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Filed under: WBO, Boxing Rumors, Showtime, FanHouse Exclusive, Top Rank Promotions
Among the topics discussed by eight-division king Manny Pacquiao with president Barack Obama during their 20-minute White House meeting on Tuesday was basketball, politics and, of course, the fighter’s May 7, Showtime televised, WBO welterweight (147 pounds) championship defense against three-time, five-division titlist Shane Mosley, according to Pacquiao’s adviser, Michael Koncz.
“I was very honored that the president took time away from his busy schedule,” said the 32-year-old Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 knockouts), who will pursue his 14th straight victory and his ninth knockout during taht run against the 39-year-old Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KOs) at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Filed under: WBC, WBO, Boxing Rumors, Showtime, FanHouse Exclusive, Top Rank Promotions
NEW YORK — Manny Pacquiao calls him “trustworthy,” and “honest,” and, a man he considers to be his personal confidant as well as his personal assistant.
Others, including some of Pacquiao’s own camp members, have called Michael Koncz (pictured above, at center) a crook. In July, the aftermath of a second-round knockout by WBO featherweight champion, Juan Manuel Lopez, of challenger, Bernabe Concepcion, got ugly for Koncz.
A partner with Pacquiao’s MP Promotions, Koncz who was blasted by members of the Filipino press who perceived him to have been responsible for pushing Concepcion into a fight that was beyond his abilities to win. More recently, strength and conditioning coach, Alex Ariza, an assistant to four-time Trainer of the Year, Freddie Roach, accused Koncz of trying to get him fired by Pacquiao.
FanHouse caught up to the bleary-eyed Koncz during a Monday night train ride from New York to Washington, D.C., along with some 40-or-so media personnell, including those from CNN, CBS, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, Playboy, and The Examiner.
The trek followed a New York press conference that was held at the Chelsea Pier No. 61, an event which marked the third stop in a four-city tour promoting a May 7, Showtime televised, Top Rank Promotions WBO welterweight (147 pounds) title defense by Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs) opposite three-division, five-time champion, Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KOs) that will take place at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
On Thursday, some 300 reporters attended a similar gathering at the Beverly Hills Hotel, in Los Angeles, and, on Saturday, another was held at the MGM Grand.
Barely able to keep his eyes open, Koncz was functioning on about four hours of sleep.
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Filed under: WBO, Boxing Video, Boxing Rumors, Showtime, FanHouse Exclusive, Top Rank Promotions
Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.
Top Rank Promotions CEO, Bob Arum, was on hand at a recent, Los Angeles press conference promoting eight-division king Manny Pacquiao, who faces three-division, five-time titlist, Shane Mosley, in defense of his WBO welterweight (147 pounds) belt against Mosley on May 7, in a Showtime pay per view televised clash from the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
FanHouse also spoke to Mosley.
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Filed under: WBA, WBC, WBO, Boxing Rumors, HBO, FanHouse Exclusive, Top Rank Promotions
WBO and WBC bantamweight (118 pounds) champion Fernando Montiel, of Mexico, will carry a great deal of pride into the ring on Saturday night at the Mandalay Hotel in Las Vegas for an HBO televised, clash against WBA interim super flyweight (115 pounds) titlist Nonito Donaire.
The 31-year-old Montiel (44-2-2, 34 knockouts) is riding an 11-0-1 unbeaten streak that includes nine knockouts, four straight stoppages and a mark of 5-0-1, with five knockouts in his past six fights.
In addition, Montiel is among five Mexican fighters to have won world titles over the course of three divisions — the others being WBA and WBO lightweight (135 pounds) titlist Juan Manuel Marquez (51-5-1, 38 KOs), Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. (107-6-2, 86 KOs), Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KOs) and Marco Antonio Barrera (67-7, 44 KOs).
In April, Montiel trailed on the cards when he scored a sensational fourth-round knockout over Hozumi Hasegawa (29-3, 12 KOs), a man who was in search of his sixth straight stoppage during a 25-fight winning streak that had included 11 knockouts.
But the 28-year-old Donaire (25-1, 17 KOs), a resident of San Leandro, Calif., who arrived in America from his native Philippines at the age of 10, enters his second-ever and second straight bantamweight match up in pursuit of his 25th straight victory and his 10th stoppage in his past 12 fights.
Donaire has patterned himself in the mold of Filipino countryman, Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs), a WBO welterweight (147 titlist) who earned his record eighth crown over as many different weight divisions with November’s unanimous decision over ex-champion, Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KOs) for the WBC’s junior middleweight (154 pounds) belt.
