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Is Pacquiao facing an identity crisis?
ESPN.com, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
Does anyone - including Manny Pacquiao - know who he is trying to be any more? The man, formerly best known as a boxer, has announced he is moving into a new line of work, taking over as coach of a new professional basketball team in his native Philippines.
He is already a serving politician as Read Full Story >>>Sonsona needs work: Gello-ani
By Edri Aznar, Sun.Star Cebu, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
DESPITE the win, Sammy Gello-ani believes that Marvin Sonsona needs a bit of tweaking before moving on to challenge for another world championship.
?Sonsona's performance was unsatisfactory, knowing he can do more than that. The early rounds were impressive but in the latter rounds he faded. I ad Read Full Story >>> Roach, Arum Dismissive Of Pacquiao-Cotto Rematch
By Keith Idec, BoxingScene.com, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
NEW YORK ? A second fight against Manny Pacquiao is one rematch Miguel Cotto apparently won?t entertain.
Trainer Freddie Roach and promoter Bob Arum appear to be against the possibility of Cotto taking a shot at avenging his 12th-round technical knockout loss to Pacquiao in November 2009. Cotto h Read Full Story >>> Cotto win hands Mayweather path to sixth-weight world title
By Phil D. Jay, World Boxing News, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
A huge amount of possibilities have opened up in the wake of light-middleweight contender Miguel Cotto jumping up to 160 to claim the WBC title as the Puerto Rican cruised past veteran Sergio Martinez in New York.
Cotto, 33, could only make 155lbs of the 159lb stipulated catchweight clash and has Read Full Story >>> Quijano: Legless Martinez no match for Cotto
By Jingo Quijano, Sun.Star Cebu, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
THEY say that the devil is in the details. In Sergio Martinez? case, almost everyone who predicted he would win against Miguel Cotto, (this Last Rounder included) completely overlooked the devilish little detail that he had surgery on his right knee after each of his last two fights.
For a fighte Read Full Story >>> Miguel Cotto & This Week in Boxing
By Michael McCarthy , Pundit Arena, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
Boxing can be a cruel game. It tests every aspect of a fighter?s makeup. If there is a flaw or fault in a fighter, physically or mentally, stepping into the ring is one good way of exposing it. On Saturday night, at New York?s famous Madison Square Garden, Sergio Martinez found that out first hand.
Read Full Story >>> Is Manny Pacquiao focusing on coaching Kia Motors and giving up on bid to play in PBA? Look again
By Snow Badua, Spin.ph, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
MANNY Pacquiao isn't telegraphing his punches as far as his PBA plans are concerned, but the possibility of the boxing hero coaching and playing for Kia Motors isn?t far-fetched.
In his press conference on Monday where he was officially named head coach of the expansion team, the eight-division w Read Full Story >>> Glen Tapia Returns Saturday
By Sevak Sarkisian, Tha Boxing Voice, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
Jr. middleweight boxer Glen Tapia (20-1 12KO?s) will be making his return to the ring after suffering a brutal loss at the hands of James Kirkland in December of last year. Tapia will be facing journeyman Keenan Collins (15-8 8KO?s) on June 14th at Bally?s in Atlantic City New Jersey.
Since suffe Read Full Story >>> Filipino Boxer Manny Pacquiao Courts a New Role in Basketball
By Cris Larano, The Wall Street Journal, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
MANILA, The Philippines?World boxing champ Manny Pacquiao was not pulling a fake out when he said he would be moving into basketball, the Philippines? most popular sport.
The fighting icon, who also serves as a congressman for the southern province of Saranggani, recently agreed to coach one of t Read Full Story >>> Foolish Pick Opens Door To Super Fight Possibilities
By Lyle Fitzsimmons, BoxingScene.com, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
It?s one thing to be wrong.
It?s another thing to be so preposterously wrong that you breathe deeply and thank God for the restraint that kept you from making a really stupid wager on what you saw as a sure thing.
