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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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Best Spoken Line, Manny Pacquiao: “I’m enjoying being a celebrity because it’s my responsibility to give them a chance to say hi and shake hands or sign autographs for fans.” Would be nice if say, just 50 percent of the athletes in major league baseball, adopted the same approach toward fans. They don’t live in our world, but Manny does.

Best Spoken Line, Miguel Cotto: “Love between father and son is the most truly love you ever can find.” The English wasn’t exact, but the message was clear.

Best Spoken Line, Miguel Cotto Sr.: “The problem is that I had to choose between my brother and my son. And you already know which side I chose.”

Best Supporting Role: President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines. Come on. She’s a president. How could we not give it to her. OK. Barack has been on Letterman. Come on 24/7, go out and get him.

Training Days: Sparring scene with Pacquiao and — we think — Jose Luis Castillo.

Best Written Line: Peace can at last be found again at elevation, focus rediscovered on the road, desire recalibrated one step at a time.

How cool was the shot of the guy painting Pacquiao-Cotto 24/7 on the side of the school bus? How horrific were the shots of the landslides?

Loved … Gerry Penalosa Gym. He’s a two-division champ and veteran of 63 fights. Actually, he should be thinking retirement. He’s the younger brother of Dodie Penalosa, the former light flyweight champ of the mid-1980s.

Loved … The bridge shot in Tampa, for the second week in a row.

Loved … The golf scene. Miguel swinging lefty? And wonderful shot of three generations of Cottos on the course.

Didn’t love … Manny singing. Please, please Manny stick to boxng. (He can dance though, see the scene at the Wild Card.)

The pool scenes are priceless. Say what you want, but they are having fun. Here’s what’s also great. OK, Cotto pulls down his buddy’s trunks, we expect that. But then Bryan Perez returns the favor and it’s no big deal to Cotto. How many elite athletes would allow that? Could have lived with the butt shot, but it again demonstrates the equality in the friendship. Nice to see.

Maybe Alex Ariza is right and maybe he isn’t. But he’s coming off as the petty party in this fued with Michael Koncz. It’s good TV, but how good is it for the fighter?

Don’t understand Cotto’s (and Mayweather’s) reluctance to have the sparring sessions filmed. At this point, they are who they are. Their styles are not going to change that much come fight night. Strategy? It’s not like when the bell rings they’ll be doing something that no one has ever seen in the last 100 years. Or that Freddie Roach hasn’t seen in the last 30. There are no more surprises like say — the first time Dick Fosbury did the flop at a high jump competition.

Finally, a Yankees jersey — and cap — spotted in camp Cotto. Which reminds me, Yankees in six.

Wish we got to know the Cottos sooner.

Next episode, Saturday, Nov. 7 at 9 p.m. The rematch between Chad Dawson and Glen Johnson follows the episode.

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Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto are gearing up for their November 14 showdown. It is hands down, the biggest fight of their careers. But when you reach this level of superstardom, every fight is the biggest fight of your career. So how did these two boxing Goliaths reach this point in their career. We all know what they have accomplished in the last few years. In this article, we look at where they came from and where, possibly, they are headed.

We’ll start with the hottest name in boxing, Manny Pacquiao. If you are a top ranked boxer between 135 pounds and 147 pounds, then you want to get in line for a shot at Pacquiao. He has been called out by everybody in four different weight divisions. The problem is that the 5’6″ Pacquiao can only give up so much to his opponents. The thought of Manny fighting over 147 pounds is hard to imagine. But when you realize that he started his career at 106 pounds, perhaps nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

Pacquiao, 30, made his his pro debut at the age of seventeen. Weighing all of 106 pounds, Manny won that fight, a decision over Edmund Enting Ignacio. He then did what hungry young fighters are supposed to do, he fought nine more times, including four kayos. By the end of the year he had moved up to 109 pounds.

From 1996 through the year 2000, Pacquiao went 17-2 with14 knockouts. His two loses were both by third round stoppage. In this time Manny had fought for and won the OPBF flyweight title. In 1998 he won his first major belt when he stopped WBC flyweight champ Chatchai Sasakul in eight rounds.

By the first half of 2001, Manny had added the WBC super bantamweight belt to his collection. It would be on June 23rd of that year that Manny Pacquiao would storm the American shores for the first time.

He took on IBF super bantamweight titlest Lehlo Ledwaba in Las Vegas. Stories had circulated about the potential that Manny had, but nobody on these shores had seen him. The one person who did take that chance and believe in Pacquiao was his new trainer, Freddie Roach. Pacquiao won by sixth round knockout and a new star was born in America.

Pacquiao would fight five more times before getting the biggest fight of his life. In November of 2003 he faced off with Mexican hero Marco Antonio Barrera in Texas. Manny dominated from the start and stopped Barrera in the eleventh round. That fight began his ascension up to superstar status.

