<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Boxing: News &amp; Videos about Boxing - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Boxing</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Boxing from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:14:54 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Boxing: News &amp; Videos about Boxing - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Boxing</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Boxing from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Chris Mannix: With few appealing fights left, Dawson must prove his worth</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/11/03/chad.dawson/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/11/03/chad.dawson/index.html</guid><description>Chad Dawson has a problem. A 175-pound problem, to be exact.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Calzaghe refuses to return to ring</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/10/20/joe.calzaghe/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/10/20/joe.calzaghe/index.html</guid><description>Sometime in the next year or so, Showtime's Super Six tournament will anoint a new champion in the super middleweight division. It seems simple enough, but there's a small twist that has recently been questioned: Could a fight with the former champion be right behind it?</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Showtime's Super Six tourney takes step toward reviving boxing</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/10/13/super.six/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/10/13/super.six/index.html</guid><description>The discussion of late has revolved around mixed martial arts' rise has hurt boxing. But let's be clear: boxing has done a heck of a job hurting itself with corrupt rankings, meaningless titles and a noticeable lack of quality fights.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Klitschko ready for WBC heavyweight defense</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/09/25/boxing.klitschko.wbc.heavyweight/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/09/25/boxing.klitschko.wbc.heavyweight/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko -- who shares three of the four major heavyweight titles with brother Wladimir -- will put his World Boxing Council (WBC) belt on the line when he meets Cristobal Arreola at the Staples Center, Los Angeles on Saturday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Klitschko sets sights on WBA title</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/09/25/vitali.klitschko/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/09/25/vitali.klitschko/index.html</guid><description>When Vitali Klitschko announced his return to boxing in 2008, he told everyone he was coming back for one reason: He wanted to make history. He wanted to join his younger brother, IBF and WBO titleholder Wladimir Klitschko, as a world champion, thereby becoming the first pair of brothers to hold heavyweight titles simultaneously. Vitali accomplished that feat in his first fight back, knocking out Samuel Peter in a one-sided bout that earned him the WBC belt, the same title he relinquished when he retired.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mayweather pays the price for extra weight</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/09/19/boxing.floyd.mayweather.marquez/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/09/19/boxing.floyd.mayweather.marquez/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Floyd Mayweather Jr will have to pay Juan Manuel Marquez a reported $600,000 after weighing in two pounds too heavy ahead of Saturday night's welterweight showdown in Las Vegas.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Floyd Mayweather vs. Juan Manuel Marquez: Live blog</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/09/19/mayweather.marquez.blog/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/09/19/mayweather.marquez.blog/index.html</guid><description>Here we go, fight fans. The final undercard bout -- Chris John's successful defense of his WBA featherweight title against -- just finished and we're minutes away from Floyd Mayweather's return to the ring. First, a quick recap of tonight's other notable fights: Shelly Finkel's prized prospect, junior middleweight Erislandy Lara, KO'd journeyman Jose Varela, Mayweather protégé Cornelius Lock scored an impressive stoppage of unbeaten featherweight Orlando Cruz and Australian brawler Michael Katsidis survived an early cut over his left eye to win the WBO interim lightweight title in a split decision over Vincente Escobedo. No surprises there and some pretty entertaining fights.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Man arrested in connection with ex-boxing champ's slaying</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/05/georgia.vernon.forrest.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/05/georgia.vernon.forrest.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A man has been arrested in connection with the July shooting death of former boxing champion Vernon Forrest, Atlanta police said Tuesday night.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Death of boxer Arturo Gatti ruled suicide</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/07/30/brazil.boxer.death/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/07/30/brazil.boxer.death/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Brazilian authorities on Thursday ruled the death of former world boxing champion Arturo Gatti a suicide, according to local media reports.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-boxing champ Vernon Forrest shot to death</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/26/boxer.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/26/boxer.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Former boxing champion Vernon Forrest is dead after being shot multiple times in a neighborhood southwest of downtown Atlanta, officials said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jon Wertheim: Forrest was a classy professional, and his death is a blow to boxing</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/jon_wertheim/07/27/vernon.forrest/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/jon_wertheim/07/27/vernon.forrest/index.html</guid><description>In the spring of 2002, Vernon Forrest and I sat in front of his television watching a DVD from his previous fight. A few months earlier, Forrest had unexpectedly beaten Shane Mosley to win the WBC welterweight belt. Forrest was training for a summer rematch, but had carved out time to entertain a stranger with a notepad for two days in Atlanta. As he replayed the win over Mosley, Forrest would pantomime his moves, cleaving the air with jabs and bobbing his head. Then he'd pause the DVD.