Manny Pacquiao Boxing News

By Chris Williams: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan feels that his good friend Manny Pacquiao was lucky to beat challenger Juan Manuel Marquez last weekend by a 12 round decision. However, Khan doesn’t think Pacquiao would beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. and believes he should think seriously about retiring from the sport before his legacy [...]

By Chris Williams: It’s bad when judges get it wrong and pick and stand by the losing horse. This is exactly what happened last weekend when WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and two of HBO’s analyst Jim Lampley and Harold Lederman saw Pacquiao as the winner over Juan Manuel Marquez. Pacquiao didn’t look like a [...]

By Chris Williams: I figured it would be a hard pill for a lot of Manny Pacquiao’s loyal boxing fans to swallow in how poor Manny looked in getting what many boxing fans see as a gift decision over Juan Manuel Marquez last Saturday night in winning by a 12 round majority decision at the [...]

By Babatis Banda: It is disheartening to see one of the biggest fights in boxing never take place due to a promoter. First, Bob Arum has been preoccupied in making Floyd Mayweather Jr. look bad, than a real effort towards making the biggest fight happen. Now, we are told that Arum says Manny Pacquiao will [...]

By Chris Williams: Leonard Ellerbe, an advisor for Floyd Mayweather, and Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer are saying that Bob Arum doesn’t want to put together a fight between his fighter WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and Mayweather Jr. Instead of making that fight, they see Arum avoiding the Mayweather fight to put Pacquiao [...]

By Babatis Banda: Looking at a number of Manny Pacquiao’s fights, you will realize that Bob Arum and Freddie Roach did a good job in building Manny’s name. The definitive fights in Manny’s ascendancy to the top were so choreographed such that it was inevitable for the casual fan to jump on the band wagon.

By Frank (Frankly) Livingstone: It was reported that GBP CEO R Schaefer told ESPN that they were notified that Pacquiao promoter, Bob Arum, was not interested in pursuing a fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao at this time. The reason being that Bob Arum is more interested in arranging Pacquiao/Marquez IV sometime in May or June [...]

By Reni M. Valenzuela: Ridiculous but painful reality in many of life’s situations such as when one is made to believe the “four” that the “machine” or “rule” is telling him to be the exact right number when it is clear as crystal to be “eight” at close range, before his very naked eyes.

By Daniel Echevarria: So as many fans where waiting as was I any information on the possibility of Floyd Mayweather watching last Saturdays match-up between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Marquez the definitive answer is NO! According to FIGHTHYPE.com Floyd stated that he was actually in Virginia hosting a party but he was flooded with emails [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) successfully defended his title Saturday night against WBO/WBA lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (54-6-1, 39 KO’s). But Pacquiao’s performance pleased no one. It was expected after the close decision favoring “Pacman” over Marquez at the MGM Grand Arena in [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Saturday nights fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas between WBO Welterweight champion Manny Pacquaio (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) and WBO/WBA lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (53-6-1, 39 KO’s) was easily the most tactical of the three fight Trilogy between Pacquiao and Marquez.

HBO SPORTS® PRESENTS THE EXCLUSIVE REPLAY MANNY PACQUIAO VS. JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ III SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19 It’s a special edition of HBO BOXING AFTER DARK® when HBO Sports presents MANNY PACQUIAO VS. JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ III, the exclusive replay of their welterweight title showdown, this SATURDAY, NOV. 19 at 10:30 p.m. ET/ PT on HBO. [...]

By Babatis Banda: In self-comforting realization of the truth, the Pacfan base will sing this song for the next coming months until either Manny Pacquiao fights Juan Manuel Marquez again, or is bold enough to face the disputed P4P king Floyd Mayweather junior.

By Sam Geraci (Chicago): After Saturday’s mega fight between pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and Mexican legend Juan Manuel Marquez, fight fans, legitimate boxing writers, and even Marquez have been asking themselves what else could have been done to win a close decision against Pacquaio after that fight.

