Here is a link to my column about Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. The full text runs below: Boxing promoter Bob Arum says Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will fight each other in 2015. Arum may know what he’s talking about. Fight fans have waited years for this fight. [...]
Longtime Cohn Zohn reader Shane Buettner has his doubts about the legitimacy of Juan Manuel Marquez' sixth-round knockout of Manny Pacquiao. He said I am naive if I believe Marquez is on the level. Naive is one of the nicest things I have been called lately. Shane is also knowledgeable [...]
I love boxing. No one has to watch the film to learn the truth. On Saturday night, we got a dose of truth. Juan Manuel Marquez knocked out Manny Pacquiao with one punch to the kisser. See you later, Manny. Truth can be cruel but it's honest. Pacquiao is on [...]
Manny Pacquiao just lost a split decision to Tim Bradley, who won Pacquiao's welterweight title. Baloney. I watched the fight on pay per view. I'm good at scoring fights. I've been doing it since I was 10. And Bradley did not come close to winning. He mostly ran and he [...]
OK, I paid the 55 bucks to watch Pacquiao/Mosley. I'm a sucker for boxing even though I knew it would not be much of a fight. It was even less than I expected. Pacquiao knocked down Mosley in the third round with a left hook, really loused up Mosley who [...]
Bernard Hopkins used to be a great fighter but he's not a great thinker. He said Manny Pacquiao is ducking Floyd Mayweather Jr. in particular and blacks in general. He said a black fighter with a black style -- whatever that is -- could beat Pacquiao. Mike Tyson and Lennox [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.