Via BoxingHallOfFame.com comes this awesome clip of Sylvester Stallone working out the fight from the end of Rocky, and it’s totally worth watching, especially for the impromptu Carl Weathers acting workshop. Tobias would be proud.

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Floyd Mayweather, Jr. recently defeated Robert Guerrero to retain the WBC Welterweight title, win the vacant The Ring Welterweight title, improve to 44-0 all-time, and possibly also shut Ruben Guerrero’s mouth once and for all. But more than anything, the victory helped keep Mayweather’s nickname, “Money”, relevant because for the second consecutive year, Mayweather is projected to be the highest-paid American athlete.

According to Sports Illustrated’s Fortunate 50 list, Mayweather beat out LeBron James, Drew Brees, Kobe Bryant and Tiger Woods, among others, to top this year’s list, as he will make an estimated $90 million by the end of the year. What’s amazing about that total is that not a single penny of it comes from endorsements.

But seeing that list reminded me of something that a friend recently passed along to me. If Mayweather doesn’t make any money from endorsement deals, does that mean that he allowed his image to be used in this delightful porn ad for free?

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This week, With Leather’s semi-weekly look at the best sports moments from not-sports television shows goes back to its 80s roots to chronicle the jet pack rope climbs, Bushwhacker tag team matches and Grandmama slam dunks of ABC’s TGIF founding father ‘Family Matters.’ You may remember it best as “that show Urkel was on.” Consider it a spiritual sequel to our Full House list.

If you watched the show, you’ll remember these moments. If you didn’t, you should find enough insurmountable 80s/90s cheese in Reginald VelJohnson ALONE to satiate you. So sit back, relax, and repeatedly click the “next” button for the 20 greatest sports moments of ‘Family Matters.’ No sweat, my pet!

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On Saturday, WBC Welterweight Champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. will once again not fight Manny Pacquiao, as he is instead taking on the interim WBC Welterweight Champion Robert Guerrero to determine the actual WBC and The Ring Welterweight Champion. And while that all sounds fine and dandy for Saturday, the sh*t talk hit the fan yesterday, as Ruben Guerrero, Robert’s father and trainer, called Mayweather a woman beater during a very awkward press conference.

“We’re going to beat up that woman beater, the one that beat up his wife, man,” Ruben Guerrero said, firing his arms into the air. “[He beat up] his wife in front of his kids. You guys like that [expletive]? You like this guy, this woman beater? He must have learned it from his Dad. Women beaters, baby. We’re going to beat that woman beater. We’ll see how he’s going to like it. He’s going to get it from a real man. Damn women beaters. We’re going to beat that woman beater down. I’m serious.” (Via Yahoo!)

Hell yeah, Ruben! You glorious bastard. The best part was that he prefaced this rant by claiming that he doesn’t “talk sh*t” and then he just laid all of this out there.

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Chael Sonnen has a big fight coming up on the 27th at UFC 159 against UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon ‘Bones’ Jones. About now is when you’d expect The American Gangster to go Full Chael Sonnen and start cutting promos about how he could beat Bones with both arms and a leg tied behind his back. About how if the fight goes longer than a round he’ll take off his fightshorts and eat them in front of New Jersey. After all, when Jones refused to fight him on short notice at UFC 151, Sonnen called Bones every name he could think of, from “bratty, entitled kid” to “chicken shhhh.”

Sorry. You aren’t getting that this time. This time, they’re BFF.

To get you hyped for UFC 159, here’s a paragraph of transcript from the pre-fight conference call featuring Chael kissing Jon’s ass so hard he might force a ref stoppage. Either that, or Sonnen’s trying to work in Chuck Norris jokes facetiously.

“As great as Jon is, I don’t think he understands how good he is. For him to pay tribute to Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali earlier was a very nice thing for him to do. The reality is, Jon Jones could beat up Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali in the same day. And when he says he wants to be the best ever – Jon, news flash, buddy – you are the best. As far as tying Tito Ortiz, yeah maybe he had a couple more wins, but he hasn’t had the competition that you’ve faced. He’s the world champion, he’s the best in the weight class and he’s the best the weight class has ever seen.”

That’s all well and good, but someone made the mistake of asking Chael to compare Bones and Anderson Silva.

Remember back at UFC 117, when Chael Sonnen faced Anderson Silva, submitted to a triangle armbar and lost the fight? Remember the rematch at UFC 148, when Chael went for a spinning backfist and fell on his ass, allowing Silva to just kinda stiff arm him against the cage and punch him in the head until the ref stopped the fight? Chael Sonnen doesn’t!

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If you’re smart, you’ll listen to anything Freddie Roach says.

I mean, the guy’s known for being a great boxer, but he’s also responsible for teaching practically every current world champion in combat sports how to do their thing — he’s had a hand in training three current boxing champions and three current MMA champs, including Anderson Silva and GSP. Hell, he trained Mark Wahlberg for The Fighter and taught Shaq how to throw a punch.

That resume beats the dog mess out of yours, and everyone you know’s. His latest thing you should pay attention to is A Brother In Your Corner, a message to help out your drinking buddies like you’d help out a fellow fighter, and a contest wherein Jägermeister sends you to Las Vegas to train with Freddie. You get to take three of your friends, too, for one of the coolest bonding experiences you could possibly have.

You can enter at Jäger’s Facebook page by uploading a picture and briefly sharing a story about a time you had a brother’s back or he had yours for a chance to win. Freddie wants you to do it, and that’s good enough for me.