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Four people who will play a big role in the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight
By Barry Stavro, Los Angeles Times, Sat, 02 May 2015
Most gamblers are expecting the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao fight on Saturday to go the full 12 rounds.
Once the bell rings, four men will play a crucial role in the bout.
Here's a quick look at the referee, and the three judges who will score the fight at ringside.
Referee Kenny Ba Read Full Story >>>Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao: A pay-per-view spectacle at long last
By Santos A. Perez, MiamiHerald.com, Sat, 02 May 2015
Athletes often express how confidence plays a pivotal role in their performances. Skill might be the obvious overriding factor for success, but the added element of confidence distinguishes the haves from the have-nots, elevating certain athletes to elite status.
No one in contemporary boxing exu Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao a hero to Filipinos all over the U.S.
By Associated Press, The Sun, Sat, 02 May 2015
LAS VEGAS ? Filipino communities are all ready to celebrate Manny Pacquiao as he stars in the world?s most anticipated boxing match.
Here in Las Vegas, home to one of the largest populations of Filipinos in the U.S., it?s icing on the mocha cake to have the heavily promoted fight in their own bac Read Full Story >>> Boxing back in focus
By Agence France Press, Deccan Chronicle, Sat, 02 May 2015
Las Vegas: Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather will put boxing back on the cultural map for at least one glittering night on Saturday with a welterweight title showdown dubbed the Fight of the Century. Prize-fighting has seen plenty of those, but in a sport that once made regular front-page news it Read Full Story >>> There?s simply no reason to watch Mayweather vs. Pacquiao
By Adrian Lee, Yahoo! News, Sat, 02 May 2015
For six years, boxing has waited with bated breath for a fight that it can heap exaggerations upon. And now, at last, here it is: Floyd Mayweather Jr., the cocksure fighter with the spotless record, will take on Manny Pacquiao, a scrappy champ and man of the people (he is a politician in his native Read Full Story >>> Robert Lipsyte: Forget Mayweather-Pacquiao ? Boycott Boxing For Good
By Robert Lipsyte , TIME.com, Sat, 02 May 2015
The legendary sports writer, who began covering Muhammed Ali in 1964, says you shouldn't watch Saturday's big fight: Boxing, born out of the slave plantation, is just two people disabling each other for money to give fans a thrill
A neighbor invited me to watch the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao Read Full Story >>> Jerry Jones sent Manny Pacquiao a pre-fight letter
By Kevin Kaduk, Yahoo! Sports, Sat, 02 May 2015
This is the letter from Jerry Jones to Manny in his dressing room. #MayweatherPacquiao #boxing pic.twitter.com/pDoTpTWvIu
? Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) May 1, 2015
Jerry Jones has always had an admiration for Manny Pacquiao, but he's not leaving anything left unsaid this weekend. The Dallas Cowb Read Full Story >>> The big fight: Looking for ways to pick Pacquiao by KO, but I?m still predicting Mayweather by uananimous decision
By Tim Kawakami, Mercury News, Sat, 02 May 2015
Just like almost everybody else in boxing?and a strong majority of the sentient sports world?Oscar De La Hoya is trying to figure something out right now.
How can Manny Pacquiao beat and preferably knock out Floyd Mayweather, Jr., in Saturday?s mega-bout in Las Vegas?
?He definitely has the po Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Mayweather expected to be a knockout for Nevada sportsbooks
By Joe Depaolo, Washington Post, Sat, 02 May 2015
LAS VEGAS ? The sportsbook at the MGM Grand was relatively quiet Wednesday night, even with an NBA playoff game in progress. Nearly half of the seats were empty, and those who were there made little noise, a far cry from the frenzied atmosphere of March Madness or the Super Bowl.
Amazingly enoug Read Full Story >>> Mayweather vs Pacquiao: Boxing?s throwback battle of good and evil
By John Davidson , The Roar, Sat, 02 May 2015
When Manny Pacquiao faces Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas on Sunday afternoon (AEST), he will not only attempt to topple the American from the top of boxing?s pound-for-pound list, Pacquiao will also try to extend his winning streak against unbeaten fighters.
