When Manny Pacquiao fights crime drops to zero and fighting factions in his homeland put down their weapons to witness a different kind of war. But Pacquiao seemingly has the same effect elsewhere.
The Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey title fight at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on March 13 has created a truce in the war of words between promoter Bob Arum and UFC president Dana White.
White, seen in some quarters as the head of pro boxing’s biggest rivals – the Ultimate Fighting Championship – was thanked by Arum for urging his 1 million plus followers on Twitter, the social networking site, to buy the fight on pay per view.
White had also announced on his Twitter account that he will be ringside to watch Pacquiao defend his WBO welterweight crown against Clottey. White has picked Pacquiao to win by knockout in the eighth round. UFC co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta will also be ringside. White started out in boxing, and has always insisted that he remains a huge boxing fan – and will always watch the big fights. In this month’s Boxing Monthly Dana White gave a lengthy interview to editor Glyn Leach, in which the head of the UFC mixed martial arts organisation spells out how he started in boxing and fell out of love with it because the best fights were not put on for fans.
White described the Mayweather v De la Hoya fight as a couple of multi-millionaires thinking about hitting each other, insisting what had been billed as a super-fight was actually a real disappointment.
“We want to thank Dana and Lorenzo for crossing sports to help promote this fight,” Arum said, as Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones concurred.
A phalanx of celebrities, politicians, sports officials and actors are also expected to troop to Arlington City for the fight. Steven Segal, Jean Claude Van Damme, aMark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Lou Diamond Philips, plus NBA star Ron Artest and baseball’s Derek Jeter have visited Pacquiao during training.
Two former US Presidents Bill Clinton, and George W Bush are said to be either watching or attending the battle.
Several mixed martial artists are also fans of the Filipino fighter Pacquiao. British fighter Dan Hardy, American Brandon Vera admit they love his style, while Frank Mir, the UFC heavyweight said he had been practising punches and used such a punch – an overhand left which he called ‘The Pacquiao punch’ and which he’d adopted from Pacquiao – to drop his last opponent Cheick Kongo, before submitting him on the ground.
The Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey title fight at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on March 13 has created a truce in the war of words between promoter Bob Arum and UFC president Dana White.
White, seen in some quarters as the head of pro boxing’s biggest rivals – the Ultimate Fighting Championship – was thanked by Arum for urging his 1 million plus followers on Twitter, the social networking site, to buy the fight on pay per view.
White had also announced on his Twitter account that he will be ringside to watch Pacquiao defend his WBO welterweight crown against Clottey. White has picked Pacquiao to win by knockout in the eighth round. UFC co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta will also be ringside. White started out in boxing, and has always insisted that he remains a huge boxing fan – and will always watch the big fights. In this month’s Boxing Monthly Dana White gave a lengthy interview to editor Glyn Leach, in which the head of the UFC mixed martial arts organisation spells out how he started in boxing and fell out of love with it because the best fights were not put on for fans.
White described the Mayweather v De la Hoya fight as a couple of multi-millionaires thinking about hitting each other, insisting what had been billed as a super-fight was actually a real disappointment.
“We want to thank Dana and Lorenzo for crossing sports to help promote this fight,” Arum said, as Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones concurred.
A phalanx of celebrities, politicians, sports officials and actors are also expected to troop to Arlington City for the fight. Steven Segal, Jean Claude Van Damme, aMark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Lou Diamond Philips, plus NBA star Ron Artest and baseball’s Derek Jeter have visited Pacquiao during training.
Two former US Presidents Bill Clinton, and George W Bush are said to be either watching or attending the battle.
Several mixed martial artists are also fans of the Filipino fighter Pacquiao. British fighter Dan Hardy, American Brandon Vera admit they love his style, while Frank Mir, the UFC heavyweight said he had been practising punches and used such a punch – an overhand left which he called ‘The Pacquiao punch’ and which he’d adopted from Pacquiao – to drop his last opponent Cheick Kongo, before submitting him on the ground.
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