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By Francis Ochoa
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 22:29:00 11/16/2009
LAS VEGAS—Kenny Bayless waved off Saturday’s fight with Manny Pacquiao all over Miguel Cotto, who was trying to escape the Filipino’s fusillade against the ropes.
Should Cotto’s corner have pulled the plug earlier?
Freddie Roach thinks so. So does Manny Pacquiao.
“It’s a good question,” Top Rank chief and fight promoter Bob Arum said, minutes after Pacquiao became the first boxer to win world titles in seven different weight classes after taking Cotto’s WBO welterweight title via a 12th-round technical knockout.
“I know the referee did the right thing in stopping the fight,” Arum added.
Pacquiao said he thought Cotto’s corner would call the fight to a halt in the 11th round. Roach agreed, but said the end should have come earlier.
But before anybody could train their guns at 32-year-old Joe Santiago, who had been vilified for his inexperience in big-time bouts, Cotto owned up to the error.
“I told Joe that I wanted to continue fighting,” said the Puerto Rican star. “It was my decision.”
Roach could have pounced on Cotto’s admission by saying he was right after all. That Santiago wasn’t running the training camp but Cotto.
Roach had been jawing at Santiago in the weeks before the fight, saying the latter simply “put a towel on his shoulder and give his guy a drink and he thinks he’s a trainer.”
Santiago added fuel to the fire when he uttered an invective-laced statement at Roach when Cotto managed to make the weight Friday.
Roach had insisted that Cotto, the former two-division champ, was struggling to make the 145-pound catch weight for the bout.
On Saturday, after Roach guided Pacquiao to a systematic destruction of Cotto, there were no vindictive remarks.
In fact, Roach and Santiago hugged in the middle of the ring after the bout.
Santiago was working in just his second major bout since replacing Evangelista Cotto, the fighter’s uncle, as chief trainer.
A former nutritionist, Santiago had the game plan down pat. But even he was caught unaware by the power Pacquiao brought up with him to the heavier weights.
“We knew Pacquiao had a lot of speed,” said Santiago. “But we didn’t know he could hit hard. He was stronger than we expected.”
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MANILA, Philippines—About $58.2 million will be divided between Filipino hero Manny Pacquiao and British slugger Ricky Hatton as fight purse for their May 2 bout in Las Vegas, the websites of two British newspapers reported Friday.
The amount includes the expected revenue from pay-per-view buys, according to the Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph.
It said the purse will be split between the two fighters, although Pacquiao’s camp has yet to announce how much he will be receiving for the fight.
This developed as Hatton’s team again reiterated their desire to have the fight held at the historic Wembley Arena in London.
In his recent announcements, however, Top Rank chief Bob Arum said the fight would be held either at the Thomas and Mack Center of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas or the MGM Grand Garden Arena, site of Pacquiao’s eighth-round annihilation of boxing’s poster boy Oscar De La Hoya last month.
But Hatton’s team is reportedly burning the lines to bring the fight to England.
Wembley can seat a maximum of 105,000 spectators and is one of the largest stadiums in the world.
Ray Hatton, the British fighter’s father and manager, said they are trying to put together a package to show that a fight in Wembley could financially match or surpass a duel in Las Vegas.
“From our viewpoint, the fight is all but done and will go ahead,” Hatton told Telegraph Sport. “We’re just still negotiating the terms of the location. We want to have the fight over here for the British fans and we’ve been trying to put together a package to show that we can financially equal, or better, what they can do over there (in Las Vegas).”
This proposal, though, runs smack against the perspective of fight broadcaster HBO, which is insisting the fight takes place in Las Vegas because of a more lucrative pay-per-view market.
Known as “The Hitman” for his knockout prowess, Hatton, who holds the IBO light welter belt, will undergo a 12-week camp for his duel with Pacquiao.
Hatton’s training camp under Floyd Mayweather Sr. will start in February in England, before moving to Florida and Las Vegas a few weeks before the fight.
