FanHouse Manny Pacquiao

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Freddie Roach, trainer of Manny Pacquiao, sheds light on why he believes Pacquiao is boxing's best, pound-for-pound, how long he believes the 30-year-old champion with an unprecedented, seven titles in as many weight classes will remain in the sport, and Roach delivers a message to Floyd Mayweather Jr., regarding a megafight with Pacquiao.

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George Peterson claims not to know why Paul "The Punisher" Williams is among the most feared boxers in the sport.

And then he gives a perfect argument as to why.

"Walter Mathese was 25 fights with 24 knockouts. Nobody wanted to fight him. Paul fought him and stopped him. Antonio Margarito was most feared. Nobody wanted to fight him. Paul got in there and beat the breaks off of him. Then it was Winky Wright. This goes on and on," said Peterson, Williams manager and trainer.

"Paul will fight anybody from 147-to-160 right now -- whether it's Manny Pacquiao, or Miguel Cotto, or Andre Berto, or Shane Mosley. It doesn't matter," said Peterson. "I can't understand why everyone calls everyone else out, but nobody calls out Paul Williams. All that we want to do is to get their butts into the ring."

A two-time welterweight and one-time junior middleweight champion, Williams (37-1, 27 knockouts) will take on Sergio Martinez (44-1, 24 KOs) in a Dec. 5, nontitle middleweight (160 pounds) clash of southpaws in Atlantic City.

Brian Minto first got the call to fight Cris Arreola about "three or four weeks ago."

"I think that they wanted to bring Arreola back, and they were looking for opponents," said Minto, who is considered to be a journeyman with a solid punch. "I know what the situation is. It's happened to me before. I was brought in to lose to Axel Schulz."

Minto was referring to a sixth-round knockout victory over Schulz in June 2006 that followed the latter's stoppage loss to Wladimir Klitschko.

And now, said Minto, "I'm a guy they think they're bringing in" to pad the record of Riverside's Arreola (27-1, 24 KOs), who is coming off of September's 10th-round knockout loss to WBC king, Vitali Klitschko.

Junior middleweight Shawn Porter, whose intense sparring prepared Manny Pacquiao for his 12th-round knockout of Miguel Cotto on Nov. 14, scored a fourth-round knockout against Jerome Ellis on Saturday night at Fitzgerald's Casino & Hotel, Tunica, Miss.

Known for his speed, power and Cotto-like left hook, the 22-year-old Porter scored his ninth career knockout to improve to 11-0.

The stoppage was the fourth straight for Porter, whose previous three KOs had come in the first round. Porter's 154-pound bout with Ellis was scheduled for eight rounds.

The 31-year-old Ellis slipped to 12-10-2, with 10 knockouts. Ellis, who was stopped for only the second time in his career, was coming off of an eighth-round, split-decision victory over Jamaal Davis in May.

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Pepper Roach, brother of Manny Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie, expressed his thoughts on a potential Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather bout, Floyd's uncle and trainer, Roger Mayweather, and described the atmosphere in his brother's Wild Card Boxing Club in the days following Pacquiao's historic victory over Miguel Cotto.

Pepper also breaks down the war of words between the Pacquiao and Mayweather camps in this video after the jump.

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."

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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.

Check out the video after the jump.