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Manny Pacquiao to take home $20 M after defeating Mosley


Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, known as the world’s Pound-for-Pound King, will take home $20 million after defeating Sugar Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

That was a part of the contract that tempted Pacquiao to the gambling city of Las Vegas, where B-list celebrities and rich whales gathered in the ringside to watch the defending champion to beat up Mosley on their fight.

On the night of their bout, Mosley was an unenthusiastic fighter and it seems like that he only wants to get his own huge payday. However, the people’s champ was not about to let that spoil his plans for a big event on the Las Vegas Strip.

In addition, Pacquiao conquered Mosley, fought poverty and shared a stage with Paris Hilton. The president of the Philippines also called Pacquiao to chat, and then it was off with his big followers for a concert at a neighboring casino. The Filipino boxer said that everybody knows that he is trying to do his best in that fight and he believes that the audiences were satisfied.

On the other hand, Paris Hilton joined Pacquiao and Jinkee, his wife, at the post-fight news conference to give her analysis with regard to the fight, and the result was positive. Hilton said that the fight was an extremely amazing match.

Others who may know boxing a little bit better will almost certainly oppose, but there was not a lot that the Filipino boxer can do about it. He knocked down Mosley with a left blow on the third round and spent the remaining round following Mosley in spite of his leg cramp that made his contender even harder to catch.

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Manny Pacquiao defends title against Shane Mosley


Manny Pacquiao showed again that he is the Pound-for-Pound King as he defended his title against Shane Mosley on Saturday at MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

Pacquiao conquered Mosley in 12 rounds with a unanimous decision. The defending champion overpowered Mosley with quick combination of punches and supreme persistence in the whole night to maintain his WBO Welterweight Title.

In addition, Pacquiao also recorded a knock down against Mosley in the third round, which was only the third time that Mosley had been knocked down in his entire career. However, Mosley also knocked down the Filipino boxer once, but according to ESPN, upon further evaluation, it seems that Mosley’s knock down with Pacquiao was an outcome of a push rather than a punch.

The conservatism of Mosley held from getting knocked down, but surely did not keep him from losing a match where the chances were greatly heaped against him. At the times when Mosley did not appeared in his shell, the Pound-for-Pound King was giving Mosley with even harder punches, looking for the best angles and doing what he does best.

Although Mosley did show a little existence in the middle rounds, his general carefulness still hurt him ad was met by several boos from the audience. With regard to money, both boxers went home as winners. Mosley took home no less than $5 million, while Pacquiao took home no less than $20 million. Both fighters will take home more after the income of the pay-per-view is totaled.

This fight was the 14th straight wins for Pacquiao, and drove his record to 53-3-2. On the other hand, many people want to see the bout of Manny Pacquiao versus Floyd Mayweather Jr., but for the past years the latter has been dropping the match against Pacquiao, trying to maintain his record perfect at 41-0.

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Manny Pacquiao Proves As One of the Best Boxers in History


Manny Pacquiao has proved that he is one of the best boxers in the history of boxing after beating Antonio Magarito.

Showing his remarkable skills in boxing, the eight-world title champion Manny Pacquiao won the vacant World Boxing Council (WBO) light-middleweight crown making his rival Antonio Magarito to a stop.

After the weigh in on Friday night, there was a clear 17 lbs difference, about five inches advantage in height and about five inches difference in reach, still the powerful punches and tremendous hand speed of Pacquiao silent these advantages of Magarito.

During the second round, Margarito was able to throw some good punches when Pacquiao slow a little in his movement. He was able to give Manny some left and right punches.

Pacquiao dominated the third and fourth rounds already by hurting the much bigger opponent with a combination of left hands punches damaging the right eye of Magarito allowing him to slow down. In the fifth round, it was again the hand speed and power punches of Pacquiao who gave Margarito a huge problem to react, though there are times that he can counter some slight punches.

