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After Rant Against Pacquiao, Mayweather Is in a Class of His Own: He Has None

It's too bad that no one runs boxing, for if someone did, Floyd Mayweather would be made to pay for the video he released on Friday that went as viral on the Internet as it was a vile affront to human dignity. He'd be suspended from the game, like baseball did pitcher John Rocker after his infamous ruminations about...

Boxing Claims Big Pay-Per-View Victory Over UFC 103

Days after the Floyd Mayweather Jr-Juan Manuel Marquez fight went head-to-head with UFC 103 on pay-per-view, Golden Boy Promotions is declaring that boxing scored a knockout victory over MMA, with four or five times as many buys as the UFC.It's important to note that Mayweather-Marquez was the biggest boxing match of 2009,...

Boxing's Real Champions

Despite big nights for the sport like we had on Saturday night, we're constantly hearing that boxing is a dying sport. Two of the biggest reasons for that are that no one can keep the weight classes straight and no one can keep the champions straight.Ring Magazine deserves great credit for attempting to change that by...

Bert Sugar: Mayweather, Marquez Can Earn a 'Truly Classic Win'

Bert Sugar is boxing's foremost historian, a journalist who has covered the sport for decades and seen all the best fighters since the era of Joe Louis. So just two days before the biggest boxing match of the year so far, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez, FanHouse checked in with Sugar to get his thoughts on...

How Great Is Floyd Mayweather Jr? He'll Let Others Decide

When Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced his retirement after beating Ricky Hatton in 2007, he said he was walking away from boxing with a record of 39-0 in part because he had already proven that he was the greatest fighter of his generation. But as Mayweather prepares to return to the ring Saturday night against Juan Manuel...