By Manuel Perez: Manny Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum is eager for Manny to face Miguel Cotto, another fighter promoted by Arum, and would like Pacquiao to fight Cotto in the Puerto Rican’s stomping grounds at New York’s Madison Square Garden. This is a move that would guarantee a huge surge of Puerto Ricans that would flock to the fight, and according to Philstar, Arum thinks that the fight could capture as many as “80,000 Pay per view buys in Puerto Rico.
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Pacquiao Treads in the Footsteps of the Past While Looking to the Future
By Steven Pink: Manny Pacquiao represents the latest in a proud line of boxing champions who have looked from the glorious height of their own personal fistic summit to the next towering peak on the horizon. In carving out a trail of mayhem over an astonishing number of divisions the Filipino dervish has displayed a willingness to accept challenges and overcome obstacles in successively higher weight classes.
Roach Interested In Mosley-Pacquiao Bout – News
By Manuel Perez: Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is interested in Manny facing Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KOs) next, but only if Mosley agrees to come in at 142 for the fight. Mosley doesn’t want to dip that low and is reportedly not interested according to latest news reports. Mosley, 37, prefers to have Pacquiao meet him at 147, a weight that Mosley finds it easier to make at his age.
Does Anyone Honestly Believe that Pacquiao Can Beat Cotto?
By Manuel Perez: I hate to rain all over the Manny Pacquiao fans, but I honestly don’t think Pacquiao will be in for a tough fight against Miguel Cotto. And I’m really hoping that Pacquiao goes ahead and chooses Cotto as an alternative to waiting around and fighting the winner of the Floyd Mayweather vs. Juan Manuel Marquez bout on July 18th.
Roach Now Wants Pacquiao to Wait on Mayweather Fight – News
By Manuel Perez: The great trainer for Manny Pacquiao, Freddie Roach, now looks as if he wants Manny Pacquiao to wait on the winner of the July 18th bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez bout, according to the Manila Standard. This is a brilliant move on Roaches’ part, since Pacquiao said recently that he only wants to fight one more time and then retire and go into politics.
Pacquiao vs. Hatton Brings in Big PPV Numbers
By Eric Thomas: According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, the May 2nd bout between boxing superstars Ricky Hatton and Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand, was a huge success in terms of PPV buys, selling an estimated 825,000 domestic PPV (Pay per view) buys for the fight and it could go as high as 850,000, bringing in nearly fifty million. Rafael says that the PPV numbers in England could reach one million buys. The numbers are incredible when you look at the timing, which is coming with the economy in the tank and many people out of work.
Did Hatton Make a Mistake in Fighting Pacquiao?
By Dave Lahr: Maybe Ricky Hatton shouldn’t have fought Manny Pacquiao at all on May 2nd, and instead should have cancelled the bout. According to Setanta Sports, Hatton’s father Ray feels that Ricky should have pulled out of the fight against Pacquiao because things weren’t going right in training camp leading up to the fight with Pacquiao. “It could have been a lot, lot better, massively better. I’m very disappointed with some of the things that I heard, Ray said to Setanta Sports.
Pacquiao to Retire After October Bout – News
By Manuel Perez: According to Gmanews, Manny Pacquiao is planning on fighting only one more time in October against the winner of Juan Manuel Marquez or Floyd Mayweather or possibly Miguel Cotto and then retire and goes into politics. I suppose a lot of Pacquiao’s boxing fans will be in mourning after hearing this dreadful news, but look at this way: Pacquiao has an almost guaranteed beating coming to him when he fights Marquez, Mayweather or Cotto, so Pacquiao might as well retire anyway after this.
Hatton Needs to Man-Up and Get Back in the Ring
By Scott Gilfoid: If I read another story about how Hatton is still crying over his loss to Manny Pacquiao, I’m going to physically ill. If a 2nd round knockout loss to Pacquiao is so earth shattering to Hatton, then maybe he doesn’t belong in the sport of boxing after all. There are tons of other fighters out there that get knocked out all the time and they don’t quit or start bawling their eyes out over the defeat.
Hatton Embarrassed about Loss to Pacquiao – News
By Sean McDaniel: In an article from the Timesonline, Ricky Hatton says that he’s “embarrassed” about his 2nd round knockout loss to Manny Pacquiao on May 2nd, saying that he’s having problems getting out of bed in the morning. Hatton also is shy about having boxing fans see him, obviously still feeling the sting of the one-sided beating from Pacquiao. Hatton hasn’t yet made up his mind whether he plans on continuing his career or whether he’ll retire from boxing.