Manny Pacquiao can beat African American Boxers

Manny Pacquiao can beat African American Boxers
You tell me one African-American fighter he’s (Pacquiao) fought. I mean, you can check the record. We don’t care about African fighters. We said African-American fighters. And I had a lot of fans like…“Well name any African-American fighters that are big enough to make a fight with him.” That’s not true. That’s not true. There’s been many fighters that were big enough to make a fight with him, but at the end of the day, it is what it is. The record says what it says.”—Nate Campbell

In the Era of Change, bannered by electing the first black President of the US of A, an African-American boxer named Nate Campbell uttered the most racist statement addressed to the Pound for Pound King, Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao.

As if saying "His Pacness" avoided top fighters of his time. Ducking top boxers is what they're accusing Pretty Floyd of all these years. The problem with this argument is that it is being peddled by boxers and promoters who wanted to share the money cake.

Of course, Box Office Kings Dela Hoya, Mayweather, and Pacquiao cannot fight any boxer who challenges them. It's their prerogative to choose who among those challengers is worth sharing their millions (in Pacman's case, billions).

Now back to Nate. Although it's true that Mega Manny never fought a great African-American boxer, it is not his fault. There is no decent black fighter to fight in the first place.

Let me remind all the readers that "His Pacness" never backed down in a fight, from Pinoys, Latinos, Half-Americans, to all the greatest fighters of his former and current division. From the up-and-coming boxers to the most seasoned, from top ten P4P contenders to the future hall of famers, from boxers in their prime to the overhyped patsies, he fought them all.

Yes, Pacquiao experienced defeats, but we never heard anything from him. Everybody's blaming the judge who mis-scored in the first Marquez fight, but he kept his silence. Everyone's blaming the accidental cut in the first Morales bout as the culprit in his loss, but he showed the crowd how gallant he is in refusing to surrender. He fought with one blind eye and accepted his defeat afterwards.

Earlier in his career, he was dethroned outside the ring for not making weight. He also suffered a knock out, and while he could have used a valid excuse of being dehydrated, he chose to suffer in silence. He went home, humbled, and nobody bothered to welcome him.

No one offered him another title shot. But he continued to fight. He filed KO upon KO, fighting unknown boxers hoping that someday, somehow someone would discover and polish him.

These experiences makes Pacquiao who he is right now: the King of Boxing. You can accuse him of anything, but don't accuse him of ducking any boxer, no matter the color.

The question of Pacquiao refusing to fight Juan Manuel Marquez for the third time is not a question of Pacman being afraid of JMM; Mega Manny just outgrew Marquez.

There's more money in fighting the likes of De La Hoya, Hatton, Cotto, and Mayweather than making a trilogy with JMM. Of course, Marquez would make it to the Pacman Sweepstakes if he beat the other money man Pretty Boy Floyd.

Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/215167-manny-pacquiao-and-the-african-american-boxers

Kobe meets Pacquiao during Nike pictorial

Kobe meets Pacquiao during Nike pictorial
An estimated 500 billboards featuring Manny Pacquiao will be placed in Nike stores across America soon.

Pacquiao was among a bevy of sports stars who underwent a pictorial at the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles as part of their contractual obligations with the leading sports apparel manufacturer.

Others who struck a pose were basketball icon Kobe Bryant and tennis diva Maria Sharapova.

A Team Pacquiao member said all the Nike talents had their pictorials separately but at around 5:30 p.m., as Pacquiao was wrapping up his session, Bryant arrived and the two exchanged pleasantries.

Pacquiao arrived in Los Angeles on Tuesday night and after his Wednesday afternoon shoot, the pound-for-pound king went to the airport to take the Philippine-bound Philippine Airlines jet that touches down in Manila at 6 a.m. today.

