Living with a legend – Adam Smith goes behind the scenes with Marco Antonio Barrera

By Adam Smith

Mexico is a most proud nation. The people are patriotic, the families are huge and tight-knit; their boxers seemingly born to fight.

The list of Mexican greats reads like a who’s who in the history of the sport: Salvador Sanchez, Vicente Saldivar, Miguel Canto, Ruben Olivares, Carlos Zarate, Pipino Cuevas, Julio Cesar Chavez, Humberto ‘Chiquita’ Gonzalez, Ricardo ‘Finito’ Lopez – who was never beaten – and of course the amazing Julio Cesar Chavez. read more

Filed under: Carlos Zarate, Erik "El Terrible" Morales, Julio Cezar Chavez, Marco Antonio "The Baby-Faced Assassin" Barrera, Salvador Sanchez

Hatton vs. Pacquiao Analysis

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By Nick Chamberlain

A Dream match it most certainly was not, but what did we learn from this showcase? Well, firstly Oscar De La Hoya is well past his best – sadly it looks as though old father time had caught up with The Golden Boy which happens to us all and secondly he was obviously weight drained from making the 147 pound mark. This is not taking anything away from Pac-man’s win but saluting the end of an era in that De La Hoya will never be what he once was, and let’s face it he once was a force to be reckoned with.. Let us not forget the battles with Fernando Vargas, Ricardo Mayorga, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Sugar Shane Mosley, Hector Camacho, Whittaker, Quartey and of course J C Chavez.

We also learnt that Pacquiao could fight comfortably at 147 lbs (come fight night he weighed in at closer to 149lbs) and he had lost none of his speed, power, agility, aggressiveness coming up to that weight, bearing in mind that Pac-Man started his career at light flyweight (106lbs) then moving up to super bantam weight 122lbs, where he captured the WBC title and defended it five times before moving up to super featherweight and securing the titles there, and settling at lightweight 135lbs ripping the WBC title from David Diaz and finally joining old boy Oscar in the aforementioned “Dream Match”
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Filed under: Battle of East and West, Floyd Mayweather, Golden Boy, Julio Cezar Chavez, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar de la Hoya, pacman, pacmonster, Pound for Pound, Ricky Hatton, Sugar Shane Mosley