By Dan Rafael ESPN.com
LAS VEGAS — Ross Greenburg is the most influential man in American boxing because, as president of HBO Sports, he wields the biggest checkbook in the business.
He makes the final decision as to which fighters get on No. 1 boxing network HBO, which bouts the network …
By Brad Cooney
8CN - Give me your thoughts on Pacquiao vs Cotto. Did you think that Pacquiao was going to be THAT dominant over Cotto?
ZJ - No, personally I thought Cotto would have gotten him late. But I did say that if Cotto didn’t watch out for …
An interview with Freddie Roach, Head Coach of Team Pacquiao after Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao’s sensational victory over Miguel Cotto.
An interview with Alex Ariza, strength and conditioning coach for Manny Pacquiao after the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto.
An interview with HBO Commentator Larry Merchant after the Pacquiao/Cotto Fight at the MGM in Las Vegas.
An interview with Floyd Mayweather, Sr. after the Pacquiao vs Cotto fight.
By Richard Deitsch and Richard O’Brien, SI.com
If you closed your eyes last Saturday night in Las Vegas, it felt like another era. Throughout the MGM Grand Garden Arena, iconic athletes (Derek Jeter and Magic Johnson) mixed easily with A-List (Sean “Diddy” Combs, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg) and B-list (Jon …
By Rowell Anthony Maghirang
There is no denying that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has got boxing skills. He probably has the best defensive style in the game. On the other hand, we have the Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, who nobody, in the right state of mind, can deny has got one of the …
By Cher Calvin
HOLLYWOOD — The crowd goes crazy for Manny Pacquiao, the best pound for pound boxer in the world. And there’s one question everyone is asking: Will Manny Pacquiao fight Floyd Mayweather?
Manny Pacquaio has singlehandedly brought back the passion for boxing. His popularity is so enormous that hundreds of …
By Springs Toledo
Manny Pacquiao: I’m just [an] ordinary fighter…
Freddie Roach (interrupting): –You’re not ordinary.
Manny Pacquiao: Sorry about that, master.
“He finds gaps,” said Emanuel Steward after Manny Pacquiao stopped Miguel Cotto in the twelfth round. Those three words mirror the words of a far older, far more legendary …
By Steve Kim
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 …
By Ben Thompson
“Pacquiao made a believer out of me with Cotto, so I wouldn't count Pacquiao out. I think Pacquiao could do a number on Mayweather because Mayweather's chin is not that good. I think that Pacquiao could very well knock out Mayweather too,” stated welterweight champion Shane Mosley as …
By Martin Rogers, Yahoo! Sports
LAS VEGAS – Bob Arum is 78 years old, but as Saturday night became Sunday morning and the famous Strip geared up for another dose of party time, boxing’s omnipresent promoter was as hyperbolic as ever.
Arum loves this brutal yet entrancing game, loves the spin and …
By Brian Gorman
FLOYD VS. MANNY: SHADES OF DURAN-LEONARD I?
Pittsburgh, PA- In the summer of 1980 at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, “Sugar Ray” Leonard put his spotless 27-0 record on the line against the animalistic brawling recent lightweight (135 lb.) champion Roberto “Manos de Piedra (Hands of Stone)” Duran, then 71-1. …
By Frank Lotierzo
What the boxing world saw this past Saturday night during the Pacquiao-Cotto bout was—an all-time great fighter (Pacquiao) take apart and separate himself from a terrific/upper-tier contemporary fighter (Cotto). Miguel Cotto’s heart and will are on par with any fighter you’ll ever see. But Manny Pacquiao’s speed, …
By Lee Groves
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 …
Manny Pacquiao sits down with Brian Kenny to talk about his win over Miguel Cotto
By Niall Hickman
BRITAIN’S most popular fighter, Ricky Hatton,will return to the ring in Manchester next summer to face Juan Manuel Marquez.
Hatton was savagely knocked out inside two rounds by Manny Pacquiao earlier this year and has seriously considered retirement. But the lure of the ring has proved too strong …
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com
Manny Pacquiao TKO12 Miguel Cotto
Wins a welterweight title
Records: Pacquiao, 50-3-2, 38 KOs; Cotto, 34-2, 27 KOs
Rafael’s remark: These are the fights you live for, aren’t they? And Pacquiao delivered a performance for the ages as he made boxing history yet again, this time winning a record-setting seventh …
By Scoop Jackson, ESPN.com
By Dan Rafael
Other than a brief interview with a British television outlet, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been awfully quiet in the aftermath of pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao’s impressive 12th-round knockout of Miguel Cotto to win a welterweight title on Saturday night.
But now Mayweather is talking, even if it is basically …
By Lyle Fitzsimmons
Dear Floyd,
Yo, Money… it’s been awhile.
How’s it going? I hope things are well.
Listen, as much as I’d like to just catch up on things and chat about nonsense for a bit, there are a couple things from over the weekend it seems like a good time …
GMANews.TV
HOLLYWOOD – A regular fighter could have easily crumbled under the barrage of powerful punches Miguel Cotto threw in Saturday’s world welterweight championship fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas (Sunday in Manila).
But not Manny Pacquiao.
Queried about the impact of Cotto’s bombs, Pacquiao quickly shot back, …
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