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By Martin Mulcahey: One of the fortuitous consequences of Manny Pacquiao’s rocket ride to stardom is his single-handedly forging a new generation of fighters and boxing fans. Especially in his native Philippines, where Pacquiao’s success has inspired thousands of kids to take up the gloves and imitate their hero. Some like Nonito Donaire and Donnie Nietes have already fashioned themselves into champions, and Donaire is either on the cusp of or in most observers ‘pound for pound’ ratings. The P
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Round One’s Almost Done
On Saturday, the first round of the Super Six World Boxing Classic will have come to an end, with the conclusion of the much anticipated match ...
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Manny Pacquiao's Official Blog
Now that I have celebrated my victory in Vegas and in Los Angeles I am just really looking forward to celebrating with my Country and all my Filipino ...
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 By Gabriel Montoya (Photo © Jon Swenson): Of the six participants in the Super Six World Classic supermiddleweight tournament, three are American. Of those three, both Andre Ward (20-0 with 13 KOs) and Andre Dirrell (18-1 with 13 KOs) were the least battle tested on the elite stage. But now with Dirrell dropping a disputed decision to England’s Carl Froch (26-0 with 20 KOs) last month and gaining his first taste of championship experience, Ward stands alone as the only man in the
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 By Steve Kim (Photo © Chris Farina / Top Rank): All the precincts have not reported, but it looks like this past weekends bout between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto was a box-office and financial home run for all the parties involved. According to Bob Arum on Tuesday afternoon,"The pay-per-view is north of a million and south of a million-five. It’s significantly closer to a million-five than it is to a million. At this point, that’s all you can say. We don’t have New York,
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 By Lee Groves (Photo © Chris Farina / Top Rank): In the beginning Manny Pacquiao was just another in a long line of Asian flyweights destined to be known only by the hard cores. In the middle, Pacquiao improbably hurdled over two weight classes to win a second divisional title at 122, prevailed in a historic round-robin with Erik Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera and Juan Manuel Marquez, and capped it off by winning a “major” belt at 130 against the last member of this trio. While the end has yet
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