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Last Night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, WBC welterweight champion and pound-for-pound king Floyd “Money” Mayweather kept his undefeated record intact, scoring a unanimous decision 117-111 against mandatory challenger and multi-division world champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero.

Will Floyd fight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez next in September?

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Mayweather’s contract, filed on Friday afternoon with the Nevada State Athletic Commission, calls for him to earn a record-tying guarantee of $32 million, plus pay per view profits for his welterweight world-title fight against Robert Guerrero on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Guerrero (31-1-1, 18 KOs) will earn a career-high $3 million, plus a share of the pay-per-view profits.

The purses for the other televised bouts are $375,000 apiece for featherweight titlist Daniel Ponce De Leon (44-4, 35 KOs) and challenger Abner Mares (25-0-1, 13 KOs); junior featherweight Leo Santa Cruz (23-0-1, 13 KOs),  will earn $165,000, while opponent Alexander Munoz (36-4, 28 KOs) will make $25,000; and middleweight J’Leon Love of Detroit, MI  (15-0, 8 KOs) will make $100,000 and his opponent, Gabriel Rosado (21-6, 13 KOs), will earn $60,000.

Watch ep. 4 of All Access Mayweather vs. Guerrero

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a film by Cricket


[Short Film/Music Video]

starring Tyrin Turner & Dennis L.A. White
story by Rick Ross & Jon J.
directed by @DREFilms

A Documentary about the Life of Robert Yummy Sandifer an 11 year old kid who life was tragically ended due to gang violence in Chicago’s Roseland Area. The story is about how an 11 year old kid took Chicago Police Department on a Three day manhunt which would come to an end when they found him shot dead under a train viaduct.

The Film is Directed By Blind Folks Vision and Produced By Open World Films

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The website NeighborhoodScout used FBI and other data to determine the top 25 neighborhoods in America that have the highest predicted rates of violent crime per 1,000 neighborhood residents. Violent crimes, in their definition, includes “murder, forcible rape, armed robbery, and aggravated assault.”

Here’s the list:

1. Detroit, MI (W Chicago / Livernois Ave) Found within zip codes: 48204

02. Detroit, MI (Mack Ave / Helen St) Found within zip codes: 48207

03. Detroit, MI (Gratiot Ave / Rosemary) Found within zip codes: 48213, 48205

04. Chicago, IL (S Halsted St / W 77th St) Found within zip codes: 60620

05. Spartanburg, SC (Washington Heights) Found within zip codes: 29306

06. Houston, TX (Scott St / Wilmington St) Found within zip codes: 77051

07. Detroit, MI (Wyoming St / Orangelawn St) Found within zip codes: 48204

08. Greenville, SC (Woodside) Found within zip codes: 29611

09. Atlanta, GA (Hopkins St SE / Adair Ave SE) Found within zip codes: 30315

10. Saginaw, MI (E Holland Ave / E Genesee Ave) Found within zip codes: 48601

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Kris Kross

Chris Kelly, one-half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross, died Wednesday, an investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed. He was 34.

Kelly, who was known as “Mac Daddy,” and his partner Chris Smith (a.k.a. “Daddy Mac”), were only 13 years old in 1991 when they were discovered by music producer and rapper Jermaine Dupri while performing at the Greenbriar Mall in Atlanta, The Associated Press reported. Dupri’s label, So So Def, signed the boys and sent them into the studio to record their first album. Checkout a few throwback joints after the jump.

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#8. Kid Cudi – Indicud – 36,000 (167,000)

#9. will.i.am – #willpower – 29,000 (29,000)

#11. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 28,000 (638,000)

#12. Lil Wayne – I Am Not A Human Being II – 25,000 (383,000)

#16. Snoop Lion – Reincarnated – 21,000 (21,000)

#30. Tyga – Hotel California – 12,000 (84,000)

#33. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 10,000 (868,000)

#98. Andy Mineo – Heroes For Sale – 4,700 (32,000)

#100. Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge – Twelve Reasons To Die – 4,600 (20,000)

#110. Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y – Live In Concert – 4,200 (18,000)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.