The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters. Cus D'Amato
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#560393 11/16/0911:56 AM11/16/0911:56 AM
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Originally Posted By: Yogi Barrabbas
I thought Cotto would be his hardest test and after the first round was confidently re-iterating this!!
I don't think Cotto won another round, but showed plenty of courage and guts!!
Manny is the boy though eh?
I thought Cotto was alright. Few rounds he was right in it meeting Pac head on, But geezuz is Pac a beast or what?
P4P king right now...
The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters. Cus D'Amato
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#560511 11/17/0911:12 AM11/17/0911:12 AM
MANNY PACQUIAO WINS HIS 7TH DIVISION WORLD TITLE IN 7 WEIGHT CLASSES!
Manny Pacquiao hopes his stunning victory Saturday over Miguel Cotto will put him in line for a mega welterweight showdown against Floyd Mayweather in 2010.
Filipino southpaw Pacquiao showed he is ready to lead boxing's revival by taking Cotto's World Boxing Organization belt and claiming his seventh world title in seven different weight classes.
He scored a final-round technical knockout, putting the Puerto Rican champion down as the referee stopped the onslaught 55 seconds into the 12th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
With his stunning demolition of his last three opponents, Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and now Cotto, Pacquiao has become the face of the sport even making the front page of the Asian edition of Time magazine this month.
What better way to showcase the sport's newest poster boy than to have a pound-for-pound showdown between Pacquiao and Mayweather.
Pacquiao said earlier in the week he doesn't think Mayweather will step up to the plate and called him a boring boxer.
"Boxing for him is like a business. He doesn't care about people around him watching. He doesn't care if the fight is boring as long as the fight is finished and he gets his money," Pacquiao said.
Roach said even if Mayweather agrees to a deal, the fight won't take place at any cost.
"If Floyd wants a 65-35 (purse) split in his favor then he is not going to get it," Roach said.
So what would be the excuse this time? Oscar De La Hoya was shot and drained that any regular Joe who knows a little about boxing could have beaten the living daylights out of him while Ricky Hatton’s camp problems and overtraining did him in leading to that second round snoozefest, and so on and so forth.
Certainly, non-believers stressed, those things won’t be happening to Miguel Cotto as he will be the only true and young welterweight that Manny Pacquiao has faced thus far, whose size and power will prove to be too much for the naturally smaller man who by their accounts have finally bitten off more than he could chew this time around.
Well, the Boricua bomber appeared to be the true welterweight indeed as proven by his more massive frame, but his size and power wasn’t enough to deter the Filipino boxing superstar from using his own speed and power as he conducted a systematic demolition job en route to making boxing history by picking up his seventh title in as many weight divisions courtesy of the WBO Welterweight title.
By the end of the fight Miguel Cotto’s face was a swollen mask of pain and punishment that we were reminded of the horrendous beating that he received from the supposedly loaded hands of Antonio Margarito last year. We wonder if that played with Cotto’s thoughts throughout the fight as he apparently was on survival mode in the last few rounds when he went to his bicycle in order to avoid the relentless pursuit of the Pacman.
Props to Miguel Cotto however as he sucked it up and tried to finish the fight on his feet despite the fact that he was well behind on the cards and was taking a terrible beating. Any lesser fighter may have already quit on his stool or something when faced with such a winless prospect.
The classy fighter went up to Pacquiao’s corner after the stoppage and embraced the new champion in a show of profound respect which the two gentlemanly warriors have always accorded each other. After the fight, Pacquiao gave a mini-concert and sang 8 songs.
1) WBC world flyweight champion 2) IBF world super bantamweight champion 3) WBC world super featherweight champion 4) WBC world lightweight champion 5) IBO world Jr. Welterweight champion 6) WBO Welterweight Champion, WBO Welterweight Super Champion
World Titles recognized by the public at large:
1) WBC world flyweight champion 2) IBF world super bantamweight champion 3) Ring Magazine world featherweight champion 4) WBC world super featherweight champion 5) WBC world lightweight champion 6) IBO world Jr. Welterweight champion 7) WBO Welterweight Champion, WBO Welterweight Super Champion,WBC Diamond Champion (Honorary award)
Ring magazine titles:
1) World featherweight champion 2) World super featherweight champion 3) World light welterweight champion
Non world titles:
1) OPBF flyweight champion 2) WBC international super bantamweight champion 3) WBC international super featherweight champion
In professional boxing, the lineal championship of a weight class is a notional world championship title. It is initially held at some moment in time by a boxer universally acclaimed as the best in the class. Another boxer can only win the lineal championship by defeating the reigning lineal champion in the ring. The lineal champion is described as "the man who beat the man".
A boxer loses his lineal championship if he is defeated,moves up in weight class or retires. Not when he abandons the title or is stripped of it by the sanctioning bodies.
Gotta give credit to writer Brent Matteo Alderson. He is the only one I know who admits he was wrong and would gladly eat crow like a man. Here is what he said:
"I bet on Miguel Cotto this past weekend and Manny Pacquiao made me eat my ticket stub. I couldn’t fathom how a man who had his prime at featherweight could defeat one of the best welterweights in the world. I always though Ricky Hatton was overrated and thought De La Hoya was dead at the weight, but I can’t keep making excuses for Pacquiao’s opponents. With wins over Barrera, Marquez, Morales, De La Hoya, Hatton, and Miguel Cotto to go with titles in seven weight classes, you have to consider the Filipino juggernaut to be one of the twelve greatest fighters in the history of the sport. If he can beat Floyd there would be an argument for him to be placed in the top three. The Pac-man is just incredible"
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Great post
The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters. Cus D'Amato
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#560747 11/19/0912:34 PM11/19/0912:34 PM
I was being sarcastic, but I missed the link to the full fight. Would you mind posting it again? If not I'll just try to find it. My girlfriend wants to see the fight still so I would love to find the fight in it's entirety online, which I've had difficulty doing.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." -Calvin and Hobbes
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Yeah you got get in quick, blib, before they shut down all the vids.
The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters. Cus D'Amato
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#560878 11/21/0912:23 AM11/21/0912:23 AM
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