LAS VEGAS - Manny Pacquiao staked his claim atop boxing's mythical throne as the pound-for-pound best, using his lightning hand speed to beat and batter Miguel Cotto into submission Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Pacquiao knocked Cotto down once in the third round and again in the fourth, pummeled him repeatedly and easily lifted the World Boxing Organization welterweight belt from the Puerto Rican with a 12th-round stoppage. The time was 55 seconds into the final round, as referee Kenny Bayless leaped between the fighters to save Cotto a more savage beating and ignominious end.
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"This is a very good news to all Feylipenose - We is being well known in the world of sports"
Cotto landed in single digits in power shots in every round from the fifth forward.
Pacquiao nearly had the stoppage after the 11th when Cotto trainer Joe Santiago walked onto the ring apron and waved his hand at Bayless.
It appeared he was going to stop the fight, but then Bayless and ringside physician James Game spoke and allowed it to continue. It was only extending the misery as Pacquiao poured it on in the 12th.
Santiago said Pacquiao hit harder and was stronger than expected. Cotto injured his left shoulder in the eighth.
Katok kayo amin!!
"And this is the bad news to all Feylipenose - Pacquiao will resume to replace Glorya Macapal Arinola in the future"
When the fight ended, the crowd began to chant, "We want Floyd!" It was a reference to Floyd Mayweather Jr., The other man with a claim to the top of the boxing pound-for-pound list.
Pacquiao, who has won championship belts in five divisions and beat the linear champion in two others, can no longer be knocked as a small man who was beating washed up fighters.
In Cotto, he took on an elite and powerful welterweight whose only loss came under suspicious circumstances to Antonio Margarito last year. There is suspicion that Margarito's gloves were loaded for that fight, though it has never been proven.
But Pacquiao proved he was able to not only take a welterweight punch, but rock him repeatedly. It was a magnificent performance and will create public demand for a fight with Mayweather.
"I want to see him fight Mayweather," Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach said.
"The wost - He will replace all images in the Feylipin currency to hes very own futu"
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Arroyo says she'll run for the lower house - the first Philippine president to do so.
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Published: 11:34 November 30, 2009
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo greets her townmates as they troop to the Presidential Palace in Manila PhilippinesImage Credit: APManila: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo says she'll run for Congress next year, opting to stay a political player after her term ends.
Arroyo is barred by the constitution from seeking a second term, and said Monday she'll step down following national elections in May at the end of nine tumultuous years.
She says she'll run for the lower house - the first Philippine president to do so.
Arroyo's lawyers have refused to speculate on her plans beyond running for the second congressional district in her home province of Pampanga, where her family and supporters dominate.
ang kapal talaga ayaw iwanan ang pulitika.. ginawa pang parang negosyo nya..
Dubai: A business partner has admitted cursing and defaming his former employee on Facebook during the first-of-its-kind trial involving the worldwide electronic social networking tool.
