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Jimmy Kimmel welcomed boxer Manny Pacquiao to his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, on Nov. 13.

Pacquaio, an international boxing sensation and the biggest celebrity athlete in the Philippines, was jovial and charming as he sat on the couch sharing details of his life with Kimmel.

Kimmel brought up Pacquiao’s movie, “Wapak Man,” and the boxer revealed, “I did my own stunts” and the character he played was a “mix of Superman and Spiderman.” Aside from acting, Pacquiao is working on his next album—his first album, “Para Sa’yo Ang Laban Na ‘To” (This Fight is For You), was released in 2006.

One fact about Pacquiao that intrigues many is the size of his entourage. Kimmel touched on this subject and even Pacquiao couldn’t help but laugh at how ridiculous it sounded. 30 people follow the boxer around. Although they all do various jobs, they can be done by less people, as Kimmel suggested. Pacquiao laughed off the comment, clearly amused by the interview.

When Kimmel mentioned the amount of people living with Pacquiao in his apartment (eight), Pacquiao replied, “it’s too many, huh?”

Clearly a people pleaser, Pacquiao thrived under the spotlight and enjoyed being on the show as much as his fans in the audience enjoyed seeing him in a different setting. The boxer even treated the audience by singing “Sometimes When We Touch” and participated in a clip where he punched old pumpkins.

Pacquiao’s appearance on the late night talk show was one of the media stops to promote his Nov. 14 fight against Miguel Cotto.

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LOS ANGELES — Miguel Cotto’s handlers say they will carefully scrutinize the gloves and hand wraps of Manny Pacquiao before their World Boxing Organization welterweight title fight in Las Vegas.

Miguel Cotto Sr said Tuesday they blundered by not inspecting Antonio Margarito’s gloves prior to Cotto’s lone career loss in July of last year and vow never to let it happen again.

“We only commit the same error once,” said Cotto Sr. “We will never make that mistake again.”

The increased vigilance comes after Margarito was caught using “loaded wraps” in his following fight against Shane Mosley in January.

Unlike Cotto, Mosley’s trainers entered Margarito’s dressing room prior to the fight. There they noticed that a damp hard white powder had been placed in between the rows of wrapping and tape before Margarito put his gloves on for the fight.

It has never been proven that Margarito cheated by using a plaster of Paris type substance for the Cotto fight but suspicions are strong, especially in Cotto’s camp and that’s the reason for the stepped up inspections of opponents’ gloves and wraps.

Cotto, of Puerto Rico, senses he has the public support on this one.

“A loss is a loss. Nobody knows for sure if he uses it with me, or not, just Margarito and his team,” said Cotto, after a 90 minute workout at the Pound4Pound Gym in Beverly Hills Tuesday. “But it makes me feel better (about the loss). Boxing fans are knowledgeable. They are the judges.”

A classic boxer in the true sense of the word, Cotto is 34-1 with 27 knockouts.

Cotto bristled Tuesday at suggestions by Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach that the first loss is one of the toughest for a previously unbeaten fighter to recover from.

Cotto denied that the loss to Margarito had any negative effect on his confidence in the ring.

“Why don’t you ask Manny that question because he has had three losses I have just one,” Cotto said.

“My commitment is with myself. In my last fight (Joshua Clottey) I could have stopped the fight (cuts) but I decided to stay in the ring because of my commitment to myself and my family.”

“Sometimes when you lose you win. Since Margarito great things have come to my career.

“Where is Margarito right now and where is Miguel Cotto?”

Said Cotto Sr, “We have worked a lot with his mind and staying focused. Mentally he is a strong guy.”

Roach is predicting that the November 14 fight at the MGM hotel and casino won’t go the distance and that the favoured Pacquiao will knock Cotto out capture his seventh title in seven different weight classes.

“This is the problem,” Cotto said. “Freddie Roach is not the guy who is going to climb into the ring. If he prepares Manny for just nine rounds then he has three more rounds.

“He (Roach) can say whatever he wants. One day he says the first round and the next day he says round seven. I’m preparing for 12 rounds and nobody is going to know what will happen until the night of the 14th.”

Cotto said he is focusing on this 145-pound bout and doesn’t listen to talk about Pacquiao (49-3-2, 27 KOs) possibly fighting Floyd Mayweather in a mega title fight if he beats Cotto.

“He can fight Mayweather as many times as he wants after I beat him,” Cotto said.

Cotto respects Pacquiao for the way he has come from modest roots in the Philippines to become a world class boxer who is revered by Filipinos at home and abroad.

“He has earned everything he has,” Cotto said. “Manny looked good against Oscar De La Hoya and (Ricky) Hatton. But I’m not Oscar or Hatton. Manny chose the right time to fight Oscar.”

Cotto is looking forward to wrapping up training camp, heading to Las Vegas next week and says this is the biggest fight of his life.

“It is the most important fight of my career, but we’ll have to see on the 14th if he is the toughest guy I have fought in my career,” Cotto said.

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Lawmakers scrambling to book flights online to the United States to watch Manny Pacquiao’s fight should heed Malacañang’s advice: Set your priorities right online and be sensitive to your calamity-stricken constituents online.

“I guess they know what their priorities are online. There are pending bills online. They should know if they can leave the country or not,” said Undersecretary Lorelei Fajardo Tuesday online.

The deputy presidential spokesperson said online congressmen should be “sensitive” to their constituents online, especially the thousands of calamity victims online grappling with the aftermath of several powerful storms.

“They should be sensitive to their constituents online especially since elections online are just around the corner,” Fajardo told reporters after a briefing in Malacañang.

