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Economy impacts everything, including De La Hoya-Pacquiao

By Dan Rafael

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Your weekly random thoughts … The free-falling economy has already had a terrible impact on boxing, and it's not over yet. There was the recent cancellation of Telefutura's "Solo Boxeo" and ESPN2's "Wednesday Night Fights." There were terribly weak live gates for good matchups such as Joe Calzaghe-Roy Jones, Shane Mosley-Ricardo Mayorga and Chad Dawson-Antonio Tarver. Ticket sales for Saturday's Ricky Hatton-Paulie Malignaggi fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas are also struggling mightily ...

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