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FanHouse has a Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey live blog for round-by-round updates for one of the biggest boxing fights of the year.

The main event will start a little after 11:30PM ET. Check out our Pacquiao vs. Cotto results page to find out what happened on the undercard.

Check out Pacquiao vs. Clottey live blog below.

Refresh this page often for minute-by-minute updates.

Referee: Rafael Ramos, Texas

Judges: Duane Ford, Nevada; Levi Martinez, New Mexico; Nelson Vasquez, Puerto Rico

Joshua Clottey entered the ring wearing a bright, glittery red robe trimmed in white. Dancing to music and with members of his entourage waving the Ghanian flag. One of them gave the throat-cutting gesture. Clottey’s trunks are red with gray trim.

Manny Pacquio’s first music was “Thuder Struck” by AC-DC, which switched to “Eye Of The Tiger” by Suvivor.Pacquiao, wearing a red robe with blue and yellow trim, climbed the ring post in his corner and waved to the cheering crowd. Pacquiao’s trunks are read with white and yellow.

Michael Buffer: Let’s Get Ready To Rumble!!!!

Round 1: The crowd is screaming “Manny, Manny,” even before the round begins. Clottey paces and Manny gets final instructiosn from trainer Freddie Roach. Pacquiao jabs and goes to the body. Clottey’s hands are held high. He looks bigger. Pacquiao is still throwing. On the ropes, Clottey is covering up. Clottey throws a short jab. Pacquiao fires away at the body. Clottey still has not answered. Clottey is blocking shots, but there is no offense. Pacquiao’s counter right lands over a lazy jab by Clottey. Clottey lands a short right. Pacquiao’s round, 10-9.

Round 2: Same thing to start the second. Pacquiao is throwing, Clottey is catching. Clottey uncorks a couple of jabs. Pacquiao lands to the head and body. Cottey tries to come forward. Pacquiao backs him up. Clottey digs to thebody and to the head. Pacquiao goes to the body and the head and the body again. Clottey answers similarly. Pacquiao digs to the body and head. Clottey lands once to the head. Pacquiao is digging around Clottey’s guard to the ribs, but Clottey’s punches that land to the head are accurate. Pacquiao’s round, 10-9

Round 3: Clottey may be feeling the body shots that Pacquiao is landing. Clottey comes back. Pacquiao’s activity has Clottey backing up. Clottey is taking shots to the midsection and ribs, but comes back with a left-right. Clottey’s not going anywhere. Clottey lands a hard right hand that pops back Pacquiao’s head. Clottey is briefly pinned in a corner but he’s blocking shots. Clottey begins to answer back. Telltale signs. Clottey lands to the head. Pacquiao’s round, 10-9.

Round 4: Clottey has more pep in his step to start the round. Clottey lands a lead right. Clottey loops in another right. Pacquiao digs a right to the body but takes a one-two to the head. Pacquiao throws two hands at Clottey and is warned. Frustration that he can’t get to his head. Pacquiao lands a five-punch combination on the ropes. Most of the punches are landing on Clottey’s arms. But they’re more than Clottey’s offering. Clottey lands a right left to the body. Pacquiao closes to the head. Pacquiao’s round, 10-9.

Round 5: Pacquiao is winning simply on activity. Clottey lands twice to the body. Clottey lands a right to the head. Overhand left from Pacquiao. Clottey clearly has it in the tank but seems to be saving up. Pacquiao right hooks twice to the head. Clottey lands a short right. Clottey lands a left to the head and a right. Pacqauio lands a five-punch combination. And then, four punches before the bell. Pacquiao’s round, 10-9.

Round 6: Clottey is clearly trying to wear down Pacquiao with pressure. But he’s got to throw to keep from digging a bigger hole. Clottey throws a right. His back against the ropes, Pacquiao takes three punches, but punches his way out. Pacquiao keeps punching. A four-punch combination finds Clottey hard to the head and body. Clottey lands a hard right that jars Pacquiao. Pacquiao digs to the body. Clottey find Pac-Man with a right and then a left. Pacquiao nails him three times along the ropes. Clottey lands a left at the bell. Pacquiao’s round, 10-9.

Round 7: Clottey goes to the body early. Clottey doubles up on the left and lands a right. Pacquiao continues to lead to the body and go to the head — around Clottey’s defense. Pacquiao chases Clottey to the ropes, but takes a hard right. Clottey goes to the body and the head. Pacquiao lands a five-punch combination to the body. Clottey can’t sustain any consistancy on punch series’. Pacquiao’s round, 10-9.

