Pacquiao Proved It Again

Another big celebration for Filipinos and Pacquiao fanatics here in the Philippines and around the globe as he proved again to be the best pound-for-pound boxer by beating Ricky "Hitman" Hatton last May 2, 2009 (May 3, here in the Philippines) via TKO in the 2nd round.



Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao and Ricky "Hitman" Hatton fight is set on a 12-round International Boxing Organization(IBO) and Ring Magazine Light Welterweight Championship at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas entitled "The Battle of East and West".

As early as 1st round, Pacquiao knocked down Hatton twice which gave him confidence on winning the title. He again dominated on the 2 round and caught Hatton in a victorious power left hook. Hatton's body fell like a stick with his back flat on the canvass ring. Then the referee knelt over him for several seconds and then waved his hands to signify that the fight is over....







Another Filipinos pride...Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao - pound-for-pound best boxer and a "monster" as Bob Arum says...

2007 FIBA Asian Championship: PHI vs JOR

Jordan adapted the wait-and-watch policy to almost perfection as they outthought, outwitted and eventually outscored a charged up, but error-prone, Philippines 84-76 in the make-or-break Group 'A' encounter on last July 30, 2007.

Philippines began rather confidently, with the speedy Mark Anthony Caguioa and the tall Pauliasi Taulava controlling the proceedings. The scoreboard was ticking at regular intervals, the defense seemed to hold itself and much to the joy of their fans Philippines seemed to be on a roll.

All that changed like the clichéd bolt from the blue, as Jordan, slowly but surely took charge. Rasheim Wright, who had been pushed into the oblivion by the Filipino rampage, started to call the shots. Sam Daghles and Zaid Alkhas moved, and succeeded, with customary cohesion and Jordan were truly back, and in style.

Where Jordan kept improving, Philippines' graph went on a nose-dive. A couple of fortuituous long rangers - some of them by Jim Alapag from almost near the center-line raised Philippines' hopes, but by then Jordan had wrapped the game under their control.

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Wright then put his finger in Hopkins's face, and Hopkins shoved Wright's head backward with a shot to the forehead. Wright replied with a righthanded swing, and both fighters' entourages quickly jumped in to separate the fighters and exchange their own shoves and blows.

Hopkins was fined $300,000 for this but it didn’t faze him much. He was paid $3 million for the fight.

He took away Winky Wright's jab and lead on his way to a unanimous decision victory in keeping his ring light heavyweight title the following day.