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Tiger Says He's Headed in the Right Direction Thursday 11th November, 2010 13 and we are losing patience. “We can’t sit around forever waiting. He’s not even in the frame at this point. Right now, Mayweather is just a guy who may go to jail for beating up a girl.” Intriguingly,Roach told Telegraph Pacquiao, first Asian sports star Sport that he believes there is now more chance of Amir Khan, the British light- welterweight world champion whom he trains at his Hollywood-based Wild Card Gym, fighting Mayweather, at some point in 2012. It is a plausible contest, too, given that to break the US market Mayweather could perceive Khan as rela- tively easy pickings. “I have two guys I hile British sports fans decide for all of his pay per view fights. believe can beat Floyd Mayeather – whether to delve into their pock- Pacquiao has also been in demand Manny Pacquiao and Amir Khan. Amir Wets to watch a pay-per-view heavy- from sports franchises. The San Diego has the speed to give Mayweather real weight demolition match between David Chargers, San Francisco Giants, and the problems, but I don’t see that fight happen- Haye and Audley Harrison in Manchester LA Dodgers called on him this year to ing for over a year. I see Amir as my next on Saturday night, Manny Pacquiao, the make appearances on the pitch at their great fighter, coming up in the wake of seven-weight world champion from The matches. Last year, Time Magazine’s Pacquiao,” explained Roach, who has Philippines, continues his rise as a phe- online poll for ‘The World’s 100 Most trained 28 world champions, including nomenon gaining popularity in the main- Influential People’ polled over 22 million Mike Tyson and Oscar De La Hoya. stream here in the United States. votes for Pacquiao. The phenomenal interest in Pacquiao Pacquiao, elected to Congress in The “I’ve never seen anything like it,” vet- stateside is not apocryphal, and reflects Philippines earlier this year, faces eran Top Rank publicist Fred Sternburg the national obsession he has become Antonio Margarito at light-middleweight told Telegraph Sport. “He really is the within his homeland. Insurgents lay down at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on first Asian sports star to cross over into their arms when he fights, as does the Saturday night. Seventy thousand tickets the American mainstream.” national army,simply because 70 per cent have been sold. Tens of millions will Yet according to the inner sanctum of the population wants to watch ‘The watch his fight around the world. around Pacquiao, politics is pulling him National Fist’, as he is known, represent- Pacquiao enjoys a level of idolatry border- away from prize-fighting. Those close to ing them abroad. ing obsession at home, yet in the US, he him say the internal fire for fighting is When Pacquiao fights, The Philippines represents the first Asian sports star to leaving him, derived in part from the reti- grinds to a halt. Bob Arum, the veteran cross into the mainstream in the United cence of the great unbeaten American US promoter who oversaw parts of States. boxer Floyd Mayweather Jnr to sign for a Muhammad Ali’s career, says Pacquiao “is On Sunday night, on network televi- contest which could gross $200 million, the best fighter” he has ever seen. Even sion channel CBS’s weekly ‘60 Minutes’ making it the richest prize fight in history, better than ‘The Greatest’. “Ali was essen- news programme, Pacquiao was featured coupled with the almost Messianic desire tially a one-handed fighter. Pacquiao hits in a mini-documentary as part of the Pacquiao has to change the lives of those equally hard – with left and right. I truly hour-long show alongside a thirty-minute living in poverty in the 1,707 islands believe he will also go on to the President interview with President Barack Obama. which make up 94 million population of of The Philippines.” It is a mark of the pulling power of the The Philippines. And the man himself ? “I’ve already Filipino icon on the US television market. Freddie Roach, widely regarded as the reached my dreams and goals in boxing,” That status is borne out in figures. world’s leading trainer, speaking exclu- says Pacquiao. “I want to be a champion Pacquiao is to be the biggest selling pay sively to Telegraph Sport, revealed that he inpublic service.” per view fighter in the US in 2010, along has witnessed Pacquiao losing his focus Pacquiao has his eyes on the prize. Not with 120,000 seats sold at the box office for on boxing in the last two months. Roach as a pugilist, but as President of The his contests, yet it is on television