Being that guy to save boxing from third world retardation is at stake.

WBA and WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez faces the biggest and toughest fight of his career when he faces Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Yep, beating a guy like Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a tall order indeed since the guy, technically, is still the best pound for pound fighter in the world since nobody has beaten him yet. STILL, Juan Manuel Marquez is confident he will beat the undefeated pound-for-pound champion when it’s time to lace up the gloves.

Marquez has maintained that he is planning to upset the boxing world when he steps into the ring with ‘Money’ Mayweather, that’s despite the fact that he is clearly disadvantaged in the upcoming bout as Mayweather stands two inches taller with a five-inch reach advantage.

The fight is also scheduled to be fought at a catch-weight of 143 pounds, a comfortable weight for Mayweather, but less so for Marquez who is a natural super-featherweight (130 pound maximum) and has only had two fights at lightweight (135 pound maximum).

Mayweather, the former five-division champ, hasn’t stepped into the ring since knocking out Ricky Hatton in December 2007, when he was still basking in his victory over Oscar De La Hoya. Since then, he has been cashing in on his ‘’Money'’ moniker, showing up everywhere from ‘’Dancing with the Stars'’ to WrestleMania.

Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KOs) lost a slugfest by close…

Yep, it’s almost over and we reckon this dude with the biggest chin in tennis will have something to do with the tournament’s conclusion.

The final of the most grandiose grand slam tournament in tennis is near, and while we already know it’ll be an all - Williams final in the women’s division of the 2009 Wimbledon Championships, we still have no idea who’ll come out from the men’s side of things.

With defending champion Rafael Nadal out of the tournament due to his injury, five-time Wimbledon winner and world no.2 Roger Federer has a chance to resume his reign on top of tennis.

The win at Roland Garros was not only Federer’s first ever French Open crown, but it made Federer only the sixth person in history to win all four Grand Slam titles. Moreover, Federer’s all-time best record of 14 Grand Slam titles, which equaled Pete Sampras’, means that victory at Wimbledon would set a new tennis record and prove Roger Federer’s status as the most successful player in history, if not the greatest.

And in Wednesday’s quarterfinal match, Roger Federer neutralized Ivo Karlovic’s huge serves Wednesday to reach the Wimbledon semifinals and move a step closer to a record 15th Grand Slam championship.

Federer conjured up a few great returns to break…

Now that Kobe Bryant has finally established himself as the best player in the world, period, who’ll carry the torch once he’s done?

The only thing constant in the NBA is change and we all know that once Kobe Bryant is done, there’ll be another guy who’ll be carrying the sport by his shoulders while the rest of us start proclaiming that guy as the new king of the sport. Unless, of course, you’re still stuck in the past, masturbating over Michael Jordan.

When Kobe Bryant leaves the game of basketball, which everybody knows will take some time before he does that, who will follow his footsteps and be named as the next best thing in the NBA? Well, we already have the usual suspects in LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. These guys are already ‘’Kobe-esque'’ at this point of their careers. It’s just a question on how long can both guys keep playing at this level.

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade have already proven that they are among the elite players in the league. Wade has already won a championship ring with the Miami Heat back in 2006 with Shaquille O’Neal while LeBron James has already won the best single accolade an NBA player can get, winning the MVP trophy last season.

Any of these guys can carry the torch after Kobe Bryant and the NBA is definitely in good hands. We also…

Looks like the Suns are really serious in rebuilding their underachieving franchise.

Either that or they just wanna catch one of the big fishes that will be in the market once the 2010 free agency period gets here. And with the way the Suns traded away Shaquille O’Neal as if he was nothing but just another run – of – the – mil seven-footer, it looks like these guys could care less how will their 2009 NBA basketball season go.

Merely days after the Phoenix Suns virtually gave away Shaquille O’Neal to the Cleveland Cavaliers, rumors came out that the team is willing to give up another one of their bigger stars.

You read it, there are rumors that claim the Phoenix Suns are willing to give up Amare Stoudemire to the Golden State Warriors, completing arguably the biggest roster disassembly the NBA has seen in quite a while. Apparently, the Warriors wanted Stoudemire since February when Phoenix first made their prized forward available. And now that the Suns proved that NO ONE is safe after trading Shaq, seeing Stoudemire in Golden State just became more…

Yep, apparently, Arum wants to keep Pacquiao’s third world ass safe from big bad Sugar Shane.

Manny ‘’Pacman'’ Pacquiao really did it now. With the way he’s been pissing all over the tradition of boxing, one by one, the sport’s legends came out, each hoping to finally save the sport that we love from the mediocrity Pacquiao has slapped it with.

First came Oscar De La Hoya, coming out of retirement to save us from the biggest joke in boxing. Then came Ricky Hatton. But as great as both fighters have been in their careers, they were simply not the same when they fought Pacquiao, both failing to lead boxing to its salvation.

But when Floyd Mayweather Jr., the BEST POUND FOR POUND FIGHTER IN THE WORLD, came back from retirement to reclaim his spot back on the spotlight, we knew then that Pacquiao’s time as paper champion is about to come to a close.

Now, with this ‘’other'’ guy wanting to get a shot at Pacquiao’s third world ass as well, Pacquiao’s people is just determined to delay the inevitable. Apparently, ‘’Sugar'’ Shane Mosley wants Manny Pacquiao and Pacquiao’s people knows that Sugar Shane always gets what he wants. They know too that the moment Sugar Shane set his mind into kicking Pacquiao’s ass, it’s only a matter of time before Mosley does just that.

