5 Reasons Why Manny Pacquiao would beat Miguel Cotto

Speed – Its an old boxing adage that “speed kills” and right now no one has more speed than Manny Pacquiao.  Its not just that Manny is fast with his hands, but as seen in his match with Oscar De La Hoya, he also has fast feet.  Cotto was able to keep up with Shane Mosley’s hands, but doesn’t have the quickest pair of feet in town.  He is often caught against the ropes and that would play right into Pacquiao’s speedy hands.

Wear and Tear – Cotto took a brutal beating against Antonio Margarito and even though he got by Joshua Clottey, he still showed signs of weariness in the later rounds. That would be a sure fire way to lose against a top conditioned athlete like Manny Pacquiao.  Pacquiao would apply relentless pressure that Clottey was unable to do to finish the job.  Cotto also backed away in the later rounds against Shane Mosley, if he does this against Pac-man its lights out!

Chin – Cotto was knocked down several times at 140 pounds and one of the main reasons he moved up was that it gave him more strength to take a punch.  If he comes back down to 143 pounds to face Pacquiao, some of that weakness may resurface.  Meanwhile Pacquiao hasn’t been stopped in over ten years and has a proven ability to take a punch.  

Skills – Since Manny’s loss to Eric Morales several years ago, he has improved significantly.  He has learned to knock opponents down with either hand whereas before he relied heavily on the straight left hand.  Cotto has great skills but has shown vulnerability when faced against a pressure fighter.  This lack of ability could be a major factor in the fight

Trainer – many casual boxing fans don’t seem to realize the importance of a good trainer. However it’s the trainer that sets up the game plan and studies the opponent’s flaws for months before the fight takes place. Manny Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach, earned his second Trainer Of the Year award for the two perfect game plans against Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton.  On the other hand, Miguel Cotto has had much turmoil in his camp and split ways with his long time trainer just before the fight with Joshua Clottey.  Will Cotto’s camp be able to put together a strategy like Freddie Roach?  The answer is most likely a resounding No.

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Biggest Problems Facing Mexico In 2009

1. Devastation of Mexican boxing icons by Pinoy tsunami Manny Pacquiao.

2. Swine flu, which is not Mexican swine flu but is mistakenly called that by various pigs, racks country’s huge tourism business. Cancun hit by swine flu but don’t tell anybody..

3. Surviving ring icon, Antonio Margocheato, suspended by California and Bob Arum defends him vociferously…until lab results on hand wraps come in. We can’t blame the Tijuana Tornado’s fall on Megamanny.  No, we can’t.

4. Pesky narcotraffickers who employ and/or murder police and assassinate anyone in the way of their thriving drug trade. Big surprise, they get their weapons of choice from America.

5. Did we mention how Pacman wiped out Barrera and Morales and dropped Juan Manuel Marquez four times in two highly competitive bouts?

6. Miguel Cotto, handily beaten by Margocheato, keeps saying he thinks Tone Loc’s gloves felt like there were horseshoes inside them…we’ll never know, but suspicion runs deep with Boricua Bomber and his fans.

7. Idea to alleviate Pacquiao’s wreckage of our top fighters: See if we can get him to become a dual citizen just like some publicity-hungry Pinoy pol wants to give Coach Freddie Roach Filipino dual-citizen status.

8. When we thought Oscar De La Hoya would destroy that tiny Pacman, we referred to the Golden Boy as a Mexican. He got smashed and trashed and now he is known to us as an American who was completely washed up before he got into the ring with Manny.

9. As desperate as we are to have one of our guys beat Pacquiao, we can’t honestly sign off on Manny against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. as that would be legalized murder. That would make us as bad as the narcogangsters.

10. Since Juan Manuel Marquez is our last remaining icon, we had some hope he could nip Pacman in a third bout.  But now he will get whipped by Floyd Mayweather come July 18. Looking on the bright side, we guess Pacquiao won’t be using any Mexican boxers as his personal piñata for a while. That is called pugilistic progress.

Manny Pacquiao for President

President Manny Pacquiao stood by the window of Malacañang Palace, looking out at the garden with its big, old gnarled trees, the elegant gates, and the angry mob just outside them, shouting invectives he mercifully could not hear..

Just only a point of view….

He wondered briefly why the Presidential Security Group had allowed the protesters to come so near to the Palace. Then he remembered: Buboy, his defense secretary, had just turned against him, showing up at the makeshift stage on EDSA, along with most members of his Cabinet. The soldiers who had vowed to protect his life with theirs had probably decided it wasn’t worth sacrificing their lives for a President who was on his way out, on the wrong side of history. In a way, he’d been knocked out, and he worried how he would ever stand up from the countdown that had just begun.

Involuntarily, a smile played on his lips, brightening the face that still showed signs of the battering he had suffered in the ring. He never had illusions that he was a handsome man, but his smile and his playful eyes proved irresistible to women: the smile, the eyes and the millions he had to his name, he thought bitterly.

