Price of knocking Manny Pacquiao down just went up 100 percent

By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, October 10, 2010

The price of knocking Manny Pacquiao down has just gone up.

After Coach Freddie Roach offered any and all Pacman sparring partners in Baguio a bounty of $1,000 if they can score a knockdown with the big gloves and protective headgear in the Shape Up Boxing Gym inside the cozy Cooyeesan Hotel in the strawberry capital, agent Michael Koncz decided to match the trainer's offer.

"I raised the stakes, the ante a little," Koncz just told me by phone from Baguio, where it was late Saturday night.

"I pushed Freddie's bounty up to $2,000, so let's see if any of these guys can collect."

This is said to be the second training camp in which Coach Roach has offered the bonus money but so far no one has cashed in.

In camp with Manny noware Michael Medina, Glen Tapia, Vanes Martirosyan and world champ also trained by Roach, Amir Khan. (Actually, Glendale, Calif., based Martirosyan, who fights  

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