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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.


Cheerleaders, fans, members of Team Pacquiao were all on hand at a private terminal at LAX where Manny Pacquiao boarded a Starflite charter plane with 170 of his close associates. In this exclusive FanHouse video we talk to Manny moments before he leaves Los Angeles heading to what might be his last fight.

 

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

Freddie Roach says Manny Pacquiao is top shape. We caught up with the legendary trainer as he was about to board a charter plane to Dallas. We also hear from Pacquiao what are his birthday wishes for his boss.

 

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

We all know Manny Pacquiao as the boxing superstar he is today, but for his aunts, Lilian, and, Lisa, he will always be the nice kid from General Santos City. While visiting Manny's LA home, we got a chance to talk to his aunts and even hear them sing.

 

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Washington, D.C.-- Last Wednesday's press conference at The Lincoln Theatre was intended to promote the May 1 welterweight (147 pounds) clash between unbeaten Floyd Mayweather and WBA super champion, Shane Mosley slated for the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

But before the principles were introduced, one of the officials on stage pointed to Paul Williams, who was sitting in the crowd, and asked him to stand up.

And when the former two-time welterweight and one-time junior middleweight (154 pounds) did stand up, the more than 1,500 boxing fanatics who had packed the venue beyond its capacity were boisterous and roundly supportive in appreciation of his status and achievement.

A rangy fighter, with too-fisted power and a seemingly, endless energy reserve, Williams is known for unleashing an unheard of number of punches during his action-packed bouts.

"I've been coming to D.C. for like 12 years, and they've shown me a lot of love down here in D.C., that's why I sort of ran back here," said the 28-year-old Williams (38-1, 27 knockouts), a slender, nearly 6-foot-2, fighter who trains at the Barcroft Recreation Center in nearby Arlington, Va., frequents shows in Maryland, and supports local fighters in and around the Washington, D.C. area.

"Everybody says, 'I know you're originally from Carolina, but you're really a D.C. boy,'" said Williams. "So I'm rolling with the home team."

 

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WBC light heavyweight (175 pounds) champion, Jean Pascal, of Canada, is expected to defend his crown against WBC interim titlist, Chad Dawson, of Connecticut, on Aug. 14 in an HBO-televised matchup of gifted 27-year-olds, from the Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Dawson's promoter, Gary Shaw, told FanHouse.

Pascal (25-1, 16 knockouts) will return to the site where he made the successful second defense of his title in December in a unanimous decision over fellow Canadian Adrian Diaconu.

 

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