Special news coverage on the legal battle between Bob Arum's Top Rank, Inc. and Oscar de la Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions on who has the promotional rights on Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao signed with Golden Boy on September, 2006 and two months later Pacquiao also signed with Top Rank. In the aftermath, Top Rank and Golden Boy sued each other. The case is currently being heard in U.S. Courts. As a side effect big fights between the two promoters' fighters could not be made or have had great diffulty of being made which deprived the boxing world of the fights it wanted to see.

ARUM IS RIGHT -- AND WRONG!
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, 23 Mar 2007
Top Rank Promotions Bob Arum is right when he says that Manny Pacquiao who he claims will earn close to $5 million for his April 14 fight against undefeated but unknown Mexican Jorge Solis will earn more than the combined earnings of Marco Antonio Barrera and Juan Manuel Marquez in their “Fear Read full story

GOLDEN BOY SAYS PACQUIAO IS TAKING A BACKWARD STEP
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, 23 Mar 2007
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer has said that Manny Pacquiao is “taking a backward step” by fighting “B” level opponents such as the undefeated but unknown Jorge Solis in San Antonio, Texas on April 14. Former WBC super flyweight champion Gerry Penalosa who wat Read full story

THE BATTLE LINES ARE BEING DRAWN
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, 23 Mar 2007
The battle lines are being drawn following Manny Pacquiao’s decision to turn his back on ABS-CBN and sign up with Solar Sports for his clash with undefeated but unknown Jorge Solis in San Antonio, Texas on April 14. The giant broadcast network which gave Pacquiao a whopping $4 million to Read full story

Injunctioned Denied! Pacman PPV Show Rolls On! Even Judges Read Boxingconfidential?
By Michael Lim Ubac, Boxing Confidential, 23 Mar 2007
COPENHAGEN--A state court judge sitting in Las Vegas (Clark County) has denied Golden Boy Promotions application for an injunction which would've put the brakes on Top Rank's big April 14 San Antonio PPV boxing show starring Filipino sensation Manny Pacquaio. This comes as old news to Boxingconfid Read full story

THE MYSTERY OF PACQUIAO’S CASE AGAINST GOLDEN BOY
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, 22 Mar 2007
Both Manny Pacquiao’s lawyer Franklin “Jing” Gacal and his friend and confidant Rex “Wakee” Salud have claimed that Pacquiao denied filing a case against Golden Boy Promotions Oscar De La Hoya for allegedly making him sign a seven-fight contract in mid-September “ Read full story

‘GBP can’t stop Pacquiao-Solis fight’
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, 22 Mar 2007
Manny Pacquiao’s legal counsel is confident that the court injunction filed by Golden Boy Promotions to prevent the Filipino boxer from climbing the ring on April 14 in San Antonio, Texas, will not prosper. "I really don’t think so," said Filipino lawyer Franklin Gacal yesterday amid Read full story

Pacquiao to get P250M from fight
Arum says Pacman’s purse bigger than Marquez, Barrera combined
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, 22 Mar 2007
TOP RANK big boss Bob Arum revealed yesterday that Manny Pacquiao will earn much more than the combined earnings of Juan Manuel Marquez and Marco Antonio Barrera when the Filipino fights undefeated knockout artist Jorge Solis of Mexico on April 15 in San Antonio, Texas. "Check with the Nevada St Read full story

Golden Boy's Chances Of Halting Pacman Bout Slim, None, None Is Out of Town!
By Michael Marley, Boxing Confidential, 21 Mar 2007

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION - A preliminary injunction is appropriate if the moving party demonstrates either (1) a probability of success on the merits and a possibility of irreparable Read full story

BREAKING NEWS: GOLDEN BOY SEEKS COURT INJUNCTION TO STOP PACQUIAO-SOLIS FIGHT!
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, 21 Mar 2007
Golden Boy Promotions is seeking a court injunction to stop the fight between Manny Pacquiao and undefeated but unknown Mexican Jorge Solis in San Antonio, Texas on April 14. Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer in an exclusive overseas telephone conversation with Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today al Read full story

