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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.
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.
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.
The post Sports World Reacts To The Big Manny Pacquiao News appeared first on The Spun. Pacquiao, who fought Yordenis Ugás earlier this summer, has another big pursuit on his hands .
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]
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