Kimmel asks Pacquiao: Will you beat up Justin Bieber, too?

Check out this video of the Jimmy Kimmel Show where Manny Pacquiao were invited to become guest.

So funny Jimmy asked Manny if he'll beat up Justin Beiber too since Floyd always bring the pop star out in the ring.

Jimmy asked Manny:

"Will you beat Justin Bieber up, too?"

Floyd Mayweather lands first psychological blow on Manny Pacquiao

{The article below is written by Gareth A Davies of TeleGraph. You can read the previously published article here.}


Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao made their one public appearance together at a press conference in Los Angeles last night to set the ball rolling on the richest fight in history, with a purse of $250 million (£170 million), in Las Vegas on May 2.

The two men, both dressed in suits, faced off, calm and serious. There were no smiles, but a little tension. No pushing and shoving either. There appeared to be great respect between the two fighters.

But it was Mayweather, cannily, who proved he remains a master of psychology.

"It's been a long road. But we are here now," said Mayweather. Thanking his entire team, and even appearing a little emotional, the unbeaten American added: "May 2, the fight of the century, the best against the best. And Pacquiao is one of the best of this era.”

“Our plan is to be smart and take every fight as they come like all 47 fights. I'm in the gym pushing myself to the limit, because I want to win this more than any other fight. But I know one thing about sport, and if you lose, it's in your mind. I have always been a winner."

Mayweather has never lost; Pacquiao has lost five times.

"I just want the fans to be satisfied," said Pacquiao, who spoke first. "I'm so happy we could make the fight happen. Thanks to the Mayweather Team and to Showtime and HBO. The fans of boxing were waiting for this for five years. We are both going to train hard and we will do our best on May 2 to make you happy."

Manny Pacquiao Tweets: "The fight is on and we are happy to bring this fight to the fans."

Manny Tweets in his Twitter Deck:

"The fight is on and we are happy to bring this fight to the fans."

Watch Video: Manny says Floyd's scared and much more in this honest interview

Earlier today at ESPN First Take's Stephen Smith and Skip Bayless asked some questions to Manny Pacquiao about the mega fight come May 2.

Manny Pacquiao actually said that he believes that FLoyd Mayweather Jr. is scared to death with him.

Check it out from the video below.

Manny Pacquiao shows off shadow boxing skills on the streets on 8th day of his training.

8th division boxing champion Manny Pacquiao starts to show off his shadow boxing skills in the streets of L.A on his 8th day of training. Many spectators come to see the people's champ as they come to take pictures and video of him.

Here are the videos that show what shadow skills is all about.

Ooops. Be careful. Don't come close. Watch out for the speed.



The second video shows him jogging up the hill.



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Cotto: This secret weapon will help Pacquiao beat Mayweather

Miguel Cotto is picking Manny Pacquiao to defeat Floyd Mayweather when the two meet May 2 in Las Vegas. Why Pacquiao? Because Freddie Roach, his own trainer, will be in Pacquiao’s corner.

"After working with Freddie I think Freddie is going to be huge in the fight," Cotto said. "I’m going for Manny."

Continue reading here.

Mayweather taps sparring partner Judah to mimic Pacquiao

{The article below is from CSBSports}

No fighter has beaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. Few have provided even mild irritation.

Brooklyn-born veteran Zab Judah at least reached the latter status upon meeting the then-"Pretty Boy" in Las Vegas nine years ago, winning three of 12 rounds on one scorecard and four of 12 on another en route to a unanimous decision loss for the IBF and IBO welterweight title belts.

And though the fight is best recalled for a late melee that followed a flagrant low blow, it's also worth recalling because Judah had enough early success to put Mayweather in a degree of competitive peril.

Judah, then 28, was one of the few foes to rival Floyd's hand speed, and, combined with an awkward left-handed style and stinging one-shot punching power, he landed well enough to take three of the first four rounds before the still-unbeaten Mayweather upped his own work rate and took control.

