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Pacquiao the best of them all
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, Manila Standard, Wed, 24 Dec 2003
When International Boxing Federation junior featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao bucked overwhelming odds to annihilate legendary ?People?s Featherweight Champion? Marco Antonio Barrera, he punched his way into the hearts and homes of millions of adoring countrymen whose pride was given an incredib  Read Full Story >>>

The stories that defined the year in RP Sports
By Musong Castillo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Wed, 24 Dec 2003
IT WAS a low-key, almost uneventful year that ended on a high, emphatic and successful note. With the Philippine Basketball Association struggling to recover its old clout under new commissioner Noli Eala and the sporting community shaken by the failed assassination attempt on outspoken athletic  Read Full Story >>>

$1-million purse for Manny still in works
By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, Tue, 23 Dec 2003
It?s all about striking while the iron?s hot. Consensus world featherweight boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is shooting for a $1-million purse in his next fight, said his business manager Rod Nazario yesterday. And if the Home Box Office (HBO) cable TV network agrees to foot the bill, Nazario con  Read Full Story >>>

Pacquiao wants $1 million to fight Mexican Marquez
By Dominic Menor, ABS-CBN News, Tue, 23 Dec 2003
What deal? Nothing more than a phone call was all the camp of Manny Pacquiao got from the handlers of Juan Manuel Marquez, belying reports that the Filipino ring hero is all set to fight the reigning People?s Champion. ?Wala ?pang final,? said Pacquiao?s business manager Rod Nazario, when as  Read Full Story >>>

Pacquiao won?t underestimate Marquez
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, Manila Standard, Tue, 23 Dec 2003
International Boxing Federation junior featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao said yesterday he won?t underestimate World Boxing Association/IBF champion Juan Manuel Marquez, who is being lined up for a title shot sometime in late March or early April in Las Vegas. Pacquiao annihilated legendary f  Read Full Story >>>

Pacquiao fights dual champ Marquez next
By Salven L. Lagumbay, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mon, 22 Dec 2003
IT's green and go for yet another superbattle for the Filipino king of the world's featherweights. The reigning "people's featherweight champion" and Ring Magazine's featherweight king Manny Pacquiao is slated to battle World Boxing Association (WBA) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) fea  Read Full Story >>>

Manny Pacquiao gears up for a $1-M fight versus Marquez
By Dennis Principe, EastSideBoxing.com, Mon, 22 Dec 2003
SUBIC BAY, PHILIPPINES ? Despite looming tax woes in the United States, contractual debate with promoter Murad Muhammad and an imminent tug-of-war owing to a salacious HBO television offer, it will be a Merry Christmas after all for Filipino world champion Manny Pacquiao. This as the universally  Read Full Story >>>

Million-dollar man
By Dennis Principe, The Manila Bulletin, Mon, 22 Dec 2003
MANNY PACQUIAO is set to ink a deal that will give him a chance to earn a cool $1 million, not to mention a stab at boxing history. The Filipino boxing hero confirmed on Saturday that his handlers are close to sealing a deal that would have him challenging World Boxing Association/ International   Read Full Story >>>

Pacquiao?s next purse: $1m
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, Manila Standard, Mon, 22 Dec 2003
International Boxing Federation junior featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao is scheduled to leave for New York in the first week of January with business manager Rod Nazario to negotiate with HBO for a $1 million title fight against reigning World Boxing Association/IBF featherweight champion Juan   Read Full Story >>>

If chosen, Pacquiao set to get 1st major award on X'mas eve
By Emmanuel B. Villaruel, The Freeman, Sun, 21 Dec 2003
REIGNING IBF super bantamweight champion Manny ?The Destroyer? Pacquiao will probably receive before Christmas Day his first major award abroad since his unforgettable 11-round demolition of the revered Mexican featherweight great Marco Antonio Barrera last month that paved the way for the rise of a  Read Full Story >>>

