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Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao, billed as the Fight of the Century or the Battle for Greatness, [1] was a professional boxing match between undefeated five-division world champion and WBA (Super), WBC, TBRB and The Ring welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and eight-division world champion and WBO, and IBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao for the unified world welterweight ...
On May 11, HBO officially released that the fight generated $78.3 million in revenue. [11] According to initial inside sources the PPV buyrate was expected to be around 1.1 to 1.5 million. buys. [15] With Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, who sponsored the fight saying he first thought that the buyrate would be around 3.5 to 4 ...
In a non-title boxing match, welterweight champion Shane Mosley loses to Floyd Mayweather by unanimous decision. Bolivia nationalises four electricity companies. (Bangkok Post) [permanent dead link ]
1. On Oct. 1, 1975, heavyweights Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met for the third and final time in Manila, Philippines, of all places. It turned out to be, in my view, the greatest fight in boxing ...
This was the first boxing match held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, drawing more than 41,000 people. This was Pacquiao's first defense of his newly awarded WBO welterweight title. March 20 – Wladimir Klitschko knocks out Eddie Chambers with a fierce left to the temple with five seconds left in the fight.
Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito, billed as "The Eighth Wonder of the World", was a professional boxing match contested on November 13, 2010, for the vacant WBC super welterweight championship. [1]
He watched boxing on TV and said, "I can do better than that," and soon the prison was bringing in boxers for him to fight. [7] "They had fight cards in prison. I sat around watching them for a while and finally said to myself, 'I can do that,'" Lyle said. [8] In his first match for the prison boxing team, Lyle was said to be defeated by Texas ...
Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul, heavyweight, eight rounds. Round 8: Paul jabs Tyson into another solar system. Tyson can’t dodge. The reality of age settling in as the fight ends. Paul shows Tyson ...