Sports

Manny Pacquiao called online video posted by Floyd Mayweather Jr. an “uneducated message”

Pacquiao  focuses on Margarito bout rather than Mayweather’s derogatory comments:

Champion Manny Pacquiao called online video posted by Floyd Mayweather Jr.,  an “uneducated message” and choosing to instead focus on his upcoming fight with Antonio Margarito, this coming November.

In the widely circulated video, Mayweather goes on an expletive-filled and sometimes racist rant against Pacquiao a newly elected Congressman from the Philippines who faces Margarito at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

“I just heard about that, but I didn’t see the video,” Pacquiao said Friday. “But it’s an uneducated message.”

“It’s a really cheap low-blow, but again, consider where it came from,” said trainer Freddie Roach. “We tried to fight him. He said no. He doesn’t want to fight.”

Mayweather has Apologized to Pacquiao for his Racially Charged Video Rant

Floyd Mayweather has apologized to Manny Pacquiao for his racially charged video rant against the Filipino Boxer, last Friday.

In the video , Mayweather refers to pacquiao as “ poochiao” “a yellow chump,” and said “Once I stomp the midget, I’ll make that [expletive] make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.” In addition, he said, “I’m going to cook that [expletive] with cats and dogs. Have some rice with a little barbecue dog.” He also referred to Pacquiao by using a derogatory slang term for a homosexual.

“I do want to apologize for what happened the other night,” Mayweather said. “I want to apologize to everybody. They felt it was a racist comment that came from me. I don’t have a racist bone in my body, you know. I love everybody. Some of my guys are Muslims. Some of my guys are Jews. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, whites, it doesn’t matter. There is nothing but love in my heart, you know what I’m saying?

“I heard this from a few people. The only thing I want to say is, anybody who was offended by what I said the other day, I apologize as a man. I apologize. Forgive me for saying what I said. I was just having fun. I didn’t really mean it, nothing in a bad way. So let’s stay on this roller coaster ride and keep riding, baby. It’s all love.”

Mayweather also sent condolences to his former promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, with whom he has long had a contentious relationship. The body of Arum’s 49-year-old son, John, was discovered in the Cascade Mountains in Washington state Friday. John Arum appeared to have fallen 300 feet in a hiking accident.

John Arum had been missing for several days and it’s not clear in the video whether Mayweather was aware the body had been discovered. However, he offered consoling words to Bob Arum.

“God bless Bob Arum and his whole family, because I heard that Bob Arum’s son had a bad accident,” Mayweather said. “Love to the whole Arum family.”

Source: sports.yahoo.com/box/news
Video below:

Manny Pacquiao On Margarito

Manny Pacquiao believes in forgiveness. He also isn’t forgetting why Antonio Margarito needs it.

Pacquiao said he just doesn’t believe his next opponent was unaware he was wearing illegal hand wraps before a fight nearly two years ago. Though he agrees Margarito deserves a second chance in boxing, Pacquiao isn’t buying Margarito’s defense and the passionate arguments of Bob Arum, who promotes both fighters.

“Of course, I believe he knew,” Pacquiao said. “He’s the one who wraps his hands. He’s just making some alibi for some reason. What do you think? My belief is you [would] know that.”

During an otherwise genial get-together Tuesday at the Beverly Hills Hotel, boxing’s pound-for-pound champion said he wants somebody watching Margarito’s hands getting wrapped before they meet in Texas, which is hosting the bout partly because Margarito still is banned from the ring in Nevada and California. “My concern is that we have somebody in the dressing room, someone else watching him,” Pacquiao said.

The Philippines’ newly minted congressman will fight for a title in his eighth weight class when he meets Margarito on Nov. 13 in a bout at Cowboys Stadium, which could be filled with more than 70,000 fans. Although the bout is for the vacant WBC 154-pound title, they will meet at a 151-pound catch weight.

One reason was evident when the fighters exchanged handshakes and stood together. Both cracked up when they attempted the usual staredown pose, with Pacquiao laughing as he craned his neck to look up at Margarito, who’s about 5 inches taller.

Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) has won 12 straight fights, including a one-sided decision over Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium in March. Although Pacquiao has redefined the importance of weight classes during his near-unprecented rise, the matchup is undeniably dangerous.

Pacquiao’s hand-wrap observers will make sure it isn’t even more perilous to fight Margarito, whose promising career was derailed when trained Javier Capetillo was caught packing his wraps with a substance resembling plaster before Margarito’s loss to Sugar Shane Mosley in Los Angeles in January 2009. “They’re welcome to watch the wraps,” Margarito said through a translator. “I’m going to prepare myself the best I can to give a great fight. I always stay in the gym, learning and training.”

Margarito (38-6, 27 KOs) has a significant size advantage and a remarkable ability to take a punch, but he also has fought just once since his loss to Mosley, winning a tuneup bout in Mexico in May. Margarito has been fairly defiant about his role in the scandal, which led to Capetillo’s banishment from the sport and Margarito’s inability to resume his career in California or Nevada, which generally respects another state’s suspension.

Source: sports.espn.go.com; The Associated Press

Donnie”AHAS”Nietes still the WBO Minimumweight World Champion.

Donnie Nietes is a Filipino professional boxer and the current WBO Minimumweight World Champion.

