De la Hoya ? Pacquiao: Just Sheer Hype? On September 2003, boxing promoter Oscar de la Hoya fought Middleweight King Bernard ?The Executioner? Hopkins at 160 lbs. He bloated himsel… Thu, 22 Nov 2007
Can Barrera Chalk-up an Upset? Recently, I watched the fights of Manny Pacquiao that commenced from November 2003 to April 2007. His opponents that I picked up in the span… Fri, 05 Oct 2007
Strategies Barrera Have to Muster to Defeat Pacquiao<br>But Would They Enough? In the wars participated by Bernard Hopkins and Antonio Tarver, Hopkins and Winky Wright, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar de la Hoya, and Win… Wed, 03 Oct 2007
READERS REACT TO ROY JONES COMMENT ON PACQUIAO Man, here’s what Roy Jones had got on his “blasphemy” against Pacman. In my column yesterday titled: “Will it be Bar… Tue, 24 Jul 2007
Will It Be Barrera, Not Marquez, Who Will Solve the Pacquiao Puzzle? Former pound–for-pound king Roy Jones has so much admiration on Marco Antonio Barrera that he emphatically told Doug Fisher of Maxboxi… Mon, 23 Jul 2007
Column Boxing’s Lost Opportunities: The Arum-Pacquiao Contractual Debacle World class boxing is primordially powered by Adam Smith’s laissez faire economy. The most-sought matches by the paying fight fans cal… Sun, 10 Jun 2007
Column A Day of Infamy The Demetrius Hopkins vs Steve Forbes, the Daniel Ponce de Leon vs. Gerry Pe?alosa, and the Marco Antonio Barrera vs Juan Manuel Marquez wer… Mon, 19 Mar 2007
Column Fall-Out of a Contractual Blunder As a former colony of the United States for almost 40 years, laws in the Philippines are quite synonymous with the U.S. That’s why jur… Mon, 01 Jan 2007
Column GAB, Pacman, & Politicians At 8 Am last Friday, I was zealously discussing boxing with Dagupan City’s Bombo- Radyo manager and commentator Marvin Modelo on the a… Sun, 22 Oct 2006
Column Can Pacman Transform his Ring Prowess into Politics? Emmanuel Pacquaio means Excellence -- the renaissance and quintessential man the Filipino’s Malay-Indonesian race has ever produced. H… Sun, 06 Aug 2006
Column Sports R.P. Can Globally Pole-Vault Like boxing, soccer is another sport where the Philippines can go to places. Unlike in basketball, where height plays a major advantage, soc… Sun, 25 Jun 2006
Column Pacquaio-Larios: Does an Upset Loom? In the Mano-a-Mano between Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao and Oscar “Chololo” Larios, most Filipino boxing fans will root f… Sat, 17 Jun 2006
Column Gab and Jab at GAB Gab and jab at GAB By Mortz Marcelo Ortigoza I felt sorry for the tragedy that basketball star Eugene Tejada of Purefoods succumbed. Jesus, … Sat, 20 May 2006
Column ABS/CBN’s High Priest Should Ponder on This Psychologically, Manny “Pacman” Pacquaio is a demigod. He is the quintessential Filipino superman except probably Superman’… Sat, 06 May 2006
Column Pacman’s trainer on ABS/CBN’s hefty-priced tickets At 11 p.m. last April 21, 2006 at the Rumble at the Bay, I asked boxing trainer, the renowned Boboy Fernandez (assistant trainer of Freddie … Sun, 23 Apr 2006
Column What Filipinos Could Learn on the Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s Dilemma The tragedy to befall on Pretty Boy Floyd Mayweather Jr. on the last part of the 10th round of his tussle with Zab “Super Zab” J… Sun, 16 Apr 2006
Column Is ABS/CBN a Threat to Boxing Promoters? Behind the July 2, 2006 Manny Pacquiao-Oscar Larios clash will be a well-oiled consortium of ABS/CBN Television Network and Manny Pacquiao P… Sun, 09 Apr 2006
Column Woe to those Poor Pacman Fans The stiff priced tickets peddled by Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao - ABS/CBN business partnership on the July 2, 2006 boxing match betw… Sat, 01 Apr 2006
Column Pacman–Barrera Rematch: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer! Bob Arum and Erik “El Terrible” Morales must get their act together lest they will be left on the sideline with the proverbial e… Sat, 11 Mar 2006
Column Can a Filipino Stop the Blitzkrieg of Jorge Arce? The Manny Pacquaio’s cult-like personality was at the expense of the blood of the unfortunate Mexico’s Three Musketeers Barrera,… Sat, 04 Mar 2006
