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CANCER-STRICKEN FATHER?S PRESENCE INSPIRES LEO SANTA CRUZ IN TITLE DEFENSE AGAINST CARL FRAMPTON
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
The presence of his cancer-striken father in his corner when he makes the third defense of his World Boxing Association featherweight title will serve as an inspiration for the unbeaten Mexican.
Sky Sports in B Read Full Story >>>TABUGON AND CASTROVERDE TARGET WINS IN SOUTH AFRICA
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr., PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
South Africa has a reputation for being one of the more difficult countries for Filipino boxers to win on the road. Gerry Castroverde and Raymund Tabugon will try to score victories on July 29 (July 30 Manila Time) in East Read Full Story >>> Sen. Pacquiao?s Housing Project turned over to poor beneficiaries
By Aquiles Z. Zonio, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
GLAN, Sarangani ? Mila Danding, 29, did not expect even in her wildest imagination that one day she could live in a decent house and lot she can call her own.
During the recent turn-over ceremony of EDP Village Read Full Story >>> Wilcox tops Orozco in Toronto
PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (July 29, 2016) ? Up and coming lightweight Steven Wilcox of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada scored an impressive eight round unanimous decision over rugged Mexican Juan Orozco Thursday, July 28 at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto.
Topping Lee Baxter Promotions? inaugural ?Ne Read Full Story >>> 2016 WORLD 9-BALL ALL SET TO KICK OFF IN QATAR
By Ted Lerner, WPS Media Officer, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
Expect plenty of drama and excitement as 128 of pool's best vie for the world title on the 25th anniversary of pool's biggest event.
(Doha, Qatar)--The burning hot desert kingdom of Qatar is about to be set ablaze in sporti Read Full Story >>> EXCLUSIVE ?Manny Pacquiao will definitely fight Terence Crawford?
By George Gigney , BoxingNews, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
HALL OF FAME trainer Freddie Roach has revealed Manny Pacquiao will ?definitely? fight Terence Crawford, though does not want it to happen in November.
The Filipino icon will end his short-lived retirement on November 5 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, but an opponent has not yet been fi Read Full Story >>> New world champ Tapales besieged with lucrative offers
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
Moments after Marlon Tapales stunned Thai fans with an emphatic knockout of Pungluang Sor Singyu on Wednesday in Ayutthaya, the mobile phone of boxing manager Wakee Salud started ringing like crazy.
As Salud picked up call after call from just about everywhere, there were also text messages to ac Read Full Story >>> Santa Cruz vs. Frampton restores sense at time of freak fights
By Steve Bunce, ESPN.com, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
The Carl Frampton and Leo Santa Cruz fight is a great fight in any era and at any weight.
At a time of entertaining and wildly popular freak fights, where men walk rampant over weight categories, this clash of two tiny warriors in a bear-pit venue, far from either of their homes, is like an oasis Read Full Story >>> Carl Frampton: Buckfast will fuel my fans for early morning Santa Cruz fight
Belfast Telegraph, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
Belfast's Jackal takes on Santa Cruz for the WBA World featherweight title in the New York Borough of Brooklyn.
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And he's vowed to knock him out.
However, for those local fans not able to make the leap across the pond to see the bout they face a possible 4am start on Sun Read Full Story >>> Strong support system powers Tapales to beat odds
By Edri Aznar, Sun.Star Cebu, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
A LOT of heart and a good support group were all Marlon Tapales needed to overcome adversity and become a world champion.
Deep in enemy territory, the 24-year-old Tapales overcame two knockdowns in the fifth round to knockout hometown hero Pungluang Sor Singyu in the 11th round and snag the World Read Full Story >>> Mexican assistant to PH Olympians bares Pacquiao a 'hero' among his countrymen
By Jerome Aning, Spin.ph, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO?Enrique Arturo De Alba Gonzales, one of Brazil's National Olympic Committee assistants, was excited after being tasked to assist the Philipine delegation to the Olympics here as he admitted to be a big boxing and Manny Pacquiao fan.
Gonzales' fandom of Pacquiao becomes even more in Read Full Story >>> Tapales thrives in adversity, targets the 'best of the best'
By Emmanuel B. Villaruel, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
Saying that he would not back down from any challenge, newly crowned WBO bantamweight champion Marlon "The Nightmare' Tapales of Cebu's RWS Stable said he wants to fight the best of the best in his division where he pla Read Full Story >>> LAST OF TWO THAI WORLD BOXING CHAMPIONS PUTS HIS WBC TITLE ON THE LINE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
Wanheng Menayothin.
The last of two Thai World Boxing Council champions following the smashing 11th round knockout victory of Filipino southpaw Marlon Tapales over rugged WBO bantamweight champion Pungluang Sor Singyu l Read Full Story >>> RUSSIA BLASTS DOUBLE STANDARDS BUT WON'T BOYCOTT OLYMPICS
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
Bolt and Gatlin.
In a clear case of double standards the International Amateur Athletic Federation has allowed a trio of American sprinters tainted by previous bans due to failed drug tests to compete in Rio de Janeiro?s Ol Read Full Story >>> Featherweights: A sign the business will go from bust back to boom
By Norm Frauenheim, 15rounds.com, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
A compelling clash between Leo Santa Cruz and Carl Frampton Saturday in Brooklyn one week after Oscar Valdez Jr.?s ongoing emergence is a sure sign that the featherweights are a loaded division rich with reasons for optimism in a business otherwise clouded by doom and gloom.
In boxing?s boom-and- Read Full Story >>> Carl Frampton looks to win title in second weight class
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
Thirty-one years ago, June 8, 1985 to be exact, Irish hero Barry McGuigan ended the seven-year featherweight title reign of fellow Hall of Famer Eusebio Pedroza by winning a 15-round decision, the greatest triumph of his career.
That was nearly two years before Carl Frampton was born. Frampton, o Read Full Story >>> Leo Santa Cruz's biggest fight became much tougher with news of his father's cancer
By Mike Coppinger, USA Today, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
NEW YORK ? One word immediately sprung to his mind: death.
Tears welled up in Leo Santa Cruz?s eyes as he learned in April that his father (and longtime trainer), Jose, was set for the biggest battle of all ? cancer. Stage 3 myeloma to be exact, bone cancer at the spine.
The 56-year-old underw Read Full Story >>> Carl Frampton reveals his secret weapon ahead of Leo Santa Cruz showdown
By Steve Brenner, Daily Star (UK), Fri, 29 Jul 2016
Frampton is tuning up for the biggest night of his career tomorrow night with a mystery sparring partner who has the inside track on WBA featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz.
Thanks to his manager Barry McGuigan and trainer son Shane, ?The Jackal? has been having daily dust ups with a fighter wh Read Full Story >>> Commentary: Will Terence Crawford become a superstar?
By Andreas Hale, RingTV.com, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
When you watch Terence Crawford in the ring, some see a little bit of Floyd Mayweather Jr. Not necessarily in his style of fighting, but in the way he calculates his opponents? strengths and weaknesses and makes slight adjustments to methodically dismantle them. Crawford is a bit more offense-minded Read Full Story >>> Lively Ricky Hatton talks Kell Brook-Gennady Golovkin fight, plus Canelo and Mayweather
By Lance Pugmire, Baltimore Sun, Fri, 29 Jul 2016
The one and only Ricky Hatton, who created two of the more festive fight weeks of the last decade in Las Vegas, showed again Thursday that he knows how to stir things up.
The Englishman and former fighter was asked about countryman Kell Brook?s longshot attempt to defeat middleweight champion Gen Read Full Story >>>
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