A 16 year old Manny Pacquiao had to put stones and steels on his pocket just to get to the weight limit of 105 pounds and years after who would have thought the lanky kid from General Santos Philippines is now campaigning in the Welterweight division some 42 pounds up on his very first professional fight way back in 1995. Years back we would laugh on a Pacquiao-Cotto or Pacquiao-De la Hoya matchup it’s an utterly mismatch with the smaller Manny. There is no way a former flyweight could conquer the household welterweight fighters who are bigger and stronger than Manny no one has ever done that. But Manny prove us all wrong he dominated Oscar De La Hoya and made him retire then he drop the light welterweight kingpin Ricky Hatton in just two rounds, dominated Miguel Cotto in TKO win then last Saturday displayed a masterful performance against a bigger welterweight in Joshua Clottey.
There is only one logical opponent left for Manny and that would be the winner of the Mayweather-Mosley fight this May 1. Manny has two fights left before retiring and others suggested if a Mosley or Mayweather fight doesn’t materialize then better go one division higher against Yuri Foreman granting Yuri wins his fight with the Puerto Rican bomber Miguel Cotto gunning for a record of 8 divisional titles. But that would be a case of biting more than Manny could chew. You see Manny’s three fights in the welterweight division with Oscar, Cotto and Clottey is an indication that he had reached his ultimate limit in weight. He had to go 8 rounds against a dehydrated De La Hoya, 12 rounds against a 145lb. catch weight on Cotto and 12 full rounds on a heavier and stronger welterweight in Joshua Clottey. Manny’s original fighting weight would definitely be on the light welterweight limit but his power and speed can take him to bigger levels. The only problem is that how much can Pacquiao take all those heavier punches from bigger oppositions. He had a busted eardrum after the Cotto fight and even on his dominating fight with Clottey his eyes were swelled and looks like he had been beaten but of course it was the other way around. There was no one punch knockout that we are accustomed in seeing Manny while he was still campaigning in the lower weights instead it took him accumulated power punches to dominate his opponent. What makes Manny successful while moving up in weight is that he retained his speed and power enough to make legitimate welterweights fear for the storm of punches coming on their way.
An 8th divisional title won’t be farfetched further making boxing history but a fight with Mosley or Mayweather is not all about cementing legacies it’s all about pursuing higher greatness. He already made history by winning his 7th divisional title all Manny had to do is settle the score with either Mosley or Mayweather for the greatest boxer of our generation.No doubt about it after all he proved us wrong years ago.

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Manny Pacquiao was already rehearsing for his after fight concert with still days left before he fights Ghanian Joshua Clottey win or lose Manny will still put on a good show boxing or singing wise while Clottey’s trainer, Lenny De Jesus is already thinking of a rematch with Pacquiao. “I’m going to impose on him (Clottey) to throw more punches in order to win” said De Jesus.
After the fight Manny still went with his concert while Clottey couldn’t seem to follow the script his coach wants him to do. It was a lopsided decision with only two of the three judges awarded Clottey with just one round. The bigger and physically imposing Clottey was all in a defensive mode last Saturday applying a peek-a-boo attack but with more peek than boo. Manny peppered him with punches from all angles but he could not break Clottey’s high guard. When Joshua throws a punch it was greeted by 5 to 6 combinations then he goes back to his shell. “I’m a little disappointed with Clottey, this was a championship fight. This was his chance to win a title and beat Manny. But I think all he wanted to do was to go the distance” said Freddie Roach. Clottey might be thinking about Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto when he was fighting Pacquiao. He doesn’t want to be included in Manny’s KO list and decided to be in a survival mode rather than to risk throwing punches and end up kissing the canvass, Clottey’s too proud to not let that happen he rather finished the fight standing up and preserve his never been down record. The fight entitled “The Event” came out to be uneventful after all with one boxer looking for a fight and the other contented to just survive.
“I’m very strong, but this guy [Pacquiao] is so very, very fast,” Clottey said. “Manny Pacquiao will give anyone he fights a lot of problems, a lot.” I don’t think Clottey came to the fight with a loser’s mentality everybody wants to win it’s just that Clottey was put in a no win situation with Manny. He can’t put his guard down with Manny and he can’t execute his offense without eating some power punches. It’s not a mismatch with the bigger and stronger Clottey he was just simply outclassed by Manny.
There is only one logical opponent for Manny and that guy is fighting against Mosley this May 1. This fight should happen and Manny is willing and ready to fight Floyd we just hope Floyd this time follows the script.

