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Donaire ESPN?s ?Boxer Of Year?
By Nate C. Barretto, The Manila Bulletin, Wed, 26 Dec 2012
The ?Filipino Flash? Nonito Donaire Jr. punctuated his winning year in boxing with ?Boxer of the Year? honors from the respected sports website, ESPN,com.
?It might sound strange, but no, Manny Pacquiao was not the best fighter from the Philippines in 2012. That honor goes to ?The Filipino Flash, Read Full Story >>>IBF CONFIRMS CASIMERO TITLE DEFENSE GOES TO PURSE BID
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
International Boxing Federation Championship Committee chairman Lindsey Tucker has confirmed that the mandatory title defense of light flyweight champion Johnreil Casimero against Luis Alberto Rios of Panama will go to Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Marquez IV is voted Event of the Year for 2012
By Doug Fischer, RingTV.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
The fourth bout between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez was met with mixed reaction when it was announced.
The future hall of famers? three previous fights were all hotly contested, but each 12-round bout also resulted in a hotly disputed decision that did not favor Marquez, who was 0-2-1 Read Full Story >>> And to 2012 a Good Night
By Gabriel Montoya, MaxBoxing.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
What a year. 2012 was as tumultuous a year for boxing as ever there has been. Positive drug tests and the result of the new wave of drug testing created by Floyd Mayweather Jr. nearly three years ago were at the top of a list of hot button issues this year. And a new question regarding the place str Read Full Story >>> THE BOY WHO HAD NOTHING
By Recah Trinidad, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
GOING by stories of his hungry boyhood, Manny Pacquiao should be counted among those starless little boys in poor, dusty slum villages who never had the luck of owning a Christmas toy of their own.
These luckless urchins, Read Full Story >>> JOURNEYMAN GETS A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
By Manny Piñol, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
Ponteras.
Tonight, I will fly to Bangkok, Thailand to witness a boxing event which will involve one of our boxers, Ryan Rae Ponteras.
The fight will be for a regional title and in boxing a regional title is not really a big d Read Full Story >>> CHRISTMAS IS STILL MERRY FOR PHILIPPINE BOXING
By Maloney L. Samaco, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
The double defeat of the greatest Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao is so painful for Philippine boxing this year. But the birth of the Savior Jesus Christ brings joys to the Christian world so we have to be merry this Christm Read Full Story >>> Boxing's 2012 Highs and Lows
By Charles Saunders, Boxscorenews.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
This past year marked the turning of a corner for boxing fans. The corner was the waning prospects for a superfight-to-end-all-superfights between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., who had traded places at the top of the pound-for-pound rankings for years, and just happen to be close to each Read Full Story >>> Jeff Powell's review of 2012, with Ricky Hatton, Manny Pacquiao and more
By Jeff Powell, Daily Mail (UK), Tue, 25 Dec 2012
'Tis the season to put on a few pounds, let the stitches heal the wounds, to soothe the swollen hands, take the weight off the feet without every second counting? and confer the annual awards.
Anno Domni 2012 began with Muhammad Ali further defying Parkinson?s by reaching his landmark 70th birth Read Full Story >>> NBA -- Short-handed Kings silence Blazers
By Alberto G. Montefalcon, Jr., PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
SACRAMENTO -- Without their leading scorer and rebounder -- DeMarcus Cousins -- the Sacramento Kings fashioned out one of their best performances of the season and beat the red-hot Portland Trail Blazers, 108-96, Sunday night a Read Full Story >>> NBA -- Clippers keep flying, win 13 straight
By Ryan Medida, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barely 48 hours after setting a franchise record of 12 straight wins, the Los Angeles Clippers kept raising the bar and stretched their streak to 13.
This time, the high-flying Clippers easily demolished Read Full Story >>> NBA -- Spurs spoil Nowitzki's return, 129-91
By Homer D. Sayson, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
CHICAGO -- Dirk Nowitzki's return to the lineup for the first time since preseason knee surgery turned out to be something he'd rather forget as his Dallas Mavericks got blown out the AT&T Center Sunday night against in-state Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather Jr. best boxer, next fight.
ThyBlackMan.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
(ThyBlackMan.com) Well Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. top pound for pound boxer, the face of boxing and world?s highest paid athlete. Boxing fans, experts and the general public have a love/hate relationship with Floyd Mayweather Jr.?s personality and some believing he has had a padded and carefully pla Read Full Story >>> A Postcard from Hainan
By Steve Kim, MaxBoxing.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
By the time you read this, I should be home suffering the early effects of jet lag from my recent trip to China. As I?m typing this, I?m at the Hainan Noble Yacht Club (in room 1206) overlooking my beachside view in the city of Haikou (in the province of Hainan, the southernmost tip of the People?s Read Full Story >>> Q&A: Bundrage discusses Steward, Golden Boy, Mayweather, Alvarez
By Lem Satterfield, RingTV.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
Junior middleweight titleholder Cornelius Bundrage spoke with RingTV.com about having signed with Golden Boy in October, his break-up with late former manager Emanuel "Manny" Steward and his feelings heading into the Feb. 23 defense of his IBF belt against veteran Ishe Smith on Showtime in his nativ Read Full Story >>> RESURRECTION: Can Manny Pacquiao Rise Again?
By Kelsey McCarson, The Sweet Science, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
Let not your heart sink to a stupor for Manny Pacquiao. As a fighter, he was prepared for the little death of failure long before he experienced it against Juan Manuel Marquez. Instead of evicting it from your soul, let the image sink deep inside your heart. Embrace it.
Let it be what it is: a re Read Full Story >>> Boxer of the year: Nonito Donaire
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
It might sound strange, but no, Manny Pacquiao was not the best fighter from the Philippines in 2012. That honor goes to "The Filipino Flash," junior featherweight titlist Nonito Donaire, who had a Read Full Story >>> Donaire: STAR Athlete of the Year
The Philippine Star, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
MANILA, Philippines - He rises on the year of the Great Fall.
And for pulling off a shattering third knockout over Mexican Jorge Arce, Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire Jr.?s fourth victory in the season would easily merit the sport?s highest accolade for the year.
But it was better apprecia Read Full Story >>> Donaire-Marquez a fitting award debate
By Eric Raskin, ESPN.com, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
2012 will not go down as the year in which boxing developed a PEDs problem. But it will go down as the year in which boxing was forced to admit it has a problem.
This was the year in which the average fan's view of the average fighter shifted from a presumption of innocence to a presumption of g Read Full Story >>> BEST OF 2012: PACQUIAO FINISHES THE YEAR ON A SOUR NOTE
By Ken Rodney, TSN.ca, Tue, 25 Dec 2012
Of all the places the boxing world expected welterweight superstar Manny Pacquiao to finish the year, face down on the canvas could not have been near the top of the list.
However, at the end one of the worst years in his professional career, that's exactly where he was after his second loss of Read Full Story >>>
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