Please Lock.

Not surprised Mike got caught with a burner. Sons probably super paranoid. He has beef all over town and with his partying history, it makes sense, unfortunately..

Dumb as hell. This will probably be his last fight. :smh:
 
Wasn't he supposed to fight rios again? Them dudes just put their foreheads together and let loose a bunch of uppercuts and hooks :lol:
 
Wasn't he supposed to fight rios again? Them dudes just put their foreheads together and let loose a bunch of uppercuts and hooks :lol:

:lol: yeah he's scheduled to fight him here in Denver on January 24th.

the fights still on, apparently.
 
My Top 10 P4P list as of today:

1. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
2. Manny Pacquiao
3. Vladimir Klitschko
4. Guillermo Rigondeaux
5. Sergey Kovalev
6. Carl Froch
7. GGG
8. Vasyl Lomachenko
9. Canelo Alvarez
10. Timothy Bradley
Roman needs to be on your list, even if it's at the back end.

Assuming you left Ward off due to the ongoing contractual dispute.
 
I remember I predicted Kameghai would pull the upset or at least make it competitive. Everybody thought I was out of my mind. :smh: I thought the fight turned out fairly close, but Guerrero definitely did enough to win.
 
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Roc Nation and Shaw Productions have officially merged.

Roc Nation acquires Shaw stable.

NEW YORK -- On the eve of the first boxing card being put on by music mogul Jay Z's Roc Nation Sports, the company on Thursday completed a deal to buy promoter Gary Shaw's company, giving it an instant stable of fighters.

The deal, which had been in the works for more than a month, was finalized around the time Roc Nation Sports was conducting the weigh-in for its first card Friday night (Fox Sports 1/Fox Deportes, 10 ET) at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, which is headlined by welterweight prospect Dusty Hernandez-Harrison against Tommy Rainone.

Under the agreement, Gary Shaw Productions will be absorbed into Roc Nation Sports -- including most of the contracts of the 20 or so fighters he promotes -- and Shaw will run Roc Nation Sports' boxing division along with chief operating officer David Itskowitch, who joined the company before it announced in August that it would begin promoting boxing.

"Gary Shaw joins David as the heads of Roc Nation boxing, and they'll make a great team to help lead the company through this venture," said Roc Nation Sports spokesman Ron Berkowitz.

Shaw told ESPN.com, "I have joined the company. I really do think that they can do for a fighter what nobody else can by strength of their entertainment and music talent and the athletes they represent. When someone says they're with Roc Nation, it really means something. They're at the top of the game, and being with Roc Nation will elevate the boxers."

Shaw, who is bringing his staff with him to Roc Nation Sports, comes to the company with decades of experience in boxing. From 1970 to 1999, he worked in various capacities for the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board.

He went into the promotion side of the business and served as COO for Main Events from 1999 to 2002 before founding Gary Shaw Productions, which has been involved in many major fights as he promoted boxers such as Manny Pacquiao, Shane Mosley, Winky Wright, Jeff Lacy, Diego Corrales and Vernon Forrest.

While Shaw has been heavily involved in Friday's card and will be ringside at the Garden, the final Gary Shaw Productions card will be taking place at the same time across the country at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California, where interim lightweight titlist Darleys Perez will defend against Jonathan Maicelo on the season premiere of ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights."

Shaw said fighters from his stable who will now be promoted by Roc Nation Sports include heavyweight contender Bryant Jennings, who is close to a deal to challenge world champion Wladimir Klitschko on April 25 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn; junior welterweight contender Thomas Dulorme; Perez; Maicelo; middleweight Tureano Johnson, who fights in Friday's Garden co-feature; lightweight prospect Kenneth Simms Jr.; welterweight Francisco Santana, who fights in the ESPN2 co-feature; and former middleweight titlist Daniel Geale.

"This was an opportunity to leave a different type of legacy in boxing," Shaw said. "Roc Nation and Jay Z to me are as big as it gets. They are a great company with a great brand, and if I can elevate boxing and the boxers like they do with their music acts and their athletes, that would be a legacy, and that's what I am shooting for. I am shooting to build Roc Nation Sports into a boxing powerhouse. The fighters will be in great company of guys like [Roc Nation athletes] Robinson Cano, Kevin Durant and Dez Bryant.

