Friday, October 10, 2008
Who is the best fighter?
Pacquiao-Diaz Fights
Pacquiao vs Diaz is now official. The fight dubbed Lethal Combination will take place on June 28, 2008 at Mandalay Bay Resort Hotel and Casino.
The fight with David Diaz will be Manny's 2nd bout this year. The Pacman hopes to be the first Asian to held a championship belt in 4 different divisions.
Manny is heavily favored to win the Pacquiao vs Diaz fight, but because of his moving up one weight division heavier, some doubt if he can retain his power. Under the rules of the Nevada Athletic Commission, boxers who weight in at 135 lbs and above will be required to wear the pillow boxing gloves (10 oz). Manny Pacquiao is used to fighting with the usual puncher's gloves (8 oz).
Freddie Roach will see to it that Pacquiao will be adjusted in their 8 weeks of training at Wild Card Gym Los Angeles. Manny Pacquiao is set to train at LA beginning on the first week of May.
Manny Pacquiao - Greaest Fights
On June 28, 2008, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Pacquiao defeated David Díaz via ninth-round knockout to become the WBC lightweight champion. With the victory, Pacquiao became the only Asian boxer to win four major titles in four weight classes and also became the first Filipino fighter to ever win a world title at lightweight.[24][25] The fight ended at 2:23 of the ninth round and was viewed by 8,362 spectators. Bob Arum announced that Pacquiao is most likely to fight November 15[26] versus 130-lb Venezuelan champion Edwin Valero or Humberto Soto in Planet Hollywood, and he also mentioned the name of WBA, WBO, and IBF lightweight champ Nate Campbell. "I can fight in November," Pacquiao stated, "Who I fight is the job of my promoter (Bob Arum)." Diaz had his best payday, $850,000, and Pacquiao earned at least $3 million.[27][28]
Bob Arum reported that the Pacquiao-David Diaz fight which made $ 12.5-M (250,000 pay-per-view hits at $ 49.95 per hit), paled in comparison to the 400,000 in the Marquez showdown. The sales reached over $20 million. Pacquiao’s 3 classic fights with Erik Morales earned a combined sales of 1 million pay-per-view hits. After HBO and Top Rank get their share, Pacquiao and Diaz will get theirs based on the contract, that is, in addition to the $ 3 million contract pay. Official records revealed an attendance of only 8,362 tickets of the seating capacity of 12,000, because of rising gasoline costs.[29]
Meanwhile, WBC president Don Jose Sulaiman clarified that Pacquiao is not a 5-division but 4-division world champion, because the November 2003 Barrera fight was a non-title bout.[30]
Holding both the WBC Super Featherweight and Lightweight Titles following the win, Pacquiao decided to vacate his super featherweight title in July 2008 in order to defend his lightweight crown.[31]
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Pacquiao-Marquez
On March 15, 2008, in a rematch against Juan Manuel Marquez, Pacquiao won via a highly disputed split decision. Pacquiao won the WBC and The Ring superfeatherweight belts, making him the first Filipino to win three world titles in three different weight divisions (Pacquiao was a former WBC Flyweight Champion, IBF Super bantamweight, and now WBC Super featherweight). The fight was controversial, with some boxing analysts saying Marquez should have been the winner.
During the postfight interview, Marquez’s camp called for an immediate rematch. Richard Schaefer, GBP CEO, offered a $6-million guarantee to Pacquiao for a rematch. Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, still stinging from the less-than-stellar revenue from Kelly Pavlik’s immediate rematch with Jermain Taylor, said the fight will probably happen but only after there is time to “put a little air under it.” Pacquiao, for his part, said "I don't think so, this business is over" because he planned to move to lightweight (135 lbs) to challenge David Diaz, the reigning WBC Lightweight Champion at the time. Diaz won a unanimous decision over Ramon Montano that night as an undercard of "Unfinished Business."
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