
Pacquiao on Margarito, Mayweather Paul Williams, More
HOLLYWOOD--All the world is Manny Pacquaio's stage and he reconfirmed Wednesday afternoon that he still relishes his role going into his 57th professional fight.

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HOLLYWOOD--All the world is Manny Pacquaio's stage and he reconfirmed Wednesday afternoon that he still relishes his role going into his 57th professional fight.

OXNARD—Antonio Margarito is harboring a terrorist at his training camp in an area on the wrong side of the railroad tracks in this city about 60 miles north of Los Angeles.

HOLLYWOOD--America's most popular fighter (oh, yes he holds the same distinction in his native Philippines) kicks it up another publicity notch on the Sunday before his Saturday, Nov. 13 bout at Cowboys against Mexican outlaw Antonio Margarito.

LOS ANGELES--If you're buying this “last chance to see Manny Pacquiao” pitch as to the Nov. 13 bout against Antonio Margarito then you're the greater fool that the pitchmen are targeting.

SAN DIEGO—Mercito “No Mercy” Gesta may get a fat head down the line as the praise and adulation accumulates.

SAN DIEGO—About 30 minutes before he climbed into the ring here at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel for his toughest professional test, with a national TV audience looking on (Telefutura), Cebu's Mercito “No Mercy' Gesta spoke to me in his locker room.

SAN DIEGO—Nothing is better for a real boxing nut than couch surfing in the hotel lobby in the hours before a boxing show.

SAN DIEGO—You might think that an 82 year old, legendary boxing promoter, with an eye on actuarial tables, might be in something of a rush to discover whether his latest hot prospect is the goods.

Naazim Richardson admires the special chemistry between Manny Pacquiao, prizefighter, and trainer Freddie Roach the way Picasso may have looked favorably on a Monet.

Lawsuits, personal invective, ego battles...sometimes a fight promoter has to put all that aside and concentrate on just making fights that matter.