Pacquiao vs Mosley will be available online

Top Rank announced today that the May 7 Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley world welterweight championship event at the sold out MGM Grand in Las Vegas, will be available live on both pay-per-view television and online. The four-bout pay-per-view card, produced and distributed live by SHOWTIME PPV®, will be available online for $54.95 while boasting interactive features unique to the digital platform through NeuLion’s technology. The enhanced and unique viewing offers a four-shot, multi-angle dynamic player that will allow viewers to interact and feel an enriched experience. The online pay-per-view is exclusive to U.S. viewers. “This pay-per-view offering will complement our current distribution which appeals to sports fans who are engaged in digital platforms on a daily basis. Sports viewing has entered a new frontier and Pacquiao vs. Mosley will be the pioneer for the boxing world,” said Todd duBoef, president of Top Rank. The following websites will be offering the Pacquiao vs. Mosley four-bout pay-per-view live stream: www.toprank.tv, www.sports.SHO.com, www.cbs.com and www.sports.yahoo.com. Select cable and satellite TV systems will also be offering the pay-per-view live stream. Viewers should check with their local providers.

Pacquiao ready to KO Mosley

LOS ANGELES, California – Manny Pacquiao admitted he and his coaching staff composed of trainer Freddie Roach and conditioning adviser Alex Ariza “are not really focused on the knockout” but admitted that “I would be excited about the knockout if it comes”.

“We have prepared ourselves to fight 12 rounds,” said Pacquiao, who packed up for a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada May 2 for his 12-round WBO 147-lb joust with Sugar Shane Mosley on May 7. “We work hard and if it (KO) comes, it comes.”

Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs) acknowledged that “Mosley moves fast and has great foot speed and power also. He throws a lot of punches and that’s good for us to give the fans a good fight.”

The Filipino celebrity said his championship tussle with Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KOs) will be “a kind of fight that’s better than (Antonio) Margarito”, who was a bit slower despite his reach and height advantage.

Margarito lost to both Mosley (TKO8) and Pacquiao (12 UD) and is the common denominator in analyses of oddsmakers who predicted a bloody brawl between two hard-hitting welterweights on May 7 at the MGM Grand.

Pacquiao took a time out from his training camp in Wild Card Gym over the weekend by promoting his cologne, “MP8 Scent of The Champion”, in a big mall here.

He had also guested at Jimmy Kimmel Show in Hollywood where he promoted his newly released CD album "Sometimes when we touch" and confirmed he personally invited Pres. Barack Obama during his visit to White House last December to watch his fight against Mosley at ringside.

Mayweather set for ringside seat at “Pacman” fight

The rumours coming out of the Floyd Mayweather camp is that the five-weight world champion is likely to travel the short distance from his home to the MGM Grand on Saturday night, to get a close up view of his possible future opponent Manny Pacquiao.

The 34 year-old has long been linked with a mega-fight with the WBO welterweight champion, who takes on Mayweather’s last opponent “Sugar” Shane Mosley on May 7th. The “Pretty Boy” had no trouble dispatching the aging legend and apart from a shaky second round moment, won every session against the Californian.

Mayweather (41-0, 25 KO’s) has been out of the ring over a year now and has been moved down to number three in the pound for pound rankings. His uncle Roger recently declared that his nephew is ready to return to the ring and will do so sometime in the next couple of months.

His next outing though, is set to be a scouting mission against the seven-weight world champion, who has looked unbeatable for over six years. Mayweather attended Victor Ortiz’s crowning night against Andre Berto in Connecticut a couple of weeks ago, where he was roundly booed by the pro-Pacquaio crowd and the only thing that could stop the boo’s is if he signs to fight the Filipino Congressman in the near future.

Pacquiao style inpired by Bruce Lee

The boxing genius of Manny Pacquiao includes feet that belong in “Riverdance,” calves the size of grapefruits and deceptive power generated from his core. His movement is unorthodox, scattered and perpetual, as if designed by a jazz musician. He creates angles unlike any other fighter, past or present, appearing, disappearing, shifting, striking; on balance, off balance, even off one foot.

It is this style — part performance art, part technical wizardry, unique to Pacquiao— that defines perhaps the best boxer of his generation. And it started with a videotape of the martial artist who became his idol. It started with Bruce Lee.

Last month, as Pacquiao molded his style specific to Shane Mosley, his welterweight opponent on Saturday in Las Vegas, he wrapped his hands inside the dressing room at the Wild Card boxing gym here. To explain the way he fights, he settled on three words.

“Like Bruce Lee,” he said.