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Roy Jones Jr. offers help for Pacquiao to become his sparring partner

Former middleweight and light heavyweight world champion Roy Jones Jr. has recently offered help to become a sparring partner of Manny PAcquiao in his training against FLoyd Mayweather Jr. on May 2.

Pacquiao's manager Michael Koncz confirm this, said that he will send one of his boys to bring him in. He said in an interview:

"We will try him out for a day and if he’s good, we will keep him."

Moreover, Fight Saga, has recently reported that among those reportedly selected to spar with Manny PAcquiao are Rashid “Speedy” Lewis and Kenneth “Bossman” Sims.

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Freddie Roach denies rumors on ordering security guards at his Wildcard gym in Los Angeles to carry guns

A UK newspaper reported that Freddie Roach had personally ordered security guards at his Wildcard gym in Los Angeles to carry guns so "people respect them."

But Freddie Roach denied media reports published Friday that he had ordered armed guards to protect Manny Pacquiao at his Hollywood gym.

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50 Cent says he’s betting $1.6 million that Floyd Mayweather will beat Manny Pacquiao

The following article is written by Marissa Payne of WashingtonPost.


Rapper 50 Cent hasn’t always been nice to his former friend and business partner Floyd Mayweather. It was just last August when the entertainer pledged to donate $750,000 to charity if the boxer could prove he could read.

Mayweather did not take the challenge. Instead, he tweeted out pictures of two checks totally over $70 million and told 50 Cent to donate his money to Michael Brown’s family, referring to the young black man who was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.

Well, flash forward a few months later, and there might be hope for the pair’s friendship after all. 50 Cent went on “The Breakfast Club” on New York’s Power 105.1 FM Tuesday morning to report the two are on speaking terms again after meeting by chance at a Chris Brown show earlier this month. Not only that, but 50 Cent boasted he plans to bet $1.6 million on Mayweather to beat Manny Pacquiao when the two are scheduled to fight on May 2 in Las Vegas.

“Champ gonna smoke him,” 50 Cent said, referring to Mayweather, who holds both the WBC and WBA welterweight titles. 50 Cent then went on to describe Mayweather as “super focused,” and said, “It’s gonna look like [the fight] was pumped up for no reason.” He was downright nice!

As to why 50 Cent has decided to bet $1.6 million, as opposed to, say, a more round number like $1.5 million, 50 Cent says he’s “been thinking this out” and that he’s “gotta make a real bet.”

Now he just needs his newly (again) found friend to come through.

Why Manny Pacquiao Is More Dangerous for Floyd Mayweather Now Than in 2010?

{The following article is written by Kelsey McCarson of bleacherreport.com.}

Manny Pacquiao isn’t quite as explosive as he used to be. But that doesn’t mean he’s become a less complete fighter, or one that is less dangerous in 2015 to Floyd Mayweather’s reign atop pound-for-pound rankings.

{Image from Chris Hyde/Getty Images.}

No, Pacquiao’s best chance to defeat Mayweather is right now.

Skeptics will tell you that it’s not true. They’ll point to the destructive version of Pacquiao who ran roughshod over naturally larger opponents from 2008-2011, fighters such as Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto.

Pacquiao was a force in 2009.

They’ll argue Pacquiao’s impressive one-punch power, the type that laid waste to Hatton in the blink of an eye, is gone forever, never to return. They’ll tell you that the power itself was laid waste by the nefarious onslaught of old age.

Gone too, they’ll probably add, is Pacquiao’s otherworldly speed. They’ll admit that he’s still supremely fast, just not blindingly so.

These well-meaning critics of the 2015 version of Pacquiao aren’t altogether wrong. At age 36, Pac-Man isn’t quite the supreme physical specimen he once was. He is not in his physical prime.

If one is to only examine factors like how fast and how powerful a man is to determine his fighting prime, then surely the 2010 version of Pacquiao would be the top candidate for such an honor.

That Pacquiao, the one that came oh-so-close to meeting Mayweather in a proposed March 2010 superfight, had just come off of his most fantastic performance ever, a one-sided, 12th-round stoppage of Cotto.

That Pacquiao had separated the lineal champion at 140 pounds, Hatton, from both his championship and his senses two fights prior in just two rounds.

