By Leo Reyes Joshua Clottey says he will try to capitalize on his natural defensive skill to foil Manny Pacquiao’s known offensive fighting style and hope to land a lethal blow to snatch Pacquiao’s WBO welterweight crown. Joshua Clottey is known for his defensive fighting skill which he has developed throughout his fairly successful [...]

DALLAS — About 41,000 tickets have been sold for the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium on Saturday night.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Promoter Bob Arum said Tuesday that he doesn’t expect the remaining tickets to last for Saturday’s Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey fight at Cowboys Stadium.
“Definitely,” Arum said. “It will be sold out.”

GRAPEVINE, TX — That’s actually where the world-record-breaking Manny Pacquiao entourage, which makes the old Muhammad Ali carnival troupe look like a ragtag and smallish assembly, has landed.

Watching two upper-tier fighters/contenders spar while preparing for an upcoming fight is the highlight of any activity in a boxing gym. Sparring was my favorite part of training back in the day. So much so, that on the days I didn’t spar I felt as though my workout was incomplete and was one day further [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE — International Boxing Examiner Marvin Dumon is self-publishing “Manny Pacquiao: An All-Time Great” this month. He asked me to write a foreward to be excerpted in his book. Faithful readers may recognize parts of it from my December 2008 post “A Pacquiao Primer for Americans: Why Filipino’s Mystique is No Mystery.” Here is [...]

Angeles and Manny Pacquiao, the world’s best pound-for-pound boxer, is jogging on a public high school track.

Seven-division champion Manny Pacquiao still wants to fight Floyd Mayweather, would continue battling in the ring even as an elected official, longs to do so at New York’s Madison Square Garden, and said that basketball is a huge part of his early preparation for his bouts.

GHANIAN Joshua Clottey heads to this weekend’s bout with Filipino ring sensation Manny Pacquiao a prohibitive underdog.
Figuratively, he needs to change continents to have a Chinaman’s chance.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. began his professional career, in 1996, with Top Rank promoting his fights. Everything began perfectly with Mayweather winning his first world title just two years later.

The fastest mouth in the West since the Louisville Lip – otherwise known as Cassius Clay and Muhammad Ali – was operating at full volume has fallen strangely silent on the subject closest to his ego.

HBO Sports present “Road to Dallas” : Pacquiao vs Clottey, a thirty (30) minutes special analyzing the upcoming welterweight showdown between Pound for Pound King Manny Pacquiao and challenger Joshua Clottey that will mark the first-ever Pro-Boxing event at the Landmark $1.2Billion dollar Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The intriguing fight will take place on [...]

Mention the names of Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods and Manny Pacquiao in the same article. What crosses your mind?

A native of Ghana who is preparing for a March 13 challenge for the WBO welterweight (147 pounds) crown held by seven-division champion, Manny Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KOs), Joshua Clottey (35-3, 20 knockouts) of the Bronx, N.Y., spoke to FanHouse recently from his sleeping quarters near his training facility at Fort Lauderdale’s Contender Gym in [...]

Los Angeles – The message coming from the Wild Card Boxing Gym’s Commander and Chief Freddie Roach is that his prized pupil and pound for pound best Manny Pacquiao will starch Joshua Clottey and eventually stop him Saturday night.

Everytime I try to stand tall, to defend the Forces Of Evil when I think they might not be wrong, they kick me in the teeth.