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RINGSIDE OR REMOTE?: Fight game spars with economy
By Steve Carp, Las Vegas Review Journal, Sat, 26 Jul 2008
With gasoline over $4 a gallon and ticket prices as high as $700, it's little wonder the so-called "Fight of the Year" between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito isn't a sellout.
Apparently even hard-core boxing fans are thinking twice about whether to come to Las Vegas for the WBA welterweight t Read Full Story >>>ROCA: PACQUIAO HAS MORE THAN EVEN CHANCE OF BEATING DE LA HOYA
By Dong Secuya, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
Hector Roca.
CEBU CITY -- Iconic New York boxing man Hector Roca, chief trainer of the world famous Gleason's Gym in New York and whose fighter Arturo Gatti fought Oscar de la Hoya in 2001, said that Pacquiao has a 60% chanc Read Full Story >>> WEIGHTS FROM CEBU CITY
By Dong Secuya, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
CEBU CITY -- Filipino title hopeful AJ 'Bazooka' Banal came in at 115 lbs on the first try but Panamanian Rafael 'Torito' Concepcion was a pound over at 116 lbs during the weigh-in ceremony held at SM City Cebu here Read Full Story >>> ARUM SAYS PACQUIAO?S DELAY IS NO PROBLEM
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says the decision of Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao to delay his scheduled Thursday departure for Las Vegas so he could be present during President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo?s State-Of-The-Nation Addres Read Full Story >>> VIDEO: Cotto vs. Margarito undercard conference!
FightFan.com, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
FightFan.com brings you more LIVE action from Las Vegas as Top Rank introduced the fighters scheduled to fight on "The Battle" undercard Saturday night!
?The Battle? televised fights:
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12 Rounds, World Welterweight Championship
MIGUEL COTTO
32-0, 26 KOs
Caguas, Puerto Rico
Vs.
Read Full Story >>> CARRERA VOWS TO GIVE BERNABE CONCEPCION ?A HELL OF A FIGHT?
By Alex P. Vidal, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada ? Unfazed by the accolades heaped upon North American Boxing Federation (NABF) super bantamweight champion Bernabe ?Kamaong Llave? Concepcion by Top Rank promotion big boss Bob Arum during the press Read Full Story >>> DL Hoya to bring out best in me
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
It seems that Manny Pacquiao has run out of worthy challengers that it is only Oscar De La Hoya who will force him to go the extra mile in training.
Although Pacquiao had trained long and hard when he faced the challenge of Erik Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera and Juan Manuel Marquez, the reig Read Full Story >>> Pacman must be at his best vs Oscar
By Abac Cordero, The Postman, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
Manny Pacquiao vowed to be in his best shape ever if and when he gets to fight Oscar dela Hoya in December.
?If it?s Oscar I?m fighting, training should be at least eight weeks. Even 12 or 13 weeks or three months,? said the boxing superstar Wednesday.
Pacquiao knows too well that a fight with Read Full Story >>> What?s this big secret they are hiding about AJ Banal?
By Recah Trinidad, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
MANILA, Philippines?So what?s extra golden, what?s so special and strictly secret about AJ Banal who goes for a piece of the world super flyweight boxing crown in Cebu City on Saturday?
This question had to be raised on the eve of AJ?s reckoning after his chief handlers continued to keep battle p Read Full Story >>> A good feeling
By Ed Picson, The Manila Bulletin, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
Interim or regular, a championship is a championship.
The other day when the World Boxing Association released a resolution declaring tomorrow?s fight in Cebu between AJ Banal and Rafael Concepcion of Panama as a fight for the ??interim" WBA super-flyweight crown, not a few were shocked and disa Read Full Story >>> CONCEPCION ARRIVES IN LAS VEGAS!
By Alex P. Vidal, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada ? North American Boxing Federation (NABF) super bantamweight champion Bernabe ?Kamaong Llave? Concepcion and his seven-man team led by boxing agent Michael Koncz and manager Aljoe Jaro arrived at the MGM Gra Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao offered $ 10-M vs Oscar
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
The Mexican media reported that Golden Boy Promotions (GBP) has dangled an offer of $ 10 million for Manny Pacquiao to face Oscar De La Hoya in December.
Box-latino said that apart from the guaranteed purse, GBP is also luring the Filipino with a share on the expected high pay-per-view sales wh Read Full Story >>> Cotto-Margarito: Greatness is on the Line
By Joon Lee, 15rounds.com, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
First things first, are Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito two of the best fighters in the world? I'd say it's safe to say 'yes'. But then again, so is Paul Williams and maybe a guy like Timothy Bradley, both of whom I certainly don't consider to be 'great', at least not yet.
As frequent as one Read Full Story >>> Unbeaten Cotto faces Margarito in welterweight unification battle
By Agence France Press, Google News, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) ? Unbeaten Miguel Cotto and rival world champion Antonio Margarito will meet here Saturday in a welterweight unification showdown for the division throne vacated by Floyd Mayweather Jnr.
Puerto Rican star Cotto, 32-0 with 26 knockouts, owns the World Boxing Association tit Read Full Story >>> Oscar-Manny Circus Is Churning Urn Of Burning Funk!
By Michael Marley, Boxing Confidential, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
Delusional people, you must seek professional help. Maybe it?s the fast approaching dog days of summer, with heat, humidity and stupidity running high, but I?ve noticed that there just too many delusional people in boxing.
Come on folks, time for a checkup from the neck up. Among those who should Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao seeks equal purse for Hoya fight
By Ted S. Melendres, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
MANILA, Philippines?The world?s most sought-after fighter is seeking the biggest fight of his life. And Manny Pacquiao, if he gets his wish, wants an equal share of the purse in an expectedly slambang duel with Oscar De La Hoya.
Pacquiao, arguably the brightest star in world boxing today, said a Read Full Story >>> Banal will go down
By Edri Aznar, Sun.Star Cebu, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
TEAM Concepcion is confident that their pugilist, Rafael ?El Torito? Concepcion would walk out the ring with the World Boxing Association interim super flyweight belt around his waist when he defeats young boxing sensation AJ ?Bazooka? Banal on July 26 at the Cebu Coliseum.
?I have gone a long w Read Full Story >>> The Manny Pacquiao dictionary
By Matt Ryan, Boxing Herald, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
Manny Pacquiao is larger than life. He?s the biggest star in the Philippines, and he?s the best boxer on earth, pound for pound. Anyone this big deserves their own dictionary. After all, ?Pacland?, the moniker for Pacquiao?s website, is already a household name?
The word: Pacmania (Noun)
D Read Full Story >>> Nathanielsz steals show in Banal press con
By Mike T. Limpag, Sun.Star Cebu, Fri, 25 Jul 2008
VETERAN boxing writer, commentator and columnist Ronnie Nathanielsz took the lion?s share of the limelight from the protagonists in yesterday?s press conference for the Laban na Banal extravaganza at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino and redefined the role of a ?moderator? in a press conference.
J Read Full Story >>> GOMEZ SAYS DE LA HOYA HAS BEEN PROVOKED
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 24 Jul 2008
Golden Boy Promotions vice president and international matchmaker Eric Gomez, a boyhood friend of Oscar De La Hoya, says that the statements of trainer Freddie Roach that De La Hoya was ?slow, can?t pull the trigger and will be kno Read Full Story >>>
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