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What makes a blockbuster movie? Nice cinematography, good actors and most of all a good script. A good villain can certainly bring intrigue and excitement because having all actors act as good guys is plainly boring. This March 13 boxing brought two explosive welterweights to the ring in front of 45,000 screaming fans in the sophisticated megadome in Dallas Cowboys.
Manny Pacquiao wants to fight the best and with Floyd Mayweather Jr. out the only logical opponent is Joshua Clottey when Shane Mosley was supposed to be battling out with Andre Berto at that time.
Clottey was given the chance of a lifetime after series of heartache losses to the hands of Cotto and Margarito. Clottey is the much hungrier fighter but Manny has a legacy to protect. There are two sides in a coin and in every game there is always a winner and a loser. I like Clottey’s chances but I just think Manny will overwhelm Clottey just like what he did to Miguel Cotto. Let’s try to evaluate each boxer according to Speed, Power and Preparedness
Speed
This is Manny’s forte but Joshua has already face speedster boxers on his career like Zab Judah and he handled it fairly okay but the difference between Judah and Manny is that Pacquaio have power on both hands. Amidst his high guard ear muff defense Clottey is very hittable and if you have speed and power there won’t be any defense for that.
-Manny
Power
Joshua Clottey is a welterweight fighter for most of his career and took Margarito and Cotto’s best shot with ease. He can take Manny’s power but the question would be for how long? Clottey is not just any other welterweight he is a big fighter who balloons into a 160 pound fighter in fight night. He definitely has the edge in power and obviously his fight plan is to use his brute force and impose his strength on Manny.
-Joshua
Preparedness
Manny had been on his best camp ever coming to the training camp well prepared and had been studying their game plan from day 1 to fight night. Clottey’s preferred trainer was stranded in Ghana when his visa was denied and that elevate former Pacquiao cutman Lenny De Jesus as head trainer. Clottey admitted he never watched any of Manny’s tapes while he was in training which means he had only one game plan to attack Manny. Pushing and pressuring him with force. The most prepared student Aces his exam and for this fight it’s definitely Manny.
-Manny

Fearless Forecast
Manny in 6th rounds…

Two fighters fighting it out for legacy, two fighters bringing each other’s nation, two fighters who respect each other… it just goes to show that two good guys can give a blockbuster performance win or lose in the end the good prevails.

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It was all too familiar with the same buzzer beating shot like an overused tape being rewind over and over again. Kobe Bryant displayed another breathtaking fade away jump shot in the dying seconds in regulation against two Toronto defenders escaping a precarious two point win 109-107 in front of the sellout Los Angeles crowd. It halted the Lakers 3 game losing skid and put a stop to the bleeding as the defending champions barely escape a fourth embarrassing defeat. They say that the most difficult in winning a basketball championship is defending it and Phil Jackson knows that pretty well having gone through the whole process in Chicago and had a record of 10 championship rings on his banner. The 3 game slumps serve as a wakeup call for the Lakers and with barely 20 games remaining the competition is going to be tough going to the playoffs. Kobe had been the Lakers savior and the go to guy in the final seconds of the game. The 6 winning basket shots were not coincidence it’s an implication of how tough the competition the Lakers have to gone through this season.
Offense isn’t a problem with most of the guys can shoot and score if they want to they just need some good defense. The once labeled soft team seems to find difficulty defending the pick and roll and their lackluster performance on lesser known teams such as Indiana and Charlotte. “We scored a lot of points tonight. That’s not going to win championships. You’ve got to stop people.” Kobe Bryant said after their Toronto game. Maybe this game could bring the spark back to the Lakers.
They are still the number 1 team in the West ahead of the surging Dallas but they mostly struggle with teams coming from the East with Cleveland, Charlotte, Orlando and Miami. It’s still a long way before playoffs and Kobe doesn’t care if most of the games are decided on some dying seconds he is willing and happy to shoot it out… A blow out or a close competitive game what matters is it’s a win. They will have to find their defensive mojo back because defense wins games and for the Lakers it wins another championship banner to their eminent franchise.

