MANNY BELIEVES BOBBY WLL BEAT SOTO
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 03 Jun 2007
In a dinner with the original Team Pacquiao members headed by Rod Nazario at the Highlands Steak House in the Mall of Asia the other night prior to his departure for the US, Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao expressed confidence that younger brother Bobby would beat Humberto Soto in their June 9 clash at Madison Square Garden.
According to TV analyst Moy Lainez who attended the dinner along with Lito Mondejar and Gerry Garcia, Pacquiao said Bobby had trained hard for the past two months and would win over Soto, thereby scuttling a possible Manny Pacquiao-Soto fight.
Pacquiao was confident Bobby would win despite the fact that Soto hasn’t lost a fight in the last five years and has had an impressive run of victories.
Soto himself in a television interview with the well-known boxing website boxingscene.com said Bobby Pacquiao was “a good fighter, a lefty and a very hard puncher.”
Soto said he was not looking ahead and was “only thinking about this fight with Bobby. I am concentrating on this fight” and predicted that “its going to be a great fight and we are going to put Mexico on top again.”
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