“When I first started, I really was not a football player. I never really even liked football then,” Walker told MMA Fighting. “I just loved to run. If it would have been around then, I really think I would have been an MMA fighter.”
At 47 years old, Walker is finally following his calling. He makes his debut on Jan. 30, facing little-known Greg Nagy at a Strikeforce show in Sunrise, Fla.
Read the full story at> MMAfighting.com
This Saturday 23rd, on ‘HBO After Dark’ one of my favorite fighters Yuriorkis Gamboa will be fighting Rogers Mtagwa. I call Gamboa the “Cuban Sensation” (16-0, 14 ko’s)… read about it at> Eastside Boxing
Check out this incredible up & coming fighter, Jose Benavidez Jr. His dad Jose Sr. ran Central Boxing Club in Phoenix for years. It couldn’t happen to a nicer family.
I’ve posted this video before, it’s so worth seeing it again! Just so you know, Capoeira is a martial arts style way of fighting.
Finally, a final answer!!! Pacquiao will not be fighting Mayweather. The super fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is officially dead, as Top Rank CEO Bob Arum said he closed a deal Sunday for Pacquiao to meet Joshua Clottey in Dallas at Cowboys Stadium on March 13. Read the whole story at>> Yahoo Sports
Looks like it aint gonna happen, according to>> KPHO News They are still arguing over the drug test.
Big talk about James “Lights Out” Toney wanting to do a MMA match.
Just imagine… if James Toney and Kimbo Slice fought, it would be as big of a money draw as the Micky Ward & Arturo Gatti fight. It would bring both MMA and BOXING more alive than ever.
Check out James Toney talking about the whole MMA idea on> YouTube
According to Larry Merchant: “I still believe that they’ll find a way to resolve it, probably by next week. If anybody is going to lose in this fight, then making $30, or, $40 million should seem to make it worthwhile.”
“From the beginning, I thought that it was gamesmanship. That Mayweather has been very clever and intuitive about picking out the vulnerabilities — real or imagined — of opponents, and using that as psychological warfare to build up the fight.”
As reported by MaxBoxing.com: Manny Pacquiao underwent a urinalysis as directed by the Nevada State Athletic Commission chairwoman Pat Lundvall at his home in General Santos.
Manny Pacquiao says he is planning to file a defamation lawsuit against Floyd Mayweather Jr., the fighter’s father, and Golden Boy Promotions
In a statement posted Friday on his Web site, Pacquiao claims that his character has been damaged and tarnished by accusations he says are untrue.
“Enough is enough,” Pacquiao said in the statement. “These people, Mayweather Sr., Jr., and Golden Boy Promotions, think it is a joke and a right to accuse someone wrongly of using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs. I have tried to just brush it off as a mere pre-fight ploy but I think they have gone overboard.”
READ THE WHOLE STORY IN THE>> WASHINGTON POST