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TalkingBoxing.com's Mid-Year Awards
By James Stillerman, TalkingBoxing.com, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
With this year being a little more than halfway over it?s time to evaluate the mid-year winners and runner ups for numerous boxing categories; fight, fighter, round, knockout, upset, prospect, and worst decision. The first half of 2008 has been on par with the success that 2007 had as many great box Read Full Story >>>AUSSIE PROMOTER SAYS BANAL WILL STILL BE A WORLD CHAMPION
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
Australia?s former ?Promoter of the Year? and popular TV host Peter Maniatis says he is sure AJ ?Bazooka? Banal and Rey ?Boom Boom? Bautista will one day be world champions? despite their stunning setbacks in their fir Read Full Story >>> SULAIMAN TELLS AIBA CHIEF TO KICK OUT DISHONEST RING OFFICIALS IN OLYMPICS
By Alex P. Vidal, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
LOS ANGELES, California ? World Boxing Council (WBC) president Jose Sulaiman Chagnon has exhorted his counterpart in the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) to preserve the principles of honesty, integrity and impartiality in the coming Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing, China and get rid Read Full Story >>> PACMAN REACHES PINNACLE AT LAST
By Derek Bilton, Sportinglife.com (UK), Tue, 29 Jul 2008
With Floyd Mayweather showing no hint that he is about to reverse his decision to retire anytime soon, a new 'pound-for-pound' king needs anointing.
Step forward Manny Pacquiao.
The Filipino firebrand was vying for P4P supremacy with Britain's Joe Calzaghe and Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto follow Read Full Story >>> ROAD TO REDEMPTION: BOBPAC RETURNS THIS SATURDAY
By Dong Secuya, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
CEBU CITY -- Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao's younger brother Bobby returns to action this Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu City, hoping to redeem himself after being stopped in the first ro Read Full Story >>> De La Hoya fight looms large
By Roy Luarca, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
MANILA, Philippines?Miguel Cotto is out, but so is his conqueror Antonio Margarito. Floyd Mayweather Jr. is retired and Felix Trinidad won?t fight below 164 pounds.
Thus the chances of Manny Pacquiao emerging as Oscar De La Hoya?s final opponent in December looms bright.
And the megabuck fight Read Full Story >>> ALA says: ?No excuses, he wanted it more?
By John Pages, Sun.Star Cebu, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
WHEN Antonio Lopez Aldeguer speaks, you listen. Yesterday morning, exactly 36 hours after his most prized apprentice, AJ ?Bazooka? Banal, collapsed in one of Cebu?s monumental upsets, I listened.
When I asked how he felt, ALA didn?t suppress his feelings.
?Very, very low,? he replied.
Un Read Full Story >>> 'ABE IS READY FOR A WORLD TITLE FIGHT'
By Alex P. Vidal, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada ? Filipino promoter and manager Aljoe Jaro has clarified that when he stated that North American Boxing Federation (NABF) super bantamweight champion Bernabe ?Kamaong Llave? Concepcion (26-1, 15 KOs) Read Full Story >>> Oscar wants Manny at 147
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
It?s 147 lbs or nothing.
Eric Gomez, vice president of Golden Boy Promotions, said Oscar dela Hoya won?t settle for anything lower than 147 lbs as the official weight of a possible showdown with Manny Pacquiao in December.
?It will have to be at 147 ? nothing more, nothing less,? said Gomez wh Read Full Story >>> WBO CHAMP LOPEZ CONGRATULATES ABE CONCEPCION
By Alex P. Vidal, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada ? The present congratulating the future.
This was how Filipino boxing manager and promoter Aljoe Jaro described the scenario in the dressing room of his ward North American Boxing Federation (NABF) Read Full Story >>> PONCE DE LEON TARGETS 'BOOM BOOM' BAUTISTA
By Salven L. Lagumbay, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
 
CEBU CITY--Former World Boxing Organization (WBO) superbantam king Daniel Ponce de Leon is calling out Filipino Rey 'Boom Boom' Bautista for a rematch of the Read Full Story >>> Concepcion the next Pacquiao?
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
Bernabe Concepcion, who is being hailed as the next Manny Pacquiao, continued to make heads turn after another brilliant performance underneath the explosive welterweight showdown between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Concepcion, rated No. 5 by the Wo Read Full Story >>> A decent young man in boxing
By Ed Picson, The Manila Bulletin, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
Minutes after AJ Banal?s shocker of a KO defeat last Saturday at the New Cebu Coliseum, I spotted sportsman, banker-lawyer and indefatigable Misamis Oriental Governor Oscar Moreno making his way towards me.
I immediately went down to meet him on the floor, and just as we were starting our convers Read Full Story >>> AJ Banal and Cebu?s secret nightmare
By Recah Trinidad, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
MANILA, Philippines?They all loved to say of Alex John Banal that the celebrated young boxer would be the immediate heir to the country?s boxing superhero Manny Pacquiao.
That was before the numbing nightmare inside the New Cebu Coliseum last Saturday.
Now, all those who sank with AJ in the 10 Read Full Story >>> Perspectives on the Banal fight
By Jingo Quijano, Sun.Star Cebu, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
THERE?S really no need to speculate on the reasons for AJ Banal?s stunning loss last Saturday night.
After the fight, the ?Bazooka? was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with fatigue and a dangerous lack of electrolytes in his body.
As the evidence itself suggests, he simply got tired a Read Full Story >>> THE CEBU PACLAND EB AND THE BANAL FIGHT- AN EXPERIENCE
By Ed de la Vega, DDS, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
Cebu City, Philippines: - a few weeks ago, a young doctor named JV Tuazon of New Jersey, USA wrote on ?PhilBoxing?, a scintillating tribute to the brains behind one of the world?s leading boxing websites, Dong Secuya.
The Read Full Story >>> FOUR PINOY PUGS SEE ACTION IN BIGGEST MP CARD IN WEST COAST
By Alex P. Vidal, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada ? Four Filipino boxers will be featured in the biggest promotion of the MP Promotion in the West Coast on September 27 this year, revealed fight manager and agent Michael Koncz.
Koncz identified them as Bernabe Concepion, Dennis Laurente, Aaron Melgarejo, and Michael Farenas.
Read Full Story >>> Cotto Outta De La Hoya Sweepstakes
By R. Thomas Umstead, multichannel.com, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
Former welterweight champion Miguel Cotto lost more than his title Saturday night at the hands of Antonio Margarito.
Cotto is effectively out of the Oscar De La Hoya opponent sweepstakes after losing to Margarito by an 11-round TKO in their highly-anticipated July 26 PPV fight .
Actual buys fo Read Full Story >>> A Long, Hard Road for 'The Tijuana Tornado'
By Steve Kim, MaxBoxing.com, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
It was a good half-hour before newly minted WBA welterweight king Antonio Margarito would leave the ring inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night after his career-defining victory over Miguel Cotto. After condu Read Full Story >>> The 'dying sport' outdoing itself in '08
By Eric Raskin, ESPN.com, Tue, 29 Jul 2008
The problem with succeeding beyond expectations is that inevitable pressure-packed question: What do you do for an encore?
Unless you're Francis Ford Coppola working on "The Godfather Part II" or the Beatles following each groundbreaking album with one that breaks even more ground, the challenge Read Full Story >>>
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