What term do you want to search? Search with google</s>LAS VEGAS: Filipino southpaw Manny Pacquiao reclaimed the World Boxing Organization welterweight title for the third time with a unanimous decision victory over former champion Jesse Vargas in his comeback fight on Saturday.

The 37-year-old Pacquiao systematically dismantled the former welterweight champion despite Vargas’ size and reach advantage.

He used a short right-handed counterpunch to floor Vargas in the second round en route to a one-sided win in front of a crowd of 16,132 at the Thomas & Mack Center.

“I feel happy,” Pacquiao said. “I’m trying every round to knock him down but also not be careless.”

Pacquiao, 59-6 with two drawn and 38 knockouts, showed he still has a lot left in the tank but he failed to get the knockout victory that has eluded him for the past seven years.

All three judges scored the bout for Pacquiao, two of them by 118-109 and the other by 114-113. Pacquiao won the WBO title for the first time in 2010 when he beat Miguel Cotto. He lost it two years later to Timothy Bradley, then got it back by winning the rematch with Bradley in 2014.

He then lost it last year to the now-retired Floyd Mayweather, who had a front row seat for Saturday’s bout.

“Yes I invited him to come tonight,” Pacquiao said of Mayweather.

Asked if he wanted a rematch with Mayweather, Pacquiao said, “We will see.”

Pacquiao said he was retiring following his April 9 two-knockdown victory over Bradley in their third fight.

Pacquiao looked impressive in stopping Bradley, showing that he has recovered from a shoulder injury which hampered him in his mega fight against Mayweather in May 2015.

Pacquiao took seven months off to concentrate on his job as a newly elected politician in the Philippine Senate. After serving his first stint as a rookie senator, he says the fire was rekindled and the stage set for a return to boxing.

On Saturday, both fighters felt each other out as very few punches were thrown in the first round.

Pacquiao was quicker to size up his opponent as the Filipino learned early on that he could counter Vargas’ left jab with a right to the jaw.

That’s what happened in the second round when Pacquiao connected on a right counterpunch that sent Vargas stumbling backwards and onto the canvas.

Pacquiao said he had to respect Vargas’ punching power.

“I’m very careful to go inside because I knew he would counter me. I felt I could do more but every round I tried to knock him out,” Pacquiao said.

Vargas started coming on in the middle rounds. His confidence grew after a strong sixth round which turned out to be one of the few times he was able to trade punches with Pacquiao.

He had a big smile on his face while walking back to his corner after the bell to end the eighth.

“Fighting Manny Pacquiao is like playing a very fast game of chess,” Vargas said. “You have to be alert at all times. He was very fast but I was able to get in a few counters.”

Las Vegas boxing fans showed their love for Pacquiao. Even with a hometown boxer in the ring, the crowd was chanting his name and cheering for Pacquiao to get the knockout.

The two fighters traded heavy blows in the eighth round as Vargas’ face started to show some of the damage from Pacquiao’s potent right hand. AFP</s>All the buzz ringside at Saturday night’s victory by Manny Pacquiao over hometown hero Jessie Vargas at the Thomas & Mack Center was that the senator from The Philippines will fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. again.

Insiders from Manny’s camp and Las Vegas promoter Bob Arum’s organization Top Rank confirmed that initial discussions have been held for a 2017 rematch. It would probably be the biggest-ever payday in boxing history.

“Money” Mayweather was ringside watching every fast-foot maneuver as Manny scored his decisive victory on points. Manny even waved his right-hand boxing glove at Floyd with a smile. A Los Angeles Times sports writer said Manny ran over Jessie with power, speed and smarts.

Our thanks to contributing photographer Tom Donoghue for his close-up ring-action photos, and you can see why readers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s 2016 Best of Las Vegas Awards today voted him Best Photographer. Congratulations to our hard-working and talented Tom!

Tom told me that he heard from everybody ringside that a Manny vs. Floyd fight is in the planning stages for the New Year. No word yet where that fight would take place. MGM Grand Garden Arena used to have rights to stage Floyd’s fights in Las Vegas.

