Arreola deserves credit for taking the fight to Vitali but once there it was Klitschko that dominated. Eating six punches while trying to land one wild punch is the reason Cristobal suffered the first loss in his 28 fight career.

The most difficult part of the night wasn’t watching Klitschko pound Arreola in the face. It was the post-fight interview that combined Larry Merchant’s slow, Yoda-like question style with Vitali’s poor use of the English language. Chris Arreola definitely did his best to entertain after the loss.

Shout out to Erick Estaban and Kareem Grimes for putting the video together.

Here’s the beginning of Minny’s interview with Floyd:

Mayweather wants to fight Pacquiao. Unless Bob Arum makes money.

Mayweather and Bob Arum have been beefin’ since the two split up in 2006. Mayweather’s comments, along with Bob Arum saying Money “could go fuck himself”, make it seem that Pacquiao-Mayweather is a pipe-dream. It’s not.

This fight will happen somehow, some way. Unless Floyd wants Bob Arum to call him a coward again. But there’s too much money to be made in Vegas, on PPV, online gambling

Mayweather Not Eager To Face Pacquiao If Arum Is Involved [Fight Hype]

Manny Pacquiao is scheduled to fight Ricky Hatton on May 2 and if you’re a fan of the Pac Man, you better catch the fight. The word out of the Philippines is that Pacquiao is looking to fight twice in 2009 and then he’s going into retirement and becoming a politician.

This won’t be Manny’s first step into the political arena. He ran for office in 2007, but was defeated by the incumbent which is hard to believe considering his popularity in the Philippines. If you think Pacquiao isn’t serious about becoming a politician you’re dead wrong.

From GMANews.TV:

Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao is set to retire in 2009 to prepare for taking on the bigger challenge of being a public servant.

Pacquiao renewed his desire to serve the people, saying he would be ready to hang up his gloves after fighting twice this year and prepare for the 2010 national elections. He is reportedly seeking a congressional seat to represent General Santos City.

“My heart wants to help others. That is why I am offering myself to serve them,” Pacquiao said.

That’s an honorable goal but we know how boxers do. They don’t stay retired for very long. Hell, Oliver McCall’s looking to get back in the ring, and he once broke down and cried during a fight.

You can check out pictures from the fight, including closeups of Jose Canseco in a tattoo suit, and get Bonaduce’s comments here. I was hoping Canseco would get knocked out again, and then leave the public eye, but it looks like we’ll get another Jose “Boxing match”. I’m pitching Jose Canseco vs. Brian McNamee UFC style. We’ll call it ” ‘Roid Rage in the Cage”.

Manny Pacquiao’s ass whooping of Oscar De La Hoya did more than cement Manny as the sport’s pound-for-pound champion; it’s bringing Floyd Mayweather out of retirement.

The boxer that spends his time making it rain 50k and turkeys has had enough of being out of the ring and wants to get back in the game in a major way.

From The Grand Rapids Press:

Janelle Mayweather, the boxer’s cousin, told family members he called her early Sunday morning — moments after Manny Pacquiao’s stirring win over Oscar De La Hoya on Saturday night in Las Vegas — and stated his hopes to fight again and reunite with his father.

“My niece said my son told her he wanted to fight Pacquiao next, and that he wants me to train him for the fight,” Mayweather Sr. said.

It’s not surprising that Floyd wants to fight Manny. They’ll make a ton of money. Floyd Jr. wanting to be trained by Senior caught me off guard. Floyd and his pop parted ways in 2001 and rarely talk. The fact the Mayweather Jr. wants to reconcile shows how dangerous he thinks Pacquiao is.

Pacquiao and trainer Freddie Roach are on the record welcoming a fight with Mayweather and now Floyd’s down, so as Mills Lane would say “Let’s get it on.” Money May and Manny are both fast, but I’d give the nod to Pacquiao if Floyd fights him without any tuneups. Floyd will probably have some ring rust and as Manny showed last Saturday, you don’t wanna get in the ring with him at anything less than 100 percent.

Manny Pacquiao is gearing up for his Saturday super fight with Oscar De La Hoya. Paraphrasing trainer Freddie Roach, Pacquiao is in great shape and is going to whoop Oscar’s ass.

The training and gaining weight have gone well for Manny but there’s another issue surrounding the fight that has him concerned.. Cheap people asking Manny to give them tickets for the fight. I’m not talking about folks with no money; these are actors, actresses, and politicians.

From the Cebu Daily News:

The running total for superstar Manny Pacquiao’s expenses for freeloaders who have asked him for tickets for his December 6 showdown with Oscar De la Hoya has now reached $640,000 or a staggering P32 million.

The figure was taken as of last Thursday, and it seems that can breach the $700,000 mark by fight night.

Pacquiao was visibly upset over the figure, which he and chief of staff Joe Ramos kept reviewing in the presence of this writer inside Pacquiao’s unit at the Palazzo, the upscale residence of Hollywood actors, actresses and celebrities.

Mo’ money mo’ problems. Manny’s expected to pull around $15 mil for the fight, but that doesn’t mean he should be shouldering the load for a bunch of jock sniffers. Especially with the state of the global economy. The financial crisis has the fight’s promoters downsizing their expectations for PPV buys from topping the 2.15 million buys for the De La Hoya-Mayweather fight, to 1.5 million. Don’t get it twisted. They’re still gonna make a boatload of money, just not as much as they thought they were four months ago.

Floyd Mayweather jr. is known for making it rain money, punches, and put downs but the holiday season has the retired boxer sprinkling the less fortunate in a different way.

Mayweather made a deal with churches in his hometown of Grand Rapids to give Thanksgiving turkeys to those in need. The turkeys were given away through The Floyd Mayweather Foundation at a local grocery store but Mayweather wasn’t in the building.

From The Grand-Rapids Press MLive.com:

Mayweather’s foundation matched donations from a dozen churches in the area to provide the turkeys. It was the fourth-annual such giveaway in which Mayweather, the Grand Rapids-native boxing champ, has participated.

Mayweather is filming a reality TV show in Las Vegas and couldn’t make the giveaway, but foundation representatives said he was there in spirit.

Floyd’s doing a good deed and it’s too bad he couldn’t be there but there’s somehting I can’t figure out…

Why is Floyd rollin’ to the club in the Phantom and raining 30k on groupies, posers, and wannabes that can afford to go to the club but giving the less fortunate meat? If you asked any one of the people that showed up for the turkeys if they would’ve rather stood in a sweaty nightclub and had $100 bills thrown at them instead of waiting outside in the snow for a free turkey, you know they would say hell yeah.

Before you jump on me and say “What are you doing to help the needy?” I’ll tell you.. Nothing. If they wanna have a turkey dinner so damn bad they should start a blog. They’ll get all the 99 cents turkey pot pies they want.

It’s a damn shame when the video is 35 times longer than the actual action. I don’t know what the loss says about Kimbo Slice. It could have just been a bad night, and he was caught off guard by Ken Shamrock getting scared injured at the last minute, or maybe he’s out of his league. We won’t know until after his next few fights.

I hope this puts an end to the “MMA is better than boxing” talk. In boxing there would’ve been a count, and from there who knows how it goes? Maybe Kimbo clears his head and we’re treated to a Hagler-Hearns thriller. Instead, a guy gets punched in the face for a few seconds and the fight ends. XCiting.