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Latest Boxing News – Monday 8^th November for: Floyd Mayweather Sr, Joe Calzaghe, Antonio Margarito, Robert Guerrero, Lennox Lewis,Frank Warren, James de Gale, Zab Judah

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• Floyd Mayweather Sr. hospitalized — 8countnews.com, Floyd Mayweather Sr. was hospitalized since Saturday. Mayweather Sr. says he experience pain in his lungs, that traveled down to the rib area. Floyd Mayweather has experience pain before due to a current lung problem he has had for the past couple of years. He says the doctors said it might have something to do with his heart.

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• Unbeaten IBF/WBA/WBC/WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) has reiterated that he won’t be making a comeback. In an article at the Southwalesargus.co.uk, – Calzaghe says “I won’t fight again. Money was never my goal and I feel contended and blessed to come out of boxing without being all smashed up. I’m done. Being world champion for 10 or 11 years is a long time and I made a promise to my family….I lost the love for boxing before the Jones fight. I didn’t want to fight anymore. I fought that fight because it was the perfect way to end against a legend at Madison Square Gardens. To retire on your own terms is very rare. I I came back, I’d have money in the bank but I’d get beat.” – Calzaghe finished his career two years ago with a 12 round decision over Roy Jones Jr. in November 2008.

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Zab Judah, Post Fight Press ConferenceVideo

Robert Guerrero at the Guerrero-Escobedo Post Fight Press Conference

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• Antonio Margarito – Thousands of fans turn out to meet three-time world champion Antonio Margarito in Dallas, Texas on Sunday at the Tamale Festival. Margarito takes faces Manny Pacquiao on November 13, at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington,Texas. Pacquiao vs Margarito is promoted by Top Rank in association with MP Promotions and Cowboys Stadium. The Pacquiao vs Margarito telecast will be available live on HBO Pay Per View.

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• In an interview on BBC radio, all-time great Lennox Lewis Says Haye-Harrison Will Be A Very Close, Great Fight – “I think when it comes down to it, Audley realises it’s now or never,” Lewis said. “And he’s really giving some good talk about what he says he’s going to do in the ring. Now, what we really want to see from you [Harrison], is what you’ve spoken about; can he go in the ring and do all these things? I think it’s going to be a good fight myself”.

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• (By Frank Warren) – JAMES DeGALE was this week goaded by Victoria Derbyshire into saying he would take a 50 per cent pay cut to have his fights on the BBC. — No one in boxing wants to see the sport on one channel only, but we must not forget what a brilliant supporter of boxing Sky has been.

Believe me, DeGale’s a lovely guy, but sometimes being ‘nice’ can get you compromised.- His comments on Five Live are a case in point. What really annoys me is Derbyshire’s line of questioning when BBC TV have long since abandoned boxing. Even if he took a pay cut would they be there? The answer is a big ‘No’! — I have held meeting after meeting with executives there in a bid to get fights back on to terrestrial TV. But they are simply not interested, despite the excellent viewing figures boxing delivers. — Their attitude to the sport – which smacks of patronising arrogance – was best summed up by their decision not to send a commentary team to New Delhi for the boxing at the recent Commonwealth Games. — Plenty of minority sports had a commentary team out in India – but boxing was done from a studio in the UK. — The BBC’s disgraceful decision was undermined by the medal count, with the Home Nations, as usual, doing exceptionally well. — If the BBC were banging down the doors of promoters, I could understand why Derbyshire would put the question to DeGale. — But as they are not, she should have kept her mischief making to herself or asked her bosses why they aren’t televising the sport!

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