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The legendary Bruce Lee said that teachers must never impose students to fit to their favorite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student’s vulnerability causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being… Freddie Roach and Manny Pacquiao have gone a long way since they started way back on the Ledwaba fight. It took them time to be on top gradually developing Manny into a complete fighter. Freddie Roach transformed Manny from a one dimensional fighter to a technical boxer with power on both hands. Moving up in weight is definitely a need for Manny to change his ways because he can’t keep knocking people out while moving up in weight. Manny is a true student of the game as he continuously evolves into a well rounded fighter dissecting every opponent; studying his moves, weaknesses and mannerism and carefully making a fight plan like a hapless frog slowly being strip of his skin in a science laboratory.
They say the fight this coming March 13 with Joshua Clottey is a mismatch but I beg to disagree. Joshua fought Antonio Margarito, the late Diego Corrales, Zab Judah and Miguel Cotto and in all of his 39 fights he has never been knockout and Joshua so far is the biggest opponent Manny has ever face on his career. Clottey can go up to a bigger and much solid 160 lb. fighter in fight night and in a sport where one punch can make a difference Pacquiao is not exempted to that. Joshua is a vicious body puncher and has superb defense he handled Judah’s speed with his brute force and strength. Freddie Roach has already set a game plan for his number one student. The hours spent together practicing the mitts and orchestrating their offense is going into full fruition this Saturday all the videos they watch on Clottey meticulously making the detailed game plan to brought down the walls of Clottey.
Manny Pacquiao with all the accolades is still hungry and learning the craft more. His hungry for boxing knowledge transcend to expectations and resulted with good execution. Now Manny is slowly becoming like Freddie… Just like a Buddhist proverbs says “When the student is ready, the master appears…”

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A friend told me that the greatest pilots in the world are Filipinos because when in difficulty of landing other nationalities will go back and not risk the danger while Filipino pilots pushed their selves to land the plane even in zero visibility. It’s because going back would cost much and they cannot afford to lose that certain amount of money. I don’t know if this is really true but Filipinos are people who are known to overcome adversities in life.
I have nothing against Floyd Mayweather Jr. I have out most respect to his God given talents but I just had enough of his antics. The banning of Filipino journalist to interview Floyd Mayweather Jr. on his fight with Shane Mosley is an insult not only to all Filipinos but to the boxing world as well. You haven’t seen Muhammad Ali or Sugar Ray Robinson choosing people to interview them they treat every media as it is no race, no color and no prejudice. Dennis Guillermo first reported that veteran sports broadcasters Chino Trinidad and Joseph Pimentel who lined up for an interview with Floyd was denied entry by Kelly Swanson, Mayweather’s publicist saying Floyd refuses to talk about Pacquiao close to the fight.
First they accused of Pacquiao as a steroid user who refuses to go with their demand of blood testing without even one tiny proof. Second they accused the Philippines as a producer of the best performance enhancing drugs or steroids if it’s really true then how come there are still no Olympic golds in the Philippines? In fact our nation is not even on top of other Asian countries in sports. They accused of Pacquiao using an A side meth used to fight against US soldiers in the Philippine-American war dated way back in 1899 which Mayweather Sr. said that bullets will just jump off of the Pinoys bodies but can he also explain the 1.5 million casualties? The whole steroids story will always end up with a question mark there was no proof it’s just a product of Mayweather’s imagination.
I can’t believe people still support this egotistic maniac. He proclaims he is the best more than Ali and Robinson but he is nowhere close. He doesn’t respect people nor race or culture and would you believe he is an advocate for blood testing in boxing? He batters women and waves his gun to other people is that the work of a true best in boxing?
I am a Filipino and I am proud to be one. Mayweather can talk trash all he can but no matter how he claims to be the best ever boxer in the world he will never get my respect and to the 88 million Filipinos out there.

