Mike Tyson has been announced as a vendor guest for WrestleReunion, which takes place January 27-29 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport 5400 West Century Blvd. Los Angeles, California. The WrestleMania XIV celebrity will be doing photo-ops for $99. Autograph prices have yet to be announced.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. just issued the challenge the world has been waiting for — demanding Manny Pacquiao fight him once and for all … May 5th in Vegas.
As we reported, Floyd’s jail sentence was postponed to June so he could fight at the MGM Grand on May 5th — but so far, his opponent hasn’t been determined.
Fight fans have been clamoring for Mayweather-Pacquiao for years – and now Floyd himself is calling out Manny with the message, “Manny Pacquiao I’m calling you out let’s fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see.”
Floyd sounded off in the tough and hardcore forums of Twitter and Facebook — and punctuated his challenge with, “Step up Punk.”
Manny is in the Philippines … and has yet to respond to the challenge.
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UFC heavyweight veteran Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson is now 3-0 on his professional boxing career after defeating Charles
Hackmann, a debuting fighter who also works as a fitness trainer.
Slice won the four round affair with the scores 39-37 across the board.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. got hammered by a judge, who just sentenced him to serve 90 days in jail for beating up his baby mama in front of their kids.
Floyd was sentenced to 6 months in jail, but 3 months of that sentence was suspended. He also gets 3 days credit for time he has already served.
TMZ broke the story … the boxer was arrested in September 2010 — after his ex-girlfriend accused him of striking her “multiple times in the head with his fist” and then threatening to kill her.
Floyd struck a plea deal with prosecutors in the case — in which he pled guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence … in exchange for getting a pass on the felony battery charge.
Floyd also pled no contest to two misdemeanor harassment charges — after allegedly threatening to beat his kids too during the incident.
The judge was especially pissed that Mayweather struck his baby mama in front of their kids.
The judge also ordered Mayweather to complete 100 hours of community service and a 12-month domestic violence program. He was fined $2,500 … which to Floyd is like a poker hand.
The boxer must turn himself in on January 6, to begin serving his sentence.
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There will be no fight between welterweight champions Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.,according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.com.
Both Leonard Ellerbe, one of Mayweather’s advisors, and Richard Schaefer, Golden Boy Promotions CEO, told Rafael that Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank was not interested in negotiating a fight.
“We have been informed that Bob Arum is not interested in pursuing a fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao at this time,” Schaefer said.
Mayweather returned to the ring in September after a 16-month layoff and knocked out Victor Ortiz. Pacquio beat rival Juan Manuel Marquez in a controversial majority decision on Saturday night.
Schaefer said that he received the news that Arum was not interested in a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight from retired federal judge Daniel Weinstein, who has worked closely with both sides to settle issues in recent years.
“I am sick and tired of Bob Arum twisting the truth. It’s another case of ‘yesterday I was lying, today I’m telling the truth,’ ” Schaefer said, invoking Arum’s most famous quote. ”The truth of the matter is that we received this
afternoon an email from retired federal judge Daniel Weinstein, who has informed us that Top Rank is pursuing a rematch with Marquez and, therefore, is not interested in immediate talks for a possible Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. This is obviously as clear as it can be that they have no intentions of making a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. Therefore, Floyd Mayweather will have no other choice than to move on and identify and lock in another opponent for his ring return on May 5.”
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Saturday night the UFC debuted on national television, immediately before the Arum promoted Pacquiao fight, and it offered Bob Arum another opportunity to go off on MMA, and the UFC.
“They thought they would hurt us,” Arum said of the UFC. “Instead they got hurt because they got buried. But I think the fact they’re just on for an hour helps us.”
“We had so many companies soliciting us wanting to be sponsors not just for a fight, but a series of fights. We’ve had to greatly increase our staff and personnel. Our [Las Vegas] offices are now too small, and we’re in the process of buying our own building, so we can expand and handle the people we have.”
“We’re going to do things next year that you haven’t seen in years. Maybe never.”
