{"id":6261,"date":"2009-11-02T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/boxing-odds-pac-man-massive-favorite-in-cotto-clash\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T21:44:00","slug":"boxing-odds-pac-man-massive-favorite-in-cotto-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/boxing-odds-pac-man-massive-favorite-in-cotto-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Odds &#8211; Pac-Man Massive Favorite In Cotto Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Like <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldseriesodds.org\/\" title=\"World Series odds\">World Series odds<\/a>, Manny <span class=SpellE>Pacquiao<\/span> is an overwhelming favorite in his November 14<sup>th<\/sup> fight with Miguel <span class=SpellE>Cotto<\/span>, slated to take place in <st1:City><st1:place>Las Vegas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at a 145-pound <span class=SpellE>catchweight<\/span>, but for <span class=SpellE>Cotto&#8217;s<\/span> <span class=SpellE>WBO<\/span> welterweight crown. Can &#8220;Pac-Man&#8221; become the first man to hold title in an amazing SEVEN different weight classes?<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Manny <span class=SpellE>Pacquiao<\/span> (49-3-2, 37 <\/span><\/font><\/b><st1:place><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>KOs<\/span><\/b><\/st1:place><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>)<\/span><\/b><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>&#8220;Pac-Man&#8221; is the world&#8217;s No.1 pound-for-pound boxer, and he&#8217;s looking to join Thomas <span class=SpellE>Hearns<\/span>, &#8220;Sugar&#8221; Ray Leonard, Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd <span class=SpellE>Mayweather<\/span> as the only boxers to hold belts in five different weight classes. He&#8217;d also like to join De La Hoya, who is the only man to hold six different titles, and he dropped his idol in the eighth round of their 2008 fight. <span class=SpellE>Pacquiao&#8217;s<\/span> last fight didn&#8217;t even go that long as he knocked out Ricky Hatton in the second round of their fight back in May. <span class=SpellE>Pacquiao<\/span> may have the quickest hands of anyone in boxing, and he&#8217;s surprisingly strong for such a small man.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Miguel <span class=SpellE>Cotto<\/span> (34-1, 27 <\/span><\/font><\/b><st1:place><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>KOs<\/span><\/b><\/st1:place><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>)<\/span><\/b><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><span class=SpellE><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Cotto<\/span><\/font><\/span> knows he&#8217;s a huge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\" title=\"online betting\">online betting<\/a>&nbsp;underdog, but that probably won&#8217;t make him change his style. <span class=SpellE>Cotto<\/span> will stand in there and slug it out with anyone, which usually makes it interesting for the fans and <span class=SpellE>PPV<\/span> customers. <span class=SpellE>Cotto<\/span> is coming off an entertaining split-decision win over Josh <span class=SpellE>Clottey<\/span> back in June to retain the <span class=SpellE>WBO<\/span> welterweight title that he won over Michael Jennings in February.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sportsbook\" title=Sportsbook>Sportsbook<\/a> odds have <span class=SpellE>Pacquiao<\/span> as a -270 favorite in this contest, and this is his third straight fight at the MGM Grand. <span class=SpellE>Cotto<\/span> would like some redemption as the MGM Grand is the site of his lone loss, a controversial 11<sup>th<\/sup>-round knockout at the hands of Antonio <span class=SpellE>Margarito<\/span>, who is suspected to have put plaster on his hands for more power back in July 2008. This should be the Fight of the Year as neither fighter will back down from a toe-to-toe brawl, but they&#8217;re going to have to show some technique at some point, and <span class=SpellE>Pacquiao<\/span> has the edge in that, as well as elusiveness. In a fight that should go the distance, take the favored Manny <span class=SpellE>Pacquiao<\/span> in your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesportsbetting.org\" title=\"sports picks\">sports picks<\/a>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like New York&#8216;s World Series odds, Manny Pacquiao is an overwhelming favorite in his November 14th fight with Miguel Cotto, slated to take place in Las Vegas at a 145-pound catchweight, but for Cotto&#8217;s WBO welterweight crown. Can &#8220;Pac-Man&#8221; become the first man to hold title in an amazing SEVEN different weight classes? Manny Pacquiao &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/boxing-odds-pac-man-massive-favorite-in-cotto-clash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boxing Odds &#8211; Pac-Man Massive Favorite In Cotto Clash<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}