yahoo!!! filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao wins vs.dangerous D Diaz from Chicago... they fight in Madalay Bay, Las Vegas today... Pacman wins in just 9 rounds...
Manny Pacquiao knocked out David Diaz with just 36 seconds left int he 9th round of their 12-round bout, wresting the World Boxing Council lightweight title from the Mexican American.Pacquiao thus became the only Asian and only Filipino to win four world titles in different weight divisions.
Diaz looked like he was beginning to feel the weight of Pacquiao's punches By the eighth round. At one point, Pacquiao, throwing several head punches, had him backed up against the ropes.
Diaz, despite two cuts in his face, took a more aggressive stance in the seventh round, lunging several times at challenger Manny Pacquiao.
But the round – in which Pacquiao slowed down a bit – ended without neither fighter inflicting any major damage on the other.
Diaz started the fifth round with a cut on the bridge of his nose, with Pacquiao adding another cut near his left eye.
Pacquiao did not give the Mexican-American a chance to catch his breath as he kept throwing head punches, many of them connecting.
It was the same story in the third round, with Pacquiao aiming and connecting at Diaz's head.
The 12-bout round bout is taking place held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
Diaz went into the third round with some blood in his face due to several blows that Pacquiao dealt him in the second round.