Since then he has won the IBF featerweight, WBA super featherweight, WBC super featherweight, WBC lightweight and IBO junior welterweights titles, to name a few. He now challenges Cotto for the WBO welterweight title. Not bad for a skinny kid from the Philippines who started fighting at 106 pounds.

Miguel Cotto’s rise has taken place before the American viewing public’s eyes. The 29 year old Puerto Rican got his start by knocking out Jason Doucet in one round in early 2001. The fight took place at junior welterweight and Miguel stayed in that division for the next five years.

In that time Cotto added the WBC junior welterweight belt by stopping veteran Cesar Bazan in eleven rounds. In 2004 he showed the poise of a fighter years older. He stopped Victoriano Sosa on HBO. He was quickly becoming a household name and the heir apparent to Tito Trinidad as the newest Puerto Rican sensation.

He fought as a junior welterweight until 2006. In that time Miguel added the WBA and WBO junior welterweight belts to his trophy case. He had also crushed the dreams of some of the best 140 pounders in the world. Among his victims were names like N’dou, Bailey, Corley, Torres and Malignaggi.

Miguel fought for the vacant WBA welterweight title in 2006. He took on Carlos Quintana and promptly stopped Carlos in five rounds. Not only was Miguel more comfortable at this new weight, he had obiviously brought his power up with him.

He has since added the WBO welterweight belt and has beaten durable veterans such as Zab Judah, Shane Mosley and Joshua Clottey.

Looking back, this fight seems as if it had been preordained years ago. Both men are from island countries. Both are national treasures. And the thing that makes this fight so much fun, their victims usually feel as if they have been kicked by a mule.

One man will win, one man will lose. We can only hope that the fight lives up to it’s title of Firepower. If the loser is competitive then we may see Pacquiao-Cotto II. If the loser loses by devastating knockout, then we may be watching his last fight.

The winner is sure to utter the words Floyd Mayweather in his post fight interview. Either way, we are sure to see some fireworks on November 14. From there on, the sky is the limit and any opponent within reason, a possibility, for these two future hall of famers.

Breakdown of Pacquiao-Cotto

Manny Pacquiao Miguel Cotto

Age 30 29

Home General Santos City Caguas, Puerto Rico

Height 5’6 1/2″ 5’7″

Reach 67″ 67″

Record 49-3-2 (37) 34-1 (27)

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After going through the toughest part of his physical conditioning, Manny Pacquiao begins to taper off this week as his highly anticipated showdown with Miguel Cotto draws closer and closer.

Pacquiao can’t wait to get things done and over with.

“Let’s get it on!” the 30-year-old boxing superstar said yesterday from Los Angeles where he was to do 12 rounds of sparring against Shawn Porter and company at the Wild Card Gym.

“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,” he said.

Pacquiao, eyeing an unprecedented seventh world title in seven different weight classes, is so excited with the fight, which should be the biggest and

Starting next week, the number of rounds in sparring should go down, and focus shifts on the mental aspect.

“The number of sparring rounds will go down but the level of our mental preparation increases. Physically, I think we’ve covered all the bases and we should be ready for anything Miguel Cotto can do in the fight,” said Pacquiao.

Pacquiao worked on his speed to cover up whatever advantage Cotto might enjoy with his power, the Puerto Rican being the younger, taller and heavier fighter.

Cotto’s habit of going face-to-face with his opponent, Pacquiao added, only makes the fight more interesting for him and the fans as well.

“Ang style ni Cotto, yung hindi umaatras sa sagupaan, ay kapana-panabik para sa lahat. Iyan ang gusto ko,” said Pacquiao who should have covered more or less a hundred rounds of sparring heading into the last two weeks of training.

Notes: Businessman Cris Aquino, the perennial flag-bearer in Manny Pacquiao fights in the United States, will carry an extra load when he flies to US on the first week of November. This early, the bubbly Pacquiao fanatic has readied Team Pacquiao jackets which he normally gives away for free. Only this time, they’re not reserved for his Filipino friends, including politicians and celebrities. “These are for the Hollywood stars,” said Aquino. He said he’s got jackets readied for Pacquiao fans like Mark Walhberg, Christian Bale, Jack Nicholson, Denzel Washington and Russel Crowe. “I also have bigger ones made for NBA superstars Ron Artest, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal,” said Aquino. “Nabigyan ko na yata lahat ng pulitiko sa atin at mga artista na mahilig manood ng fight. This time it’s for the Hollywood celebrities.” He wanted to make sure though that O’Neal, who had thought of leading Pacquiao up to the ring on Nov. 14, would be there. “Otherwise, with the size of his jacket, I would have no one to give it to if he doesn’t show up,” he said. Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach, had a chance to train O’Neal a couple of days in LA months back, and during a break, the 7-foot-1, 325-pound giant said he was interested in the role that was played by wrestling superstars David Batista and The Undertaker during Pacquiao’s previous fights. Only his NBA schedule might get in the way of O’Neal’s desire to be part of the show.

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