Veteran coach ‘in need’ of financial help
By Edri Aznar, Sun.Star Cebu, Mon, 10 Dec 2018
VETERAN boxing coach Juanito Ablaca is in dire need of financial assistance after being admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Mendero Medical Center in Consolacion, Cebu. Juanito was first admitted to the hospital in October due to pneumonia. He was brought to the ICU last Dec. 3 when   Read Full Story >>>

ESPN’s Telecast of Lomachenko-Pedraza is the Second Highest-Rated Fight on Cable Television in 2018, only Behind Crawford-Benavidez Jr. on ESPN October 2018
PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 10 Dec 2018

Last night, Top Rank on ESPN (9:12 p.m. ET to 12:35 a.m. ET.) witnessed Vasiliy Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs), the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world (according to ESPN.com ranking), accomplish another career highlight.   Read Full Story >>>

Eros Correa Remains Undefeated with TKO Victory in Mexico
PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 10 Dec 2018

TIJUANA, MX (December 9, 2018) - Last night in Tijuana, Mexico, hot bantamweight prospect, Eros Correa, who is managed by Cali Boxing Management, improved to (4-0, 4 KOs), with a second round TKO when his opponent Luis Marin  Read Full Story >>>

Keith "The Bounty" Hunter Remains Undefeated with 1st Round Knockout
PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 10 Dec 2018
BOWIE, MD (December 9, 2018) - Last night at Bowie State University, in Maryland, Prince Ranch Boxing's rising star, super lightweight prospect Keith "The Bounty" Hunter (9-0, 7 KOs), remained undefeated a devastating first round knockout against Siddharth Ravindra Varma (4-3-1, 1 KO). Hunter landed  Read Full Story >>>

Broner Slimming Down Ahead Of Pacquiao Bout
By Niall Doran, Boxing News and Views, Mon, 10 Dec 2018
Adrien Broner had a bit of weight on him it’s fair to say at the initial press conference a few weeks ago announcing his upcoming bout with Manny Pacquiao. But already his hard work appears to be paying off. In his latest training video post today on social media he’s dedicating the fight he s  Read Full Story >>>

Roy Jones Gives His Take On Pacquiao vs Broner
By Niall Doran, Boxing News and Views, Mon, 10 Dec 2018
Former pound for pound number one turned commentator Roy Jones Jr knows a thing or two about big pay per view fights. Speaking ahead of Manny Pacquiao vs Adrien Broner on January 19th in Las Vegas — Jones thinks the fight comes down to who wants it more. Speaking to Villainfy Media, Roy Jones   Read Full Story >>>

Lomachenko Outclasses Pedraza
By Robert Ecksel, Boxing.com, Mon, 10 Dec 2018
Saturday night at the Hulu Theater in New York’s Madison Square Garden, in a fight televised live on ESPN, WBA lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs), the southpaw savant from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine, outclassed WBO lightweight champion Jose Pedraza (25-2, 12 KOs), from Caguas,  Read Full Story >>>

Pacquiao’s build up regimen shifts to muscle-building
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018

With 80 per cent of his build up requirements in place after two weeks in camp, World Boxing Association welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao’s training program shifts to building muscle and stamina. Pacquiao, w  Read Full Story >>>

Lomachenko Decisions Pedraza, Unifies WBA/WBO Lightweight World Titles
PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018

Emanuel Navarrete Stuns Isaac Dogboe to win 122-pound world title Teofimo Lopez KOs Mason Menard in lightweight bout NEW YORK CITY (Dec. 8, 2018) — WBA lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko wanted to unify lightweig  Read Full Story >>>

RENE 'EL GEMELO' ALVARADO DEFEATS CARLOS 'THE SOLUTION' MORALES
PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018

ALVARADO-MORALES IS THE MAIN EVENT OF GOLDEN BOY FIGHT NIGHT ON FACEBOOK WATCH AT FANTASY SPRINGS RESORT CASINO JONATHAN 'THUNDER' NAVARRO AND HECTOR 'EL FINITO' TANAJARA JR. REMAIN UNDEFEATED WITH TOUGH WINS IN  Read Full Story >>>

