LAS VEGAS (April 24, 2015) – There is just over one week until Floyd
“Money” Mayweather and Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao square off for their epic
welterweight championship showdown taking place Saturday, May 2 at the
MGM Grand Garden Arena that will be co-produced and co-distributed by
HBO Pay-Per-View® and SHOWTIME PPV® beginning at 9 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT.
While fans have gotten glimpses into the lives of these fighters
through preview shows and social media postings, there are still many
aspects of their lives that the public knows nothing about. Before
training camp ends and the fighters lace up for fight night, take a look
at some interesting things that you might not know about Mayweather and
Pacquiao.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER
1. Twizzlers are one of his go-to favorite snacks
2. Ramen noodle soup is one of his favorite meals and he doesn’t like 5 star restaurants
3. Averages over 1000 sit-ups a day during training camp
4. He doesn’t use ketchup or mustard on hotdogs but uses BBQ sauce
5. A guilty pleasure is playing Mega Touch and holding the highest
scores in every game on there- his favorites are Spades, Dominos and
word scrambles.
6. The movie Troy with Brad Pitt is one he likes to watch over and over again.
7. Every juice he drinks during training camp is made from scratch
8. When out to eat, He always orders a glass of hot water to let his silverware soak in the glass before using them.
9. The tree trunks he has been using to chop wood are brought in from Big Bear and weigh nearly 700 pounds each.
10. He gets a manicure and pedicure at home once a week during training camp
11. He doesn’t use a microwave, only eats food cooked and heated up on a stove and in an oven.
12. His morning routine includes brushing teeth for 10 straight minutes.
MANNY PACQUIAO
1 He eats steamed white rice and chicken or beef broth at almost every meal
2. Manny will only drink hot or room temperature water. Never cold water because he feels it is not healthy
3. Manny averages over 2,500 sit-ups daily during training camp
4. Manny eats five meals and consumes 8,000 calories daily to keep his weight and energy up
5. Manny regularly has 500 fans follow him on his morning runs in Los Angeles
6. He starts every morning with a Bible reading
7. He loves his Butterfinger Peanut Butter Cups
8. Over the past 12 months Manny has met with President Obama, President Clinton and Prince Harry
9. Pacman, Manny’s nine-year-old Jack Russell terrier and beloved
companion, accompanies Manny on all his morning runs and to his workouts
at Wild Card. He even has his own frequent flier account
10. Manny is a Lt. Colonel in the reserve force of Philippine Army
11. Floyd Mayweather will be the third consecutive undefeated world champion Manny has faced in the past 13 months
12. Manny is a big photography buff. This week he purchased two
Canon flagship cameras – the 1DX — complete with lenses and accessories.
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De La Hoya: Pacquiao has the advantage against Mayweather
By Chris Williams: If you listen to Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd
Mayweather Jr. is in deep, deep trouble against Manny Pacquiao in their
fight coming up next month.
De La Hoya thinks Mayweather could fall behind in the fight early and
then be put into a position where he’ll need to change his normal
fighting style by being the aggressor instead of the counter puncher
against Pacquiao.
De La Hoya thinks Mayweather isn’t comfortable being the aggressor in
his fights, and this could lead to him struggling to try and get back
into the fight.
Like George Foreman, De La Hoya believes that that first three rounds
of the fight are extremely crucial. If Pacquiao is able to win 2 to 3
of the first quarter of the fight, he’ll put Mayweather into a bind
where he’ll have to make some changes to his fighting style if he wants
to be able to rally to get the victory.
De La Hoya and Foreman are both in the same boat in believing that
the first three rounds are very important for both fighters, even though
Mayweather has already shown in the past that he has no problems
rallying from an early deficient. We saw that in his fights against De
La Hoya, Miguel Cotto and in first fight against Marcos Maidana.
“I feel Pacquiao has to win the first two or three rounds, because
it’ll make Mayweather have to come from behind and he’ll have to start
to pressure Pacquiao, to be the aggressor, and Mayweather does not like
to be the aggressor,” De La Hoya said via the thenational.ae. “So
if Pacquiao can start well the first two rounds – winning those rounds –
the fight can go in Pacquiao’s direction,” De La Hoya said.