Meanwhile, former two-division champion Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico has expressed his desire to fight stablemate Pacquiao—that is if Top Rank offers him a showdown with the Filipino.
“My promoter has some set plans for me, and if Pacquiao is part of those [plans], I’m ready to fight him,” Cotto, who is set to fight Michael Jennings on Feb. 21 for the vacant WBO welterweight belt, told El Nuevo Dia, a widely-read newspaper in Puerto Rico.
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Hatton’s corner throws first verbal jab
MANILA, Philippines—Floyd Mayweather Sr. fired the first warning shot at Filipino hero Manny Pacquiao, who is set to take on his ward, Ricky Hatton, in a mega-buck light welterweight showdown on May 2 in Las Vegas.
The smooth-talking veteran trainer expressed confidence that Hatton will beat Pacquiao, who is coming off a sensational eighth-round technical knockout of Oscar De La Hoya last month that confirmed his status as the world’s top pound-for-pound boxer.
“Everyone is building up Pacquiao to be the next great thing but Ricky will handle him,” Mayweather Sr., whose son, Floyd Jr., looms as the next opponent of the winner of the Hatton-Pacquiao match, told fightnews.com writer Lee Bates.
“I know Pacquiao is fast, but Ricky has extremely fast footwork and he’s strong,” he said. “Believe me when I tell you we have a solid game plan for that fight.”
Mayweather Sr. was in Hatton’s corner when the British slugger hammered out an 11th-round knockout of American Paul Malignaggi to keep his IBO light welterweight crown last November.
Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach, earlier said Hatton will be a tough customer for the Filipino star, but believes the Gen. Santos City lefty’s footwork will be the key to winning the bout.
The fight, which is expected to give Pacquiao his biggest payday yet, will not only be a battle between two fighters with aggressive styles, but between Mayweather Sr. and Roach, who have actually been feuding for the past two years.
Mayweather Sr. threw verbal jabs at Roach when the California-based trainer handled his De La Hoya, his friend and former ward, for his fight against Floyd Jr. in May 2007.
De La Hoya had cut Mayweather Sr. from his corner, after they failed to agree over financial terms and replaced him with Roach.
Although the fight has yet to be signed, a media tour hyping up the Pacquiao-Hatton duel has been tentatively set to start before the end of the month with New York, California and England as probable locations, Internet reports said.
Two British newspapers have reported that the two superstars will divide a $58.2 million fight purse, although Pacquiao’s camp has yet to announce how much he will be receiving for the fight.
In the De La Hoya fight, Pacquiao earned about $15 million, including his share from the pay-per-view revenues.
MANILA, Philippines—Manny Pacquiao is headed for a showdown against fellow brawler Ricky Hatton in a duel that will most likely take place on May 2 at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas’ Thomas and Mack Center, Internet reports bared Sunday.
 
Meanwhile, from his cushy retirement perch, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is considering fighting the Filipino ring hero in a bout, where the “Pretty Boy” hopes to “beat his [expletive],” the boxer’s confidante revealed.
Pacquiao, the reigning World Boxing Council lightweight champion, will be gunning for a fifth weight crown against Hatton, who holds the International Boxing Organization junior welterweight belt.
“My guy is on board,” Pacquiao promoter and Top Rank chief Bob Arum told Steve Lillis of England’s News of the World. “I think Ricky’s on board and I am very upbeat.”
Steve Kim of SecondsOut.com said the match is a “done deal.”
Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions that handles Hatton’s fight, also said that the fight has been virtually green-lighted.
The bout between Pacquiao, boxing’s acknowledged pound-for-pound king, and Hatton, the beer-guzzling “Hitman” of Manchester, was nearly sidelined by Mayweather’s sudden interest in coming out of retirement.
A report by ESPN’s Dan Rafael, however, made it seem like the Pretty Boy is waiting for a snowballing clamor for Pacquiao-Mayweather before making a final decision.