"It was a very good deal for me and my fighters to join Roc Nation. It's not life-changing for me in terms of the money but it was a good deal. But I did it because I thought it was the right thing to do at the right time for me and my fighters. I think it will bring them to a whole new level. We'll be able to get endorsements for fighters and do things other companies just can't do."
 
http://m.espn.go.com/extra/boxing/story?storyId=12142095&src=desktop
Andre Ward joins Roc Nation Sports
Dan Rafael [ARCHIVE]

ESPN.com | January 9, 2015
NEW YORK -- Super middleweight champion Andre Ward, who has fought only twice in the past three years -- mainly because of a protracted contact battle with Goossen Promotions -- is about to get a lot busier.

Music mogul Jay Z's Roc Nation Sports, in its biggest move yet since opening a boxing promotion division in August, signed Ward on Friday, shortly after Ward worked out an agreement to part ways with Goossen Promotions.

"It's official!! #NextChapter Happy to be a part of the @rocnation family," Ward tweeted on Friday morning.

Details of how the split with Goossen Promotions came about after years of legal battling were not disclosed, but Tom Brown of Goossen Promotions clearly was not happy with the result.

"That chapter is closed. I've moved on," Brown told ESPN.com.

Roc Nation Sports' move comes only hours before it will promote its first fight card on Friday (Fox Sports 1/Fox Deportes, 10 p.m. ET) at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, which is headlined by welterweight prospect Dusty Hernandez-Harrison against Tommy Rainone. Ward will be ringside for the show.

"We have signed Andre Ward and it's something we're very excited about," David Itskowitch, chief operating officer of Roc Nation Sports' boxing division, told ESPN.com. "It's just the beginning for us but it's a game changer. He's one of the best fighters in the world. Everything is coming together for us. On the same day we are having our first event, at Madison Square Garden, we are announcing our first really huge signing."

Ward (27-0, 14 KOs), widely regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world not named Floyd Mayweather Jr., will instantly become the face of Roc Nation Sports' boxing franchise, one day after the company completed a deal to buy promoter Gary Shaw's company, an agreement under which it will take over most of his 20 or so fighter promotional contracts and see Shaw jointly run Roc Nation Sports' boxing division along with Itskowitch.

Dan Goossen
AP Photo/Jeff Chiu
Andre Ward's outside-the-ring problems continued with Goossen Promotions even after the untimely death of Dan Goossen, left.
More than any of the Shaw fighters, Ward is the big prize. When he fights next has not been determined.

"We're going to sit down and talk about when he will specifically fight and the level of opponent he will fight," Itskowitch said. "He's been out of the ring for a while. We'll come up with names and come up with a date but we're excited to give him the opportunity to show he's one of the best in the world."

Since rolling through the Super Six World Boxing classic in dominating fashion (including lopsided wins against Mikkel Kessler, Arthur Abraham and Carl Froch) to unify two 168-pound world titles in the December 2011 final, Ward has boxed only twice.

Ward, of Oakland, California, delivered a tour de force performance in a 10th-round destruction of then-light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson, who dropped down to super middleweight to fight Ward, in September 2012. After a 14-month layoff, Ward, since stripped of one of his belts for inactivity, returned to win a one-sided decision against Edwin Rodriguez in November 2013.

Part of the reason for his layoff was a shoulder injury that led to surgery and forced a fight with former middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik to be canceled, but mainly it was problems with promoter Dan Goossen, who signed Ward after he won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics and promoted his entire professional career until his untimely death from liver cancer at age 64 on Sept. 29.

Goossen Promotions, now being run by Brown, Goossen's brother in law, and Craig Goossen, Dan's son, still had about two years remaining on its contract with Ward, but it was an untenable situation.

At least four times, using various arguments, Ward, who will turn 31 on Feb. 23, attempted to break his contract with Goossen Promotions. Ward lost an effort in Los Angeles Superior Court in August in which the judge dismissed his case saying he did not have "any basis upon which to invalidate the contract."

