Pacquiao Sings While Cotto Puts on a Show in L.A.

Published on November 4, 2009 by Ariel Avenasa in Boxing

As a sign of each one’s commercial viability at this juncture of their careers, the protagonists in the ‘Firepower’ pay-per-view event on November 14 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas spent their Tuesdays in L.A. doing separate and contrasting activities.

At around noontime, Puerto Rican pride Miguel Cotto (34-1, 27 KOs) conducted a public workout for the media at the Pound-4-Pound Gym just south of Beverly Hills in L.A. Cotto showed his tremendous form which he achieved after more than ten weeks of training thus far. He also seemed right at home as he shadow boxed, hit the mitts, and talked to comedian Mario Lopez and several reporters on hand, as reported by David Avila of The Sweet Science.

After the media workout the WBO Welterweight champion is expected to immediately head back to Las Vegas
where he is now based after wrapping up his training camp in Tampa, Florida over the weekend. Pacquiao’s media workout is scheduled for Wednesday.

Meanwhile, pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KOs) who is also in L.A. for the penultimate stage of his training camp at the Wild Card Boxing Club of coach Freddie Roach engaged in eight rounds of sparring with sparmates Urbano Antillon and Shawn Porter, as reported by Michael Marley of Examiner.com.



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Pacquiao Sings While Cotto Puts on a Show in L.a

Published on November 4, 2009 by Ariel Avenasa in Boxing

"Firepower" pay-per-view event’s protagonists were in L.A. on Tuesday. While Puerto Rican bomber Miguel Cotto showed tremendous form in a media workout, Filipino spitfire Manny Pacquiao showed his vocal range as he guested in the popular Jimmy Kimmel Live late night talk show.

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As a sign of each one’s commercial viability at this juncture of their careers, the protagonists in the ‘Firepower’ pay-per-view event on November 14 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas spent their Tuesdays in L.A. doing separate and contrasting activities.

At around noontime, Puerto Rican pride Miguel Cotto (34-1, 27 KOs) conducted a public workout for the media at the Pound-4-Pound Gym just south of Beverly Hills in L.A. Cotto showed his tremendous form which he achieved after more than ten weeks of training thus far. He also seemed right at home as he shadow boxed, hit the mitts, and talked to comedian Mario Lopez and several reporters on hand, as reported by David Avila of The Sweet Science.
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After the media workout the WBO Welterweight champion is expected to immediately head back to Las Vegas
where he is now based after wrapping up his training camp in Tampa, Florida over the weekend. Pacquiao’s media workout is scheduled for Wednesday.

Meanwhile, pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KOs) who is also in L.A. for the penultimate stage of his training camp at the Wild Card Boxing Club of coach Freddie Roach engaged in eight rounds of sparring with sparmates Urbano Antillon and Shawn Porter, as reported by Michael Marley of Examiner.com.

The Pacman also spent time watching the progress of his friend and former sparmate as well, WBA Light Welterweight champion Amir Khan who will be making his first title defense against Brooklyn-based Ukrainian Dmitry Salita on December 5 in Newcastle, UK.

Just par for the course for Pacquiao as far as the day’s training goes but what sets this particular day apart from the countless days in the Pacman’s career is that on this night he will be guesting on the raucous late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live, a move which could officially place Pacquiao on the verge of popular mainstream consciousness as this is a nationally-syndicated show in the U.S.

Pacquiao was his usual fun-loving and unassuming self during the show where he was even seen punching pumpkins backstage in a mock training set-up and belting out Dan Hill’s ballad ‘Sometimes When We Touch’ during the show’s music segment. The Pacman proved to be too cute for host comedian Jimmy Kimmel that he gave him a hug after the performance. I’m sure a lot of uninitiated viewers were also taken by the Pacman’s charm as well.

Given that it’s another publicity stunt orchestrated by Top Rank but Pacquiao’s sincerity and charm just makes this supposedly routine promotional stop a little more special. More importantly, the show provided a platform for Pacquiao to convert those thousands who are not yet converted out there to hop on to the Pacman bandwagon.

This nifty move is sure to not only add a couple thousand of nice PPV buys on the 14th but also with Pacquiao’s future fights whoever the opponent may be, in a bid to make the Pacman not only Asia’s greatest fighter ever but also its biggest cross-over star if he is not one already.

As for the singing? Well, let’s just say… keep your day job Manny, we’ll love you anyway.

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