Miguel Angel Cotto vs. Daniel Geale RBR

N17 · Jun 6, 2015

Vazquez is finished, nothing left for him in boxing.

Cafe · Jun 6, 2015

I hate that stupid segment.

Badbot · Jun 6, 2015

5:15 am atsch
i thought this fight was supposed to be on hours ago.
OH well.

Robney · Jun 6, 2015

Ricans aren't doing too good tonight.

shoe · Jun 6, 2015

hopefully Geale smokes this runt and cleans up the disgraceful lineal mess that cash-out clown Martinez left the mw division with.

lewis gassed · Jun 6, 2015

Bunce is looking good, did he get a haircut?

DirtyDan · Jun 6, 2015

Robney said: ↑

Ricans aren't doing too good tonight.
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This has been the worst generation of Puerto Rican fighters probably of all time. It's some sad **** really.

Money&Manny · Jun 6, 2015

I hope Geale wastes him

miniq · Jun 6, 2015

5am dear god

lewis gassed · Jun 6, 2015

Serge said: ↑

Holyfield tried to sue Geale. :-(

Daniel The Real Deal Geale fighting off claims from Evander Holyfield he has stolen his nickname

WHEN it comes to below-the-belt insults, Australias two-time world champion Daniel Geale is no stranger to being blindsided by low blows.

In his latest stoush outside the boxing ring, the fight games Mr Nice Guy has been dragged into a blazing row with five-time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield over the trademark of the nickname The Real Deal.

Sounds like a storm in a teacup? Judging from the emails obtained by The Sunday Telegraph, Holyfields camp are prepared to go toe-to-toe with Geale the same way the former heavyweight champion traded blows with Mike Tyson, Rid**** Bowe, Lennox Lewis and Michael Moorer.

Citing a trademark conflict-of-interest, Holyfields camp turned an initially friendly email exchange into a war of words which, sadly, could well be destined for the courts.

The final email in a chain of exchanges between Holyfields agent Neil Glasberg, US boxing promoter Gary Shaw, Grange Old School Boxing owner Bill Treacy and Grange Old School Boxing manager Garrie Fransisco means Geale jetted out for the US with a feud going on behind-the-scenes.

Considering we have yet to hear from anyone on this request, I would ask that you please immediately refrain from using the nickname, Real Deal anywhere in the world, until you have received Consent and Permission from Holyfield Management Inc., which may not or ever be granted, Glasberg said.

Grange Old School Boxing owner Treacy, a man well-schooled inside and outside the fight game ring, decided the only way to respond was to come back swinging.

Its one of the worst things Ive seen in boxing for a long time but it typifies where boxings going where everyones trying to get the last penny, bleed the last penny they can out of the game, Treacy said.

Its hard to believe a guy like Holyfield who had such a good reputation, such a good name, wants to put someone down like this.

Just because Daniel is using a nickname which is the same as what he used, come on. Is it that much of a problem?

Its sad that for the sake of trying to get a quid out of it, instead of supporting boxing theyre trying to put it down. In my opinion, its very ordinary.

You didnt see Sugar Ray Robinson trying to pull this sort of thing on Sugar Ray Leonard, or you didnt see Jeff The Hitman Harding trying to claim ownership against Ricky The Hitman Hatton.

I just think the worlds gone a little bit mad. Its wrong.

Since moving away from his hometown of Launceston in Tasmania to turn professional in 2004, Geale has always fought under The Real Deal slogan.

Similarly, throughout Holyfields 57-fight, 30-year career, the big-punching heavyweight who famously had a piece of his ear bitten off by Tyson in 1996 traded blows under exactly the same alias.

Holyfield even released a video game called Evander Holyfields Real Deal in 1992, with his agent claiming he trademarked the name Real Deal in 1990.

The real shame of it is both boxers are regarded as absolute gentleman and wonderful role models outside the ring.

How did it get so ugly? Easy.

Geales upcoming world title fight against unbeaten WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin in New York on July 27 is currently being plastered all over the US as one of the fights of the year.

As the hype builds, its being advertised on cable television giant HBO with links to New Jersey boxing promoter Shaw, who acts as a match-maker for Geale in the US.

Shaw is a multi-millionaire who along with Bob Arum, Floyd Mayweather, 50 Cent and Oscar De LaHoya, ranks as one of the richest promoters in the business.

So, perhaps, the Holyfield camp can smell an opportunistic, easy dollar.

This is the other great shame. In the course of the argument, the Holyfield camp is has dragged in an Australian boxer who can forever etch his name among the best fighters this country has produced by upstaging Golovkin.

It sounds like a big statement but when you consider Geale has already won two world titles in Germany, beating champions Felix Sturm and Sebastian Sylvester, its hard to argue against it.

When you talk about Fenech, Tszyu, Harding, Carruthers, Rose, Darcy and Patrick, all legends of the Australian fight game in no particular order, Daniel Geale already gets a start in that conversation.

Beat Golovkin, the undefeated middleweight with the reputation for knocking most of his opponents out, and the triple world champion would be an automatic inclusion.

Surely, then, the unsung hero of the Australian fight game becomes a household name.
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Holyfield just wants the money :deal
Nice info Serge

shenmue · Jun 6, 2015

miniq said: ↑

5am dear god
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It's not even 4am yet in the UK, what do you mean?

Cafe · Jun 6, 2015

The ****, something else before Geale-Cotto?

zorroluffy28 · Jun 6, 2015

wow super joke.....

Hercegovac · Jun 6, 2015

Whooo, came home just in time for the fight

Hopefully Geale can spoil tonight

lobk · Jun 6, 2015

these undercard sucks

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