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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...

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,...

Manager Gunther Fishgold was so displeased with what he perceived was a distinct lack of passion on Ayi Bruce's part in his Saturday fight with Filipino Dennis Laurente on the Pacquiao-Marquez undercard, he told NYFightBlog he will no longer work wit...

So you'll recall that Joshua Clottey is slotted No. 6 in our NYC P4P list. Well, we have a challenge, compliments of manager Gunther Fishgold, the Albany-based dealmaker who manager Ghana-born welterweight Ayi Bruce. Bruce, fighting out of Albany, fi...

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...

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...

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...

A completely un-scientific poll I conducted tells me that a whole heckuva lot of pundits are picking Juan Manuel Marquez to beat Manny Pacquiao in their fourth tangle Saturday at the MGM in Las Vegas. I shouldn't find this surprising, considering ...

Staten Island prospect Marcus Browne looks to rise to 2-0 when he gloves up on a Dec. 15 card at the LA Sports Arena in Los Angeles. The light heavyweight Browne is keeping his fingers crossed that his fight will be shown on CBS, which will televi...

Irishman Patrick Hyland, who has lived for the past couple years in Marlboro, N.Y., gets a career-definining fight on Dec. 8, at the MGM Grand Las Vegas on the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez undercard. The 27-0 Hyland will be the slight under...

Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez have bumped heads and fists three times already, and even though Pacquiao has a 2-0-1 mark against the Mexican counterpunching ace, the jury is still out on which man has gotten the better of the other, at least...