By Geno McGahee
RSR got word from a reliable source that the super bout that the world is demanding will take place in March of 2010. The teams are currently working out the specifics but have tentatively agreed to a showdown early next year, which shouldn’t be a surprise to any …
By Salven Lagumbay
Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao wants no less than a 60-40 split in his favor if and when a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr takes place.
This was revealed by Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach, who told boxingscene.com that Pacquiao based his demands on the pay-per-view numbers of his last …
Manny Pacquiao’s trainer believes no one will be able to stop his new protégé Amir Khan at light-welterweight
Freddie Roach surveys training at his Wild Card gym. In Newcastle tomorrow he will oversee Amir Khan's fight against Dmitriy Salita. Photograph: Sarah Lee
By Kevin Mitchell
He talks in a mumbled rush, with the urgency and gratitude of a sick man anxious to live every minute of every day. And Freddie Roach sees nothing but life-affirming, good times ahead. Before him lies more glory for Manny Pacquiao. He predicts big nights for Amir Khan. And he sees himself in their corner.
His immediate task is to navigate Khan through what could be some rough storms against the tough New Yorker Dmitriy Salita in the first defence of his WBA light-welterweight title in Newcastle tomorrow night. If you trust Roach’s judgment – and few do not – it will be over by the ninth or 10th round, with his young Bolton boxer in centre ring, arms raised and ready to take the next stage of his career across the Atlantic, for bigger nights, more glory and the sort of acceptance, perhaps, that he has not received in the country of his birth.
By Mark Vester
Former two division champion Miguel Cotto is claiming that 2010 will be his last year in the sport. He wants to retire by the age of 30, which is next October. Cotto is recovering from the injuries he received during the fight with Manny Pacquiao on November 14. …
By Mark Vester
Paul "The Punisher" Williams believes there is a chance that Manny Pacquiao would be willing to fight him at the welterweight limit of 147-pounds. Williams doesn’t share the same good feeling about Floyd Mayweather Jr. Both Williams and Mayweather are managed by Al Haymon - making the situation …
GMANews.TV
Freddie Roach is definitely thrilled with a Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. showdown.
But he’s definitely not hot on a possible March 13 face-off between two of boxing’s most popular fighters today.
Roach readily thumbed down the proposed March gig being dangled by Top Rank Promotions’ big boss Bob Arum following a …
The promoter travels to Manila to talk with the Filipino boxer and advisors on a super-bout that would be on HBO pay-per-view.
By Lance Pugmire
Promoter Bob Arum arrived in the Philippines and expected to start face-to-face talks Wednesday with Manny Pacquiao to try to reach terms for a mega-fight against Floyd …
By Dong Secuya
CEBU CITY — Hall of Fame boxing promoter and Top Rank President Bob Arum, who arrived in the Philippines early Thursday morning from Las Vegas, will have a crucial meeting with pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao today in Manila. Arum is trying to close the highly anticipated Pacquiao-Mayweather fight …
By Alan Thomson
For several months now, ever since the realistic possibility of a Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather fight had begun to loom, I’ve been sifting my brain to try to determine who I thought would win.
And for the majority of that time, the winner has seemed about as clear …
By Leo Reyes
The lawyer of Manny Pacquiao was quoted to have said that the Filipino boxing icon will not fight Floyd Mayweather until after the national elections in the Philippines. Pacquiao is a candidate for congressman in the May 10, 2010 national elections.
Manny Pacquiao’s lawyer Franklin Gacal said the next …
By Vivek Wallace
It has been reported by several sources, to include ESPN’s Dan Rafael that Top Rank Promoter Bob Arum has been given the green light from Team Mayweather to make official the now tentative date of March 13th, for the proposed showdown between himself and Filipino Manny Pacquiao. …
Dec 2, 2009 - Floyd Mayweather, Jr. has agreed to the much-anticipated fight against Manny Pacquiao, according to ESPN (via SB Nation’s Bad Left Hook). Pacquiao is yet to agree to the terms of the bout, which would be fought at the 147 pound welterweight limit. Promoter Bob Arum is …
By Elie Seckbach
Unbeaten junior middleweight Shawn Porter reveals his favorite movie, makes up an impromptu rap about Manny Pacquiao, for whom he served as a recent sparring partner, and explains why his confidence “is through the roof.”
Kenny Porter also talks about training his own son, who will soon face once-beaten, Damian Frias, in a Showtime-televised bout in February.
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By Michael Marley
We all know where Coach Freddie Roach is going to be when Manny Pacquiao begins training. But what about Floyd Mayweather’s chief trainer, troubled Roger “Black Mamba” Mayweather?
I have zero insight into the status of Roger Dodger’s pending criminal assault case in Las Vegas but it certainly throws …
By Brent Matteo Alderson
Former Editor & Chief of Ring Magazine and current Showtime analyst Steve Farhood is confident that that the super-fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao will happen in the very near future and in an exclusive interview with FightFanNation.com, Farhood commented, “I don’t think there’s any …
By Michael Rosenthal
Manny Pacquiao didn’t really want to talk about it after he knocked out Miguel Cotto on Saturday night in Las Vegas, saying only that he wanted to take some time off and enjoy his family. He’d leave his future to promoter Bob Arum.
However, everyone else even remotely interested …
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo Sports
LAS VEGAS – It was a simple question that left Bob Arum struggling for an answer: In his 43 years of promoting boxing matches, has there ever been a fight that the public demanded that, eventually, was not made?
After much difficulty, Arum had to fudge a …
By J. Michael Falgoust, USA TODAY
In the next 24 hours, negotiations will commence to arrange the biggest fight in boxing: Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather.
The former mythical pound-for-pound king before he took an almost two-year hiatus in 2007 — Mayweather — against the current one, an action hero who already …
BoxingScene.com
Las Vegas, NV - Floyd Mayweather, who listened to several comments made by Manny Pacquiao’s promoter and trainer about a possible match-up between the two fighters, still has yet to hear Manny Pacquiao himself say he wants to fight him.
"Manny Pacquiao is the fighter and every time someone asks …
By Lem Satterfield
Floyd Mayweather was nowhere to be seen in the MGM Grand Hotel during the lead-up to this past Saturday night’s Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto welterweight megafight, nor could the undefeated, five-time champion and Las Vegas resident be found when Pacquiao made history by lifting from Cotto, the WBO’s 147-pound …
By Gareth A Davies
Floyd Mayweather, twice retired but still considered the greatest boxer of the present generation, claimed on Monday that he would have no trouble beating Manny Pacquiao.
Pacquiao joined boxing’s folklore following his victory over Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas on Saturday night. But Mayweather said of the Filipino: …
By Steve Kim
There are many times when you can accuse promoter Bob Arum of hyperbole or exaggeration. But you cant really blame him, after all, that’s his job. But what was once considered another brash statement by the Harvard educated pitchman, must now be considered seriously. Last Wednesday night on …
(CNN) — If you have tried to call a friend in the Philippines today, chances are you would have been waiting an awful long time for that phone to be answered — because just about everyone here has been fixed on the nearest TV screen.
Manny, Manny, Manny! So many uplifting …
By Abac Cordero
HOLLYWOOD – There’s only one fight to be made, and it’s the fight the whole world wants to see.
That’s Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather Jr. Nothing else.
More than 24 hours after turning Miguel Cotto’s face into a bloody Halloween mask, the 30-year-old Filipino megastar ruled out a …







