By Steve Lewis: After Manny Pacquiao’s dominant performance against top welterweight, Miguel Cotto, to capture a championship in a record-breaking 7th weight class, numerous Pacquiao skeptics became “converts.” Or at least, they were willing to finally give some due credit. Of course, you will never win them all completely because …

By Thomas Hauser
Thanksgiving and Christmas came early for boxing this year. The November 14th mega-match between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto was the biggest and most important fight of 2009. Think of it as a holiday festival with Pacquiao in the role of Santa Claus. Or maybe Manny is better …

By Mark Vester
The negotiations for Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. are underway. Top Rank’s Bob Arum and Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer [acting for Mayweather] are not providing any details until the deal is done. Arum did reveal to the Las Vegas Review Journal that his Monday meeting with …

By Mark Staniforth, Press Association Sport
Forget, again, about the heavyweight division, which flickered back to life with David Haye’s win over Nikolai Valuev; forget Ricky Hatton’s ill-judged comeback, forget the ‘Super Six’, forget Hopkins, Pavlik, Lopez, Darchinyan.
Good, maybe great fighters all. But there is already only one fight on the …

By D.W.
We all knew this was coming, Floyd came back to the ring and put on a clinic on technique and showmanship while Pacquiao devastated one of the toughest Welterweights imaginable. Both men have claims to the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world, and it was the fight the …

By Gina L. Caliboso
After Manny Pacquiao’s dominating victory over Miguel Cotto, not less than a few seconds after the win did Larry Merchant ask both fighter Pacquiao and Trainer Roach what lies ahead. And we all know the question. But I’d like to focus on Pacquiao’s answers.
Go on vacation …

NEW YORK (SI.COM) — Seven time world champion Manny Pacquiao tested clean following his Nov. 14 TKO win over Miguel Cotto, SI.com has learned.
Pacquiao, who became the first boxer to win seven championships in as many weight classes, underwent urine tests twice — before and after the fight — and …

By Ramon Aranda
Floyd Mayweather Sr. made a pretty big accusation weeks ago when he alluded to his thoughts that Manny Pacquiao was on steroids. Only days after Pacquiao’s destruction of Miguel Cotto, once again those rumors came swirling back which included similar thoughts from fighters such as Paulie Malignaggi.
How could …

By Avi “Shoefly” Korine
Following Manny Pacquiao’s recent destruction of Miguel Cotto now seems a good time to place his recent wins in context to his earlier career achievements. It was tough to narrow the list down, but here is a list, in descending order, of Pacquiao’s five greatest victories, (with …

By Paolo Bandini
Floyd Mayweather Sr has issued a scathing assessment of Manny Pacquiao’s boxing technique, claiming that the Filipino “can’t fight at all”. Pacquiao became a seven-weight world champion by defeating Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas this month, but Mayweather Sr said he had been unimpressed by the performance.
“You …

By Geoff “The Professor” Poundes
Superlatives escape me. There are few that haven’t already been lavished on the special talents of Manny Pacquiao, and doubtless over the coming months there will be new ones invented to cope with the growing impossibility of describing the little Pinoy’s ring achievements.
At the MGM Grand …

By Roy Luarca
EITHER FREDDIE ROACH is trying to get the goat of Floyd Mayweather Jr. or he’d seen a kink in the American’s armor.
While negotiations for the Manny Pacquiao-Mayweather super clash have yet to formally begin, Roach has already predicted a knockout win for his prized ward if the two …

By Ricardo Lois
During Sunday night’s The Boxing Truth Radio, my co-host John Chavez and I took a question from Twitter boxing fan Tammy0918 - “Who do you think is the greatest fighter of all-time.”
Chavez and myself agreed that is hard to rate fighters across eras, especially pugilists we had never …

By James Slater
The fans want it, the two fighters appear to want it, and now the two key promoters are to begin talks to try and get the fight done. I’m talking, of course, about the eagerly anticipated would be mega-fight between pound-for-pound rivals Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Junior.
Dan …

By Geoff “The Professor” Poundes
Superlatives escape me. There are few that haven’t already been lavished on the special talents of Manny Pacquiao, and doubtless over the coming months there will be new ones invented to cope with the growing impossibility of describing the little Pinoy’s ring achievements.
At the MGM Grand …

By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com
Let the talks begin.
Formal negotiations in an effort to make a megafight between pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the first part of 2010 will open Monday, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer told ESPN.com.
“Floyd and me want to see if we can get …

By Yero Moody
With the buzz of Manny Pacquiao’s superb performance against Miguel Cotto last Saturday dwindling it’s a perfect time to address some key issues concerning Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, Jr and the man I call the X factor, Shane Mosley. Manny is listed as the number one pound for …

By Steve Kim
It was announced on Friday by HBO Pay-Per-View that the November 14Th clash between Manny Paquiao and Miguel Cotto procured approximately 1.25 million buys, garnering $70 million in revenue. This on the heels of Floyd Mayweather’s return against Juan Manuel Marquez back on September the 19Th getting over …

By Ryan Burton
22-year-old junior middleweight prospect Shawn "Showtime" Porter (11-0) spoke to BoxingScene.com about his 4th round TKO victory over Jerome Ellis this past Saturday night at Fitzgeralds Hotel and Casino in Tunica, MS. Porter, who was one of Manny Pacquiao’s key sparring partners for Pacquiao’s recent win …

By Ben Thompson
“Once they have some sort of an agreement on how the money is going to be split up, then they can start working on how many pay-per-view homes they're going to sell, which really is the indicator of how much money he [Mayweather] is going to wind up …

By Michael Marley
Under the heading of “nice work if you can get it,” we now file the position of cutman for Manny Pacquiao.
Miguel Diaz, who was fired by Miguel Cotto after the Boricua Banger after he lost to Antonio Margarito, landed on his feet in Pacman’s corner as the stop …

By Leo Reyes
The controversy behind the late stoppage of the just-concluded Pacquiao-Cotto boxing match brings to light the role of boxing trainers, ring physicians and referees in making timely decisions to save boxers from harm and unnecessary punishment.
Referee Kenney Bayless could have stopped the Pacquiao-Cotto fight on the eighth or …

By David Mayo | The Grand Rapids Press
Ricky Hatton told a Scottish newspaper last week that Floyd Mayweather would win a fight against Manny Pacquiao “because he’s just so good defensively and hard to hit.”
Hatton, 31, fought both Mayweather and Pacquiao. Hatton lost to Mayweather on a 10th-round knockout …