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DETROIT —Throughout most of Thursday’s press conference at the Motor City Casino promoting Saturday night’s HBO televised junior welterweight (140 pounds) match up against southpaw WBC champion Devon Alexander, WBO king Tim Bradley scarcely looked up, his eyes concealed beneath the lid of a purple, Los Angeles Lakers’ baseball cap.

The demeanor of Bradley (26-0, 11 knockouts) was in sharp contrast to that of the two, previous press events in New York and Detroit, where promoting the 27-year-old Palm Springs, Calif., resident had engaged in contentious, face-to-face shouting matches against the 23-year-old Alexander (21-0, 13 KOs), with whom he nearly came to blows.

But during the most recent occasion, Bradley, having grown weary of pre-fight shenanigans that included long speeches by his promoter, Gary Shaw, and Alexander’s, Don King, brought along some reading material to keep himself occupied in the form of Pacman: Behind The Scenes.

“I’ve been to Don King press conference before, and it seems like he takes hours. So I told myself that I’m going to bring a book this time. I might fall asleep on stage, and I needed something to distract me a little bit,” said Bradley.

“I told Don in the elevator that I brought a book because I knew that he was going to be all day,” said Bradley. “So, I mean, that’s the reason why I brought a book. I’m reading on Pac Man, you know, his life history. He’s another guy that I really admire and I really like him as a person.”

Written by Gary Andrew Poole, the book chronicles the life of eight-division champion, Manny Pacquiao, holder of the WBO welterweight (147 pounds) and WBC junior middleweight (154 pounds) belts.

“I’m learning about him. I’ve got half of the reading done already. I’m learning about Manny. I know why Manny fights the way that he fights. I know more about where he came from and his background growing up in the Philippines,” said Bradley. “Manny Pacquiao grew up poor and in poverty and fighting on the streets. He needed to make some money to earn some money so that he could eat.”

Bradley displayed similar drive, he said, in April of 2009, when he twice rose from knockdowns to win his current crown by unanimous decision over Kendall Holt (25-4, 13 KOs).

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FanHouse first reported that eight-division titlist and WBC junior middleweight (154 pounds) king Manny Pacquiao will make a CBS-Showtime televised, May 7 defense of his WBO welterweight (147 pounds) belt against three-division, five-time titlist Shane Mosley, this, being Pacquiao’s first time departing from rival network HBO.

The adviser of Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 knockouts), Michael Koncz, said that Pacquiao will be pursuing his 14th straight victory and his ninth knockout during that run against Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KOs), with CBS being Showtime’s parent company.

Mosley spoke to FanHouse about the move, which will include a big advantage presented by Showtime’s ability to televise a multi-part series that is equivalent to HBO’s 24/7 — on CBS. There is also CBS’s ability to reach 115 million homes compared to HBO’s nearly 30 million homes.

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

FanHouse first reported that eight-division titlist and WBC junior middleweight (154 pounds) king Manny Pacquiao will make a CBS-Showtime televised, May 7 defense of his WBO welterweight (147 pounds) belt against three-division, five-time titlist Shane Mosley, this, being Pacquiao’s first time departing from rival network HBO.

The adviser of Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 knockouts), Michael Koncz, said that Pacquiao will be pursuing his 14th straight victory and his ninth knockout during that run against Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KOs), with CBS being Showtime’s parent company.

Mosley spoke to FanHouse about the move, which will include a big advantage presented by Showtime’s ability to televise a multi-part series that is equivalent to HBO’s 24/7 — on CBS. There is also CBS’s ability to reach 115 million homes compared to HBO’s nearly 30 million homes.

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Top Rank Promotions CEO Bob Arum spoke to FanHouse Tuesday night after five-time titlist Shane Mosley agreed to face eight-division champion Manny Pacquiao.

Pacquiao will put his WBO welterweight (147 pounds) belt on the line May 7. against Mosley in an HBO pay-per-view fight from the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.

Arum explained why the 39-year-old Mosley (46-6-1, 39 knockouts) was chosen to meet Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs), who is also the WBC junior middleweight (154 pounds) king, over 37-year-old WBO and WBA lightweight king Juan Manuel Marquez (51-5-1, 38 KOs) and 27-year-old WBC welterweight belt-holder Andre Berto (27-0, 21 KOs).

Mosley told FanHouse that his purse, up front, will be around million against Pacquiao with escalators that will make it surpass the career-best of million that he pocketed after May’s unanimous decision loss to Floyd Mayweather (41-0, 25 KOs), who received a non-heavyweight record guarantee of .5 million.

Arum said that Golden Boy Promotions, on behalf of Marquez “overpriced” the Mexican, three-division champion. According to a source with knowledge of Marquez’s demands, the Mexican, three-division champion had asked for a million guarantee, while making per pay-per-view buy above 500,000, for .5 million total if the fight generated 1.2 million buys.

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It was Sept. 16, 1981. Thomas Hearns was a 6-foot-1, 145-pound, 22-year-old, WBA welterweight (147 pounds) champion about to face a 5-10, 147-pound, 25-year-old, WBC king in Sugar Ray Leonard at the Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. In the prime of their careers, they were a combined, 62-1, with 51 knockouts.

This past May at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, the 52-year-old Hearns recounted the climate of their times while on hand with the 54-year-old Leonard to help promote an HBOpay per view televised unanimous decision by unbeaten Floyd Mayweather (41-0, 25 KOs) over then-WBA welterweight king, Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KOs).