Nicknamed “The Mexecutioner,” Pacquiao’s 13-fight winning streak includes eight knockouts and victories over fighters of Mexican decent such as Morales, Barrerra, Marquez, Margarito, David Diaz, Oscar De La Hoya, and, Jorge Solis.
Montiel spoke to FanHouse in this Q&A regarding what is at stake for him opposite Donaire.
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Eight-division king Manny Pacquiao will be the first man to score a knockout against three-division, five-time titlist, Shane Mosley, when the Filipino super star defends his WBO welterweight (147 pounds) belt against Mosley on May 7, in a Showtime pay per view televised clash from the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, according to Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach.
Pacquiao is coming off of November’s unanimous decision over Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 knockouts) that earned him the WBC’s vacant junior middleweight (154 pounds) belt, which he has since vacated. Mosley stopped Margarito in the ninth round in January of 2009.
“Shane is a tough guy. He has a good chin and he’s dangerous,” said Roach, a five-time Trainer of the Year.
“He is faster than [Antonio] Margarito, and he’s a much better boxer,” said Roach. “But I don’t think he’s going to last the distance. I think my guy will knock him out.”
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Eight-division king Manny Pacquiao will be the first man to score a knockout against three-division, five-time titlist, Shane Mosley, when the Filipino super star defends his WBO welterweight (147 pounds) belt against Mosley on May 7, in a Showtime pay per view televised clash from the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, according to Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach.
Pacquiao is coming off of November’s unanimous decision over Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 knockouts) that earned him the WBC’s vacant junior middleweight (154 pounds) belt, which he has since vacated. Mosley stopped Margarito in the ninth round in January of 2009.
“Shane is a tough guy. He has a good chin and he’s dangerous,” said Roach, a five-time Trainer of the Year.
“He is faster than [Antonio] Margarito, and he’s a much better boxer,” said Roach. “But I don’t think he’s going to last the distance. I think my guy will knock him out.”
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Eight-division king Manny Pacquiao will be the first man to score a knockout against three-division, five-time titlist, Shane Mosley, when the Filipino super star defends his WBO welterweight (147 pounds) belt against Mosley on May 7, in a Showtime pay per view televised clash from the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, according to Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach.
Pacquiao is coming off of November’s unanimous decision over Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 knockouts) that earned him the WBC’s vacant junior middleweight (154 pounds) belt, which he has since vacated. Mosley stopped Margarito in the ninth round in January of 2009.
“Shane is a tough guy. He has a good chin and he’s dangerous,” said Roach, a five-time Trainer of the Year.
“He is faster than [Antonio] Margarito, and he’s a much better boxer,” said Roach. “But I don’t think he’s going to last the distance. I think my guy will knock him out.”
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Filed under: WBO, Boxing Video, Boxing Rumors, Showtime, FanHouse Exclusive, Top Rank Promotions
Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.
Fresh off of his appearance at the Green Bay Packers’ Super Bowl victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, during which he performed in the halftime show, Taboo, of the Black Eyed Peas, shared his experiences with FanHouse.
FanHouse caught up with Taboo at ‘Peapod,’ a charity event in Hollywood supported by the Black Eyed Peas since 1999.
A man of Philippines decent, Taboo also told FanHouse that he is a supporter of eight-division champion, Manny Pacquiao, who was in Los Angeles on Thursday for the first top in a four-city promotional tour by Top Rank Promotions, gearing up for a May 7, Showtime pay per view televised defense of his WBO welterweight (147 pounds) belt against Shane Mosley.
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The adviser of WBO welterweight (147 pounds) champion, Manny Pacquiao, has denied trying to have Alex Ariza removed as the eight-division champion’s strength coach, contradicting what Ariza told FanHouse during a recent interview.
An assistant to Pacquiao’s five-time Trainer of the Year, Freddie Roach, Ariza told FanHouse that rumors of his firing by eight-division titlist Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 knockouts) “were started by Michael Koncz,” adding, “Manny said that he never said anything” about his removal to him, personally.
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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.
Top Rank CEO Bob Arum was enthuse that a throng of 300 or so reporters were in attendance on Thursday at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where eight-division champion, Manny Pacquiao, was in Los Angeles for the first top in a four-city promotional tour gearing up for a May 7, Showtime pay per view televised defense of his WBO welterweight (147 pounds) belt against Shane Mosley.
Arum spoke to FanHouse about the Pacquiao-Mosley fight, as well as the potential for Pacqiuao to meet six-time titlist Floyd Mayweather, have a third bout with WBO and WBA lightweight (135 pounds) king Juan Manuel Marquez, WBO and WBC junior welterweight (140 pounds) belt-holder Tim Bradley, or, WBC welterweight king Andre Berto.
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