WHO YOU LIKE?™ Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez + Andre Ward vs Carl Froch + Bernard Hopkins vs Chad Dawson. Pre-fight coverage from Chelsea Pier, NYC. featuring the Bob Arum (Top Rank) and Jaime Motta (ESPN). “It was very sad for me to see a son talk to his father like Floyd Jr. did to Floyd Sr.” —Bob Arum

WHO YOU LIKE?™ Andre Ward vs Carl Froch + Floyd Mayweather vs Victor Ortiz + Bernard Hopkins vs Chad Dawson. Pre-fight coverage from NYC featuring Jim Gray (SHOWTIME Boxing), Tim Smith (NY Daily News) and Mitch Abramson (NY Daily News.) 8/24/11

‘Harvard’ Hopkins Out To Educate Dawson » “Styles make fights” is perhaps the most oft-recited advisory in boxing, perhaps because the message it conveys is usually spot-on. • If defensive genius Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins and his technically proficient but somewhat cautious challenger, “Bad” Chad Dawson, stick to form in their Oct. 15 WBC light-heavyweight championship bout at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the forecast likely would call for a pugilistic game of chess… BERNARD FERNANDEZ, www.philly.com

Manager: Gatti Didn’t Take Own Life » A private probe into the 2009 death of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti will disprove the official conclusion that it was a suicide, Gatti’s former manager Pat Lynch said yesterday… Source: www.boston.com

Evander Holyfield: Pay-Per-View is Killing Boxing » As a native of Alabama, former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield had the opportunity to speak to those in attendance at a dinner to mark the closing of the Olympic Boxing Trials in Mobile, and he may have turned a few heads when he said that pay-per-view has been the biggest factor that has killed boxing in recent years, not the emergence of mixed martial arts… Charles Jay, www.boxinginsider.com

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