“Floyd has given Team Mayweather the green light to… evaluate the biggest fights for him, to come back to him and present it to him,” Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather’s best friend and adviser, told ESPN.com.
If Pacquiao beats Hatton to polish a pound-for-pound crown he validated with an eighth-round TKO of Oscar De La Hoya last Dec. 6, fans and experts are expected to mount a call for a bout between the Filipino and Mayweather, the former pound-for-pound king.
And that could be big enough to lure Mayweather out of retirement.
“If Floyd considers something, it would be the biggest thing,” Ellerbe told ESPN.com.
He said Mayweather thought De La Hoya’s conqueror was “an excellent fighter and it was a tremendous win.”
But Ellerbe said that Mayweather issued a little warning to Pacquiao.
“Floyd said, ‘He’s a good fighter, but I’ll beat his [expletive].”
Filed Under (Sports) by on 13-12-2008
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines – Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao’s Canadian friend and adviser has agreed to chip in some money for the immediate completion of his life-size bronze statue, which the city government plans to erect.
Michael Koncz did not say how much he was willing to pitch in for the statue, which will be put up in front of the General Santos City Hall.
“I don’t know the cost. I still have to talk to the mayor,” he said here on Friday.
Koncz said Pacquiao deserves the statue because “he has done great honor and glory for his country.”
“Manny has taken the gold out of the Golden Boy. And I think he deserves a statue just like Dela Hoya, who has a 14-foot bronze statue in Staples Center,” Koncz said.
Mayor Pedro Acharon Jr. said he was overjoyed at Koncz generosity.
Like the Canadian, Acharon said the statue was fitting because of the honor and prestige that Pacquiao has brought to the city and the country as a whole.
Pacquiao, sounding humble in a low tone, said he did not take away the gold from Dela Hoya. “Just the glitter,” he said.
In a speech delivered during the grand welcome organized by the city government, Pacquiao reiterated that his victory against over Oscar dela Hoya was brought by prayers and support from his fans and associates.
Pacquiao also assured his thousands of fans here, who patiently waited for his arrival from Manila on Friday, that his next two fights will be equally exciting.
“After which, I will retire…. But not because of politics,” he said.
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Roach: Nobody can beat Pacman
By Abac Cordero Updated December 13, 2008 12:00 AM
Manny Pacquiao, in the eyes of his trainer Freddie Roach, is unbeatable at the moment.
“He’s on top of his game right now,” Roach, just days after guiding Pacquiao to a sensational eight-round stoppage of Oscar dela Hoya, told Steve Kim of maxboxing.com from his Wild Card Gym.
“Nobody in the world can beat him right now.”
Roach said Pacquiao, who fought Dela Hoya at 147 pounds, is sliding down to 140 for his next fight, and, again, should be unbeatable at that weight.
“I don’t care. Marquez come on, you can fight us,” he said referring to old rival Juan Manuel Marquez.
Then he called on Floyd Mayweather Jr. and practically begged for the undefeated former pound-for-pound champion to come out of retirement.
“Floyd, come out of retirement, please,” said Roach.
“We’ll knock you out, too.”
Mayweather was in the news two days after Pacquiao demolished Dela Hoya, when his cousin said the flamboyant boxer had told her he wanted to fight Pacquiao.
A report that came out of boxingtalk.com yesterday, however, said Mayweather hasn’t made up his mind yet on facing the new pound-for-pound champion.
Another fighter that looms as Pacquiao’s next opponent is Ricky Hatton, the British cyclone, and the reigning IBO 140-pound champion.
Anything is actually possible. And any fight should be a big fight for Pacquiao.
“I like to see him fight a couple more fights then get out, retire,” Roach told Kim.
“The biggest fight out there is Floyd. He’s the former pound-for-pound best fighter and we are now, he’s undefeated, he struggled against Oscar and won a decision and we knocked Oscar out.
I think that’s the fight everybody wants to see,” Roach said.
