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Updated Jul 24, 2011 2:42 AM ET LAS VEGAS (AP) Amir Khan got another big win, even if he would have liked to do it in a bit more spectacular fashion. Khan stopped Zab Judah in the fifth round of their scheduled 12-round unification fight Saturday night, winning another piece of the 140-pound title and cementing his claim to being one of the top fighters in the division. He did it with a body shot that landed legally, though Judah claimed it was a low blow. No matter, said Khan, who was landing big blows even before the punch that put [...]

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LAS VEGAS — Floyd May­weather Jr. deliv­ered a fight night taunt to Manny Pac­quiao by claim­ing he would tune in to a Lady Gaga con­cert instead of watch­ing the Fil­ipino star’s easy vic­tory over Shane Mosley. While Pac­quiao was cruis­ing to a com­fort­able points vic­tory at the MGM Grand Gar­den Arena in a Show­time pay-per-view tele­cast broad­cast, May­weather was at his Las Vegas home watch­ing Lady Gaga on rival net­work HBO — and urg­ing his fans to do the same. “Every­one watch Lady Gaga tonight on the best net­work in the world, HBO,” May­weather said on his Twit­ter account. Only May­weather [...]

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COPENHAGEN, Den­mark —WBC super mid­dleweight cham­pion Mikkel Kessler is head­ing back into the ring after over­com­ing an eye injury that forced the Dane to with­draw from the Super Six tournament. Kessler said Mon­day that he will fight Mehdi Bouadla of France in a non-title bout on June 4 in Copenhagen. The eye injury is believed to stem from a Super Six bout against Amer­i­can fighter Andre Ward in 2009. Kessler pulled out of the 2010 tour­na­ment in August. “I still miss a lit­tle bit with the left eye,” said Kessler, who won the belt from Carl Froch of Britain in [...]

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MELBOURNE, Aus­tralia (AP)—Lionel Rose, the first Aus­tralian Abo­rig­ine to win a world box­ing title, has died. He was 62. His fam­ily said he died Sun­day after being ill for sev­eral months. He had a stroke in 2007 that left him par­tially paralyzed. Rose beat Japan’s Fight­ing Harada in Tokyo in 1968 to win the world ban­tamweight title dur­ing a career that included 42 wins, 12 by knock­out, in 53 fights. He was named Aus­tralian of the year after his world title vic­tory, becom­ing the first Abo­rig­ine to receive the honor. He also was appointed a Mem­ber of the Order of the [...]

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LAS VEGAS – There was a time not that long ago that those in Manny Pacquiao’s camp had legitimate reason to be worried before his major fights. He didn’t have a right hand to speak of and he only fought moving in one direction. He was so aggressive on offense that he was deficient defensively. There wasn’t a lot of nuance to his game. One by one, Pacquiao has erased those flaws and turned himself into the best fighting machine the sport has seen since “Sugar” Ray Leonard more than a quarter of a century ago. Pacquiao is the best [...]

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LAS VEGAS – Manny Pacquiao cruised into Sin City in the back seat of a Honda Odyssey, knees squeezed up against his chin and leg muscles cramping from four hours drifting through the scorching desert. He stepped out of the vehicle, stretched his arms towards the sky and looked up at his face spread across a gigantic electronic billboard, complete with flashing lights, computer-generated flames and the image of his foe, Shane Mosley. A few minutes later he strolled through the foyer of the MGM Grand, where Saturday’s biggest fight of the year will take place, and sparked mild chaos. [...]

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LAS VEGAS – Manny Pacquiao will undertake the latest step in his bid to join boxing’s immortals wearing an unusual – and distinctive – piece of equipment. Pacquiao will use a pair of bright yellow boxing gloves when he faces Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday as part of his attempt to highlight and eradicate poverty in his homeland of the Philippines. The 32-year-old also has urged all of his followers to wear yellow clothing for the bout, which he hopes will have the effect of instigating a “team sports” environment among the sold-out crowd of [...]

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