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Ali's daughter likens Pacquiao to her dad
By Bev Llorente, ABS-CBN News, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
MANILA, Philippines ? Rasheda Ali, the daughter of boxing legend, Muhammad Ali, said Filipino boxing champ Manny Pacquiao reminds her of her father.
"Manny reminds me of my dad. He is a very generous person, a very loving person. He takes the celebrity status and gives it back to the community. T Read Full Story >>>Rios-Gamboa Heads to ?The Bay?
By Steve Kim, MaxBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
The original plan from Top Rank called for former WBA lightweight titlist Brandon Rios and Yuriorkis Gamboa to co-headline an HBO televised doubleheader from the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, as a possible prelude to a showdown between the two later in the year. But as Johnny Molina and h Read Full Story >>> Q&A: Rios ready for rumble with Gamboa
By Lem Satterfield, The Ring, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
THE RING's No. 1-rated lightweight Brandon Rios is set to take on the magazine's No. 1-rated featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa on April 14 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.
And when they meet for the vacant WBA 135-pound belt on HBO, the 25-year-old Oxnard, Calif., resident will be disappoin Read Full Story >>> Column: Frozen by Parkinson?s, still The Greatest
By Tim Dahlberg, The Associated Press, Yahoo! Sports, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
LAS VEGAS (AP)?They gathered in the bowels of the arena where most of the great fights of the last two decades have taken place, old men now all sharing one shining moment from years gone by. They had come to honor The Greatest, though whether Muhammad Ali remembered who they were or knew what it wa Read Full Story >>> Mayweather: Shut up and box
By Editorial, The Boston Globe, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been in the news - not for boxing, of course, which he seems intent on avoiding. The welterweight, who has been ducking a fight with Filipino powerhouse Manny Pacquiao for years, instead took to Twitter to make racially charged comments about Jeremy Lin, the former Har Read Full Story >>> Ormoc City gives boxing champion Casimero a hero?s welcome
By Erlinda Olivia P. Tiu, PIA Information Service, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
ORMOC CITY, Leyte, February 20 (PIA) -- It was a triumphant day for IBF Lightweight Champion Johriel Casimero when he was given a hero?s welcome by the City Government of Ormoc and his fellow Ormocanons upon his arrival at his hometown on February 15.
After a motorcade around the city which wa Read Full Story >>> 'Fighting Words' ? Reports of Demises Greatly Exaggerated
By David P. Greisman, BoxingScene.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
There are the boxers whose careers go on far too long, who take unnecessary punishment, whose risk to their health gets even greater even while the numbers in their paychecks get ever smaller.
And then there are the boxers whose careers need not be done yet ? yet we proclaim them to be.
Miguel Read Full Story >>> Obama to Ali: 'You shocked the world'
By Associated Press, The Deming Headlight, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
LAS VEGAS (AP) - President Barack Obama lauded Muhammad Ali Saturday as he joined some of the world's most famous people in a birthday celebration for the boxer known simply as "The Greatest."
"Happy birthday, champ," President Barack Obama told Ali through a video message, saying he wished he c Read Full Story >>> Miguel Cotto and Timothy Bradley, you'll thank them later
By Martin Wade, braggingrightscorner.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
Boxing fans are like the beautiful women Chris Rock riffed about in his comedy routine, when you ask them what they want they answer you without skipping a beat, "everything." Mick Jagger (or was it Keith Richards?) penned the great line I tend to live by, "You can't always get what you want -but if Read Full Story >>> Q&A: Rios is ready to rumble with Gamboa
By Lem Satterfield, RingTV.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
THE RING's No. 1-rated lightweight Brandon Rios is set to take on the magazine's No. 1-rated featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa on April 14 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.
And when they meet for the vacant WBA 135-pound belt on HBO, the 25-year-old Oxnard, Calif., resident will be disappoin Read Full Story >>> Dereck Chisora: Boxing's New Rowdyman
By Charles Saunders, Boxscorenews.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
Dereck ?Del Boy? Chisora did not take Vitali Klitschko?s WBC heavyweight title on Saturday night. However, in going the 12-round distance and actually giving the Ukrainian giant a fight instead of simply soaking up punishment like a punching bag with legs, Chisora garnered respect in defeat, and has Read Full Story >>> Arce declares he?s ready for Donaire bout
By Marc Anthony Reyes, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
MANILA, Philippines?Mexican ring warrior Jorge Arce stopped Venezuelan Lorenzo Parra in the fifth round of their super bantamweight nontitle bout Saturday and wasted no time in calling out Nonito Donaire to sign the contract for their much-anticipated showdown.
Arce, the 32-year-old five-division Read Full Story >>> Writer Bobby Cassidy Special Guest Speaker At Tuesday's Ring 8 Meeting
PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
NEW YORK, NY (February 19, 2012) - Veteran boxing writer Bobby Cassidy will be the special guest speaker for Ring 8's monthly meeting this Tuesday evening (Feb. 21 @ 7 PM/ET at the historic Waterfront Crabhouse in Long Island City.
Cassidy is a well-known reporter for Newsday, as well as a playwr Read Full Story >>> Dereck Chisora, David Haye get competition, Chris Arreola rips legend Don King
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
And you thought it was a two man race between thuggish Dereck Del Boy Chisora and David "Toebreaker" Haye as to who the world's dumbest heavyweight fighter was this past weekend.
Wrong, liverwurst breath, wrong because the pathetic conduct of "glassholes" Chisora and Haye after Chisora was outpoin Read Full Story >>> AGUELO OUTGUNS BRANZUELA, RETAINS PBF TITLE
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr., PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
Lapu-lapu City ? Adonis ?TI Yamagata? Aguelo of Maasin City won a hard earned ten round unanimous decision against Renan Branzuela of Bukidnon in the main event of "Binakbakay sa Barangay" at the Gym of Barangay Basa Read Full Story >>> Sir Sammy?s gallant act
By Mike T. Limpag, Sun.Star Cebu, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
THOUGH it may sound harsh, the lifetime ban IBF president Daryl Peoples imposed on Argentinian Luis Lazarte for his role in the brawl after Johnreil Casimero won their title bout in Argentina may end up to be a slap on the wrist.
I won?t be surprised if next month, Lazarte would be fighting in Ar Read Full Story >>> Cotto has a style to give Mayweather some fits- De La Hoya
By Igor Frank, Examiner.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
Coliseum de Puerto Rico will be the site where press tour announcing a major super welterweight championship showdown between Miguel Cotto and Floyd Mayweather. The fight is t Read Full Story >>> CHOT REYES APPOINTED SMART GILAS NATIONAL TEAM COACH
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
What has long been bruited about was officially announced Sunday by Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) President and Talk N? Text Owner Manny Pangilinan -Talk N? Text Coach Vincent ?Chot? Reyes will be the new Head Coach of Read Full Story >>> ?The Greatest? Birthday One Could Ask For
By Ryan Bates, 3MoreRounds.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
Admiration of Muhammad Ali is not uncommon. From every boxer who?s donned a pair of white Everlast trunks with black trim, to anyone who?s ever amped themselves up with Ali?s ?float like a butterfly, sting like a bee? speech, Ali stands as a hallmark in our sport, in our lexicon, in our history.
Read Full Story >>> Wladimir: I Told Haye, He'll B*tch Slap You; More Photos
By Luke Furman, BoxingScene.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2012
WBO/IBO/WBA/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is still in shock over Saturday's all-British brawl at the post-fight press conference in Munich, Germany. After his older brother, WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, won a twelve round unanimous decision over Derech Chisora, there was Read Full Story >>>
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