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Legendary Black Boxing Promoter Butch Lewis Dies At 65

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Ronald “Butch” Lewis, known in the fight industry for tenaciously landing his light heavyweight champion Michael Spinks a massive $13.5 million purse for what turned out to be a brutal, one round KO at the hands of Iron Mike Tyson, apprently suffered a massive heart attack.
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Oscar De La Hoya Checks Into Rehab For Cocaine Abuse

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Oscar De La Hoya, the retired legendary boxer whose moniker the “Golden Boy” symbolized his pristine image, checked himself into a rehabilitation center in California, according to a report.
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Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard Reveals His Coach Sexually Abused Him

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(Newser) – Sugar Ray Leonard was sexually abused by his coach, the boxer reveals in an upcoming memoir. Leonard doesn’t name the trainer, calling him simply a “prominent Olympic boxing coach,” but he discusses multiple incidents in the Big Fight, due out next month, the New York Times reports. At age 15, Leonard and another teenage fighter were instructed to take a bath together while the coach watched; a few years later, he sat with the coach in a car in an empty parking lot.
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Bernard Hopkins Calls Donovan McNabb A House N!gger

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Questioning former Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb’s blackness and mettle.

According to Hopkins, McNabb had a privileged childhood in suburban Chicago and, as a result, is not black enough or tough enough, at least compared with, say, himself, Michael Vick and Terrell Owens.
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Manny Pacquiao Defeats Shane Mosley By Unanimous Decision #pacman

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LAS VEGAS – Manny Pacquiao, the fighting Filipino congressman, tried to lay down the law Saturday against challenger Shane Mosley, a reluctant warrior in the desert who mostly refused to engage the WBO welterweight champion.
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Jose Canseco Scams Promoters In Boxing Match By Sending His Twin Brother Instead

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Former baseball slugger and Miami-Dade resident José Canseco is at it again.

A representative of the firm Celebrity Boxing confirmed Sunday that Canseco was a no-show Saturday at a boxing event in Hollywood – and instead sent his twin brother Ozzie in his place, El Nuevo Herald has learned
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Zab @SUPERJUDAH Judah Knocks Out Kaizer Mabuza Wins 5th Title

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Zab Judah hit number one junior welterweight contender Kaizer Mabuza with a textbook powerful short left hand that left Mabuza knocked out on his feet – head and body through the ropes – where he lingered, swaying in search of consciousness.
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Boxer Bernard Hopkins Wants 50 Cent To Play Him In Movie About Life

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Former felon and world champion Bernard Hopkins wants 50 Cent to play him in a new film about his life.

“After I win, I’m ready to tell my whole story,” Hopkins told ESPN, who will once again try to become the oldest world champion in boxing history at 46 when he faces light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal this summer in Canada. “I studied at the university of life.” (ESPN)
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Will Smith And Mark Wahlberg Offered $1M To Fight Each Other

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For those who are tired of looking at Floyd Mayweather’s mugshots, there may be something worth looking forward to in the sport of boxing.
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Arrest Warrant Has Been Issued For Floyd Mayweather Jr…Again!

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LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas judge has issued an outstanding arrest warrant for boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. on a misdemeanor battery complaint alleging he poked a security guard in the face several times.
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