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TODAY! Pacquiao & Rios NY News Conf - 3 P.M. ET PhilBoxing.com Tue, 06 Aug 2013  MANNY PACQUIAO and BRANDON RIOS NEW YORK PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING THEIR NOVEMBER 23 SHOWDOWN PRESENTED LIVE BY HBO PAY-PER-VIEW? 23,722-MILE INT'L MEDIA TOUR HITS THE BIG APPLE TODAY! TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, at 3:00 P.M. ET JING FONG RESTAURANT NEW YORK (August 6, 2013) -- Fighter of the Decade, Congressman MANNY "Pacman" PACQUIAO (54-5-2, 38 KOs), the lone congressional representative from the Sarangani Province of the Philippines, and former world champion BRANDON "Bam Bam" RIOS (31-1-1, 22 KOs), of Oxnard, Calif., will host their first U.S. press conference announcing their eagerly-anticipated welterweight collision, Today! Tuesday, August 6, at Jing Fong Restaurant (20 Elizabeth St. -- between Canal & Baynard Sts. -- New York, NY 10013). Media report time is 3:00 p.m. ET, with the press conference beginning at 3:30 p.m ET. Last week, Pacquiao and Rios wrapped up the Asian phase of their unprecedented seven-stop, 23,722-mile international media tour which included Macau, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore. Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum and Edward Tracy, President and CEO of Sands China Ltd., will be joining the fighters in New York along with Trainer of the Year Robert Garcia of Team Rios. Promoted by Top Rank? and Sands China Ltd., in association with MP Promotions and Tecate, Pacquiao vs. Rios will take place Saturday, November 23 at The Venetian? Macao?s CotaiArena?. It will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View, beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT. For Pacquiao, boxing's only eight-division world champion, this marks the pound-for-pound box office monarch's 2013 debut as well as his first fight outside the U.S. since his 12-round super featherweight unanimous decision victory over former world champion Oscar Larios in 2006, which took place in the Philippines. Rios, one of boxing's most exciting fighters, has only fought outside the U.S. once, in M?xico in 2008 when he won a 10-round split decision over Ricardo Dominguez. For fight updates go to www.toprank.com or www.hbo.com/boxing, on Facebook at facebook.com/trboxing, facebook.com/trboxeo or facebook.com/hboboxing and on Twitter at twitter.com/trboxing, twitter.com/trboxeo, twitter.com/hboboxing and twitter.com/pacrios.  |
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