Category — Boxing

The Hall of Famer will be forever linked as the influential trainer of Muhammad Ali. Dundee passed today in Tampa, Fla. He was 90.
AP

On Tuesday, Muhammad Ali will hit another milestone. On Saturday, the champ and 350 of his closest friends held an early birthday celebration in his native Louisville.
Courier-Journal

In a rematch of their April 2011 encounter, Victor Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s) and Andre Berto (28-1, 22 KO’s) will clash again in a 12-round WBC welterweight championship bout on Saturday, Feb. 11, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Ortiz captured the 1st meeting.
Tickets: $50 to $300. To charge by phone, call 800.745.3000 or visit MGMGrand.com.

Some 2012 predictions, including Phil Jackson returning to coaching just in the Knick of time.
Grantland.com

Could we order homeboy some of those tiny braids up top?
Kimbo Slice won his 3rd straight boxing match over some slug named Charles Hackmann Friday night as a casino in Miami, Okla. Inquiring minds wanted to know.
MMAmania

He’ll have time to count each and every bill while he’s doing time in the pokie next month.
Floyd Mayweather supposedly nailed a million-dollar bet on the Patriots on Dec. 18, when they whipped up on Tim Tebow and the Broncos.
The Post Game

With Floyd Mayweather Jr. heading to jail for 3 months (unless an appeal bails him out), will this be another nail in the coffin of a Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao showdown?
Yahoo Sports

Mike Tyson and Al B. Sure, shown with chef Kerry Simon, had brunch on Sunday at Simon Restaurant & Lounge at the Palms Place Hotel And Spa in Las Vegas.
Image courtesy of Simon Restaurant & Lounge

Leon Spinks stopped by Rí Rá Las Vegas on Tuesday night. On Monday, Ricky Hatton visited the Irish pub.
Rí Rá Las Vegas is located inside The Shoppes at Mandalay Place at Mandalay Bay. The authentic Irish pub features a multitude of artifacts that were carefully restored in Wicklow, Ireland and shipped to its new home in Las Vegas. Rí Rá Las Vegas contains an authentic Victorian Shop bar that began its life in Ireland in the 1880s, a whiskey bar adorned with an original glazed jewelry cabinet from 1900, an oak floor from a whiskey distillery and an 8-foot-tall, 500-pound carved plaster statue of St. Patrick dating back to 1850.
The pub hosts live entertainment 7 nights a week in a music room constructed with artifacts dating back to 1890 from the Olympia Theater in Dublin, Ireland.
Images courtesy of Rí Rá Las Vegas

Finally got around to watching the Amir Khan-Lamont Peterson fight, which Peterson won Saturday, but he received a major assist from referee Joe Cooper. Cooper foolishly took away 2 points from Khan for “pushing.” Those 2 points cost Khan the fight.
This also might have screwed up the plans for Floyd Mayweather Jr., who we believed was banking on Khan for a fight next year instead of Manny Pacquiao.