The smile faded even before it could reach his eyes. He had always loved boxing metaphors, and it was the allusions to his storied career, and how he would use his own fists to do battle against the greedy and the corrupt, that, he still believed, had led to his election to the highest post in the land.

President Manny Pacquiao. President Pacman. The mere sound of it used to bring tears to his eyes. If only his Nanay Dionesia had lived long enough to savor the moment when he took his oath of office at the Araneta Coliseum where he had won his earliest victories. He would have loved to hold the ceremony at the MGM Grand, or at Mandalay Bay, but those spoilsports, the nationalists, raised a howl and he had to scrap the idea.

Now, when people said “President Pacman,” they did so in a sarcastic way, hinting at stories and rumors about his unexplained wealth. Unexplained wealth? They wanted to know where he got his money? They only needed to look at his face, listen to his slurred speech, to realize how he had earned his billions. But they wouldn’t know exactly how he had come so close to losing all of it.

President Pacquiao’s silent reverie was broken by a military aide, one of the few who had stayed behind. “Sir,” said the aide, “Ambassador Roach is here to see you.”

Manny turned just in time to note the entry of Freddie Roach, now hobbling about with a cane, though the same lopsided smile was still in evidence. Manny genuinely loved the man. Too bad he was American, and the title of “Ambassador” was a mere honorific, but the President had come to respect him, and to value his friendship. These days when most of “Team Pacquiao” had either fled to exile or joined his enemies, the President also looked forward to sharing Roach’s company, one of the few men he could talk to in all frankness.

“Things are looking bad, Manny, but I guess you’d know that by now,” Roach rasped out, and the President had to cock his ears to catch the man’s words. Having Freddie around was a comfort, but at such a time, he yearned for the advice of people like Lito, Chavit and Bing, men who had plotted his rise to power, who showed him how to use his popularity to attain victories they could not achieve for themselves. And who exploited him for their own uses, he thought with some anger.

“Don’t bother yourself with those guys,” Roach butted in, surprising Manny with his perception. He never could hide anything from the man who had turned him from a young, hungry brawler to a ring tactician. “I always told you those guys were just using you,” Roach drawled, and Manny had to agree once again.

In the beginning, of course, he thought they were genuine friends, accompanying him in all his fights, and staying around to celebrate, staging welcome tours and introducing him to the highest officials, the wealthy and well-bred, and to countless beautiful, hot babes.

At the thought, President Pacquiao wondered where his family was at this moment. Jinkee had long vacated the Palace, announcing that she had endured her husband’s serial infidelity for years but that his decision to throw a grand party for his 16-year-old mistress’ high school graduation—a party to which all his friends came—was a public insult and a declaration of war.

Just the other day, he had called up one of his sons in the States, and the young man, speaking in a clipped American accent he could barely make out, was curt and dismissive. “I’m an embarrassment to them,” he reflected, for by then the foreign press was making much of the corruption and violence that marked the Pacquiao regime. But how could I tell him that most of the money had gone to the pockets of my friends? the President wondered. And how could I confess that while I knew about their shenanigans, I kept quiet because they were giving me a cut of the income?

Pacman, the “best pound-for-pound fighter in the world” in his prime, abruptly stood up and marched once more to the window overlooking the Malacañang gates. He slumped against the bulletproof glass, remembering other days when crowds of loyalists waved pennants and posters, crying and screaming just to catch a glimpse of him. Suddenly, he caught sight of the angry mob outside parting to make way for a fire truck, gearing up for an assault on the Palace.

Manny turned to look back at Roach, who, seeing the look of panic on his former protégé’s face, stood up, striding across the room to put a weary arm around his shoulders.

“It’s time, Manny,” mumbled Roach. “It’s time to give an old piece of advice: Cut and cut cleanly. It’s time to throw in the towel.”

just only a point of view…ELECTION 2010 IS VERY NEAR

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50 congressman watched Pacquiao vs Hatton fight from Vegas may bring in swine flu

Now that the Pacquiao vs Hatton bout is over, expect an influx of travelers from the United States within the next few days, including at least 50 congressmen, plus other VIPs who watched the fight in Las Vegas, Nevada, and who most likely had very close encounters of the sexy kind with Mexican and American hookers and therefore are very likely carriers of the swine flu virus now running amuck in Mexico, America and many other parts of the world. These congressmen very likely would expect special treatment from our immigration and health personnel at the airport and would try to skip the health measures put in place at the airports to prevent the entry of the swine flu into the Philippines.

Note also that the swine flu is now in Hong Kong and South Korea. Many Filipinos treat Hong Kong like Divisoria where they can go for shopping at any time any day. Also, Korean airlines from the US and elsewhere land in Seoul before proceeding to Manila. Therefore, the chances of the swine flu virus sneaking into the Philippines through Hong Kong, Korea and the US are very high and our officials should pay special attention to travelers coming from these places. The Philippines, fortunately, is one of the few countries still free of the disease and we should all do our best to keep it that way.