Riddick Bowe Says He Could Beat Wilder With 3 Months of Training, 'I'd Tap That Ass'
PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018
TMZ SPORTS -- Riddick Bowe says with three months of training, he'd whoop the hell out of Deontay Wilder ... and the dude is dead serious. "I'd tap that ass," Riddick tells TMZ Sports. Bowe is 50 years old now and Deontay's a 33-year-old coming off the fight of his life ... but the boxing lege  Read Full Story >>>

Lomachenko Wants More Belts, Hopes For Mikey Garcia in 2019
BoxingScene.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018
Vasiliy Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs) unified the WBA and WBO lightweight titles after a unanimous decision win over Jose Pedraza on Saturday. Lomachenko was not at his best, but he was good enough to lock up a convincing win on the cards at 119-107, 117-109 and 117-109. The Ukrainian (12-1) did no  Read Full Story >>>

Lomachenko Drops Pedraza Twice, Wins Decision To Unify Titles
By Keith Idec, BoxingScene.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018
NEW YORK – Vasiliy Lomachenko almost knocked out another lightweight champion with a body shot at Madison Square Garden. Unlike Jorge Linares, Jose Pedraza survived Lomachenko’s onslaught late in their 135-pound title unification fight and went the distance with one of the best boxers in the spor  Read Full Story >>>

Vasiliy Lomachenko dominates Jose Pedraza to unify titles
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018
NEW YORK -- Pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko had accomplished so much in his first dozen pro fights by winning world titles in three weight classes and setting a variety of all-time boxing records along the way, but there was one thing that had eluded him: unifying belts. But the brilliant  Read Full Story >>>

BREAKHAUS DOMINATES LOPES, RETAINS TITLES
By Ed de la Vega, DDS, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018

CARSON, CA -- Cecilia Braekhus of Oslo, Norway (35-0-0, 9KO) kept her record clean with a win by unanimous decision over a very determined Aleksandra Lopes (18-5-3,1) of Marshfield, MA at the StubHub Center here Saturday   Read Full Story >>>

JUAN FRANCISCO ESTRADA STOPS VICTOR MENDEZ IN 7
By Ed de la Vega, DDS, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018

CARSON, CA -- Juan Francisco Estrada (38-4-0, 25KOs) of Hermosillo, Mexico forces Victor Mendez (28-4-2, 20KO) also of Hermosillo, Mexico, to quit on his stool at the end of round 7 at the StubHub Center here Saturday   Read Full Story >>>

SHIELDS SHUTS OUT HERMANS TO RETAIN HER TITLES
By Ed de la Vega, DDS, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018

CARSON, CA -- Claressa Shields (8-0-0, 2KOs) of Flint, Michigan stayed unbeaten after a unanimous decision win over Femke Hermans (9-2-0,3KO) of Belgium to retain her IBF, WBA and WBC world female middleweight titles at t  Read Full Story >>>

HAWTON STOPS VILLALOBOS
By Ed de la Vega, DDS, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018

CARSON, CA -- Filipina-Aussie Louisa Hawton (9-2-0, 5KOs) of Perth, Australia stops Lorraine Villalobos (2-2-0, 0KOs) of the United States to win the WBC Atom weight Interim belt. After a slam bang non stop exchanges from   Read Full Story >>>

UPSET! NAVARRETE DEFEATS DOGBOE TO WIN WBO WORLD TITLE
By Lukie Ketelle, Inside the Ropes, Sun, 09 Dec 2018
Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete (25-1, 22 KOs) outboxed and to some extent outclassed former WBO junior featherweight champion Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe (20-0, 14 KOs) taking a twelve round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Navarrete   Read Full Story >>>

EARLY RESULTS FROM CARSON, CA (PHOTOS)
By Ed de la Vega, DDS, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018

Below are the early undercard results of the double female unified world championships headlined by the Cecilia Breakhaus vs Aleksandra Lopes IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC, WBO World Female welterweight titles and the Claressa Shie  Read Full Story >>>

Lomachenko-Pedraza Undercard Results From Theater at MSG
By Keith Idec, BoxingScene.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018
NEW YORK – In the second fight Saturday night, Josue Vargas defeated John Renteria in the fifth round of another lightweight fight scheduled for eight rounds. The Bronx’s Vargas (12-1, 8 KOs) knocked down Renteria once apiece in the second, fourth and fifth rounds. Referee Eddie Claudio waved an   Read Full Story >>>

