NBA -- Rockets blast Warriors by 22
By Ryan Medida, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
SAN FRANCISCO -- The one-two punch of James Harden and Dwight Howard proved more than enough for the Houston Rockets to score an easy win over the visiting Golden State Warriors Friday night at the Toyota Center. Harden exploded for 34 points while Howard added 22 and 18 rebounds as the Rocket  Read Full Story >>>

NBA -- Bobcats outrun Sixers, 105-88
By Homer D. Sayson, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013

CHICAGO --- The Charlotte Bobcats scored a season-high 105 points and held the visiting Philadelphia Sixers to 88 to score their 9th win in 20 games this season. Jefferey Taylor was the high point man for the Bobcat  Read Full Story >>>

‘Pacquiao fight would be Provodnikov’s last choice’ – manager
By Phil D. Jay, World Boxing News, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
Vadim Kornilov, the manager current WBO light-welterweight champion Ruslan Provodnikov, has dismissed recent reports that the Russian wants to face stablemate Manny Pacquiao next. There has been some suggestions that Provodnikov was keen on sealing a meeting with his former sparring partner in re  Read Full Story >>>

Ring return set for Denver Cuello
By Snow Badua, Solar News (PH), Sat, 07 Dec 2013
MANILA - Four months after he underwent surgery to repair his torn rotator cuff, Filipino WBC minimumweight contender Denver Cuello has already been lined up for a return bout. Longtime boxing manager Aljoe Jaro told Solar Sports Desk that the hard-hitting southpaw has already been lined up to led   Read Full Story >>>

Trout enters ring with a heavy heart
By George Willis, New York Post, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
The theme of Brooklyn heritage runs deep in Saturday’s boxing card at Barclays Center. Zab Judah and Paulie Malignaggi, who will meet in the main event, were both born and honed their boxing skills in Brooklyn. But it’s Austin Trout who might carry the most emotional connection to the borough when h  Read Full Story >>>

CHRIS JOHN LOSES SPONSOR, THEN LOSES WORLD TITLE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013

John. WBO featherweight champion Chris John of Indonesia whose abrupt withdrawal of his sponsor threatened the cancellation of his WBA featherweight title defense against IBO champion Simpiwe “V12” Vetyeka of South Africa  Read Full Story >>>

RYAN SERMONA WINS WBC INTERNATIONAL TITLE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013

Sermona. Filipino southpaw Ryan Sermona has won the WBC International super featherweight title with a 4th round knockout of Australia’s defending champion Matt Garlett at the Metro City Thunderdome in Perth, Western Austra  Read Full Story >>>

PINOY ATHLETES DEDICATE PERFORMANCE TO EARTHQUAKE AND TYPHOON SURVIVORS
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
The country’s two top leaders in sports – Philippine Olympic committee president Jose “Peping” Cojuangco and Philippine Sports Commission chair Ritchie Garcia -- called on the small 220-athlete Philippine delegation to dedicate their performance in the coming 27th Southeast Asian Games to their   Read Full Story >>>

Danzón Days: Guillermo Rigondeaux-Joseph Agbeko Preview
By Carlos Acevedo, The Cruelest Sport, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
A Lunesta Fiesta may or may not take place tonight when Guillermo Rigondeaux makes his first start since nearly whitewashing Nonito Donaire last April when he faces veteran dangerman Joseph Agbeko at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Except for suffering a knockdown in the 10th round,  Read Full Story >>>

Op-Ed: Purse split seen to make or break Pacquiao-Mayweather showdown
By Leo Reyes, Digital Journal, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
For over three years of on-and-off negotiations by promoters of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather in what appears to be the biggest fight in boxing history, everything seems to have been agreed upon, except for the manner of sharing the fight purse. During the early stages of negotiations, the m  Read Full Story >>>

FLOYD MAYWEATHER ON NEXT FIGHT: "WHOEVER IT'S GONNA BE, IT'S GONNA BE A SOLID GUY"
By Ben Thompson, FightHype.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
"We don't know. We don't know, you know, what the future holds for Floyd Mayweather. The only thing I can do, like I always say, you know, it's like it's rehearsed, keep my fingers crossed and just hope for the best," stated undefeated pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather, who is still mum on his n  Read Full Story >>>

