else, Oscar De La Hoya -- an American of Mexican descent -- popularized Cinco d...

Two weeks ago in Las Vegas, talk was dominated not just by the upcoming battle between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez -- undeniably two of the sport's fiercest contemporary warriors -- but also the passing of Joe Frazier, a man who wore that ...

Five things we learned from the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez III card.

Fight Week Friday is, for hacks like yours truly, often a surprisingly quiet part of the week. Most of what can be written has been written, and aside from the weigh-in, there's little to do except pick up last-minute news and information and await t...

Manny Pacquiao's three fights with Erik Morales spanned his growth from a limited one-handed puncher to a boxing phenomenon, and served as a changing of the guard between the sport's superstars.

Timothy Bradley Jr. is angry. Don't take my word for it. He says so himself. "I've been angry for the last eight or nine months," he told reporters at the MGM Grand on Thursday. "I've been angry. I've got a chip on my damn shoulder, I really do...