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No one has yet beaten Floyd Mayweather in the boxing ring, but ESPN's Brian Kenny gave Mayweather a beating in a hotly contested interview Wednesday. Kenny dodged Mayweather's verbal insults for 13 minutes and peppered Mayweather with strong arguments, making his case that Manny Pacquiao has taken the title of best pound-for-pound boxer in the world away from Mayweather, and that if Mayweather wants it back, he has to take it in the ring.

Andre Ward and Edison Miranda are polar opposites outside of the ring. While Miranda loves to talk an enormous amount of trash to help sell a fight, Ward prefers to let his fist do the talking come fight night.

That's not to say that Miranda hasn't gotten under Ward's skin in the weeks leading up to their May 16 super middleweight bout on Showtime. He surely has, but regardless, Ward continues to brush his opponent's comments aside, while simply vowing to make him "pay for that" come Saturday night.

FanHouse spoke to the 2004 Olympic gold medalist about the Miranda's comments and his climb up the 168-pound ladder. The full interview is after the jump.

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

Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao took care of Ricky Hatton in an impressive manner last Saturday, and is now the hottest name in the world of boxing. Just one day after returning to Los Angeles from Las Vegas, Manny was at the Conga Room night club in downtown LA to host his official victory party, and we were there. In this exclusive video see how Manny, his friends and fans get down. With celebrity DJ Apl.De.Ap (of the Black Eyed Peas) and his trainer Freddie Roach, among others, in the house, the boxing phenomenon ripped the microphone Elvis style.

Check out the video after the jump.

Ricky Hatton hasn't decided yet whether he'll ever box again, but he sounded in the above interview with Sky Sports like a man who's ready to hang up the gloves and move into a career as a promoter.

Manny Pacquiao is the best boxer in the world and the most popular man in the Philippines, but the country's health secretary has a simple request for him after his second-round knockout win over Ricky Hatton in Las Vegas Saturday night: Don't come home.

Concerns about the swine flu have the Philippines asking anyone who has traveled to the United States and other countries that have been hit not to return just yet.

After Manny Pacquiao destroyed Ricky Hatton on Saturday night, most of the post-fight talk centered on the likelihood of Pacquiao fighting the winner of the July 18 fight between Floyd Mayweather and Juan Manuel Marquez. But Shane Mosley, the top welterweight in the world, thinks he should be Pacquiao's next opponent.

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

They call Manny Pacquiao the People's Champ, and in this video you'll understand why. For his fans, Manny is everything, impacting their lives in a serious way. After knocking the daylights out of Ricky Hatton in less than two rounds, his fans were beyond thrilled. As the fight was going on in Las Vegas, some 800 die-hard Pacquiao fans came together at the Montalban Theater in the heart of Hollywood to cheer on their hero and raise money for a great cause.

Check out the video after the jump.

On Saturday afternoon, I told someone that I thought Floyd Mayweather Jr. would beat Manny Pacquiao, if the fight between the world's two best boxers finally materializes. After watching Pacquiao destroy Ricky Hatton on Saturday night, I no longer think that.

In fact, I now think this: Pacquiao, the little man who started his professional boxing career in the Philippines fighting at 106 pounds, would beat any boxer at any weight class under 160. Yes, you read that right: Pacquiao would have to move all the way up to middleweight before I'd bet against him.

LAS VEGAS -- At the end of the day, it wasn't that Floyd Mayweather Jr. failed to do what it appeared he'd done earlier Saturday, which was steal the thunder from the first big pay-per-view boxing event of the year by announcing his much-rumored return to the ring from a 17-month respite. Mayweather's Saturday afternoon press conference did, indeed, overshadow the junior-welterweight championship bout scheduled Saturday night between Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton.

But something transpired Saturday evening that even Mayweather couldn't have anticipated. Pacquiao snatched back everyone's attention, stealing back his own thunder, with a second-round knockout of Hatton that was so devastating it left some observers temporarily in fear for Hatton's well-being. It was nothing sort of Tyson-esque

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As we watched video of Manny Pacquiao flooring Ricky Hatton with a vicious left hook, it seemed almost surreal. After all, this fight was hyped for so long, to see it end before the third round was not what anyone expected. But there was Hatton, being taken by complete surprise when Manny whipped the left around to knock him senseless. If you missed the punch or just want to watch it five more times like I did, his second-round knockout is after the jump.