Pacquiao Fight Day effect on Economy

Filipinos know that the only sport event that can clear the streets from traffic better than a UAAP Ateneo Lasalle game is a Pacquiao fight!

Aside from the streets clearing, malls have lesser traffic, prompting cinemas to offer the bout instead during actual fight time.  The same can be said as a marketing strategy by bigger restaurants that can afford pay per view to draw eating and drinking crowds.  Other effects include electricity usage going up, and crime rate plunging to virtual zero.

Manila cab driver Christopher Piolo plans to take his first Sunday off in four months this weekend. The reason: Manny Pacquiao is boxing.  Read more... (806 words, 1 image, estimated 3:13 mins reading time)

Pacquiao demolishes Hatton in second round

Filipino pride southpaw Manny Pacquiao puts Ricky Hatton to sleep in the second round, taking a historic win with a devastating left to the chin that sent the Englishman to hospital.

Hatton came out all guns blazing in the first round but was floored twice by the Filipino southpaw and looked to be in big trouble before the bell went.

The second round saw Pacquiao connect with a huge left hook that completely poleaxed the Mancunian and ended proceedings without the need for a count.

Referee Kenny Bayless knelt over the apparently dazed and confused and sleeping Hatton and halted the fight after two minutes and 59 seconds of the second round, giving the Filipino star a victory and the International Boxing Organization junior welterweight title.   Read more... (1193 words, 3 images, estimated 4:46 mins reading time)

How much is ricky hatton worth

Ricky Hatton continues to manage himself. His dad Ray is his business adviser. ‘I don’t make a move without my dad saying,’ Hatton says. ‘When I first turned professional, I went to work for my dad. I was carpet fitting, and I was earning £150 to 200 a week. Then I turned pro at 18, and all of a sudden I was earning £3,000 (213,000 pesos) a fight. I had nine fights in my first year, so that’s not a bad living for an 18-year-old.

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(author's update. The process discussed in this article may also be used to watch the Mayweather versus Marquez fight this September 19, 2009, and the upcoming Miguel Cotto versus Pacquiao this November 14,2009)

Last December 7, 2009, we edited this article from its original "Pacquaio vs. Marquez" title, as it was also applicable to pacman versus golden boy's fight.  Today, one year after the original article, we once again re-label and re-edit the article to fit the upcoming Pacquiao versus Hatton fight for May 2, 2009.

As with Oscar De La Hoya's fight arrangement disagreement over the purse split, (De La Hoya wanted 70-30, Pacquiao wanted 40), the Pacquiao Hatton fight almost did not push through with a similar disagreement over the purse.  Both parties stressed that each had the bigger crowd draw from their home country, thus each demanding a bigger cut from the PPV.  Read more... (819 words, 2 images, estimated 3:17 mins reading time)

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Last December 7, 2009, we are edited this article from its original "Pacquaio vs. Marquez" title, as it is also applicable to pacman versus golden boy's fight.  Today, one year after the original article, we once again re-label and re-edit the article to fit the upcoming Pacquiao versus Hatton fight for May 2, 2009.

As with Oscar De La Hoya's fight arrangement disagreement over the purse split, (De La Hoya wanted 70-30, Pacquiao wanted 40), the Pacquiao Hatton fight almost did not push through with a similar disagreement over the purse.  Both parties stressed that each had the bigger crowd draw from their home country, thus each demanding a bigger cut from the PPV.  Read more... (683 words, 2 images, estimated 2:44 mins reading time)