“So they’re making liars out of me and Joseph Pimentel. Maybe I can provide her with some video to show and get her saying very clearly to my face, we Filipinos can not interview Floyd Mayweather Jr. and she’s denying it right now. I’m willing to go to court here in the US to prove a point. I think right now she’s denying it right now because she’s getting all the flack for mishandling and treating Filipinos in such a bastardly manner.” – Chino Trinidad on Kelly Swanson’s denial (interview by Dennis Guillermo)

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Jermaine O’neal had to skip practice last Wednesday because of a sore hip and thigh. It has been like that with the 31 year old veteran. He was in and out because of injuries from back spasms to a hyper extended left knee but he always finds a way to comeback. Last Feb.20 in spite of his ailing back he played 35 minutes in a double-overtime victory against Memphis and scored 18 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 2 blockshots. But Thursday is no ordinary season game for the Heat they are facing the NBA champion Lakers and they need every ounce of strength for O’neal to hold two behemoths in Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum. They are in the no.8 spot in the Eastern conference (30-31) and a loss could give the Charlotte Bobcats (28-31) a game closer to them.
The Lakers extended the game with Kobe’s fade away jump shot and just like that the Miami Heat are placed on an unfamiliar territory wherein the Lakers are 4-0 going to extra periods. Despite Kobe’s 39 points and 4 assists and Wade’s 27 points and 14 assists the game was not all about Bryant and Wade it was all decided on team defense. 19 ties and 31 lead changes that’s how close the game was and when Kobe and Wade took turns in scoring the backups take over thanks to Bynum’s greasy hands and Quentin Richardson’s three.
Jermaine O’neal was the x factor of the game. It wasn’t an offensive rebound or a perimeter shot it was O’neal’s defense taking a charge when Kobe Bryant was driving hard to the basket for a potential game tying layup. It wasn’t a coincidence that Bryant was dribbling all the way to his position it was just O’neal doing work, taking the charge for the 19th time this season.
Once again O’neal delivered with a sore hip and thigh and a bad back. Now that’s what we call dedication which brings me to one thought Jermaine O’neal is an unrestricted free agent this year if I own a team he would definitely be one of my top acquisition of course Lebron, Wade and Bosh comes first.

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Manny Pacquiao is training with conviction as one by one each of his sparring partners tasted Manny’s power. Roach was a happy camper seeing Manny went through the guys put in front of him from Brian Brooks, Ray Beltran, Dave Rodela, Mike Dallas, Abdulla Amidu, Jamie Kavanagh, Steve Forbes and Shawn Porter all of them coincide that Manny is playing on a different league. He was two to three steps faster and hits two times harder and if I were Joshua Clottey I would be very concerned. Manny is fed up and angry with Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s continuous allegations even if there is already a defamation case filed by Manny’s camp. Floyd Sr. and his brother Roger continued to bash Pacquiao’s reputation with all the steroids and performance enhancing drugs accusations even to the extent of accusing Pacquiao using some mythical drug that the Filipinos allegedly used during World war. Golden Boy promotions are starting to distant themselves against the Mayweathers and it automatically backfire with people already calling them crazy. Everything adds up to Manny’s motivation. He wanted to fight Floyd right there and now and knock him out. He even said he want to fight Floyd for free with the winner takes it all. Floyd keeps on bringing up the issue about Manny walking away a $25 million fight for a blood test but why would Floyd insist on a blood testing for allegations without any proof? The irony is that Floyd is fighting this May 1 with a known steroids user in Shane Mosley. Manny is training mad and his focus is tremendous. After Clottey he wants Floyd’s head and Bob Arum and GBP needs that fight to be done… Floyd can talk all he wants but you can’t put a good man down especially if he is angry.

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