First off, I don’t think Pacquiao is going to be able to win the
first two or three rounds. I don’t see that happening. He’s too short
and his reach is too limited. But even if Pacquiao did win the first
three rounds, I think Mayweather is going to come storming back and will
look to KO Pacquiao like Juan Manuel Marquez did. He’s going to want to
put Pacquiao out of the fight by tagging him with some hard shots by
backing him up, and we just don’t know how could have a head shot
Pacquiao can take at this point.
After the way Marquez knocked Pacquiao out in 2012, I wouldn’t be
surprised if Mayweather knocks him clean out with a right hand or a left
hook to the head. Mayweather has been adding punching strength with the
help of his strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza, and he could be
a very different fighter than the one that fought Maidana twice.
“The one fighter to make it an exciting fight is going to be
Pacquiao. What he has to do is go in with a lot of combinations, a lot
of footwork, which he has,” De La Hoya said. “With Mayweather, we’re
going to see the same thing he does in every fight, which is box, win
the rounds one at a time. I don’t see Mayweather trying to knock out
Pacquiao, but I can see Pacquiao trying to knock out Mayweather. In this
sport one punch can change everything and I think I’m going to have to
give Pacquiao the advantage.”
Mayweather will definitely attempt to box Pacquiao, but if that
doesn’t work, he’s going to adapt and try another tactic. If that means
slugging, then that’s what he’ll do, and I wouldn’t be surprised if
Mayweather gets the better of Pacquiao in that department. What
Mayweather lacks in punching power, he’ll more than make up with his
timing and accuracy.
Pacquiao can jump around the ring all night long and tire himself,
but Mayweather is still going to be able to connect with a lot of shots
due to his timing. He’ll figure out Pacquiao’s movement quickly and then
time him to start nailing him with shots. At that point, Pacquiao can
continue to hop around the ring all he wants, it’s not going to help
him. He’ll need to try something different like storming Mayweather in
the same way Maidana was doing. I don’t think that’s a style that
Pacquiao is capable of imitating though even if he trained to imitate
it.
Foreman: Mayweather could be devastated by a defeat against Pacquiao
By Allan Fox: There’s been wide speculation about how Floyd
Mayweather Jr. would be able to handle a loss to Manny Pacquiao,
especially a one-sided loss. While some boxing fans believe that
Mayweather would handle it with no problems and just fight on with his
career, other fans believe it would ruin him mentally.
It’s something that we won’t know until Mayweather experiences his
first defeat if he ever does. Former heavyweight champion George Foreman
believes that it could be something that will messes Mayweather up to
the point where he might have to leave the U.S to escape the situation.
“This could devastate him (Mayweather) as a boxer, not as a man but
as a boxer,” Foreman said via Yahoo Sports. “He might have to go out in
the country somewhere if he lost. You lose your perspective on who you
are as a human being.”
It would be difficult for Mayweather to come to terms with a loss,
but I’m sure the $100+ million that he receives for the Pacquiao fight
on May 2nd will help console him. I don’t think Mayweather will abandon
America and become an expatriate for the remainder of his life living
abroad in a place like France like some wealthy people move to when
choosing to leave the U.S for whatever reason.
Mayweather enjoys Las Vegas, Nevada a great deal. If he was going to
leave the U.S to live in another country, I think it would have to be a
place like Monte Carlo. I think he might like living there, or possibly
some place like the French Riviera.
“Pacquiao has it a little better. He is already picked as the
underdog,” Foreman said. “There’s not a whole lot of pressure on him.
But when you have never lost before in a fight of this magnitude,
there’s so much pressure on you, more pressure than you have ever had
before, more pressure than on any other athlete right now.”
I think Pacquiao has just as much pressure on him to win this fight
than Mayweather does. He obviously doesn’t want to lose because he’s
looked up to by his fans in the Philippines. A loss to Mayweather also
could mess Pacquiao up in terms of him being a pay-per-view attraction.
