CEBU boxing promoter Rex “Wakee” Salud said there is a reason why American trainer Freddie Roach is frustrated about the delay of pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao’s training.

Pacquiao’s opponent, World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto, has taken a head start in the preparations for their Nov. 14 fight in Las Vegas. (more)

THE Phil Jackson of boxing, the three-time Trainer of the Year who’s trained Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins, Gerry Peñalosa and actor Mickey Rourke, is “pissed.” They treat me, he says, like “sh*#.”

His nickname, interestingly, is “Choir Boy” and, since he’s done a duet with the Greatest Filipino Sportsman of All Time, they’ve produced perfect music together. Diaz. Marquez. Barrera. De La Hoya. Morales. Hatton. Name it, the Pacquaio-Roach one-two duet today is like the Phil Jackson-Michael Jordan duo of the 1990s. (more)

MANNY Pacquiao cleared his busy schedule to give way to a “budding basketball career” as he will see action in the opening week of the 2009 Liga Pilipinas Conference 3 at the New Cebu Coliseum.

The boxing superstar will lead the MP Gensan Warriors, a team he owns and manages, in the Aug. 19 to 23 event. (more)

ONE icon is dead, another alive.

On Wednesday, Cory was fondly brought to her final resting place by an adoring nation. (more)

FAMOUS boxing trainer Emmanuel Steward sees WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto knocking out Manny Pacquiao on Nov. 15 (RP time) in Las Vegas.

That is if the Puerto Rican champion hires him.

Steward feels that if he will train Cotto, the Puerto Rican will have a huge chance of beating the best fighter in the world. (more)