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Top Rank promoter Bobby Arum says he is confident a welterweight title fight between Filipino ring icon and “Hero of Asia” Manny Pacquiao will be worked out by the end of the week and the fight will take place on November 14 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire is set to fight Mexico’s hard-hitting Hugo Fidel Cazares for the WBA super flyweight interim title at the Event Center at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on August 15.
IBF flyweight champion Nonito "The Filipino Flash" Donaire (21-1, 14 KO’s) may fight Rafael "El Torito" Concepcion (13-3-1, 8 KO’s) for the vacant WBA super flyweight interim title at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Events Center in Las Vegas on August 15.
While media around the world continues to speculate on who Filipino boxing icon and "Hero of Asia" Manny Pacquiao will fight next, the world’s No.1 pound-for-pound fighter is enjoying a vacation in the picturesque island of Bohol with wife Jinkee, three of their four kids and adviser Michael Koncz.
WBO Oriental bantamweight champion Michael Domingo (38-14-2, 16 KO’s) has been offered a fight against Mexico ’s Cuauhtemoc Vargas (15-2-1, 10 KO’s) on September 12 in Las Vegas.
The “Hero of Asia” Manny Pacquiao returned home late Monday night from New York where he was pleasantly surprised at the ovation he received from the predominantly Puerto Rican crowd at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Manila Time, when he watched the Miguel Cotto-Joshua Clottey and Rodel Mayol-Ivan Calderon world title fights.
The manager of the Philippines No.1 ranked flyweight Fernando Lumacad (19-1-2, 7 KO’s) Ken Smith, says he is certain of one thing and that is that Lumacad “will enter the ring unafraid and will engage (Jorge) Arce (51-5-1, 39 KO’s).”
Newly crowned IBF light flyweight champion Brian Viloria’s first title defense is scheduled to be held at the plush Waterfront Hotel grand ballroom in Cebu City on August 22.
The “Hero of Asia” Manny Pacquiao has given Top Rank promoter Bob Arum specific instructions - "get me (Miguel) Cotto on November 14."
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum believes that Filipino boxing hero and the acknowledged hero of Asia Manny Pacquiao is likely to go for his sixth official world title by fighting WBO champion Miguel Cotto in November.