Battle for the hometown crown
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
Zab Judah and Paulie Malignaggi, two of boxing's biggest-name fighters, who have been friendly with each other for years, have both held world titles at welterweight and junior welterweight. Each has been in a number of major fights and each hopes to someday wrap another world title belt around his   Read Full Story >>>

Boxing preview: HBO BAD tripleheader Rigondeaux, Kirkland, Macklin Saturday
By Gayle Falkenthal, The Washington Times, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
SAN DIEGO, December 6, 2013 – Skilled defensive fighters often put together impressive records, but fail to thrill boxing fans who want to see rock ‘em sock ‘em action in the ring. HBO’s “Boxing After Dark” from Atlantic City features one of those talented tacticians, Cuban super bantamweight Gui  Read Full Story >>>

NBA -- Bulls cool off Heat (Photos)
By Homer D. Sayson, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013

CHICAGO -- Deflated by the season-ending loss of their leader Derrick Rose and reeling from six defeats in seven games, the Chicago Bulls looked like easy prey to the two-time defending champions Miami Heat, who came  Read Full Story >>>

Limpag: Thank Manny by saying thank you
By Mike T. Limpag, Sun.Star Cebu, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
I MAY BE biased, but for me, one of the best bunch of national athletes was that 2010 Philippine men’s national team that played in the Suzuki Cup. Before the tournament, they got the same amount of compensation as the attention given them, which was next to nothing. Mike T. Limpag Fair Play  Read Full Story >>>

In Search of Cuban Flash
By Ted Sares, Boxing.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
Hank Kaplan is reported to have said that Rodriguez was probably the most underrated lighter weight fighter of the past half-century… “As soon as I entered the smoke-filled auditorium and heard the ooohs and aaahs, I sensed immediately what kind of fighter was in there. Then I heard, ‘Oh my God…d  Read Full Story >>>

SURE WAY TO MAKE PACQUIAO-MAYWEATHER (Part I)
By Reni M. Valenzuela, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013

Richard Shaeafer of Golden Boy Promotions is bitterly mad at Top Rank’s Bob Arum. He minced no word in his latest tirade against the latter a la Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago versus a fellow Philippine senator who is in hi  Read Full Story >>>

WEIGHTS FROM BROOKLYN, NY - JUDAH - 146 LBS., MALIGNAGGI - 147 LBS.
PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013

MAIN EVENT - NABF WELTERWEIGHT TITLE - 12 ROUNDS Zab JUDAH (42-8, 29 KO’s) - 146 lbs vs. Paulie MALIGNAGGI (32-5, 7 KO’s)- 147 lbs IBF WELTERWEIGHT TITLE - 12 ROUNDS Devon ALEXANDER (25-1, 14 KO’s) - 146.4 lbs. v  Read Full Story >>>

NELSON MANDELA, THE BOXER WHO STOPPED APARTHEID
By Maloney L. Samaco, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013

Former South African President Nelson Mandela, the world's famous anti-apartheid revolutionary was a boxer and started joining the sport of fist fighting in 1936 at the Fort Hare University. He was able to balance his study in   Read Full Story >>>

KOJI OISHI KNOCKS OUT HONORIO BANARIO TO RETAIN ONE FC FEATHERWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013

*PLUS: FILIPINO WARRIORS KEVIN BELINGON, EDUARD FOLAYANG AND GEJE EUSTAQUIO SUCCESSFUL IN FRONT OF HOMETOWN CROWDALSO: SOUTH AFRICAN VUYISILE COLOSSA DEDICATES VICTORY TO LATE NELSON MANDELA* *6 December 2013 – Manila, P  Read Full Story >>>

RIGONDEAUX - 121 LBS., AGBEKO - 121.6 LBS. (PHOTOS)
PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013

Dec. 6, 2013, New York, NY -- (L-R) WBA/WBO 122 lb. champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and challenger Joseph Agbeko weigh in (Rigondeaux 121 lbs, Agbeko 121.6 lbs) for their upcoming world championship fight, Saturday, Dec  Read Full Story >>>