By Babatis Banda: Watching the Manny Pacquiao versus Juan Manuel Marquez fight gave me some goose bumps, not because the fight was thrilling as was expected, but because the implications of a Marquez win would have been chilling, at least to some of us still hopeful of Manny fighting Floyd.

By Babatis Banda: I have consistently pointed out a few facts about Manny Pacquiao’s ascendancy to star-dorm in this sport. Before I dwell further into this thought, allow me to comment on the Pacquiao versus Juan Manuel Marquez III first.

By Reni M. Valenzuela: As a Filipino, I should be happy that my compatriot Manny Pacquiao escaped Juan Manuel Marquez, yet again. But I must confess, I am distressed and joyless at the heart-rending decision of the judges as many of us were befuddled in the first rematch where my hero was declared the winner [...]

By Glen Anglin: Now that Saturday’s Marquez-Pacquiao is over and the result was another razor-thin decision, the crybabies come out of the woodwork. The standard dolts who consistently pollute this site with their Pacquiao fear/jealousy/hatred have already weighed in with their ‘we wuz robbed’ friggin nonsense.

By Chris Williams: Trainer Freddie Roach isn’t satisfied with his fighter Manny Pacquiao winning a controversial points decision over 38-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez last night in Las Vegas, and now wants to see a fourth fight between the two fighters in the first quarter of 2012 rather than seeing Manny move on and face Floyd [...]

By Dennis McCarthy: For 3 years now, fight fans have been excited at the prospect of the ultimate defence vs the ultimate attack, Floyd Mayweather v Manny Pacquiao.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) won another controversial decision over his nemesis WBO/WBA lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (53-6-1, 39 KO’s) Saturday night at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

By Chris Williams: With the Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez fight now over with Pacquiao winning a controversial points decision last Saturday night, the excuses are already starting to pop up for why Pacquiao struggled so badly against the 38-year-old Marquez. You knew the excuses would come, but I didn’t expect them to happen [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Juan Manuel Marquez made Manny Pacquiao look bad tonight in beating him every which way a fighter can beat someone. However, the judges saw it differently from most of the boxing fans at ringside at the MGM Grand, giving the decision to Pacquiao by a 12 round majority decision. This was supposed [...]

By William Mackay: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan worked the Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Manny Pacquiao fight as a commentator for Primetime PPV, and Khan shockingly saw Marquez as the winner in this fight, picking him as the victor over Khan’s good friend Pacquiao. That kind of tells you something when you’ve got Khan [...]

By Gerardo Granados: I have been I boxing fan for many years now but what I had never witnessed an absolute insult for boxing fans as I have witnessed today. I have witnessed robberies committed in pro boxing and amateur boxing but this one I have never seen before.

By Dave Lahr: WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) is celebrating his victory tonight over Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez (53-6-1, 39 KOs) after beating him by a 12 round majority decision on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s hard to see what Pacquiao is celebrating because not only [...]

By Chris Williams: In a fight outcome that left virtually no one happy other than Pacquiao fans, WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) labored to a controversial 12 round majority decision on Saturday night against 38-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (53-6-1, 39 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The final judges’ [...]

By Manuel Perez: Okay, justice will be served when Juan Manuel Marquez beats WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao tonight in front of a worldwide audience on HBO pay per view at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is going to be a beating and I’m really looking forward to it.

By William Mackay: In what may be the best fights on the entire card tonight in Las Vegas, slugger Breidis Prescott (24-3, 19 KOs) faces the hard hitting Mike Alvarado (31-0, 22 KO’s) in a 10 round bout for Alvarado’s IBF Latino light welterweight title on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel [...]

By Dave Lahr: Freddie Roach is still yakking about the t-shirt Juan Manuel Marquez chose to wore when he visited the Philippines not too long ago. The t-shirt, which said Marquez beat Pacquiao twice, seems to have really angered both Pacquiao and Roach because neither of them seems to want to acknowledge the reality that [...]