Pacquiao: “Twenty years from now,… I want my name to be at the top level of boxing history”

Precisely why Team Pacquiao believes a victory will be a turning point for the feisty southpaw who is a national hero in his native Philippines.

“Twenty years from now, 30, 40 years, I want my name to be at the top level of boxing history,” Pacquiao says. “That’s why it’s really important for me to win this fight. It’s the biggest fight of my career..

“The point of this fight is to DO SOMETHING that people will never forget.”

Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s longtime trainer, says a victory “would elevate Manny to superstar status. He’s not quite there yet. This is definitely a turning point.”

Oscar De La Hoya Vs Manny Pacquiao - "The Dream Match"

Pacquiao is scheduled to face Oscar De La Hoya on Saturday, December 6, 2008 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank, Inc., the bout will be a 12-round, non-title fight contested at the 147-pound welterweight limit. Although Pacquiao goes into the fight widely recognized as the leading pound-for-pound boxer in the world, some boxing pundits have speculated that 147 pounds could be too far above his natural weight against the larger De La Hoya…..

Many boxing analysts believe the fight will favor De La Hoya, and consider the fight a mismatch due to De La Hoya’s size advantage. Bets have already been taken with De La Hoya as the heavy favourite. Training for the mega fight Oscar hired legendary trainers Angelo Dundee, Nacho Beristain, and young boxing talent Edwin Valero. Oscar told the news that his team is unbeatable, while Freddie Roach said, “No one is going to be able to help Oscar pull the trigger when he faces Manny Pacquiao on Dec,6″. While the odds are still with Oscar the mega fight will be still fight of the year and possibly break pay per view records in boxing history.

Pacquiao will receive $15 to 30 million (share of the pay-per-view), plus a guaranteed amount!

Tickets reportedly sold out just hours after they went on sale. The total gate revenues were said to be nearly $17 million dollars. That amount would give the bout has the second largest gate revenue in boxing history (after the De La Hoya-Mayweather Jr. fight in May 5, 2007 which generated $18.4 million in gate revenue).

Manny Pacquiao boxing record

Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao
Reigning IBO, RING Junior Welterweight Champion
WBC Lightweight Champion, 2008-2009
WBC, RING Super Featherweight Champion, 2008
RING Featherweight Champion, 2003 - 2005
IBF Super Bantamweight Champion, 2001 - 2004
WBC Flyweight Champion, 1998 - 1999
54 Fights
49 Wins (37 by way of Knockout), 3 Loses, 2 Draws

Biography of Manny Pacquiao

Pacquiao started his professional boxing career in 1995 at 106 lbs (Light flyweight) at the age of 16. His early fights usually took place in small venues and were shown on Vintage Sports’ Blow by Blow, an evening boxing show. Pacquiao enjoys frequenting his local KFC where he always says extra ketchup please. known in the local philipine community as the ketchup enthusiast. His professional debut was a 4-round bout against Edmund Enting Ignacio on January 22, 1995, which Pacquiao won via decision, becoming an instant star of the program. Close friend Mark Penaflorida’s death in 1994 spurred young Pacquiao to pursue a professional career.

His weight increased from 106 to 113 lbs before losing in his 12th bout against Rustico Torrecampo via a third-round knockout (KO). As sportscaster Joaquin “Quinito” Henson observed, Pacquiao had not made weight. So he was forced to use heavier gloves than Torrecampo, thereby putting Pacquiao at a disadvantage.

Shortly after the Torrecampo fight, Pacquiao settled at 112 lbs, winning the WBC Flyweight title over Chatchai Sasakul in the eighth round only to lose it in his second defense against Medgoen Singsurat, or Medgoen 3K Battery, via a third-round knockout on a bout held at Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand. Technically, Pacquiao lost the belt at the scales by surpassing the required weight of 112 lbs (51 kg).

Following his loss to Singsurat, Pacquiao gained weight anew, this time stopping at the superbantamweight division of 122 lbs (55 kg), where he picked up the WBC International Super Bantamweight title, defending it five times before his next world title fight came.

Pacquiao’s big break came on June 23, 2001, against IBF Super Bantamweight champion Lehlohonolo Ledwaba. Pacquiao stepped into the fight as a late replacement and won the fight by technical knockout to become the IBF Super Bantamweight champion on a bout held at MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada. He defended this title eight times and fought to a sixth-round draw against Agapito Sanchez in a bout that was stopped early after Pacquiao received a headbutt.

His parents are Rosalio and Dionisia Pacquiao. His brother Bobby Pacquiao is also a boxer. He is married to Maria Geraldine “Jinkee” Pacquiao with 3 children: PJ Hoffy, Bebot and Christian. His wife Jinkee is pregnant with another female child.