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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 >>> The Savage Science of Streetfighting
By Jingo Quijano, Sun.Star Cebu, Sun, 04 Jan 2009
LET me begin the year by featuring a wonderful book intended as a gift by one of your fellow Last Rounders, Mr. John Pope.
It?s entitled ?The Savage Science of Streetfighting: Applying the Lessons of Championship Boxing to Serious Street Survival? by Ned Beaumont (Paladin Press, 2001).
Off the Read Full Story >>> Hitman Hatton Can't Hurt What He Can't Catch
By Rota Em, Diamond Boxing, Sat, 03 Jan 2009
2009 needs to be a year in which boxing is revived. I disagree with Joe Calzaghe, the sport isn't dying but on the other hand it isn't living in luxury either. We'll leave it at hungry, not yet starving. One fight that can help to rejuvenate the sweet science is the "Hitman" going against the "Pacma Read Full Story >>> Forget Margarito, Cotto, Pacquiao Knows Difference Between Fearless And Foolish!
By Michael Marley, Boxing Confidential, Sat, 03 Jan 2009
Nice try, provocateur Ricardo Lois. You?re trying to find a match to light the flame in a public lamp.
Even Stevie Wonder can see your conduct and we all know your motive.
You want to see your former idol, Miguel Cotto, clock Manny Pacquiao so you seize on Cotto?s offhand comments that he migh Read Full Story >>> Silva, Pacquiao fighters of year
By Dave Sholler, Caller.com, Sat, 03 Jan 2009
As we ring in the New Year, it?s time to hand out our Fighter of the Year awards in both MMA and boxing. With 2009 upon us, let?s take a look back at which stars shined brightest in 2008.
n Mixed Martial Artist of the Year ? Anderson Silva
One of the most dominant champions in UFC history, Sil Read Full Story >>> The Big 9 in 2009
By Carlo Pamintuan, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 03 Jan 2009
 
2008 was a great year for Philippine boxing, which was bannered by Manny Pacquiao?s three big wins in three different divisions.
Three Filipino worl Read Full Story >>> Cebu Boxing Year-ender
By Rico Navarro, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 03 Jan 2009
Cebu Boxing?s 2008 performance has brought in a few surprises in what has been a learning and growing experience for all.
Although he?s not a product of Cebu Boxing, the year started and ended with Manny Pacquiao. Without t Read Full Story >>> Miguel Cotto Interested In a True Dream Match with Manny Pacquiao
By Ricardo Lois, Boxing Confidential, Sat, 03 Jan 2009
Throughout his career Miguel Cotto has not been the warmest or most engaging boxer when it comes to speaking to the media. I remember in 2003 when I had the opportunity to interview a young Cotto weeks before he Read Full Story >>> Pancho Villa, Elorde, Pacquiao - greatest Pinoy boxers of all time
By Rudy Fernandez, The Philippine Star, Sat, 03 Jan 2009
Pacman. Flash Elorde. Pancho Villa.
Three outstanding Filipino boxers who have electrified the boxing world.
They ruled the ring in their own time and clime ? almost half a century apart within almost a hundred years.
Two of them ? Pancho Villa and ?Flash Elorde? ? are long gone, great hero Read Full Story >>> Donaire, Pe?alosa join forces in Baguio
By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, Sat, 03 Jan 2009
Two Filipino world champions are setting up a joint training camp in Baguio City starting Monday to prepare for title fights and they?re eager to learn from each other.
WBO bantamweight titlist Gerry Pe?alosa and IBF/IBO flyweig Read Full Story >>> PENALOSA CLARIFIES HIS ROLE IN DONAIRE TRAINING CAMP
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 03 Jan 2009
WBO bantamweight champion Gerry Penalosa has clarified his role in the training camp of IBF/IBO champion Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire following Donaire?s announcement that he had decided to train in Baguio City and not under Freddie Roach at his Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles.
Top Rank promo Read Full Story >>> How realistic is Pacquiao-Marquez III?
By Bill Velasco, The Philippine Star, Sat, 03 Jan 2009
In the mix of final fights being lined up for Manny Pacquiao?s farewell tour, an unlikely name cropped up, one that some experts believed the four-time world champion would never consider again: Juan Manuel Marquez. Was this just a ploy to keep fans interested in case Floyd Mayweather doesn?t come o Read Full Story >>> Boxing king is emperor of street booze?
By Recah Trinidad, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sat, 03 Jan 2009
MANILA, Philippines?Honestly speaking, Nonoy Occena of Hulo, Mandaluyong, said it was a hopeless bout between a goat and a bull.
The fish vendor with thick brows on a brown, serious face claimed Pacquiao was being plainly foolish.
Awful, he grumbled of Pacquiao?s decision to pick on big Oscar Read Full Story >>> The Czar wants vengeance
By Edri Aznar, Sun.Star Cebu, Sat, 03 Jan 2009
ALA Gym warrior Czar Amonsot apparently tried to cut short his professional boxing career in 2007 after suffering a subdural hemorrhage in a brutal and bloody war, in which he lost to Australian combatant Michael ?The Great? Katsidis via unanimous decision.
However, the young Boholano fighter see Read Full Story >>>
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