Archive for April 2009

Jean Pascal will challenge Adrian Diaconu for the WBC light heavyweight title on June 19 at the Bell Centre. Diaconu (26-0) won the interim WBC title with a 12-round decision over Chris Henry in April 2008 and later was given the full title when it was vacated by Chad Dawson. Two scheduled defenses against Silvio [...]

If Dana White’s videoblogs aren’t enough, diehard fight fans can now keep up with the UFC President through Twitter as he travels around the globe. Located at Twitter.com/DanaWhiteBlog, White’s posts don’t only give an inside look at the UFC, they’ve even allowed fans to win tickets to UFC events, as was the case in the [...]

Saturday’s showdown is a classic matchup of speed vs. power.
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Manny Pacquiao brings joy to a country battered by crime.
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CAUTION: SPOILERS INCLUDED – Team UK has gotten off to a 1-0 lead on The Ultimate Fighter: US vs UK. Can the United States squad, led by Dan Henderson, even the score against Michael Bisping’s cohesive and confident team?
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A diehard comics fan, former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra took time out of his busy training schedule recently to visit the Marvel Comics offices in New York City and lend his voice to the latest episode of "Marvel Super Heroes: What The–?!" Click below to hear the "Terror" in a new role – as [...]

There’s only one Ricky Hatton, as his admirers constantly sing to anyone who will listen. Good thing, because if there were any more Ricky Hattons his devoted followers in England might never have time to do anything but sing. The problem for Hatton is there’s also only one pound-for-pound champion in boxing.

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Chuck Mindenhall, UFC – A UFC fighter that grows up in a place called Sparta makes for really interesting pub trivia, and Dan Miller comes from a place called Sparta. Just as you’d expect from a blue-collar New Jersey native, he doesn’t go in for connotative meanings, but he does remember a time not that [...]

If anyone needed to be reminded about the danger in boxing, the death Monday of former heavyweight champion Greg Page illustrated it in a terribly sad way. Page went quietly at the age of 50, having never really recovered from a fight eight years ago that was to be his last. Boxing, as Mike Tyson [...]

Michael "The Count" Bisping – Week Four – Team UK started as we planned on going with a great win in the fight this week, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Now that both teams are finalised, I want to say a few words about my assistant coaches for this season. Actually, as I [...]

The UFC is coming to Philadelphia for the first time on Saturday, August 8th, and its bringing the big guns for UFC 101, as BJ Penn defends his UFC lightweight crown for the second time against number one contender Kenny Florian, and UFC middleweight boss Anderson Silva jumps back to the 205-pound weight class to [...]

Promoter Bob Arum had a memorable evening when he met with the legendary Imelda Marcos.
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Joe Calzaghe has no interest in coming out of retirement to fight Carl Froch, saying the WBA super middleweight champion is not in the same class. The 37-year-old Welshman retired in February after winning all 46 of his fights and said that he had no interest in facing Froch, who knocked out Jermain Taylor with [...]

Former champ Michael Moorer is adapting to life as a trainer.
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Editor’s note: This is the third of four diary entries, exclusive to Yahoo! Sports, from Manny Pacquiao,…
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