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ESPN: Chat with Oscar De La Hoya
Send in your questions HERE and then join De La Hoya at 1 p.m. ET on Monday 12/01/08!
Anatomy of a Fight, Part Three: the Training of a Champion (Vanity Fair)
by Peter Owen Nelson November 26, 2008 This is the third installment of a series on the December 6 matchup between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao, to be held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Read Parts one and two here. Before his loss to Floyd Mayweather, Jr., in 2007, Oscar De [...]
HBO Laces Up Marketing Gloves For PPV Bout (multichannel.com)
Net Pumps Promotional Efforts Behind De La Hoya-Pacquiao ‘Dream Match’ By Stuart Miller A pay-per-view fight headlined by Oscar De La Hoya sounds like a boxing match made in heaven, but HBO knows that some marketing muscle helps when it comes to packing a knockout punch at the box office. Last year, HBO set records [...]
Pacquiao prepped for hardest fight yet (Espn)
By Kieran Mulvaney Special to ESPN.com Manny Pacquiao steps up in weight to take on Oscar De La Hoya at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday, Dec. 6 (HBO PPV), a battle between boxing’s pound-for-pound best and the sport’s biggest star. Between now and then, Pacquiao will be checking in with ESPN.com’s Kieran [...]
Dana White of UFC “Boxing is Dying a Horrible Death Right Now”
I happen to follow Boxing and Occasionally Mixed Martial Arts. I think Dana White makes some great points during his time on the “Rome is burning”show with Jim Rome(Video Below) especially about Boxing promoters not willing to invest into the sport of boxing to help it grow. I have to give the UFC credit for [...]
ESPN Roy Jones jr. and Joe Calzaghe interview before the fight.
Roy Jones Jr. Ready For Joe Calzaghe Calzaghe To Defend Title Against Jones Jr.