HBO BOXING 24/7 Pacquiao-Cotto

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Floods, landslides, 100+mph sustained winds and a boxing training camp. HBO's Emmy award winning 24/7 reality tv-series follows the two boxers as they prepare for their fights.
Scheduled for Nov. 14, Pacquiao aims for an unprecedented and historic 7th weight class world title at 147lbs (he used to fight at 112lbs), while Cotto seeks confirmation of his welterweight supremacy after the "doubtful" Margarito(cheater!) loss.



And dont forget, U.S. Marines in Action (in the Philippines) will be in the show. It's the Katrina disaster, only southeast asian style and no cussing on t.v., no armed gangs, or widespread looting.
Instead, a people's resilience, faith and fortitude in the face of constant adversity and crippling poverty will be showcased. Definitely worth your time!

Please watch!

HBO shows typhoon's grim reality
Updated 15h 26m ago

http://www.usatoday.com/SPORTS/usaedition/2009-10-23-hbo23_ST_U.htm?csp=usat.me


Weekend watch
TV reality shows generally come from controlled – usually artificial – environments.

But even reality shows are not immune to, well, reality.

Like HBO's 24/7 boxing reality series, which focuses on boxers Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto training for their Nov. 14 pay-per-view HBO fight. As the series debuts Saturday (10:15 p.m. ET) viewers won't just see speed bags being pummeled – there's also footage of U.S. Marines riding to the rescue of typhoon victims.

Producer Scott Boggins and his crew were filming Pacquiao, who previously has prepped for fights in Hollywood, training in Baguio City in his native Philippines when the high-altitude town – inaccessible by commercial flights and an eight- to 10-hour mountainous drive from Manila– was hit by deadly Typhoon Parma this month.

Pacquiao continued his training routine, Boggins says, but after "nonstop, monsoon-like rain for several days, it started to hit us something was going on." Like when the road to the gym was flooded out and "we saw complete neighborhoods underwater."

Boggins says Pacquiao kept training – substituting running in a swimming pool after roadwork became impossible – "and kept his focus."

As the weather cleared Oct. 11 and the HBO crew tried to get a flight out, they were met by U.S. Marine helicopters flying with in with food aid. Says Boggins: "We were all taken aback, a little weepy. Those Marines were great."

– Michael Hiestand

 

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When this decade began, Pacquiao was 21 years old and just months removed from the lineal World title at 112 lbs.  Ten years later, he is challenging for a piece of the Welterweight crown and is favored to win.

Boxing has a richness of history which is second to no other sport.  No Flyweight champion had ever risen to win the Featherweight crown before Pacquiao.  No former Featherweight champion, even with an unnecessary catch weight, has tested the peak of the Welterweight division like this since Henry Armstrong.    

http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&opt=printable&id=23045


Pacquiao-Cotto 24/7 Ep. 1
Watch it here: http://www.hbo.com/boxing/events/2009/1114_pacquiao_cotto/index.html

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In stark contrast to Money Mayweather Jr.'s "flaunt-my-greenbacks" lifestyle...



http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/my-corner/2009/oct/26/watching-manny-pacquiao-train-philippines/

written by top-rank ceo bob arum;

Camp John Hay now houses the Manor, a luxury hotel constructed entirely from Canadian logs. This is a very popular summer vacation resort for the Manila elite. Freddie Roach, Manny’s trainer and Alex Ariza, his conditioning guru, were both ensconced at the Manor when I arrived.

Pacquiao, on the other hand, chose to stay in a hotel in town which housed the gym in which he was training. If Freddie’s hotel rated five stars, which it does, Manny’s hotel was so awful it would not even get one star. If there was a minus category, it would rate a minus five. But there is no accounting for taste. Manny was happy as a clam at his hotel and refused constant requests to move to the more luxurious Manor Hotel where the rest of us stayed.

The gym that Manny trained in was not much different from the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, California, so I could see right away why Manny and Freddie felt so comfortable training there. The residents of Baguio respected the rules with regards to private workouts, enabling Manny to train in relative solitude. On the other hand, the morning runs were quite different. Manny would start at five in the morning and soon, hundreds of runners would materialize out of the darkness and run with Manny up and down the hills and roads. It was quite a scene.

Manny’s workout at the gym can only be described as awesome. In more than 40 years as a boxing promoter, working with Hall of Fame fighters like Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, and Roberto Duran, I’ve never anything like it. His training sessions go on for about four hours without a break. After the usual warming-up exercises, Manny boxes most days with two or more sparring partners, then hits the mitts with Freddie for at least 10 more rounds.