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bryan Armen Graham: As Pacquiao nears G.O.A.T. status, Cotto has golden opportunity</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bryan_armen_graham/07/21/pacquiao.cotto/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bryan_armen_graham/07/21/pacquiao.cotto/index.html</guid><description>The mythical mantle of pound-for-pound champion is the most prestigious title in the fight game, perhaps because no sanctioning body can confer, revoke or validate it. There's a purity of essence to it. Only by winning the hearts and minds of the people can a contender be regarded as the greatest in the sport regardless of weight.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pacquiao announces Cotto WBO title fight</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/07/21/pacquiao.boxing.fight.cotto/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/07/21/pacquiao.boxing.fight.cotto/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The world's top pound-for-pound fighter, Manny Pacquiao, will attempt to win a world title in a fourth division by taking on three-time world champion Miguel Cotto in his next bout.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Thunder' Gatti revered by boxing fans</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/07/13/boxing.gatti.profile.ward/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/07/13/boxing.gatti.profile.ward/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Arturo Gatti, who was found dead in a Brazilian hotel room in suspicious circumstances, is revered by boxing fans for his trilogy of thrilling and brutal fights with Micky "Irish" Ward.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wife held in boxing champ's killing in Brazil</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/07/12/gatti.boxing.dead.brazil/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/07/12/gatti.boxing.dead.brazil/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Brazilian authorities detained the wife of former world boxing champion Arturo Gatti as a suspect in his killing, according to local reports.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bryan Armen Graham: Boxing has its true heavyweight champion</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bryan_armen_graham/06/20/Klitschko.Chagaev/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bryan_armen_graham/06/20/Klitschko.Chagaev/index.html</guid><description>For the first time in nearly five years, a legitimate heavyweight champion roosts atop the boxing food chain.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: It's not ideal, but Chagaev-Klitschko could be intriguing</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/06/10/heavyweights/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/06/10/heavyweights/index.html</guid><description>What a muddled mess the heavyweight division has become. Four recognized titles. Five, if you count Ring Magazine. Champions. Champions in Recess. Champions Emeritus. Sanctioning bodies manipulating their rankings (have you seen WBA No. 1 contender John Ruiz recently?) just to squeeze out a few extra dollars. And the only cost is the integrity of the sport.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Klitschko's world title fight floored</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/06/03/boxing.world.heavyweight/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/06/03/boxing.world.heavyweight/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>World heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko was left frustrated on Wednesday when Briton David Haye pulled out of their June 20 title clash after suffering an injury in training.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police: Tyson's daughter on life support</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/05/25/arizona.tyson.daughter/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/05/25/arizona.tyson.daughter/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The four-year-old daughter of boxing legend Mike Tyson was in "extremely critical condition" after she was injured in a treadmill accident at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, police said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 18:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Ward out to prove himself against Miranda</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/05/15/ward.miranda/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/05/15/ward.miranda/index.html</guid><description>Andre Ward's young career has been a series of firsts. There was his first Olympic gold medal in 2004, an accomplishment that put him in elite company with Cassius Clay, Leon Spinks and Evander Holyfield as the only U.S. gold medalists in the light heavyweight class.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 14:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Pound-for-pound boxing rankings</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/03/13/p4p.rankings/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/03/13/p4p.rankings/index.html</guid><description>Pacquiao's stunningly swift and brutal win over Ricky Hatton clearly established him as the best fighter in four weight classes: super featherweight, lightweight, junior welterweight and welterweight. Perhaps the only question Pacquiao has left to answer, and one trainer Freddie Roach acknowledged after the Hatton fight, is how the Pac-Man can handle the top counter-puncher. He may get the chance as early as next year in a showdown with the winner of Floyd Mayweather vs. Juan Manuel Marquez.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 18:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bryan Armen Graham: Count Pacquiao among all-time greats</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bryan_armen_graham/05/04/hatton.pacquiao/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bryan_armen_graham/05/04/hatton.pacquiao/index.html</guid><description>Ricky Hatton never saw it coming.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Live blog from Pacquiao-Hatton fight</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/05/02/Pacquaio.Hatton/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/05/02/Pacquaio.Hatton/index.html</guid><description>LAS VEGAS -- We're baaaack. You missed The Blog, didn't you? Well, here we are, sitting at a wobbly folding table blanketed by a cheap black tablecloth four rows from ringside at the MGM Grand Arena to bring you play by play and instant analysis from the Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton junior welterweight title fight.