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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.
The day isn’t complete for Manny Pacquaio after training unless he eats at his favorite restaurant, Nat’s Thai Food, which just happens to be outside of The Wild Card Boxing Club, the gym owned by his trainer, Freddie Roach.
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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.
Welterweight (147 pounds) star, Abdullai Amidu (18-0, 17 knockouts) of Ghana has been hired by seven-division champ, Manny Pacquaio (50-3-2, 38 KOs) to imitate his countryman, Joshua Clotey (35-3, 20 KOs), in sparring as Pacquaio prepares to defend his WBO welterweight title against Clotey (pictured at right).
Also serving as a Pacquaio sparring partner is David Rodela (14-2-2, six KOs). FanHouse caught up to both at The Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, which is owned and operated by Pacquaio’s trainer, Freddie Roach.
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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.
Rising Southpaw junior welterweight (140 pounds) “Vicious” Victor Ortiz (pictured at right) was literally a big hit recently at the Club Nokia at LA Live in Los Angeles, scoring a 10th-round knockout over Hector Alatorre in the main event of a Golden Boy Promotions’ Fight Night Club show.
In victory, the 23-year-old Ortiz rose to 26-2-1, with 21 KOs, setting up a May 15 clash with 37-year-old former world champ, Nate Campbell (33-5-1, 25 KOs) — this on the uncdercard of a main event featuring England’s 23-year-old, WBA junior welterweight king, Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KOs), in defense of his title against New York’s 29-year-old Paulie Malignaggi (27-3, five KOs) at The WaMu Theatre in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
FanHouse caught up to Ortiz that night, along with Godlen Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, boxing fans and Ortiz’s manager, Rolando Arellano, who told Khan, “We’re coming for your a**.”
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Trainer, Roger Mayweather
Mayweahter (pictured at right, on the left, with Floyd), is at it again — talking up his undefeated nephew, Floyd Mayweather
Mayweahter, as he heads into their May 1 clash with WBA welterweight super champion, Shane Mosley. FanHouse caught up to Roger, who was working with Jesse Vargas, a fighter he believes is a future world champ.
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Washington, D.C. lightweight (135 pounds) Anthony Peterson will face Puerto Rico’s Juan Ramon Cruz on March 12 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel and Convention Center in Grapevine, Tex., as part of a stacked card taking place the night before seven-division titlist, Manny Pacquaio defends his WBO welterweight (147 pounds) belt against Joshua Clottey at The Dallas Cowboys’ Stadium in Arlington, Top Rank matchmaker, Carl Moretti, told FanHouse on Sunday.
If the 24-year-old Peterson (29-0, 19 knockouts) gets past the 31-year-old Cruz (16-7-1, 12 KOs), he will be in line to face the winner of a March 13, Pacquaio-Clotey undercard clash of former world champions between 29-year-old Humberto Soto (50-7-2, 32 KOs) of Tijuana, Mex., and 33-year-old David Diaz (35-2-1, 17 KOs), of Chicago, for the WBC lightweight belt vacated by Edwin Valero (pictured at right, throwing punch).
The 28-year-old Valero (27-0, 27 KOs), coming off of a Feb. 6, 10th-round knockout of Antonio DeMarco (23-2-1, 17 KOs) of Mexico, is moving up to the junior welterweight (140 pounds) division to take on Antony’s 26-year-old brother, Lamont Peterson (27-1, 13 KOs) on a date to be determined — potentially on April 10 in Las Vegas.
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