This display of energy and stamina exhausts anyone watching, Manny doesn’t stop. He skips rope and works the heavy and light bags continuously for more than an hour. Only then does Manny finally stand still, which allows his Filipino trainer Buboy Fernandez to pound his midsection with a bamboo pole for about twenty more minutes. The brutal workout finally concludes more than four hours after it starts.

In the sparring sessions, Manny trots out his entire arsenal of tactics and weapons. I was amazed once again to see him attack from one side and then the other. When his sparring mate reacts, Manny’s no longer there but is either right in front of his opponent or on the other side entirely. This unique tactic of disappearing in plain sight is the “Siegfried and Roy” weapon in Manny’s arsenal.

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Floods, landslides, 100+mph sustained winds and a boxing training camp. HBO's Emmy award winning 24/7 reality tv-series follows the two boxers as they prepare for their fights.
Scheduled for Nov. 14, Pacquiao aims for an unprecedented and historic 7th weight class world title at 147lbs (he used to fight at 112lbs), while Cotto seeks confirmation of his welterweight supremacy after the "doubtful" Margarito(cheater!) loss.

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And dont forget, U.S. Marines in Action (in the Philippines) will be in the show. It's the Katrina disaster, only southeast asian style and no cussing on t.v., no armed gangs, or widespread looting.
Instead, a people's resilience, faith and fortitude in the face of constant adversity and crippling poverty will be showcased. Definitely worth your time!

Please watch!



 

ya know?

it pisses me off to no end when i look to hbo for a decent movie, and find friggin sports. it's not what they;re supposed to be showing. we have multiple espn's for sports.

 i don't like the reality shows on hbo, or showtime either....same thing.....we're flooded with those stupid shows on regular channels.

 but then i guess it'll be like mtv. used to find music on that channel. soon, people'll say "i remember a day when hbo showed movies"

[Chalenge]

And I would rather watch pacman than any of the tramps of hollywood. 

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manny pacquiao's greatest hits collection : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa9WJNL-BgM

miguel cotto's greatest hits collection : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNWzwBHnZNA


who's the better bet nov. 14?

[Chalenge]

Cotto is going to have trouble dealing with Pacquiao.

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In stark contrast to Money Mayweather Jr.'s "flaunt-my-greenbacks" lifestyle...

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/my-corner/2009/oct/26/watching-manny-pacquiao-train-philippines/

written by top-rank ceo bob arum;

Notice Mayweather has a Yankees jacket on. Good example of greedy promoters killing that sport.


GO PAC!

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i knew there was a few more boxing fans in here. 

Can Pacquiao cross over and capture the public imagination in a way that makes the casual fan stop, talk and pay to watch?

Crossover stardom is hard to measure. Like former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart when asked about another business in the red-light district, however, I know it when I see it. I’ve seen it in Pacquiao for years, or at least since he climbed through the ropes in 2005 smiling like a kid on a playground swing and then talked referee Joe Cortez out of a mid-round stoppage for a nasty cut in a fight he lost by decision to Erik Morales.

Pacquiao is genuine, vulnerable and dangerous all at once. The mix is as compelling as it is unlikely. The way in which it is expressed can also be as different as Tyson, the looming train wreck, and De La Hoya, the well-appointed luxury suite.

What I’m not sure of, however, is whether Americans care. A wise friend bet me that Home Box Office won’t generate as much pay-per-view income for Pacquiao-Cotto, Filipino-versus-Puerto Rican, as it did on Sept. 19 for Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Juan Manuel Marquez, American-versus-Mexican. It was a lousy fight, but the pay-per-view milestone, one million customers, is a big victory for Mayweather, much bigger than his one-sided win over Marquez. My friend’s contention is that Americans want to see American fighters.

Maybe.

http://www.15rounds.com/pacquiao-to-test-credentials-for-crossover-stardom-103009/

if pacman can avoid cotto's vicious left hook, then i think he's gonna win. but one hit from that hook will definitely make pacman think twice, as seen in the cotto-torres fight.

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funny stick video


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZozGrv-0Xho

and halloween at the pac camp



http://twitpic.com/nipyw

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if pacman can avoid cotto's vicious left hook, then i think he's gonna win. but one hit from that hook will definitely make pacman think twice, as seen in the cotto-torres fight.

Puching bags don't hit back. Go Pac , but peppering a guy for 12 rounds isnt his style. Boxing needs more knock outs!

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it's tonight! don't forget to watch! it will be a great fight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVdZj_ToD1U

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a left handed muhammad ali~





fight highlights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxUF5h8Hwb8

it was a classic!

[crazyivan]

ALI  used his left more that his right! And yeah I'll watch it on HBO for free next week!