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Pacquiao-Cotto title fight announced for Nov. 14 in Las Vegas
By Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
Manny Pacquiao will have the opportunity to win a world title in a fourth division in November when he fights his Top Rank promotions stablemate Miguel Cotto Nov. 14 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the f Read Full Story >>>Cotto-Pacquiao bout set for November
By Associated Press, Google News, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
Miguel Cotto is next on Manny Pacquiao's hit list for what's likely to be the biggest fight of the fall.
Pacquiao and Cotto will meet Nov. 14 at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said Monday after finalizing the match between his company's two most prominent boxers. Th Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao, Cotto sign for Nov. 14 bout, and it becomes year's most important fight
By Colin Seymour, Examiner.com, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto will fight Nov. 14. An announcement from Top Rank Boxing made that megafight official Monday. They’ll be fighting at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on HBO pay-per-view at a weight limit of 144 pounds.
Cotto would have been a huge favorite over Pacquiao a year ago Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao looks to transform into a Rican-cutioner
By Ricardo Lois, Examiner.com, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
After devastating Mexico's all-star boxing idols, Manny Pacquiao will look to put a major dent into boxing pantheon of another one of the sport's major Latin American hotbeds when he measures himself against Puerto Rico's f Read Full Story >>> TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE FOR MOSLEY AS PACQUIAO AGREES TO FACE COTTO
By Ben Thompson, FightHype.com, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
Unfortunately for welterweight champion Shane Mosley, his recent offer to face jr. welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao at 140 pounds may have come too late. According to Nick Giongco of the Manila Bulletin, Pacquiao has agreed to face WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto at a catch-weight of 145 Read Full Story >>> If Marquez stuns Mayweather, Beristain may edge Roach
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
There’s a good chance that Coach Freddie Roach will take a fourth Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) “Trainer of the Year Award.”
The trophy shelves of Roach is already sagging from the weight of Eddie Futch-John FX Condon Aawards given out by the fight scribes.
I&# Read Full Story >>> Freddie Roach: Amir Khan 'similar to Manny Pacquaio'
By Gareth A Davies, Telegraph.co.uk, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
New world champion Amir Khan is "similar in many ways to a young Manny Pacquiao" according to American trainer Freddie Roach.
Yet if Khan has any hopes of facing fellow British light-welterweight Ricky Hatton, his fellow Lancastrian yesterday insisted the idea "hasn't entered my head".
Roach Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao to face Cotto in Vegas
BBC Sport, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
Manny Pacquiao's next fight will be against three-time world champion Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas in November.
Filipino Pacquiao, has won six world titles in as many different weight divisions, while Puerto Rico's Cotto is the WBO welterweight world champion.
Promoter Bob Arum, who represents b Read Full Story >>> Mayweather: Whites needed a fight sport, so they invented MMA
By Steve Cofield, Yahoo! Sports, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
The showdown is set for September 19th. The self-annointed pay-per-view king of boxing Floyd Mayweather is going to head-to-head against UFC 103 in Dallas. Who wins the battle? Mayweather or a UFC card without a UFC championship fight on it?
Mayweather's been a lot more anti-MMA recently. Is ther Read Full Story >>> Shane Mosley-Kelly Pavlik. Not as Crazy as it Seems
By Julius Stecker, Boxing24.com, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
Now that Manny Pacquiao has committed to a super fight with Miguel Cotto. Sugar Shane Mosley is left without a megafight. After further examination, there may be one out there for him after all. And the challenge may be greater then any of the others. Now before you kill me on this idea, hear me out Read Full Story >>> HBO, Top Rank Set November Pacquaio-Cotto PPV Fight
By R. Thomas Umstead, multichannel.com, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
Current Pound-For-Pound boxing champion Manny Pacquiao will step into the pay-per-view boxing ring Nov. 14 to fight World Boxing Organization champion Miguel Cotto, Top Rank Inc. president Bob Arum announced Monday.
Home Box Office will distribute the fight via PPV, according to Top Rank, which w Read Full Story >>> Famed Boxing Trainer Freddie Roach Featured on HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
By Rick Brown, The Ledger, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
Boxing trainer Freddie Roach, a three-time trainer of the year winner, will be featured on the upcoming episode of Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel. The show will make its debut Tuesday at 10 p.m. on HBO.
The show will tell the story of the trainer, who has used boxing to overcome a troubled childh Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Cotto sealed at 145 lb
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
MANILA, Philippines - It took a 15-minute phone conversation with Bob Arum for Manny Pacquiao to agree to fight Miguel Cotto in November.
At 145 pounds flat.
“It’s done,” said Pacquiao’s adviser, Mike Konc Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Cotto is on!
By Nick Giongco, FightNews.com, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
A long distance call from Bob Arum over the weekend proved crucial in compelling Manny Pacquiao to finally make a decision to face Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico, a senior adviser of the Filipino fighter told fightnews and Manila Bulletin on Monday night. Mike Koncz said Pacquiao and Cotto will square Read Full Story >>> Ain’t Too Proud To Beg: Mosley’s Manny Mission Plays On
By Jake Donovan, BoxingScene.com, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
Somewhere in the 8 ? year period between career-best wins over Oscar de la Hoya (June 2000) and Antonio Margarito (January 2009), you’d think that Shane Mosley would’ve eventually found a way to become the bank instead o Read Full Story >>> The Fearless vs The Raging Bull: Battle of the losers!
By Allan Tolentino, 8countnews, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
Another potential matched up in the making between two veteran fighters who are both coming of a loss against two young prospects in the bantamweight divisions.
There is not as much wear and tear for these two fighters as you might think. Both are two divisions world champion and both are warrior Read Full Story >>> ALA plans backup fight for Banal
By Edri Aznar, Sun.Star Cebu, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
IF ALA star AJ Banal can’t get a fight in the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez bout on Sept. 19, the Cebuano star can get another fight in the Philippines.
ALA Promotions has put up a backup fight for Banal this September to keep him busy should his US fight fai Read Full Story >>> Amir Khan stuck to strategy to win WBA title, reveals trainer Freddie Roach
By Gareth A Davies, Telegraph.co.uk, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
Amir Khan never faltered from the gameplan set him by Freddie Roach to defeat Andreas Kotelnik and gain the WBA light-welterweight prize, the astute American trainer told Telegraph Sport.
Roach admitted he had “never let Khan off the leash” during the fight, which Khan won by a landsl Read Full Story >>> Mosley-Pacquiao and nine more fights I want to see happen
Bad Left Hook, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
The title pretty much says it all, but a few "ground rules," if you will:
I'm going to avoid rematches. Yeah, Pacquiao-Marquez III would be on this list otherwise, but I want to stay away from that sort of thing, or a lot of these fights would be rematches. Adamek-Cunningham II would also be on the Read Full Story >>> Hatton: Don't bank on me facing Khan
By Gavin Glicksman, The Sun, Tue, 21 Jul 2009
RICKY HATTON insists he has not even thought about fighting Amir Khan.
The Hitman, who just been released from hospital after a severe stomach bug, is still weighing up his futur Read Full Story >>>
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