MANILA, Philippines ? Boxing continued to dominate the year about to pass.
As usual, Manny Pacquiao?s gifted fists, as in years past, provided sports pages its bread and butter. He fought twice and won twice, extending a win streak that has defied the ages. But it?s not Pacquiao alone making the boxing headlines.
There?s Nonito Donaire who knocked his opponent out with a blow that shook his rival and the boxing world. And then there was Brian Viloria, a Fil-American, who gave the country?s its third world boxing champion.
But besides boxing and Pacquiao, other news, the good, as well as the bad, were in abundance in 2011.
Other top stories of the year include golf ?s bad boy Juvic Pagunsan winning the Asian Tour Order of Merit, Talk ?N Text?s foiled grand slam bid, Ateneo?s four-peat, Dennis Orcollo being ranked top billiards player in the world, the dragon boat team?s world title win, the exhibition games of NBA stars led by Kobe Bryant, the friendly football game against David Beckham and his LA Galaxy squad and the embarrassing debacle in the Indonesia Southeast Asian Games.
Manny Pacquiao?s two successful fights
Manny Pacquiao struggled to give his fans what they craved for but the Filipino icon still succeeded in maintaining his winning ways, overwhelming American Shane Mosley in May and getting past Mexican nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez in November.
