The referee is referred to as the third man in the ring. On Saturday night, when Pacquio and Clottey, meet the third man hovering above the ring will be Floyd Mayweather. Floyd Mayweather, who but for a clash of egos and cultures might have been facing Pacquiao on Saturday.

HE WAS perfectly sure they’d get Joshua Clottey but, not knowing whether the knockout would come in the first or ninth round, premier trainer Freddie Roach used one straight sentence to explain what the mysterious Ghanaian was all about.
Clottey’s best shot is an uppercut, Roach said.

After Manny Pacquiao’s dramatic stoppage of Miguel Cotto in November 2009, the scribes of the sweet science proclaimed that boxing had peeled itself off the canvas. Once again, there was a boxer who, like Mike Tyson and Oscar De La Hoya, could command the interest of the general sports fan.

ABU DHABI // Manny Pacquiao, the first boxer to win world titles in seven weight divisions, should have been nominated for the Laureus Sportsman of the Year, according to two reigning champions.

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 [...]