Growing up in the Philippines, Pacquiao studied Lee, watching his movies on endless loops. He still often views his collector’s set. “Enter the Dragon” is his favorite. His conditioning coach, Alex Ariza, says he believes Pacquiao built his baseline movement off Lee’s template, the continual attacking, the feet drummed in and out.

“Bruce Lee jumped around and kicked his feet and shook his head and shoulders,” Ariza said. “His feet moved in concert with his hands. He could be choppy, but he was rhythmic. Manny does the same thing. It comes from that.”

A stick-thin, one-dimensional left-hander arrived at Wild Card in 2001, his style still reckless, raw. Pacquiao punched at high volume, seeking knockouts, but struggled against superior technicians.

By then, Pacquiao possessed the basics of his skill set. Because he fought with the speed of the boxers he most admired, Pacquiao cornered opponents, made them feel squeezed. His tempo, the sparring partner Shawn Porter said, feels less like 1 ... 2 ... 3 and more like 1-2-3-4-5-6.

If Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach, could place one boxing skill above all others, he said, “speed is the greatest asset in the world.” Pacquiao’s speed is evident. At one workout, even the comedian Don Rickles said Pacquiao reminded him of Sugar Ray Leonard.

The early Pacquiao combined feet that moved like lightning with uncommon power for a man his size, power that started in those calves (his adviser Mike Koncz said thick legs ran in the family) and wound through his torso.

After Erik Morales defeated Pacquiao in 2005, Roach decided Pacquiao needed balance, and Roach set about enhancing his right hand. In practice, Roach instructed Pacquiao to throw jabs, uppercuts and hooks in three- to four-punch combinations, all right-handed. It took three years, but a different fighter emerged against David Diaz, and Pacquiao later knocked out Ricky Hatton with a right.

Roach divides Pacquiao’s career into two periods: before the Diaz fight and after. His style had started to take shape.

The next epiphany occurred by accident, when, during training, Pacquiao shifted left, around Roach and tapped his trainer on his left shoulder. “What are you going to do now?” he asked. Roach was stunned.

Back when Roach fought, boxers mostly engaged straight on. His work with Pacquiao, the angles they created, changed the way Roach trained. If Pacquiao shifted left, outside the right foot of his opponents, their natural instinct was to follow — into his left hand. If opponents chose not to engage, they had one option, to back away. Roach says Pacquiao improves his position with each angle created and makes it more difficult to counterpunch.

Roach and Pacquiao design angles specific to each opponent. The key, Roach said, is creating space and confusion.

“He still taps me on the shoulder every session,” Roach said. “I’ll always try to counter with what his next opponent would do. I always lose.”

Roach and Pacquiao did not invent this approach to boxing — Roach cited George Foreman’s 1990 knockout of Gerry Cooney as an earlier example — but they elevated angles into art. Roach sees boxing’s future in Pacquiao’s fancy footwork.

As Pacquiao kept moving up in weight divisions, Roach worried less about the weight or power that Pacquiao could add and more about the speed he could lose. Roach told Ariza, “Do not screw up his speed.”

In all his years, through dozens of world champions, Roach never saw a fighter who gained so much weight and retained speed and power. As a result, suspicions have been raised that Pacquiao used performance-enhancing drugs, a charge his camp denies. (Pacquiao has never failed a test.) Ariza points to other factors: different diet, isometric exercises for balance, plyometric exercises for explosiveness.

Oscar De la Hoya Rips Pacquiao over Marquez Trilogy

Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya says the trilogy offer to Juan Manuel Marquez shows a level of disrespect by Manny Pacquiao and his promoters Top Rank. Marquez recently received an offer to face Pacquiao for a third time in the fall. The offer is reportedly a guarantee of $5 million dollars plus a pay-per-view percentage. De La Hoya says the offer was made at the wrong time because Pacquiao is facing Shane Mosley on May 7 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. For me, [making that offer] shows disrespect to everyone in the press, the people and the fans. Because Pacquiao has a fight with Mosley and what does this tell you? That Pacquiao will defeat Mosley? It's not right. Maybe you wait a little bit, until after the fight and you see what happens because in this sport you never know what will happen. De La Hoya said.De La Hoya wished Marquez with "all of the luck in the world but said a trilogy fight would still need Golden Boy's approval.

Pacquiao will KO Mosley: Roach

Declaring Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao tip-top shape, trainer Freddie Roach said on Wednesday his prized Filipino fighter could be the first to knockout former five-time world champ "Sugar" Shane Mosley in the big-money fight on May 7 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

"We’re 100 percent ready for the fight. If Mosley brings his best we’re ready for his best. I don’t think there is any room for an upset," Roach said during an international conference call.

