By Elie Seckbach | Fanhouse.com

In this video, the 36-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (50-5-1, 37 knockouts) is training at the Fortune Gym in Los Angeles for Saturday night’s HBO pay per view televised rematch with 26-year-old Juan Diaz (35-3, 17 KOs), whom Marquez knocked out in the ninth round of their February, 2009, Fight of the Year. Read the rest of this entry »

By ABS-CBN News

MANILA, Philippines – Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao seemed to prefer to fight Mexican Antonio Margarito on November 13 instead of having a rematch with Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto.

“Maganda ‘yun (That’s good),” Pacquiao said when asked about his possible clash with the former World Boxing Association (WBA), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion. Read the rest of this entry »

By Stephen D. Riley | Afro.com

Cornered by The Associated Press at a celebrity basketball game, Floyd Mayweather couldn’t escape. After letting a Friday deadline pass with no response, his much-hyped potential bout with Manny Pacquiao was on the ropes and ready to collapse. The media wanted answers, the fans wanted answers and every bookie, broker and bettor in Vegas wanted answers. So what did Mayweather counter with when hit by this whole super-bout question? Read the rest of this entry »

By Lance Pugmire | LAtimes

The public silence has broken in Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s camp, following a midnight Friday announcement by Manny Pacquiao‘s promoter, Bob Arum, that other opponents would be sought instead of waiting to hear from Mayweather. Read the rest of this entry »

By Abac Cordero | The Philippine Star

MANILA, Philippines – Manny Pacquiao partied all night Friday and woke up to yesterday’s news that Floyd Mayweather Jr. had ignored the deadline for him to sign the contract for a Nov. 13 fight with the Filipino superstar. Read the rest of this entry »

The former welterweight champion Antonio Margarito is reportedly very confident about his chances to beat both Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto. A source in Margarito’s camp was contacted by Golzka to discuss the fighter’s current status. Margarito’s team is going through the same motions as Cotto by waiting for the final conclusion to Pacquiao’s negotiations to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. in November. Read the rest of this entry »

By Abac Cordero (The PhilStar)

MANILA, Philippines – Floyd Mayweather Jr. has a couple of weeks to decide whether or not he wants to fight Manny Pacquiao.

Otherwise, Top Rank president Bob Arum said Pacquiao, the best boxer in the planet today, will start looking elsewhere, and move on to his scheduled return to the ring on Nov. 13. Read the rest of this entry »

By Leo Reyes | Bleach Report

Fighter of the Decade Manny Pacquiao lost to Floyd Mayweather, Jr in Forbes list of world richest athletes according to the latest rankings released by Forbes Magazine.

In the rankings, Forbes placed Mayweather as the second richest athlete in the world with $65 million while Tiger woods was declared the richest with a total revenue of $105 million. Read the rest of this entry »

source: Dennis “dSource” Guillermo – Examiner

Pound for pound king and BWAA Boxer of the decade Manny Pacquiao tries for his second consecutive ESPY Fighter of the Year award after being nominated together with his nemesis Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC welterweight champion George St. Pierre. Read the rest of this entry »

By Ruslan Chikov (Boxingscene)

Sources within Antonio Margarito’s team are disputing reports that WBA 154-pound champion Miguel Cotto may be in line for a shot at WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. Anonymous sources who are close to Margarito informed Golzka the former champion from Mexico “is ready” to fight Pacquiao at any time and their shot at Pacquiao was promised to them by the mutal promoter of both fighters, Top Rank. Read the rest of this entry »

By Emmanuel Villaruel (The Philippine Star)

MANILA, Philippines – Unless a 50/50 purse split will be put in place, a Manny Pacquiao superfight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. will not take place.

This was Pacquiao’s stand on the issue, saying that there is no way he’s going to climb up the ring against Mayweather if the split on prize money and other revenues are not even or in other way favorable to the unbeaten American fighter. Read the rest of this entry »

By Abac Cordero | The Philippine Star

MANILA, Philippines – Jeff Mayweather is pointing his finger at Manny Pacquiao as the reason why the superfight between the Filipino icon and his nephew, the undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr, isn’t happening and is not going to happen.

The Examiner did a lengthy interview with the older Mayweather who remained “very pessimistic” that the fight that everybody wants to see will take place on Nov. 13 as the fighters’ promoters are hoping. Read the rest of this entry »

source: Abac Cordero | Philstar

MANILA, Philippines – Manny Pacquiao wouldn’t mind facing Ricky Hatton a second time, just in case any of the other fights being lined up for the Filipino superstar doesn’t shape up.

“He can have a rematch,” said Pacquiao in a television interview upon his return from the United States, where he received the Boxer of the Decade award from the prestigious Boxing Writers Association of America. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Seven-division world champion and Sarangani Province Congressman-elect Manny Pacquiao said he is ready to face anyone in the ring, whether it is Briton Ricky Hatton, American Floyd Mayweather, Jr., or Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto.

Pacquiao said this upon his arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Monday morning from his vacation in the United States and Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – A year after being knocked out by Manny Pacquiao, British pug Ricky Hatton is still swinging.

In an article that came out of The National the other day, Hatton said his biggest mistake against Pacquiao was not his lousy defense but his failure to demand blood-testing. Read the rest of this entry »