Showing posts with label Pacquiao vs Cotto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pacquiao vs Cotto. Show all posts

Thursday, November 19, 2009

The greatest fighter who ever lived



Promoter Bob Arum told Manny Pacquio after the fight, "You're going to be the greatest fighter who ever lived."

This was after the Hatton fight. Bob Arum knows what he is talking about, having promoted great boxers like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson in his youth.

Manny Pacquio is the only fighter in the long history of boxing to secure seven world titles in seven different weight classes.

Manny Pacquiao appears on the cover of TIME Magazine 20 years after former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson attained the same feat.

He is featured on the cover of TIME Magazine - Asia edition. Out of the many legendary fighters to have fought in the last 25 years, Mike Tyson was the last boxer featured in 1988.

The likes of Oscar de la Hoya, Roy Jones, Jr., Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez, and Evander Holyfield were not featured on the cover of TIME.

Prior to Tyson, Muhammad Ali was last on the cover in 1978.
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Pacquiao vs Cotto fight

What a fight on Saturday night! Pacquiao victory over Cotto provides relief to country beset by tragedy. Pacquiao trained mostly in Baguio city - one of the cities in the Philippines hit by the typhoon.

Victory proves once and for all that Manny Pacquiao is one of the greatest boxers of all time - period. Most analyst saw only the shortcomings in previous fights - old and washout boxers, etc. but fighting a younger and fierce boxer in another weight class is something else.

Pundits say that Manny will be fighting his most difficult match of his career but it now seems that it was Cotto who was fighting his most difficult.

In the end, both fighters walked out proud after a difficult and brutal encounter.

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