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Nov. 13, 2009
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Pacquiao, Cotto make weight

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Both Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto made the 145-pound limit today for Saturday's welterweight title fight at the MGM Grand Garden.

With 6,000 fans looking on inside the arena, Pacquiao, the challenger in this fight, weighed in at 144 pounds.

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    • Cotto, whose WBO title will be at stake Saturday, weighed in right at 145 pounds.

    According to figures supplied by the Nevada Athletic Commission, Pacquiao's purse will be $7.5 million with Cotto receiving $4 million.

    The fight has been sold out for weeks and Pacquiao remains a 3-1 betting favorite with Cotto a plus 220 underdog.

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    SilverLightFox wrote on November 16, 2009 05:23 AM: and you were wrong in your predictions... quite really accurate, you. But you happen to place the wrongly spelled name to a wrong sentence. :P


    jaded wrote on November 14, 2009 01:59 AM: This will be such a great fight, they should have named it Pacquiao - Cotto I


    Jerome wrote on November 13, 2009 10:28 PM: PACQUIAO'S LUCK WILL RUN OUT IN THIS FIGHT ! HE WILL ENTER THE MIDDLE ROUNDS
    WITH CUTS AROUND EACH EYE ! THEN HE WILL FEEL THE PUNCHING POWER OF CATTO
    AND HE WILL TAKE A FEW TRIPS TO THE CANVAS AND THE REF WILL STOP THE FIGHT ON A TKO. YOU COULD SEE THE TRAINER FREDDY RAOCH WORRIED ABOUT THIS FIGHT AT THE WEIGH IN ! MANNY IT HAS ALWAY BEEN A MISTAKE TO GO OVER YOUR LIMITATION AND THIS FIGHT WILL PROVE THIS OLD FIGHT TERM. STAY A ONE WEIGHT LEVEL WHERE YOU ARE THE BEST.
    SOMETIMES EVERYONE HAS TO LEARN A LESSON, BUT IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. MANY GREAT CHAMPIONS HAVE LOST A
    FIGHT OR TWO DURING THERE DAYS ?


    VEGAS BOXING CAPITAL wrote on November 13, 2009 07:10 PM: VEGAS IS BOXING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD!