The Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) will hold its 85th awards banquet at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan in New York with pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao 
as the group’s major awardee.Pacquiao will be receiving his record-tying third BWAA award on June 4 with key members of his entourage as well as Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum in attendance in the venue dubbed as “The Grand Dame of Madison Avenue.”
Pacquiao has won the award in 2006, 2008 and 2009, joining the likes of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Leonard and Evander Holyfield as the other three-time recipients of the coveted award.
Another top awardee will be Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach, who will receive his fourth top trainer title.
The BWAA affair will come on the eve of a significant fight that takes place at Yankee Stadium where comebacking Miguel Cotto, who will be fighting at super-welterweight, faces Yuri Foreman.
Though Arum has rattled off three prominent names – Antonio Margarito, Juan Manuel Marquez and Floyd Mayweather – as Pacquiao’s possible foes late this year, many would believe that the winner in the Cotto-Foreman rumble will be next for the Filipino.
Winning an unprecedented eighth world title is also on Pacquiao’s horizon.
The BWAA award is one of several that Pacquiao has received in his storied career.
Standing out from among them is The Ring magazine’s Fighter of the Decade (2000s).
After campaigning for Nationalist Party’s presidential candidate Manny Villar for several days, Pacquiao starts his own bid for the lone congressional seat in Sarangani Province against a member of a well-entrenched political clan.
Source: mb.com.ph
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