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WHY PACQUIAO VS HATTON WILL NOT SUCK
By Brad Cooney, 8countnews, Mon, 05 Jan 2009
I don't know about you, but I for one am getting tired of boxing's so called ?Dream Matches.? Let's take a look at the so called mega fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr. This fight was hyped up like no other, the big press tours, the big press releases, the big smack talking, the Read Full Story >>>Transforming power of Pacmania
By Granville Ampong, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 05 Jan 2009
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Through the pages of the news prints and through the lips of self-glorified prophets of boxing, praise-building phrases swarm like bees around a cider mill.
All these happen just since cur Read Full Story >>> Boxing a boon for state in '08
By Steve Carp, Las Vegas Review Journal, Mon, 05 Jan 2009
Boxing again provided a financial bonanza for Nevada in 2008, starting with three big bouts in the first four months and ending with the highly anticipated Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao megafight.
The sport generated $4.1 million for state coffers in 2008. That was down slightly from $4.2 milli Read Full Story >>> Concepcion ready for WBC Int?l title bid
By Recah Trinidad, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mon, 05 Jan 2009
MANILA, Philippines?Torrid, toe-to-toe action which Filipino fight fans missed in last month?s Dream Match in Las Vegas could be enjoyed when hard-hitting Filipino Bernabe Concepcion fights for the vacant WBC International featherweight crown at the Araneta Coliseum on Sunday.
Aljoe Jaro, Concepc Read Full Story >>> Boxing body shopping for sponsors for national team
By Joel Orellana, Business Mirror, Mon, 05 Jan 2009
THE Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines (Abap) is hoping to tap potential sponsors for its national team when it holds a boxing conference on January 22 in Bacolod City.
Abap secretary-general Patrick Gregorio said the association has invited potential sponsors and stakeholders in the c Read Full Story >>> Juan Manuel Marquez-Juan Diaz - Who Wins And How?
By James Slater, EastSideBoxing.com, Mon, 05 Jan 2009
A potentially sensational lightweight bout takes place on February 28th in Houston, Texas - the hometown of one of the fighters involved in the match-up. Local man Juan Diaz will face Mexican great Juan Manuel Marquez and much will be on the line for both men. For the younger man in Diaz - a mere 25 Read Full Story >>> Hatton can stop Pacquiao, says Mayweather Sr.
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Mon, 05 Jan 2009
If every top Mexican fighter can?t stop Manny Pacquiao, somebody from England will teach them how.
"I believe that Ricky Hatton can stop Manny Pacquiao," Hatton?s trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. told the Bulletin yesterday from Las Vegas in relation to the May 2 battle between the Filipino pound-for Read Full Story >>> Hatton?s corner throws first verbal jab
By Cedelf Tupas, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mon, 05 Jan 2009
MANILA, Philippines?Floyd Mayweather Sr. fired the first warning shot at Filipino hero Manny Pacquiao, who is set to take on his ward, Ricky Hatton, in a mega-buck light welterweight showdown on May 2 in Las Vegas.
The smooth-talking veteran trainer expressed confidence that Hatton will beat Pacq Read Full Story >>> Pac-Man- Manny Pacquiao, Freddie Roach to get their due
By George Kimball, Boston Herald, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
The ballots haven?t even gone out yet, but two of the year?s major boxing awards appear to be foregone conclusions. Manny Pacquiao, who capped a year in which he won three significant fights at three different weights with a one-sided evisceration of Oscar De La Hoya four weeks ago, looms the hands- Read Full Story >>> GANOY WANTS TO FIGHT DIAZ IN BIG ARANETA CARD
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
Ranee Ganoy.
Hard-hitting Sydney-based Filipino lightweight Ranee Ganoy wants to fight former WBC champion David Diaz in the big card being put together by Top Rank promoter Bob Arum at the Araneta Coliseum on March 15.
Read Full Story >>> DIB CAN?T ACCEPT FARENAS FIGHT
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
Billy Dib.
WBO featherweight title challenger Billy Dib, who dropped a unanimous decision to champion Steven Luevano in Atlantic City last October 18, can?t accept an offer to fight the Philippines No. 1 featherweight Read Full Story >>> NISHIOKA RETAINS WBC TITLE, KOBORI LOSES WBA CROWN
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
WBC super bantamweight champion Yoshiaki Nishioka has retained his title with a 12th round stoppage of Mexico?s Genaro Garcia in a world title double-header at Pacifico in Yokohama.
The Japan Times reported that Nishioka ?landed his left with precision? dropping the Mexican challenger in the four Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao v. Hatton - The Trainers Will Start The Fight Early
By Mark Vester, BoxingScene.com, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
The May 2 mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton is nearly finalized, but the verbal battle will not play out between the fighters. The trainers, Floyd Mayweather Sr. and Freddie Roach, have been feuding verbally for nearly two years. The Pacquiao-Hatton clash will provide some serious b Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao Diet Contest winners yield few clues you can use to lose weight
By Colin Seymour, Examiner.com, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
As you contemplate that perfectly reasonable New Year?s resolution to lose 30 pounds in 2009, you would be crazy to ask boxing people how to do it. Even Manny Pacquiao, who upset the larger Oscar De La Hoya last month, has only confused issues of weight management in boxing.
First, that fight was Read Full Story >>> Fighter of the Year for 2008? Manny Pacquiao or Joe Calzaghe?
By Chris Strait, DogHouseBoxing.com, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
I pointed out earlier how Joe Calzaghe was the clear pound for pound king over Manny Pacquiao. However, after his dominance over De La Hoya, a man who had never been dominated, I think Manny has just case to topple Calzaghe in the p4p rankings. But fighter of the year? That may be another matter. Le Read Full Story >>> A three-for-all for Pacquiao
Press Telegram, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
Boxing, with all its nuances, is such a subjective sport that it is often difficult to come up with a feasible list of year-end accolades.
But 2008 was a special year, and there are several individuals out there whose praises we feel the need to sing:
Fighter of the Year: Many years there are Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao?s demolition of Hoya startled Hatton
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
Ricky Hatton was among the many in attendance at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas who was shocked with the way Manny Pacquiao easily took the sting out of Oscar De La Hoya.
The Guardian, the widely-read British newspaper, sent somebody to cover the fight and the first thing that apparently came out of Read Full Story >>> An Open Letter to Oscar De La Hoya & Genaro Hernandez
By Antonio Santiago, RingsideReport.com, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
On September 9, 1995, the world of boxing stopped as it put its collective eyes over a ring erected at the legendary Caesar?s Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. That night, the highly awaited fight between fellow Los Angelino boxing stars and Champions, Oscar De La Hoya and Genaro Hernandez, was taking pl Read Full Story >>> Like Many Others, Oscar Was Dead at the Lower-Weight
By Brent Matteo Alderson, BoxingScene.com, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
Not to diminish Manny Pacquiao?s accomplishment, he?s a first ballot hall-of-famer and the kind of fighter that would have been great in any era, but Oscar De La Hoya was dead at the weight. Like the vast majority of observers, Osca Read Full Story >>> Pancho Villa, Elorde, Pacquiao - greatest Pinoy boxers of all time (Last of 2 parts)
By Rudy Fernandez, The Philippine Star, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
Almost half a century later, another boxing great, Gabriel Elorde, who was later to be exalted as ?Flash Elorde,? dominated his weight division (flyweight) in the boxing world.
Like Pancho Villa, he was a poor boy who left his town (Bago, Cebu) to seek his fortune in Cebu City at age 10.
At th Read Full Story >>>
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