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Manny Pacquiao Signed Ring Magazine
A great Signed copy of Ring Boxing Magazine from Phillipine
boxing great 'The Pacman' Manny Pacquiao. The Pacman is
now the P4P contender having beat Rickky Hatton. Will he
beat Floyd Mayweather Jr and be crowned P4P champion of
the world?
Manny Paquiao
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At the age of 30, Manny is a 14-year pro—he
made his debut at 16. He has been fighting at the top levels
of competition and given some of the most exciting performances
in the ring in recent years.
He is a national hero in his native Philippines
the entire country comes to a virtual standstill whenever
he fights.
Manny is also recognized by most observers
as the best fighter at any weight in the ring today—the
best "pound for pound" fighter.
With all of his accomplishments, which someday
will surely be immortalized in the Hall of Fame, Manny is
coming off the biggest win of his career in his last fight
on December 6—a dominant eighth-round TKO against
former junior lightweight, lightweight, super lightweight,
welterweight, two-time super welterweight, and middleweight
world champion Oscar De La Hoya—the biggest name in
the sport and a sure future Hall of Famer himself.
Manny was considered a huge underdog by most
observers—and the fight a mismatch—because of
their extreme difference in size. Manny weighed 134.5 pounds
when he won the WBC lightweight world title in his previous
fight in June, 2008. De La Hoya last held a world title
at 154 pounds, and weighed 150 in his previous fight in
May, 2008. Boxing's time-honored conventional wisdom says
that, "A good big man beats a good small man."
After the fight, Dan Rafael wrote on ESPN.com,
"Pacquiao stunningly administered a beat down of epic
proportions. [De La Hoya] was never in the fight for a moment.
Pacquiao won his third fight of the year in his third weight
division, including winning two titles. The victory makes
Pacquiao something of a modern-day Henry Armstrong, the
all-time great pound-for-pound legend who over the course
of ten months from October 1937 to August 1938, claimed,
in order, the world featherweight, welterweight and lightweight
championships—back when there were only eight divisions."
Fightwriter.com's Graham Houston reported
from ringside, "So many people got it so wrong. What
some thought would be a mismatch turned out to be a mismatch
in reverse when Manny Pacquiao pasted Oscar De La Hoya for
eight rounds in the so-called Dream Match in Las Vegas,"
Houston wrote.
"Far from being the weaker, smaller man,
Pacquiao looked much stronger and also much harder-hitting
than De La Hoya. Pacquiao was the puncher in the fight.
Right from the start he was hurting De La Hoya.
"His upper-body movement and quick moves
had the older fighter looking perplexed. The speed and power
of Pacquiao's punches actually seemed to shock De La Hoya,
who looked old, slow and painfully vulnerable.
"Just 19 months earlier [De La Hoya]
had fought Floyd Mayweather Jr.—the world's number
one at the time—to a close, split decision. This time,
as a 2-1 on favorite at the MGM Grand sports book before
the line was taken down, De La Hoya looked as if he didn't
belong in the same ring as Pacquiao. "Pacquiao punched
with excellent technique from his southpaw stance, sharp
and accurate, and he was superior in every department and
in fact was made to look a bit of a bully, such was the
one-sided nature of the affair."
Manny had already made his mark in boxing
history, however, before beating De La Hoya.
He has held world titles in four weight divisions—he
won the WBC flyweight world title two weeks before his 20th
birthday in December, 1998, the IBF junior featherweight
world title at 22 in 2001.
Manny won the WBC super featherweight world
title in March, 2008, with a 12 round decision victory in
the rematch against defending champion Juan Manuel Marquez.
It was one of the most highly-anticipated fights of the
year, and one of the most exciting. He won the WBC lightweight
world title in June, 2008, with a ninth-round TKO against
defending champion David Diaz.
Manny was named "2006 Fighter of the
Year" by the Boxing Writers Association of America
and The Ring.
From TheRing-online.com: "It's amazing
what a little guy with a big smile and an even bigger punch
can accomplish. While the heavyweight division was bogged
down by mediocrity last year, the junior lightweight class
soared to new heights thanks in large part to Manny Pacquiao,
The Ring's 2006 Fighter of the Year."
