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Thoughts in the off season
By Patrick Kehoe, The Sweet Science, Thu, 28 Dec 2006
Our thoughts this time of year tend toward reflection, trying to summarize and evaluate the events that made up the fabric of another year now dimming, rain washed, snowbound, closing. In boxing, as with every year, titles were won and lost, fighters and their cadres push toward lofty goals of money Read Full Story >>>Boxing, basketball, billiards steal show
Manila Standard Today, Thu, 28 Dec 2006
FOR most of the year, Philippine sports was a blast, thanks to a few young men—and a girl barely in her teens—whose feats made the rest of the world sit up and take notice.
Pro boxers Manny Pacquiao and Rey “Boom Boom” Bautista, billiard ace Ronnie Alcano and world-class Read Full Story >>> Final 2006 Tabulations for Pound-for-Pound Best
By David A. Avila, The Sweet Science, Thu, 28 Dec 2006
This is the final listing for my best fighters pound-for-pound in the world. What does it mean?
If all these fighters below weighed the same, this is the order I believe represents the very best in the s Read Full Story >>> MORE THRILLAS AROUND MANILA AS ARUM JETS INTO PACMANLAND
By Michael Marley, Boxing Confidential, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
The Battle for Pacman took a one-day Christmas break but the kettle is steaming again with the arrival in the Philippines of Top Rank's Bob Arum. Arum is planning to meet as soon as possible with Manny Pac Read Full Story >>> Philippines Boxing Update!
By Dennis Principe, FightNews.com, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
Pacquiao update
Filipino boxing promoter Wakee Salud has denied any involvement in the decision-making of Manny Pacquiao.
"I’m not taking part in this issue. There are two cases pending before the courts in the United States. Let us leave in up to the courts to decide which promoter Pac Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao trader of the year?
By Recah Trinidad, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
THE Philippine Sportswriters Association is having a hard time picking the singular performer who will be declared Athlete of the Year.
No, not because we are lacking in deserving big winners.
In fact, one problem facing the PSA, founded in 1949, involves boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao.
Pa Read Full Story >>> King Told The Truth About Never Contacting Pacman
By Michael Marley, Boxing Confidential, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
NEW YORK --Don King told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Go back and read that line again because it may be historic. But King did speak "the emmis" when he issued a press release stating that he never contacted boxing's hottest attraction, Manny Pacquiao, about the Pacman beco Read Full Story >>> In and out, up and down with Manny Pacquiao
By Michael Woods, The Sweet Science, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
Most of us thought Manny Pacquiao would hook up again with WBC super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera, but Golden Boy Promotions is saying that Barrera will fight WBO champion Juan Manuel Marquez on March 17, 2007.
Golden Boy, according to ABS-CBN, said the Barrera/Marquez fight is al Read Full Story >>> Ricardo Lois’ Best of Boxing 2006
Don’t Expect Manny, Do Not Expect Much – Didn’t Ya’ Hear, Boxing is Dead
By Ricardo Lois, Boxing Confidential, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
Los Angeles -- I am not really sure what drives the need for human beings to develop and read year end awards and lists. Years and years ago some hack at a long defunct magazine or newpaper created the first of these lists to improve sales, I am sure of it.
Who cares if the Clipse’s “ Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao deal within Arum’s reach
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
Top Rank top honcho Bob Arum reportedly arrived in Manila the other day, and is now in Gen. Santos City for a crucial meeting with Manny Pacquiao late last night.
According to Philboxing.com, Arum was already in Pacquiao’s hometown as of Monday although he had not yet made any serious disc Read Full Story >>> Arum visits Pacquiao in General Santos City
By Rommel C. Manlosa, Sun.Star Cebu, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
ALARMED by the growing consensus favoring his rival promoter – Top Rank founder and president Bob Arum slipped into the country unannounced last Monday to talk about his “contract” and the future of Manny Pacquiao.
With trainer Freddie Roach and manager Shelly Finkel taking the Read Full Story >>> Arum in town to woo Pacman
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
SENSING THAT Golden Boy is making inroads in the race to promote Manny Pacquiao’s coming bouts, sources close to the famed puncher revealed that Top Rank big boss Bob Arum has arrived in the country and is now in General Santos City for a meeting with the boxer.
It was learned that Arum& Read Full Story >>> FINAL 2006 PAY PER VIEW NUMBERS & MERCHANT CONFIRMS HBO UFC SERIES!
By Pedro Fernandez, RingTalk.com, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
DE LA HOYA-MAYORGA TAKES TOP SPOT TWICE
San Francisco, CA-Before I list the Pay Per View numbers for the year 2006, let's talk about the December 10th 60-Minutes segment about the UFC. Although the CBS piece itself was "lacking" some thought, it did near record numbers. According to Dave Meltze Read Full Story >>> Michael Marley's Belated Xmas Gift List: Gifters Dilemma, What To Give Man(nny) Who Has Everything?
By Michael Marley, Boxing Confidential, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
Manny Pacquaio: What to give the Manny who has everything? Maybe serenity now to go along with all your fame and riches. Or maybe a panic button to press whenever someone approaches you with a contract thus alerting Roach and Finkel immediately...
Calvin Brock: A fight real soon. Otherwise, you m Read Full Story >>> ESPN.com, US paper honor Pacquiao as year’s best boxer
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
THERE’S SIMPLY no stopping Manny Pacquiao from reaping every available award from the world boxing community.
Dan Rafael of ESPN.com named Pacquiao as 2006’s top fighter, while Norm Frauenheim of the Arizone Republic did the same in an article titled "Rise of Pacquiao is highlight Read Full Story >>> They partied all night
By Edwin G. Espejo, Sun.Star General Santos, Wed, 27 Dec 2006
MANNY Pacquiao sure knows how to flaunt his boxing prowess. And this extends to showing off his affluence outside the ring.
On his birthday, he literally knocked out his visitors by partying all night long.
By all accounts, the last man standing was, who else? The Destroyer himself.
All Read Full Story >>> BOB ARUM ARRIVES IN GENSAN!
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 26 Dec 2006
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum arrived in Manila yesterday and took a connecting flight to General Santos City clearly raising the stakes in his contractual battle with Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions for the right to promote the future fights of Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao.
V Read Full Story >>> Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather, Jr: The Road to Greatness Now Begins
By John Hively, BoxingScene.com, Tue, 26 Dec 2006
Boxing will experience a somewhat over-hyped event this coming May in the form of a fight between a prime Floyd ?Pretty Boy? Mayweather and a gracefully aging yet far from his peak Oscar ?Golden Boy? De La Hoya. This bout is not in the same class as matches between, say, a prime Ray Leonard and Robe Read Full Story >>> Rise of Pacquiao is highlight of '06
By Norm Frauenheim, AZCentral.com, Tue, 26 Dec 2006
he ballot box for 2006 is filled with a lot of the usual suspects, but a year full of familiar condemnations and dire forecasts is defined by Manny Pacquiao.
Pacquiao's signature is there in the beginning and in the end with bookend victories over Erik Morales in January and again in November.
Read Full Story >>> Gensan's man of the year
By Edwin G. Espejo, Sun.Star General Santos, Tue, 26 Dec 2006
NC. No contest. Once this entry appears in a boxer's record, it connotes either foul play or a bum decision.
But an NC as Man of the Year who made General Santos City even more famous, it is without doubt a fitting tribute to the Manny Pacquiao.
He fought three times this year and won them a Read Full Story >>>
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