First Round KO: Marquez ‘Retains’ His Pacquiao Match
The November fight is on after Juan Manuel Marquez defeated Likar Ramos to retain his chances of fighting Manny Pacquiao later this year. It was clearly stated in his contract that if Marquez loses his “tune-up” fight against Ramos, he will have to forget that he ever landed a deal to face Pacquiao for the third, and probably, final time.
The fight was supposed to be to prepare Marquez in his fight against Pac Man. Ramos was a southpaw fighter that Marquez’s camp has handpicked so he could have a better feel of fighting left handed boxers, obviously to create situations and strategies come fight night against the pound-for-pound king, but with the bout lasting less than 3 minutes, one can only guess if the fight was truly a tune-up match or simply a play-safe bet. Continue reading
Marquez Meets Ramos Before Pacquiao Showdown
A high profile match has been set later this year between Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao, but for the former, there is one more obstacle to come across before the big night in November. This Sunday, Marquez is set to face the southpaw fighter Likar Ramos in Cancun, Mexico.
The fight will serve as a tune up match for Juan Manuel Marquez and a title defense at the same time, and it is quite obvious why he decided to pick Likar Ramos to be his opponent. He wants to make sure that he can practice fighting a southpaw in preparation for his big fight against Manny Pacquiao.
Marquez has been the only fighter, after all these years, who can freely say that he has Pac Man’s number. The two have fought twice in the past and both of the bouts ended in controversial fashions. Continue reading
Sports, Boxing, and Pacquiao
Everyone seems to want to try boxing Pacquiao, who is of course the number one pound-for-pound at the moment. In a recent interview with Victor Ortiz, he told reporters that after his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr., people will not be talking about Pacquiao boxing Mayweather because he will be the one to go against the Fighting Congressman next.
In another recent news, Floyd Mayweather Jr stated that he wants to have a sports boxing Pacquiao bout, but of course not without his signature “take the test” slogan. In his press conference earlier this week, Mayweather was asked if he wants to face the current pound-for-pound king inside the ring and his answer was “absolutely”. He also went on to claiming that he never said Manny Pacquiao was cheating, using steroids, or any performance enhancing drugs. Continue reading
Pacquiao: Philippines No. 1 Sports Icon
The above title is basically true about Pacquiao Philippines. Nobody else in the country and around the world has been able to create the impact that Manny Pacquiao is doing right now in any sport. This is simply a rather big feat that the Philippines Pacquiao has been able to achieve, considering how all of these things he accomplished has started in the most basic and humble way.
I have previously stated in one of the articles here, and it has been very well documented how everything has started in his life. Being once a member of the financially struggling families in the Philippines, Pacquiao was able to destroy all barriers and come up with a way to get into what he is today.
Pacquiao Philippines words have become synonymous with each other if you go to other countries as he would normally be the first one to be mentioned in conversations, even first than the president of the country. He has been able to bring back a lot of people to having much interest with boxing that some would claim have become a stale body in sports. Continue reading
The Boxer Pacquiao
Boxer Pacquiao – We all know him as The Destroyer, The Mexicutioner, the People’s Champion, Pacman, and most recently, the Fighting Congressman, but does everyone know the man behind this Pacquiao boxer?
We all see him right now as one of the richest sports celebrity in the world, but if you look into his life, you will see that it was not always like that for him. He was born December 17, 1978, in the province of Bukidnon in the Philippines.
He came from a broken family when his father left them to live with another woman when he was in his sixth grade. That particular experience can be very devastating to anyone and it surely was for him. Due to poverty, Manny was not able to finish high school and decided to leave his home because he can’t bear to see his mother suffering, trying to raise six children all by herself.
The boxer Pacquiao came to culmination when he went to Manila at the age of 14. At first, he was just wandering through the streets of the urban city until he started boxing and was able to make it into the Philippine national amateur boxing team. His room and board were then paid for by the Philippine government and from there, he finds his niche. Continue reading