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De la Hoya-Pacquiao? Who?s Right and Who?s Wrong?
By John Chavez, Boxing Confidential, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
I?m letting you know right now that this will be one of the final jabs at ?The Kassim Ouma Match?. (By the way? I despise the billing title as ?The Dream Match?. Couldn?t they have come up with a more interesting catch phrase such as? ?What?s better? Burritos or Chicken Adobo? or? ?Tecate and San Mi Read Full Story >>>PACQUIAO WATCH: Getting under Oscar's skin
By Edwin G. Espejo, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
ANYONE who thinks they could handle Manny Pacquiao's speed and power will most of the time end up on seats of their pants.
Just ask Marco Antonio Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez and Erik Morales, the Mexican triumvirate who h Read Full Story >>> Exclusive Interview with Joan Guzman: FROM THE HOOD, SPROUTED A WORLD BOXING CHAMPION
By Rod Mijares, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
The pride of the Dominican Republic, Joan Guzman, former 2002 WBO Super Bantamweight Champion until 2005 and former WBO Super Featherweight Champion will be fighting on September 13, 2008 against Nate Campbell?s for the latter Read Full Story >>> Marquez feeling privileged to fight on Mexican Independence Day weekend
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
In the United States, Americans celebrate the 1776 Declaration of Independence from Great Britain on Fourth of July weekend. Fireworks are usually the highlight of a fun, relaxing holiday.
Mexicans celebrate their 1810 independence from Spain -- Grito de Dolores -- every Sept. 16. That weekend a Read Full Story >>> TOP RANK PLANS DONAIRE-ARCE SHOWDOWN IN MANILA
By Dong Secuya, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
LAS VEGAS -- Filipino IBF/IBO Flyweight Champion Nonito Donaire, Jr. will face Mexican star Jorge 'Travieso' Arce in Manila if both Donaire and Arce hurdle their next assignments as planned by Bob Arum's Top Rank which promotes both Donaire and Arce, Donaire's father-trainer Nonito Sr. has informed Read Full Story >>> ROCA: CONCEPCION WILL KNOCK OUT ARCE
By Dong Secuya, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
Las Vegas -- Hector Roca, the veteran trainer of the Gleasons Boxing Gym fame who masterminded the shocking defeat of top Filipino prospect AJ 'Bazooka' Banal in the hands of up-and-coming Panamanian superfly WBA inter Read Full Story >>> Marquez looking to meet emulate Pac-Man
By Ciaran Baynes, Setanta Sports, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
Juan Manuel Marquez has set his sights on putting on a performance every bit as good as the one Manny Pacquiao's against David Diaz when he fights linear lightweight champion Joel Casamayor on Saturday night.
Marquez (48-4-1, 35 KOs) was widely thought to have been unlucky to lose a points decisi Read Full Story >>> De La Hoya, Mayweather Sr. part ways
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
LAS VEGAS ? Oscar De La Hoya will have his third trainer in as many fights when he meets Manny Pacquiao on Dec. 6 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
De La Hoya said Floyd Mayweather Sr. won?t train him for the Pacquiao fight. Mayweather Sr. recently was hired to train Ricky Hatton for his Nov. 22 fig Read Full Story >>> Oscar down to 149 lbs in early buildup
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
It seems that Oscar dela Hoya is having very little problem losing weight for his coming ?Dream Match? with Manny Pacquiao.
He may even be having no problem at all.
Internet reports said Dela Hoya, who?s been working out in Puerto Rico the past week or two, is already down to 149 pounds with 12 Read Full Story >>> Domingo to get title shot if he wins vs. Vorapin
By Edri Aznar, Sun.Star Cebu, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
FOR most of Michael Domingo?s professional boxing career he was a journeyman, but now he will have a chance to prove himself that he belongs at a different level.
If the World Boxing Organization Oriental bantamweight titleholder Domingo will be successful in his Sunday skirmish with former WBO Read Full Story >>> Oscar De La Hoya So Mad He May Pimp Slap Coach Freddie Roach!
By Michael Marley, Boxing Confidential, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
"Like putting lipstick on a pig.?
No doubt, the hottest expression in the boiling cauldron of politics right now. I had to wonder what would be boxing?s version(s) of applying lipstick to a porcine creature.
My list:
Glass-jawed Amir Khan continuing to work with ?I get quick results? train Read Full Story >>> Pacman eager to get into the ring
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
Manny Pacquiao is so eager to get on with his fight with Oscar de la Hoya that he would have preferred to have it sooner than the Dec. 6 fight date.
"Ang tagal pa ng laban," Pacquiao said yesterday during a phone interview in General Santos City where he said he was having fun playing with daug Read Full Story >>> GUZMAN: "I'll Make Nate Look Bad"
By Ron Borges, The Sweet Science, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
When Joan Guzman steps into the ring at Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi Saturday night to challenge lightweight champion Nate Campbell he has to worry about something the storm battered Gulf Coast h Read Full Story >>> Savvy Guzman relying on speed to save the day
By Tim Smith, ESPN.com, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
There isn't much that frightens Joan Guzman. There aren't too many situations that make him uncomfortable.
It's the result of growing up poor in one of the worst neighborhoods in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Guzman's poverty was so stark that he'd leave his house when it rained and camp ou Read Full Story >>> Casamayor fights off retirement
By Steve Carp, Las Vegas Review Journal, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
Joel Casamayor is having too much fun to quit fighting. Besides, the 37-year-old lightweight isn't sure what he would do if he wasn't competing in the ring.
"I love boxing," Casamayor said through an interpreter at the MGM Grand Garden, where he will face Juan Manuel Marquez on Saturday. "I was f Read Full Story >>> Campbell: I'll clear the division
By Ciaran Baynes, Setanta Sports, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
WBA/IBF/WBO lightweight champion Nate Campbell says beating Juan Guzman live on Setanta Sports on Saturday night will be the first step to him clearing the deepest division in world boxing.
Click here for details on how to watch this fight, along with Joe Calzaghe's super-fight with Roy Jones Jr, Read Full Story >>> Fans favor Pacquiao, gamblers for De La Hoya
By Jun Medina, The Manila Times, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
IT?S Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao over Mexican American idol De La Hoya, according to boxing fans. But gamblers think it?s Oscar over Manny by at least 2-1.
This contrasting perception between diehard fans and hardnosed bettors is getting to be an interesting sidelight of the Dec. 6 super fight Read Full Story >>> Diaz back to his bullish ways
By Jingo Quijano, Sun.Star Cebu, Fri, 12 Sep 2008
JUAN ?Baby Bull? Diaz has rebounded quite nicely from that first career loss inflicted by Nate Campbell a few months ago. In gutting out that split decision win over the rugged Michael Katsidis last Sunday, I saw no telling signs of a fighter psychologically ruined by his first loss.
In a perfec Read Full Story >>> PACQUIAO NOW WEIGHS 154 LBS
By Edwin G. Espejo, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 11 Sep 2008
GENERAL SANTOS CITY ? With just a couple of days before he flies to the US to promote his December 6 bout with Oscar dela Hoya and start heavy training, Manny is just seven pounds over the agreed 147-pound weight limit of their m Read Full Story >>> BLEACHER TALK: IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY
By Rico Navarro, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 11 Sep 2008
Pacquiao vs. de la Hoya. For many, it doesn?t make any sense. And to many others, it?s a fight for the ages. And to many more out there, it?s all about the money. We tend to forget that beyond the left jabs and right straights of the Read Full Story >>>
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