The problem is, Pacquiao’s people is getting in the…

You read it, the City of Brotherly Love, for the first time ever, will feel just how intense the ‘’brotherly love'’ inside the Octagon really is.

Yep, UFC 101: Declaration will be bringing Philadelphia its first taste of the UFC on August 8 at the Wachovia Center. And since this will be the first time Dana White will be bringing his sport on this part of the Eastern time zone, they’re bringing the big guns with them.

Highlighting the event will be the BJ Penn - Kenny Florian UFC Lightweight Championship as Penn defends his title for the second time against Florian, the number one contender.

Without a shadow of a doubt, UFC Lightweight Champion BJ Penn is the undisputed king of the division. At 35-5-1, Penn is practically on everyone’s list of best fighters in the world, pound for pound.

And I’m assuming Manny ‘’The Pacman'’ Pacquiao is NOT INCLUDED in any of these lists. (And it should be…)

Penn is undefeated at 155 pounds since 2002, beating the likes of Jens Pulver, Joe Stevenson and Sean Sherk in successive contests. Thanks to a humbling loss to Georges St-Pierre when Penn challenged GSP for his Welterweight title, Penn was shunned back to the Lightweight division much to the dismay of other fighters in the weight class.

And since BJ Penn has been simply unstoppable as a…

Chad Pennington failed and even Brett Favre couldn’t save the godforsaken franchise.

Now that they have this young quarterback from USC, Mark Sanchez, looking forward to finally make his pro debut in the coming 2009 NFL football season, Jets fans have every reason to be hopeful.

But can this guy really save the New York Jets from obscurity? That is still yet to be determined. But as far as the Jets are concerned, they sure are paying a lot of money for this young stud to be the franchise’s savior.

A 22-year-old quarterback, still months away from his first NFL pass, Mark Sanchez already owns the distinction of being the highest-paid player in New York Jets history. The former USC Trojans quarterback hit the jackpot with a five-year contract that includes $28 million in guarantees, a team record.

The bare-bones amount of the deal is $44.5 million, although the true value, based on easily attainable incentives, is $50.5 million, according to sources.

The Jets made a bold move for Sanchez, trading up 12 spots and selecting him with…

Well, that’s the idea at this point.

The deal that will send Shaquille O’Neal to the Cleveland Cavaliers is expected to be finalized this Thursday. Apparently, Phoenix and Cleveland have come to an agreement already and the only thing stopping it to fruition is the approval from the team owners.

The Cleveland Cavaliers will send Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for the seven-foot, 300-pound Shaquille O’Neal.

This is the deal the Cleveland Cavaliers have been longing for since February. With Z starting to break down, adding a guy like Shaquille O’Neal will give them that low post presence they’ve been lacking the last few years. And the next time they get to play a guy like Dwight Howard in the playoffs, they will at least have a decent shot in stopping him.

For the Phoenix Suns, this deal wouldn’t do them any good on the court. These guys just want to dump some overpriced contracts so that they can save some money and catch the big fish of the 2010 free agency.

Apparently, everybody wants a piece of the 2010 free agent pool and in case you have no idea who’ll be on the market then, we have guys like Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James available. If the Suns play their cards right, they just might land one of these guys.

The $5 million dollar contract Sasha Pavlovic could earn…

Apparently, that’s the latest controversy surrounding the latest grand slam tournament in tennis lately.

In case you didn’t know, the 2009 Wimbledon Championships are finally here as the top male and female tennis players in the world gather at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club to play for the third grand slam title of the season.

And as far as the latest controversy about the simulation of sex, one former Wimbledon champion, Michael Stich, is claiming that today’s female tennis players like the hot and sexy Maria Sharapova and the equally hot Maria Kirilenko are just trying to sell sex on the tennis courts.

It turns out that this Michael Stich is annoyed by the way some of the top female tennis players in the game ‘’grunts'’ whenever they hit the ball. He attacked the noises these players make on the court by suggesting to ‘’just play it back to the women. It sounds disgusting, ugly, unsexy!'’

He added by saying that, ‘’they want to look good, they pay attention to their looks and everything.'’

Three of the top female tennis players of all time; Monica Seles, Serena Williams…

And this is BEFORE kicking Clay Guida’s ass in the Ultimate Fighter Finale nobody probably saw.

In case you missed it, Diego ‘’Nightmare'’ Sanchez put on a show over the weekend, dominating the guy who already took out two Ultimate Fighter winners in the past. Clay Guida thought Sanchez would be the third Ultimate Fighter winner he takes out inside the Octagon but as it turns out, Sanchez was an entirely different animal.

It was the Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale and Diego Sanchez, together with Clay Guida, headlined the event. There wasn’t much hype surrounding last Saturday’s UFC card on Spike TV but, thanks to the Nightmare, it turned out to be one of the UFC’s best.

Diego Sanchez put on a show. Hell, he was already putting on a show the moment he began his march towards the Octagon, laying his eyes on Clay Guida like a predator on its prey. When he finally got inside the Octagon, MMA fans saw one of the most intense pre-fight staredowns ever seen inside a cage as Sanchez proved just how psychotic he can really be.

And I don’t mean that in a bad way.

After a blistering first round, (trust me, blistering wouldn’t do that round justice…) Diego Sanchez won via a…