Roach said Mosley's attacking game is perfect for Pacquiao's "aggressive style," and confidently predicted that Pacman would win by knockout.

"I think all fights should end in knockouts so I’m looking for a knockout," said Roach, a five-time Trainer of the Year awardee of the Boxing Writers Association of America.

Roach said he has prepared Pacquiao to deal with the best that Mosley brings to the ring, which is against come-forward foes who love to trade punches, like Antonio Margarito and Ricardo Mayorga who both ended up being stopped by Mosley in the late rounds.

"In the Margarito fight [Mosley] looked great and Margarito has an aggressive style like Manny and that’s how we’ll attack him," Roach said. "It will be a little more scientific, of course, but we’re ready for the best Shane Mosley out there.

But Pacquiao downplayed the knockout angle, insisting that Mosley at 39 "is still very strong and moves like he's 30 years old."

"We’re not focused for the knockout. All we do is work hard and if the knockout comes, it comes. We’ve prepared ourselves for fighting 12 rounds," said Pacquiao, the reigning best fighter in the world pound-for-pound.

"If the knockouts come, they come. What matters is the fight that we can give to the people and the fans. I want them to be happy and excited about our performance," said Pacquiao who has a guaranteed purse of $20 million against Mosley's $5 million in the sold-out fight.

Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank assured that including their share of pay-per-view revenues, both Pacquiao and Mosley will be making "record paydays" in the Showtime-televised pay-per-view fight.

He said he considers the May 7 defense of his World Boxing Organization welterweight title "bigger" than his most recent fight against Margarito because Mosley "moves fast and he has good speed and power."

"That’s what I want. He throws a lot of punches. It will be good for us and it will be a good fight," added Pacquiao, the only fighter to win a record eight world titles in as many weight divisions.

Showing tremendous respect for his African American foe, Pacquiao described Mosley, a former pound-for-pound champ in his prime, as "a good fighter and a comeback fighter also. He was referring to Mosley stunning KO wins over Margarito and Mayorga when he was all but written off as by some boxing experts.

Mosley, who remains an 8-1 underdog by Las Vegas odd makers, said the underdog tag only motivates him even more "to shock the world" and beat Pacquiao decisively.

Mosley thinks he could hurt Pacquiao with some well-timed power shots when they trade punches in the middle of the ring.

"If Margarito, who is slow, could hit him with so many shots, think how I much more I could hit him," Mosley said. "Styles make fights, and I think I have what it takes to beat Pacquiao.

Mosley, who has a higher knockout rate than Pacquiao, then went on to predict he would stop Pacquiao "by the seventh round."

Mosley's trainer Naazim Richardson, however, has a more realistic and strategic approach to the Pacquiao fight.

Conceding that Pacquiao is the best fighter of his era, Richardson thinks he has the antidote to Pacquiao's vaunted speed and explosiveness: exploit his flaws, which are few.

"This is a marathon, it's not a sprint. It doesn't matter who runs the fastest. In the end, it's only who finishes up the proper way [who wins]," he said in the last episode of Camp 360 aired by CBS and Showtime.

Richardson told Yahoo Sports' Kevin Iole that Mosley -- a champion in three weight classes -- has the pedigree, the ability, the dedication and intelligence to beat anyone, including Pacquiao.

"Believe me, we understand that Pacquiao is a problem. He’s got a crazy amount of energy... The only attribute in boxing Manny Pacquiao doesn’t have is height and range," Richardson.

He then rattled off Pacman's attributes: ring generalship, movement, speed, power, one-punch power, and combination punching.

"He has everything except height and range," Richardson observed.

And the highly respected ring strategist thinks he has come up with a game plan to deal with a "problem" like Pacquiao.

"I agree that Pacquiao is a problem. He’s a special guy. We respect him tremendously. But you know what? We’re going to show up and we believe we can do it," Richardson said.

Fight analysis

Aware that the early rounds would be crucial, Pacquiao is expected to box and move a lot in the first four or five rounds, in much the same way when he fought Oscar De La Hoya in that career-defining victory in December 2009.

Expect Pacquiao to set a frenetic pace of moving in to throw punches in bunches and in angles and then withdrawing to stay out of Mosley power.

In contrast, Mosley will be looking to hurt Pacquiao in the early going for a possible upset. There will be furious exchanges between these two attack-minded protagonists.

At his age, Mosley is not as sharp and as quick as he was five year ago. He last two fights -- a lopsided decision loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr and a lackluster majority draw with light-punching Sergio Mora -- showed this once-elite champion is past his prime.

