FILIPINO Grandmaster (GM) Wesley Barbasa So cemented his status as one of the Philippines' elite sportsmen by beating Canadian International Master (IM) Richard Wang in the final round to win the coveted title in the   

As Rios fight looms, Pacquiao enjoys his hoops
By Ryan Songalia, GMANews.tv, Thu, 23 May 2013
TAGUIG CITY - Away from the prizefighting ring, basketball is a refuge for Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao, who has won world titles in a record-setting eight divisions, finds solace on the court, where he can get in a cardiovascular workout in a competitive setting without the risk of being punched. Af  Read Full Story >>>

Dawson vs. Stevenson card announced for June 8 in Montreal
PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 23 May 2013

YURIORKIS GAMBOA VS. DARLEY PEREZ ALVAREZ, LEMIEUX, BENCE & BETERBIEV International stars on Dawson-Stevenson card June 8 in Montreal MONTREAL (May 22, 2013) --The interesting battle preceding the much-anticipat  Read Full Story >>>

Team Cotto Do Not Rule Out Any Scenario, Canelo Too
By Rick Reeno, BoxingScene.com, Thu, 23 May 2013
Gaby Peñagarícano, the legal adviser to former three division world champion Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30KOs), has informed BoxingScene.com that several scenarios are being explored for Cotto's fall return. One of those scenarios, as already revealed by Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, is ha  Read Full Story >>>

Roman Gonzalez: Testing The Waters At 112 Pounds
By Julio Garcia, Tha Boxing Voice, Thu, 23 May 2013
Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (34-0 28 KO’s) is very motivated in closing up the final days of hi training camp for his 112 pound debut against Colombian Ronald Barrera (31-11-2 19 KO’s) on Saturday May 25th in Managua, Nicaragua. “I feel good and ready for my next fight. I am strong and motivated fo  Read Full Story >>>

Top 5 welterweight punchers of all-time
By Rich Thomas, Profighting-fans.com, Thu, 23 May 2013
Hardest Punching Welterweight Boxers in History: Some point to the middleweight division as the best balance between size and speed, between grace and power, but in my mind that balance has always been best represented by the welterweights. That balance is best displayed by the five fighters who   Read Full Story >>>

Froch Ready To Erupt The Crowd With Rematch War
By Jake Donovan, BoxingScene.com, Thu, 23 May 2013
There is next to nothing Carl Froch can say about either of his two career losses, though there’s nothing preventing him from having a final say on attempting to reverse both setbacks. Step one comes this weekend, when the resurgent Brit welcomes to his backyard prior conqueror Mikkel Kessler. Th  Read Full Story >>>

CUELLO AT LAST TO BATTLE ZHONG FOR WBC MINIMUM WEIGHT TITLE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 23 May 2013

Cuello and Zhong. WBC minimum weight mandatory challenger Denver Cuello (33-4-6, 21 KO’s) the hard-hitting Filipino southpaw will at last battle champion Xiong Zhao Zhong (20-4-1, 11 KO’s) of China for the title in Dubai  Read Full Story >>>

FIBA-Asia Updates
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 23 May 2013
MANILA (PNA) -- Gilas-Pilipinas coach Chot Reyes must have found a reinforcement who could provide the Nationals the needed rebounding and defensive muscles in its bid to finish at least third in the coming FIBA-Asia Championship the country is hosting Aug. 1-11 in two separate venues. Needing ad  Read Full Story >>>

Mendez in England training for 1st world title defense
PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 23 May 2013

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (February 26, 2013) - International Boxing Federation (IBF) super featherweight champion Argenis "The Thunderstorm" Mendez (21-2-, 10 KOs) has arrived in England and joined his trainer, Lee Beard, to prepar  Read Full Story >>>

NBA - Spurs survive overtime scare, take 2-0 West Finals lead
By Homer D. Sayson, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 23 May 2013

CHICAGO -- The San Antonio Spurs blew an 18-point lead with 3:32 left in the third quarter but the four-time NBA champions gathered their poise in overtime to beat the Memphis Grizzlies, 93-89, in Game 2 of the Wester  Read Full Story >>>