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Problems' dog Hatton before Pacquiao fight</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/05/01/boxing.hatton/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/05/01/boxing.hatton/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Ricky Hatton heads into his light-welterweight super-fight against Manny Pacquiao with his trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr admitting that there have been "problems" in their camp.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 15:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Hatton is gunning for an upset</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/04/30/hatton/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/04/30/hatton/index.html</guid><description>In sports, there are two types of fans. There are regular fans -- a group that ranges from the tailgating, body-painting and opposition-cursing diehards, to the corporate 9-to-5'ers who knock back a couple of pints at the local bar a few hours before a game before taking their seats, donning freshly purchased jerseys. These fans are loyal. Most eat, sleep and drink their local team, and some will even pack a duffel bag on occasion and make a road trip.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 15:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Taylor is back in his element</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/04/24/taylor.froch/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/04/24/taylor.froch/index.html</guid><description>At a press conference to promote Saturday's WBC super middleweight title fight, a table at the front of the room was tightly packed with promoters, trainers, managers and various network and hotel executives. And, of course, there were the fighters. Well, at least one fighter for sure.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Date confirmed for Klitschko, Haye showdown</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/04/02/boxing.haye/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/04/02/boxing.haye/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Briton David Haye has finally secured a shot at the world heavyweight title after signing a contract to take on Ukrainian champion Wladimir Klitschko.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>BLOG: Cotto TKOs Jennings to claim WBO belt</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/02/22/blog.cotto.jennings/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/02/22/blog.cotto.jennings/index.html</guid><description>9:30 p.m. -- And we're back! Seated alongside SI boxing editor Rich O'Brien, I'm Chris Mannix here to bring you live coverage of the Miguel Cotto-Michael Jennings welterweight title fight. As you can see the crowd is starting to stream in here at Madison Square Garden in anticipation of Cotto's big comeback. Rich, what are your keys to... Wait...we're not on TV?</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bryan Armen Graham: Cotto shifts focus from controversy to title</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bryan_armen_graham/02/19/cotto/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bryan_armen_graham/02/19/cotto/index.html</guid><description>Miguel Cotto made the fifth and most memorable defense of his world welterweight title last July against Antonio Margarito at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Champ Pavlik eyes chance to prove naysayers wrong</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/02/19/pavlik/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/02/19/pavlik/index.html</guid><description>Say you're Jack Shephard. You have been stranded on an island for months, far removed from civilization and cut off from all information relating to the outside world. Suddenly (and for the purposes of this example, recently) you're rescued. Big celebration. A couple of weeks later, after you reacclimatize yourself to eating fish out of a can and figure out how to play Nintendo Wii, you get an e-mail from a friend inviting you over to watch this weekend's Kelly Pavlik fight.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Mayweather turns down Mosley</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/02/12/shane.mosley/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/02/12/shane.mosley/index.html</guid><description>Shane Mosley has spent the better part of his professional career fighting in someone else's shadow. First, it was Oscar De La Hoya, who Mosley defeated twice -- in 2000 and '03 -- but who he could never match in popularity. Then it was Floyd Mayweather Jr., who danced in and out of Mosley's weight class before dancing (literally) right off the boxing stage.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Another sport, another cheat</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/02/11/margarito.suspension/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/chris_mannix/02/11/margarito.suspension/index.html</guid><description>One week, two cheaters. Rarely have the days of professional sports ever been darker.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bryan Armen Graham: Calzaghe's goodbye as unsurprising as his comeback would be</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bryan_armen_graham/02/06/calzaghe/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bryan_armen_graham/02/06/calzaghe/index.html</guid><description>Joe Calzaghe's retirement announcement yesterday didn't take anybody by surprise.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Valuev decision over Holyfield is a sham for the WBA</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/12/20/holyfield.valuev/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/12/20/holyfield.valuev/index.html</guid><description>"As the most representative organization of Professional Boxing, where the right application of the fundamental principles of ethics, moral, loyalty, honesty and good faith can be found, considered as the main values, which orientates all legitimate activity of the Professional Boxing Worldwide."  -- WBA Mission Statement</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bryan Armen Graham: When will U.S. recognize Klitchko's dominance?</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/bryan_armen_graham/12/14/klitschko.rahman/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/bryan_armen_graham/12/14/klitschko.rahman/index.html</guid><description>What we saw Saturday in the heavyweight title fight between Wladimir Klitschko and Hasim Rahman was a clinical dismantling.</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:39:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: With both Klitschko brothers at the helm, the spotlight turns to Valuev</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/10/13/klitschko.brothers.titles/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/10/13/klitschko.brothers.titles/index.html</guid><description>Vitali Klitschko is hurt, and it may be serious.