In his last two fights, the Filipino s Read Full Story >>> Mayweather, Pacquiao weigh in as frenzy builds
By Agence France Press, ABS-CBN News, Sat, 02 May 2015
LAS VEGAS, United States - Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, cheered by 10,000 raucous fans, both comfortably made the weight Friday as global anticipation grew for their welterweight showdown.
The key pre-fight ritual drew a stunning crowd to the MGM Grand Garden Arena, where the rivals will Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao make weight in front of screaming crowd of boxing fans
By Associated Press, Newser.com, Sat, 02 May 2015
LAS VEGAS (AP) ? Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao weighed in below the welterweight limit Friday before a packed arena of screaming, singing fans anticipating the landmark bout.
One day before Mayweather and Pacquiao finally meet in the richest event in boxing history, they took the stage Read Full Story >>> WEIGHTS FROM LAS VEGAS: MAYWEATHER - 146 LBS., PACQUIAO - 145 LBS. (PHOTOS)
By Dong Secuya, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 02 May 2015
MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA -- With a noisy, highly partisan and full-packed Las Vegas crowd, the official weighin of the unification bout between WBC and WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao comm Read Full Story >>> PACQUIAO POWER ? THE TRUE SOURCE (PHOTOS)
By Ed de la Vega, DDS, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 02 May 2015
Sin City, NV :- Thursday afternoon, as I watch Filipino ring idol, Manny Pacquiao go through the routine gym exercise and a four round mitt session with his friend and trainer, Freddie Roach. I can?t help but marvel Read Full Story >>> HOW PACQUIAO'S MOM RAISED HIM TO BECOME GODLY
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 02 May 2015
Dionesia Pacquiao.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- A mother, always a mother.
That's how Dionisia Dapidran-Pacquiao is to her World Boxing Organization welterweight titlist Manny.
In the morning when Team Pacquiao was to brea Read Full Story >>> A fight for the ages
By Dhruv Munjal, Business Standard, Sat, 02 May 2015
By the time the curtains fell on the mystical, at times whirlwind, evening of March 8, 1971 in New York City, the strife between black, liberal America and its conservative, pro-war face had reached a boiling point. Thousands in the crowd that evening left Madison Square Garden despondent. Muhammad Read Full Story >>> Mayweather-Pacquiao: Boxing?s saving grace or its last hurrah?
By Rick Maese, Washington Post, Sat, 02 May 2015
LAS VEGAS ? Battered, bruised and against the ropes for years, the sport of boxing takes center stage Saturday night. Fans will pay a king?s ransom to sit ringside at the MGM Grand. Millions more around the world will plop down $100 to watch on television. Many will be tuning in for their first boxi Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Mayweather: May The Better Man Win
By Charles Saunders, Boxscorenews.com, Sat, 02 May 2015
SONAHR: May 1, 2015 - Tomorrow night, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will clash in what is not only the richest boxing match in history, with a mind-boggling total purse of $300 million, but also a battle for bragging rights as to which of the two future Hall-of-Famers is the top pound-for- Read Full Story >>> Mayweather-Pacquiao Predictions
Boxing.com, Sat, 02 May 2015
The fight may be five years too late from an optimal boxing perspective, but from a marketing standpoint the timing couldn?t be better?
Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, the richest fight in history will take place. Floyd Mayweather (47-0, 26 KOs) and Manny Pacquiao (57-5-2, 3 Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather?s Financial Genius
By Annie Lowrey , New York Magazine, Sat, 02 May 2015
Floyd Mayweather has made crystal clear what his Saturday prize fight against Manny Pacquiao is really about.
"Money," he told one interviewer. "I'm not going to lie to you. Of course, everything plays a major key. I love the fans, I want to give them excitement, I love them." But the fans aren Read Full Story >>>
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