They’ll likely still have trouble pronouncing his name. But everyone will know who he is now.
Manny Pacquiao lands a hard shot to Marco Antonio Barrera’s chin in Saturday’s main event at the Alamodome. Pacquiao stopped Barrera in the 11th round.
The sport of boxing, badly in need of a new sensation, finally found him.
Manny Pacquiao, a 4-1 underdog, stunned the boxing world Saturday night with an 11th-round technical knockout of Marco Antonio Barrera in front of 10,127 shocked fans at the Alamodome.
But it wasn’t so much that Pacquiao (pronounced PACK-ee-ow), beat the man universally considered the world’s best featherweight. It was how he beat him.
