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Two warriors to battle again
By Keith Idec, NorthJersey.com, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales will make us forget everything that's wrong with this troublesome game for a little less than an hour late Saturday night.
The disgraceful decisions. The preposterous practices of the selfish sanctioning organizations. The lack of uniformity among commissions. The Read Full Story >>>The ?Other? Pacquiao Diminishes Family Name, and Opponent?s Family Jewels
By Kieran Mulvaney, TigerBoxing.com, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
Notwithstanding his knockout of shopworn Kevin Kelley earlier this year, or last year?s entirely bogus points victory over Carlos Hernandez, it is hard to believe that Bobby Pacquiao would receive as many chances to appear on pay-per-view cards, or headline cards of his own, were it not for his last Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao says it?s personal
By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
LAS VEGAS ? No doubt about it, there?s bad blood between Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales.
Morales has repeatedly said the better man didn?t win when Pacquiao knocked him out last January. He blamed his drastic weight loss for the setback and the other day, claimed Pacquiao?s punches never hurt h Read Full Story >>> PACQUIAO-MORALES JUST DOESN'T EXCITE ME!
By Cliff Rold, RingTalk.com, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
GOT TROUBLE GETTING HYPED FOR MIS-MATCH!
Alexandria, VA-It's the true number one pound-for-pound fighter in the sport, the Philippine's Manny Pacquiao (42-3-2, 33 KOs) versus a Mexican legend in Erik Morales (48-4, 34 KOs) in a third and decisive battle. It's Pacquiao, the only man in history t Read Full Story >>> TigerBoxing Staff Picks: THE GRAND FINALE!
TigerBoxing.com, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
The time is near. We must choose a winner. Will Pacman gobble up Morales once more? Will El Terrible be the comeback kid?
Crystal balls anyone?
Franklin McNeil says:
That Erik Morales understands the significance this fight will have on his career makes him more dangerous, but Mann Read Full Story >>> The Los Angeles Diary: Day 2: The LA sojourn
By Homer D. Sayson, Sun.Star Cebu, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
LAS Vegas - I left LA shortly after 7 a.m. yesterday, stopped by Ontario to pick up AJ and Ermee from their visit with relatives, and then sped off towards Las Vegas to begin my official coverage of Pacquiao-Morales III.
I made sure to make only the necessary stops, and when the coast was clear Read Full Story >>> Erik vows to beat Pac
Morales slams Roach over weight issue
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
LAS VEGAS ? What makes Erik Morales so dangerous are not the guys who want to see him emerge triumphant Saturday night against Manny Pacquiao.
What motivates Morales even more are those who think the 30-year-old Mexican is in the twilight of an illustrious career.
"Let me tell you this," s Read Full Story >>> Erik?s weight loss program awes guru
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
LAS VEGAS ? Rafael Mendoza, who said last July that Erik Morales will have to cut his legs just to make 130, was stunned to see the Mexican boxer in such good shape.
"I can see that he?s gonna make the weight. By the way that he looks and by the way that he spoke. And when he speaks like that, h Read Full Story >>> Fight analysis: The S-factors of consequence
By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
LAS VEGAS - Manny Pacquiao is a solid 3-1 favorite to beat Erik Morales in their epic 12-round showdown at the Thomas and Mack Center here tonight (tomorrow morning, Manila). The climax to the trilogy is billed the "Grand Finale" because the consensus is the rubber match will end conclusively.
P Read Full Story >>> Last Chapter of Trilogy: Pacquiao, Morales in top shape, see victory
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
LAS VEGAS ? Without really trying, Erik Morales threw his weight around Thursday?s press conference.
At the packed Cox Concourse of the Thomas and Mack Center here, the crafty Mexican boxer simply refused to let a weighty issue die down.
"Three months ago a lot of people didn?t believe that Read Full Story >>> ?Biggest show in Vegas?
Pacquiao vs Morales tickets are sold out
By Lee Bellfield, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
LAS VEGAS?There is no world title on the line when Erik Morales and Manny Pacquiao meet in the ring for the third time in Las Vegas on Saturday night (Sunday morning in Manila).
But such is the popularity of both men that organizers say it is on course to have one of the five highest attendance i Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Morales III - The Friday Notebook
EastSideBoxing.com, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
LAS VEGAS, NV (November 17, 2006) -- Three-division world champions and national icons MANNY "PACMAN" PACQUIAO, from The Philippines, and ERIK "EL TERRIBLE" MORALES, from Mexico, put it all on the line Tomorrow Night! in "The Grand Finale!" -- the 12-round WBC International title fight rubber match Read Full Story >>> El Terrible
By Jingo Quijano, Sun.Star Cebu, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
They don?t call him that for his manners, although Marco Antonio Barrera could certainly make a case for it, especially after a water-throwing incident marred the aftermath of their third fight.
They don?t also call him that for his singing, and in fact Erik Morales swears it more appropriately Read Full Story >>> Morales tuned like a Ferrari
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
This is the line of thinking of the team of experts that took Erik Morales under its weight reduction and physical conditioning program for almost two months in Los Angeles.
"We have done our job. We have never seen Morales in better shape than he is now," said Swede exercise physiologist Joerge Read Full Story >>> Morales rebuilt according to specifications ? Velocity
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
Losing a lot of weight made Erik Morales come out of the Velocity Sports Performance Center in Los Angeles a better boxer and a better fighter.
Jorgen Person, who helped run an eight-week weight-reduction and conditioning program for the Mexican, expressed confidence that Morales will be in terr Read Full Story >>> Morales? trainers: ?We?ve done our job?
By Francis Ochoa, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
LAS VEGAS -- The way the name of the group has been tossed into the third and final installment of the Manny Pacquiao-Erik Morales rivalry, it may seem like Velocity Sports Performance has a lot riding on the outcome of the November 18 duke-out.
The members of the team that helped condition ?El T Read Full Story >>> Cebuanos speak out on tomorrow?s ?Grand Finale?
By John Pages, Sun.Star Cebu, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
Jack Jakosalem, Cebu City Councilor: ?The fight will no doubt be great, but Manny will put him out at 8!
?If it reaches 9, Morales won?t look so fine... ?Hey, it?s Round 10, it should have been over by then!
?Oh no, it?s now reached Round 11, panicking are those who bet it would be over by 7 Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao is pundit's pick
Sun.Star Cebu, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
IT?S not just Filipinos wracking their brains on who will emerge triumphant when Manny ?The Pacman? Pacquiao steps in the ring against Erik ?El Terrible? Morales tomorrow at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas Nevada.
Most analysts at Ringtalk.com, though, now tend to favor 27-year-old Pacqu Read Full Story >>> Bob Arum brings house down with STAR story
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Sat, 18 Nov 2006
LAS VEGAS ? Before a jampacked press conference, Bob Arum, the legendary boxing promoter, made special mention of a recent Philippine STAR article where a Filipino bishop said it?s not a sin to place bets for the coming fight.
"This morning, as I was browsing the Internet, I came across an artic Read Full Story >>> Study in contrasts
Is Morales-Pacquiao a better deal than the big fight?
By Richard O'Brien, Sports Illustrated, Fri, 17 Nov 2006
Side by side, Erik Morales and Manny Pacquiao look like those Greek theatre masks of Tragedy and Comedy.
Morales, with his hollow-eyed, hawk-nosed glower, seems to personify all the pai Read Full Story >>>
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