“We’re not geniuses trying to be monopolists. We’re just in the business. You can’t keep doing the same old things you were doing which were not successful, and somehow the skies are going to open and it’s going to become successful. You’ve to go out and solicit sponsors and you’ve got to make a real effort to run your business differently.”
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The Associate Press reported today that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been ordered to perform 40 hours of community service after angering a federal judge in South Carolina for lying about why he had to delay a deposition.
Mayweather, his production company and WWE are being sued by Anthony Dash for allegedly stealing his song for Mayweather’s entrance music at WrestleMania 24 in 2008. As part of the suit, Dash’s attorney tried to schedule a July deposition with the fighter, but Mayweather had it delayed because he was training for a September fight.
The deposition was then ordered to happen at the end of September, but Mayweather asked for another delay three days before it was set to take place, stating that he was recovering from injuries from the fight. He also claimed that his doctor told him to not be under too much stress until he received the results of an MRI. The deposition was then delayed for another month.
Dash’s attorneys presented a video to U.S. District Judge Joseph F. Anderson Jr. of Mayweather at the Echelon 3000 club outside Atlanta on the day the deposition was scheduled, partying and throwing money into a crowd while burning bills. Anderson ruled that Mayweather acted in bad faith for making his injuries sound worse than they were, and must help the Las Vegas Habitat for Humanity Project by the end of January or face further penalties.
“At the parties in question, Mayweather can be seen burning money, allegedly one-hundred dollar bills, while in another video he throws money into the crowd,” Anderson wrote. “Mayweather often advertises himself using the moniker ‘Money Mayweather’ and his production company is Philthy Rich Records. Suffice it to say that Mayweather has substantial personal wealth.”
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Actor Hugh Jackman told USA Today in a new interview that he trained with legendary boxer Sugar Ray Leonard for his movie Real Steel. Regarding Jackman’s punch to WWE United States Champion Dolph Ziggler on RAW a few weeks back, Sugar Ray said:
“He delivered a punch that found its target. That’s all I care about. It put a stamp on my job. I’m proud.”
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HBO boxing announcer Larry Merchant said Monday that Floyd Mayweather’s victory over Victor Ortiz on Saturday in Las Vegas was the result of a “legal sucker-punch.”
Merchant, a guest on the Mason & Ireland Show on 710 ESPN Radio in Los Angeles, became part of the story line Saturday because of a verbal confrontation with Mayweather during a live televised interview in the ring immediately after the fight.
Merchant was asked what he thought set off Mayweather.
“I’m in a long line of media people that he feels have not given him as much credit as he gives himself,” Merchant said. “The fans saw what they saw: A sucker-punch ending a fight. Now, was Mayweather within his rights to throw it? Absolutely. Should he have? In my opinion, no. It was a legal blow, but that’s not the way great champions do it. And the kid, Ortiz, has blame on him as well.
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Fast forward to 2:45 to see how it all went down:
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Pro boxer Monte Barrett told BoxingScene.com this week that he will begin training at WWE developmental in Florida at the end of October. He said:
“I gotta call from [WWE senior director of talent relations] Ty Bailey this week and go through some of the particulars, but I know whatever it’s gonna be, it will be a lot of hard work. I told him I will commit 110% and put my best foot forward with everything that I do.”
Barrett will be in FCW for 2 weeks and then return for a two month training camp.
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The Miz made a special appearance at this week’s Los Angeles press conference for the upcoming Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez boxing fight on November 12th.
The Miz takes the stage and does one hell of a job selling this event to the media and the public. Miz also has a special gift for both fighters to show that he’s totally impartial and not taking sides.
Check out the video right here, courtesy of Top Rank Boxing:
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WWE Superstar The Miz was introduced today at the press event in Beverly Hills for the Pacquiao vs. Marquez boxing match. Miz posed with the two fighters as Pacquiao held up one of Miz’s t-shirts. The Miz is said to be a big boxing fan.
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