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King Eyes Pacquiao, Mayweather if Alexander Beats Bradley

By Lem SatterfieldJan 22nd 2011 – 4:03PM

Legendary promoter, Don King, spoke to FanHouse concerning everything from the upcoming, HBO televised, Jan. 29 junior welterweight (140 pounds) clash featuring southpaw WBC king Devon Alexander, whom King promotes, and WBO counter part Tim Bradley, who is promoted by Gary Shaw. Considered the premiere fighters in the...

Can Miguel Cotto's Future Include Manny Pacquiao, Antonio Margarito?

By Lem SatterfieldSep 23rd 2010 – 12:01PM

FanHouse caught up to Gabriel Penagaricano, legal adviser to WBA junior middleweight (154 pounds) king Miguel Cotto, for an update on why the Puerto Rican titlist will forgo a December bout with either Puerto Rican-born former two-time titlist Kermit Cintron of Houston or unbeaten Armenian-born prospect Vanes Martirosyan...

Tempers Flare, Fights Break Out at Seahawks Camp

By John HickeyAug 10th 2010 – 8:37PM

RENTON, Wash. -- It seems like the Seattle Seahawks are more than ready for the Pete Carroll era to begin – and it will Saturday when the Houston Texans come calling at Qwest Field. Practice Monday, originally scheduled to be the last two-a-day session of the training camp, was cut to one single session. And during...

Boxing Historian Picks Yuri Foreman-Miguel Cotto Winner

By Lem SatterfieldJun 4th 2010 – 3:54AM

NEW YORK -- On Friday night, noted boxing historian, Jerry Izenberg, received The John F.X. Condon Award for "Long and Meritorious Service" from the Boxing Writers' Association of America. Also a 1978 winner of the BWAA's Nat Fleisher Award for "Excellence in Boxing Journalism," the 79-year-old Izenberg formerly worked...

When They Were Kings: Yankee Stadium, Ali Legacies Merged in '76

By David SteeleJun 3rd 2010 – 6:40AM

Nobody knew back on September 28, 1976, that five decades of uninterrupted boxing majesty would suddenly stop and go on hiatus for three decades. What everybody did know on that night was that there was a perfect union of one of the greatest venues in the world and ... well, The Greatest. The last time Yankee Stadium...

Background on ken norton

Kenneth Howard Norton Sr. (born August 9, 1943, Jacksonville, Illinois) is a former heavyweight boxer and former WBC Heavyweight Champion.

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