My neighbor Bob Arum has said such a fight deserved to be in an arena much larger than what we currently have in our desert kingdom. In addition to Floyd being ringside, hotel mogul Steve Wynn and his wife, Andrea, sat beside Bob in the front rows.

Also there, newly coiffed Pia Wurtzbach, the reigning Miss Universe from The Philippines, with pageant chief Paula Shugart, who went directly to the Thomas & Mack from hair guru Michael Boychuck’s Color Salon, a 2016 BOLV silver medalist, at Caesars Palace.

Manny celebrates his 38th birthday next month. He is 10 years older than Jessie. Despite being off from the gym and ring for the last 7 months, Manny landed 101 of his 212 punches, Jessie 104 of 561. Manny had 6 weeks of workouts while juggling parliamentary duties.

Manny was noncommittal about the possible fight against Floyd, saying: “I’m not going to pick my next opponent. I’ll fight whoever the people want me to fight. I’m just so happy about my performance tonight. We’ll just have to wait and see if Mayweather is next.”

This is the fourth time that Manny holds the World Boxing Organization’s welterweight belt. Jessie won the then-vacant title in March when he defeated Sadam Ali. Be sure to check out the RJ’s round-by-round report.</s>Last summer Manny Pacquiao was elected a senator in his home country of the Philippines.

Saturday night he dusted off the boxing gloves as if he'd never missed a day in the gym, outclassing Jessie Vargas to reclaim his World Boxing Organization welterweight belt.

In the second round Pacquiao landed a stiff left, dropping Vargas to the canvas, and the Thomas & Mack Center crowd erupted in cheers.

“His speed surprised me at the beginning, and that knockdown woke me up,” Vargas said. “He has tremendous speed, and sometimes you get caught with those quick shots you don’t see and it knocks you down.”

The 37-year-old legend was more than 7,000 miles from his home country but appeared at home inside the boxing ring.

Pacquiao (59-6-2, 28 KOs) defeated Vargas (27-2, 10 KOs) via unanimous decision (114-113, 118-109, 118-109) to win the belt that he relinquished upon retirement last year.

“I feel happy,” Pacquiao said. “I tried every round to knock him down, but I don’t want to be careless. I was very careful to go inside because I know he could counter me.”

The now-11-time champion represents his country in office — he didn’t miss a senate session over the past year — and in the ring with his signature hand speed that baffles opponents.

His fans rewarded him, showering him with a deafening “Manny” chant as he stalked Vargas around the ring.

Vargas ended the fight with a bleeding right eye that was nearly swollen shut after 12 rounds of snapping right hooks from “Pacman.”

Pacquiao nearly had two other knockdowns late in the fight, but referee Kenny Bayless waved them off as slips.

Vargas did manage to hang with Pacquiao for the first half of the fight — sans the knockdown in the second round — but Pacquiao cruised in the second half of the fight as his superior speed allowed him to beat Vargas to the punch.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. watched ringside, raising obvious questions about a rematch of the record-breaking megafight from May 2, 2015.

“I’m going to go back to the Philippines and back to work at the Senate and I will talk to Bob (Arum) about my next fight,” Pacquiao said. “I don’t know who it will be. Whoever the people want me to fight. I’m not picking an opponent. Whoever my promoter picks for me I will fight.”</s>Manny Pacquiao put on a dazzling display in his return to the ring after a brief retirement, scoring a unanimous decision over champion Jessie Vargas to claim the WBO welterweight title in Las Vegas on Saturday.

Despite giving away 10 years to his opponent, the 37-year-old Pacquiao fought with more intensity and energy, and dominated the American in the final rounds to close out an emphatic victory.

The judges scored the bout 114-113, 118-109 and 118-109 in favour of Pacquiao, the only fighter to hold titles in eight divisions, with the Filipino improving to 59-6-2, while Vargas fell to 27-2.

It was a master class taught by the first sitting Senator to win a world boxing championship as Pacquiao temporarily left the ring to win election in the Philippines and serve in office before making a return to what he called his "passion".

Pacquiao, whose last previous bout was a unanimous decision over Timothy Bradley in April, showed quickly that he had not lost his skills, knocking Vargas down in the second round with a straight left to the champion's face.

