Mayweather admits cashing in on 'handpicked' opponents

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9qGOtCzaltXRoJ2s4Ef5hYU7m04N0GfwcMvSik3Ef0t1s9Bi13ePOT04Qd-xzws-f7OCkzJ2vCQq3p4ILVpuWVng-9AhujZIioj-C6N6sPawwpLstWhBU9CBPPoOr9lhmg7sjZYTzZw/s1600/floyd-mayweather_2576825i.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mayweather admits cashing in on 'handpicked' opponents" border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9qGOtCzaltXRoJ2s4Ef5hYU7m04N0GfwcMvSik3Ef0t1s9Bi13ePOT04Qd-xzws-f7OCkzJ2vCQq3p4ILVpuWVng-9AhujZIioj-C6N6sPawwpLstWhBU9CBPPoOr9lhmg7sjZYTzZw/s400/floyd-mayweather_2576825i.jpg" title="Mayweather admits cashing in on 'handpicked' opponents" width="400" /></a></div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> <a href="http://www.newsupdate360.com/2013/09/mayweather-admits-cashing-in-on.html">Mayweather admits cashing in on 'handpicked' opponents</a></h2> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div> Floyd Mayweather says his undefeated record has been partly built on the backs of handpicked opponents who didn't always provide the toughest fights but did help him become the world's best paid athlete.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> "Sometimes they say, 'Well, Floyd Mayweather's opponents was handpicked.' That's a good thing," Mayweather said during a conference call with reporters to hype Saturday's world title fight against Mexico's Saul "Canelo" Alvarez.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> "I commend my team ... when I sit back and I think about my career, I say 'you know what? I had a cool career. I didn't take any punishment'.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> "If they say these guys were handpicked, they was handpicked to make $40 and $50 and $60 million, then you know what? Keep handpicking them. If they're going to keep paying, keep handpicking them."</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Mayweather, who Forbes magazine lists as the world's highest paid athlete, has been criticized for dodging a potential mega fight with Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao.</div> </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div> Pacquiao's camp blames Mayweather for the holdup, saying even when they agreed to all his demands -- including drug testing -- the American would come up with new increased demands to scuttle the blockbuster fight.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> "Floyd's statement speaks for itself. Now we know why he won't give the fans the fight they want most," Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach told AFP on Tuesday.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <a href="http://www.newsupdate360.com/2013/09/mayweather-admits-cashing-in-on.html">Mayweather admits cashing in on 'handpicked' opponents</a></h3> </div> <div> The fight with Alvarez is the second in Mayweather's six-bout, 30-month contract with American cable network Showtime that could pay him more than $200 million. After Mayweather beat Robert Guerrero in May, he said he wanted to fight again in September - marking the first time since 2007 he will be in the ring twice in a calendar year.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Mayweather's guaranteed purse for the Alvarez fight is reported to be a record $41 million which would surpass the previous record of $32 million he received for fighting Guerrero.</div> </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div> "I am not overlooking this guy," said Mayweather. "In Mexico he is a young rock star and everybody that they put in front of him he was able to go out there and do his job.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> "I am pushing myself to the limit right now."</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> The last time Mayweather stopped an opponent inside the distance was two years ago and that came when Victor Ortiz lowered both his hands and was looking at the referee for a ruling. Mayweather seized the moment and hit Ortiz with a combination of punches that floored Ortiz.</div> </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div> Saturday's fight will be contested at 152 pounds with Alvarez's super welterweight titles on the line. Alvarez (42-0-1) is a 154-pound champion and Mayweather usually fights at 147 pounds.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> The 23-year-old Alvarez says he believes he has the perfect fight plan to register one of the biggest upsets in boxing history.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> "I am going to follow my game plan and I am going to fight my fight," he said. "I am not going to allow him to fight his fight. I have a game plan."</div> </div> </div>

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NSA chief: agency programs prevented over 50 potential terrorist acts

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="headline" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 1.21em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVEIga9WUhJaBCAX5AznXw48yqzU5vqsZm0Ow4DpjJ4U2RSN8rDJcmkuGY1A-wgx2LHxMmxZg4x_vCfNEll_Vsq6GTAJE5kkprwfHVjFynVRiGDan_1Xs76xXZLEsRtmnBst6-pFEywls/s1600/2013-06-18T151727Z_3_CBRE95H15YC00_RTROPTP_2_USA-SECURITY.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="NSA chief: agency programs prevented over 50 potential terrorist acts" border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVEIga9WUhJaBCAX5AznXw48yqzU5vqsZm0Ow4DpjJ4U2RSN8rDJcmkuGY1A-wgx2LHxMmxZg4x_vCfNEll_Vsq6GTAJE5kkprwfHVjFynVRiGDan_1Xs76xXZLEsRtmnBst6-pFEywls/s400/2013-06-18T151727Z_3_CBRE95H15YC00_RTROPTP_2_USA-SECURITY.JPG" title="NSA chief: agency programs prevented over 50 potential terrorist acts" width="400" /></a></h1> <div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> NSA chief: agency programs prevented over 50 potential terrorist acts</h2> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Keith Alexander, the director of the U.S. National Security Agency, said on Tuesday that the NSA's data gathering programs had prevented potential terrorist attacks more than 50 times since September 11, 2001.<br /> "In recent years these programs, together with other intelligence, have protected the U.S. and our allies from terrorist threats across the globe to include helping prevent ... potential terrorist events over 50 times since 9/11," he said in testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee.<br /> Alexander said the intelligence agencies would give documents about those cases to the committee in a classified setting on Wednesday for its review and that he would discuss two thwarted plots during his testimony on Tuesday.</div> </div>

NSA chief: agency programs prevented over 50 potential terrorist acts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Keith Alexander, the director of ...

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