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Richard Hoffer

Richard Hoffer

Joined: Dec 11, 2013

SI Vault: Mayweather's record-breaking 2007 fight vs. De La Hoya
Boxing

SI Vault: Mayweather's record-breaking 2007 fight vs. De La Hoya

As anticipation builds for Floyd Mayweather's May 2 showdown with Manny Pacquiao, we take a look back at his 2007 bout against Oscar De La Hoya, a match that pitted Mayweather against the sport's other superstar of the time and—like Floyd vs. Manny—drew wide attention from beyond boxing. Mayweather-De La Hoya set a record for pay-per-view buys (2.4 million) that still stands and generated around $136 million in revenue. Seven years later, Mayweather remains undefeated, and he and Pacquiao seem poised to eclipse those numbers.

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All The Rage: Figuring out Mike Tyson
Boxing

All The Rage: Figuring out Mike Tyson

This SI 60 examines Mike Tyson before his 2002 title bout against Lennox Lewis, when he may have been on the verge of a breakdown -- or just a really smart promoter.

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SI Vault: A Break In The Action: Sports paused in a heartbroken nation after 9/11
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SI Vault: A Break In The Action: Sports paused in a heartbroken nation after 9/11

This story originally appeared in the September 24, 2001, issue of Sports Illustrated.  The crawl on the bottom of our screens, reserved in better days for

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The Importance Of Being Barry: The best player in baseball? Barry Bonds. (Just ask him.)
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The Importance Of Being Barry: The best player in baseball? Barry Bonds. (Just ask him.)

In honor of Sports Illustrated's 60th anniversary, SI.com is republishing, in full, 60 of the best stories to ever run in the magazine. Today's selection comes

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SI Vault: Too good to be true: How the 1994 season should have finished
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SI Vault: Too good to be true: How the 1994 season should have finished

The players' strike ended the 1994 season prematurely. But here's how things should have wrapped up in what would have been one of the sport's greatest ever years.

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Playing, home run prowess, not broadcasting, should define late Kiner
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Playing, home run prowess, not broadcasting, should define late Kiner

Still, it seems a shame to remember Kiner for anything he said, whether it was silly or incisive, when his actual body of work was so much more impressive,

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Jackie Robinson, Jeremy Lin have pioneered change in sports, society
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Jackie Robinson, Jeremy Lin have pioneered change in sports, society

As far as that goes, wonder if that black president, that Barack Obama -- wonder, when he was a little kid, if he ever watched any sports, learned anything

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Camacho proved you can have lots of style to go along with substance
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Camacho proved you can have lots of style to go along with substance

Hector Camacho's ring ensembles, a matter of fistic wonderment for 30 years, tended toward the bizarre, if not outright obscene. There were loincloths,

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Sense of family central to legacy of legendary trainer Emanuel Steward
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Sense of family central to legacy of legendary trainer Emanuel Steward

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Bert Sugar, icon and one-of-a-kind raconteur, will be sorely missed
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Bert Sugar, icon and one-of-a-kind raconteur, will be sorely missed

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Angelo Dundee's influence helped Ali to become 'The Greatest'
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Angelo Dundee's influence helped Ali to become 'The Greatest'

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Frazier's legacy, record would have been greater if not for Ali trilogy
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Frazier's legacy, record would have been greater if not for Ali trilogy

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