Former World Champ Alejandro Berrio Returns This Friday in Colombia
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
June 12, 2012 - Columbia's former super middleweight champion, Alejandro Berrio (32-5, 29 KOs), returns to the ring this Friday, June 15, when he faces fellow countryman Evert Bravo (18-4-1, 14 KOs) in the 10-round main event at the Coliseo Cubierto Elias Chegwin in Barranquilla, Colombia. Berrio  Read Full Story >>>

Incorrect scoring of rounds 5 and 7 caused Pacquiao loss
By Marv Dumon, Examiner.com, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
Fans can now audit the ringside scoring of Cynthia J. Ross, Duane Ford, and Jerry Roth with the round-by-round CompuBox punch statistics of the WBO welterweight title fight between Timothy Bradley (29-0) and Manny Pacquiao (54-4-2) in Las Vegas. [ See stats ] The root cause of the June 9 controv  Read Full Story >>>

Bob Arum Explains The Pacquiao vs. Bradley Investigation
By Jake Donovan, BoxingScene.com, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
A wide array of comments followed Monday?s announcement that Top Rank submitted a formal request with the Nevada Attorney General?s office for an investigation regarding last Saturday?s bout between Tim Bradley and Manny Pacquiao. Bradley was the recipient of a split decision win that was met wi  Read Full Story >>>

Unseen hands behind travesty?
By Philip Ella Juico, The Philippine Star, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
Worldwide condemnation is the reaction to the travesty of justice in sports in general and boxing in particular that transpired Saturday night (Sunday morning in the Philippines) during the fight between Filipino Manny Pacquiao and American Timothy Bradley Jr. for the former?s World Boxing Organizat  Read Full Story >>>

Signs of doom
By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
LAS VEGAS ? Bacolod City Mayor Bing Leonardia had a bad feeling that disaster awaited Manny Pacquiao in his WBO welterweight title defense against Timothy Bradley, Jr at the MGM Grand Garden Arena here Saturday night. ?There were things that went wrong on the days leading to the fight,? said Leon  Read Full Story >>>

Boxing, horse racing become relics
By Greg Couch, Fox Sports, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
Everything has to evolve. To sit still while others are improving and progressing is to fall hopelessly behind. Boxing and horse racing are still trying to live on the same things they did 100 years ago, when they, with baseball, were among the most popular sports in the country. This past Saturd  Read Full Story >>>

Sports fans, don?t take what you don?t want
By Malcolm C. Knox, Daily News, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
It?s your own fault, sports fans. All of it. Don?t blame Bob Arum, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather and certainly not Timothy Bradley. We kept paying and paying to see events that everybody knew was not the event we wanted to see, and what did we get? A screwy result, while half of the premier ma  Read Full Story >>>

Quijano: Manny?s ultimate sacrifice
By Jingo Quijano, Sun.Star Cebu, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
I HAD it 117-111 for Manny Pacquiao. I have scored hundreds of fights-not officially of course, but more often than not, I am corroborated and sustained by better analysts/ writers. In this case, the Associated Press shared my tally. But admittedly, scoring rounds is a subjective activity and so  Read Full Story >>>

When losing is more like winning
By Cito Beltran , The Philippine Star, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
No one likes to see a popular champion go down, more so in the case of Manny Pacquiao who has become the modern day icon of the little guy making it big, an underdog becoming world champion and more recently, the icon of redemption. Unfortunately we can all analyze the controversial decision of t  Read Full Story >>>

Bradley turning religious, too?
By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
LAS VEGAS ? Not to be outdone by Manny Pacquiao?s religiosity, newly crowned WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley Jr. credited his ?guardian angel? for guiding his corner en route to scoring a huge upset at the MGM Grand Garden Arena here Saturday night. At a press conference three days befo  Read Full Story >>>

Floyd Mayweather should be released with conditions
By Brad Cooney, Examiner.com, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
Ring legend Floyd Mayweather Jr is not able to maintain his top physical condition due to being locked up in a cell for 23 hours per day. This according to his lawyers who are asking the courts to release him and allow him to serve the remainder of his 87 day jail sentence under house arrest. A per  Read Full Story >>>

It's probably only business
By Boo Chanco, The Philippine Star, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
I am not much of a sports fan but when the Azkals unexpectedly scored their first few victories, I made an effort to watch their games on television. For me, the Azkals soccer team was more than football? it was morale boosting... a vision of what we could be even if we started out as unwanted homel  Read Full Story >>>

Wenceslao: Pacquiao at the crossroads
By Bong O. Wenceslao, Sun.Star Cebu, Wed, 13 Jun 2012
WE watched Manny Pacquiao?s bout with American Timothy Bradley in Las Vegas, Nevada on pay-per-view last Sunday in the comfort of our home. One thing good with PPV is that the coverage of the event is continuous. That gave me and my wife Edizza a chance to observe without distraction Pacman?s demean  Read Full Story >>>

Judge Jerry Roth on Pacquiao-Bradley: ?How anybody could see that fight so one-sided is beyond me?
By Chris Fedor, SportsRadioInterviews.com, Tue, 12 Jun 2012
Saturday night?s fight between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley had one of the most controversial decisions that I can remember in the sport of boxing. Analysts, writers and talk show hosts have all voiced their frustration with Bradley winning a split decision over Pacquiao. All three judges had   Read Full Story >>>

STATS GURU: Manny Pacquiao's Shady Loss Was Almost Statistically Impossible
By Tony Manfred, Business Insider, Tue, 12 Jun 2012
Ken Pomeroy, a sports stats god who specializes in college basketball, crunched the data and found that the likelihood of Manny Pacquiao losing to Timothy Bradley on Saturday night was nearly zero. Here's how Pomeroy came to that conclusion: He asked 18 reporters who were at the fight to giv  Read Full Story >>>

Just how crazy was the Pacquiao/Bradley decision?
By Ken Pomeroy, kenpom.com, Tue, 12 Jun 2012
Even if you have no interest in boxing (like me) you?ve heard about the bizarre decision by the judges of the Manny Pacquiao/Tim Bradley fight on Saturday night. Despite nearly everybody believing Pacquiao won the 12-round fight convincingly, two of the three judges gave the fight to Bradley prompti  Read Full Story >>>

ROSALIO PACQUIAO SADDENED BY SON?S TITLE LOSS
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 12 Jun 2012

LOS ANGELES (PNA) -- ?Masakit, napakasakit.? (It hurts, it really hurts). Rosalio Pacquiao, estranged father of dethroned WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, declared this as he joined millions around the world in the chorus denounc  Read Full Story >>>

Donaire sparring much bigger opponents for Mathebula fight
By Dennis 'dSource' Guillermo, Examiner.com, Tue, 12 Jun 2012

San Mateo, California - WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito "The Filipino Flash" Donaire has a big fight coming up on July 7, 2012 against IBF champion Jeffrey "Marvelous M  Read Full Story >>>

Pac/Bradley Musings: Birth of a Salesman? and a Trilogy
By Lyle Fitzsimmons, BoxingScene.com, Tue, 12 Jun 2012
Forget Willy Loman. And while you?re at it? forget Billy Mays, Dale Carnegie and that old guy who mentored Tom Cruise?s character in Jerry Maguire. In fact, you can go ahead and forget every great salesman you?d ever thought you?d known from movies, literature and late-night infomercial TV.   Read Full Story >>>

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