Manny Pacquaio cemented his place as pound-for-pound champion of boxing with a 12 round beat down of the bigger Miguel Cotto. In the first round it looked like Cotto’s size and power would be too much for Pacquiao to handle as I thought the fight would go. But Pacquaio dropped Cotto in the third and fourth rounds, and by the sixth round Manny had Cotto figured out and was stalking him around the ring. Referee Kenny Bayless mercifully stopped the fight in the 12th round to prevent further damage to Cotto’s face. Read the full story

Juan Manuel Marquez, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Miguel Cotto, and Shane Mosley are all hoping to get a shot at Manny Pacquiao while Joshua Clottey wants to throw a monkey wrench in their plans. More importantly HBO’s boxing budget is tapped Read the full story