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Against all logic, Holyfield gets another title shot</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/10/09/holyfield.valuev/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/10/09/holyfield.valuev/index.html</guid><description>In the five years I have spent covering boxing, I have had a few of what I like to call "cringe moments." I cringed when greedy promoters paraded a battered and broken Mike Tyson into the ring for fight after fight, even though he was little more than a shell of his former self. And he had a history of biting people.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Richard O'Brien: What's next after Mosley's win over Mayorga?</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/richard_obrien/09/28/mosley.mayorga/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/richard_obrien/09/28/mosley.mayorga/index.html</guid><description>I don't know, of course, what "Sugar" Shane Mosley is doing this Sunday afternoon. Maybe settling in to watch some football or getting a little work done around the yard. Or sneaking out for a round of golf. Or maybe he's counting the reported $1.5 million he was guaranteed for his bout last night against Ricardo Mayorga. Whatever he's up to, though, I hope the thought occurs to him that there are easier ways for a 37-year-old guy to make a living.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Williams 'punishes' in new division, still hopes for lucrative payday</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/09/26/paul.williams/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/09/26/paul.williams/index.html</guid><description>I'm beginning to understand Paul Williams' game plan: mop the floor with fighters from as many weight classes as possible until an opponent who carries a big payday agrees to a fight.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Blogging After The Bell: Marquez takes aim at surprise opponent</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/09/16/twelve.rounds/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/09/16/twelve.rounds/index.html</guid><description>You are Juan Manuel Marquez. You just turned in arguably the finest performance of your professional career when you systematically destroyed lightweight champion Joel Casamayor last Saturday night. You have catapulted yourself to the top of every pound-for-pound rankings and have the boxing world buzzing about a potential third fight with your nemesis, Manny Pacquiao, once Pacquiao finishes his business with Oscar De La Hoya.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Is it possible that judging is the most corrupted part of boxing?</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/09/08/judging/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/09/08/judging/index.html</guid><description>In a sport where sanctioning bodies routinely manipulate the rankings to serve their interests, where networks permit promotional companies to dictate scheduling and where promoters allow a general distaste for one another to get in the way of making the best fights, is it possible that judging is the most corrupted part of boxing?</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Richard O'Brien: Valuez-Ruiz disappoints but what about the future?</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/richard_obrien/08/31/valuev.ruiz/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/richard_obrien/08/31/valuev.ruiz/index.html</guid><description>Nikolai Valuev's disputed decision win over John Ruiz on Saturday (his second disputed decision win over Ruiz, for those who are counting) reportedly drew boos from the crowd in Berlin's Max Schmeling Stadium. It drew basically no response at all from American sports fans, of course, since the bout wasn't actually televised in the U.S. Even had it been, though, it's hard to imagine that the rematch between the 35-year-old Valuev, whose 7-foot height is barely enough to compensate for his rudimentary skills, and the 36-year-old Ruiz, who though adept, always seems to do just enough to underwhelm the judges, would have generated much interest on the first weekend of the college football season. Or on any other weekend, for that matter.</description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: De La Hoya close to decision</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/08/26/de.la.hoya/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/08/26/de.la.hoya/index.html</guid><description>Ten-time world champion Oscar De La Hoya will make a decision on his next opponent by Thursday, Golden Boy matchmaker Eric Gomez told SI.com.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Arash Markazi: De La Hoya-Pacquiao megafight could be coming soon</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/arash_markazi/08/18/markazi.de.la.hoya.news/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/arash_markazi/08/18/markazi.de.la.hoya.news/index.html</guid><description>BURBANK, Calif. -- Intent on making his last fight a "worldwide event," Oscar De La Hoya said that negotiations for a possible megafight with Manny Pacquiao, the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, are not dead and that he is hopeful to make an official announcement on his final opponent either by the end of the week or early next week.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nicki Jhabvala: Same King, different 'Prizefighter'</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/nicki_jhabvala/06/10/king.prizefighter/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/nicki_jhabvala/06/10/king.prizefighter/index.html</guid><description>"I learned a long time ago from this guy named Cyrano de Bergerac, 'Don't bring me no mortal men, bring me giants.'"     --Don King</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>David Epstein: Body blow to U.S. boxing</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/2008/writers/david_epstein/08/12/warren/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/2008/writers/david_epstein/08/12/warren/index.html</guid><description>With 30 seconds left in the fourth and final round of his Olympic-opening bout, Rau'shee Warren, the U.S.' reigning flyweight world champ, looked to his teammates in the stands. They were gesturing wildly, and Warren swore he heard them yell, "Move! Move!" So Warren danced around on the outside until the referee told him to engage. By then, only four seconds remained.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Calzaghe and Jones Jr. bout set for November</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/08/08/boxing.calzzaghe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/08/08/boxing.calzzaghe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Joe Calzaghe's eagerly-awaited light heavyweight bout with Roy Jones Jr. has been rescheduled to take place at Madison Square Garden on November 8.