Hall of Famer Coach Roach Predicts a KO Win for Manny
Freddie Roach, the four-time trainer of the year and current coach of seven-division boxing world champion Manny Pacquiao predicts a KO win for his ward when Manny will defend his world welterweight title against Ghana’s Joshua Clottey in March 13 live on HBO Pay-Per-View at Jerry Jones’ Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
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Pacquiao picks Baguio as the venue for his training against Cotto
Despite of so many distractions would hamper on his training, Manny Pacquiao sees Baguio City a perfect place for him to train against very dangerous Puerto Rican boxer Miguel Cotto. He said that Freddie Roach and the rest of the Team Pacquiao will have to fly here from the U.S. to prepare the Filipino to what the famous trainer referred to as the Pacman’s “toughest fight” to date.
Pacquiao denies the allegation for having a personal conflict between him and his chief trainer Roach. He said that there’s no rift between him and his trainer and in fact, they’d finalize the training schedule during the fight’s press tour next week.
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Donaire Wants to KO Concepcion
The much-awaited fight between Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire Jr. and Rafael “El Torito” Concepcion that billed as “Pinoy Power 2” will set to clash each other on August, 15, 2009 at the New Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. The fight is on a Pay-Per-View which promoted by Bob Arum’s Top Rank beginning at 6 p.m. PDT, with a suggested retail price of $34.95.
During today’s weigh-in, “The Filipino Flash” Nonito Donaire Jr., of the Philippines weighs in at 115 lb while his opponent Rafael “El Torito” Concepcion of Panama came in over weight at 119.5 lb. The extra 4 lbs makes this fight a non-title bout that the WBA interim world Super Flyweight is not likely at stake.
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Team Pilipinas Blasts Sri Lanka in FIBA-Asia Opener
Team Pilipinas blasts Sri Lanka with a monstrous score of 115-31 in the opening game of 25th FIBA-Asian men’s basketball championship Thursday in Tianjin, China. They played a terrific game that a win today in able them to have an automatic semi-finals slot in the on-going FIBA-Asia tournament. But first, they must play really hard to win their remaining games for them to qualify in the 2012 London Olympics.
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Japeth Aguilar is RP’s New Basketball Player Sensation
Japeth Paul C. Aguilar is a Filipino amateur basketball player which was born on January 25, 1985. He is currently playing for the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers in the division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. He is the first Filipino-born basketball player ever to be recruited by a Division I program. Japeth is a son of former Philippine Basketball Association player named Peter Aguilar.
In college, before he went to the United States, he played for the Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines in 2004. However, his first season stint was cut short due to appendicitis.
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Pacquiao Will Fight Cotto at 145!
The long wait is over after Manny Pacquiao finally agreed to fight Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico at a catch weight of 145 lbs. In a private conversation via long distance call with Top Rank promoter Bob Arum over the weekend, this was confirmed that the fight should happen in November 14 at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, USA.
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Powerade Team Pilipinas Had Their First Loss against Jordan in Jones Cup Debut
The Powerade Team Pilipinas out-hassled by Jordan in the midst of second-quarter breakaway and never recovered in a disappointing 90-59 loss to open its campaign in the 31st William Jones Cup.
The Nationals started strong in the few minutes of first quarter and only trailed by two points 17-15 at the end of this quarter. It has been a very close game until Jordanian’s 6-4 point guard Rasheim Wright started to play a tremendous game in both offense and defense by cutting the Nationals’ defense in shreds, setting screens that set up their outside shots clearly breaking Team Pilipinas’ man-to-man defense.
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SMB ties final series at 2-2 against Ginebra
Metro Manila – San Miguel Beer celebrated their victory against Ginebra on a thrilling game tonight with a score of 106-104 win in Araneta Coliseum. The King’s import David Noel missed crucial 3 endgame free throws that would eventually the turning point on this game. However, Ginebra’s guard Ronald Tubid and Chico Lanete had an opportunity to shoot a game-winning three-pointer each but failed to deliver the paint. It was a heart-breaking loss against them that would tie the series at 2-2.
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Manny Pacquiao is the 56th Time Magazine most influential person in the world
Time Magazine has named Manny as the 56th most influential person in the world. Forbes magazine has also listed him the 6th richest athlete in the world. President Gloria Arroyo keeps receiving Pacquiao as a Palace guest like royalty. She has recently appointed him as an Ambassador of peace and goodwill.
Former President Erap Estrada has intimidated his desire to have Pacquiao in his camp for the upcoming 2010 elections following their meeting in General Santos on the past 2 weeks. Even former US President Bill Clinton admired and had photographed beside Manny in Las Vegas hours before Pacquiao knocked Ricky Hatton out on their May 3 fight.
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Roach wants a 3rd round KO win for Manny
With only less than five weeks of preparation with the most anticipated fight of the year between the current pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton, Manny is looking very sharp in his preparations leading up to the fight.
Roach, who added predicting how his prized ward’s fights would end to his resume, said Pacquiao’s May 2 (May 3 in Manila) fight against Ricky Hatton would end early when asked by reporters during “The Battle of East vs. West” promotional tour in Hollywood.
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