Manny Pacquiao

Ferocious speed, excellent technique and world-class training and sparring mean that Manny Pacquiao tickets are among the most sought after boxing tickets in the world today.

The only septuple (seven weight) world champion in boxing history, Manny Pacquiao is now gunning for his main rival, Floyd Mayweather. Pacquiao Mayweather tickets will undoubtedly prove to be the best-selling in boxing history. Like Mayweather, Pacquiao has recently terrorized fellow welterweights Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton, and is the current WBO welterweight world champion, IBO and Ring Magazine light welterweight champion. Pacquiao is now rated by Ring Magazine as the Number One pound-for-pound fighter in the boxing world. This is the title Ring once attributed to Floyd Mayweather, and you can bet that with your Pacquiao v. Mayweather tickets you’ll see a vicious attempt by Floyd to regain it.

Pacquiao’s honors don’t stop there, though; the former WBC lightweight champ, WBC super featherweight title-holder, IBF super bantamweight champion, and WBC flyweight world champion (to complete the list of his full 7 titles) will be taking no prisoners when he steps into the ring with Mayweather. They say that when Pacquiao fights, armies stop battling to watch. The Filipino sensation comes from the municipality of Kibawe, in Bukidnon province. Bukidnon is on Mindanao, the easternmost island of the Philipines. He is a national hero, being one of the most famous Filipinos of all time. The entire population of over 96 million people halts its activities whenever Pacquiao fights. Any Filipinos who can afford to buy Pacquiao tickets and make the fight will be there, guaranteed. How confident is the first boxer to hold world titles in seven different weight divisions? Freddie Roach, Pacman’s trainer, says his man is ready for Mayweather, that he really wants this fight. Mayweather, predictably, says that Pacquiao knows he cannot win it – but we’d expect nothing less from Floyd.

When Pacquiao beat Ricky Hatton, he pasted a world class fighter at his peak fighting weight, 140 lbs. Hatton had never lost at that  weight, but Pacquiao routed him with a force and focus little seen in today’s boxing. Talk shifted then to whether Pacquiao was in fact the greatest boxer the world had ever seen – and this was before Pacquiao’s destruction of Miguel Cotto! Versatility is the name of the game for Pacquiao; he flattened Hatto with a right hook — not a bad way for a southpaw to win a fight – before finishing Hatton with a uncompromising left cross that many say was the greatest single punch ever thrown in a major bout.

Pacquiao’s next scheduled fight date was March, 2010, but trainer Freddie Roach says his fighter will need more time to prepare for Mayweather. “If it’s Mayweather, we need time to get ready for that fight. We have to come out with a real different style. It’s a whole different ballgame,” Roach said. “I’d say he rest for a while, enjoy the holidays, run for elections, and the Congressman Manny Pacquiao will kick Mayweather’s ass,” said Roach, in reference to the fact that Pacquiao is currently running for election in his native land.

Mayweather has already set the ball rolling with his claim, “I deserve a bigger piece of the pie.” This is reference to the fact that Mayweather believes he is the key draw in this fight, the reason people will buy Pacquiao v. Mayweather tickets. Whether he is right or wrong, he will certainly succeed in making the build-up to this fight an interesting one!