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: It's (almost) official: Golden Boy will take on Pac-Man</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/08/06/de.la.hoya.pacquiao/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/08/06/de.la.hoya.pacquiao/index.html</guid><description>At 4 p.m. Wednesday, a contingent from Top Rank, led by CEO Bob Arum, will arrive at the Los Angeles offices of Golden Boy Promotions to begin -- and hopefully finalize -- negotiations with Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer for a December welterweight bout between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Paquiao.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nicki Jhabvala: Toney-Rahman ruling changed</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/nicki_jhabvala/07/28/rahman.toney/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/nicki_jhabvala/07/28/rahman.toney/index.html</guid><description>In a controversial battle July 16, James Toney defeated Hasim Rahman at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, Calif., by techinical knockout at the end of Round 3</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: It's time -- bring the boxing world Pavlik-Abraham</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/06/25/pavlik.abraham/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/06/25/pavlik.abraham/index.html</guid><description>The already battered sport of boxing took another body blow when Floyd Mayweather Jr. walked away from the ring (and a potential $25 million fight with Oscar De La Hoya) last month.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Berto claims vacant WBC welter crown</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/06/22/boxing.titles/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/06/22/boxing.titles/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Andre Berto claimed the vacant World Boxing Council welterweight title when he halted Miguel Rodriguez in the seventh round in Memphis.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mike Tyson Timeline</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/21/timeline.tyson/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/21/timeline.tyson/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>1966     Mike Gerard Tyson is born.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 14:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New champ Bradley seeks more success</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/05/11/boxing.bradley/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/05/11/boxing.bradley/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Timothy Bradley, whose first professional fight outside his native California has earned him the WBC light-welterweight title, is keen to become undisputed world champion in the division.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 10:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Calzaghe, Hopkins weigh-in for super-fight</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/04/19/boxing.calzaghe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/04/19/boxing.calzaghe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins both weighed in at 173 pounds for their eagerly-awaited light-heavyweight super-fight at the Thomas &amp;amp; Mack Center in Las Vegas on Saturday night. </description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Klitschko to defend belt against Thompson</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/04/10/boxing.klitschko/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/04/10/boxing.klitschko/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Double world heavyweight champion Vladimir Klitschko has been given the green light to defend his WBO belt against American Tony Thompson on July 12 in Hamburg.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Peter-Wladimir Klitschko, Round 2?</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/03/09/mannix.peter/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/03/09/mannix.peter/index.html</guid><description>The call came last week, just as I was boarding a plane to Salt Lake City. On the other end of the line was Bernd Boente, the top-flight manager for IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and his brother, former WBC champion Vitali Klitschko.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Klitschko unifies heavyweight titles</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/02/24/boxing.heavyweight/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/02/24/boxing.heavyweight/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>International Boxing Federation heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko seized the World Boxing Organization belt on Saturday with a unanimous decision over previously unbeaten Sultan Ibragimov at Madison Square Garden.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Paul Williams fails to live up to his moniker</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/02/10/paul.williams/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/02/10/paul.williams/index.html</guid><description>Nicknames should be apropos, shouldn't they?</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pramit Mohapatra : Vegas showdown UFC-style</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/pramit_mohapatra/01/31/ufc81.preview/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/pramit_mohapatra/01/31/ufc81.preview/index.html</guid><description>While the most common topics leading up to Super Bowl XLII this weekend are the Patriots run for a perfect season and Tom Brady's ankle, the Ultimate Fighting Championship has its own questions to answer Saturday at UFC 81 in Las Vegas.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pramit Mohapatra: UFC 80 Preview</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/pramit_mohapatra/01/16/ufc80.preview/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/pramit_mohapatra/01/16/ufc80.preview/index.html</guid><description>The Ultimate Fighting Championship opens 2008 with its first pay-per-view card of the year coming just three weeks after UFC 79. The promotion takes its show to Newcastle, England, after the UFC held two events in the country last year. UFC 80 begins a very busy stretch for the UFC -- one that includes a UFC Fight Night the Wednesday after UFC 80 and UFC 81 just two weeks later.