FanHouse Manny Pacquiao

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

Boxing star Manny Pacquiao is on top of the world. His following is reaching new heights. Watch how it takes a dozen cops to get the Pacman from his car to the airport terminal as Manny heads back to the Philippines. We also join the media crush that tries to get Manny to talk about potentially facing Floyd Mayweather.

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Manny Pacquiao's historic, 12th-round knockout of Miguel Cotto, whom he dethroned as WBO welterweight champ for a record, seventh title in as many weight classes on Saturday night, has generated 1.25 million buys, according to official records released to FanHouse by Mark Taffet, HBO's senior vice president of pay per view.

Along with Floyd Mayweather's Sept. 19, unanimous decision victory over Juan Manuel Marquez, which resulted in 1.05 million buys, this year represents the first time HBO pay per view has ever recorded back-to-back fights exceeding a million buys, Taffet indicated in Friday's e-mail.

Pacquiao-Cotto also marks the first time since 1999 that two, pay per view boxing events have totaled more than a million purchases, joining Felix Trinidad's controversial decision over Oscar De La Hoya, and, Lennox Lewis' disputed draw with Evander Holyfield.

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said that the early pay-per-view numbers released on Manny Pacquiao's victory over Miguel Cotto are "over a million and under 1.5 million buys -- and that's without all of the precincts being reported."

"They're not really accurate yet, but all that we can say with absolute certainty is that Pacquiao-Cotto was the biggest, revenue-producing event on pay-per-view for the entire year," said Arum. "And that surpasses all of the UFC. Everything. Any event. It's the biggest event of the year from the standpoint of revenue being generated."

Arum, who promotes Pacquiao (50-3-2, 37 knockouts), said that he met with officials at HBO on Thursday concerning the numbers.

Noted boxing historian Bert Sugar believes that a clash between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao would rival Sugar Ray Leonard's comeback 14th-round knockout of Thomas Hearns in September 1981, when the victor trailed by four, three and two points, respectively, on the three judges' cards.

Calling it "today's Super Bowl of boxing," Sugar said the demand and scope of Mayweather-Pacquio "easily passes" Felix Trinidad's controversial September 1999, 12-round majority decision over Oscar De La Hoya, even as theirs was a clash of a Puerto Rican icon in Trinidad and a cross-over Mexican-American star in De La Hoya.

"[Mayweather-Pacquiao] has international appeal, particularly in Asia. And you've got HBO, which will be pumping it with their 24/7 series. It will be the fight of the century," said Sugar, who, as then-editor of Ring Magazine, named Leonard-Hearns "Fight Of The Year."

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

It's no secret that Bob Arum is a promoter of legendary skills. Having worked with Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns, he knows talent when he sees it.

In this FanHouse video, Arum ranks Manny Pacquiao above boxing's all time greats. He also discusses the Filipino fighter's impact on the sport of boxing, his analysis of Cotto's defeat and where boxing falls in the American sports hierarchy.

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

Trainer Freddie Roach was so confident in his preparation of Manny Pacquiao, that he knew Miguel Cotto was done "when we were warming up in the dressing room." Pacquiao stopped Cotto in the 12th round.

In this FanHouse video, we caught up with Roach in his post-fight press conference, where the legendary trainer claims Manny Pacquiao is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the history of boxing. He also talks about how he plans to celebrate the victory, what he thinks about Floyd Mayweather Sr. and delivers a message to his fans.

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

It seems that Floyd Mayweather Sr. never is done talking.

In this FanHouse exclusive, we caught up with Mayweather Sr. to find out what he thinks of Manny Pacquiao's chances against his son. Mayweather also takes a few shots at Pacquaio's trainer, Freddie Roach, and claims his unbeaten son, Floyd Mayweather Jr., is the toughest competition around.

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We still don't know whether we'll get the dream fight of Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. next year, but we do know this: Mayweather is favored to win the fight, but bettors are feeling confident about Pacquiao.

The online sports book Bodog.com is already taking bets on the fight (bets that will only become valid if they actually fight in 2010), and Bodog decided to set the opening odds at -170 for Mayweather, signaling that Mayweather's undefeated record (not to mention his size advantage) would make him the expected winner if the two best pound-for-pound boxers in the world meet in the ring.

Two days after guiding Manny Pacquiao to Saturday night's historic victory over Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas, trainer Freddie Roach was back in Los Angeles, where he runs the famous Wild Card Boxing Club.

And even as he worked with another world champion, Amir Khan, as well as other prospects, the Hall of Fame trainer and three-time Trainer Of The Year took the time, on Tuesday, to answer the gym's telephone.

"I'm a little bit tired, and a little bit drained right now, but I can't show that to the fighters," said Roach, speaking against the gym's background noise of the bustling boxers pounding on the heavy-, and speed-bags, as well as the ringing bells of those who were sparring. "Once I get into the gym, I work through it."

A former trainer for Bernard Hopkins, Mike Tyson, Oscar De La Hoya, Virgil Hill and James Toney, among others, Roach took a break long enough to share Q&A time with FanHouse.

The 49-year-old boxing guru shared his views on Pacquiao's overall talents, Cotto's future, his intense relationship with Cotto's trainer, Joe Santiago, and how he would like his pound-for-pound best fighter to close out his illustrious career.

Junior middleweight Shawn Porter, whose intense sparring prepared Manny Pacquiao for last weekend's 12th-round knockout of Miguel Cotto, will put his unbeaten record on the line against Jerome Ellis on Saturday at Fitzgerald's Casino & Hotel, Tunica, Miss.

Known for his speed, power and Cotto-like left hook, the 22-year-old Porter is 10-0 with eight knockouts, with his past three stoppages being in the first round.