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♪ >> i guess theyre running the finals. >> the finals. >> yes. >> all weight classes. but its basically greco roman wrestling. just greased up. as i understand it you cant choke with one hand. right into some greasy ass crack. thats fine. ♪ tell me something ♪ i want to know what are the rules of the game ♪ ♪

Contenders will share a reported $300 million purse for a record $100 a pop and three to four million expected pay per slew mayweather and pacquiao are the first to cross the billion dollar threshold in career pay-per-view revenue. when it is all said and done tonights bout could generate $400 million in revenue making this the richest fight in boxing history. in fact in fact pacquiao will make at least $2 million off the sponsorship on his boxing shorts alone. which is a lot for anybody but esp...

Im a professional judaka and i know the adrenaline of a competition and i know how to handle this but you dont agree. >> im not saying she cant potentially win. this is one circumstance, you know, if you were to make this a illegal across the board, the reason you have things like weight classes and divisions, you next you may have to have a certain amount of fights to be in certain division, these rules are there for a reason, to create an equal playing field and prevent mismatches. same thing ...

The hired help is so out of control, they do things like this. >> i think this is fake. >> you think its fake? whats that? is that fake, huh? >> that was years ago when a pro wrestler took offense at my pointing out that professional wrestling is fake and he beat me up. my point is i dont understand why boxing and violent fake wrestling is okay, but mixed martial arts or mma, as its known, is not. lawrence epstein wonders, too. hes the chief operating officer of the ultimate fighting championshi...

Maintenance work. workers had the flames out before crews arrived. two are recovering from burns. the building reopening several hours later. sad news for boxing fans, hector macho cam yacho passed away. his family taking him off life support four days after being shot in the head. he held several titles in different weight classes fighting two decades facing some of boxings biggest names. hector catch yacho was 50 years old. now, back to justice for your latest headlines log on to fox news.com....

its 5:00 a.m. in the east. this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin this morning with breaking news. we have learned that president obama is holding a big event at the white house rose garden later today to resurrect the battle over the bush tax cuts. he will be surrounded by working class americans while he calls on congress to extend tax cuts for everyone, making $250,000 a year or less. republicans want the tax cuts extended for everyone, the wealthy included. the white house will b...

>> you cant call your wife a heavyweight on the campaign trail. and then calling people you want to support you a lightweight. >> its not right. >> stay away from the weight classes. >> its not right. but he didnt mean that about ann. he meant like she is the champion. >> whatever he went, husbands, dont call your wife a heavyweight. with us on set, we have nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director and host of "the daily rundown" and a man who has never called his wife a ...

You dont want to see anyone go. essentially, everybody is incomparable. people do fight in their weight classes. the best against the best. its fair fight. >> did you bring a different pl philosophy this time around? i think rolling stones said you were the best judge in any tv music competition ever, that includes anybody on the other shows. did you bring in a different philosophy. >> did someone say that about me? >> they did and you said oh, im so flattered. >> i didnt bring in a different st...

but not allowed to circulate inside syria. >> the brutality that is being committed in syria against innocent people, against policemen and the syrian military. never reported. >> i have to say thats not true at all. we have a reported on the deaths of the security forces. we know about a number of the people have been security forces. but a large number have been civilians, demonstrators, pro democracy activists and children. who are these armed gangs? i would love to see this. >> the...

Stop it. chuck schumer says hes considering introducing legislation to ban such charges as well. im scare to do do this introduction to this next segment because it involves brian and a wrestler who is much better than he is and i have a feeling theyre going to go toe to toe. >> wrestlers have no problem because they kind of wing it. but these guys really fight. hes the former ufc lightweight champion and a former well to weight champion. one of two fighters to win a title in two different wei...