Pacquiao, who fights next on Nov. 14 possibly against Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico, had to return to the Philippines so he could fulfil all his showbiz commitments. — Nick Giongco
source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/210152/manny-kobe-meet-during-nike-pictorial

Manny Pacquiao’s Most Effective Boxing Punch

It was round 7, 1 minute 41seconds left in the round. And bam! Pacquiao hit Oscar Dela Hoya to the body. It was quick, lightning fast. I knew that punch gotta hurt! Oscar was backing up…Pacquiao leapt towards Oscar and another body shot to the right! Boom! Oscar flinches… And as I expected, those body shots are taking its’ effect. Oscar Dela Hoya froze! He can’t move! He can’t do anything! And when you do that in front of Manny Pacquiao while you’re inside the ring with him…you’re in big trouble… And we all knew what happened after that.

Which brings us to Manny Pacquiao’s Most Effective Techniques part 2: The body cruncher!



Back when Manny Pacquiao was still a skinny kid, he’s got unusual power for his size. If you can drop bigger opponents with body punches, it just means your fists sure have lots of firepower.

The technique goes like this: Manny Pacquiao starts off with his right jab. Then double jab. He uses the jab to measure the punching distance. And once he connects with the jab, he follows it up with the left. And then some flurry of punches to the head. This move would usually get his opponent reeling back to the ropes. And once Manny Pacquiao caught his opponents on the ropes, he delivers a sharp “bam!” to the side of the body. This will force his opponents to fold even lower and drop their elbows to cover their ribs. And when they do that, Manny would continue raining flurry of punches to the head which again will force his opponents to cover their faces. Then another big “bam” to the other side of the body.

If you’re a Manny Pacquiao opponent and you think after two body shots, he’ll get tired of punching you to the body? Hah! You wish! Those body shots will be popping on your left or on your right whenever you leave your ribs exposed. Ouch!

Those body shots takes out the fight off you. It freezes you. The wind will seem like they’re sucked out of your belly.

Erik Morales got some good deal of those body shots during their second fight. I can see Erik folding and grimacing whenever I see him get hit by those Manny Pacquiao body shots. He eventually slowed down during the later rounds and we all knew what happened in that fight.

Marco Antonio Barrera went down for the count with a huge body shot on their first fight in the eleventh round.

That’s just how effective and devastating Manny Pacquiao’s body shots are. So when people tell me “Miguel Cotto or Ricky Hatton…they’re big body punchers!” Believe me, so is Manny Pacquiao!

Check this video out to see what I mean…

Manny Pacquiao's Most Effective Boxing Techniques

Manny Pacquiao's Most Effective Boxing Techniques

8CN BOXING TECHNIQUE

I had the pleasure of witnessing the career of the great Manny Pacquiao from the earliest stages of his career when he was still a teenager. Manny became a household name when he was featured in a Philippine boxing show called “Blow-by-blow”. And even back then, he is very very exciting to watch every time he fights!

Back then, he’s just a super skinny kid with a shotgun left hand.

When Manny Pacquiao was starting, this was his most effective technique: “Devil may care! I’m gonna rain hell on you! Technique.”

Ingredients: Manny Pacquiao’s relentless punching, plus tremendous stamina, plus devastating left hand…equals big trouble for his opponents!

Well, the technique is really simple. Based on the principle of “The best defense is the best offence.



Manny Pacquiao’s only defensive tactic back then was keep hitting so that the opponent would be too busy blocking and dodging blows that he won’t be able to think of hitting back. When Manny Pacquiao was young, he gets hit a lot! He actually doesn’t mind getting hit, as long as he keeps raining lefts and rights on you. And he’ll throw those punches non-stop! Punches to the head and punches to the body… His opponents might want to move away from those punches, but with Manny Pacquiao, you can’t hide and you can’t also run! Because Manny will always catch up on his opponents and he brings with him hundreds more punches raining down. He’ll be there like a dreaded disease no matter where his opponents go.

Tremendous stamina! I’ve seen Manny Pacquiao employed this technique and not even once I saw him got punched out. He keeps moving forward. And most of the time, Manny Pacquiao gets caught with a good shot coming in. But once he started pumping those machine gun punches…its almost for sure that his opponents would stop punching back and take cover.

Sooner or later, amongst those hundreds of lighting fast punches, one of those killer left hands will hit. Again, either to the body or to the head…And once that happens, game over for his opponents..

World champ Pacquiao sues karaoke pirate DVD

MANILA - Top executives of two Philippines firms accused of using world boxing champion Manny "PacMan" Pacquiao's name and image to sell karaoke microphones are to stand trial for intellectual piracy, an appellate court said Thursday.

