Manny Pacquiao, on the road to his Las Vegas mega-buck fight on May 8, has left another sparring mate by the Los Angeles wayside as he knocked down Armenian Art Simonyan in a six-round training session over the weekend at the Wild Card Gym.
According to www.mannypacquiao.ph, Pacquiao caught Simonyan with a single punch — a left straight–in the first round.
But being aware of the shortage of sparring opponents, the report said that Pacquiao ?decided against going for the kill when he could have easily scored a knockout any time he wanted.?
Sources said Simonyan, who sports a 13-0-1 win-loss-draw card, has not been knocked down in his professional career.
Early last week, Pacquiao handed out damage to another Armenian, Kahren Harutyunyan, who was reportedly at ringside together with a growing number of Filipinos and Mexicans who watched the Pacquiao-Simonyan exercise.