Can Mosley, who is known to have a solid chin and has not been seriously hurt even by bigger foes, summon the speed, power and ring savvy to upset the fastest and most explosive opponent he has ever fought in Pacquiao? At his best, Mosley out-boxed a prime De La Hoya twice, knocked out Fernando Vargas twice and held his own against bigger middleweight champ Winky Wright and the late welterweight star Vernon Forrest.

In contrast, Pacquiao has demonstrated a remarkable ability to stop bigger opponents, like Ricky Hatton, De La Hoya, and Miguel Cotto as he went up in weight. He has also taken the best shots of these and other foes despite the obvious size disadvantage.

Pacquiao, whose legacy as an all-time great boxer is fairly secured, is looking for a dramatic win over Mosley. As articulated by his trainer Roach, Pacman is looking to be the first to stop the durable Mosley. That way, he would prove to the world beyond any shadow of doubt that he is the greatest fighter of his era.

"I want Manny to make a statement in this fight," Roach told newsmen at a recent interview. I want Manny to be the first to knock out Mosley.

Some pundits speculate that a resounding victory by Pacquiao could force Mayweather to finally fight Pacman out of sheer pride. And even if that mega fight does not happen, the Filipino icon would have silenced the trash-taking Mayweather that he is the best fighter of his era, a recognition Floyd claims belong to him.

I see Pacquiao winning by technical knockout in the late rounds. If the fight goes the distance, it will still be a near-shutout for Pacman—in the same fashion he beat Margarito and the defense-minded Joshua Clottey.

Money Mayweather's felony hearing postponed!

Representatives of former pound for pound champion Floyd Mayweather were in court for the second time this week earlier today, this time regarding the evidence hearing for his domestic abuse case, and for a third time the hearing was pushed back.

The preliminary hearing was initially scheduled for January and later March, and with the latest postponement is now set to take place on July 29th.
The case, which carries a maximum sentence of 34 years in prison all told, dates back to September of last year when Mayweather had a late night altercation with former girlfriend Josie Harris.

During the incident he allegedly assaulted her, threatened his children and stole a cell phone, leading to felony and misdemeanor charges including domestic abuse, grand larceny, coercion and robbery.

Mayweather is also facing a separate charge of misdemeanor battery over a later altercation with a security guard working for the homeowners association of the Las Vegas community where he lives. During this incident Mayweather allegedly poked the security guard in the face after a heated discussion over parking tickets.

The Rematch: Pacquiao vs Kimmel

HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. (April 29, 2011) -- Fighter of the Decade, eight-division world champion, and boxing's No. 1 pound for pound fighter and box office attraction Congressman MANNY "PacMan" PACQUIAO took time from training for his upcoming defense of his WBO welterweight title against three-division world champion Sugar Shane Mosley to make another boffo appearance on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday night. This was Pacquiao’s fourth consecutive appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in as many promotions, dating back to November 2009 when he knocked out Miguel Cotto to claim the welterweight title. That 2009 appearance also marked Pacquiao’s U.S. network TV debut, which has since led to a multitude of network television and radio features, including, of CBS’ 60 Minutes, ABC’s Good Morning America, FOX News Channel’s On The Record With Greta Van Susteren, CNN’s America Morning, and NPR’s Morning Edition and Weekend Edition

Pacquiao’s first U.S. single, a remake of Dan Hill 1977 hit Sometimes When We Touch, sung with Dan Hill, was released on Thursday as well. It sold out within 12 hours on Amazon.com which promptly reordered more to satisfy worldwide demand. It is also available on iTunes.

Unfinished Business

The anticipated rematch of WBC Super Featherweight king Juan Manuel Marquez againts Filipino star Manny " Pacman Pacquiao " and dubbed as " Unfinished Business "will be set on March 15, 2008 after a long wait of boxing fans around the world. As we all know that the two warrior met in a classic bout last May 2001 that ended a controversial draw wherein the two promising boxers acclaimed that they both win the bout.

This controversial draw left a big question to the boxing fans, to determine who is the best boxer on their weight class division, but this question will be answered as they will will meet again in the four sided ring to showcase their courage and determination to reclaim the supremacy. The WBC Super Featherweight belt of Juan Manuel Marquez will beat risk on this much awaited title bout.


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Pacquiao-Barrera II ?

After the long week of Mediation between two high ranking promoting bodies between Top Rank Promotions of Bob Arum and Golden Boy Promotions of Oscar De la Hoya. There is a possibility that Manny " Pacman" Pacquiao will once again face the former WBC Super Featherweight Champion Marco Antonio "The Baby Face Asassin" Barrera. This was disclosed by a source that the said rematch will be held on October 6 at Las Vegas or Los Angeles.