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Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by Nice Rollin, Mar 31, 2006.

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  1. RocketFan007

    RocketFan007 Member

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    Misprint.
     
  2. stonegate_archer

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    How do you do this? PLEASE TELL ME!!!
     
  3. Nice Rollin

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    www.worldboxingvideoarchive.com/torrents
    fights are usually up within 5 minutes after they're finished. make sure u seed for 24 hours....READ THE RULES or they will kick you off
     
  4. slickvik69

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    "Thank you very much. Well, only final thoughts is something that you referred to earlier, Jim. I was stationed here at Mannheim, Germany in the army where I was a MORSE code operator. Dot, dot, dash. And then I got myself transferred to the stars and stripes service newspaper nearby. And covered my first fight there. One other footnote, I once went to interview Sandy Saddler who is a corporal at the same time as he was featherweight champion in the world at a nearby base. He said to me if you want to interview me you have to pay me. I haven't paid anyone for an interview yet. Certainly not tonight."
    --Larry Merchant

    What this old man is talking about is beyond me.
    :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
     
  5. J DIDDY

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    larry merchant looks like he is either drunk or is about to drop dead any second. his rambling is very annoying and the pauses between word is even more annoying.
     
  6. slickvik69

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    Oscar De La Hoya was on Jay Leno last night, and Dr. Phil was the earlier guest. Oscar and Doc had a classic exchange.

    Oscar: Is it okay to have sex before a fight?
    Dr. Phil: I'm not gay.
     
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    Thanks, I will give it a try.

    DLH needs to show some real skills and power to win. PPV is really evil!!!
     
  8. slickvik69

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    Good Thing De La Hoya Isn't Fighting for Scale

    May 3, 2006

    Three more diary days with Oscar until he gets his butt kicked.

    T.J. Simmers, LA Times

    LAS VEGAS — I'm standing in the hallway talking to Dr. Phil outside his dressing room before "The Tonight Show" listening to all his problems because Oscar De La Hoya forgot his suit at home and he's late.

    Dr. Phil has brought his book for the wife, reading in Sunday's paper that I'd probably have to ask for an autograph from "Baldy," and "that's the first time I ever heard that," he mocks. I probably should have guessed that Dr. Phil would have a wife who calls it like she sees him.

    "The Tonight Show" publicist stops by with notes detailing every appearance on the show — this being Oscar's 15th time with Jay Leno.

    "How many times has Salma Hayek been on?" I ask. I'm told 11 times, which makes you wonder about Leno, who has the ability to pick up the phone and invite Hayek to the show any time he wants, but instead wants the pug more.

    Oscar arrives. He's wearing the same suit as Leno, and he's sweating like a man waiting to find out what the jury has to say. "I'm super nervous," he admits.

    "I don't know why," I tell him. "Letterman has Tom Hanks on tonight, and I can't imagine anyone watching Dr. Phil and you."

    "The Tonight Show" asks Oscar to sign forms so he can be paid $428 Hollywood scale for his appearance. They are paying him to promote his own fight!

    YOU GET hit in the head as many times as Oscar and you forget to take your suit to "The Tonight Show" and you agree to allow Page 2 to shadow you behind the scenes through Saturday's fight with Ricardo Mayorga at the MGM.

    That's why I'm standing on the tarmac at an airport in Van Nuys, watching the tough guy carefully walk up stairs to a private jet as he carries a Louis Vuitton handbag with a 2 1/2 -pound foo-foo dog inside.

    "This is Annie," he says, and if only Mayorga could see him now. I see why they're calling this "Danger Zone," though. Forget to look where you're walking, squash Oscar's fur ball and he's liable to let you have it.

    Oscar has been training in Puerto Rico since Feb. 2, arriving in Los Angeles a few days ago on the Gulfstream, which seats 12 and rents for about $6,000 for the 50-minute flight to Las Vegas. The kid from East L.A. has come a long way.

    He's joined on the flight by his wife, Millie, and I ask how she'll react when her husband loses Saturday.

    "I don't care," Millie says. "I'm just waiting for Monday so he can take the middle-of-the-night feeding with the baby, and I can sleep."

    Oscar is listening. He hires an Elvis impersonator, and now plans to marry his wife again in a chapel here Saturday after the fight. He did the same thing a year ago. It's a great scam. With so many different wedding dates, he can never be blamed for forgetting his anniversary.

    SECURITY GUARDS, led by a former Navy SEAL, are waiting for De La Hoya's Monday evening arrival. Everyone is taken to a rear MGM entrance.

    The public is led to believe he's arriving Tuesday, with a band playing and a crowd gathering to meet him. They don't know he's coming out the MGM's back door, getting in a car and driving to the front.

    Later Mayorga arrives, and Debbie Caplan-Paz, a De La Hoya publicist, says, "He looks like a drug lord." Did I mention Mayorga's promoter is Don King?

    OSCAR BEGINS the day running on UNLV's track. His business manager tells him that workers saw Mayorga outside the hotel — smoking.

    "I'll hit him in the body and see if he coughs up smoke," Oscar says.

