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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Gorres faces ex-champ on his next foe
Z “the dream” GORRES is in a hurry to break into the bantamweight division and ALA promotions is more than happy to get him tough foes.
In Gorres’ debut as a bantamweight, he will be up against former International Boxing Federation mini-flyweight titleholder Roberto Carlos “Mako” Leyva for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) Oriental bantamweight crown on March 14 at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino in Cebu City.
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The Beermen Wins Against Air21 to Face Kings in best-of-3 series
San Miguel Beer subordinated the Air21 Express practically on all fronts, pulling off a comfortable 105-86 victory to gain entry into the KFC PBA Philippine Cup quarterfinals at the Araneta Coliseum Sunday night.
Picking up from where they left off in their game against the Coca-Cola Tigers last Dec. 28, the Beermen made it 3-0 over the Express in their head-on duels in the conference.
It’s Sta. Lucia versus Rain or Shine in the opener and San Miguel against Ginebra for the main game at the start of the best-of-three quarterfinals showdowns Wednesday in the same venue.
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La Salle-Ateneo encounters again for Collegiate Championship crown
The top two squads in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) could very well be the best teams in the country right now.
La Salle followed rival Ateneo in the 2008 Philippine Collegiate Championship finals after whooping a 62-61 comeback win over reigning National Collegiate Athletic Association champion San Beda in their semifinal match on Saturday at the arena in San Juan City.
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Manny’s wife will not be around at ringside during the Dream Match
Jinkee Pacquiao will not be at the MGM Grand Hotel ringside when her husband fights Oscar de la Hoya on December 7 (December 6, US time).
Pacquiao is eight months pregnant with her fourth child with the Filipino world champion, making it delicate for her to watch a bout expected to be tenser than any of her husband’s previous fights.
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Salvacion Saves Ginebra against Coca-Cola
Ginebra’s guard Sunday Salvacion lit up the scoreboard in the fourth quarter to help his team beat Coca-Cola, 84-77, in Thursday’s game in the KFC PBA Philippine Cup at the Olivarez College Sports Center.
Salvacion’s outside sniping, four straight for 12 points, in the final canto helped keep the Tigers at bay and secure the Kings’ third straight win.
Coke rallied from 21 points down in the first half and threatened at 56-55, on a Ronjay Enrile three-pointer with 10:35 left in the game clock.
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Boom-Boom Lost Via Unanimous Decision!
LAS VEGAS–Mexican Heriberto Ruiz took a unanimous decision win over Rey ‘Boom Boom’ Bautista seconds ago in their 8-round bout here at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Ruiz knocked down Bautista in the third with a left hook, and Bautista was deducted a point in the seventh due to low blows, earning for the Mexican a 77-73, 78-72, 80-70 win. Bautista falls to 26-2 while Ruiz who improves his record to 40-7-2.
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Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)
The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a professional basketball league in the Philippines which founded in 1975. It is known as the first and the oldest professional basketball league in Asia. PBA is currently applying the rules of FIBA and National Basketball Association. The league is recently headed by Commissioner Sonny Barrios.
From 1975-2003, a season was usually composed of three conferences. From the 1993 season, the conferences were named All Filipino, Commissioner’s Cup, and Governors Cup, usually ending in a best-of-7 Finals series match wherein the winner takes the Conference Cup. If the same team wins all of the conferences, the team is said to be the “Grand Slam” champion. A draft was held on January.
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Oscar Wants a Knockout and Roach Promises One
During a conference call happened yesterday, Oscar De La Hoya talked about the need to win by knockout, claiming it would be a disaster if he didn’t. In light of those comments, Freddie Roach today had some things to say to his former student.
“Tell Oscar not to worry, the fight will end in a knockout,” Roach said through ace publicist Fred Sternburg yesterday from the Wild Card Boxing Club, the hotbed of Southern California fisticuffs.
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