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Pacquiao Lifts Boxing off the Canvas
By Gordon Marino, The Huffington Post, Tue, 17 Nov 2009
Many highbrows have been standing over boxing and counting it out these days. But as the figures of Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali and others attest, pugilism has had an enormous impact on American history. And rightfully so. If sports are ritualized enactments of the struggle t Read Full Story >>>Tommy proposes to build Pacquiao museum at SRP
The Philippine Star, Tue, 17 Nov 2009
CEBU, Philippines - A Manny Pacquiao museum as a tourist attraction in the South Road Properties (SRP), why not?
This idea was raised by Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osme?a to honor the fighter, who recently claimed his seventh world title in seven weight categories, a world first.
The mayor said tha Read Full Story >>> The Boxing Truth Staff Eats Crow All Week... Pacquiao is King!
By John Chavez, The Boxing Truth, Tue, 17 Nov 2009
It was indeed a tough pill to swallow having seen Manny Pacquiao make the trio of myself, "Rigordo" Lois, and T-money look like foolish amateurs backing Miguel Cotto in this past Saturday's Read Full Story >>> EDITORIAL - Boxing immortality
The Philippine Star, Tue, 17 Nov 2009
Another perfect performance by boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao at a Las Vegas theater once again captivated millions across the globe. If those who had witnessed called it the product of art, then Pacquiao must be an artist with unparallel brilliance.
The world was amazed by Pacquiao̵ Read Full Story >>> Muhammad Ali, Derek Jeter, Sean “Diddy” Combs, 50 Cent, Jeremy Piven and Mark Walberg in Vegas for fight weekend
Las Vegas Sun, Tue, 17 Nov 2009
If this weekend proved anything, it's that nothing brings the celebs together in Las Vegas like a good old-fashioned fight night.
The big Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto match-up went down on Saturday at the MGM Grand and saw thousands of people come town, all hungry for their part of the action-pack Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao Seals "Fighter Of The Decade" With Victory Over Cotto
By Frank Lotierzo, The Sweet Science, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
Heading into 2009 the debate as to who was the "Fighter Of The Decade" was still up for grabs between Manny Pacquiao 50-3-2 (38) and Floyd Mayweather Jr. 40-0 (25) as both had a legitimate cla Read Full Story >>> Mayweather talks up Pacquiao fight
CNN.com, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
(CNN) -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said he is ready to make the big-money fight with newly crowned WBO welterweight world champion Manny Pacquiao happen.
After vict Read Full Story >>> Floyd blast for Pacquiao
SkySports.com, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
Floyd Mayweather says he is ready for a mega-money fight with Manny Pacquiao and believes the new WBO welterweight champion is "one-dimensional".
Pacquiao cemented his claim to be the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet when he stopped Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas on Sunday.
Immediately a Read Full Story >>> TECTONIC SHIFT CONTINUES...
By Granville Ampong, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
POUND-FOR –POUND KING MANNY “PACMAN” PACQUIAO STILL REIGNS AND WON BOTH THE WBO WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP AND THE FIRST EVER MADE HONORARY WBC DIAMOND BELTS BY STOPPAGE IN FINAL ROUND
PHILBOXING.COM’S Read Full Story >>> Talk turns to Manny Pacquiao fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
By Jeff Haney, Las Vegas Sun, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
Grandiose pronouncements were uttered about when and where negotiations would begin for a proposed fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Boxing insiders were speculating about the contentiousness and hostility those talks would breed.
Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s trainer, av Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao vs. Mayweather is hot topic
By Steve Carp, Las Vegas Review Journal, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
While having his bloody right ear drained in the postfight locker room Saturday night, Manny Pacquiao could probably still hear the chants of the sellout crowd that wants him to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. next spring.
The question is whether Mayweather was listening, too.
Or will it take the s Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao v Floyd Mayweather Jr would be the standout fight of our time
guardian.co.uk, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
Even through the sometimes distorting prism of TV, Manny Pacquiao's remarkable dismantling of Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas on Saturday night was the sort of fight that lives in the memory for a long time.
While Cotto will not want to quickly revisit the brutal and sustained pounding he took until it Read Full Story >>> And Then There Was “Money”: The Post-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold, BoxingScene.com, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
We’re going to run out of superlatives eventually. Great is no longer a superlative. Great is a matter of fact, a truism. New WBO Welterweight titlist and reigning World Jr. Welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KO) is great.
Great in this time.
Great in any time.
Eve Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao’s granite chin makes Mayweather fight a tough call
By Patrick Johnston, Reuters, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
Manny Pacquiao produced another sublime performance in his destruction of Miguel Cotto on Saturday but it was not his fast hands and flashy combinations that grabbed me about his victory, instead it was the Filipino’s granite chin.
We all knew about the attacking ability that Pacquiao had b Read Full Story >>> DUMP MAYWEATHER, LET’S GO FOR AN 8TH TITLE LEGACY
By Ed de la Vega, DDS, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
Las Vegas, NV:- Freddie Roach said it best. “Mayweather is a fight the world wants to see but we will fight whatever gives the best deal for Manny”.
The best deal for Manny! And the same is true for his family a Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao ready to tackle Floyd Mayweather J
mirror.co.uk, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
His trainer Freddie Roach wants the new WBO welterweight champion to take on Mayweather after Saturday's demolition of Miguel Cotto.
Pacquiao cemented his claim to be the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet when he stopped Cotto in the 12th and final round of their Las Vegas showdown at th Read Full Story >>> The Mainstream Media Is Beginning To Abandon Its False, Insidious “Boxing Is Dead” Mantra
By Tim Starks, The Queensberry Rules, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
Overlooked, I think, in our collective amazement at what Manny Pacquiao accomplished Saturday night in knocking out Miguel Cotto was a subtle shift at the macro level that portends well for the perception of the sport of boxing as a whole. Two of the biggest newspapers in America — The New Yor Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao's historic win: international press reaction
Telegraph.co.uk, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
Bill Dwyre, LA Times "Pacquiao won with yet another epic performance. The pride of the Philippines has now become the pride of all boxing. The Puerto Rican Cotto, one tough customer, was reduced to spending the last four or five rounds simply running, surviving, maybe hoping for enough energy for on Read Full Story >>> WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR PACQUIAO AND COTTO
By Tim Harrison, FightHype.com, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
Now that the dust has begun to settle in the wake of the mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto, we should take the time to examine both the accomplishments and the future of the participants. First and foremost, we should applaud Manny Pacquiao. The little man that began his career as Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao does it yet again and so does Roach
By Vitali Shaposhnikov, Diamond Boxing, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
Yet again, the world gets a very clear message: Pacquiao express makes all the scheduled stops, without any incidents of derailment or postponement. The Pacquiao express took off January 2nd 1995 in the Philippines against Edmund Enting Igancio. Now, almost 15 years and a handful of big fights l Read Full Story >>>
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