Another case was ongoing in which Ward accused Goossen Promotions of violating the federal Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act for failing to disclose all forms of income generated by his fights. Goossen Promotions denied the charge and countersued Ward for $10 million, claiming defamation.

Previously, the California State Athletic Commission twice ruled against Ward in separate arbitration hearings pertaining to efforts to terminate his promotional agreement
 
FWIW:

Alex (Denver)

DTM please share the news that makes you optimistic that Pac-Mayweather might happen. Don't be a twitter tease
Dan Rafael, King Fight Freak (12:15 PM)

I am not going to say because it is confidential but, like I said on twitter, I was told specifics yesterday by a source directly involved at the highest level of the deal discussions that gave me more hope than I have had since the initial talks in 2009. That said, I will still believe it when I see it.
 
Apparently, they are already making waves because of the Wlad/Jennings fight. They're trying to change a bunch of **** in the already signed contract to inconvenience Wlad. One of the first things you gotta know when you get into promoting is your place in each negotiation and what kinda leverage you have. Some people gotta learn the hard way I suppose.
 
jay z going to be working with james prince?
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Boxing Champ Adrien Broner Rejects Roc Nation - F JAY Z & Rihanna


Three-time world boxing champ Adrien Broner fiercely attacked Jay Z for what he says is a highly insulting offer to join Roc Nation Sports.

Adrien just appeared on "TMZ Hollywood Sports" and skewered the hop-hop mogul/sports titan for offering him a paltry $40 mil for 5 years. Adrien reaffirmed his directive that Jay could "suck my ****."

Going after Jay Z takes balls, but he got even ballsier when he went after another Roc Nation client, Rihanna, whom he says could go f herself, adding the only thing she's good for is p****.

Adrien has a lot more where that came from. Check it out tonight on TMZ Hollywood Sports at 6 PM ET, 3 PM PT on Reelz Channel.


 
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Just filed to http://t.co/1JHjy7LKVQ updating @FloydMayweather @MannyPacquiao talks. Not done, but they've agreed on @MGMGrand as venue.
— Lance Pugmire (@latimespugmire) January 9, 2015
Mayweather and Pacquiao closing in on purse split, according to official involved in the talks. Drug-testing plan is done.
— Lance Pugmire (@latimespugmire) January 9, 2015
As they hammer out purse, next step is to get @SHOsports and @HBOboxing to get the broadcasting plan sorted out.
— Lance Pugmire (@latimespugmire) January 9, 2015
Very important to note until it's done, it's not done, but Thursday was a good day for the long-awaited super-fight, I'm told.
— Lance Pugmire (@latimespugmire) January 9, 2015
 
Good ****. Always figured MGM would be the location.

Someone tossed it out there which is a fair point, it feels like Cotto is waiting for this to be settled to start/finish negotiating with Canelo. Just to see where this lands, what date, etc.
 
Boxing Champ Adrien Broner Rejects Roc Nation - F JAY Z & Rihanna


Three-time world boxing champ Adrien Broner fiercely attacked Jay Z for what he says is a highly insulting offer to join Roc Nation Sports.

Adrien just appeared on "TMZ Hollywood Sports" and skewered the hop-hop mogul/sports titan for offering him a paltry $40 mil for 5 years. Adrien reaffirmed his directive that Jay could "suck my ****."

Going after Jay Z takes balls, but he got even ballsier when he went after another Roc Nation client, Rihanna, whom he says could go f herself, adding the only thing she's good for is p****.

Adrien has a lot more where that came from. Check it out tonight on TMZ Hollywood Sports at 6 PM ET, 3 PM PT on Reelz Channel.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com#ixzz3OMdib6Fk

Now I like broner a little bit more
 
Good ****. Always figured MGM would be the location.

Someone tossed it out there which is a fair point, it feels like Cotto is waiting for this to be settled to start/finish negotiating with Canelo. Just to see where this lands, what date, etc.

MGM is the current mecca for boxing since it was built. However, it makes me wonder how much thought was given to having the fight at cowboy stadium (e.g. more ticket sales)
 
i got may 2nd booked already just waiting for them to announce it so i can book flight ticket

i can even imagine how much those tickets would cost. or better tyet where to buy
 
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