Vargas battled back and landed his dangerous right several times but Pacquiao withstood the punishment and by the end of the bout, the American's face was swollen on one side and he had a cut over his right eyebrow.

The Filipino southpaw piled up the points in the later rounds by peppering the title holder with stiff right jabs that set up his quick, punishing left hook.

"I feel happy," said Pacquiao, whose only regret was in not recording his first knockout victory since 2009. "I feel like I could do more but my aim in every round is not to knock him out.

"Thanks to all my fans! Thanks to all the Filipino people!" he added in the ringside interview.

Among the spectators at the Thomas & Mack Center were the currently retired Floyd Mayweather and light-welterweight champion Terence Crawford. Pacquiao lost the richest bout ever to Mayweather last May.

"Next? I'm going back to the Philippines to work in the Senate," Pacquiao said about his immediate plans before being asked about Mayweather or Crawford.

"I don't know, whoever the people wants to fight me. Whoever my promoter gives to me, I will fight."

Vargas described the bout as "a chess match".

"It was interesting for me. We were on our toes trying to catch a big shot. He caught me a couple of times, I caught him a couple of times. It was an entertaining fight," he said.

"It's a good learning experience being against one of the best such as Manny Pacquiao. This automatically elevated my game and I know I have more potential."

Earlier, undefeated 25-year-old Mexican Oscar Valdez Jr (22-0) topped the undercard with a brutal seventh-round stoppage of Japan's Hiroshige Osawa (30-4-4) to retain his WBO featherweight championship.</s>Jennifer Ott, an executive vice president in ROI Commercial Real Estate’s retail division, will take the helm of one of the largest commercial real estate organizations in Las Vegas in 2017.

On Jan. 1, Ott, a 14-year-industry veteran, will start her term as president of Commercial Alliance Las Vegas, the commercial arm of the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.

The Northern California native is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and earned an undergraduate degree in business with an emphasis on marketing.

Q: How did you get into commercial real estate?

A: It was kind of a fluke. I graduated college the summer of 2002, and my uncle’s mother-in-law was a commercial real estate broker at the NAI office that was in town at the time. She was getting ready to go on vacation, and she asked if I would come in and help out their partner and their junior assistant.

Q: What was the retail market like after the recession?

A: When we started to come out of the recession, major retailers started to kick the tires first, just asking questions: What’s available? What are the rates like? What kind of deals are you seeing? I had deals that took five years, from the time they started talking, to the time they opened.

Q: What is attracting large retailers to Las Vegas now?

A: What we’re seeing overall in the market: We have population growth again; we’ve got the improvement in the job market. We just had new unemployment numbers come out, and we have more jobs than we did before the recession. Think about the fact that we still have not recovered all those construction jobs that we lost. That says a lot as to how our market has evolved, how there’s more diversification, how it’s probably a safer market now.

Q: How long have you been a part of CALV?

A: This will be my fourth year on the board. Every year, things are growing and getting better. As of today, we’re up to 408 members.

Q: What are some of the positives you find in CALV?

A:One of the things that I’ve found to be the most valuable is its work in government affairs and the fact that we work with the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors. We have the power of the GLVAR behind us. They’re one of the most powerful groups in the nation. We work with them and we work with NAIOP. We work with all these organizations to protect our industry, protect personal property rights in the commercial real estate world ... .

Q: Can you tell me about Las Vegas’ business license fee for commercial property landlords?

A: The city of Las Vegas is trying to have a license fee based on gross rents.

Q: Did CALV get involved in Las Vegas’ business licensing issue?

A: That’s a huge thing that we worked on this year; it has been a huge focus of our discussions in all of our board meetings. We’ve had people out there in meetings with the city and the mayor, and they’ve been working extensively to help the situation so that our clients and our industry aren’t affected in a negative way and to come to a compromise with the city.

Q: What are some of your goals for CALV in 2017?

A: We want to grow membership, and I’d like to see people get more involved and get a better understanding of what the benefits of being a member of Commercial Alliance are.</s>LAS VEGAS: Manny Pacquiao announced his retirement seven months ago but after serving his first stint as a rookie senator, the fire was rekindled and the stage set for a return to boxing.