Such was the case with me, Miguel Cotto and Sergio Martinez on Saturday night.
Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather is shot, Miguel Cotto rematch won't happen, insists Freddie Roach
By Joseph Herron , Fight Saga, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
After Miguel Cotto?s sensational, title winning effort against Sergio Martinez this past Saturday night, head trainer Freddie Roach had more than a few words to say to the media in attendance about a potential rematch between the newly crowned 160 pound champion and pound for pound king Floyd Maywea Read Full Story >>> Miguel Cotto proves a man with a plan can become THE MAN
By Warren Tasker, Edmonton Journal, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
Boxing is a beautiful thing.
Logic and predictability are always trying to tame the beast, to get the damn thing under control. The Sweet Science turns sour when forces of any kind attempt to give the fight game an order or two.
On Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City boxin Read Full Story >>> Oscar De La Hoya: "We, the promoters, must stop carrying petty grudges..."
By Joseph Herron , Fight Saga, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
On Sunday, June 8th, five division world champion and leader of the largest promotional outfit within the fight community Oscar De la Hoya was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his athletic achievements in the sport of boxing.
During his acceptance speech in Canastota, New Y Read Full Story >>> Walcott and Louis: One Myth or Two?
By Mike Casey, Boxing.com, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
Jersey Joe Walcott, who gatecrashed the party late and then got little time to enjoy it, has gone down as a romantic and whimsical figure of the sport?
It didn?t happen once. It happened twice. Tough luck wasn?t the reason it happened the first time and old age wasn?t the reason it happened the s Read Full Story >>> HBO SPORTS? PRESENTS THE REPLAY OF SERGIO MARTINEZ VS. MIGUEL COTTO WORLD MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT SATURDAY, JUNE 14
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
HBO Sports presents SERGIO MARTINEZ VS. MIGUEL COTTO, the replay of their highly anticipated world middleweight title fight, SATURDAY, JUNE 14 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on HBO. The HBO Sports team, which was ringside for the l Read Full Story >>> IBF GIVES RING TO CASIMERO
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
Filipino promoter Samson Gello-ani (L) and matchmaker Sean
Gibbons (R) pose with Casimero's IBF ring at the Affinia Manhanttan Hotel in New York last Saturday, June 7. Gibbon's received Casimero's ring dur Read Full Story >>> Demetrius Andrade out to stop Brian Rose Saturday night In first WBO title defense
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
NEW YORK (June 9, 2014) - In his first title defense this Saturday night, undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior middleweight champion Demetrius "Boo Boo" Andrade (20-0, 13 KOs) has nothing but bad intentions on his mind for mandatory challenger Brian "The Lion" Rose (25-1-1, 7 KOs).
A Read Full Story >>> Francisco Santana Hands Gomez First Loss Seeks Bigger Fights
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (June 9, 2014) - This pas Friday, Gary Shaw Productions welterweight Francisco "Chia" Santana (20-3-1, 9 KOs), proved he's on the right track to position himself in the welterweight rankings, with his st Read Full Story >>> Miguel Cotto set for Floyd Mayweather fight in September
By Dan Hunter, Crunch Sports, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
Miguel Cotto shocked the boxing world by hammering Sergio Martinez into a ninth round retirement in a night of high drama in Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.
Sports fans should now expect a rematch between Cotto and Floyd Mayweather to be announced within the next couple of weeks followin Read Full Story >>> Cotto's Perfect Exit Strategy: Offer Mayweather Shot At Middleweight Title
By Frank Lotierzo, The Sweet Science, Tue, 10 Jun 2014
This past weekend former junior welterweight, welterweight and junior middleweight title holder Miguel Cotto 39-4 (32) won the WBC middleweight title from Sergio Martinez 51-3-2 (28). When Martinez failed to come out for the 10th round of the scheduled 12-rounder, Cotto became the first Puerto Rican Read Full Story >>>
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