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Mayweather or Pacquiao: Who’s the Real Giant Killer?

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Image: Mayweather or Pacquiao: Who’s the Real Giant Killer?By Alexander Fugate: In March 2005, Manny Pacquiao battled Erik Morales for the first time. The bout was at the junior lightweight limit of 130 pounds.

At the time of the fight, Morales entered the ring at 140 and Pacquiao came in at 139 pounds. Morales won a 12 round unanimous decision. On November 26, 2006 these two finished their trilogy. Pacquiao entered the ring that night at 144 pounds while Morales came in five pounds lighter at 139.

Two fights later Pacquiao had a rematch with Marquez. The night of the fight Pacquiao outweighed Marquez by four pounds, 145 to 141. In his next fight, Manny moved up in weight to the 135 pound division. There he fought David Diaz who weighed 148, to Manny’s 147 pounds when they entered the ring.

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Is Mayweather a wimp for asking Pacquiao to take blood tests?

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Image: Is Mayweather a wimp for asking Pacquiao to take blood tests?By Jason Kim: As the time passes since Floyd Mayweather’s potential mega fight against World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao fell apart over the random blood tests that Mayweather had insisted on for the fight, more and more fighters are coming out of the woodwork saying that they would be more than happy to fight Pacquiao without the Filipino star having to take any kind of blood tests. The latest fighter that has come out saying that they would fight Pacquiao without blood tests is WBC lightweight Edwin Valero.

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Roach says he never considered Malignaggi for Pacquiao fight

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Image: Roach says he never considered Malignaggi for Pacquiao fightBy William Mackay: In an interview at Fightfan, Freddie Roach, the trainer for Manny Pacquiao, has some harsh words about former International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi. Roach says “We have to fight challengers out there. Mayweather didn’t happen and we couldn’t pick Paulie Malignaggi. You know he’s a little stiff.” Roach probably wasn’t referring to the way that Malignaggi fights when he said “he’s a little stiff.” In translation for fans that don’t understand what Roach might be saying when he mentions Malignaggi being stiff. What he’s saying is that Malignaggi isn’t that good a fighter.

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Mayweather-Mosley and Pacquiao-Clottey analysis

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Image: Mayweather-Mosley and Pacquiao-Clottey analysisBy By Benjamin Dover: I have been thinking hard about the two bouts coming up and i’m going to start with the main one. On May 1st you have Mayweather-Mosley, a fight boxing fans have been waiting and waiting for and now it’s finally happening. You have Floyd Mayweather 40-0 (25 KO’s) and Shane Mosley 46-5 (39 KO’s.)

I see this fight being a close one for the first 4-5 rounds with Mosley looking to pressure Floyd and trying to make him fight. I see Shane throwing a lot but not landing many along the way, similar to the De La Hoya-Mayweather fight.

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Clottey blames his low KO percentage on struggles to make 147 – News

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Image: Clottey blames his low KO percentage on struggles to make 147 - NewsBy Jason Kim: In a recent interview, former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Joshua Clottey (35-3, 20 KO’s) candidly admitted why he’s had problems knocking out opponents as of late. Clottey, 32, says “This is the problem. I’ve been a welterweight for 16 good years. If you look at me from my head to my toe – my legs, my body, are all big. So sometimes I have to train hard to make the weight. So when you stay at the same weight for too long your knockout percentages comes down. I trained too much for the welterweight division. It’s not that I lack stamina.”

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Pacquiao vs. Clottey Undercard

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Image: Pacquiao vs. Clottey UndercardARLINGTON, TX (February 11, 2010) – World Boxing Council (WBC) super featherweight champion HUMBERTO “Zorrita” SOTO and former WBC lightweight champion DAVID DIAZ will go mano-a-mano for the vacant WBC lightweight title, headlining the pay-per-view undercard of THE EVENT: PACQUIAO vs. CLOTTEY, World Welterweight Championship. The Pacquiao vs. Clottey pay-per-view telecast will also feature 10-round rumbles between two-time world champion JOSE LUIS “El Terrible” CASTILLO in a welterweight battle against top-10 contender ALFONSO GOMEZ and “Ireland’s” JOHN DUDDY in a middleweight duel with MICHAEL “Myckol” MEDINA.

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Roach: “If he [Clottey] lays on the ropes, we’re [Pacquiao] going to kill him”

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Image: Roach: “If he [Clottey] lays on the ropes, we’re [Pacquiao] going to kill him”By Jim Dower: Trainer Freddie Roach feels it won’t be much of a problem for Manny Pacquiao to take apart Joshua Clottey in their March 13th fight at the Dallas Cowboy stadium, in Arlington, Texas. Roach says in an interview at Fightfan, If he [Clottey] lays on the ropes, we’re [Pacquiao] going to kill him.” Pacquiao will be making his first defense of his newly won World Boxing Organization welterweight title against number #1 ranked Clottey. Pacquiao wanted to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr., but the negotiations for that fight stalled and eventually failed after Mayweather requested that random blood tests be taken up to 14 days before the fight.

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Pacquiao is in a no win situation against Clottey

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Image: Pacquiao is in a no win situation against ClotteyBy Franciso Chentango: I don’t know if people realize this or not but Manny Pacquiao is almost in a no win situation regardless of whether he beats challenger Joshua Clottey or not on March 13th. There’s a significant amount of people who will look at Pacquiao’s win – or loss – over Clottey and see it as evidence that Pacquiao is using performance enhancing drugs. Anyone with two eyes can see that Pacquiao is not using any performance enhancing drugs. He’s completely natural, but some people don’t see him like that and are pre-judging this great fighter.

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Mayweather-Pacquiao square off in Boxing Monthly!

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Image: Mayweather-Pacquiao square off in Boxing Monthly!By Mike Hunt: I recently recieved my monthly dose of Boxing Monthly in the post and straight away I read the panel from people throughout the boxing world on the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight and who they think will win. I want to be able to forget about this fight for now at least but because it’s that big for the sport it just won’t go away. Each explain which fighter of the two they like and why they think they will win the fight.

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