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Matthew Aguilar: Boxing's best, and let the debate begin
By Matthew Aguilar, El Paso Times, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
We're a week away from the first major fight card of 2013, Orlando Salido vs. Mikey Garcia. Nothing like a "Best of Boxing" list to boil the blood before the first punch is even thrown. Feel free to rip to shreds.
Here we go.
The List
Pound for Pound: 1. Floyd Mayweather Jr.; 2. Andre Ward; 3 Read Full Story >>>Philippines Hosts FIBA-Asia Tourney
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
MANILA (PNA) -- The window of opportunity for the country to regain the respect of the international basketball community is believed to have been opened when FIBA Asia decided to transfer its 27th championship to Manila from Beirut, Lebanon.
40 years after the country last hosted the event in 1 Read Full Story >>> Juan Manuel Marquez's Future: Retirement or April Tune-up for Fifth Pacquiao Clash
By Paul Magno, Yahoo! Sports, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
Juan Manuel Marquez will be 40 years old in August of next year and is entering into his twentieth year as a professional fighter. After scoring the victory of his career via sixth round knockout of arch-rival Manny Pacquiao in December, the temptation is there to hang up the gloves and go out on to Read Full Story >>> Reveco to defend WBA 112lb belt in Japan
By Joe Koizumi, FightNews.com, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
WBA flyweight champion Juan Carlos Reveco (29-1, 16 KOs), Argentina, will put his belt on the line against Japanese national 108-pound titlist Masayuki Kuroda (21-3-2, 13 KOs) in Kawasaki city, Japan, on February 27. Reveco, 29, recently elevated to the regular championship from the interim status s Read Full Story >>> MANILA IS OUT AS VENUE FOR PACQUIAO?S NEXT FIGHT
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
What appeared to be an overly ambitious plan for Manny Pacquiao to fight in Manila with WBO/Ring Magazine super bantamweight champion and WBO/WBC flyweight champion Brian Viloria on the same card on April 20 has been scuttled.
Read Full Story >>> ALJOE JARO DETERMINED TO PURSUE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST WBC
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
Fed up of being given the runaround by the World Boxing Council over its commitment to Silver minimum weight champion Denver Cuello that he would face the winner of the battle for the vacant title last November 24 which was won by Read Full Story >>> Oliver Barbosa top seed in PSC Cup International Chess Championship
By Marlon Bernardino, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
GM Oliver Barbosa, Jr., the lone Filipino qualifier to the World Chess Cup, will enter the Philippine Sports Commission Cup International Chess Championship as top seed when the tournament begins tomorrow, Monday (Jan. 14 to 20, 2013) at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium, Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Ma Read Full Story >>> Plenty of wishes to go around for this scribe
By John Whisler, San Antonio Express, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
The New Year is a couple of weeks old, but it's not too late to deliver my wish list for boxing in 2013:
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez. Forget Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao. This now is the must-see match everyone will be talking about.
Health ? and another world-title shot ? for Read Full Story >>> Lionel Messi: The little emperor, the god of small things
Independent.ie, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
The great champions of world sport are often referred to as giants but it is two midgets that have loomed large on my personal sporting horizon in recent years.
Messi and Manny, Leo and Pacquiao, have been in my top three favourites across all sports, the third being that other true original, the Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao Eyeing 2 Possible Foes
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
Manny Pacquiao?s much-awaited comeback fight in April is starting to take shape.
Two possible opponents have been named and the fight could either take place April 13 or the week after.
As of the moment, former World Boxing Association welterweight champion Vyacheslav Senchenko of Ukraine and Read Full Story >>> Paquiao Watch: Long climb back to the top
By Edwin G. Espejo, Asian Correspondent, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
Manny Pacquiao is in a hurry.
He wants to immediately redeem himself from two successive losses, the last of which was an emphatic knockout defeat from longtime nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez.
His camp insists the congressman from Sarangani is raring and aching to go after a long vacation in Isra Read Full Story >>> Marquez bout okay if price is right
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
MANILA, Philippines - Whatever Manny Pacquiao?s plans are will largely, or may all, depend on Juan Manuel Marquez? own plans.
After all, barely a month after their explosive fight, people are already talking and thinking about a fifth fight between the two warriors.
That?s why people are hopin Read Full Story >>> Italia flex their muscle to beat USA (5-0)
PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
Lausanne, Switzerland, 12 January 2013 - The last match of this exciting World Series of Boxing (WSB) weekend saw Dolce & Gabbana Italia Thunder host USA Knockouts at a packed Mediolanum Forum in Group B. A sensational line-up Read Full Story >>> Kazakhstan remain unbeaten after well-taken away victory against Germany (1-4)
PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
Lausanne, Switzerland, 12 January 2013 - At the packed Kuppelsaal Congress Centrum in Hannover, German Eagles found themselves unable to stop Group B table-toppers Astana Arlans Kazakhstan from recording another win this season. David Oliver Joyce gave early hope to the German outfit after victory i Read Full Story >>> Mikey Garcia coming back to NYC
By Michael Woods, ESPN.com, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
The last time Mikey Garcia fought in New York, in October 2011, he was known as a solid prospect, and the little brother of name trainer Robert Garcia, who cornered Nonito Donaire, Brandon Rios and Antonio Margarito.
Robert held the IBF super feather crown in 1998 and 1999, was no slouch as a hi Read Full Story >>> Top 3 British boxers to watch in 2013
By Guy Michels, ProBoxing-fans.com, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
With British boxing currently riding high along a crest of a wave, it?s not easy to narrow down my selections to just three boxers to keep an eye on this year. I could have easily chosen those on the cusp of greatness, but it would have been all too easy to spout off the same list of names that has Read Full Story >>> Quijano: First quarter pound-for-pound rankings
By Jingo Quijano, Sun.Star Cebu, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
Saturday, January 12, 2013
IT?s time to put up our pound for pound rankings at the start of this calendar year so we can establish our fulcrum before the big fights are upon us.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KOs). No change here as Floyd continues to reign at the zenith of the sport, helped i Read Full Story >>> Vargas, Senchenko join Pacman?s list of next possible foes
By Roy Luarca, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
THEY?RE not among the familiar names being floated, but either Mexican-American Jessie Vargas or Ukrainian Vyacheslav Senchenko may soon be thrust into the limelight.
A Team Pacquiao insider told the Inquirer yesterday that Manny Pacquiao may just decide to face one of them in his comeback figh Read Full Story >>> Abner Mares-Nonito Donaire battle is outside ring
By Robert Morales, L.A. Daily News, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
Frank Espinoza has been racking his brain for months now, trying to figure out a way to get his highly respected super bantamweight champion - Abner Mares - into the ring with an even more accomplished super bantamweight champion - Nonito Donaire - for a title unification fight.
But after talkin Read Full Story >>> Imperious Azerbaijan defeat Poland (5-0)
PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 13 Jan 2013
Lausanne, Switzerland, 12 January 2013 - Azerbaijan Baku Fires remain undefeated in Group A after a flawless victory over Hussars Poland at the Olympic Sports Center 'Serhedchi'. Reigning World Series of Boxing (WSB) Individual Champions Gairbek Germakhanov and Ramazan Magomedau both recorded wins t Read Full Story >>>
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