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Undefeated 22 year old junior middleweight Shawn “Showtime” Porter (11-0-9 KO’s) says he learned a lot from being in the ring with pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao during the Filipino southpaw’s preparation for his “Fire Power” showdown with WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto last November 14.
Smashing back-to-back performances by Eden “Magnifico” Sonsonsa have impressed pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao who has promised to try and get the flashy southpaw a title shot against WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel on Top Rank Promotions “Pinoy Power III” fight card at the Las Vegas Hilton on February 13.
World-rated AJ “Bazooka” Banal faces rugged Mexican Cecilio Santos in the big Smart Sports Sinulog fight card at the plush ballroom of the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu City on January 14.
Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao’s conditioning expert Alex Ariza is getting a little peeved with the camp of Floyd Mayweather Jr who keep demanding drug tests in addition to those conducted by the Nevada State Athletic Commission and continue to play on the unsubstantiated allegations of Floyd Mayweather Sr that Pacquiao is on some performance-enhancing drug.
Promising young Filipino Johnreil “Quadro Alas” Casimiro who is undefeated in 13 fights with 7 wins coming by way of knockouts faces a tough battle when he faces Colombia’s Cezar Chantilla at the Estadio Nacional in Managua, Nicaragua for the WBO light flyweight interim title on December 19.
WBA super flyweight interim champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire revealed that he was rooting for Vic Darchinyan because he wanted the WBC/WBA super flyweight champion to win against Mexican Tomas Rojas so he could “get his confidence back so we could make a fight happen.”
The Executive Director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission Keith Kizer says that its up to pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and former No.1 Floyd Mayweather Jr if they want to allow additional testing by another agency.
Fresh from a sensational second round TKO of Eilon Kedem (9-2-4, 6 KO’s), Filipino southpaw Eden Sonsona (17-5, 4 KO’s) won the vacant Philippine bantamweight title with a spectacular one-punch knockout of Monico Laurente from the Johnny Elorde stable in a fight card in honor of the late Rod Nazario at the Ynares Sports Center in Pasig City on Saturday, December 12.
Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao, on his way to loosen up by playing basketball with friends in his hometown of General Santos City, has junked rumors that he wants the super fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. postponed until after the May 2010 elections.
Filipino light welterweight Ranee Ganoy has lived up to his nickname “KO Kid” and blasted Thailand’s Kongthawat Sorkitti in the first round in a fight card in Sydney, Australia.