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Sugar Ray Robinson, Meet Manny Pacquiao
By Jake Donovan, BoxingScene.com, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
Going into the fight, the assessment of Manny Pacquiao?s leap-frogging through weight classes conjured up memories of boxing?s most famous triple threat, Henry Armstrong.
It was more than 70 years ago when the legendary human win Read Full Story >>>Philippines crawls to halt to cheer Manny Pacquiao, boxing hero
By Carlos H. Conde, International Herald Tribune, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
MANILA: In cities and towns across the Philippines, traffic was practically nonexistent Sunday. The crime rate was zero in Manila and other major urban centers, the police said. And days before, the military had announced it would not be opening any offensives against enemies of the state for a day, Read Full Story >>> MAGNIFICENT MANNY STOPS "THE GOLDEN BOY"
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
Ninety million Filipinos saw their prayers answered and their dreams come true when ring idol and national treasure Manny Pacquiao put on a magnificent display of remarkable skill, blinding speed and awesome power to punish 'Th Read Full Story >>> Is De La Hoya done?
By Brett Okamoto, Las Vegas Sun, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
After a 16-year career that placed boxer Oscar De La Hoya at the forefront of the sport, the 10-time champ may have seen his final minutes in a ring through a badly swollen left eye Saturday night.
De La Hoya Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao - A True Modern Day Phenomenon!
By James Slater, EastSideBoxing.com, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
What can one say about the incredible Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao except good things? Last night, in beating up and surely retiring for good fellow all-time great Oscar De La Hoya in what can only be described as a huge upset, the 29-year-old Filipino did something incredible. Now having made his mark Read Full Story >>> BODY PUNCHES 'KILLED' DE LA HOYA, SAYS ROACH
By Alex P. Vidal, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- It was Manny Pacquiao's well-executed body punches as early in the second round that brought down Oscar De La Hoya and put a grotesque finale of the much-ballyhooed "Dream Match" at the MGM Grand here Decemb Read Full Story >>> Trigger? What trigger? Outgunned De La Hoya leaves firepower at home
By Kieran Mulvaney, ESPN.com, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
So this is how it ends.
It is the way it almost always does, for even the best of them. It is the way it ended for Muhammad Ali. It remains, over a long, drawn-out period, the way it is ending for Roy Jones.
And Read Full Story >>> POUND-FOR-POUND POUNDING: Pacquiao dominates
By Steve Carp, Las Vegas Review Journal, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
Score one for the little guy. A big one.
As impressive as Manny Pacquiao has been throughout his career, Saturday might have been his finest hour.
The man considered boxing's best pound-for-pound fighter dominat Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Mayweather Countdown Begins: Report Card
By Cliff Rold, BoxingScene.com, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
The pre-fight build was clear?if a 35-year old Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KO) was shot, if he couldn?t pull the trigger, then 29-year old current Lightweight and former Flyweight champion Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KO) had a shot.
It turned out to be one of the great understatements of all time. Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao: ?It ain?t over yet, folks, more fights to come?
GMA News Online, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
MANILA, Philippines - Fresh from his historic win over legendary Oscar de la Hoya, the world's pound-for-pound king Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao made this assurance Sunday: ?It ain?t over yet, folks, I?m still up for a few more bouts."
GMA-7's Showbiz Central asked Pacquiao if his fight against De la Read Full Story >>> Manny ready for the Hitman
The Sun, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
MANNY PACQUIAO has set his sights on Ricky Hatton after destroying Oscar De La Hoya.
The Filipino ace was superb in Las Vegas to stop the once-mighty Golden Boy in eight rounds.
And Pacquiao now wants to take on British star Hatton at light-welterweight.
He said: "My job is to fight in the Read Full Story >>> Magnificent Manny Simply Awesome: Ricky Hatton Couldn't Hit This Pacquiao In Arse With Bag Of Rice!
By Michael Marley, Boxing Confidential, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
LAS VEGAS--My instant impressions after Magnificent Manny?s awesome performance on the biggest stage he?s ever had?
I guess Coach Freddie Roach?s ?Oscar can?t pull the trigger? theory was a helluva lot more than a publicity gimmick, huh? The washed up, washed out part-time fighter could not put a Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao shows big heart in one-sided upset of De La Hoya
By Robert Morales, DailyBreeze.com, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
LAS VEGAS - Dustin Hoffman starred in the 1970 film, "Little Big Man." Manny Pacquiao starred in "Little Big Man II" on Saturday night at MGM Grand.
With Oscar De La Hoya looking 45 instead of 35, Pacquiao beat the daylights out of De La Hoya, winning via eighth-round technical knockout before 15 Read Full Story >>> King of the world
By Associated Press, Business Mirror, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
De la Hoya: I just don?t have it anymore...
LAS VEGAS?Manny Pacquiao dominated his bigger and more famous opponent from the opening bell Saturday night, giving Oscar de la Hoya such a beating he declined to come out of his corner after the eighth round.
The fight was so lopsided and De la Hoya Read Full Story >>> AMIR KHAN GIVES ROACH A DOUBLE CELEBRATION
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
Britain?s promising Amir Khan who won a silver medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and sparred with Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao at the Wild Card Gym of celebrated two-time ?Trainer of the Year? Freddie Roach clearly ben Read Full Story >>> Yes He Can! Pacquiao Stuns and Stops De La Hoya In Eight
By Thomas Gerbasi, MaxBoxing.com, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
Size didn?t matter at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday night, but speed certainly did, as pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao ? who won his first world title at 112 pounds ? made his welterweight debut in spectacular Read Full Story >>> Morning After: Time for Floyd Mayweather to Un-Retire, Fight Manny Pacquiao
By Michael David Smith, AOL Sports, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
Manny Pacquiao firmly established last night that he's the best active boxer in the world, with an incredible, dominant win over Oscar De La Hoya.
But while Pacquiao's name belongs atop the list of the best pound-for-pound boxers, there's an asterisk next to it. Because as long as Floyd Mayweathe Read Full Story >>> Arum tells press: You're right, it's a mismatch
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
LAS VEGAS ? Boxing promoter Bob Arum opened up the post-fight conference by saying that the press called it right.
?The press was never wrong. They said it was (going to be) a mismatch, and it was a mismatch,? he said.
In the Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao overpowers Golden Boy
By Matthew Aguilar, El Paso Times, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
LAS VEGAS -- Going into Saturday, most experts believed the "Dream Match" between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao would be a mismatch -- a mismatch favoring the much bigger De La Hoya's power.
It indeed ended up being a mismatch. A mismatch that favored Pacquiao's power.
And his speed and his Read Full Story >>> Filipino boxer Pacquiao wins welterweight super-fight
By Agence France Press, Google News, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) ? Manny Pacquiao punished Oscar de la Hoya for eight rounds, his technical knockout triumph over the US superstar underscoring the Filipino icon's status as best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
Pacquiao's speed and precision were too much for De la Hoya, whose left eye Read Full Story >>>
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