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FREDDIE ROACH: "IT LOOKS LIKE RICKY HATTON IS GOING TO BE FIRST AND THEN FLOYD JR. SECOND"
By Percy Crawford, FightHype.com, Thu, 01 Jan 2009
"Well, you know, Floyd Sr. and I have had our differences in the past, but it's just getting your guy ready for a fight. I'm sure we'll go at it again if we're fighting Ricky Hatton next, which is not a done deal yet, but it's very close to being done. Me and Manny will meet with Bob Arum tonight an Read Full Story >>>Looks like another KO year in boxing
By Recah Trinidad, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Thu, 01 Jan 2009
MANILA, Philippines?Unlike the coming of the New Year?may 2009 be glorious for you all, dear friends?the decision by the young boxer tagged as Marvelous Pacquiao to remain amateur is not irrevocable.
Yes, whether Dodie Boy Pe?alosa Jr., an extremely promising kid, would stay indefinitely in the a Read Full Story >>> They shone in the shadow of Pacquiao
By Cedelf Tupas, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Thu, 01 Jan 2009
MANILA, Philippines?For sheer magnitude, impact and cash involved, Manny Pacquiao?s exploits were unmatched in 2008.
But so many times in the fading year, local sports was more than just the billionaire boxing hero.
From the fairways of South Africa, to chess venues in Dubai and a boxing arena Read Full Story >>> THAILAND?S KAOVICHIT WINS WBA FLYWEIGHT TITLE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 01 Jan 2009
Thailand?s 32 year old Denkaosan Kaovichit has won the WBA flyweight title with a stunning 2nd round knockout over Japan?s Takefumi Sakata in Hiroshima.
The end came at 2:55 of round two when referee Roberto Ramirez counted out the 28 year old Sakata who was defending his title in a rematch with Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao, again, bails out a beleaguered Philippine sports in 2008
By Reuben Terrado, Business Mirror, Thu, 01 Jan 2009
PHILIPPINE sports in 2008 had the mold of one fearless, peppery and charismatic 29-year-old from General Santos City?Manny Pacquiao.
The rest?
Jennifer Rosales and Dorothy Delasin kicked off 2008 with a promise on the greens of Gary Player Country Club in Sun City, South Africa, in January aft Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao Acquired Greatness in 2008 With Style and Grace of a True Champion
By Allyn Thomas, Diamond Boxing, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
2008 was undoubtedly the year of the Pac-man. Filipino Manny Pacquiao claimed three exhilarating wins in three different weight divisions, becoming a modern day Henry Armstrong in the process.
Pacquiao?s business began in March when bloodied but unbowed he dethroned super featherweight champ Juan Read Full Story >>> OFFER FOR PACQUIAO-HATTON FIGHT IS GOOD
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao?s legal counsel Atty. Franklin ?Jeng? Gacal says in his assessment the offer presented by Top Rank promoter Bob Arum for a Pacquiao clash with Britain?s Ricky ?The Hitman? Hatton in Las Read Full Story >>> Pound for Pound Rankings 12.31.08: The Best of the Best for December
By Ramon Aranda, 411mania.com, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
With 2008 on the way out, it's time to go over who's the best in the sport. 411mania has compiled the latest top ten list of the best fighters in boxing, pound for pound. Who's in and who's out? Come Read Full Story >>> An Interview With Thomas Hauser
By Tim Starks, The Queensberry Rules, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
Thomas Hauser, I've made no bones about saying, is the finest boxing writer in the land. He's somewhere between the sport's poet laureate and its Bob Woodward. If you have read any of Steve Kim's pieces in recent months, you'll recall Kim writing about HBO execs trying to suss out who Hauser's sour Read Full Story >>> SULAIMAN CALLS FOR MEETING OF BOXING PROMOTERS
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
World Boxing Council president Don Jose Suilaiman is calling for a boxing promoters ?Summit? in Chicago in the second or third week of April.
Sulaiman, in an overseas conversation with www.insidesports.ph, Standard Today an Read Full Story >>> WBA TO LOOK INTO HOLYFIELD?S PROTEST
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
The World Boxing Association will look into the protest filed by former four-time heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield following his controversial loss to Russian giant Nikolay Valuev last December 20.
An official statement by the WBA said ?As the World Boxing Association (WBA) always cares abo Read Full Story >>> Miguel Cotto Will Fight Manny Pacquiao if Top Rank Offers Posted by: Mark Vester on 12-31-2008.
By Mark Vester, BoxingScene.com, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
Former two division champion Miguel Cotto is in training for his February 21 bout against Michael Jennings. The vacant WBO welterweight title will be on the line. If he gets past Jennings, a rematch with Antonio Margarito is already set for June. Beyond those two fights, Cotto was asked directly abo Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao to get same pot if Hatton fight pushes through
GMA News Online, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
MANILA, Philippines ? Manny Pacquiao stands to receive the same amount of purse he collected in his fight with Oscar De La Hoya when he faces Ricky Hatton next middle of 2009.
One of Pacquiao?s ring advisers, Rex `Wakee? Salud, said that should be the case since the Filipino ring icon is now cons Read Full Story >>> Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. - "De La Hoya is Not Finished"
By Mark Vester, BoxingScene.com, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
Undefeated Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. wants to avenge the honor of his family by knocking out Oscar De La Hoya. In 1996 and 1998, De La Hoya battered and bruised Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. The young son has waited a long time to get revenge for his father. Right now Chavez Jr. is mending a bruised hand from Read Full Story >>> Freddie Roach: FightFan.com?s 2008 ?Trainer of the Year?!
FightFan.com, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
?He can?t handle your speed, son!?
Freddie Roach is pictured here during Manny Pacquiao?s one sided annihilation of Oscar De La Hoya on Dec. 6, 2008. It is perhaps iconic that across the ring sat the legendary Angelo Dundee as Roach uttered the above words to his star pupil in the heat of the act Read Full Story >>> Sure-fire boxing classics for 2009
Yahoo! Sports, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
We bring you five fights featuring British boxers that we'd like to see made in the next year - including a Ricky Hatton-Manny Pacquiao super-fight.
n some cases, these fights may not be made because of enmity between promoters or because the fighters have other obligations.
However, if we wer Read Full Story >>> TSS Boxer Of The Year: Manny Pacquiao
By Michael Woods, The Sweet Science, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
It wasn?t supposed to go down this way. The little guy who started out as a 106 pounder was supposed to be outweighed by about 15 pounds come fight night. The script, of the Little Guy Fights Read Full Story >>> Floyd Sr: Oscar will beat Junior!
By Lee Bates, FightNews.com, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
After hearing of the possibility of Oscar De La Hoya facing Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Floyd Mayweather Sr. shared his thoughts on Oscar?s chances of victory against ?The Son of the Legend.? ?I can tell you with me in h Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao talks to 8countnews.com
By Brad Cooney, 8countnews, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
8CountNews sat down with Manny Pacquiao and got his thoughts on the current negotiations taking place between himself, and Ricky Hatton. Pacquiao confirms that a date for May 2nd, in Las Vegas has been set, and that the negotiations are ongoing, and making nice progress. Manny also talks in depth ab Read Full Story >>> Boxing has risen from the canvas
By Ron Borges, The National, Wed, 31 Dec 2008
The American humourist Mark Twain once said: ?The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.? Same could be said about prize fighting?s.
For years now it has become popular for breathless journalists with little depth of knowledge and budget-strapped sports editors looking to make cutback Read Full Story >>>
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