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By Alex P. Vidal HOLLYWOOD, California – Now that they have buried their hatchet, WBA junior middleweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and HBO senior commentator Larry Merchant are expected to step into the ring together again in the future for a post-fight interview in Mayweather’s next fight as they used to do prior to their verbal joust that grabbed headlines last year. If Mayweather (43-0, Read More …

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By Alex P. Vidal HOLLYWOOD, California – As long as the fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. will push through, Manny Pacquiao doesn’t mind if the newly crowned unbeaten world junior middleweight champion will get the lion’s share of the purse. “It’s OK with me getting the lesser amount as long as the fight (against Mayweather) will take place,” said Pacquiao, 33, who started reporting for Read More …

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By Alex P. Vidal HOLLYWOOD, California – World 147-lb king Manny Pacquiao was scheduled to hit the ground running here starting May 7 as he revs up for 12-round world welterweight title tussle against unbeaten Palm Springs, California resident Timothy Ray Bradley Jr. on June 9 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pacquiao’s training at the Wild Card gym on Vine Street here Read More …

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By Leo Reyes Bleacher Report Manny Pacquiao Ethan Miller/Getty Images Regardless of the outcome of his June 9 fight with Timothy Bradley, eighth-division world champ Manny Pacquiao has calendared three more fights before retiring from professional boxing to continue his rising career in politics. If indeed Pacquiao will retire in 2013 as he had announced earlier, it is obvious he will be returning to the Read More …

By Ronnie Nathanielsz Manila Standard Today WHEN pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao asked one of his aides to get a chair and have us sit next to him at the 12th Annual “Flash” Elorde Awards Banquet of Champions, we were pleasantly surprised. Not too long ago, he was visibly upset by our comments after his last fight against Juan Manuel Marquez and our condemnation of his Read More …

By Peter Shadbolt CNN Pacquiao’s team says the Filipino boxer is unlikely to retire this year or next (CNN) — Like St. Augustine’s prayer “God make me chaste – but not yet,” Filipino fighter Manny Pacquiao’s personal conversation with God may not lead to his retirement anytime soon. Pacquiao said in a radio interview on Monday he had a dream in which God had told Read More …

Philippine Daily Inquirer MANNY PACQUIAO: Retiring soon AP FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines—What his mother failed to accomplish, God apparently succeeded with Manny Pacquiao. It took a divine vision, by way of a dream sometime in January, to make the Filipino ring icon change his ways and mull early retirement. Pacquiao, widely regarded as the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter, said that God appeared to him in Read More …

By Edwin Espejo Senator Ralph Recto recently defended Rep. Manny Pacquiao’s earnings from professional boxing in the US against taxation by the Philippine government. Recto said Pacquiao’s income in the US is already subject to withholding taxes by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), counterpart of the Philippine’s Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). The Filipino boxing champion’s income tax became an issue after the BIR filed Read More …

By Abac Cordero The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – Manny Pacquiao won’t take anything less than 50 percent even if it means the sudden death of the latest talks of a superfight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. “That’s it. That’s the best offer from Manny,” said the Filipino boxer’s lawyer, Franklin Gacal. “If Floyd says no, then fight someone else. I don’t think Manny will agree Read More …

MIND DA NEWS By Patricio P. Diaz Minda News GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/30 Nov) – Former Sen. Rene Saguisag wrote an opinion article (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 21, 2011: Pacquiao, not De Lima, should resign) that deglamorized eight-division world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao. How many in General Santos City and Sarangani Province where Pacquiao is hoisted – not foisted – nay, worshipped as a demigod, Read More …