Perea belittles Jaca
By Edri Aznar, Sun.Star Cebu, Thu, 23 May 2013
JOSE Emilio Perea expects his title fight with former world title contender Jimrex Jaca to be a tough battle on Saturday night. But it’ll be a war that he is certain will go his way. “That’s why I’m here. I came here to win, and I have all the attributes of becoming a great champion,” a confident  Read Full Story >>>

Floyd's skill vs. Matthysse's power
By Nigel Collins, ESPN.com, Thu, 23 May 2013
When Manny Pacquiao charged directly into the path of Juan Manuel Marquez's counter right hand and crashed face-first to the canvas, my companions sprang to their feet as if the couch they were sitting on was equipped with an ejector seat. It was an involuntary reaction to one of the most spectacula  Read Full Story >>>

Paulie Malignaggi: "There's plenty there for me to do to bring the sissy and the bitch out of Adrien Broner"
By Jenna Jay, DogHouseBoxing.com, Thu, 23 May 2013
On Saturday, June 22nd, Showtime boxing will present an interesting match up between two champions. WBA Welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi will be facing WBC Lightweight champion Adrien Broner at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Besides the intrigue in the fight itself, boxing fans ar  Read Full Story >>>

I was mauled by Pacquiao
The Manila Times, Thu, 23 May 2013
The barangay captain who has accused Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao and his bodyguards of ganging up on him two days before the elections said on Wednesday that he will not back down in pressing charges against the boxing champion and his men. Alfredo Belgica, who heads Barangay San Jose in Gene  Read Full Story >>>

PINOY PRIDE XX: PEREA EXPECTS TOUGH FIGHT VS. JACA
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr., PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 22 May 2013

MANDAUE CITY – It was the turn of Jose Emilio Perea of Mexico and Isack Junior of Indonesia to meet the Cebu sportswriters in a press conference held today at the Allure Hotel and Suites. Perea, who will face Jim  Read Full Story >>>

GERALDO TO BATTLE SANCHEZ FOR WBC SUPER FLY SILVER INTERIM TITLE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 22 May 2013

Geraldo (R). 21 year old Mark Anthony Geraldo will battle WBC super flyweight interim Silver champion David “Tornado” Sanchez in Sonora. Mexico on June 1 in a fight card where former WBA flyweight champion Hernan “Tyso  Read Full Story >>>

THREE FILIPINO BOXERS SEE ACTION IN AUSTRALIA ON FRIDAY
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 22 May 2013
Three Filipino boxers will see action on Friday in a fight card at the Town Hall in Malvern, Melbourne, Australia on a presentation of well-known promoter Peter Maniatis. Maniatis told the Manila Standard "I always try my best to help Filipino boxers and put them on my events because Filipino box  Read Full Story >>>

Tough Test For Freddie Turner, Faces Jay Morris At York Hall On June 1st
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 22 May 2013
Canning Town’s Freddie Turner is set to make his second outing under the TRAD TKO banner on Saturday 1st June, when he takes on Jay ‘IOW Assassin’ Morris at York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, on Johnny Eames’ TKO Events promoted ‘Two Tribes’ event, headlined by TRAD TKO gym mate Colin Lynes versus   Read Full Story >>>

Azad Championship Report - Rematch for a Rematch?
By Steve Kim, MaxBoxing.com, Wed, 22 May 2013
This Saturday at the O2 Arena in London, England, a highly anticipated rematch takes place in the super middleweight division between Mikkel Kessler and Carl Froch (HBO, 6 p.m., ET/3 p.m. PT and 10 p.m., ET). The first time they met was back on April 24th, 2010 in Hernig, Denmark, where Kessler won   Read Full Story >>>

HOW HE DID IT: Underrated Technician Matthysse Not Just A Bomber
By Lee Wylie , The Sweet Science, Wed, 22 May 2013
Lucas Matthysse (now 32-2 with 1 no contest and 32 Kos) showed why he is arguably the number one junior welterweight in the world –and one of the most avoided men in boxing –with an impressive third round knockout of Lamont Peterson (now 31-2-1 with 16 Kos) in Atlantic City on Saturday night. Pet  Read Full Story >>>

