Wow!  Manny Pacquiao going for his eighth title and eighth weight class?   This would be a more exciting fight than a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight.  Mayweather is an ex-welterwight champion while Foreman is the current WBA light middleweight champion.  That’s the 154-pound weight division! If Pacquiao wins, that would be a world record for a very long time. — Perry Diaz
Pacquiao could face Yuri Foreman next – News

by Eric Thomas
With the negotiations between Floyd Mayweather Jr. not running smoothly as they would like, Manny Pacquiao is reportedly looking at another option in …

by Alex P. Vidal

RICHMOND, British Columbia — The winningest player in the Pilipino Golf Association (PGA) here has vowed to continue “bringing home the bacon” in the sport he loves most as he turned 60 years old last November 20.
Tom Raguero Sr., who learned how to play golf through a former boss in 1978, said his biggest inspirations are his wife, Lucilyn Deza, and sons, Ryan Tom and Tommy, Jr., who were all present in a simple birthday bash at the South Ocean Seafood Restaurant on Garden City Road, here.
Raguero …

(CNN) — Efren Peñaflorida, who started a “pushcart classroom” in the Philippines to bring education to poor children as an alternative to gang membership, has been named the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper revealed Peñaflorida’s selection at the conclusion of the third-annual “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute” at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on Saturday night…
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Pacquiao’s earnings breach P1 billion
(The Freeman) Updated November 22, 2009 12:00 AM

NEW YORK — HBO Sports reported here Friday that Manny Pacquiao’s 12th round TKO of Miguel Cotto was the top-drawing pay-per-view bout of 2009 with 1.25 million purchases worth 70 million dollars in revenue.
With his guaranteed purse of 13 million dollars from the bout and his shares from pay-per-view, Pacquiao stands to make about 22 million dollars in all.
At 47.100 pesos to the dollar at Friday’s close of trading, that is a whooping one billion, 36 million, 200 thousand …

In Punishing Fashion, Pacquiao Makes History

by Greg Bishop
from The New York Times

LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao was fighting for those struggling in his home country, the Philippines, who were ravaged recently by a trio of typhoons. He was fighting for his family — for his father, who made a rare appearance — and for the millions of fans who follow his every move.

But mostly, Pacquiao was fighting for his place in boxing history, one he secured Saturday with a technical knockout of Miguel Cotto that ended when the referee waved …

by Alex P. Vidal
 
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – If any other world boxing body will offer Manny Pacquiao a title shot at the 147-lb division and he will win, he can become the first human being to pocket eight world titles in eight different divisions, technically speaking.
This hypothesis is supported by the fact that when he recently battled Miguel Angel Cotto and knocked him out in the 12th stanza, they disputed the 145 lbs “catch weight.”
Even if the World Boxing Organization (WBO) recognized the win as a “welterweight” championship, Pacquiao can …

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by Alex P. Vidal

CALGARY, Canada – The spokesman of the Color People Advancement Community (CPAC) in Las Vegas, Nevada has appealed to newly crowned World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight king Manny Pacquiao to ask his mother to be careful with using “politically incorrect” words when uttering public remarks  “so as not to inflame  emotional outrage” from certain groups or individuals in the United States.
Rodney Surat Whiterspoon, a civil rights activist and CPAC spokesman, said Dionisia, Pacquiao’s mother, may not have realized that it was “improper” to use the word “nigger” …

SPORTING CHANCE
by Joaquin Henson
from The Philippine Star

As the world’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter, Manny Pacquiao is expected to beat Miguel Cotto in their “Firepower” showdown at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas tomorrow night (Sunday morning, Manila). The odds are 3-1 in Pacquiao’s favor and the betting is the scheduled 12-round bout won’t go the distance.
Although Cotto is bigger, Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach isn’t losing sleep over it.
“I know Cotto’s a big, strong guy and I worry about that at times,” said Roach, quoted by William Dettloff in …