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix:  Boxer of the year</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/01/03/pavlik/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_mannix/01/03/pavlik/index.html</guid><description>Floyd Mayweather grabbed the boxing spotlight May 5 in Las Vegas and he has yet to relinquish it. With a less than stunning showing but more than decisive victory over Oscar de la Hoya that night, Mayweather kicked off a year in which he accumulated more than $50 million in ring performances. He also developed thousands of new fans for his slick footwork out of it (Or maybe you missed Dancing with the Stars).</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Odds to Mayweather's next fight</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/12/09/mayweather.prospects/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/12/09/mayweather.prospects/index.html</guid><description>In the sport of boxing, Floyd Mayweather is without peer. He is an unparalleled champion, a fighter with multiple talents to go along with his multiple personalities. On Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Mayweather (39-0) put on a boxing clinic against welterweight pretender, er, contender Ricky Hatton, out-boxing the former junior welterweight champion before flattening Hatton with a series of combinations that left the former undefeated Brit wondering why he even bothered stepping into the ring in the first place. After the fight ended, Mayweather embraced his challenger as a friend and praised him for his efforts, calling Hatton "the best I have ever fought."</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hatton-Mayweather: Pull No Punches
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1692484,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1692484,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Boxer Ricky Hatton loves to eat, drink beer and throw darts. But if he can upset Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas, he'll be the toast of Britain</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Kitschko vs. Ibragimov deal near</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/11/16/newsitem/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/11/16/newsitem/index.html</guid><description>A unification fight between IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBO champion Sultan Ibragimov is close to being finalized, Klitschko's manager Bernd Boente told SI.com on Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Cotto represents next generation</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/11/11/cotto/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/11/11/cotto/index.html</guid><description>One of the loudest criticisms of boxing -- usually levied by advocates of mixed martial arts -- is that the sport is dominated by aging stars. For the most part, the critics are correct. Oscar de la Hoya (34), Floyd Mayweather (30), Wladimir Klitschko (31) and Shane Mosley (36) are all on the wrong side of 30. They are also still the biggest draws, with De La Hoya-Mayweather breaking every box office record and Klitschko leveling every young fighter left dangling in his path.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mosley faces tough test with Cotto</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/11/09/boxing.mosley/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/11/09/boxing.mosley/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Shane Mosley knows all about big fights. They don't get much bigger than his two matchups with Oscar De La Hoya.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:18:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Calzaghe quick with the fighting words</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/11/05/react/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/11/05/react/index.html</guid><description>In the aftermath of the most impressive win of his career, Joe Calzaghe did an incredibly unimpressive thing.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:38:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix:  Finding Mikkel Kessler</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/11/01/kessler/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/11/01/kessler/index.html</guid><description>He is one of the most successful fighters of his generation but he is as anonymous as Waldo.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Boxers sent home for shoplifting</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/10/29/box.romanians/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/10/29/box.romanians/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Three Romanians were thrown out of the World Boxing Championships and banned from amateur boxing for life after being caught trying to steal from a Chicago department store.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Russia in the Boxing Ring</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1671963,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1671963,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>With enough glitz, kitch and corporate sponsorships to make Las Vegas blush, welcome to the new
and weird (yet weirdly underwhelming) epicenter of world boxing</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: After nine months, Samuel Peter gets WBC title shot</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/10/05/Peter/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/10/05/Peter/index.html</guid><description>NEW YORK -- Patience is a virtue that Samuel Peter is fresh out of. It has been nine long months since the 27-year-old Peter last competed, nine months since the man known as the Nigerian Nightmare beat James Toney for the second time to earn (for the second time) the title of the WBC's number one contender.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Pavlik quiets critics with first-rate KO</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/09/30/pavlik.championship/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/09/30/pavlik.championship/index.html</guid><description>There is a belief in this world that boxing is dead. There is a belief the sport is plagued by dull fights and managed by corrupt promoters -- whose only interest is keeping an alphabet soup of title belts around the waists of their fighters. There is a belief that when the icons of the sport (Floyd Mayweather, Oscar de la Hoya, Bernard Hopkins) walk away, the sport will be left with scores of average fighters who possess a fraction of the skills of their predecessors.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Maskaev pulls out of title defense</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/09/22/boxing.maskaev/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/09/22/boxing.maskaev/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>WBC heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev has been forced to call off his title defense against Nigerian Samuel Peter after injuring his back during training.