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With the Pacquiao-Cotto fight nearly reaching finality, the venue of the Nov. 14 blockbuster is also shaping up—and it won’t be at the Madison Square Garden in New York, where a large Puerto Rican community is always ready to support Cotto but at the MGM Grand where Manny Pacquiao has scored his two biggest wins.The reigning pound-for-pound king declared he is good for one more fight, and his projected gig in Las Vegas is intended to be his last dance.
Is Manny Pacquiao seriously contemplating leaving the boxing ring for good?
Not sure… but Pacquiao is eyeing a congressional post in Saranggani Province in next year’s elections and he has already set the wheels in motion for this bid by forming his own local party, the People’s Champ Movement, and setting residence in the province.
Drip is a trip hop band from Manila. With an EP independently released in August 2003 and constant live performances, Drip’s cult status grew with Manila’s musical cognoscenti. Currently, Drip is signed to Terno Recordings. On March 15 2008, Drip released their 2nd album entitled “Identity Theft”.
Check out this article from Filipinas Magazine about five young men based in New York who are really making it happen.
Deep foundation get in touch with their Filipino roots in “The First Draft,” their debut album. Members of the hip-hop group, Deep Foundation, stood beneath the elevated tracks of the Number 7 train in Queens on a recent Saturday afternoon. Temperatures hovered around freezing, but five heads—covered by stiff-brimmed baseball caps—formed a circle and leaned toward the pavement. “Yeah, I’m coming from the motherland, hot like PI summer, man,” rapped 23-year-old Ryan Abugan, known as Hydroponikz. “My swagger be New York but my blood was brewed in Q.C.!” The lines are from the group’s debut album, “The First Draft.” Deep Foundation, or DF, whose core members are all Filipino from New York and New Jersey, released the album late last year and has spent the first part of 2009 on a tour of West Coast cities.
Manny Pacquiao is a Lethal weapon!! What he did to Ricky Hatton Last night was mostly mayhem. Ricky Hatton was manhandled. Pacquiao knocked Hatton down twice in the first round, dominated the second and caught Hatton with a vicious left hook as the round ticked down. Hatton’s eyes rolled back and his body fell, like a sack of potatoes, flat on his back. The aftermath was a bit scary. Hatton didn’t move right away, and soon there were many people with concerned looks on their faces. Hatton may have been on his back longer than he was on his feet during the fight.
Eventually, they brought his stool to the middle of the ring and got him on it, and a few minutes later he left the ring under his own power. Hatton didn’t attend the post-match news conference, because he was taken to Valley Hospital. Before he left, he said, “It was a hard lot, but I’m OK. I really didn’t see the punch coming, but it was a good shot.”
Pacquiao, said, “I’m surprised the fight was so easy. I worked hard in training camp and he was open for the right all night. It was nothing personal. I was just doing my job.
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