Margarito showed some indications that he may give his opponent a good fight, yet Pacquiao throws some good combinations and was able to dominate the round again.

Pacquiao also dominates the sixth and seventh rounds with a barrage of punches despite the counter punches of Margarito. Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach prediction of an eight round knockout did not occur at all despite the numerous thrown punches of his man.

During the tenth and eleventh rounds, Pacquiao felt his advantage to Margarito and started to slow down his attack while observing the referee if he will plan to stop the fight. Until the twelve and final round, the Filipino boxer continued dominate the fight until the final bell rang giving him his eight-world title in different divisions.

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Manny Pacquiao Attempts to Set Historic Title


Filipino fighter Manny Pacquiao will attempt to set another historic title on Saturday bout.

In the forthcoming fight, Pacquiao is anticipated to earn his 8th glory in the world of professional boxing. He will be facing 5-foot-11 Mexican fighter Antonio Margarito. However, to make this possible, Pacquiao will have to stick on Freddie Roach’s way as he moves up in the ring. The problem is Roach will never get Pacquiao to follow his game plan.

According to Coach Roach, Pacquiao could box more and be a little smarter once he is on the fight. However, the coach stressed that the 31-year-old Filipino fighter prefers to exchange punches, which makes him to sell tickets. Furthermore, this makes Pacquiao an exciting boxer based on the description of Roach.

As for Pacquiao, he will not be changing his style in boxing to knock down Mexican fighter Margarito. According to the Filipino Southpaw, he will do the usual frenzied fury in bringing down Margarito and for him to win his highly anticipated 8th glory at the Cowboys Stadium.

In this fight, Pacquiao will carry the weight of an entire country’s pride on his shoulder as he clash with Margarito in the scheduled 12-round bout.

In this upcoming fight, Pacquiao says that there’s nothing to worry about. During the fight, he will give all his best to bring an exceptional fight. According to him, focus is always there and his hunger to fight is very consistent. He also clarified that there will not be any distraction that can blow his concentration in this fight.

Pacquiao is about to face 150 lbs Margarito at the Cowboys Stadium in Texas on Saturday night. Despite obvious weight and size difference, Pacquiao’s determination for knocking down Margarito is as solid as rock. This determination is boost by numerous supports from fellow Filipino and Millions of people around the world.

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Coach Roach Forecasts Third Round KO by Pacman


Freddie Roach, Manny Pacquiao’s trainer, predicted a knockout (KO) fight by the Filipino boxing champ within three rounds.

Coach Roach told Reuters Thursday that Pacquiao is going to take advantage in the fight, against the low starter Antonio Margarito, and added that he is not going to be that surprised if Pacman will make it to get the man down in the first round.

Pacquiao is the most interesting and exciting boxer living on the planet today. Manny is a Filipino Southpaw, having a record of 51-3-2 (38 knockouts). He has already established his boxing career, and was known as one of the best offensive fighter of all time.

In the upcoming fight of Pacquiao versus Margarito, although it is not the kind of match that most people wanted to see, more than Pacquiao versus Mayweather, it is still going to be an exciting fight to watch for everyone.

Fans all over the world widely expected that he will get to beat his opponent down at Cowboy’s Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on November 13.

MArgarito, is a three-time world champion from Mexico, and is delighted to get back and have this fight, after he lost his fight against Shane Mosley of America in a WBC welterweight title bout in January 2009.

Even that the Mexican boxer has a significant advantage due to his height, weight and reach advantage, the Filipino –Mexican Killer fighter is much faster and quicker.

The Filipino fighter aims to achieve his eight world title for an unmatched eight weight class, a world record that no one ever achieved in the past.

Pacquiao said in his Reuter interview that he had nothing to prove anymore in his boxing career, and added that he already achieved everything that he wanted in his career.

Moreover, he stressed the things that he only wanted in his coming fight tomorrow is to maintain his greatness in boxing, as a tough fighter, and to satisfy and entertain people through his extreme performance.

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