His PPV numbers for his fights against Brandon Rios and Chris Algieri
were underwhelming to say the least, and his numbers for his second
fight against Tim Bradley weren’t good either. Whether that’s the fault
of his promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank due to him putting Pacquiao in with
non-stars, is unclear. But it’s probable that Pacquiao will see a dip
in his pay-per-view numbers if he were to lose to Mayweather. That’s why
I see Pacquiao as having as much pressure as Mayweather. It’s very
important that he wins this fight, and he knows it. He’s no unaware of
the ramifications of a loss in this fight.
Pressure is a good thing for both fighters because it’ll enable them
to fight at their utmost ability. At least they won’t come into the
fight overlooking each other. They know this is going to be a tough
fight.
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NBA Mozgov scores 23 in Nuggets' win over Lakers
(Updated 2:50pm) DENVER — An elbow to the chin staggered Timofey Mozgov for only a moment.
Shaking
off the blow, the 7’1” center went on to match his career-high with 23
points, and the Denver Nuggets beat the Los Angeles Lakers 111-99 on
Wednesday night (Thursday, PHL time) to win consecutive games for the
first time this season.
"It's OK. It's basketball. You just have
to keep playing, if you can," said Mozgov, who fell to the floor but
quickly scrambled to his feet after taking an inadvertent elbow from
Jordan Hill when the Lakers' forward went in for a jump hook during the
third quarter.
"He was like a good, old Russian boxer, didn't
give in," said teammate Nate Robinson. "I just love the way he plays, he
competes. He doesn't complain, just plays hard."
Mozgov also had
nine rebounds and four blocked shots to help first-year Nuggets coach
Brian Shaw, who was part of five championship teams with the Lakers as a
player and assistant coach, beat Los Angeles in his first matchup
against his former team.
"We played big and pretty much just dominated inside and kept the pressure on them by running the floor," Shaw said.
Kenneth Faried joined Mozgov in mixing it up in the paint, scoring 21 points and grabbing 13 rebounds.
"They're
good players," Hill said. "It was their night. Defensively, we didn't
help each other the way we're supposed to and it cost us."
Ty
Lawson added 19 for the Nuggets, who won their fourth straight against
the Lakers, their longest winning streak against Los Angeles since 1994.
"They
just came at us," Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said. "We didn't react
very well to their speed and athleticism. That was a recurring theme
throughout the game, their athleticism. They just beat us to the ball.
Their foot speed was more than ours most of the time."
Pau Gasol led the Lakers with 25 points.
Both
teams have been impacted by injuries, though the Nuggets were bolstered
by the return of forward Wilson Chandler, who saw his first action of
the season after missing the first six games with a strained left
hamstring. Chandler scored 12 points, making a pair of key
three-pointers in the fourth quarter.
The Lakers are still
without Kobe Bryant, who continues to recover from surgery last spring
to repair to a torn Achilles' tendon, and Steve Nash remains sidelined
by a nerve problem in his back.
Nuggets center JaVale McGee is
out indefinitely with a stress fracture in his left leg and Danilo
Gallinari is recovering from reconstructive knee surgery stemming from
an injury late last season.
Mozgov jammed home a dunk to put the
Nuggets up by 10 with 36 seconds left in the third quarter, but the
Lakers scored six straight points to close the period, starting with a
three-pointer by Nick Young to pull to 83-79 going into the fourth.
The
Nuggets again pulled away, scoring 10 of the first 13 points starting
the final period, including a layup by Robinson off a stolen inbounds
pass, putting Denver in front 93-82.
After a basket by Gasol and a
free throw by Hill helped the Lakers narrow the gap to 93-87, the
Nuggets responded with a 10-0 run that included two three-pointers by
Chandler and a pair of free throws by Mozgov for a 16-point cushion with
about five minutes remaining.
It was more than the Lakers could overcome.
The Lakers pulled to 60-54 at halftime after trailing by as many as 13 points earlier.
Chandler
also hit a couple of three-pointers in the last 4 minutes of the second
quarter to help offset a 7-0 run that the Lakers used to get close. - AP
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