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Pacquiao on Time Magazine!

It seems like the world just can’t get enough of Manny Pacquiao now. After his amusing guesting on the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live, Pacquiao is now the cover of TIME Magazine Asia Edition. For its November issue, titled The Great Hope, Pacquiao is now dubbed as the great savior of boxing.
The prestige of [...]

Manny Pacquiao Guested on the Jimmy Kimmel Show

Manny Pacquiao stayed away from the practice for the Pacquiao Vs Cotto match this week to guest on the late night show, Jimmy Kimmel Live. It will be less than two weeks before his historic fight against Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto, but he took his time off last Tuesday night to have some fun. He [...]

Ariza: Boxing better than basketball for Pacquiao

MANILA – If conditioning coach Alex Ariza would have his way, he’d probably keep Manny Pacquiao away from basketball.
Ariz said Pacquiao sustained an injury on his right knee’s lateral collateral ligament while playing basketball. The injury occured mid-way this year, after the Ricky Hatton fight.
“It’s gone, thank God,” Ariza told abs-cbnNEWS.com while Pacquiao was having [...]

Pacquiao’s L.A. Training Continues

Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao has already started continuing his training at the Wild Card Gym despite the jet-lag after arriving in Los Angeles from the Philippines just a few days ago. For his first day of training for the Pacquiao Vs Cotto match, he had a two-hour workout.
From an interview in ABS-CBN, Pacquiao said, “We have [...]

Pacquiao continues training in the US

Manny Pacquiao has arrived in Los Angeles. Hundreds of cheering fans greeted the People’s Champ when his flight landed at LAX  via Philippine Airlines around 7 PM, He will continue his training there to get him geared up for his upcoming Pacquiao Vs Cotto “Firepower” fight for the World Boxing organizatiom (WBO) Welterweight Championship title [...]

Pacquiao says to face toughest test yet in Cotto

MANILA – Despite being the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter, Manny Pacquiao said he has to prove himself as he is the challenger to Miguel Cotto’s WBO welterweight belt on Nov. 14 in their “Firepower” bout in Las Vegas.
“Kinakailangan kong dalhin ang laban sa kampeon at dapat lang na maipakita ko ang aking kahandaan upang makopo [...]

Unable to run, Pacquiao trains in the pool instead

BAGUIO CITY — Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao has taken up swimming to make up for the road work he has lost to the weather.
“For the last eight years I’ve been trying to get Manny in the pool,” Roach told the Philippine Daily Inquirer yesterday. “With the rain here we finally got him in the [...]

El Terrible to be Sparring partner of Pacquiao

Former welterweight veteran champion Jose Luis “El Terrible” Castillo has just been tapped by manny Pacquiao’s team to help him to win against the upcoming Pacquiao Vs Cotto match. He accepted the invitation to become a sparring partner of Pacquiao on his grueling sparring training. he left last Wednesday and then arrive in the Philippines [...]

Why Pacquiao is not training in the Wild Card Gym

Boxing fans especially the ones rooting for Manny Pacquiao knows that his usual training ground is Freddy Roach’s Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles. But for the Pacquiao Vs Cotto fight, our main man is currently on training here on our very own Baguio City, Philippines.
Pacquiao choose Baguio because of its elevation and his belief [...]

Pacquiao helps typhoon victims on his day-off

Manny Pacquiao is hard on training for the upcoming Pacquiao Vs Cotto Match and he’s doing it all on Baguio. The “People’s Champ” as what he is called here in the Philippines is undergoing a five-week training camp in Baguio City under the supervision of his mentor Freddy Roach. You can read more details of this grueling training here, but for now, let’s talk about the good deed that Pacquiao did during his day-off from training last sunday.