
Victor Ortiz: I'll Be The One To Face Pacquiao in 2012
Using what Don King likes to call “double shock power,” what if there were two huge boxing upsets, one on Sept. 17 and one on Nov. 12?

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Using what Don King likes to call “double shock power,” what if there were two huge boxing upsets, one on Sept. 17 and one on Nov. 12?

They’re still not speaking directly to each other but estranged brothers and first class boxing trainers Robert Garcia and Danny Garcia are both happy about a recent thaw in the family feud which centers around welterweight champion Vicious Victor Ortiz.

There are few things worse than knowing you’ve wronged another person and then realize that it’s too late to make things right.

During a recent interview, I asked HBO boxing sage Larry Merchant about pending fistic events, including the Sept. 17 Vicious Victor Ortiz-Floyd Mayweather Jr. show (HBO, probably from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Mexican Independence Day weekend) and the Nov. 12 ‘’Chapter 3” event at the same location between Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao.

Jaded, cynical and hypercritical. HBO Boxing voice Larry Merchant has been called all of those things during his long run on the prime cable network.

Shannon Briggs is an acquaintance, mainly by phone, of garrulous British heavyweight hopeful David “Hayemaker” Haye.

“There has been no ruling on the appeal, and we will pursue all remedies against Mr. Mayweather, including a default.” - Email response which I received from Manny Pacquiao's attorney Daniel Petrocelli on Friday night.

Suitably inspired by Lou DiBella’s two nights of Puerto Rican prospects clobbering their foes, AKA “Puerto Ricans Versus Tomato Cans,” I took fingers to keyboard like so…

Unless and until Floyd Mayweather Jr. clears his decks and states affirmatively “I want Manny Pacquiao next,” I guess we really can’t call he and the Pinoy Idol rivals.

Promoter Lou DiBella had what is not a horrible idea. He wants to place the Sept. 24 potential bout, between Peter Manfredo and WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., in Providence, where local boy Manfredo might stir thousands of ticket buyers to come out to the downtown Dunkin Donuts Center.