Round 8: Clottey lands a looping right hand. Pacquiao’s still boxing and maintaining distance. Pacquiao digs five right hands that split Clottey’s guard. Clottey is warned for a low blow. Pacquiao takes a couple of seconds of recovery time. More body shots from Pacquiao. A nice right hand from Pacqiao. A head butt. No damage. A hard right and a left from Pacquiao. Several punches follow. Pacquiao closes strongly, uncontested. Pacquiao’s round, 10-9.

Round 9: Clottey doesn’t answer as Pacquiao jabs at his defense. Clottey comes forward but nothing. The PacMan just wails with whatever he can fight. Clottey finally goes with a right, left, right combination. But the PacMan comes back. A six-punch combination by The PacMan is punctuated by a right hand. Pacquiao does it again, and again. Clottey is baffeled Clottey is a sparring partner at this point. Pacquiao’s round, 10-9.

Round 10: Clottey needs to throw caution to the wind, and but instead, he’s riding a downward spiral toward defeat. A right hook from Pacquiao lands hard. A left to the body from Pacquiao. What must Clottey be thinking? Clottey tags PacMan, but doesn’t followup. Clottey leaps in and lands a right. Clottey lands a right uppercut and a right. PacMan comes back, however, and gets busy again. Pacquiao chases Clottey to the corner and continues landing. Pacquaio’s round, 10-9.

Round 11: Clottey is coming forward with intensity. Pacquiao still is outboxing him. Clottey lands two hard lefts. PacMan comes back. Clottey lands an uppercut. PacMan drives him to the ropes with a six-punch combination. Pacquiao closes by chasing and out-landing Clottey. The crowd is in a frenzy at his resolve. Pacquiao’s round, 10-9.

Round 12: A hard right from Clottey and then a head butt. Clottey lands a long right hand. Clottey lands a left to the body and one to the head. Pacquiao doubles a left hook to the body and head and follows with a right hand. Clottey is being outworked again. PacMan takes a left hand. They exchange down to the bell, and when the bell sounds, PacMan is in Clottey’s face as if he still wants to go some more. Pacqauiao’s round, 10-9.

Duane Ford had it 120-108, Levi Martinez, 119-109, and, Nelson Vazquez, 119-109, all for Manny Pacquiao by unanimous decision.

FanHouse scored it 120-108,for Pacaquiao.

Congratulation Pacquiao you did it again

Source: boxing.fanhouse.com

A clown crawled out of a trapdoor in the center of the BC Place floor, plugged in two enormous electrical cables that exploded with sparks, and then mimed pulling a rope to raise the faulty fourth cauldron leg that stubbornly and infamously stayed down during the opening ceremonies. Catriona Le May Doan, who was awkwardly left without a leg to light on that first night, then appeared to finally receive her moment to light the cauldron anew.

It not only was a funny, clever, superb way to begin the ceremonies, it was the first time in history that a mime was actually entertaining.

There is much to remember from these Olympics. Lindsey Vonn used every remedy shy of leeches and copper bracelets to heal her shin, but nothing made her body feel quite so good as draping a gold medal around her neck for winning the downhill. Bode Miller made good on all those pre-Games predictions — albeit four years later and half a world away from Torino — when he won three Olympic medals, including his first gold.

Evan Lysacek ended Russia’s hold on men’s Olympic figure skating, even though Evgeni Plushenko still won’t let go (give it up, Evgeni — you lost). Korea’s Yu-na Kim took women’s figure skating to a new level (her score would have beaten U.S. champion Jeremy Abbott’s performance in the men’s competition). And Sidney Crosby added to his growing legend by scoring the game-winning goal in overtime of the gold-medal hockey game, a tense showdown that challenged hearts even more than a lifetime diet of poutine.

When Vancouver Olympic Committee CEO John Furlong mentioned the hockey victory during his closing remarks, a spontaneous roar filled the BC Place dome and forced him to stop speaking. Or perhaps that just was the noise from the public celebrations on Granville and Robson streets, where Canadians waved flags and broke into “O Canada” at every opportunity.

Like the cauldron itself, Canadian athletes took awhile to catch fire at these Games. But after the U.S. completely dominated the first week, Canada started winning almost everything the second week, including the all-important (in Canadian eyes, anyway) hockey gold. The host country finished with 14 gold medals, the most here, and 26 overall. The U.S. led the overall medal count with a record 37, including nine gold.

Or, at least, that’s the official tally.

“If you’re good at something, we will claim you. And since you competed here, that makes you Canadians, too,” Michael J. Fox told all the athletes during the closing ceremonies. “Canada is my home and now it’s your home, too. And that means the new home medal count is …”

The closing ceremonies were a night for laughing. Unfortunately, these Olympics began with that terrible, horrifying moment when luger Nodar Kumaritashvili flew off the track to his death the morning of the opening ceremonies.

