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Who is Pancho Villa? (Third of a Series)
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 23 Jun 2010
Boxing?s Hall of Fame, established in 1954 by Nat Fleischer of Ring Magazine, in elevating Pancho Villa, cited the Filipino boxing hero?s overall record in the short seven-year he fought professionally: 99 bouts of which he won 22 Read full story Villa elates country with world flyweight title win (Second of a Series)
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 21 Jun 2010
After absorbing punishment for seven rounds on June 18, 1923 where he kissed the canvass five times, deposed world flyweight champion Jimmy Wilde of Wales laid unconscious for five minutes before being helped by Fili Read full story Pancho Villa: Greatest Flyweight of 20th Century
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 20 Jun 2010
First of a Series
Year 1923 is to be remembered by a pair of significant events that shook the world of politics and sports.
It was on July 23 that year when Mexican revolutionary hero known to his countrymen as a ?Robin Hood? w Read full story Yldefonso, Villa, Elorde head 1ST batch of RP Hall of Fame inductees
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 14 Apr 2010
In 1985, efforts to establish the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame were started by a group of private sportsmen-businessmen and members of the Philippine Sportswriters Association.
Twenty five years after San Miguel Corp. chair, Ambassador Edu Read full story PACQUIAO MAKES BOXING HISTORY
By Eddie Alinea, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 16 Nov 2009
That Manny Pacquiao is, beyond any doubt, the greatest boxer in this era, the Filipino ring hero proved yesterday by wresting the World Boxing Organization welterweight championship from Puerto Rican titleholder Miguel Cotto. Read full story PACQUIAO SCORES BRUTAL 12TH ROUND STOPPAGE OF COTTO
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 15 Nov 2009
Manny Pacquiao enshrined his name in the storied history of boxing by scoring a brutal 12th round TKO over Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto to win an unprecedented world title in a seventh weight division and proved beyond a sh Read full story MANNY PACQUIAO: THE GREATEST OF ALL-TIME
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 27 Dec 2008
To appreciate the greatness of Manny Pacquiao one has to reach into his childhood days to realize where he came from and then proceed to evaluate ? and be mesmerized ? by what he has achieved not just for himself and his family Read full story THE BOXING WORLD NEEDS MANNY
By Maloney L. Samaco, PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 10 Dec 2008
It was the defeat of the most influential man in the boxing world, Golden Boy Oscar de la Hoya. The Dream Match apparently proved to be Oscar?s swan song as Manny Pacquiao cemented his claim as the number one pound-for-pound boxer in the whole humanity. The world?s biggest fight of the year also Read full story IMMORTALITY
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr., PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 09 Dec 2008
When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.
These words about Alexander the Great - loosely credited to the English poet John Milton - reverberated inside my Read full story MAGNIFICENT MANNY STOPS "THE GOLDEN BOY"
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 07 Dec 2008
Ninety million Filipinos saw their prayers answered and their dreams come true when ring idol and national treasure Manny Pacquiao put on a magnificent display of remarkable skill, blinding speed and awesome power to punish 'Th Read full story
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