David diaz is the underdog for the June 28, 2008 bout vs. manny Pacquiao

David Diaz the current WBC Lightweight Champion (135 pounds)


Manny Pacquiao will enter the fight as the favorite. David Diaz will be the underdog as he heads to Las Vegas to take on perhaps the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world today in Manny Pacquiao, who moves up in weight for their 12 round main event for the June 28, 2008 Saturday event on HBO PPV, 9PM ET/6PM PT.

Looking at David Diaz resume, he is a four-time Golden Gloves champ, and a 1996 Olympian .

HIS AMATEUR RECORD:
* Member of the 1996 US Olympic Team as a Light Welterweight. His results were:
o Defeated Jacobo Garcia (Virgin Islands) RSC 3 (0:33)
o Lost to Oktay Urkal (Germany) 6-14

* Won Chicago Golden Gloves four times and the National Golden Gloves three times (1993, 1994 and 1996 National Golden Gloves light welterweight champion)
* Had a record of 75-16 in the amateurs


HIS PROFFESIONAL RECORD:
"Dangerous" David Díaz was bornon June 7, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is a professional boxer in the lightweight (135 lb) division. His record is 34-1-1 (17 KOs). He is the current WBC lightweight champion.

MANNY PACQUIAO's win over Marquez gave Pacquiao his eighth over a fighter of Mexican heritage since destroying Marco Antonio Barrera in 2003. A close loss in his first fight to Morales in 2005 and a controversial draw against Marquez the year prior barely served as speed bumps on the road to Pacquiao’s single-handedly terrorizing the red, white and green.

Pacquiao is now No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer

June 10 2008

QUEZON CITY, Philippines – Manny Pacquiao is now the world's top pound-for-pound fighter by the reckoning of fightfan.com, which moved the Filipino boxing champ from No. 2 to No. 1 on Monday.
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Pacquiao got the upgrade because American welterweight champ Floyd Mayweather Jr., who used to hold the top spot, has retired.

In its website, FightFan website explained its decision to move World Boxing Council super featherweight champ up its list:

"Pacquiao, who will fight for the 135 pound title later this month after debuting at 106 pounds in 1995, has consistently been fighting the sport’s top fighters since 2003. He has dominated from super bantamweight to super featherweight. Pacquiao’s lengthy path through the best fighters in three different divisions coupled with his emphatic stoppage victories over legendary fighters like Marco Antonio Barrera and Eric Morales have solidified the Filipino terror’s place atop of FightFan.com’s pound-for-pound list."

The other fighters on the list are:

2. Joe Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KO) 3. Juan Manuel Marquez (48-4-1, 35 KO) 4. Israel Vasquez (42-4, 31 KO) 5. Miguel Cotto (32-0, 26 KO) 6. Ivan Calderon (31-0, 6 KO) 7. Bernard Hopkins (48-5-1, 32 KO) 8. Kelly Pavlik (34-0, 30 KO) 9. Winky Wright (51-4-1, 25 KO) 10. Rafael Marquez (37-4, 33 KO)

- GMANEWS PHILIPPINES

MANNY PACQUIAO VS DAVID DIAZ (NEXT FIGHT )JUNE 28,2008 Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

updates as of May 21, 2008
46-3-2 35 kos
last fight: win over Juan Marquez for the WBC super featherweight belt on March 15, 2008



NEXT FIGHT: VS DAVID DIAZ FOR THE WBC LIGHTWEIGHT BELT
MANDALAY BAY RESORT AND CASINO, LAS VEGAS, USA
JUNE 28, 2008

He is moving up to lightweight (135 pounds) vs David Diaz



An aggressive lefthanded slugger, Manny is recognized as one of the hardest punchers at any weight. HIS nicknames are : PACMAN, THE DESTROYER, THE MEXICAN KILLER, PEOPLES CHAMP AND PAMBANSANG KAMAO ("NATIONAL FIST")

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW OR BUY Pay Per View. THIS WILL BE A SOLD OUT EVENT AS USUAL.

freddie roach in cebu WITH PACQUIAO FANS

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MANNY PACQUIAO IN CEBU PLAYING BASKETBALL

TEAM PACQUIAO

MANNY PACQUIAO MAKING A JUMP SHOT
MANNY PACQUIAO

WHEN THE DESTROYER IS NOT IN THE RING KNOCKING PEOPLE OUT WHICH IS WHAT HE KNOWS BEST. ONE CAN FIND MANNY PACQUIAO ENJOYING A GAME OF BASKETBALL.

Manny is a national hero in the Philippines - when he returns home after his fights, he is greeted by thousands of his cheering countrymen. The whole country celebrates his victory with parades. Also, 80 million filipinos all over the world celebrates.

April 12, 2008 , Atlantic City, New Jersey,USA :Cotto defeats Gomez and retain the WBC welterweight title

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Miguel Cotto’s keep his belt for the WBA welterweight title match against Alfonso S. Gomez on Saturday night. Cotto won via TKO when the doctor stopped the fight after the fifth round.

Cotto (32-0, 26 KOs) hammered Gomez (18-4-2, 8 KOs) over five wholly uncompetitive rounds to retain his title, the fight finally stopped with a badly beaten Gomez on his stool at the end of the round.

INSOMIA CURES!!!

Insomnia is the second most common complaint after pain. A 1984 report of the National Institutes of Mental Health indicated that 35 percent of the general population suffers from insomnia.
And the prevalence increases with an increase in age. Our lifestyle alone provides us today many constraints for proper and adequate sleep.

Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder to date.

Medical practitioners believe that insomnia can be a symptom of various underlying conditions, such as depression and anxiety. Prevalent as this condition maybe, many adults do not seek treatment from a physician.

Research on insomnia suggests that it has impaired human quality of life, performance and mood. It has dealt fatigue, irritability, lack of energy, and poor concentration including impaired memory.

Pharmacist Jo Barnes made a recent review of all herbal medicine widely studied for its aid to sleep. Barnes is a lecturer in phytopharmacy at the Center for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy at the School of Pharmacy in the University of London.

In her report, published on in The Pharmaceutical Journal (2002), she observed that research has mainly focused on the effects of valerian (Valeriana officinalis), with minor studies on hops (Humulus lupulus), passionflower (Passiflora incarnata), lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) and Jamaica dogwood (Piscidia erythrina) simply for their reputation as hyponotics.

Most of these herbs are also reputed to have sedative effect and have been used particularly for sleeping disorders of “nervous” types.

The parts of valerian used medicinally are the roots and rhizomes (underground stems). Strobiles (female flowers) are used in hops; herb (leafy aerial parts including flowers and fruits) in passionflower; leaves in lemon balm; flowers in lavender; and root or bark in Jamaican dogwood.