Hall of Fame boxing trainer Emanuel Steward, who trained Miguel Cotto in his fight against Yuri Foreman, said that he would like to see his fighter rematch not with Foreman but with Manny Pacquiao.
Steward believes that Miguel Cotto would be a much better fighter at 154lbs as compared to the lower weight division where Cotto and Pacquiao met. Steward said that our body is a weird system and a single pound could already spell disaster to the body and necessarily the fighter’s game. He further mentioned that the error which Cotto and he noticed during Cotto’s last outing with Pacquiao was that Cotto was fighting too low such that he wasn’t able to see the punches thrown by Manny Pacquiao.
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Emanuel Steward wants a Pacquiao vs Cotto Rematch
In the past days, Bob Arum and his counterpart from Golden Boy Richard Schaefer are working to make the mega fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. push through this November. In case however that Floyd Mayweather jr. doesn’t want to participate, Top Rank’s Arum has a substitute idea.
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Arum wants Cotto to Win vs Foreman
Manny Pacquiao wants to move from gloved boxing to the bare-knuckled world of politics.
The world’s best pound-for-pound fighter, who trains in Hollywood, is going to make a run a seat in the congress of his native Philippines. He wants to represent his home district of Sarangani, and he will run under the People’s Champ Movement party, recently created just for him.
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Congressman Manny Pacquiao?
In the wake of Manny Pacquiao’s one-sided demolition of Miguel Cotto last Saturday, the focus was rightly put on Pacquiao. His performance was remarkable. But I was more interested in the circumstances surrounding Cotto, who took a slow, methodical whipping.
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