February 2: Alvarez-Kovalev 2 Lands at Ford Center at The Star
PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018

Live on ESPN beginning at 10 p.m. ET FRISCO, Texas (Dec. 8, 2018) —Their first fight ended with a dramatic knockout that shook up the Atlantic City Boardwalk. The rematch between Eleider “Storm” Alvarez and Sergey  Read Full Story >>>

Magnolia’s defense did the trick in Game 2
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018
Alaska looked to have recovered from the Aces lethargic Game 1 loss to Magnolia hotshots in the on-going best-of-seven series for the PBA Governors’ Cup. And the ghost, too, of the Aces and coach Alex Compton’s past four finals appearances that produced nothing but big flag eggs for the Wilf  Read Full Story >>>

The Matrix: I Am #1
By John Gatling, NYFights.com, Sun, 09 Dec 2018
They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they’d ever survive in this era? In this time where it’s recreation to unwrap gifts from the present and then give them away as presents for future consideration. 🎬 🎬 🎬 Vasyl Lomachenko aka “The Matrix”   Read Full Story >>>

Mayweather Senior Gives His Take On Pacquiao vs Broner
By Niall Doran, Boxing News and Views, Sun, 09 Dec 2018
Floyd Mayweather senior knows all abut both Manny Paacquiao and Adrien Broner so is in a position as good as anyone in the world of boxing trainers to call the upcoming fight between the two in Las Vegas. Senior trained his son to successfully win a unanimous points decision over Pacquiao back in  Read Full Story >>>

Ricky Hatton aims banter at Floyd Mayweather ref on tenth anniversary
World Boxing News, Sun, 09 Dec 2018
Former two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton had some choice tongue-in-cheek words for Joe Cortez ten years on from losing his ‘0’ in Las Vegas. Hatton, like Mayweather, took an impressive unblemished record into the fight. Labelled ‘Undefeated’, Mayweather v Hatton took place at the MGM Grand.   Read Full Story >>>

Vasyl Lomachenko Vs. Jose Pedraza: 10 Things You Should Know About Saturday's Fight
By Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, Sat, 08 Dec 2018
Vasyl Lomachenko (11-1, 9 KO) might be the best boxer in the world. On Saturday night, he'll try to drive that point home when he defends his WBA Super World Lightweight champion and tries to add the WBO title held by Jose Pedraza (25-1, 12 KO) in the process. Unification bouts are great and they  Read Full Story >>>

'He's back on the road again': Tyson Fury hits the gym after WBC give the thumbs up to Deontay Wilder rematch
By Harry Slavin, Mail Online (UK), Sat, 08 Dec 2018
Tyson Fury is already back hard at work ahead of his rematch with Deontay Wilder. The WBC gave Deontay Wilder the all-clear to fight Fury again on Friday, making a second bout between the two all the more likely. Fury shed 10 stone in order to get himself in shape for last Saturday's title fig  Read Full Story >>>

OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: The rise and fall of Pacquiao as a welterweight
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 08 Dec 2018

Did you know that the Manny Pacquao-Adrien Broner fight had been broached up as early as two years ago in 2016 when it was reported that the when Filipino ring icon would return to boxing following a brief self-imposed r  Read Full Story >>>

EXCLUSIVE: PHILIPPINE CRICKET CAPTAIN'S DIARY DOCUMENTING HISTORIC WORLD CUP WIN
PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 08 Dec 2018

IN THIS EXCLUSIVE nine-part series of daily diary entries, Philippine national team cricket captain Jonathan Hill – a dual Filipino-Australian citizen — takes you inside the team camp as they plan, practice, play and even  Read Full Story >>>

The Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury Result Wasn't Outrageous
By Michael Rosenthal, BoxingScene.com, Sat, 08 Dec 2018
A colleague I respect was in mid-tirade over the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury scoring when I weighed in with my own score: 113-113. He instinctively – and audibly – scoffed, his way of dismissing any validity my opinion might have. He’s not alone. Many angry would-be judges would place anyone who di  Read Full Story >>>