{"id":47318,"date":"2015-04-21T01:51:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T17:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=47318"},"modified":"2025-01-11T02:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T07:42:30","slug":"stallone-sides-with-team-pacquiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/21\/stallone-sides-with-team-pacquiao\/","title":{"rendered":"Stallone sides with \u2018Team Pacquiao\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47319\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pac.meets_.rocky_..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47319\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pac.meets_.rocky_..jpg\" alt=\"Sylvester 'Rocky' Stallone with Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao at the Wild Card Boxing Gym. (Photo by Chris Farina)\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pac.meets_.rocky_..jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pac.meets_.rocky_.-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvester &#8216;Rocky&#8217; Stallone with Manny &#8216;Pacman&#8217; Pacquiao at the Wild Card Boxing Gym. (Photo by Chris Farina)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Actor Sylvester \u2018Rocky\u2019 Stallone was spotted leaving the Wild Card Boxing Gym last Saturday after visiting Manny \u2018Pacman\u2019 Pacquiao, watching him train for his much-awaited fight against Floyd \u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather Jr. on May 2 (May 3 in the Philippines) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Stallone watched attentively at Pacquiao in his two sparring sessions. The actor was then convinced that Pacquiao will indeed defeat the undefeated Mayweather.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Mayweather earlier said that he wanted to go \u2018Rocky\u2019 on Pacquiao. He even completed his training with the chopping of wood, Rocky\u2019s famous training montage.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy super kamagra online <a href=\"https:\/\/insighttherapeutics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/super-kamagra.html\">https:\/\/insighttherapeutics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/super-kamagra.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Stallone\u2019s support was on Chris Algieri, the American boxer who was knocked down six times and won over by Pacquiao, the Filipino boxing icon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy vilitra online <a href=\"https:\/\/insighttherapeutics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/vilitra.html\">https:\/\/insighttherapeutics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/vilitra.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> \u00a0Stallone since then knew whom to put his bet on.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving the gym, Stallone briefly answered some questions from reporters as he expressed his support for \u2018Team Pacquiao.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Pacquiao\u2019s performance on that day\u2019s training, Stallone replied: \u2018He\u2019s the best, he\u2019s the best.\u2019 Then, off he went with his metallic silver Mercedes Benz.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Stallone, other big-name celebrities including Robert Duvall, Jeremy Lin, Karl Malone, Liam Neeson, Ronda Rousey and Mark Wahlberg also visited Pacquiao as the boxer prepared for the ultimate showdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Sylvester \u2018Rocky\u2019 Stallone was spotted leaving the Wild Card Boxing Gym last Saturday after visiting Manny \u2018Pacman\u2019 Pacquiao, watching &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":47319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-news","category-sports","mauthors-jane-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282601,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47318\/revisions\/282601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}