    Oscar works out accompanied by guards. I worry about a boxer who needs security to protect him. A bunch of men arrive to run, which puts the security detail on alert. They don't know it, but they're guarding Oscar from a group of federal air marshals and their counter-terrorism instructor.

    Oscar runs at a steady pace, sideways at times and for almost an hour. His demanding conditioning trainer, Ron Garcia, has him hanging upside down in boots later and doing sit-ups, 24 at a time in that position. He's down to 5 1/2 % body fat, Garcia says, "and on the same diet as Serena and Venus Williams.''

    "And look how well they're doing," I say.

    THE GUY still sells tickets. They're adding more seats. For most fights, they sell $150,000 in merchandise, but for a De La Hoya fight, they've gone over the $1-million mark in the past with Oscar getting 30%.

    At the fake arrival, women are yelling, "I love you, Oscar." I have no idea why. When he's done, he does a series of media interviews and after a late-afternoon nap, he moves to the gym to pound everything they put in front of him. This will be the last time they tape his hands and really push him until he fights Saturday.

    Before the workout, he gets an eye exam per Nevada Boxing Commission rules. His eyes dilated, he emerges wearing black eye shades and bumps into the wall for Page 2's benefit. He might want to consider another career other than acting when his boxing career is over.

    "I'm thinking of taking a role in 'Mission Impossible 4,' " he says.

    "I thought that was the name of this fight," I reply, and he laughs, deflecting jab after jab once more, obviously knowing it's going to get a lot tougher as the week goes on — especially Monday when he's up in the middle of the night with the baby.
     
  9. SwoLy-D

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    Are you sure you got the names right? Shouldn't it have been the other way around? (Dr. Phil asking Oscar)
     
  10. slickvik69

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    Mayorga threatens pull out!

    By Victor Perea

    After today's press conference, WBC super welterweight champion Ricardo Mayorga threatened to pull out of Saturday's fight with Oscar De La Hoya unless he is paid $8 million dollars. Although Mayorga signed for $2 million "to lure Oscar into taking the fight," he stated "if I don't get my money, I'm not going to fight. I'm going to make what I deserve....I don't want it to be like the Trinidad fight where Trinidad got all the money." He stated that he was promised eight million and wants to be paid like a champion. Mayorga's promoter Don King said, this is the first he's heard of eight million dollar figure. Mayorga said he would announce later today whether he is fighting or not, "but I'm not fighting unless I get my eight million."
     
  11. Nice Rollin

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    wow thats wild! mayorga is a character...
     
  12. Mulder

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    If by "character" you mean "chicken-sh*t pu$$ wad" then we are in agreement.
     
  13. Harrisment

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    Well I was going to order this fight, would be nice to know if it is on.
     
  14. slickvik69

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    Mayorga camp hopeful!

    By Rick Guzman

    "We are hopeful the fight will go forward but we have several issues to resolve," stated Tony Gonzalez, the advisor to Ricardo Mayorga, to FightNews. "Mayorga wants the fight, Oscar wants the fight, Don King and Golden Boy Promotions want the fight to go forward. This is not a stunt. Mayorga wants to be paid what he is worth in this fight." Although the situation looks grim, Gonzalez promised: "We will continue talking through the night to find a solution."
     
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    You coming over for the fight? Craig's got some people over for the last couple weeks living on our couch donating their bodies to science experiments but I could probably tell them Mike Tyson's fighting and they'd get all excited and ask how many fights he's won in a row. Oh, and they suck at Fight Night. They're all haymaker haymaker haymaker. It's like the boxing equivalent of the AND1 mentality.
     
  16. slickvik69

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    BREAKING NEWS

    "Mayorga will fight!"

    WBC super welterweight champion Ricardo Mayorga's attorney Tony Gonzalez has just marched in to the press room at the MGM Grand and announced that "Ricardo Mayorga will fight." Journalists were invited to attend Mayorga's workout this afternoon. News from the gym coming in moments....
     
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    Mayorga: I will KO Oscar in 6!

    WBC champion announces he'll go through with fight....

    WBC super welterweight champion Ricardo "El Matador" Mayorga confirmed today that he will step into the ring against "The Golden Boy" Oscar De La Hoya to defend his title at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and on HBO Pay-Per-View on Saturday night. Mayorga sent word to members of the media asking them to join him at his 3 p.m workout at the Las Vegas Boxing Club, just off the Las Vegas Strip, to make his announcement. "I have decided to fight," Mayorga said. "I'm a man and I will defend my World Boxing Council super welterweight title against Oscar De La Hoya on Saturday night." The Nicaraguan bomber added emphatically: "Look out. I'm going to knock Oscar out in less than six rounds." Mayorga's promoter, Don King, was very happy to hear Mayorga's comments. "I commend Ricardo Mayorga for doing the right thing," King said. "That's what I told him to do all along. Now he just needs to knock out The Golden Boy and the world will be his oyster."
     
  18. SwoLy-D

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUy10WpLLkY
     
  19. slickvik69

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    Game 7 is going to affect the PPV buys for this fight.
     
  20. bladeage

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    doubtful, game 7 starts at 7pm and will be over by about 9:30pm which is like 30 minutes before the main event. The undercard sucks so everyone is pretty much going to wait for the main event.
     

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