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UNITY IN PACLAND By Brad Cooney, Boxing Herald, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Boxing Herald's Brad Cooney jumps into The Proverbial Phone Booth with Pacland.ph's creator Dong Secuya.
Dong discusses how Pacland began, his relationship with Manny Pacquiao as well as Manny's influence on the Filipino people.
Bo Read Full Story >>>KATSIDIS IN FIGHT OF HIS LIFE AGAINST DIAZ By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 Michael Katsidis, the Aussie fighter who has been regarded as the new Arturo Gatti because the only thing he knows to do is to go forward says his fight against former world champion Juan ?Baby Bull? Diaz is the fight of his life.
Katsidis has said more than once that with the king of slam-bang Read Full Story >>> FEARLESS FIGHTING ON IBC 13 TODAY By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
The fastest growing sport in the Philippines - Mixed Martial Arts - where fighters battle each other within the confines of the Octagon will be seen on IBC 13 at 7:00 p.m. today.
The sport has attracted a large audience am Read Full Story >>> JOEY GIARDELLO PASSES AWAY By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Former WBC and WBA middleweight champion Joey Giardello has passed away in New Jersey. He was 78.
Regarded as the greatest middleweight to come out of Philadelphia, Giardello won the title with a 15 round decision over Dick Tiger Read Full Story >>> DIAZ-KATSIDIS FINAL PRESSCON PHOTOS PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Former Three-Time World Lightweight Champion Juan Diaz (left) and Former World Lightweight Champion Michael Katsidis pose for the media on September 4, 2008 at the final press conference for their September 6, 2008 figh Read Full Story >>> For a happy ending By Ed Picson, The Manila Bulletin, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 Although every indication points to an imminent fight between boxing titans Oscar de la Hoya and Manny Pacquiao, the raging debate on the aptness of the match remains unabated.
Much of the howling comes from those who are vigorously opposed to the idea, citing safety and plain logic (or the p Read Full Story >>> Mayweather Sr Possibly Out As De La Hoya's Head Trainer By John Martinez, EastSideBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 It was reported earlier this week that trainer extraordinaire, Floyd Mayweather Sr. would begin his new duties as head overseer of IBO light welterweight champion Ricky ?The Hitman? Hatton?s preparations for his upcoming duel with the IBF light welterweight boss, Paulie Malignaggi on November 22 in Read Full Story >>> Fight can last 12 rounds ? Roach By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 While Freddie Roach has been describing Oscar De La Hoya in interviews as somebody who can no longer pull the trigger and that Manny Pacquiao has genuine chances of scoring a knockout, the hard-nosed trainer with the Clark Kent glasses said he has a gut feeling the fight will go 12 rounds.
"If Read Full Story >>> Big payday for scalpers looms ahead By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 Tickets were so hard to come by during Oscar De la Hoya?s fight with Floyd Mayweather last year that a ringside seat that had a face value of $ 2,000 sold for as high as $ 15,000 in the black market.
If somebody like Mayweather can add up to the excitement and hype to a De La Hoya headliner, what Read Full Story >>> Roach seeking bigger sparmates for Pacquiao By Marc Anthony Reyes, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 MANILA, Philippines?The search is on for Manny Pacquiao?s sparmates, who must be at least four inches taller than the reigning pound-for-pound king and willing to take the Filipino?s double-barreled fistic assault.
Trainer Freddie Roach Thursday announced on the website www.boxingscene.com that h Read Full Story >>> Jaro vows to dethrone Sosa By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 Oriental champion Sonny Boy Jaro of Silay City, Negros Occidental, said yesterday he?s not intimidated by facing WBC lightflyweight champion Edgar Sosa in Mexico City on Sept. 27 and vowed to bring back the title against the odds of fighting on hostile territory.
Jaro?s cousin and manager Aljoe J Read Full Story >>> DOMINGO CAN FIGHT FOR A WORLD CROWN AFTER SEPT. 14 By Salven L. Lagumbay, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
ALA Boy Michael Domingo is most likely going to inch closer to a world title fight should he beat ex-world champ Ratanachai Sor Vorapin on September 14 in the mainer of the "Daytime Boxing" card at the New Cebu Coliseum.
Read Full Story >>> Domingo?s Sunday fight to determine career By Edri Aznar, Sun.Star Cebu, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 WITH a former world champion and a seasoned fighter as an opponent, World Boxing Organization Oriental bantamweight champion Micheal Domingo has his biggest test yet on Sept. 14 to determine the future of his professional boxing career.
Domingo will be defending his newly acquired crown against Read Full Story >>> IBO PRESIDENT HANDLED REVIEW OF CONTROVERSIAL TITLE FIGHT By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 International Boxing Organization president Ed Levine says he personally ?administered the review process? undertaken by the IBO following a formal protest lodged by promoter Rodney Berman over the hugely controversial loss of South Africa?s Zolani Marali (19-2, 13 KO?s) to Australia?s Billy Dib (21 Read Full Story >>> Oscar De La Hoya is pickin' little with Manny Pacquiao By Tim Smith, New York Daily News, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 After HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant mentioned a few months ago that Oscar De La Hoya should fight Manny Pacquiao, De La Hoya said he started thinking about the possibility.
"It stuck to my head and it kept on lingering in my head and I kept on thinking about it over the months," De La Hoya sa Read Full Story >>> PACMAN-DE LAHOYA DANGER: WEIGHT WOES! By Pedro Fernandez, RingTalk.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 FREDDIE ROACH NOT AS SMART AS ACRI?
San Francisco, CA- With the great size disparity between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao, the ?timing? of the weigh in is indeed important. Why? I will let an Athletic Commission head, Greg Sirb of Pennsylvania explain it to you. ?If I were Pacquiao, and a Read Full Story >>> Oscar determined to make 147-lb. limit By Edri Aznar, Sun.Star Cebu, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 FOR every single pound ?Golden Boy? Oscar De La Hoya will weigh more than the contracted 147-pound limit on the weigh-in of his much anticipated mega fight against Filipino boxing superstar Manny ?Pacman? Pacquiao, he is set to pay a penalty $3 million.
However, that doesn?t worry the six-divisi Read Full Story >>> Are catchweight fights ok? By Cormac Campbell, Setanta Sports, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 I received a letter in the post the other day giving me a date for an operation on my nose.
The procedure ? the second such ?job? I will have had by the tender age of 25 - is as a result of a deviated septum blocking the passage of air completely in my left nostril. The initial damage was sustai Read Full Story >>> Boxing: The Excitement Factor Revisited By Ted Sares, EastSideBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 Are you ready over here? Are you ready here/ Ok, let?s get it on.
-- Mills Lane
Excitement in the ring means different things to different people. There is no one right definition. For me it means a lack of predictability in which a fighter can chill or be chilled at any give time. To that en Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Darlene, Pacquiao-Oscar By Bong O. Wenceslao, Sun.Star Cebu, Fri, 05 Sep 2008 MANNY Pacquiao has taken his oath as member of the Arroyos? Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi), a political party.
Meaning, he has gotten over the whipping he got from Darlene Antonino Custodio in the 2007 congressional polls. In Pacman, one can say a politician is in the boxer and a boxer i Read Full Story >>>
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