Pacquiao Mandated to Fight Chi or Brodie
By Keith Terceira, BoxingScene.com, Sat, 20 Dec 2003
Well it didn?t take long for Manny ?PacMan? Pacquiao to begin making plans to take the "official" featherweight titles. Boxingscene has confirmed reports that the WBC and Sulaiman have decided that the winner of the Brodie versus Chi bout sometime in March will face the PacMan. James Blears, Box  Read Full Story >>>

Coming Soon: Manny Pacquiao Vs. Jose Luis Valbuena?
By G. Leon, BoxingTalk.com, Sat, 20 Dec 2003
On November 15th, featherweight king Manny Pacquiao shocked the world of boxing by whooping future Hall of Famer Marco Antonio Barrera for eleven rounds, forcing his corner to throw in the towel. Now, just slightly more than a month after the biggest victory of his career, we?ve been hearing Pacquia  Read Full Story >>>

Boxing 2003: Looking back ? and ahead
By Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, Sat, 20 Dec 2003
The year in boxing had some strong performances. Cory Spinks, James Toney, Roy Jones Jr., Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley had a wonderful year. In September, the biggest box office star, Oscar De La Hoya, lost to Mosley. Out of the ring, De La Hoya's promotional firm emerged as a force by te  Read Full Story >>>

Toney, Jones and Pacquiao among candidates for Fighter of Year
By Carlos Arias, The Mercury News, Sat, 20 Dec 2003
(KRT) - There were a lot of great performances and upsets, and a number of new faces burst onto the boxing scene in 2003. Here is a chance for readers to have their voices heard. E-mail your picks for Fighter of the Year, Upset of the Year and Prospect of the Year to carias@ocregister.com. Her  Read Full Story >>>

Big gathering of stars at PSA annual awards
Philippine Daily Inquirer, Fri, 19 Dec 2003
THE PHILIPPINE Sportswriters Association will stage what is expected to be the biggest gathering of sports stars in recent years when it holds the 2003 PSA Annual Awards Night on Jan. 9 at the Manila Pavilion. Malaca?ang has already acknowledged receipt of the copy of invitation sent by PSA pres  Read Full Story >>>

PSA Awards biggest in years
The Manila Times, Fri, 19 Dec 2003
THE Philippine Sports-writers Association will stage what is expected to be the biggest gathering of sports stars in recent years when it holds the 2003 PSA Annual Awards Night on January 9 at the Manila Pavilion. Malaca?ang has already acknowledged receipt of the copy of invitation sent by PSA   Read Full Story >>>

Boxing: The Best Of The Year
By Janne Romppainen, EastSideBoxing.com, Thu, 18 Dec 2003
The boxing year 2003 is two weeks away from being over and while the field is quieting down for the Christmas holidays, it is a good moment to take a look back at what we have witnessed this year. It certainly has been a colourful and exciting twelve months again. One nice thing about boxing is that  Read Full Story >>>

PacMan and the Pound for Pound Pissing Contest
By Doug Fischer, Abe Rutchick, B., and Sherwin, MaxBoxing.com, Thu, 18 Dec 2003
The silly debate on who the best fighters in the world are and what order they should rank among themselves never ends. The order of the many mythical ?pound-for-pound? lists floating around in the few newspapers that have regular fight scribes, the boxing magazines, in cyberspace and in the minds o  Read Full Story >>>

Manny Pacquiao gym inaugurated
By Charles Raymond A. Maxey, Sun.Star General Santos, Thu, 18 Dec 2003
GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- A boxing facility that will serve as a training ground for future Manny Pacquiaos was inaugurated here Tuesday. No less than Filipino world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, this city's favorite son, graced the formal opening of the facility owned by businessman-sportsman Ad  Read Full Story >>>

Fans never seem to tire of Manny?s Alamodome win
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Thu, 18 Dec 2003
AT AROUND noon yesterday, near the corner of Rizal Avenue and Carriedo in the old section of downtown Manila, a group of men, young and old, had their faces glued on three television sets which were all showing the same boxing match. You?d think a big fight was being shown live from Las Vegas, At  Read Full Story >>>


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