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...retirement to fight Marquez. A victory in the match today almost guarantees a big-time fight, and a huge payday with Floyd sometime early next year. Most pundits will tell you Pacquiao should dispatch Hatton easily, and Mayweather will be the real challenge, but Hatton has more than a puncher's chance...
Weighing in at exactly 143 pounds each, these two guys provided an excellent example of basic boxing. Nguyen described his fighting style as more of a straight puncher, and the match bore him out. One noteworthy observation--as each punched, a slight "breath" sound could be heard, which according to Nguyen is what happens as as boxer tightens up his stomach muscles to better handle the blows. At one point a spectator could be heard calling, "Haran, you're so sexy!" from the audience. Nguyen left the second round with a bloody nose but seemed upbeat about his performance...
...Tatsumi's characters include the sewer worker who encounters aborted fetuses, the pornographic film projectionist whose only turn-on is bathroom wall art and a metal puncher who sacrifices his hand for the insurance money. Some stories, like the titular one, are just enigmatic portraits of modern strife. In it, the Push Man, a student who earns extra money by cramming people into subway trains during rush hours, has the tables turned on him when he meets a sexually aggressive woman whose equally voracious girlfriends work him into a corner and tear his clothes off. The story ends...
...stowing away on a ship bound for Manila. He had no friends, no money and one goal: "I wanted to be a world champion," Pacquiao recalls. Supporting himself as a construction worker, he gained local renown quickly on the amateur and pro-boxing circuit as a powerful puncher with little discipline and less fear. "There was hardly any science in his fighting," says Rudy Salud, a Manila-based boxing manager and former secretary-general of the World Boxing Council (WBC). "He fought like a mad dog. He was rather wild out of the ring, too." Pacquiao admits he drank...
...rewiring the judiciary in the event of Supreme Court retirements? To date, the Bush team has kept its conservative political base happy but also known when to compromise on issues such as education and campaign finance. Bush's political advisers say that the president is not a counter-puncher but prefers to lead with a positive agenda. But during this election campaign, the Bush vision often had more to do with responding to security challenges from abroad than with any of his domestic programs. Yes, he had notable achievements on taxes and education, but the popularity and energy that Bush...