Who is the next opponent of Manny pacquiao

The Filipino ring hero, Manny Pacquiao may face the IBF light welterweight champion, Lamont Peterson. Peterson is willing to mix it up with the fancied Filipino pugilist who holds the distinction of winning 8 world titles in as many world weight categories.

Peterson who hails from, Washington, District of Columbia was been added into the short list of probable opponents for Pacquiao in the year 2012. The much anticipated fight between Pacquiao and Mayweather was stalled anew Floyd Mayweather Jr. was handed with a 90 day jail sentence on account of misdemeanor domestic violence charges. Mayweather doesn’t have enough time to prepare for his fight against Pacquiao on May, 2012.

Aside from the 5 feet 9 inches Peterson, other fighters that were being considered as Pacquiao’s opponents are his recent victim Juan Manuel Marquez, Timothy Bradley the reigning WBO champion in the 140 lbs category and the WBA junior middleweight titlist Miguel Cotto.

Floyd Mayweather Gives Go Signal to Fight Manny Pacquiao

Floyd Mayweather has given Golden Boy Promotions CEO Ricard Schaefer the go-signal to open fight talks with Top Rank chief Bob Arum, the prolific superstar’s promoter.
Team Mayweather/Mayweather Promotions has been discusing our promotions and when we’re finished, well let Richard
Schaefer express our position to Top Rank,” said in an statement of Mayweather’s camp.
This course of event  was made after arum announced that the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas is approaching the 1.5 million pay-per-view (PPV) buys according to initial reports.
The reigning pound-for-pound king, Pacquiao rewrites history as he becomes the first boxer to clinch world titles in seven different weight classes, outshone Mayweather’s last fight in the box office.
Snaring Cotto’s WBO belt with a smothering 12th round technical knockout at the MGM Grand Arena, Pacquiao who is also called the Pac Man is now the planet’s most sought after boxer. A fight with the Filipino will surely bring in windfall of cash through fight purse, pay-per-view and corporate sponsorships.
Mayweather showing his revived wits and uncanny boxing skills outpoints underdog and overmatched Juan Manuel Marquez (Pacquiao’s also victim) last December.
The PPV buys is in between the 1 million and 1.5 million mark with still some precincts not counted yet. The Cotto-Pacquiao overcome any of the UFC. The initial PPV sales of Pacquiao-Cotto was about $82,425,000. USA Today said that Pacquiao-Cotto  earned a box office gross of $ 8.54 million on 15,470 tickets sold, better than the Mayweather-Marquez (estinated at about 12,ooo on tickets sold and equivalent to $6 million.

Pacquiao vs Clottey, not Pacquiao vs Mayweather

The megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. was averted no thanks to the bogged down negotiations between the two camp. Mayweathers’ insistence of an Olympic Doping Test on the Filipino ring icon was too much to ask for and instead of inking a multi-million deal he will just be facing a lawsuit filed from Pacquiao.

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Manny Pacquiao Philippines’ Athlete of the Decade

The Philippine Sportswriters Association of the Philippines selected Manny Pacquiao as a a hands down winner choice as Athlete of the Decade. The Reigning pound-for-pound boxer in the world, Pacquiao was named as PSA Athlete of the Year five times this decade, having won the coveted plum from 2002 to 2004, in 2006 and 2008. Last year Pacquiao was enshrined to the Hall of Fame in the same award giving body in the Philippines.

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Pacquiao Creates Another Milestone Demolishes Cotto With a TKO Win

LAS VEGAS – Manny Pacquiao’s potent speed and power and witty boxing skill smotherd Miguel Cotto’s determination and dream of instant boxing fame. Pacquiao unleashes another superb performance and extracted a another huge and overpowering win this time against the taller and heftier Cotto the reigning welterweight champion from Puerto Rico. Pacquiao floored Cotto with crisp combination in the third and fourth round and takes the light out on Cotto when the bout was halted by the referree after 55 seconds in the 12th round.

The Filipino pug the reigning Pound for Pound King utilized his lightning-fast speed and brute power from both hands to capture his  seventh title in seven weight classes (the most and the most prolific by any boxer in the sports) and stalled himself as one of the greatest boxer of all time in the world. Cotto absorbed a huge beating from the boxing star that his face has swell and bloods flows a testament of the power generated by Pacquiao’s punches. Cotto showed great heart though he refused to wilt even as his corner tried to throw in the towel after the 11th round.

“I didn’t know from where the punches were coming,” Cotto said.

“It was a fought fight,” Pacquiao said and added, “I’m pretty sure the people in the Philippines are celebrating now and they’re very happy.”

The fight was billed as a 145-pound welterweight bout which is bound to go as a classic, and in the early rounds both of the contenders fought tooth and nail give fans great amount of excitement.

The overpowering victory of Pacquiao over Cotto added another feather on Pacquiao’s superb cap, that is, seven different classes such as the flyweight, super bantamweight, feather weight, super featherweight, lightweight and light welterweight.

Moreover, Pacquiao already dispatched great fighters like Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales, Juan Manuel Marquez, Ricky Hatton and Oscar Dela Hoya.

Millions of Filipinos in the Philippines and all over the world was ecstatic and jubilant with the colossal victory eked out by Manny Pacquiao, as they were on a celebration frenzy and expect the win to be the subject of discussion on Filipino households in the weeks to come.

A possible blockbuster is currently on the works agains boastful yet talented Floyd Mayweather, and Freddie Roach Pacquiao’s powerhouse tactician wants Mayweather to be the next target.