Floyd Mayweather, Jr. likes to fight. In the ring, out of the ring, he doesn’t care. He apparently didn’t care back in 2010 when he allegedly roughed up his girlfriend and threatened two of their kids during an argument at her home. He was facing felony charges for the incident. Well, he pleaded guilty to [...]
Joe Frazier is in his most important fight – against advanced liver cancer. Leslie Wolff, Frazier’s manager for seven years, says the former heavyweight champ was diagnosed four or five weeks ago and is currently in hospice. Frazier’s illness was first reported by the New York Post. Unfortunately, sources close to the 67-year-old boxer say [...]
Did anyone see the Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Victor Ortiz fight on Saturday night. Quite an eventful fight and better than a lot of the boring crap the boxing world has been serving us lately. Late in the fight, Ortiz clearly headbutts Mayweather, which was nonsense. He apologized, but there’s no excuse for that. After [...]
This is great and it should be noted that this language is not safe for work. This is from FunnyorDie.com and it tells the story of a rant writer. Basically, great athletes such as Mike Tyson, Philadelphia 76ers guard Allen Iverson, Arizona Cardinals head coach Dennis Green and Stephon Marbury have used this writer’s monologues [...]
According to the Associated Press, Manny Pacquiao is likely to fight Floyd Mayweather, Jr. on March 13 after he agreed to a proposal from promoter Bob Arum on Friday. “Manny has some additional requirements, requests, which Arum didn’t think was a problem,” Pacquaio adviser Michael Koncz said. “The requests of Manny were so realistic that [...]
That is, unless he doesn’t see prison time as serious trouble. Updating Perry’s previous post on the Mike Tyson LAX incident, the troubled former boxer could be facing prison time if charges are filed because it could be a violation of his probation in Arizona. Tyson was arrested on felony cocaine possession and misdemeanor DUI [...]
Mike Tyson and freelance photographer Tony Echevarrua got into a scuffle at Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday. Early reports indicate that Michael Buffer was not at the scene for the non-sanctioned bout. In round one, Tyson (50-6-0, with 2 no contests) knocked Echevarria (0-0-0) to the ground with a jab, cutting his forehead. Both fighters [...]
When you try to compare MMA to boxing, well…you can’t. There isn’t one MMA fighter that could have stepped into the ring…eight-squared…five-squared…whatever-squared…with Mike Tyson. Boxing is becoming a lost art and MMA is ruining it. MMA consists of a bunch of meatheads that think they’re tough because they can secure an ankle in their armpit [...]
Former welterweight champion Vernon Forrest was murdered in Atlanta on Saturday night. Reports are indicating that Forrest was shot seven to eight times during an apparent robbery. The suspects are still at large. Forrest, 38, will be known at OTR for his battles against Sugar Shane Mosley and the cigarette smoking Ricardo Mayorga. In the [...]
Well, technically she didn’t because there was no gun used in the commission of the murder of the former boxing champion. But, 23-year old Amanda Rodrigues has been detained by Brazilian police and accused of killing Gatti. She was taken into custody after there were inconsistencies in her interrogation responses. She says that she was [...]
Former boxing champion Arturo Gatti was found dead in Brazil today while “enjoying” his second honeymoon with this wife. His body was blood-stained and foul play is suspected. Stay tuned on this one.
This past Saturday in the La Bella Wedding Chapel at the Las Vegas hotel-casino, former boxer Mike Tyson married his sparring partner Lakiha Spicer. This is the third attempt at marriage for the 42-year old Tyson, but chapel owner Shawn Absher seems very optimistic. “They just wanted to say the vows and be married. It [...]
