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Another hero’s welcome for Manny Pacquiao

Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sat, 20 Nov 2010
MANILA, Philippines—Boxing hero Manny Pacquiao arrived home to a king's welcome on a cool Saturday morning, cheerful and gracious in his victorious homecoming. The newly crowned World Boxing Council super-welterweight champion arrived at 6:19 a.m. aboard Philippine Airlines Flight 103 from Los An  Read more...

Harold Lederman: Manny Pacquiao Never Faced a Great Jewish Fighter

By Lem Satterfield, Fanhouse, Sat, 20 Nov 2010
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Recent comments by Bernard Hopkins, regarding eight-division titlist, Manny Pacquiao, created a firestorm when the former undisputed middleweight (160 pounds) champion told FanHouse that the Filipino super star would have problems with an African American fighter such as "Floy  Read more...

Bernard Hopkins and racial stereotypes

By Jemele Hill, ESPN.com, Sat, 20 Nov 2010
In Martin Lawrence's 1993 comedy special "You So Crazy," Lawrence asked the white people in his audience whether they desperately craved a white heavyweight champion. "It's all right to feel you want a heavyweight champion," Lawrence quipped. "But the [bleep] ain't gonna happen … long as a brotha  Read more...

Saul Alvarez: "Pacquiao is Not Invincible, I'm Not Afraid"

By Jhonny Gonzalez, BoxingScene.com, Sat, 20 Nov 2010
Mexico's Saul "Canelo" Alvarez has promised that one day he will avenge all of the Mexican boxers who were defeated by Manny Pacquiao. By the end of next year, Alvarez feels he will be ready to take Pacquiao on. He returns on December 4 to defend his WBC silver title at 154 against current IBO welte  Read more...

Manny Pacquiao can't just get it!

By Granville Ampong, Examiner.com, Sat, 20 Nov 2010

Still blown and tossed by the winds of uncertainty, Emmanuel D. Pacquiao, a world reknown boxer, a film actor and a politician, may have been too gullible to accept party arrangements. Not so content with his appearances in s
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Calling Manny Pacquiao a great boxer is fine, but the greatest boxer of all time? Pure fiction

By Tim Smith, New York Daily News, Sat, 20 Nov 2010

Since Manny Pacquiao demolished Antonio Margarito in a mega boxing event at Cowboys Stadium last Saturday night there is this fiction that is growing around the Filipino superstar – a fiction dreame
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