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Mannix: Mayweather to Dance with Stars, box Hatton</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/09/20/mayweather/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/09/20/mayweather/index.html</guid><description>I just wanted to ask him one question. Maybe two. But Floyd Mayweather wasn't having it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>WBA champ Chagaev back in training</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/09/04/boxing.chagaev/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/09/04/boxing.chagaev/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev has returned to training just a month after he suffered a stomach injury which forced him to cancel next month's unification contest against WBO champion Sultan Ibragimov.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Richard Deitsch: Q&amp;amp;A: Buster Douglas</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_deitsch/08/15/douglas.qa/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_deitsch/08/15/douglas.qa/index.html</guid><description>Last week SI writer Richard Deitsch interviewed Buster Douglas for the magazine's Q&amp;amp;A. The 47-year-old former heavyweight champion -- he stunned Mike Tyson in 1990 -- is launching a career as an actor. Here are additional excerpts from their conversation:</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Intern of the Week: Suzanne Grassel (US Olympic Committee)</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/sioncampus/08/02/intern.grassel/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/sioncampus/08/02/intern.grassel/index.html</guid><description>Name: Suzanne Grassel  School: Syracuse  Age: 21  Major: Magazine journalism and sport management  Job: Media Intern, USA Boxing, USOC  Paid/unpaid: Paid  School Credit: Yes  Hours: 8-5, Monday-Friday  Duration: May 30-Aug. 27 (with a week off in the middle)</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Richard O'Brien: Boxing defies seedy reputation in the ring -- in most cases</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_obrien/07/24/cheating.boxing/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_obrien/07/24/cheating.boxing/index.html</guid><description>Boxing has long been regarded as, in the words of Jimmy Cannon, the red-light district of sports. In the popular imagination, the Sweet Science is anything but: it is widely viewed as a shady game run by mobsters and sharps, corrupt officials and snakelike managers, a morass of mismatches and fixed fights, in which the principles take more dives than Greg Louganis. Such Hollywood-fueled melodrama aside, however, boxing is a remarkably straightforward and transparent sport.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>MANNIX: Klitschko denies broken hand report</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/07/08/klitschko/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/07/08/klitschko/index.html</guid><description>NEW YORK -- IBF and IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko refuted a report Sunday that he suffered a broken hand during his win over Lamon Brewster.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>L. Jon Wertheim: The New Main Event</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/05/22/ultimate0528/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/05/22/ultimate0528/index.html</guid><description>Saturday night was all right for fighting. But the pageantry for the 69th card in the Ultimate Fighting Championship's tough-and-rumble existence began much earlier that week. Long before the fighters unhinged the latch of the steel Octagon on April 7 and fought on a card titled UFC 69: Shootout, thousands of fans had converged on Houston, tribalists on a pilgrimage. The prefight weigh-ins drew massive crowds. The line for the fighters' autograph show wreathed the girth of the Toyota Center, the venue for UFC 69. The downtown bars and restaurants were overrun by fight fans. </description><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 01:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Failure to Launch</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_hoffer/05/08/big.fight0514/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_hoffer/05/08/big.fight0514/index.html</guid><description>And so, having finally attracted a little mainstream attention again, has boxing squandered another opportunity. With all eyes upon the sport -- well, more eyes than usual -- it produced an event of not much drama, little excitement and no satisfying conclusion. And even for somebody who found the semispectacle satisfying, there was no possibility of another one with even this much promise. The winner immediately announced his retirement, and the loser, who doesn't fight much anyway (or win much anymore), was ambivalent about his future in the ring.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 14:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>What boxing needs</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/05/06/inside.boxing/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/05/06/inside.boxing/index.html</guid><description>LAS VEGAS -- Nearly 24 hours have passed since Saturday night's epic battle between Floyd Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya. The crowds have thinned out (or as much as they can in a casino) and the celebrities have all gone home.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 01:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Face to Face</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/the_bonus/05/03/delahoya/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/the_bonus/05/03/delahoya/index.html</guid><description>The rumblings of the jet engine are deafening, but for Oscar De La Hoya they're as soothing as an ocean breeze. As he settles into one of the plush leather seats on the Gulfstream G-4 -- one of two $14 million planes leased by his promotion company, Golden Boy, to carry him and Floyd Mayweather Jr., his opponent in Saturday's megafight, on a nine-day, 11-city promotional tour -- he can finally be at peace. Why? Well, for starters, it's one of the few times during the day he can put some much-needed distance between himself and Mayweather, against whom he will defend his WBC super welterweight crown and vie for the title of boxing's best pound-for-pound fighter. "I love being able to interact with people, to shake their hands and sign autographs," says De La Hoya. It's the other stuff that gets a little old. "Sometimes when I'm sitting onstage listening to Floyd run his mouth, I think to myself, Hey, I don't need this."