That Pacquiao had made De La Hoya look like a rank amateur just three fights before, and had sent the Golden Boy to his stool after eight brutal rounds of pummeling him, never to return to the life of a prizefighter again.

But here’s something that’s lost in all the hubbub about how great a destructive force Pacquiao was back then. The very quality that made him such an obliterator of famed fighting men could very well have also been his undoing against the premier counterpuncher in boxing at that time, Mayweather, a man who was also in his physical, and perhaps even fighting, prime.

Pacquiao’s lesson on just how risky unbridled aggression can be to a fighter came in 2012.

After appearing a bit lackluster in wins over Shane Mosley and Juan Manuel Marquez, and after being on the wrong side of one of the more egregious robberies in boxing history against Timothy Bradley, Pacquiao met Marquez for the fourth time in his career in December 2012.

This version of Pacquiao appeared anything but lackluster. This was classic Pac-Man, the one whose mission was to seek and destroy whoever stood in front of him. This was the fighter fans had seen ruthlessly dismantle De La Hoya, Hatton and Cotto. He was just as fast, just as powerful and just as reckless.


Pacquiao appeared to be on his way to a win over Marquez in the fourth fight.
This was vintage Pacquiao.

Even though Marquez’s power had suddenly reached superlative heights, and even though Pacquiao was knocked down by a glancing blow he partially blocked in Round 3, Pacquiao seemed to be on his way to annihilating Marquez the very same way he had done so to other great fighters just a few years prior.

Pacquiao knocked Marquez down in Round 5 and was going in for the kill at the end of Round 6 when the bloodied and bruised Marquez delivered the perfect counterargument to Pacquiao having his best shot against Mayweather in 2010.

With one punch, Marquez demonstrated that Pacquiao would probably have been too aggressive for his own good against Mayweather had the two met before this night. Marquez knocked Pacquiao out cold with one wonderfully delivered right-hand blow as Pacquiao hurled himself forward. Mayweather might have done the same.

It was a tough lesson, but an important one.

Marquez landed the perfect punch in Round 6 to score the KO.
If Mayweather did not exist, it is Marquez who would be considered the best counterpuncher of the era. That isn’t to say the men fight in the same style. They do not. But both rely on landing punches on their opponents as the other man tries to mount an offense of his own.

And both men are exceptional at it.

The version of Pacquiao who rose from the ashes of the sixth-round knockout is not the same man he was then. He is not the hyper-aggressive barbarian out for blood no matter what the cost.

Instead, Pacquiao has wisely adopted a less aggressive, but more effective approach of mitigating risk with his feet and relying on his still-excellent hand speed and punching power to carry the day.

Pacquiao’s last three fights are evidence of a changed man. Yes, Pacquiao is still aggressive and a tremendous offensive fighting machine.


Pacquiao is a smarter, better fighter now.

But against the two fighters with punching power he had to respect, Brandon Rios and Timothy Bradley (in the 2014 rematch), Pacquiao consistently made a point to step away from his opponents throughout the fights so as not to get caught by a powerful counterpunch.

Even against Chris Algieri, Pacquiao coasted to the decision win after realizing somewhere among the six knockdowns of his opponent that he could rattle Algieri’s bones at will. But why give Algieri the only chance he had of pulling out the win by giving him opportunities to land a bout-altering counterpunch?

Pacquiao is a smarter fighter now. He won’t rush into Mayweather’s offense foolhardily. He won’t leave himself open to counterpunches that he’ll never see coming. He’ll keep the fight right where it should be, at the proper distance, where Pacquiao can let his hand speed, power and volume punching carry the rounds for him.

Pacquiao still may not defeat Mayweather. He’s naturally smaller than his opponent and the ringside judges are used to awarding Mayweather wins at the MGM Grand in his adopted hometown of Las Vegas.

But Pacquiao has a better shot at a victory in 2015 than at perhaps any other time during his career. If timing truly is everything in life, Pacquiao is right where he needs to be heading into the biggest fight of his career.