Pacquiao out of the loop—Finkel
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, 21 Mar 2007
Manny Pacquiao may have been left out of the megabuck round-robin among the best of the super featherweight division, his former manager said yesterday. Shelly Finkel, Pacquiao’s former manager, in an e-mail to the Bulletin, expressed disappointment that the Filipino is not within the ci Read full story

Reminder from Shelly
By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, 21 Mar 2007
Manny Pacquiao’s former manager Shelly Finkel sent a brief e-mail yesterday as he assessed the impact of Juan Manuel Marquez’ recent win over Marco Antonio Barrera on the Filipino boxing icon. "I guess what I predicted is exactly what is happening," wrote Finkel. "Guess who is on the Read full story

INSIDE SPORTS: PACQUIAO LOST A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, 20 Mar 2007
Its about time Manny Pacquiao and the sycophants around him including a miscellaneous Canadian who lives off him like a leech and his lawyer Franklin "Jing" Gacal admit that signing up with Bob Arum’s Top Rank was a monumental blunder. Of course we know the mentality behind the decision to Read full story

Arum hits GBP cash deal, calls Roach a liar
By , The Philippine Star, 07 Mar 2007
Bob Arum, whose promotional rights to Manny Pacquiao is being disputed by Oscar de la Hoya, on Monday called Golden Boy’s reported cash deal to Pacquiao last year as "unprofessional and inappropriate." "Come on, give me a break. What legitimate business person pays someone with 12,500 $20 Read full story

Arum disses Oscar De la Hoya's Pacquiao Cash deal; calls Roach a Liar
By , DogHouseBoxing.com, 06 Mar 2007
A recent report out published in the L.A. Times, reports that Oscar De La Hoya and his chief executive of Golden Boy Promotions lured Manny Pacquiao into signing a multi-fight contract by delivering to him a suitcase stuffed with $250,000 in cash as a signing bonus. The publication reports that Pacq Read full story

Video Interview with Freddie Roach
By Ricardo Lois, Boxing Confidential, 05 Mar 2007

Trainer to the stars Freddie roach, and we can say that since the man coaches both Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya, caught up with Boxing Confidential following Israel Vazquez's tough loss to Rafael Read full story

GBP offer to Pacquiao unethical, says US scribe
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, 05 Mar 2007
WHAT Oscar Dela Hoya did in luring Manny Pacquiao to sign up with his Golden Boy Promotions (GBP) was unethical, a top boxing writer wrote in his column that came out yesterday. In his column titled, "Oscar should have staked HBO, not Pacquiao," Kevin Iole of the Las Vegas Review-Journal said Read full story

Heartless Pacquiao KO lands in LA Times
By Recah Trinidad, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 05 Mar 2007
MANILA, Philippines -- What’s the price tag for Filipino valor? For an idea, read this excerpt on Manny Pacquiao, our national inspiration, straight from the Los Angeles Times: “I told Oscar that Manny likes cash, he likes to deal in cash, he pays people in cash,” Freddie Roa Read full story

KEVIN IOLE: Oscar should have staked HBO, not Pacquiao
By Kevin Iole, Las Vegas Review Journal, 05 Mar 2007
Poor HBO. The self-proclaimed network of champions does so much business with Oscar De La Hoya -- it has essentially propped up his company, Golden Boy Promotions, with all the dates it provides him -- that you think in its time of need HBO could have borrowed his Golden suitcase. You know the Read full story

GOLDEN BOY READY TO UP PACQUIAO BONUS TO $1M
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, 03 Mar 2007
If it’s a question of money, Golden Boy Promotions says its no problem and has offered to up Manny Pacquiao’s signing bonus to $1 million to match what the Filipino ring idol was given when he inked a four year deal with Top Rank promoter Bob Arum two months after signing a seven-fight d Read full story