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Manny Pacquiao Fails To Claim Pound-for-Pound Spot on Saturday By John Chavez, Boxing Confidential, Tue, 01 Jul 2008 I just don?t understand what all the hoopla is about regarding this past Saturday?s bout.
Apparently Manny Pacquiao?s dominant performance against the concrete-footed David Diaz was enough for most observers both in person and on television to propel him as potentially being one of the best fight Read Full Story >>>Pacquiao knocks out Diaz to win WBC lightweight title CBS SportsLine.com, Tue, 01 Jul 2008 LAS VEGAS - If David Diaz's game plan was to wear down Manny Pacquiao's fists with his face and take him out in the later rounds, it didn't work.
Pacquiao finished things in spectacular fashion with a ninth-round knockout to claim the WBC lightweight championship on Saturday night in front of 8,3 Read Full Story >>> Diaz in good spirits the morning after By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Tue, 01 Jul 2008 LAS VEGAS ? He spent most of the day inside his cozy suite but also took a dip in the giant pool, enjoying the very warm sunshine the day after taking a brutal, bloody loss at Mandalay Bay.
David Diaz, who relinquished his World Boxing Council lightweight crown after being knocked out by Manny Pa Read Full Story >>> Pacman?s evolution By Frank Malilong, Sun.Star Cebu, Tue, 01 Jul 2008 THERE goes the goat.
Hours before Manny Pacquiao fought David Diaz in Last Vegas last Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported an incident during a news conference in which the fight?s promoters established what the paper described as a new ?high (low?) for gimmicks.?
?Diaz, a big Chicago Cubs Read Full Story >>> Pirated Pacquiao vs Diaz DVDs selling briskly ABS-CBN News, Tue, 01 Jul 2008
Just an hour after the Manny Pacquiao-David Diaz championship bout in Las Vegas, pirated copies of the fight were being sold in the DVD market in Quiapo, Manila.
Vendors were selling the Pacquiao-Diaz DVDs for P35 a copy with complete packaging and nearly the same quality shown on television.
Read Full Story >>> BREAKING NEWS: PACQUIAO-VALERO ALMOST DONE! By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum hopes to finalize the first title defense of newly crowned World Boxing Council lightweight champion and Filipino national treasur Read Full Story >>> Pound for pound, Pacquiao is tops The Arizona Republic, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s retirement makes more sense now. Mayweather isn't retiring as much as he is just getting out of the way.
Out of Manny Pacquiao's way.
Pacquiao did more than just claim outright ownership of the mythical pound-for-pound title, which Mayweather had vacated, with his ninth- Read Full Story >>> Meet The New Best Boxer Alive ? Manny Pacquiao By Tim Starks, Most Valuable Network, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 Judging by the fact that ESPN.com put a story up on Manny Pacquiao?s title-winning fight Saturday night on its main page, plus other measures, the new pound-for-pound best fighter on the planet is crossing over to the squares who don?t follow boxing. Squares: Consider this your comprehensive introdu Read Full Story >>> Boxer Pacquiao says Hatton may be next By Agence France Press, Google News, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 MANILA (AFP) ? Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao, fresh from winning his fourth world title, said on Monday he could step up to light-welterweight to fight British world champion Ricky Hatton.
The 29 year-old "Pacman" destroyed David Diaz of the United States in nine rounds in Las Vegas on Read Full Story >>> Pac-Monster is no lightweight By Bart Barry, 15rounds.com, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 While promoting his next title defense, WBC lightweight champion David Diaz joked he had a strategy for combating Manny Pacquiao?s best weapon: ?I think the best thing I can do is meet his left hand with my face.?
Diaz was too modest by half.
Certainly, he arranged meetings between his face an Read Full Story >>> Will Pacquiao Clear Up Or Add To The Lightweight Clutter? By Jake Donovan, BoxingScene.com, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 It's now official. No matter your criteria for ranking fighters in a pound-for-pound sense, there's no disputing that Manny Pacquiao is the best fighter in the world.
Say what you want about David Diaz ? he was "just" a paper titlist, the weakest titlist of the division, not even close to being t Read Full Story >>> WHO'S NEXT? By Manny Piñol, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 30 Jun 2008
Las Vegas, Nevada (June 29) - With every Mexican big name in the featherweight and lightweight divisions etched as statistics in Manny Pacquiao's histori Read Full Story >>> PACQUIAO IS TIGER WOODS OF BOXING By Salven L. Lagumbay, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 CEBU CITY -- It was Tiger Woods with a pair of boxing gloves out there.
Filipino boxing icon Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao yesterday sealed his claim as the world's best boxer on the planet with an easy dismantling of WBC lightweight king David Diaz in front of 8,356 screaming fans at the Mandalay Bay Read Full Story >>> MERCADO WINS IN JAPAN; RACHMAN WINS COMEBACK FIGHT By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 Filipino super bantamweight Jerope ?Nino de Oro? Mercado who is based in Japan has scored an eighth round unanimous decision over Masayoshi Nishi at the Sambo Hall in Kobe, Hyogo.
With the win Mercado who fights out of Kobe moves to 15-1-2 with 5 knockouts while Nishi drops to 8-8-3 with 4 knocko Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao vows to surprise typhoon victims with aid ABS-CBN News, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao, the newly-crowned World Boxing Council lightweight champion, vowed to bring aid to victims of typhoon Frank that ravaged parts of the Visayas and Luzon last week.
The champ, interviewed on the telephone on ABS-CBN's "Umagang Kay Ganda" morning show, however, dec Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao falls prey to video pirates - report GMA News Online, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 MANILA, Philippines - He may have rewritten history and united many Filipinos with his win over David Diaz Sunday (Manila time), but boxing champ Emmanuel "Pacquiao" still fell victim to pirates.
Radio dzBB's Bernie Morales reported Monday that pirated VCDs and DVDs of Sunday's "Lethal Combinatio Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao is the Urijah Faber of Boxing By vjrabid, Yard Barker, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 And the new emperor of the sport. I can only marvel at how much Manny Pacquiao's boxing technique has gotten. Just two fights ago, against Marco Antonio Barrera, Pacquiao was still a brawler, with great physical tools and power, but rudimentary (for a guy of his stature) boxing skills. Pacquiao beat Read Full Story >>> Boxer David Diaz keeps his head up in defeat Best qualities show even in brutal defeat By Melissa Isaacson, Chicago Tribune, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 LAS VEGAS - The ambulance was waiting, but David Diaz wasn't quite ready to get in. Most of the blood had been rinsed off, and he was back in his jeans and T-shirt. But the damage was graphic and even more shocking 45 minutes after it had been inflicted.
The question was what damage had been done Read Full Story >>> MANNY PACQUIAO - AN ASIAN PHENOMENON By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 30 Jun 2008
When Filipino ring idol and certified national treasure Manny Pacquiao brutalized a courageous David Diaz to win the World Boxing Council lightweight title with a spectacular ninth round knockout in Las Vegas on Saturday Read Full Story >>> PACQUIAO WATCH: THE REBIRTH OF PACQUIAO By Edwin G. Espejo, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 30 Jun 2008
IN an impressive and superb display of boxing skills, speed and punching prowess, Manny Pacquiao showed why he now rightfully owns the distinction of being the world's best pound for pound boxer.
Manny turned David Diaz's face in Read Full Story >>>
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