Pacquiao is hoping to reclaim the WBO welterweight title for the third time. But juggling two jobs, including his new gig as a full-time politician in the Philippine Senate, has cut into his training camp.

Pacquiao, who turns 38 next month, is going up against the younger WBO champ Jessie Vargas, who has a height, reach and weight advantage.

Pacquiao tipped the scales at 144.8 pounds (65.7 kilograms) in front of a crowd of about 900 at Friday’s weigh-in at the Encore Theater inside the Wynn hotel and casino. Vargas (27-1, 10 knockouts) weighed in at 146.5 pounds.

“I know I am the challenger going in and I have to fight that way,” Pacquiao said Friday. “It is not enough to do well, I have to take the title away from him.”

Pacquiao arrived first stripping off his black and gold tracksuit and stepping on the scale wearing gray boxer shorts and trademark white socks.

“I want to make history. It would mean a lot for me to win this fight,” he said.

Pacquiao won the WBO title for the first time in 2010 when he beat Miguel Cotto. He lost it two years later to Timothy Bradley, then got it back by winning the rematch with Bradley in 2014. He then lost it to Floyd Mayweather last year.

Pacquiao (58-6-2 with 38 KOs) still has a lot left and a seven-month hiatus can hardly be considered a retirement. But he’s not getting any younger and hasn’t had a knockout victory since 2009.

No fighter can go on forever. It remains to be seen if his part-time training routine and the wear of 66 professional fights finally brings Pacman to a halt against Vargas, who is 10 years younger, five inches (13 centimeters) taller and has a four-inch reach advantage.

Pacquiao said he was retiring following his April 9 two- knockdown victory over Bradley in their third fight.

Pacquiao looked impressive in stopping Bradley, showing that he has recovered from a shoulder injury that hampered him in his fight against Mayweather in May 2015.

Now it remains to be seen what Vargas’ youth and size advantage means against the highly skilled and more experienced Pacquiao.

Vargas is making his first title defense after winning the vacant WBO crown by beating Sadam Ali.

Donaire ready to defend crown

 In another bout on the card, Nonito Donaire of the Philippines will put his WBO junior featherweight crown on the line against Jessie Magdaleno of the United States.

Donaire, 37-3 with 24 knockouts, has been training hard under new trainer Ismael Salas.

Two time Olympic gold medallist Zou Shiming will also share the billing with Pacquiao as he goes for his first-ever professional boxing crown against a familiar foe in Kwanpichit Onesongchaigym of Thailand.

First defense

 “Manny Pacquiao has had a great career,” said Vargas, who is from Las Vegas but says he is fighting for Mexican pride. “Everybody that beats him becomes a legend and I look forward to becoming a legend.”

Not many of the fans inside the Encore Theater on Friday were giving Vargas much of a chance.

“Manny will win because he favors this type of boxing style,” said Alex Picarra, of Henderson, Nevada. “Vargas is a good fighter but he is also a brawler and that plays into Manny’s style.”

Picarra, who works for an air conditioning company, said Vargas is out of his league.

“Manny’s still got it,” he said. “I watched Vargas fight Bradley and Bradley dominated him. If Bradley can dominate him, then what is Manny going to do?”

Mikael Osorito, of Daly City, California, is an example of the Manny mania of Filipino expats.

The 41-year-old airport worker flew to Las Vegas just so he could attend the weigh-in.

Osorito will fly home Saturday morning and enjoy the fight on a big screen TV with about 30 friends and family.

“I come to all of Manny’s weigh-ins,” said Osorito, who paid $100 just to watch the weigh-in prior to the Mayweather mega fight in 2015.

“Manny has more explosive power. He is not afraid in the ring. It’s do or die.”

$200M to charity

 Pacquiao, known as the “People’s Champ” in his native Philippines, says he has given away about $200 million on projects to help the less fortunate.

“Every income I receive in boxing, almost half of it goes to the less fortunate,” Pacquiao said. “After each fight, half of my income goes to the poor.

According to Forbes, Pacquiao’s income from career purses and endorsements is around $500 million.

