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Nick Giongco

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Keep your distance ? Pacquiao told

LOS ANGELES ? Freddie Roach has one simple instruction to Manny Pacquiao: Hit and avoid getting hit. It may sound ridiculous but Roach actua…

Fri, 28 Nov 2008
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Pacquiao says I?m ready to rumble

LOS ANGELES ? Manny Pacquiao swears he has all the bases covered for his mega match with Oscar De La Hoya next week in Las Vegas. If De La H…

Fri, 28 Nov 2008
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Pacquiao must attack early ? Roach

LOS ANGELES ? After another hard day?s work at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, trainer Freddie Roach took time out to have dinner wi…

Thu, 27 Nov 2008
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De La Hoya?s best days over ? Roach

LOS ANGELES ? Here?s another proof why Oscar De La Hoya can no longer pull the trigger, according to Freddie Roach. During his eight-week tr…

Thu, 27 Nov 2008
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Why I chose to fight Pacquiao ? DL Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya initially thought he had already been there and done that. Not until the thought of fighting Manny Pacquiao was raised to h…

Sun, 23 Nov 2008
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Oscar feasts on game meat for energy

Oscar De La Hoya has peculiar diet ? consisting of deer and kangaroo meat and organic ingredients ? specially made for him in the hope getti…

Sat, 22 Nov 2008
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Roach steps up verbal attack

In the hope of distracting the training and infuriating Oscar De La Hoya further, Freddie Roach, the American trainer of Manny Pacquiao, has…

Sat, 22 Nov 2008
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It?s all even, says Dundee

Save for the height and weight difference between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao, everything appears to be even as far as legendary tra…

Thu, 20 Nov 2008
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It will be a KO, vows Roach

Oscar De La Hoya badly wants a knockout and Manny Pacquiao will hand it over to him on Dec. 6 in Las Vegas, said trainer Freddie Roach. "Tel…

Thu, 20 Nov 2008
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Manny?s style fits Oscar just right

Manny Pacquiao?s devil-may-care attitude on top of the ring is tailor-made for six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya. The Golden Boy …

Wed, 19 Nov 2008
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Pacquiao a tireless dynamo

Oscar De La Hoya just can?t seem to get over the can?t-pull-the-trigger remark made by former trainer Freddie Roach. "If he (Roach) thinks h…

Mon, 17 Nov 2008
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Oscar?s joke fails to amuse Manny

Manny Pacquiao somehow got his hand on a pair of signed boxing gloves inside a box recently as he was doing some promotional stuff for his D…

Sat, 15 Nov 2008
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Give up WBC title, Pacquiao told

American trainer Freddie Roach has advised Manny Pacquiao just to give up his World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight crown since they will b…

Mon, 10 Nov 2008
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Pacquiao sees brutal end to coming fight

Manny Pacquiao doesn?t mind getting hit with a pair of 8 oz gloves even if these blows will come from the rock-hard fists of Oscar De La Hoy…

Wed, 05 Nov 2008
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What recession? ? fight fans say

Weeks into the protracted promotional hype for the Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao fight, a major player in the Dec. 6 bout could not help b…

Tue, 04 Nov 2008
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ESPN poll picks Hoya over Pacman

In an on-going poll being conducted by ESPN Boxing, 56 percent of voters believe Oscar De La Hoya will repulse the challenge of Filipino fav…

Mon, 03 Nov 2008