and in fears that Pacquiao could be very near the Philippines. print where his reach is staggering. This end of his boxing career. “Manny month Pacquiao has made a major Pacquiao told me during this training © The Telegraph Group, impact. camp that he misses his job – and he London, 2010 ‘Pacman’, as he is known, is the cover meant as a politician in Congress. This story on the American Airlines in-flight could be his last fight. I’ve had anxiety magazine in November, which will be seen attacks worrying about his focus for this by millions of travellers; he appeared on fight.” Jimmy Kimmel Live in Hollywood with The lack of interest from Mayweather Will Ferrell in the first week in November is also a factor, Roach disclosed, though – known as ‘sweeps month’, the time when there is a caveat for the pair to meet next the television companies in the US set Manny Pacquiao, of the Philippines, wraps his hands before a workout in Spring. “The chances [of Pacquiao v their ratings figures for advertising for the Grapevine, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010. Pacquiao is scheduled to fight Antonio Mayweather] are declining. We are tired of coming year – while Home Box Office sees Margarito, of Mexico, on Saturday in Arlington, Texas, for the vacant WBC light waiting for Mayweather. We have accepted him as a shoe-in for 24/7 documentaries middleweight title. (AP Photo/LM Otero) what he wanted in the last negotiations South Africans find ways Tiger says he’s headed in to reuse the vuvuzela vuvuzela from more than 150 the right direction photographs, videos and sketches submitted to a BY DOUG FERGUSON more than any other in the world. Also playing is vuvuzela recycling competi- Sergio Garcia, Camilo Villegas, Robert Allenby and tion. Matt Blitz, the event MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Tiger Woods Stuart Appleby. organiser, said the group faces his first full year without a victory if he doesn’t Woods lost his No. 1 ranking two weeks ago to began taking submissions in defend this title this week in the Australian Masters. Lee Westwood, who widened the gap with a runner- July, after the one-month soc- Whatever happens, he has no doubt his game is going up finish in Shanghai. He figures the only way to get cer tournament ended. in the right direction. it back is to do what Woods did to get there - win tour- Out of the seven judges, “If it happens, it happens,” Woods said naments. five voted for the earrings. Wednesday after seeing Victoria Golf Club for the He hasn’t come particularly close all year, only The hoop earrings, created first time. “I’m going to give it my best. But that does- twice being in contention in the final round this year. by Cape Town resident n’t change my commitment to getting better.” Woods did not say how far along he was in his Megan Bernstein, consist of He won last year at Kingston Heath to wrap a swing change, only that he is starting to put together circular cross-sections of the week like no other in Melbourne, which featured streaks of four or five holes, and long, hollow horn. record crowds that topped 100,000 over four rounds. It even a couple of rounds during Other designs included was his 82nd career victory, and he was No. 1 in the a tournament. toilet-paper holders, cocktail world with no argument. Woods has been working shakers and even fire-extin- Just over a week later, however, Woods crashed with Sean Foley since the PGA guisher hoses. Blitz said the his car into a fire hydrant and revelations began to Championship in August, and best 50 design ideas will be unfold about his extramarital affairs, which shat- he revealed Wednesday that he sold and exhibited nationally. tered his image and rocked his world on and off the wasn’t sure he wanted to Blitz said he and co- golf course. change his swing. He already organiser Shaun McCormack Woods is not looking at his return Down Under as had gone through two swing were not fans of vuvuzelas a chance to come full circle. It was in Australia when overhauls with Butch Harmon before the World Cup. a supermarket tabloid first linked him to a New York and one with Hank Haney. “Then we fell in love nightclub hostess. And it was in Australia where he Foley first spoke to Woods with them during the World last looked like such a daunting figure in the sport. at Whistling Straits, and Woods said he didn’t commit to chang- Cup, and instead of eradicat- “I’m here to defend a title,” Woods said. “I’m play- ing until a week later. A vuvuzela, made up as a ing them it became a way to ing a great golf course and a great field.
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