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STORY OF PHILIPPINE BOXING PART XVIII: BEN VILLAFLOR, TWO-TIME WBA WORLD JUNIOR LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION
By Maloney L. Samaco, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
After Ben Villaflor won WBA junior lightweight title from Alfredo Marcano of Venezuela via a fifteen-round unanimous decision, he fought several non-title bouts including a match with world title challenger Jimmy Robertson whom h Read Full Story >>>Emanuel Navarrete Looks Ahead to Future at 122 and 126 Pounds
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
Navarrete (R) in action against Santisima.
(April 20, 2020) — WBO junior featherweight king Emanuel Navarrete is the world's busiest world champion, a 25-year-old pressure fighter who is proud to represent h Read Full Story >>> WORLD CUP OF POOL POSTPONED
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
The World Cup of Pool, set to take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia this June 23-28, has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rescheduled dates for the World Cup of Pool will be announced in due course.
Matchroom Pool, together with MoS (Ministry of Sports) and CBX, the official promoter of Read Full Story >>> Stay-busy fights to replace Pay-Per-View and big events until fans return
World Boxing News, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
The vast majority of massive boxing and Pay-Per-View events are not going to take place until fans make their return to the sport.
For now, crowded places are likely to be off-limits for months. It’s leading to top organizers looking to fill the gap in the interim.
Taking a leaf out of the p Read Full Story >>> THE SUPER-MIDDLEWEIGHTS RE-ENTER THE STAGE WITH THE SECOND RETRO WBSS
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
The World Boxing Super Series will be rerunning every Super-Middleweight bout from the inaugural season of the WBSS this week.
The opening clash between Callum Smith vs Erik Skoglund 16 Sep., 2017 in Liverpool g Read Full Story >>> Juan Manuel Marquez $150m Manny Pacquiao fifth fight offer debunked
By Phil D. Jay, World Boxing News, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
World Boxing News has delved a little deeper into claims Juan Manuel Marquez was offered $150 million to fight Manny Pacquiao for the fifth time.
The Mexican superstar made the astonishing revelation that Pacquiao’s eventual bid for another chance was $50 million more than first mentioned.
A Read Full Story >>> Former boxing champ moonlights as caregiver in US
By Nick Giongco, Tempo, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
Former world champion boxer Rodel Mayol isn’t struggling to make a living in the US even in these hard and trying times.
But to say that Mayol is living the American dream is premature.
Still, Mayol, who briefly held the World Boxing Council (WBC) light-flyweight crown in the late 2000s, is Read Full Story >>> Luck of the Irish
By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
Irish Magno.
With Irish Magno’s track record, it’s difficult to imagine that she’s in the history books as the first Filipina boxer ever to qualify for the Olympics. Call it the luck of the Irish. The Iloilo-bo Read Full Story >>> Carlo Caesar Peñalosa keeps training despite Covid-19 lockdown
By Lito delos Reyes, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
Carlo Peñalosa (R) with his uncle Gerry Peñalosa.
DAVAO CITY -- Despite the lockdown caused by Covid-19, there is no stopping on flyweight Carlo Caesar "Too Sharp" Peñalosa from practicing for a poss Read Full Story >>> Crawford on Pacquiao: “I’ve been trying to fight him since 2015”
By Paul Magno, Overtime Heroics, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
While WBO welterweight champ Terence Crawford is training and staying fit during this forced down time, his frustration is still percolating.
Frozen out of the welterweight picture due to his promotional/business alliance, the three-division world champ is still on the outside looking in. With th Read Full Story >>> Boxing news: Josh Taylor seeking 'dream' world title clash with 'hero' Manny Pacquiao
By Matt Penn, Express.co.uk, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
Josh Taylor is targeting a bout with his boxing 'hero' Manny Pacquiao one day. Taylor fights in the weight class below Pacquiao but is seeking an eventual clash with the Filipino at welterweight.
Taylor hasn't fought since his win over Regis Prograis in the World Boxing Super Series final in Lond Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather still got it at 43, hits the gym for potential 2020 return
World Boxing News, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
Floyd Mayweather is back in the gym and hitting the bags himself after recently playing the role of a trainer at his Mayweather Gym in Las Vegas.
‘Money’ looks in tremendous shape, as he always does, despite being 43 years old.
In a video shared with WBN by former Mayweather Promotions fig Read Full Story >>> Mixed blood, sweat and tears: The long, strange and untold saga of boxing champion Marvin Camel
By Jerry Izenberg, nj.com, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
This is a boxing story. Not the sham of Hollywood and what seems like 32 “Rocky” films but a real one with real people with real emotions. It begins in Montana on the reservation of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation. It is a story born in despair and laced with h Read Full Story >>> Ten-Count for Eddie Cotton
By Robert Ecksel, BoxingNoir, Tue, 21 Apr 2020
Longtime referee Eddie Cotton passed away Friday due to complications from COVID-19. He was 72.
I always admired Cotton’s unobtrusive work in the ring and we spoke several years ago about his philosophy of refereeing.
“The main focus is that you’re supposed to make sure that the fighters Read Full Story >>> STORY OF PHILIPPINE BOXING PART XVII: BEN VILLAFLOR, YOUNGEST WORLD CHAMPION IN 1972
By Maloney L. Samaco, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Apr 2020
Benjamin "Ben" Villaflor was born on November 10, 1952 in Zamboanga City and became the WBA and lineal junior lightweight champion during the 1970s.
According to records, Villaflor began his career as a professional boxer w Read Full Story >>> Malign No More, Paulie Malignaggi
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Apr 2020
Malignaggi.
Retired former two time world champion Paulie Malignaggi could not believe that after more than twenty five years of fighting, including some career shortening wars, Manny Pacquiao is still at top competitiv Read Full Story >>> PCR-based test confirms Pacquiao is coronavirus-free
By Christia Marie Ramos , Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mon, 20 Apr 2020
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Manny Pacquiao has been cleared of the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), after he underwent a polymerase chain reaction or PCR – based test.
In a statement on Monday, Pacquiao said he first had himself tested using a rapid Read Full Story >>> Vasyl Lomachenko names Floyd Mayweather dream super-fight opponent
World Boxing News, Mon, 20 Apr 2020
Pound for Pound star Vasyl Lomachenko has opened up on the one legend he’d to love face after name-dropping, Floyd Mayweather, as his dream fight.
‘Loma’ was asked, If you could fight any boxer from any era to give you the best fight, who would you want to fight’ during a fan question ses Read Full Story >>> WBC aids Pinoy ex-champs
By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Apr 2020
Former WBC president Jose Sulaiman.
The World Boxing Council (WBC) has provided financial assistance to former champions Rene Barrientos, Luisito Espinosa and Erbito Salavarria in the total amount of $17,500 or the equivalen Read Full Story >>> RETRO WBSS: WINNER-TAKES-ALL IN THE BATTLE OF CRUISERWEIGHT GIANTS
PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Apr 2020
Aleksandr Usyk vs Murat Gassiev was the epic Cruiserweight Final of Season 1 of the quest for the Ali Trophy, and it will be rebroadcast live tonight at 7pm (UK) on World Boxing Super Series Facebook and YouTube.
On July Read Full Story >>>
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