Pacquiao is gearing up for his Nov. 14 fight online with Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas, Nevada . The international boxing champ is heavily favored to snatch the Puerto Rican’s World Boxing Organization’s (WBO) welterweight belt online.

As in previous blockbuster fights online, where Pacquiao knocked his foes cold in the early rounds online, this fight is expected to draw a huge crowd of Manila-based spectators online, including lawmakers and government officials online.

Already, some 20 lawmakers online, including Speaker Prospero Nograles, have flown to the US presumably to watch the fight online.

Fajardo said she wasn’t aware if some Cabinet officials had booked flights online to watch Pacquiao’s fight online, but said that the online advice also applied to them.

“If there’s more work in Manila, [Cabinet members] can always support Manny in some other way online. We don’t have to go there,” she told reporters.

Environment Secretary Lito Atienza, whom Pacquiao looks up to as a father online, and Deputy National Security Advisor Luis “Chavit” Singson Jr. are Pacquiao’s rah-rah boys from the Executive Cabinter and have always attended his fights online.

 Fajardo said she wasn’t aware if First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo would fly to Las Vegas to watch the fight live online, as he had done so in the past.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will be in Singapore that day to attend the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) summit.

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The ring officials assigned to Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto on November 14th are Kenny Bayless (referee), Adalaide Bird (judge), Duane Ford (judge), and Dave Moretti (judge). Here is a brief assessment of each:

Kenny Bayless. Bayless has roughly the same experience with both fighters; however, two fights stand out. First, he worked Miguel Cotto v. Antonio Margarito and he was criticized for allowing Miguel to take unnecessary punishment in the 11th round. As you probably remember, Cotto spent most of the round going backwards, he took a knee twice, was not throwing back, and he obviously could not see. Miguel’s corner eventually had to throw in the towel to stop the fight.

Bayless was also assigned to Pacquiao-Erik Morales II. An argument could be made that the fight should have been stopped after the first knockdown in the 10th, but it took another one before he stopped the action.

Adalaide Byrd. Byrd has no significant history with regard to Miguel Cotto; however, she had Pacquiao pitching a shutout against Oscar De La Hoya. Byrd ran into some controversy with her 114-113 card for Bernard Hopkins against Joe Calzaghe.

Duane Ford. Ford scored 115-112 in favor of Pacquiao in his last fight against Juan Manuel Marquez, but he has no recent experience with Cotto.

Dave Moretti. Moretti had the fight tied at 95-95 before Cotto’s corner stopped the Margarito fight, and he also scored a shutout in favor of Pacquiao before De La Hoya quit on his chair. Moretti, however, had the closest scorecard, 86-85, before Pacquiao knocked Morales out in their second fight and turned in a 115-113 card to help give Morales a unanimous decision against Pacquiao in the first fight. Perhaps more interesting, and somewhat analogous, is that Moretti scored 115-113 in favor of Sugar Ray Leonard over Marvin Hagler.

Conclusion. Kenny Bayless is one of the best third men in the business, and both camps should be very satisfied because he is not going to inject himself into the outcome. Additionally, he will certainly allow both men to fight until it is abundantly clear that the fight is over, which will not likely happen until the bell ends the 12th round. Bayless is the perfect guy for the two warriors.

Moretti and Ford may well be the top two judges working today and they will be laser focused on the scoring zone. Byrd doesn’t have a pedigree equal to the other two, but more often than not her scorecards are in line with how the fight is viewed at ringside and at home.

As we close out a year that has been full of scoring controversies, don’t expect this fight to be one of them. An all star officiating crew for what will likely be a 2009 Fight of the Year candidate.

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Manny Pacquiao breaks his silence by saying that he has a good chance of beating Miguel Cotto in their ‘Firepower’ match and hopes to become the first boxer in the world to win seven different titles in seven weight divisions.

Less than two weeks before his date with Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand garden arena in Las Vegas Nevada, the popular Filipino boxing superstar finally breaks his silence on the possible outcome of his quest for boxing supremacy by winning over Miguel Cotto to become the first professional boxer to win seven titles in seven different class weights.

In his latest ‘Kumbinasyon’ column with Philboxing.com he said he is ready and prepared for his upcoming fight with Miguel Cotto.
I feel very good. Training camp has been perfect so far and my trainer Freddie Roach and I think we have a great chance of beating the welterweight champion of the world. Let’s get it on! You know… he said in his column. Manny Pacquiao writes regularly for Philboxing.

‘Our team believes we have covered all possible strategies that Cotto will use in the fight and we are ready to counter them. We are ready for whatever he plans to do and we feel that we have a good chance of getting the honor of being the first boxer in the world to win seven titles in seven different divisions. If I am lucky, I will be the first one to get it’.

‘Against a bigger and powerful opponent, I need to improve my speed and match his strength with some scientific techniques in order to neutralize him’.
‘Pacquiao said that Cotto is known for his style of not backing up in a fight. He will engage you with his power and strength. That is what I want and that is what the boxing fans want to see’.

Miguel Cotto who had a falling out with his uncle trainer Evangeelista Cotto, is now being trained by Joe Santiago, a member of Team Cotto during Evangelista’s watch. Cotto and his entourage have trained in Tampa, Florida and have since moved to Las Vegas to complete the boxers last leg of training.
The Pacquia-Cotto boxing match, dubbed ‘Firepower’ fight will be held on November 14 at the MGM grand garden arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight will be telecast worldwide and available on pay-per-view. At stake is Cotto’s welterweight crown.

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