Ben Thompson
1,357 articles · FightHype.com
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PAUL WILLIAMS: “PACQUIAO HAS MY BELT; I MAY WANT TO COME BACK AND GET IT!”
"Man, I'd love to get in there with Pacquiao. He throws a lot of punches and I throw a lot of punches. It would be an exciting fight...They say he's the best…
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MAYWEATHER EYES HATTON, SALITA OR QUINTANA IN THE UK INSTEAD OF PACQUIAO?
Forget what you've heard about a potential mega-fight between multi-division champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and pound-for-pound champion Manny Pacquiao. Sources close to the information have informed us that Mayweather, who's been seen…
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MANNY PACQUIAO: “FOR THE RECORD, YEAH!”
Los Angeles TV station KTLA was on hand yesterday at Manny Pacquiao's official victory party at The Highlands in Hollywood, California. With the boxing world buzzing about a potential showdown with Floyd…
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SHANE MOSLEY: “PACQUIAO IS A REAL WELTERWEIGHT…I’LL FIGHT HIM IN APRIL”
"I thought he looked good. I thought he threw a lot of combinations and he got Cotto to press him a little bit and caught him with that little left uppercut/hook that…
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SHANE MOSLEY: “PACQUIAO COULD VERY WELL KNOCK OUT MAYWEATHER”
"Pacquiao made a believer out of me with Cotto, so I wouldn't count Pacquiao out. I think Pacquiao could do a number on Mayweather because Mayweather's chin is not that good. I…
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MAYWEATHER ADMITS THAT PACQUIAO-COTTO SHOULD DO MORE BUYS THAN HIS BOUT WITH MARQUEZ
"I've done over a million homes by myself! By myself! Now we got Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto, two guys who have a pretty cool fan base, so if they do more homes…
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FLOYD MAYWEATHER: “I DESERVE THE BIGGER PIECE OF THE PIE”
"I deserve the bigger piece of the pie. I've done more, I've been around the sport longer and I've been dominating longer. And nobody has beaten me yet. Like I said before,…
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NATE CAMPBELL: “PACQUIAO AIN’T FIGHTING THESE GUYS AT THEIR ACTUAL WEIGHT”
"Look, I'ma tell you like this, styles make fights and Pacquiao is running rampant right now in all these divisions, but he's not fighting the full division. All these people are saying,…
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CABLE COMPANIES OVERWHELMED WITH ORDERS FOR PACQUIAO VS. COTTO
"We've never had this experience with so many people ordering a fight. This must be a big, big fight," commented a local New Jersey Comcast cable operator hours before Saturday's pay-per-view clash…
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PACQUIAO OFF TO CONCERT WHILE COTTO IS SENT TO HOSPITAL
As pound-for-pound champion Manny Pacquiao gets set to perform an 8-song concert at the Mandaly Bay Events Center after his dominant win, his fallen opponent, Miguel Cotto, was sent to Valley Hospital…
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PACQUIAO IMPRESSIVE IN HISTORIC 12TH ROUND TKO WIN OVER COTTO
Pound-for-pound champion Manny Pacquiao solidified his status as an all-time great with an impressive and dominant 12th round TKO victory over WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, becoming the firster boxer to ever…
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KENNY ABRIL: “COTTO ACTUALLY INTIMIDATED PACQUIAO”
"Cotto actually intimidated Pacquiao because he was looking at him like letting him know that he was going to knock him out and Pacquiao automatically turned his face while Cotto was still…
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FIGHTING IN STYLE, COTTO EXPECTS TO HAVE ANOTHER ADVANTAGE THIS SATURDAY
According to the latest Ecko blog post by MMA Brand Manager Eric Samson, WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto expects to have yet another advantage over Manny Pacquiao on November 14th as he…
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RASHAD HOLLOWAY: “COTTO’S GOING TO SLEEP…SECOND ROUND KNOCKOUT”
"Manny takes every shot pretty well. Manny's a tough guy. Manny's very tough. People don't understand that. For Manny to come from flyweight and to come up to welterweight and be able…
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SHAWN PORTER: “MANNY IS DEFINITELY READY”
"I think Pacman is by far the number one pound-for-pound boxer. I've watched other guys over the last few years and he seems to have that exciting style that basically is untouchable…
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GATO FIGUEROA: “IT’S GOING TO BE A TOUGH FIGHT FOR COTTO”
"We all know that Cotto, yes, he puts pressure, but he puts it at certain moments of time in 12 rounds...Cotto is known to do it once in a blue moon. He's…
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BERNARD HOPKINS: “FLOYD MAYWEATHER IS NO TOUGH GUY”
"Hey, listen, at the end of the day, when I look at guys, and some rappers that I ain't going to mention, that talk about gangsta, talk about street, talk about going…
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BOB ARUM: “THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST COMPETITIVE FIGHTS OF THE YEAR”
"That fight was that fight and this fight is this fight. I think this fight, for me, is a much more intriguing fight and a fight that is getting a lot more…
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RASHAD HOLLOWAY: “MANNY IS STRONG RIGHT NOW”
"Manny is strong right now. His right hand is just as strong as his left right now and it's ridiculous. Now I see how he knocked Hatton out. I mean, he hit…
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TEAM COTTO SAW WEAKNESSES IN PACQUIAO’S REMATCH WITH MARQUEZ
"The same way that Freddie says he has seen weaknesses in Miguel, we know the weaknesses of Manny. If there's any doubt, just review the eighth round of his second fight with…