Despite split with Golden Boy, HBO still dominates cable ratings in big boxing year
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
By many standards, 2013 was a disastrous year for the boxing program on HBO Sports. In February, boxing's biggest star, Floyd Mayweather Jr., bolted HBO to sign a massive, six-fight, 30-month contract with rival Showtime. After HBO subsequently announced it would no longer do business with Golden  Read Full Story >>>

Vetyeka hands Chris John his first loss, stops him in six
By Ryan Songalia, RingTV.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
For close to a decade, Chris John had held onto the WBA featherweight title, banking away title defenses against relatively unknown opposition while creeping ever closer to the mystical 49-0 unbeaten champion streak of Rocky Marciano. The closest John will ever come to matching that mark is 48-0  Read Full Story >>>

Provodnikov on Pacquiao, Bradley, Marquez, Mayweather
By Lem Satterfield, RingTV.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
To fight Manny Pacquia or not to fight him -- that may soon be a question for Ruslan Provodnikov. Banner Promotions' President Artie Pelullo, who guides the newly crowned WBO junior welterweight titleholder, said that he would like "The Siberian Rocky's" next fight to be a rematch with WBO welt  Read Full Story >>>

Bradley, Marquez eyed for Pacquiao
By Nick Giongco, Tempo, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
While Tim Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez are being floated around as possible foes for Manny Pacquiao on April 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, it doesn’t appear either one will end up facing the Filipino icon. “They blew their chances (of facing Pacquiao),” said Pacquiao adviser Mike Koncz fro  Read Full Story >>>

Jenna Jay: “If Manny Pacquiao gets an offer to fight Mayweather he better take it, because I think it will be the last offer he’s gonna get.”
By Robert Brown, OTR Boxing Radio, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
Jenna Jay is a multi-award winning journalist and founder of the “On The Ropes” Boxing Radio show. She has interviewed the likes of Andre Ward, Carl Froch, Freddie Roach, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Sr, Emanuel Steward, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler and many more. In this interview we discus  Read Full Story >>>

Malignaggi and Alexander Would Both Like Crack At Mayweather
By Michael Woods, The Sweet Science, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
Paul Malignaggi is smart. Not smart for a boxer, to use a patronizing term, but smart, period. I told him so a couple days ago, as we chatted about his Saturday scrap against Zab Judah at Barclays Center. "You like to think a few steps ahead, and you got some Machiavelli in you," I told him, as h  Read Full Story >>>

Judah vs Malignaggi: Time, preview and fight card
By Sam Gregory, Fight Saga, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
It's time for the 'Battle for Brooklyn.' Televised live from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, former junior welterweight and welterweight title holders Zab Judah 42-8 with 29 KO's and Paulie Malignaggi 32-5 with 7 KO's will headline Showtime Championship Boxing Saturday night. Time  Read Full Story >>>

Malignaggi Eyes Winner of Broner-Maidana
Tha Boxing Voice, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
LONDON (Dec. 6) – Paulie Malignaggi has compared his weekend clash with Zab Judah to the classic Rome football derby, as he eyes a possible rematch with rising megastar Adrien Broner. ‘The Magic Man’ will be hoping to cast his spell in the ring on Saturday night, live on BoxNation, as he takes o  Read Full Story >>>

The Money Angle – Will Amir Khan Be A Worthwhile Financial Windfall for Floyd Mayweather Jr. When All is Said and Done
By Scott "Kubryk" Sawitz, Inside Fights, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
Earlier I wrote about the baffling decision by Floyd Mayweather Jr. to take on British fighter Amir Khan, which is heavily reported as being a done deal. I don’t feel it will be competitive for a number of reasons I discussed earlier, of course, but something kept bothering me as well. Mayweather  Read Full Story >>>

Superfight: Floyd Mayweather vs. Sergio Martinez, "Maravilla" Dances With "Money
By John Garfield, Examiner.com, Sat, 07 Dec 2013
Rain. For the reigning WBC middleweight champion, Sergio Martinez, these are indeed stormy times. Having morphed into a November 2010 version of himself, he arrives in Buenos Aires after a long flight from Spain, to meet with another time traveler of a different kind. Clad in stylish shades an  Read Full Story >>>