Originally a utility man who worked at the Antonio Lopez Aldeguer (ALA) boxing gym, Nietes took up boxing after being encouraged by the practitioners whom he socialized with. He turned professional in 2003 and became a national champion one year later.

his nickname “Ahas” which is Tagalog for “snake,” Tony Aldeguer states:

“Donnie got his nickname ‘ahas’ when he was a utility boy at the ALA Gym. One of his daily chores was to clean the snake pit with five big pythons and he was the only man with the guts to do it. He was bitten several times. But once he befriended the snakes, he was never bitten again. One day, a snake laid 11 eggs but only one survived. Donnie took care of that snake and he still does to this day. That’s how he got his nickname.”

Nietes fought a then undefeated Pornsawarn Kratingdaenggym of Thailand for the vacant WBO title on September 30, 2007 in Waterfront-Cebu City Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines. Although Nietes floored Kratingdaenggym in the fourth round, the Thai boxer managed to go up to the final bell. The bout ended in a unanimous decision in favor of Nietes.

From then till now, Nietes defended his title for his countrymen.

His latest fight is with Mexico’s Mario Rodriguez. The fight took place on August 14, 2010, at the Auditorio Luis Estrada Medina in Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico. The Filipino pugilist won the bout by unanimous decision with scores of 119-109, 118-110 and 116-112.

Donnie Nietes indeed deserves all the praises for his heady and gutsy performance last Saturday night at Guasave, Mexico. It was a tough fight but it defined Nietes as a fighter. Truly, he deserves being the champion!

Although things and incidents that may seem to be unfair, it happens all the time anywhere in the world, thus they must be smart and take everything they can. As they say in the vernacular: “utakan lang yan”.

Who is best in “utakan”? The Pinoys of course. Thus we adapt instead of complain.

Source: wikipedia.org; philboxing.com

Silva winner by submission against Sonnen at UFC 117

Anderson Silva didn’t exactly endear himself to UFC president Dana White the last time he defended his welterweight championship. This time, Silva made the boss proud despite taking one of the worst beatings of his career.

Silva shook off a slow start and used a triangle choke to get Sonnen to tap out in the fifth round of their championship bout in the main event of UFC 117 on Saturday.

Silva was behind on all three scorecards before locking Sonnen’s arm into the submission hold with 1:50 remaining in the fight. It was Silva’s seventh title defense of the belt he has held for nearly four years.

“The fight that happened tonight is the stuff that makes legends,” a beaming White said. “This guy got roughed up and beat up for almost five full rounds but finds a way to win.”

White, who has called Silva the best pound-for-pound fighter in the past, wasn’t happy with Silva’s previous title defense against Demian Maia at UFC 112. Silva spent much of that fight dancing around the octagon and refusing to engage Maia, leading to criticisms from fans and White.

Against Sonnen, Silva (27-4) was struggling until locking the challenger’s left arm up and getting him to tap out.

“I’ve been training jujitsu for a long time and out of respect to (Antonio) Nogueira I wanted to finish this fight by a submission,” Silva said through an interpreter. “I had a bad injury to my rib. The doctor told me not to fight but I believe the show must go on. It’s not an excuse. I wanted to come in and put it on the line, and that’s what I did.”

Sonnen, who spent the days leading up to the fight criticizing and belittling Silva, controlled the bout and was the aggressor most of the night. He repeatedly took the champion to the mat and landed numerous unanswered punches to Silva’s head, but was unable to finish the job.

“I’m devastated,” Sonnen said. “At the end of the day you either get your hand raised or you don’t, and I didn’t. I can’t sugarcoat it. I’m heartbroken.

Earlier, Jon Fitch beat Thiago Alves by unanimous decision in the co-main event.

Neither fighter landed many blows in the lackluster fight and they spent most of the bout grappling on the mat. Fitch, who grew up in nearby San Jose, won 30-27 on all three scorecards.

Fitch (26-3) is now in line for a possible rematch against welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre

Fitch, who defeated Alves by a second-round TKO in 2006, took Alves down again and the two fighters remained locked up on the ground for nearly all the final few minutes. Alves stood up for the final 10 seconds but wasn’t able to land anything.

In an earlier fight Junior Dos Santos outlasted Roy Nelson to continue his climb into contention in the heavyweight division. Dos Santos (12-1) repeatedly stunned Nelson (16-5) with a series of right uppercuts in the first round but couldn’t put away the 265-pound Nelson and won by decision.

Matt Hughes (45-7) choked out Ricardo Almeida (12-4) 3:15 into the first round of their welterweight bout. It was Hughes’ first since being inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame this past May. Clay Guida (27-8) won his lightweight match against Rafael Dos Anjos when Dos Anjos (14-5) tapped out in the third round because of a possible broken jaw.

All five bouts on the main card featured Brazilian fighters against Americans.

Source: Associated Press; theglobeandmail.com

The rising force of UFC light-heavyweight division Jon Jones.

No surprises, that Jon Jones, the rising force in the UFC light-heavyweight division, made rapid work of the ageing Vladimir Matyushenko in San Diego in the early hours. 

Once in position on the ground, the Belarussian was punished over twenty devastating seconds before referee Herb Dean, the best in the business, did the 39-year-old a serious favour.

Jones had age – 16 years – on his side. He was too quick, too slick and, in truth, too spiteful for the older Octagon warrior to deal with vicious strikes.

Click here to read more:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxingandmma/7922111/Jon-Jones-the-rising-force-of-UFC-light-heavyweight-division.html