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On November 14, 2009, Pacquiao defeated Miguel Cotto via technical knockout in the twelfth round at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, in a fight billed as "Firepower." Although the bout was sanctioned as a world title fight in the welterweight division, where the weight limit is 147 pounds, Cotto agreed to fight at a catchweight of 145 pounds. [82]
Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto, billed as Firepower, was a boxing match for the WBO welterweight championship. [1] The bout was held on November 14, 2009, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Pacquiao won the fight via technical knockout in the twelfth round.
Manny Pacquiao vs. Keith Thurman, was a boxing match for the WBA (Super) welterweight championship. [2] The event took place on July 20, 2019 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas , Nevada . Pacquiao won the fight by split decision , and at 40 years old, became the oldest welterweight to win a major world title in boxing history. [ 3 ]
Manny Pacquiao has an amateur record of 60–4 and a record of 62–8–2 as a professional, with 39 wins by knockout. Boxing historian Bert Sugar ranked Pacquiao as the greatest southpaw fighter of all time. [23] In 2021, he ranked number 1 in DAZN's list of the top 10 boxers of the last 30 years. [24]
The fight is notable for propelling Manny Pacquiao to full-blown superstar status in much of the western world (mostly in The United States), as Oscar De La Hoya symbolically "passed the torch", so to speak, to Pacquiao. This would mark De La Hoya’s final professional fight when he retired from boxing in 2009.
With the victory Pacquiao had the first Filipino and Asian to become a three-division world champion. [ 9 ] On November 24, 2003, then Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo conferred on Pacquiao the Presidential Medal of Merit at the Ceremonial Hall of Malacañang Palace for his knockout victory over the best featherweight boxer in the ...
The knockout won him the Ring Magazine knockout of the year for 2009. The defeat was the second in Hatton's career but also his second in four fights, after a defeat to Floyd Mayweather Jr. ; his mixed performances, combined with the speed of the defeat to Pacquiao, led some to call for Hatton to retire.
According to fight promoter Bob Arum, Manny Pacquiao may earn US$30 million. [17] Mosley's official purse on the Nevada contract is $3.95 million but he is guaranteed five million. [18] Manny Pacquiao $20,000,000 vs. Shane Mosley ($3,950,100) Jorge Arce $125,000 vs. Wilfredo Vázquez, Jr. ($165,000) Alfonso López III $40,000 vs. Kelly Pavlik ...