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Pacquiao can?t fight in RP
MUCH AS Manny Pacquiao yearns to fight again before his adoring countrymen, that may not be feasible at this time. Rod Nazario, the world champion?s manager, bared yesterday that at least R40…
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Pacquiao purse, P40M cost make RP fight impossible
Manny Pacquiao staging his next fight in the Philippines is close to impossible. This was bared by Rod Nazario in yesterday's PSA Forum where Pacquiao's business manager said it would take as…
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Chavez bouyed by Pacquiao win over Barrera; says he will beat Morales
But Chavez can be heartened by what happened Nov. 15 in San Antonio when another Mexican legend, Marco Antonio Barrera, was soundly beaten by Manny Pacquiao in a fight that was stopped…
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Manny unlikely to fight here
Manny Pacquiao staging his next fight in the Philippines is close to impossible. This was bared by Pacquiao?s business manager Rod Nazario in Tuesday?s Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum. Nazario said it would…
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Busy Manny to co-star with Mikey in new flick
Money, or so it seems, is the least of Manny Pacquiao?s worries these days. In fact, exactly 10 days after a megabuck fight that resulted in a windfall of bonuses and incentives,…
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On Fame and Oddities
GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Manny Pacquiao, by technically knocking out Marco Antonio Barrera, the Mexican featherweight king who vowed to teach him a boxing lesson, should be honored. No question about that.…
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GMA awards Pacquiao with ?Medal of Merit?, Filipino boxing hero also receives P1 M, one condominium unit
FOR the first time since the state visit of US president George W. Bush last month, the Malaca?ang Palace burst into a festive atmosphere yesterday as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo formally conveyed…
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A hero?s welcome for Manny
Fans and ordinary citizens waved flags of different sizes, colorful handkerchiefs and streamers as they gave boxing champion Manny Pacquiao a hero?s welcome when he arrived at Manila City Hall yesterday to…
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His victory alone
Even as we write this editorial, the motorcade of Manny Pacquiao should be wending its way around the city of Manila -- hopefully to cheers of crowds. Working against that happy prospect…
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A hero?s welcome
Thousands of adoring Filipinos lined the streets of downtown Manila and the heart of Makati?s financial district to give returning hero Manny Pacquiao a fantastic welcome yesterday. At Malaca?ang Palace, Pacquiao offered…
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Pacquiao gets hero’s welcome from grateful nation
BOXING champion Manny Pacquiao was given a hero's welcome on Monday as he was feted with a motorcade that took him to the cities of Manila and Makati. Confetti rained on Ayala…
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President awards Pacquiao with medal of merit
WORLD boxing champion Manny Pacquiao capped a day full of tributes to him by paying a courtesy call Monday to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Malaca?ang where he received the Presidential Medal of…
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Carlos Hernandez To Pacquiao: ?Let?s Do This!?
Over the weekend, Boxingtalk.com spoke to IBF junior lightweight champ, Carlos ?El Famoso? Hernandez to see what he?s been up to and see what he thought about Manny Pacquiao?s masterful performance against…
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Who?s next for Manny?
I never saw the contract that Manny Pacquiao signed to fight Marco Antonio Barrera but the newly-crowned consensus world featherweight boxing champion?s business manager Rod Nazario said there?s a provision for a…
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Elaborate welcome awaits Manny in General Santos
AN ELABORATE welcome awaits boxing hero Manny Pacquaio when he arrives here Tuesday, said city hall sources. Mayor Pedro Acharon Jr. had ordered a hero's welcome for Pacquaio, in tribute to the…
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After rousing welcome, champ gets P1M, condo
IT WAS a different crowd Manny Pacquiao faced this time. Just a week ago in Texas, inside the Alamodome, over 10,000 screaming fans where asking for his blood. Back in his homeland,…
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HBO budgeted $.7M as Pacquiao purse
HAS someone's bank account fattened other than that of Manny Pacquiao's? Reports reaching the Inquirer have it that HBO, pioneer of the pay-per-view concept, actually paid a whopping $700,000 dollars (about 38.5…
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Manny Pacquiao to stand by GMA’s corner
International boxing champion Manny Pacquiao said Monday that he is ready to support the presidential bid of President Arroyo, should she ask for it, in return for all the help that she…
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Pacquiao torn between FPJ, GMA
THE boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is torn between President Arroyo and the presidential aspirant Fernando Poe Jr. about whom he would help in next year?s campaign. Pacquiao said that if President Arroyo…
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Boxiana Salutes Pacquiao And The New Guard
"Alamo" is Spanish for "cottonwood tree." The area around the Alamo fortress and its host city of San Antonio is, like the cottonwood trees that gave their name, scenic, charming and gentle.…
