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Thursday, December 20, 2007

  

Pacquiao ready to fight Marquez

By Eddie G. Alinea Contributor

ON the day the country celebrates its 487th founding anniversary, People’s Champion Manny Pacquiao faces the man that remains standing towards his bid to becoming the first Filipino and Asian, for that matter, to win a world championship in three separate divisions.

On March 15, 2008 (March 16 in Manila), the day Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Philippines, the 29-year-old Filipino boxing icon and World Boxing Council super featherweight champion Juan Manuel “Dina­mita” Marquez square off at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada with the latter’s crown at stake.

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