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Pacquiao-Mayweather will set new fight standard
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
When (and that's when, not if), Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. eventually fight, it's going to be gargantuan business. It really is the fight the world wants to see. In my time on the boxing beat, I can't think of another fight for which there was as much worldwide public demand -- not even Read Full Story >>>Who's the greatest of all time?
Sports Illustrated, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
If you closed your eyes last Saturday night in Las Vegas, it felt like another era. Throughout the MGM Grand Garden Arena, iconic athletes (Derek Jeter and Magic Johnson) mixed easily with A-List Read Full Story >>> Is Pacquiao-Mayweather Next?
By Steve Kim, SecondsOut.com, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
All the precincts have not reported, but it looks like this past weekends bout between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto was a box-office and financial home run for all the parties invo Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao is one of the best of all time
By Julian Turner, Bangkok Post, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
Manny Pacquiao proved beyond doubt that he is the best fighter of this generation last weekend and a case can now be made for him being one of the greatest of all time.
The Filipino's victory over welterweight Miguel Cotto was brutal, technically brilliant and exciting.
Manny took a big risk i Read Full Story >>> DECONSTRUCTING MANNY
By Springs Toledo, The Sweet Science, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
Manny Pacquiao: I’m just [an] ordinary fighter...
Freddie Roach (interrupting): –You’re not ordinary.
Manny Pacquiao: Sorry about that, master.
“He finds gaps,& Read Full Story >>> Why the Mayweather - Pacquiao fight must happen for the sake of boxing
By David Anderson, mirror.co.uk, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
Imagine Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal not playing each other.
Or Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton refusing to race against each other.
Sounds crazy, but in boxing it can happen Read Full Story >>> MANNY PACQUIAO: "FOR THE RECORD, YEAH!"
By Ben Thompson, FightHype.com, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
Los Angeles TV station KTLA was on hand yesterday at Manny Pacquiao's official victory party at The Highlands in Hollywood, California. With the boxing world buzzing about a potential showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr., Pacquiao was asked whether or not he wanted to face the undefeated multi-divisio Read Full Story >>> Roach mulls other options for Pacman
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
HOLLYWOOD – There are still fights to be made, big fights, just in case Floyd Mayweather Jr. plays hard to get with Manny Pacquiao.
Freddie Roach said while a fight with Mayweather is the one people are talking about, there’s always a Plan B or a Plan C for the Filipino pound-for-poun Read Full Story >>> Hero’s welcome awaits Pacman
By Francis Ochoa, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
LOS ANGELES— Manny Pacquiao heads home Wednesday to a country waiting to clog the streets in celebration of its favorite hero’s latest conquest.
The pound-for-pound king is expected to arrive early Friday in Manila, where he will make the usual rounds of courtesy calls, including one Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather Jr. Opens as Favorite, Early Money on Manny Pacquiao
By Michael David Smith, Fanhouse, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
We still don't know whether we'll get the dream fight of Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. next year, but we do know this: Mayweather is favored to win the fight, but bettors are feeling confident about Pacquiao.
The online sports book Bodog.com is already taking bets on the fight (bets tha Read Full Story >>> Gorres on road to recovery
By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
Ill-fated fighter Z Gorres is slowly showing more signs of recovery even as his manager Michael Aldeguer said yesterday his condition remains “critical but stable” in the Intensive Care Unit at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas.
“Buchoy responded well Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Cotto pay-per-view buys to reach 2 million?
By Dante Navarro, The Philippine Star, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
MANILA, Philippines - The recent welterweight megafight between Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and Puerto Rican WBO champion Miguel Cotto is expected to generate close to 2 million pay-per-view buys.
“They’re very good,” said Top Rank promoter Bob Arum in an interview with Read Full Story >>> ARUM WON'T DERAIL PACMAN/MAYWEATHER
Sportinglife.com (UK), Thu, 19 Nov 2009
Bob Arum says he won't let his personal feelings stop Manny Pacquiao fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr.
The two best P4P fighters in the world could meet in 2010 - a bout that would appear certain to become the richest in ring history.
Arum, who promotes Pacquiao and used to promote Mayweather Jr b Read Full Story >>> Hatton 'set for Marquez showdown'
BBC Sport, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
Ricky Hatton's American promoter says a fight against Mexican three-weight world champion Juan Manuel Marquez could happen in Manchester next year.
Hatton, 31, was knocked out in two rounds by Philippin Read Full Story >>> EDITORIAL - There is no dream match
The Philippine Star, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
Following Manny Pacquiao’s historic win over Miguel Cotto, people all over are beginning to talk of a “dream match” between the Filipino and Floyd Mayweather Jr., the American loudmouth who remains the only boxer of note on the horizon that Pacquiao has not fought.
But there is Read Full Story >>> Boxing and Christian values
By Eladio Dioko, The Philippine Star, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
In his homily right after the Pacquiao-Cotto fight last Sunday, a priest told churchgoers that he no longer watched boxing bouts. He said he used to be fond of ring skirmishes, but gradually he distanced himself from these. Sometime ago I also heard a priest said that contact sports such as boxing, Read Full Story >>> SHANE MOSLEY: "PACQUIAO IS A REAL WELTERWEIGHT...I'LL FIGHT HIM IN APRIL"
By Ben Thompson, FightHype.com, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
"I thought he looked good. I thought he threw a lot of combinations and he got Cotto to press him a little bit and caught him with that little left uppercut/hook that he does and surprised Cotto...He's a welterweight! He's even got the welterweight power. He's hitting guys and knocking them down so Read Full Story >>> Malignaggi Blasts Diaz; Feels Weird About Manny Pacquiao
By Ryan Burton, BoxingScene.com, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
BoxingScene.com spoke to Paulie "Magic Man" Malignaggi about his coming rematch with Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz, scheduled for December 12 in Chicago. Malignaggi blasts Diaz for saying he didn't take the first fight personally and also blasts the notion of having the advantages in this fight. He says t Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao's Dishonor Roll: Paid shill Dundee excused
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
Beware of those who do not know a left hook from a fish hook so sayeth Michael L. Marley, pugilistic pundit.
Beware of “White Gorilla” Marley so sayeth Pinay soothsayer Madam Auring who knows all, tells nothing and wears skimpy bathing suits on the cover of FHM Magazine’s Filipi Read Full Story >>> Miguel Cotto could face Jose Luis Castillo next summer
Bad Left Hook, Thu, 19 Nov 2009
A report in El Nuevo Dia (link via BoxingScene.com) indicates that one possibility for Miguel Cotto's eventual ring return may be former lightweight champion Jose Luis Castillo, who recently served as a sparring partner for Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao defeated Cotto via 12th round technical knockout la Read Full Story >>>
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