“The fight was there, and the public wanted to see the match up. It was something we basically couldn’t run from or get away from. You had to take on the next, upcoming opponent. That’s what I think that we’re missing in the boxing world now,” said Hearns.

“Back in the day, we weren’t able to pick and choose who we wanted to fight. But in the boxing business now, every one of the champions is able to pick and choose who they want to fight,” said Hearns. “They are able to duck who they don’t want to fight. We had to take on everyone as they came, and that made the fight game very interesting.”

The closest thing on the horizon to Leonard-Hearns could be at 140 pounds, where 27-year-old WBO junior welterweight king, Tim Bradley (26-0, 11 KOs), of Palm Springs, Calif., and, 23-year-old, southpaw, WBC titlist, Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KOs), of St. Louis, Mo., are headed for an HBO televised, Jan. 29 clash to be contested at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich.

Alexander-Bradley won’t have the cross-over appeal that comes with a match up between Mayweather and eight-divison king Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs), holder of the WBO’s welterweight and WBC junior middleweight (154 pounds) belts.

But the bottom line is that Alexander-Bradley is critical to the sport, and, perhaps, the next-best-thing to Mayweather-Mosley, if not, Mayweather-Pacquiao, being that it features not only two, talented, American fighters, but, also a duo that is considered among the top two names within the sport’s deepest, and, most talented, promising and youthful division.

HBO’s President of Sports Ross Greenburg, informed FanHouse, recently of a massive promotional plan the network has in place for Alexander Bradley, which he called, “a signature fight.”

On Saturday night, from the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, HBO televised a Golden Boy Promotions, junior welterweight double-header featuring 24-year-old WBA champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KOs) of England surviving a near-knockout in the 10th round to overcome 27-year-old WBA interim titlist Marcos Rene Maidana (29-2, 27 KOs) by unanimous decision, this, after flooring Maidana in the first round.

In the co-main event, rising 23-year-old southpaw Victor Ortiz (28-2-2, 22 KOs), of Oxnard, Calif., dropped 26-year-old Lamont Peterson (28-1-1, 14 KOs) of Washington, D.C., twice in the third round, only to have Peterson rally for a majority decision draw in an equally thrilling bout.

Also factoring into the mix is 33-year-old southpaw Las Vegas resident Zab Judah (39-6, 26 KOs), a former holder of the WBA, WBC and IBF welterweight (147 pounds) belts, as well as a former champion with IBF and WBO junior welterweight crowns.

A Brooklyn native, Judah won for the fourth straight time since losing to Joshua Clottey in August of 2008 with November’s HBO televised split-decision over 27-year-old Lucas Matthysse (27-1, 25 KOs) of Argentina.

Judah is the mandatory challenger for the vacant IBF crown to South Africa’s 30-year-old Kaizer Mabuza (23-6-3, 14 KOs), who has won eight straight times, with six of them being by knockout, during that run. Mabuza’s most recent triumph was February’s sixth-round stoppage of Kendall Holt (25-4, 13 KOs), the man against whom Bradley had to rise from the canvas to dethrone as WBO champ in April of 2009.

Judah also has been mentioned, by Golden Boy Promotions’ CEO, Richard Schaefer, as a potential opponent for Khan’s April return to the ring, likely in England.

“We are looking at Amir fighting in England in April and then bringing him back to the United States in July. We will look for another date to finish out the year. One of the names mentioned for April is Zab Judah,” Schaefer told BoxingScene.com’s Ryan Burton.

“We would be interested in exploring a fight with the Bradley-Alexander winner in July,” said Schaefer. “We want to get Amir a fight back in England first.”

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

NBA champion Ron Artest of the Los Angeles Lakers, a huge boxing fan, believes that eight-division king, Manny Pacquiao, should take a break from the sport before facing unbeaten six-time titlist Floyd Mayweather.

Already the WBO welterweight king, Pacquiao, last month, decisioned ex-titlist Antonio Margarito for the WBC’s vacant junior middleweight (154 pounds) belt in a Top Rank Promotions, HBO pay per view televised event.

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While the immediate focus of WBO and WBA lightweight (135 pounds) king Juan Manuel Marquez is Saturday night’s HBO televised defense against WBA interim champion Michael Katsidis, his long range goal is to earn a third bout with Manny Pacquiao, or to become the first Mexican fighter to win a fourth title in as many weight classes by capturing a junior welterweight (140 pounds) belt.

Marquez (51-5-1, 37 knockouts), who is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions, meets Katsidis (27-2, 22 KOs) in the main event at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Marquez also has his designs on facing Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs), with whom he has battled to a disputed draw and a controversial loss, respectively, in May of 2004, and, March of 2008.

Already the WBO welterweight (147 pounds) king, Pacquiao , who is promoted by Top Rank Promotions, is coming off of a Nov. 13, unanimous decision over ex-titlist Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KOs) for the vacant junior middleweight (154 pounds) crown, his eighth championship over as many weight divisions, and his 13th straight win with as many knockouts during that stretch.

In this Q&A, Marquez also discussed potential bouts against junior welterweight kings such as southpaw WBC titlist Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KOs), WBO champ Timothy Bradley (26-0, 11 KOs), WBA counter part Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KOs), and, WBA interim belt-holder Marcos Rene Maidana (29-1, 27 KOs).

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