“Ricky Hatton, he got knocked out by Floyd and he beat Paulie Malignaggi. How good is he? Floyd is the much better fight. If we can get Floyd I want Floyd now because Manny’s in his prime right now.
“And we’ll give him a show, too.”
Looking back at the Dela Hoya fight, Roach said boxing’s Golden Boy killed himself making weight.
Roach said Dela Hoya made a very big mistake dropping down in weight, down to less than 150 pounds, with still so many weeks left before the fight.
“Oscar overdid it. He wanted to prove that he can come out lighter than us. That concept to be in that weight for a month… that’s bullshit,” Roach said.
Pacquiao, who was moving up in weight for the “Dream Match,” was at 149 pounds the day before the official weigh-in, and did what was just needed.
“Fighters make weight on the last day and then re-hydrate to get strong. All these deer meat and antelope meat and protein, no carbohydrate… his nutritionist did a terrible job,” Roach said of Dela Hoya.
And when Dela Hoya climbed the ring just two pounds heavier than his official weight (from 145 to 147 pounds), Roach knew it was over.
He also noticed IV (intravenous) marks on Dela Hoya’s arm, meaning they tried to do everything to re-hydrate him.
“I saw the IV in his arm, the IV marks. It’s fresh tape and it’s a fresh IV I can tell. They rehydrated him too late they waited too long to hydrate him I feel. It’s nothing illegal of course but he couldn’t get nothing into his system. They didn’t hydrate him enough,” Roach added.
All he needed was a little word with Pacquiao.
“I said, ‘Manny, he’s gonna be good for three rounds, keep your hands up, don’t go crazy, just take your time, break him down, slowly, and we got him,” Roach said.
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SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA—Recession or not, there was no embarrassment of empty seats at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on the night Manny Pacquiao turned the “Dream Match” into a nightmare for Oscar De La Hoya.
And now comes the pay-per-view (PPV) figures. And there’s no disgrace in the numbers either.
Oscar’s fighting prowess may have been anywhere but in the ring Saturday evening. But his sheer box-office fire, made more ablaze by the most credible and deadly of opponents in the Filipino ring icon, translated into 1.25 million PPV buys on cable giant HBO.
At $54.95 per, revenues add up to about $70 million (P3.34 billion) and make for a nice profit margin all around.
(The Philippine Daily Inquirer estimates that Pacquiao will earn a pre-tax windfall of $12 million from his PPV share).
The ringing from the HBO cash register is music to the promoters’ ears and certainly more than enough to soothe the Golden Boy’s battered body and ego.
De La Hoya-Pacquiao has also notched a record—it’s the first PPV boxing match this year to breach the one million mark.
HBO figures reported by Broadcastnewsroom.com, the industry portal, said the fight is only the fourth non-heavyweight event to reach one million buys. Incidentally, all four features De La Hoya.
Number one on this list is the 2006 De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight, which drew 2.4 million buys, followed by the 1999 De La Hoya-Felix Trinidad and 2008 De La Hoya-Pacquiao fights (1.25 million buys) and the 2004 De La Hoya-Bernard Hopkins bout (1 million buys).
The portal also quoted Mark Taffet, the HBO chief for sports operations.
Taffet said: “De La Hoya-Pacquiao definitely exceeded our expectations. We hoped that fight would hit the million-buy mark, which is the barometer for mega fights in this sport, but we were uncertain given the state of the economy. We were really pleased that boxing fans everywhere showed tremendous support for the fight.”
Taffet paints a bright picture for Pacquiao, who attracted up to 400,000 buys for one of his fights. He also paid tribute to Manny’s huge potential to become a major PPV attraction in his own right.
Pacquiao has become a breakthrough PPV star, Taffet said.
The Dream Match numbers also indicate the Ultimate Fighting Championship has yet to reach full market potential.
Although a threat to boxing, the UFC’s PPV record still stands at 800,000 buys from the Brock Lesnar-Randy Couture fight last Nov. 15 also at the MGM Grand, reported Broadcastnews.com.
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