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Beristain: Sad Reality awaits Pacquiao
By James Blears
Ignacio Beristain, the wily manager of WBA and IBF Featherweight Champion Juan Manuel Marquez is warning Manny Pacquiao not to get carried away with all the hype, following his victory over Marco…
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IBF OKs Pacquiao-Marquez!
The IBF has given its blessing to the May 8 featherweight showdown at the MGM Grand Resort in Las Vegas between recognized 126lb kingpin Manny Pacquiao and IBF/WBA featherweight champion Juan Manuel…
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Is Manny Pacquiao durable enough?
MANNY Pacquiao should be made to realize that his next fight could be decided on durability. I met with Pacquiao last week, two days before he departed for his California training camp.…
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Pacquiao treated like a Hollywood star in LA
LOS ANGELES ? Manny Pacquiao has become a big attraction at the Wild Card Gym, attracting droves of fans in his second day of training at Freddie Roach?s famous sweat shop in…
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Champ awaits Pacquiao-Marquez winner
The winner of the upcoming Manny Pacquiao-Juan Marquez clash on May 8 will get the biggest prize of all ? a showdown with reigning WBC (World Boxing Council) super-featherweight champion Erik Morales.…
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High-altitude training for Manny Pacquiao foe
ANTICIPATING the most difficult fight of his career, reigning WBA/IBF featherweight king Juan Manuel "Dinamita" Marquez of Mexico has added high-altitude training to his regimen more than two months before he tangles…
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Morales eyes Pacquiao-Marquez winner
ASIDE from the pair of featherweight crowns that would book him a place to boxing immortality being the first Asian pug to collect three world titles in different weight divisions ever, Filipino…
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Pacquiao training twice as hard
Manny Pacquiao, realizing that beating World Boxing Association/International Boxing Federation champion Juan Manuel Marquez is his ticket to a megabuck showdown with World Boxing Council junior lightweight champion Erik Morales, is training…
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Erik Morales Awaits Pacquiao-Marquez Winner
The winner of the upcoming Manny Pacquiao-Juan Marquez bout in May, will get the biggest prize of all, a showdown with WBC Super-Featherweight champion Erik Morales. Although Morales has a slated unification…
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Boorish behavior
Last week, HBO (Home Box Office) Sports sent a TV crew here to shoot footage of world featherweight boxing champion Manny Pacquiao. The idea was to show how Pacquiao is loved in…
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Pacquiao camp: Marquez an easier foe
Just how good is Juan Manuel Marquez? If one of the insiders at Manny Pacquiao?s camp is to be believed, Marquez may not even be as good as the last opponent Pacquiao…
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Murad, Roach and Pacquiao reunited
By Steve Kim
Promoter Murad Muhammad swore that as long as he was working with featherweight king Manny Pacquiao that there was no way Freddie Roach would be in his corner ever again. Roach swore…
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?I will be ready?
LOS ANGELES ? Manny Pacquiao did light workout in his first day at Freddie Roach?s Wild Card gym in Hollywood, confident he will hit peak form in time for his May 8…
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ROACH PUTS PACQUIAO THROUGH A HARD GRIND
Freddie Roach, 2003 ?Trainer of the Year? put Ring Magazine featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao through a hard grind on the very first day he set foot in Roach?s Wild Card Gym in…
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Pacquiao begins ‘hellish’ training
THE ATHMOSPHERE is a complete turnaround from the hectic schedule he left behind which include movie and endorsement shoots, party invitations, pool hall visits, and a little boxing. A day after arriving…
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Biggest paycheck for Manny Pacquiao
As Manny Pacquiao, the new brown hope of boxing (if we are to hear out the hyperbole oozing from the lips of oleaginous US boxing promoter Murad Muhammad in Manila last week),…
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Roach and Pacquiao Reunited
After a public tug-of-war for featherweight Manny Pacquiao, it looks like not only will 'the Pac Man' proceed with promoter Murad Muhammad, but in a bigger surprise, trainer Freddie Roach. Pacquiao, who…
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?Marquez tougher than Barrera?
LOS ANGELES, CA ? Hall of fame trainer Freddie Roach was excited to reunite with Manny Pacquiao but not until Saturday morning here to whip up a rigorous seven-week training regimen for…
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A rooster for Manny
Lawyer and sportsman Rudy Salud has an interesting proposition for world featherweight boxing champion Manny Pacquiao. If Pacquiao beats Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico in Las Vegas on May 8, Salud will…
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A nation’s faith and hopes are in good hands
Manny Pacquiao?s success in his May 8 encounter with Juan Manuel Marquez hinges on one important premise: that he gets into similar prefight condition the way he did against Marco Antonio Barrera.…