McCloskey ridicules Khan’s Mayweather hopes
Derry Journal, Wed, 22 May 2013
Dungiven southpaw, Paul McCloskey has launched a broadside at former foe, Amir Khan after the Bolton boxer claimed this week to have set his sights on Floyd Mayweather Jr.! McCloskey, who is set to return to the ring in early July in Hull, claimed on Social networking site, Twitter, that Khan w  Read Full Story >>>

CUELLO FIGHTS FOR WBC STRAWWEIGHT TITLE IN DUBAI
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr., PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 22 May 2013

The long wait is over. Promoter Aljoe Jaro informed philboxing that Denver ‘The Excitement’ Cuello (33-4-6, 21 KO’s) will challenge WBC 105 lb division world champion Xiong Zhao Zhong (20W-4L-1D, 11 KO’s) of China on   Read Full Story >>>

Pacquiao Asian Chess: Sadorra grabs solo lead
By Marlon Bernardino, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 22 May 2013

Individual Standings after Round 4: (Open division) 4.0 points---GM Julio Catalino Sadorra (PHI) 3.5 points---GM Le Quang Liem (VIET), GM Mark Paragua (PHI) 3.0 points---GM Mohammed Al-Sayed (QAT), GM John Paul Gomez (PH  Read Full Story >>>

'MALDITAS' PHILIPPINE WOMEN'S FOOTBALL TEAM BLASTS IRAN 6-0
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 22 May 2013

The Philippine women’s football team “Malditas” made a blistering start to their 2014 Asian Football Confederation Women’s Asian Cup qualifying campaign with three goals in the first four minutes of their Group B op  Read Full Story >>>

PBA COMMISSIONER SALUD GRATEFUL FOR RENEWED FAN INTEREST
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 22 May 2013

Chito Salud. PBA Commissioner Chito Salud buoyed by the response of basketball fans who shattered attendance records at the Smart Araneta Coliseum and turned in excellent ratings on television that saw ABC 5 overtake es  Read Full Story >>>

Idec on boxing: Argentinian lauded for performance
By Keith Idec, NorthJersey.com, Wed, 22 May 2013
Improved his record to 34-2ATLANTIC CITY — Richard Schaefer arrived at press row Saturday night full of over-the-top promotional hyperbole. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO LUCAS MATTHYSSE "We have the new Manny Pacquiao," Schaefer said emphatically. "He’s from Argentina and his name is Lucas  Read Full Story >>>

Q&A: Bernard Hopkins
RingTV.com, Wed, 22 May 2013
The self proclaimed “Godfather of Boxing,” Bernard Hopkins has been a professional prize-fighter for almost a quarter of a century. He lost his debut at light heavyweight before spending a year with trainer Bouie Fisher and resurfacing at middleweight. Nobody at the time would have guessed as he did  Read Full Story >>>

Kevin Durant pledges $1 million for tornado relief
By Homer D. Sayson, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 22 May 2013

CHICAGO -- As the editor of this site's NBA page, I've had the good fortune of meeting and interviewing Kevin Durant several times, including last year's NBA Finals when his team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, lost to the Miami He  Read Full Story >>>

Welcome (finally) to the Matthysse Era
By Brian Campbell, ESPN.com, Wed, 22 May 2013
The interruption came with the subtlety and grace of a sledgehammer, not unlike the punches landed minutes before by Lucas Matthysse in his dismantling of Lamont Peterson on Saturday. As Showtime's Jim Gray was set to begin his postfight interview with the Argentine slugger in the center of the r  Read Full Story >>>

Matthysse Still Without A Title, Earned Another One Saturday
By Julio Garcia, Tha Boxing Voice, Wed, 22 May 2013
Lucas Matthysse has long searched for becoming a world champion. He had fallen short twice in his biggest fights losing controversial decisions to Zab Judah and Devon Alexander. He stayed busy, building his resume and waiting on a shot to face WBC champion Danny Garcia, whom Matthysse is the mandato  Read Full Story >>>

PINOY PRIDE XX: FORMER JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ ASST. TRAINER NOW TRAINS JACA'S OPPONENT
By Mike Angel Lopez, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 22 May 2013

In a one on one talk with the trainer of boxer Jose Emilio Perea (22-2-0 14KO), the well experienced trainer Ernesto Salgado Garcia was very excited to be in the Philippines and gave some insights on his background.   Read Full Story >>>