Round 3: Pacquiao, Barrera at each other's faces

Manny Pacquiao and Marco Antonio Barrera focused their most of their jabs on each other's face as they heightened the action in the third round of their much-awaited rematch Saturday night (Sunday morning in Manila) at the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The second round started with quick exchanges of probing jabs between Manny Pacquiao and Marco Antonio Barrera. It ended with the Mexican landing a jab on the Pacman's face. Immediately after the bell rang for the second round, Manny Pacquiao delivered a right jab to the body of Mexican boxer Marco Antonio Barrera. Barrera, however, countered with his own attack on Pacquiao's body, connecting several times on the head and body. The two boxers exchanged heavy punches in the last seconds of the second round. The warriors, wearing shorts of almost the same shade of red, started the first round of their much awaited rematch slowly as they sized up each other. But they heightened the action a bit in the last minute of the first round. At stake in the match is Pacquiao's WBC International super featherweight title. Both fighters weighed in at 130 pounds, but both were heavier when they climbed the ring – Pacquiao at 144 pounds and Barrera at 138 pounds. Among the fellow pugilists who went to see the fight were Oscar de la Hoya and Sugar Ray Leonard. Judging the fight are Jerry Roth, Glenn Trowbridge, Tom Schreck, with Tony Weeks as referee. The Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas was like an almost empty warehouse in the early undercard matches of "Will to Win." But by 8:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. in Manila) had filled up with boxing spectators, chanting the names of either Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines or Marco Antonio Barrera. Three national anthems were sung – the Mexican, the Filipino, and the American – as the opponents wait tensely in their locker rooms. Inez Zak sang the "Himno Nacional Mexicano," Kyla "Lupang Hinirang," and Cynthia Minx "The Star-Spangled Banner." - GMANews.TV