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Boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. tested positive for marijuana

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Top Rank Inc. spokesman says middleweight boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. tested positive for marijuana after his first professional loss last weekend in Las Vegas. Top Rank spokesman Lee Samuels read a statement Wednesday saying the promoter was reviewing the …Read More

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Ex-boxing champ Michael Dokes dies

AKRON, Ohio — Michael Dokes, a former world heavyweight boxing champion from northeast Ohio, has died. The Rhoden Memorial Home in Akron confirmed Dokes died Saturday. He was 54. Known as “Dynamite,” Dokes became the World Boxing Association heavyweight champion in 1982 after he defeated …

Michael Vick launches V7 clothing line

NEW YORK — Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick is launching a sports clothing line called V7 that will be sold exclusively at East Coast sporting goods shop Modell’s. The line is the latest image-restoration move for Vick, who spent 18 months in federal prison on …

Anderson Silva stops Chael Sonnen at UFC 148

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LAS VEGAS — Middleweight champion Anderson Silva stopped Chael Sonnen at 1:55 of the second round in UFC 148 on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Silva has successfully defended his title 10 times and had a 15-match winning streak. In the second …

Mike Tyson takes his act to Broadway

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NEW YORK — Mike Tyson wants his next knockout to be on Broadway. The former boxer announced Monday that he will team up with director Spike Lee to bring his one-man show, “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” to the Longacre Theatre for six nights only, July …

Amateur boxing great Teofilo Stevenson dies

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HAVANA — Cuban boxer Teofilo Stevenson, the three-time Olympic heavyweight champion with a devastating right hand and a gentlemanly demeanor, has died. He was 60. “The Cuban sporting family was moved today by the passing of one of the greatest of all time,” said a …

  • Decision against Manny Pacquiao a death knell for boxing

    JOE COWLEY: The split-decision that awarded Timothy Bradley Jr. the welterweight title on Saturday night over Manny Pacquiao was so visibly wrong in a sport where so much wrong has taken place over the last 15 years. The “Sport of Kings” was pronounced dead.

  • Manny Pacquiao loses to Timothy Bradley in split decision

    LAS VEGAS — Timothy Bradley promised to shock, though the biggest shock in his fight with Manny Pacquiao came from the judges’ scorecards. In a fight Pacquiao seemed to have in hand, two judges decided otherwise, giving Bradley a split decision Saturday night and ending …Read More

  • Floyd Mayweather Jr. won’t see Pacquiao fight from jail

    LAS VEGAS — Floyd Mayweather Jr. won’t be able to see rival Manny Pacquiao’s pay-per-view fight Saturday night against Timothy Bradley, but he will have time to read his mail. As inmate No. 1363917 at the Clark County jail in Las Vegas, Mayweather doesn’t have …Read More

    • Timothy Bradley primed for his big shot against Manny Pacquiao

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    LAS VEGAS — He’s a vegan in a sport in which meat is king, a thinking man’s fighter in a game that embraces brawlers. Timothy Bradley never wavered in his chase for boxing glory, even when his bank account was down to $11 and there …

    Undefeated Mike Lee has bout on ‘Friday Night Fights’

    Mike Lee will try to remain undefeated during a nationally televised “Friday Night Fights” bout from the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas. The Wheaton native and Notre Dame graduate is 8-0 with five knockouts heading into a scheduled six-round light-heavyweight bout against Eliseo Durazo …

    Floyd Mayweather Jr. surrenders to begin jail sentence

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    LAS VEGAS — Floyd Mayweather Jr. surrendered in a courtroom Friday to begin a three-month jail sentence for attacking his ex-girlfriend in September 2010 while two of their children watched. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa credited the undefeated five-division champion with attending …

    Boxer Paul Williams paralyzed in crash

    ATLANTA — Paul Williams’ manager says the boxer has been paralyzed from the waist down after being involved in a motorcycle crash in the Atlanta suburbs. George Peterson told The Associated Press that Williams is expected to have surgery Wednesday and has been listed in …

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