
Arum Impressed With Manny Pacquiao's Gym Work
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum showed up at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles on Wednesday to watch his prized possession Manny Pacquiao train and said later he was “very impressed.”

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Top Rank promoter Bob Arum showed up at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles on Wednesday to watch his prized possession Manny Pacquiao train and said later he was “very impressed.”

Trainer Nonito Donaire Sr says undefeated Ciso “Kid Terrible” Morales (14-0, 8 KO’s)has no weight problem and will surely make the 118 pound limit when he fights WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel (39-2-2, 29 KO’s) on the “Pinoy Power III” Top Ranks fight card at the Las Vegas Hilton on February 13.

Now that he has been given a clean bill of health by the specialists who attended to him at the Medical Center in a final check-up Wednesday, former two-time world light flyweight champion Brian Viloria plans to return to the US with his girlfriend Erika Navarro on Sunday.

Former title challenger Bert Batawang gets another chance to go for a world title when he clashes with former IBF champion Ulises Solis in a title eliminator in Mexico on March 6.

Japan’s popular WBC flyweight champion Koki Kameda (22-0, 14 KO’s) will defend his title against long-reigning former champion and current interim champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (74-3-1, 39 KO’s) of Thailand in Japan.

The World Boxing Council may strip light flyweight champion Rodel Mayol of his title for his failure to honor the contract he signed with Mexican boxing promoter Fausto Daniel Garcia to defend his title against mandatory challenger and former champion Omar Nino Romero.

While most boxing aficionados predict that pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao will have a tough fight against former world champion Joshua Clottey in Pacquiao’s first defense of his WBO welterweight title, the trainer who handled Pacquiao when he won his first world title believes Pacquiao will win easily.

Mark Jason Melligen (16-2, 12 KO’s) won’t get a chance to face former WBO super featherweight champion Mike “The Powerful” Anchondo who injured his ankle in training and according to trainer Tony Martin “it looks like he (Anchondo) will not be able to face Melligen.”

Z “The Dream” Gorres whose tragic accident ended his career when on the threshold of a rematch with world WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel is “doing well” according to Dr. Ben Calderon and in fact wants to be at ringside to watch undefeated youngster Ciso “Kid Terrible” Morales fight Montiel on the Pinoy Power III fight card at the Las Vegas Hilton on February 13.

Conditioning expert Alex Ariza who teams up with three-time “Trainer of the Year” Freddie Roach to prepare pound-for-pound boxing icon Manny Pacquiao for his fights, says he is amazed at Pacquiao’s power.