Okay, so its not the Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr super fight we all wanted. However a potentially tough matchup is in store for the Filipino when he takes on the rugged Joshua Clottey tonight in Dallas, Texas.Clottey, from Ghana but based in the Bronx, has only three defeats …
Read More »Boxing Perspective: The Welterweight Division
The Welterweight division, at the moment, looks very promising indeed with some very good fighters sitting on or around the weight and already some mouth-watering bouts lined up. Number one pound for pound fighter in the world is Manny Pacquiao, and he currently resides in this division, although he started …
Read More »Boxing Quotes: Manny Pacquiao, Freddie Roach, Bob Arum
Bob Arum: Manny Pacquiao is having a great training camp, as Freddie will tell you. There is excitement is Dallas. We have less than 8,000 tickets to go and I am fully confident we will have a sellout for the fight. It is very exciting for us and it should …
Read More »Mexican Beer Giant Tecate Offers Pacquiao vs. Clottey PPV Rebate
Tecate, cerveza con carácter, demonstrates its commitment to boxing through a regional marketing campaign designed to create buzz and bring adult boxing aficionados closer to the March 13 encounter between Filipino WBO Welterweight Champion Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao (50-3, 38 KO’s) and the hard-punching former title holder from Ghana, Joshua Clottey …
Read More »Boxing Quotes: Joshua Clottey
Bob Arum: We are a little over two weeks away and we are very excited about the full house we are going to have at Cowboys Stadium with Manny Pacquiao, who is the most exciting fighter in the world today and we couldn’t find a more competitive opponent that Joshua …
Read More »Boxing Icon Manny Pacquiao To Meet Fans On Valentine’s Day
Seven-division world champion, Congressional candidate and boxing’s No. 1 pound for pound fighter and box office attraction Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao will be hosting a Valentine’s Fans Day on Sunday, February 14, beginning at 1 p.m., at the Embassy Suites Hotel Los Angeles-Glendale.
Read More »Modern Day Boxing Great Manny Pacquiao Teams Up With Actor Steven Seagal
Steven Seagal, one of Hollywood’s most popular box office action heroes and the star of A&E’s wildly-popular reality series Steven Seagal Lawman, was a dinner guest of seven-division world champion and three-time Fighter of the Year Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao earlier this week. A 7th degree black belt and Aikido master, …
Read More »Boxing Update: Pacquiao vs. Clottey Tickets On Sale Saturday
The stars will fight, big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas! Jerry Jones and Bob Arum, owner of the Dallas Cowboys and chairman of Top Rank, respectively, announced today that Cowboys Stadium would be the site of The Event: Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey World Welterweight Championship. This …
Read More »Al Bernstein On Boxing: Mayweather-Williams Has A Nice Ring To It
Since negotiations fell through for a fight with Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Manny Pacquiao has moved on to find another fight—and a good one. He will follow up his win over Miguel Cotto with a match against one of the six best welterweights in the world—Joshua Clottey. Now it’s Floyd Mayweather’s …
Read More »Al Bernstein On Boxing: Loaded Schedule – Two Sleepers
The boxing schedule for the last quarter of the year is ridiculously good. Big matches abound, starting with next week’s Floyd Mayweather Jr’s comeback fight with Juan Manuel Marquez. There is another mega fight in Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto, then three great matches in the Super Six World Boxing …
Read More »Al Bernstein On Boxing: It’s All In The Title
When an athlete or any celebrity writes a book, an all important element is the title. And over the years, many projects have had titles that did not make the final cut. I had a book project that had an original title that I thought was inspired–“My Life As Boxing’s …
Read More »Ringside Recap: Cotto Wins with Heart, Mayweather Sub-plot
Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day parade Miguel Cotto proved that he has the heart of a champion retaining his WBO Welterweight title with a hard fought split decision victory over Joshua Clottey in front of nearly 18,000 …
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