The court sided with a lower court in Manila and denied defendant Andres Sanchez's petition to dismiss the lawsuit, officials said.

The appellate court ruling was issued earlier this week, they said.

Pacquiao, a six-time world champion who is also a recording star here, wants the court to stop Sanchez's G2K Corp. and In-A-Jiffy Enterprises, owned by the defendant's daughter Maria Cristina Sanchez, from using his "name, image and goodwill" to sell their "Wow Magic Sing" karaoke microphones.

Pacquiao, who endorses a rival brand of microphones, known as "Extreme Magic Sing," knocked out English welterweight Ricky Hatton in the second round of a Las Vegas fight in May to solidify the 30 year-old southpaw's claim to the unofficial title of "best pound for pound boxer" in the world.

source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/07/09/09/world-champ-pacquiao-sues-karaoke-pirates

Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Video

Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Video

Pacquiao Did To Cotto What He Did To Hatton

How Shocked Would You Be If Pacquiao Did To Cotto What He Did To Hatton

Though the fight has not been officially signed and sealed yet, the word over at ESPN.com is that the talked of Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto fight scheduled for November in Las Vegas is almost certainly going to happen. Promoter Bob Arum has said the fight will almost definitely be made and that an agreed upon weight for the fight has been all but reached, with a reported limit of 145-pounds being set.

So, now that we can pretty much go ahead and look forward to this most intriguing of fights, we can also start to think about who will win - "Pac-Man" or "Junito.."

It seems strange, but only a few months ago fight experts were pretty much agreed that guys like Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton would be much too big for Pacquiao, and that the former 106-pounder was nuts taking on natural 140 and 147-pounders. But, as we know, Manny destroyed both "The Golden Boy" and "The Hitman," the latter especially. The question I'd like to ask now is, can Pacquiao possibly do a Hatton-type number on the formidable Cotto?

If the talked of weight of 145-pounds is the final poundage that the fight goes ahead at, Cotto, though he will have to push himself that much harder in training camp, shouldn't be overly drained or weakened come fight time. As such, "Pac-Man" might just be facing his most physically strong opponent yet, and therefore the very notion of him KO'ing the Puerto Rican the way he did Hatton will be seen as a preposterous one in the eyes of some fans. But no-one of note predicted Pacquiao icing tough guy Hatton as quickly as he did either.

Style-wise, Cotto - a natural lefty who fights mainly out of an orthodox stance but also has a tendency to switch during battle - could give the Filipino southpaw a real handful also. Strong with both hands and the possessor of a fine boxing brain, it's hardly likely Cotto will approach the fight in the same reckless, march-right-in, hands-held-low way Hatton did. And it must be admitted that Hatton's foolish tactics - all the more surprising as they were after all the pre-fight talk we were given about Floyd Mayweather Senior making Hatton a defensive-minded boxer - helped Pacquiao look as devastating as he did. But could the 30-year-old claimant of the pound-for-pound title KO Cotto just as ruthlessly anyway?

Cotto, who appeared somewhat easy to hit last time out against Joshua Clottey, is no defensive wizard and after a number of tough fights he isn't getting any younger (yes, he's two years younger than Manny, who also is not getting any younger, but Pacquiao looks the fresher fighter overall). And though the demons from the shocking stoppage loss to Antonio Margarito have almost certainly been banished, we still don't know how much of a physical price Cotto paid as a result of the hammering he took in July 2008.

If Pacquiao were to ice Cotto in less than 2 or 3-rounds the way he did Hatton, you can bet your money some people out there will still refuse to give "Pac-Man" the credit he deserves by saying Cotto WAS past his best and that he was in the ring with Pacquiao at the right time - just as they said, after May 2nd, that Hatton was ready to be taken. But those fans who are not afraid to give credit where it's due - should Pacquiao actually KO Cotto in stunning fashion - will be calling the Filipino one of the greatest of all-time; if they aren't doing so already.

It would be a mighty shock if Pacquiao KO'd Cotto fast. But maybe we should be used to "Pac-Man" sending us shockwaves by now!