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All does not seem to be well in the relationship between world middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and his promoter Top Rank. Youngstown's favorite son has been with Bob Arum since he turned pro, but cracks are beginning to form in their once solid foundation.
IBF 140-pound titlist Juan Urango is preparing to step up the welterweight division and face WBC titlist Andre Berto on May 30. The pair will meet at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
By T.K. Stewart - David Deron Haye was born October 13, 1980 in London, England. It was eleven days after Larry Holmes beat Muhammad Ali in defense of his heavyweight championship. It was a contest the world watched. After Holmes had dispatched of a virtually helpless Ali the heavyweight torch had finally been passed, at least in the eyes of the skeptics that for years viewed Holmes as a poor imitation of Ali - and his former sparring partner. The morning after the fight, Ali peered through dark sunglasses and he saw what everyone else did; Larry Holmes was an unbeatable champion. “Taking as many punches as I was, I was glad they stopped it,” said Ali of his fight with Holmes. “Take your hearts and turn them over to Larry. He's the heavyweight champion - until I return.” Ali never did return to the heavyweight throne and the public never did turn their hearts over to Holmes because he was never who they wanted him to be. And passions of the heart, especially the hearts belonging to boxing fans, are fickle. Now, nearly three decades after Ali said you should turn your heart over to Larry, David Haye is is about to fight not only for the heavyweight championship against Wladimir Klitschko, but for the now broken hearts of heavyweight boxing fans.
In another sign that the apocalypse is upon us, it appears as though Floyd Mayweather, Sr. and his son Floyd, Jr. have reunited yet again.
by T.K. Stewart - Edison Miranda, who will fight Andre Ward tomorrow night in Oakland, California, didn't live a normal childhood. When he was only two months old, the Colombian-born slugger was simply given away by his mother to a relative. For Miranda, there was no such thing as a Christmas morning with presents under the tree. No pointy hats or cakes on his birthday. There were no family memories of Mom and Dad and no idyllic remembrances of being a happy-go lucky kid that do the things all carefree kids do. “I was beaten everyday and they mis-treated me,” says Miranda of the childhood he endured. “All they wanted me to do was work and I just wanted to be a kid. When I was only nine-years old I ran away because I got sick of getting beaten.” Miranda ran to the dark alleys and squalid streets of Barranquilla, Colombia. It was there that he was forced to live and it was there that he got a job sweeping sidewalks. Most meals consisted of whatever he could scrounge out of garbage bins. Most nights he would lay alone in his makeshift shanties, sometimes with other kids similarly deserted , but most times all alone. It was on these nights that he would dream of what it must have been like to be a normal child.
Brian “The Hawaiian Punch” Viloria is hanging ten and riding a tidal wave of popularity since he knocked out Ulises Solis last month in Manila, Philippines to win the IBF junior flyweight title.
The ongoing saga of who will be IBF cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek's next opponent has nearly reached its end.
By T.K. Stewart - Chad Dawson, king of the light heavyweights according to the International Boxing Federation, is willing to do whatever it takes to make an impression. How else do you explain the fact that when he was 10 years old and first laced on a pair of boxing gloves that he decided he was going to be a lefty – just like his father? “I got my style from my father, my father was a southpaw,” explains Dawson, also known as “Bad” Chad. I'm originally a right-handed fighter, but I fight lefty just to emulate my father. So far the decision to be a southpaw has been a good one. Dawson once sat atop the World Boxing Council light heavyweights before he abdicated the throne in favor of a fight last year against Tarver, the International Boxing Federation titlist. Dawson handed the fast talking former champ a twelve round beat down to annex the belt and become generally regarded as the world's best 175-pounder. Before that he squeaked out a close win over former champ Glen Johnson in another signature win.
By T.K. Stewart - Andre Ward calls Edison Miranda “a bully.” Edison Miranda claims he's going to do the same thing to Andre Ward that Carl Froch did to Jermain Taylor "because they are cut from the same cloth.” Both fighters spent some time on Wednesday talking tough and proclaiming that when they meet on May 16 at the Oracle Arena in Ward's hometown of Oakland, California the fans will be treated to a satisfying show.
With this weekend's scheduled fight between Hector “Macho” Camacho and “Yori Boy” Campas having been kicked out of Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall in New Jersey, organizers are said to be seeking a new state in which to stage the bout.