After 17 years of wating, Roy Jones Jr. vs. Bernard Hopkins will fight again on April 17, according to a report on ESPN. 

Despite Jones losing his last fight to Danny Green by first round stoppage the two were able to come to terms for a fight they both wanted.  The winner of the fight will receive a higher percentage of the purse split.

"The only thing I can say about the structure of the deal is …read on for more

Liverpuncher.com recently sat down with Olympic gold medalist and 168 pound World Champion AndreWard.  Hear what he had to say about Jermain Taylor, Chad Dawson, Lucian Bute, and the process it took to become champion:

Manny: Here we are at Kings Gym in Oakland California with world  champion  Andre  Ward.  What’s new Andre how is training going?

It has been reported that Jermain  Taylor will  drop out  of  the Super Six tournament and will  not face Olympic gold medalist and 168 pound World Champion Andre Ward.  Taylor’s replacement will be the winner of  Sakio Bika vs. Allan Green who fight on February 5th.  The winner of that fight will  face Ward  in April.

Taylor said in a statement,  "I'm going to take some time off from the sport of boxing and take myself out of SHOWTIME Sports World Boxing Classic tournament. It's important that I give my body and mind some much needed rest, because …read on for more.  

After many years of working with the great trainer of Mexico Nacho Beristain, Rafael Marquez is moving on.  He says that he will have his dad and Daniel Zaragoza to be part of his team.

"I terminated my dealings with Beristain because I got tired that he didn’t give me any time.  I was practically

Blog by Speedbag2000 Back in the 1990’s early 2000’s I saw the Oakland A's take on the baseball world.  I watched as the Bash Brothers Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire bashed their way to three straight ALCS and one world title.  Not only did they hit homerun’s over the fence 390ft, these balls were being crushed 500ft out of the park!

 

I loved watching the size of these players, not only were they good, they were near the best home run hitters ever in the sport.  Not just McGwire, many baseball players were hitting 45, 50, 60 homeruns during the steroid era when just a decade before 30 homeruns was considered a super star.  It was great for the sport, for the fans and for the owners pocketbooks….until the huge bombshell was dropped.  Canseco came out to say...read on for more

Manny finally signed to fight - Joshua Clottey that is.  Pacquiao will be fighting Clottey on March 13 in Dallas Texas at Cowboy Stadium.  As of yet,  HBO has not confirmed if  it will be the one broadcasting the fight.

Bob Arum told ESPN , "This is the most incredible stadium setting I have ever seen. It is absolutely unbelievable. This is going to be much, much more than just a boxing match. A lot of things that happen are ordained by God. We weren't going to go here for Pacquiao-Mayweather fight because …read on for more

Roach  talks  about Manny  Pacquiao's options  plus much more:

 

Now that the super fight is off, what does the Friday Night Fights crew think about it?  Hear them all speak out!

In an attempt  to  clear the air, Bob Arum told  Michael  Marley that Manny Pacquiao did indeed turn down Floyd Mayweather’s recent offer to have a 14 day testing free compromise.
“They made the 14 day offer and Todd sent a text message to (Pacquiao's agent) Michael Koncz in the Philippines. Five minutes later, Koncz replied and said Manny rejected that. The point is we have a written record of that,” Arum said.

Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaffer is still attempting to salvage the fight, however Arum is giving  the impression that he is no longer interested and appears to be moving on to pit Manny against Joshua Clottey in Dallas.  He went on to say…read on for more

The following is a statement released by Floyd  Mayweather Jr. in response to the broken deal to fight Manny Pacquiao:

By Floyd Mayweather Jr.

"Throughout this whole process I have remained patient, but at this point I am thoroughly disgusted that Pacquiao and his representatives are trying to blame me for the fight not happening when clearly the blame is on them.

"First and foremost, not only do I want to fight Manny Pacquiao, I want to whip his punk ass….read on for more