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Irish boxer Jamie Kavanagh is just 19 years old, but he is already creating a buzz at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood. Last week our cameras were rolling as legendary trainer Freddie Roach signed Jamie to a professional contract. In this video we hear what people at Wild Card have to say about Kavanagh's boxing skills, as well as the Irishman's Spanish-speaking trainer.

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

The atmosphere was electric in the MGM Grand Arena following Manny Pacquiao's historic, 12th-round TKO of WBO champ, Miguel Cotto. With the victory, Pacquiao became the first boxer to win titles in seven weight divisions.

Hear the ringside views of welterweight (147 pounds) contender, Andre Berto, as well as post-fight reaction from Pacquiao and his trainer, Freddie Roach.

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

Boxing trainer Freddie Roach comes from a family of boxers, his father Paul, was the New England featherweight champion. Freddie's mom Barbara was a boxing official, and his four brothers were boxers. One of them Pepper (whose real name is Dominic) is a real riot and could easily have his own show on MTV.

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Throughout the promotion leading up to Saturday night's mega-fight between challenger Manny Pacquiao and his champion fighter Miguel Cotto, trainer Joe Santiago's reputation has taken a verbal beating from his counterpart, Freddie Roach.

A Hall of Fame cornerman whose hopes to guide Pacquiao to an unprecedented, seventh world title in a different weight class, Roach has taken shots at Santiago's relative inexperience.

But during Wednesday's press conference at the Hollywood Theatre at the MGM Grand Hotel where Saturday night's clash will be held, Santiago stepped up to the podium and carried himself the same way that he has throughout the fight's buildup.

With a confidence, a calm demeanor, a calculated speech and, ultimately, control.

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

Manny Pacquiao says the so-called distractions don't bother him, and that he is "in 100 percent condition" for Saturday night's clash with WBO welterweight champion, Miguel Cotto, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

In this video, Pacquiao displays his speed while working the mitts with trainer, Freddie Roach, and believes this fight will be one of the toughest of his career.

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LAS VEGAS -- It's not something Manny Pacquiao talks about much nowadays, but earlier in his career, he was knocked out. In the third round. Not once, but twice.

And during an interview on Wednesday at the MGM Grand Hotel, surrounded by reporters with their tape recorders in his face, the man who is now considered boxing's best fighter, pound-for-pound, admitted that he once considered quitting.

"After those fights, I'll admit, I was thinking, 'Oh, maybe I'm going to stop boxing,'" said Pacquiao, 30, referring to stoppages that occurred in 1996 and 1999. "I was thinking, 'Maybe boxing doesn't like me.' But then, it became a message to me to focus more on boxing."

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

Oscar-nominated actor Mickey Rourke is the person behind one of the most famous boxing gyms in the world - the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood. Many big names have worked there, from Manny Pacquiao, to Mike Tyson, to Oscar De La Hoya, to Chris Arreola to you name it. As it turns out, in the early 1990's when Rourke made his comeback to the world of boxing, he moved Freddie Roach from Las Vegas to Hollywood and that's how the gym came to life. In this FanHouse exclusive, we talk to Mickey about boxing, Wild Card and a future movie about Freddie Roach.

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On Saturday night, Miguel Cotto, will walk into the same Las Vegas hotel arena where, sixteen months ago, the Puerto Rican fighter suffered the worst beating of his professional boxing career.

And as sure as he knows he'll be at ringside delivering his commentary for Cotto's matchup at the MGM Grand, HBO's Jim Lampley is equally certain that Cotto is going to shed blood, yet again, opposite Manny Pacquiao.

"Of course, [Cotto's] going to bleed in this fight. Unless it's only going to go a minute. Otherwise, if we're in round three, he's cut," said Lampley, who has been ringside during the many times when Cotto has bled, profusely, from facial lacerations.

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

Manny Pacquiao eats Thai food when he's training. In this FanHouse exclusive, we visit Pacquio's favorite restaurant, which is located just feet from the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood.

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Champion Miguel Cotto has a message for challenger Manny Pacquiao as well as those who believe he can be successful during his quest to win a world title in a record seventh different weight class: "They picked the wrong guy."

"If he thinks he's going to reach a seventh title in a seventh different division, he picked the wrong moment, the wrong fighter and the wrong opponent," said Cotto, all but bristling during Thursday's conference call with the national media.

"If he thinks he's going to beat Miguel Cotto," said Cotto, "he's pretty much all wrong with that kind of thinking."