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                    [Title] => Like cowboys to cattle
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There’s no doubt that Antonio Margarito will try to bully and push Manny Pacquiao around the ring when they face off for the vacant WBC superwelterweight title at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, tomorrow night (Sunday morning, Manila).

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As far back as two years ago, Top Rank chairman Bob Arum had made up his mind on what he thinks of unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. who was widely recognized as the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter until Manny Pacquiao came along.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => http://a.imageshack.us/img291/713/spo9thumb.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 480853 [Title] => Salud picks Cotto for Pacquiao [Summary] =>

Former WBC secretary-general Rudy Salud said yesterday he prefers Manny Pacquiao’s next opponent to be WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, not Sugar Shane Mosley, because the Puerto Rican will provide a more exciting fight for the Filipino icon.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 457436 [Title] => Forget the odds [Summary] =>

Manny Pacquiao is favored to beat Ricky Hatton in their Las Vegas duel on May 2 but according to writer Phil Woolever of Boxing Digest, anything can happen because they’re big punchers with inherent weaknesses.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 457104 [Title] => Manny must focus on here and now [Summary] =>

Sports psychologist Dr. Francis Santamaria said yesterday Manny Pacquiao’s spirituality and sense of purpose are his biggest abstract weapons that will lift him to victory over Ricky Hatton in their IBO lightwelterweight title fight in Las Vegas on May 2.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 275731 [Title] => Finkel bares his soul [Summary] => I never got the chance to talk to two-time world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao’s new manager Shelly Finkel face to face.

I was in Los Angeles last February on the way home from Denver where the NBA All-Star Weekend was held and I found out Finkel was in town. But I couldn’t sneak myself in for his late morning meeting with Pacquiao’s business manager Rod Nazario in Beverly Hills.

I asked Nazario if I could interview Finkel after their meeting. The interview never happened because Finkel left for New York that afternoon.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 270681 [Title] => Finkel sees ‘career-building’ fight for Manny [Summary] => Boxing manager Shelly Finkel said yesterday he foresees a "career-building" fight for Manny Pacquiao when the two-time Filipino world champion battles Erik Morales of Mexico in a 12-round pay-per-view bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas this Sunday morning (Manila time).

In an e-mail to The STAR from Las Vegas, Finkel said the much-awaited clash "will be seen by millions of people world-wide and beating a great fighter like Morales should boost Manny’s career."
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 249853 [Title] => Judging the judges [Summary] => There should be an age limit for boxing judges. This is not to discriminate against the elderly. But take the case of 71-year-old Guy Jutras who was a judge in the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez fight in Las Vegas last weekend.

Jutras scored it 115-110 for Marquez and awarded 10 of the last 11 rounds to the Mexican. Either the Montreal native deliberately turned a blind eye to Pacquiao or he couldn’t follow the action with a failing vision.
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[DatePublished] => 2004-02-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 108227 [Title] => Sporting Chance [Summary] =>

Mama Mia

not_entOscar de la Hoya was the big draw at Madison Square Garden last weekend but Mia St. John stole the show. The Golden Boy was no match for The Punching Playmate.

Mia opened hostilities in the Top Rank satellite feed which was broadcast on Viva Vintage TV last Sunday. She wore a pink suit that bared her shoulders and long legs. Her hair was tied back in a ponytail. [DatePublished] => 2000-02-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )

BOXING DIGEST
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                    [Title] => Like cowboys to cattle
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There’s no doubt that Antonio Margarito will try to bully and push Manny Pacquiao around the ring when they face off for the vacant WBC superwelterweight title at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, tomorrow night (Sunday morning, Manila).

[DatePublished] => 2010-11-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 598896 [Title] => Arum says Floyd afraid of losing [Summary] =>

As far back as two years ago, Top Rank chairman Bob Arum had made up his mind on what he thinks of unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. who was widely recognized as the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter until Manny Pacquiao came along.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => http://a.imageshack.us/img291/713/spo9thumb.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 480853 [Title] => Salud picks Cotto for Pacquiao [Summary] =>

Former WBC secretary-general Rudy Salud said yesterday he prefers Manny Pacquiao’s next opponent to be WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, not Sugar Shane Mosley, because the Puerto Rican will provide a more exciting fight for the Filipino icon.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 457436 [Title] => Forget the odds [Summary] =>

Manny Pacquiao is favored to beat Ricky Hatton in their Las Vegas duel on May 2 but according to writer Phil Woolever of Boxing Digest, anything can happen because they’re big punchers with inherent weaknesses.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 457104 [Title] => Manny must focus on here and now [Summary] =>

Sports psychologist Dr. Francis Santamaria said yesterday Manny Pacquiao’s spirituality and sense of purpose are his biggest abstract weapons that will lift him to victory over Ricky Hatton in their IBO lightwelterweight title fight in Las Vegas on May 2.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 275731 [Title] => Finkel bares his soul [Summary] => I never got the chance to talk to two-time world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao’s new manager Shelly Finkel face to face.

I was in Los Angeles last February on the way home from Denver where the NBA All-Star Weekend was held and I found out Finkel was in town. But I couldn’t sneak myself in for his late morning meeting with Pacquiao’s business manager Rod Nazario in Beverly Hills.

I asked Nazario if I could interview Finkel after their meeting. The interview never happened because Finkel left for New York that afternoon.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 270681 [Title] => Finkel sees ‘career-building’ fight for Manny [Summary] => Boxing manager Shelly Finkel said yesterday he foresees a "career-building" fight for Manny Pacquiao when the two-time Filipino world champion battles Erik Morales of Mexico in a 12-round pay-per-view bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas this Sunday morning (Manila time).

In an e-mail to The STAR from Las Vegas, Finkel said the much-awaited clash "will be seen by millions of people world-wide and beating a great fighter like Morales should boost Manny’s career."
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 249853 [Title] => Judging the judges [Summary] => There should be an age limit for boxing judges. This is not to discriminate against the elderly. But take the case of 71-year-old Guy Jutras who was a judge in the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez fight in Las Vegas last weekend.

Jutras scored it 115-110 for Marquez and awarded 10 of the last 11 rounds to the Mexican. Either the Montreal native deliberately turned a blind eye to Pacquiao or he couldn’t follow the action with a failing vision.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 240381 [Title] => Manny’s brother, Gorres in HBO undercard? [Summary] => NEW YORK–Uncrowned world featherweight boxing champion Manny Pacquiao’s emergence as a marquee millionaire fighter on the Home Box Office (HBO) cable TV network may pave the way for other Filipinos to invade the lucrative US market.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 108227 [Title] => Sporting Chance [Summary] =>

Mama Mia

not_entOscar de la Hoya was the big draw at Madison Square Garden last weekend but Mia St. John stole the show. The Golden Boy was no match for The Punching Playmate.

Mia opened hostilities in the Top Rank satellite feed which was broadcast on Viva Vintage TV last Sunday. She wore a pink suit that bared her shoulders and long legs. Her hair was tied back in a ponytail. [DatePublished] => 2000-02-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )

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