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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

Watch episode three of the SHOWTIME docu-series All Access: Mayweather vs. Guerrero Floyd Mayweather and Robert Guerrero.

Watch a clip from the primetime special film “MAYWEATHER” before it premieres on Sat. April 27 at 8p on CBS. LL Cool J narrates the film and this clip features the debut of the music icon’s new song with Eddie Van Halen “We’re The Greatest” from his upcoming album AUTHENTIC.

source: sports.sho.com

Watch the full 2nd episode of All Access: Mayweather vs. Guerrero as Floyd Mayweather and Robert Guerrero prepare for their May 4th showtime. Watch 1st episode after the jump… Read More

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48 year old young Bernard Hopkins became the oldest boxer to win a major title on Saturday night, scoring a 12-round unanimous decision over Tavoris Cloud to claim the IBF light heavyweight championship. Read More

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According to Dan Rafael at ESPN.com:

The fourth fight between Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao generated about 1.15 million buys on HBO PPV, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum told ESPN.com on Saturday..

The final numbers were not in yet, but HBO did not dispute Arum’s figure, which means the fight will generate in the neighborhood of $70 million in domestic television revenue.

We first broke the Dana Gold Story earlier this year.  Dana recently sat down exclusively with GWOP Magazine in his luxurious suite at the Bellagio in  Las Vegas,  to discuss his upcoming film.  Dana has a 140 page screen play completed, which was written by Bob Burris (Growing Pains TV Series  producer ’90s, In The House  TV Series producer ’90s ) and Brian Rouff (author of Dice Angel).

Here are a few facts to recap the Dana Gold story.

Dana overcame a childhood handicap to become a high school All-American basketball player in the early 1980s.  In his high school days he played alongside NBA greats such as Steve Kerr (5x NBA Champion, NBA 3 pt Champion), Cedric Ceballos (’92 Slam Dunk champion) and Kiki Vandeweghe (2x NBA All Star).  Dana stopped chasing hoop dreams and became “Hoogie” the biggest drug kingpin in Los Angeles moving 100-1000 kilos of cocaine a week. Dana lived according to his motto, “hardwork, dedication and believe in yourself”. Dana Gold broke color barriers with the notorious LA street gangs; Blood’s and Crips, dated super model Brooke Burke (host  of Dancing With The Stars) and helped the career of ex wife R & B singer Cherrelle. Dana took his punishment and paid his debt to society. Read More

ESPN reports:

At its monthly meeting on Thursday, the Nevada State Athletic Commission approved a promoters license for 50 Cent and assigned officials for the fourth fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez, who meet in a welterweight showdown on Dec. 8 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

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Legendary boxing trainer Emanuel Steward passed away Thursday in a Chicago hospital at the age of 68.

Steward was hospitalized after undergoing stomach surgery for diverticulitis at a Chicago-area hospital last month. Members of the boxing community gathered for a prayer vigil in Walled Lake, Mich. on Sept. 23rd.

Often called the Godfather of Detroit boxing, Steward became a legend for training championship boxers like Lennox Lewis, Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns and Wladimir Klitschko. He was also a popular ringside commentator for HBO.

Prayers go out to Emanuel Steward’s friends and family.

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Former Floyd associate Tommy Summers, A.K.A. Tommy Smalls, reached out to the boxing champion while he was incarcerated and tried to convince him that his longtime adviser, Al Haymon, had cut deals behind his back to hold fights at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas costing Floyd millions of dollars in the process. Summers also accused Haymon of funneling all of his fighters to rival promotional company Golden Boy instead of Floyd’s Mayweather Promotions. Check the letters after the jump…

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Darrell Rovell from NBC Sports has the amount that HBO Sports got in pay-per-view buys for the Mayweather-Cotto Fight. He also compares it to what Mayweather/De La Hoya made. * This amount only includes PPV buys – nothing else like merchandise sales, sponsors, etc….

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