“To the people of Georgia, we are so sad and so sorry for your loss,” Furlong said in his speech. “Your unimaginable grief is shared by every Canadian and of those who have gathered here. May the legacy of your favorite son, Nodar Kumaritashvili, never be forgotten and serve to inspire youth everywhere to be champions in life.”

How do you put something like that into proper context while cheering athletes who slide down mountains, chase rubber pucks around the rink and skate across ice while wearing costumes Elton John would consider a little too outrageous? I don’t know, other than that you go on with life and live it to its fullest.

So, you sing: Canadian music legend Neil Young performed “Long May You Run” as the torch was extinguished. You dance: Mounties, hockey players and lumberjacks high-kicked their legs around 15-foot-high inflatable beavers, 20-foot-high moose and giant table hockey figures while Michael Buble sang from a stage shaped like a giant RCMP hat (it’s very doubtful we’ll see anything like that in Sochi in 2014, or anywhere else, ever.) And you laugh at yourself: Comic actress Catherine O’Hara made her entrance with curlers sweeping her path while she howled, “Hurry! HARD!” and later alluded to the rainy conditions at these Games and the artificial flakes inside the dome by saying, “There may be more snow in the stadium than on the slopes.”

You invite the world together, hand out party favors (the crowd wore moose antlers included in the closing ceremony welcome bag), pour some cold ones and celebrate life. Life in every land and at any age.

Fifty-one-year-old Hubertus Von Hohenlohe skied in his fifth Olympics here, 26 years after skiing in his first in Sarajevo. He is a lot slower now, but he was here and that’s what matters.

“If you told me when I was 34 in Lillehammer that I would be racing at 51, I would have imagined I would be an old man with gray hair and a belly and all this,” he said. “But I just kept going. The lesson is you can do much more than you think you can.”

You can do more than you think.

That’s what the Olympics remind us. Consider: In 1980, a very pregnant Helen Demong stood as near as she could get to the Lake Placid skating oval and cheered on Eric Heiden as he raced to his five gold medals at the Winter Olympics. A month later, she gave birth to a son, whom she named Billy. In 1998, Billy went to Nagano as a teenager on the U.S. Olympic team. He didn’t get to march in the opening ceremonies, however, due to a snafu that kept him trapped too long at the accreditation center. This week, Demong won America’s first gold medal in Nordic combined. After receiving his medal that evening, he proposed marriage to his girlfriend, and she accepted.

And Sunday evening, the boy who “attended” the 1980 Olympics in his mother’s womb and grew up within a ski jump of Lake Placid, the athlete who missed the opening ceremonies of his first Olympics because of red tape, the man who won a gold medal in his fourth Olympics, carried the Stars and Stripes as his country’s flagbearer, just as his hero, Heiden, did 30 years ago.

With enough work, enough dedication and enough desire (and perhaps enough of that Austrian cheese Vonn used on her shin), you can do more than you think.

The 2010 Games of Vancouver are over, the Olympic flag on its way to Sochi for the 2014 Olympics, and hopefully Plushenko will be willing to hand over that flag when those Games end and it’s time to move on to the 2018 Games.

And perhaps, come 2034, another Demong will compete in the Winter Olympics (if there still is winter then).

I found this interinting  article at ESPN.com and I thougt it will be intereting itbring a good message “you can do more than what you think” which is the spirit in every olympic.

Source:http://espn.go.com/

Yuzuru Hanyu vaulted from third place after the short program to win the gold medal in men’s singles at the world junior championships at The Hague on Thursday night.

Hanyu’s victory makes him the fourth Japanese man to capture the world junior title. He joins Vancouver Olympic bronze medalist Daisuke Takahashi (2002), Nobunari Oda (2005) and Takahiko Kozuka (2006) in holding the honor.

Trailing Americans Grant Hochstein and Keegan Messing heading into the free skate, the 15-year-old Hanyu stormed to the title by landing seven triple jumps to finish with a total score of 216.10. He notched a personal best mark of 147.35 in the free skate performing to Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini.”

China’s Nan Song earned the silver, while Russia’s Artur Gachinski took the bronze.

Hanyu, who also came from behind to win the Grand Prix Final in Tokyo last December, was pleased with both his effort and the result.

“I am very happy to win this competition and I am satisfied with today’s performance, including the jumps, steps and spins,” he said. “I did my best. I am very happy to win, but I am even happier with the performance itself.”

The victory made it a clean sweep for Hanyu this season in the junior ranks. The Sendai native won both Junior GPs (in Croatia and Poland) he entered and the Japan junior title in Yokohama.

Source: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/