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Pacquiao sharpens up, decks big sparmate
Inquirer
Last updated 03:28am (Mla time) 10/09/2006
Published on page A25 of the October 9, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
HERE’S FAIR warning to Erik Morales. Manny Pacquiao already looks a winner.
This after the Filipino superstar knocked down his Swedish sparmate, Shadi Hamsho, an unbeaten super featherweight prospect, on Thursday at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles where he is revving up for his rubber match with Morales next month.
The 5-foot-11 Hamsho, still unbeaten in eight fights, went down after Pacquiao unleashed a series of blows, based on an account by Los Angeles-based correspondent Ed De la Vega of Philboxing.com yesterday.
The knockdown, De la Vega reported, was confirmed to him by boxers Bobby Pacquiao, Gerry Peñalosa and Ernel Fontanilla.
“Manny knocked down his sparring partner and no one was there to take a picture,” said De la Vega, quoting the three boxers while they were on their way to the Wild Card Gym.
Pacquiao, who recently inked a deal with Oscar De la Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, reported to the Wild Card Gym a bit ahead of his training schedule last month.
The Pacquiao-Golden Boy contract is good for seven fights. The Filipino ring icon reportedly received a $300,000 signing bonus on top of an assurance from De la Hoya himself that, win or lose, on Nov. 18 against Morales, he would be getting a rematch with WBC super featherweight champ Marco Antonio Barrera.
The third Pacquiao-Morales fight, dubbed the “Grand Finale,” is scheduled at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. The Filipino lost in their first meeting by a close but unanimous decision last year before the Filipino exacted revenge last January with a 10th-round stoppage.
Aside from Barrera, Pacquiao’s victim in their first encounter, Golden Boy also promotes or co-promotes other big names in the super feather and lightweight division, such as Jesus Chavez, Joan Guzman, Jorge Barrios, and Juan Manuel Marquez. Salven L. Lagumbay, contributor
Inquirer
Last updated 03:28am (Mla time) 10/09/2006
Published on page A25 of the October 9, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
HERE’S FAIR warning to Erik Morales. Manny Pacquiao already looks a winner.
This after the Filipino superstar knocked down his Swedish sparmate, Shadi Hamsho, an unbeaten super featherweight prospect, on Thursday at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles where he is revving up for his rubber match with Morales next month.
The 5-foot-11 Hamsho, still unbeaten in eight fights, went down after Pacquiao unleashed a series of blows, based on an account by Los Angeles-based correspondent Ed De la Vega of Philboxing.com yesterday.
The knockdown, De la Vega reported, was confirmed to him by boxers Bobby Pacquiao, Gerry Peñalosa and Ernel Fontanilla.
“Manny knocked down his sparring partner and no one was there to take a picture,” said De la Vega, quoting the three boxers while they were on their way to the Wild Card Gym.
Pacquiao, who recently inked a deal with Oscar De la Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, reported to the Wild Card Gym a bit ahead of his training schedule last month.
The Pacquiao-Golden Boy contract is good for seven fights. The Filipino ring icon reportedly received a $300,000 signing bonus on top of an assurance from De la Hoya himself that, win or lose, on Nov. 18 against Morales, he would be getting a rematch with WBC super featherweight champ Marco Antonio Barrera.
The third Pacquiao-Morales fight, dubbed the “Grand Finale,” is scheduled at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. The Filipino lost in their first meeting by a close but unanimous decision last year before the Filipino exacted revenge last January with a 10th-round stoppage.
Aside from Barrera, Pacquiao’s victim in their first encounter, Golden Boy also promotes or co-promotes other big names in the super feather and lightweight division, such as Jesus Chavez, Joan Guzman, Jorge Barrios, and Juan Manuel Marquez. Salven L. Lagumbay, contributor
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