Pacquiao has a number of projects underway in the Philippines including building 1,500 homes on the island of Mindanao. He also helped to buy a fleet of new boats for fishermen in a coastal community.

Pacquiao says he needs to keep fighting so he can continue the charity work that has done throughout much of his 21-year boxing career.

Pacquiao was elected to the Philippine Senate in May. He sits on 15 committees, two of which he chairs. His Senate duties have meant he has only been able to train part-time for the upcoming fight against Jessie Vargas.

“I enjoy politics because I do not have a hidden agenda. I serve honestly,” he said.</s>Row houses and apartment buildings nestled between restaurants and shops could someday spring up along Lake Mead Boulevard, all within walking distance of a library, a museum and a transit station.

Planners envision a brighter downtown North Las Vegas bustling with activity, but acknowledge that it will take some time and work to get there.

Costs and a timeline aren’t yet determined, but the first signs of road improvements and green space could start springing up sometime next year, said Gina Gavin, director of economic and business development for the city.

“We have some really good bones,” Gavin told the North Las Vegas City Council during a redevelopment meeting held last month. “We just have to find a way to take those bones and give them some strength.”

Lake Mead Boulevard and Fifth Street would likely serve as the epicenter for much of the revival in downtown North Las Vegas, a 160-acre area roughly bordered by Interstate 15, Las Vegas Boulevard, Tonopah Avenue and Judson Avenue.

The pedestrian-friendly urban core is dubbed Lake Mead Village West, with planners and city officials hoping to position the area as a regional destination known for farmer’s markets, street fairs and other community events.

“I am so tired of hearing people say, ‘We don’t want to go to that part of North Las Vegas,’ so we need that type of draw,” City Councilwoman Anita Wood said during the workshop.

Over the next several months, Gavan said that city officials will develop a construction schedule, form a downtown advisory group, continue to purchase available property and draft a list of incentives that might spur developers into building in the neighborhood.

Part of that area includes Washington Continuation School, which the city purchased earlier this year for $260,000 to potentially house a museum or art gallery. Nearby, a library might go into a building the city acquired at 1936 White Street. A new transit station on Fifth Street could serve as a hub for bus riders.

City officials spent the past year developing ideas with Bunnyfish Studio, the architect who helped spearhead redevelopment in downtown Las Vegas.

“We want to create a plan that the city of North Las Vegas can use to go out and give people who work here a sense of what the place could be, and what it will be,” said Craig Palacios, a partner at Bunnyfish, which was paid a $75,000 consulting fee by the city.

Palacios said that part of the challenge is that the fact that drivers exiting Interstate 15 don’t always know that they are in downtown North Las Vegas. A series of landmark signs around the downtown core would provide “a better sense of place” for the neighborhood.

The addition of wider sidewalks, bicycle lanes and narrower traffic lanes along Lake Mead Boulevard would increase pedestrian traffic while also reducing vehicle speeds through the downtown core, said Jennifer Doody, director of the city’s Public Works Department.

“We’re not going to be able to do this without people pulling together,” said Councilman Isaac Barron, whose Ward 1 takes in downtown North Las Vegas. “I think that better days are ahead, and we have a great blueprint.”

Contact Art Marroquin at amarroquin@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0336. Follow @AMarroquin_LV on Twitter.</s>A man has been arrested in connection with a double shooting early Monday morning on the Las Vegas Strip.

Dispatchers received a call about 2:30 a.m. reporting a shooting on the pedestrian bridge between the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas and Planet Hollywood, Metro spokesman David Gordon said.

Police believe the shooting began with an altercation between the 26-year-old suspect and two male victims, Gordon said. One shot fired and the two men were hit by the same bullet, police said.

The suspect fled the scene after the shooting but Las Vegas police later took him into custody.

Both victims were taken to a hospital. Their condition is unknown.

Contact Rachel Hershkovitz at rhershkovitz@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0381. Follow @rzhershkovitz on Twitter.</s>Guests who bring in donated items will receive one free medium hot or iced coffee, or donut

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In boxing, Philippine Senator Manny Pacquiao defeats Jessie Vargas in Las Vegas to claim the World Boxing Organization's welterweight title.