
Manny Pacquiao's Team Explodes: Ariza Beats Up Koncz
Tempers have flared up at Manny Pacquiao’s training camp in Baguio City where differences between Pacquiao’s adviser Michael Koncz and other members of Team Pacquiao have been simmering.

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Tempers have flared up at Manny Pacquiao’s training camp in Baguio City where differences between Pacquiao’s adviser Michael Koncz and other members of Team Pacquiao have been simmering.

Rey “Boom Boom” Bautista is determined to win impressively when he goes after Indonesia ’s tough Marangin “Dinamita” Marbun in a battle for the vacant WBC International featherweight title that was once held by the greatest Filipino fighter of all-time, Manny Pacquiao.

Following eight rounds of solid sparring with formrr world champion Jose Luis Castillo and undefeated light middleweight Shawn Porter, celebrated trainer Freddie Roach indicated he was really pleased with his prized fighter’s showing as he picks up tempo in preparation for his “Fire Power” showdown against WBO champion Miguel Cotto on November 14.

Indonesia’s tough super bantamweight champion Marangin "Dinamita" Marbun (19-5-1, 7 KO’s)and his trainer Bambang Supadi have both predicted that the Indonesian fighter will knock out promising Rey “Boom Boom” Bautista (26-2, 19 KO’s)in their WBC International featherweight interim title fight which will be the main event in the “Hamon Sa Kampeon” fight card at the plush Waterfront Hotel and Casino on Friday.

Filipino boxing hero and the world’s pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao said yesterday after a tough workout in his training camp in Baguio City that there’s no need for his millions of fans to worry.

After an eleven month layoff following surgery to remove a broken bone in his left wrist and have a piece of bone grafted in its place, one-time world title prospect Rey Bautista is ready to go “boom boom” when he takes on tough Marangin “Dinamita” Marbun, Indonesia’s super bantamweight champion at the ballroom of the plush Waterfront Hotel and Casino in Cebu City on Friday.

WBO super flyweight champion “Marvelous” Marvin Sonsona (14-0, 12 KO’s) couldn’t make a planned trip to train in Baguio City and has been working out at the Elorde Gym in Gilmore. One of his trainers, Nonito Donaire Sr who was stranded in Baguio City returned to Manila when there was a break in the weather and flew to Cebu City Monday morning.

Storm clouds have cleared and the sun has come out in Baguio City allowing Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao to get back to business in preparation for his “Fire Power” showdown with WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on November 14.

The handlers of Japanese fighter Daiki Kameda (15-2, 11 KO's) are set to protest Kameda’s loss to Thailand’s Denkaosan Kaovichit (48-1-1, 20 KO's) who retained his WBA flyweight title by a controversial majority decision last October 6 and are demanding a rematch.

Two Filipino boxers have lost in Pan Asian Boxing Association title fights with Ric Megrino losing his PABA flyweight title to former muaythai fighter Paipharob Por Nobnom who was making is debut as a pro boxer while Dante Paulino failed in his bid against PABA super flyweight interim champion Somsak Sitchatchawal who kept his title in a draw in the southern Thai city of Songkhla.