</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 13:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Golden Boy vs. Pretty Boy</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_hoffer/05/01/big.fight.prev0507/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_hoffer/05/01/big.fight.prev0507/index.html</guid><description>Oscar De La Hoya, the most acclaimed boxer of his era, has a loving family and a budding business empire. He needs one more victory to gild his Hall of Fame career -- and wants one more whopping payday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 12:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cotto to meet Judah in title bout</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/04/18/boxing.title/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/04/18/boxing.title/index.html</guid><description>Miguel Cotto will defend his World Boxing Association welterweight title against Zab Judah on June 9.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Face to Face</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/04/05/oscar.latino.april/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/04/05/oscar.latino.april/index.html</guid><description>Special from SI Latino</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Proof of fight</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/03/29/ward.preview/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/03/29/ward.preview/index.html</guid><description>Andre Ward can hear the doubters.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Whither Barrera?</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/03/18/marquez.barrera/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/03/18/marquez.barrera/index.html</guid><description>Juan Manuel Marquez entered the ring Saturday as an unknown commodity. When he walked out, he was a proven one.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Burgos still in critical condition</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/03/05/boxing.burgos/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/03/05/boxing.burgos/index.html</guid><description>Former IBF junior flyweight champion Victor Burgos remains in a critical condition on Monday after getting pummelled in a title fight with Vic Darchinyan.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Holyfield out to be the best again</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/02/28/boxing.holyfield/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/02/28/boxing.holyfield/index.html</guid><description>Four-time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield will return to the ring in March as he bids to round off his career by becoming undisputed world best again.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mosley lifts WBC welterweight belt</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/02/11/boxing.mosley/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/02/11/boxing.mosley/index.html</guid><description>Shane Mosley eased to a comfortable points victory over Luis Collazo to lift the interim World Boxing Council welterweight title on Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hatton hands back IBF title again</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/02/10/boxing.hatton/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/02/10/boxing.hatton/index.html</guid><description>Britain's Ricky Hatton has  relinquished his IBF light-welterweight title in order to set up a showdown with Mexico's Jose Luis Castillo.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sugar's resurgence</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/02/09/mosley.preview/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/02/09/mosley.preview/index.html</guid><description>Also in this column: SI.com's boxing gurus make their picks.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chasing history</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/01/30/klitschko/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/01/30/klitschko/index.html</guid><description>Vitali Klitschko wants to make history. More precisely, he wants to make history again. "I have a vision," said Klitschko in a telephone interview from the Ukraine. "It's one I have had for a long time. I want my brother and I to be heavyweight champions at the same time."</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rahman lining-up fight against Sam</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/01/27/boxing.rahman/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/01/27/boxing.rahman/index.html</guid><description>Former WBC champion Hasim Rahman is close to a deal to fight Sinan Samil Sam in a bout that would pit together two of the organization's top four heavyweight contenders.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Heavy deadweight</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/01/26/heavyweights/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/01/26/heavyweights/index.html</guid><description>In 1992, Riddick Bowe decided to take a stand. Unhappy with the WBC's mandate that he fight No. 1 contender Lennox Lewis, Bowe decided that the belt was no longer worth the leather strap it came on. So in a glorious public-relations stunt, Bowe took the belt and unceremoniously dumped it into a London trash can.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Peter beats Toney to earn WBC shot</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/01/07/boxing.heavyweight/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/01/07/boxing.heavyweight/index.html</guid><description>Samuel Peter scored a unanimous decision over James Toney in their WBC heavyweight elimination bout on Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:38:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Maskaev keeps his WBC heavy title</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/12/10/boxing.taylor/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/12/10/boxing.taylor/index.html</guid><description>Russia's Oleg Maskaev retained his World Boxing Council heavyweight crown on Sunday with a unanimous points decision over Ugandan challenger Peter Okhello in Moscow.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Briggs claims WBO heavyweight belt</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/11/05/boxing.briggs/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/11/05/boxing.briggs/index.html</guid><description>American Shannon Briggs knocked Sergei Liakhovich through the ropes one second before the end of the last round to win the WBO heavyweight title in dramatic style.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Valuev to face Barrett in October</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/08/14/boxing.heavy/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/08/14/boxing.heavy/index.html</guid><description>WBA titleholder Nikolai Valuev, the biggest heavyweight champion of all time, will fight in the United States on October 7, defending his title against Monte Barrett.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>