Conrad Cariño
61 articles · The Manila Times
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Where to Donaire?
Since his stoppage loss to Nicholas Walters in October 2014, Nonito Donaire has racked up four successive wins with three of them inside the distance. His lone decision win was a see-saw…
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Analyzing Bradley
When Manny Pacquiao was matched against Timothy Bradley Jr. for the first time in June 2012, I expected the fight to end in favor of the Filipino either by lopsided decision or…
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Danny not in Manny, Floyd?s league
I was disappointed at Danny Garcia?s performance in beating Robert Guerrero to win the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight title over the weekend. In my past columns, I touted the still…
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Floyd-Manny 2 won?t save boxing
The outcome of the Canelo Alvarez-Miguel Cotto middleweight championship bout over the weekend was quite a treat for fight fans, but still did not measure up to the marquee bouts of the…
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Alvarez-Cotto in the shadows of Hagler-Hearns
How many times have I mentioned or discussed the historic bout between Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns in my columns? And now is the time to make reference to that dramatic bout…
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?Chocolotito? bad news for Floyd
Floyd Mayweather Jr. definitely had a great inclination on equaling Rocky Marciano?s 49-0 record because he announced his retirement after attaining his 49th win and picked a gift opponent in Andre Berto.…
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A marquee match up
News that our very own Brian Viloria (36-4 with 22 knockouts) and Roman Gonzalez (42-0 with 37 KOs) of Nicaragua will square off in the undercard of the Gennady Golovkin-David Le-mieux fight…
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Donaire and the junior flyweight scene
Nonito Donaire Jr.?s recent second-round stoppage win over Frenchman Anthony Settoul (20-4 with 8 knockouts) at Macau has boosted the career of the Filipino since his loss to Jamaican Nicholas Walters (26-0…
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Luisito Espinosa
The report that the Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of Luisito Espinosa in a case surrounding his purse for the defense of his World Boxing Council (WBC) featherweight title in…
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It doesn?t make sense
After the boring megabout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao ended with the American winning and the Filipino complaining, the name of Amir Khan (31-3 with 19 knockouts) immediately surfaced as…
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The ?sanitization? of boxing
Those who were crying for blood during the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao megabout (?) in May 3 who ended up disappointed are in the dark on how boxing has already been ?sanitized.?…
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Time for Manny, Floyd to step aside
Over the weekend, boxing fans got a real treat from watching the hyped-up fight between Saul Alvarez and James Kirkland, which got a live gate of 30,000 fans. The fight ended with…
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My take on Pacquiao-Mayweather
Fellow The Times columnist lawyer Eduardo Tolentino said it right in his column on March 6, 2015 that the Mike Tyson-Michael Spinks fight was one of the most hyped fights in modern…
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Mayweather vs the greats
Consider this piece a prelude to my next columns, which will discuss the realities of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. bout scheduled on May 2. For this column, let me ruffle some…
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Lessons from boxing history
About two weeks from now or on April 4, the boxing world will commemorate the 27th anniversary of the fight between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard, which by the time…
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Taishan and Pacquiao
Not many boxing fans have heard of Taishan Dong, a Chinese professional boxer who is now under the wings of Oscar Dela Hoya?s Golden Boy Promotions. Taishan who? Even with a record…
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For a great legacy
I would call the closing of the deal to stage the mega bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao a big victory for the rich history of the welterweight to middleweight…
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Admiring the warrior spirit of women
I really do not know if women should be called upon to do what men are used to doing dangerously, like fighting. For thousands of years, it was us, the men, who…
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Steward sees tough Pacquiao-Cotto fight
ONE of boxing’s legendary trainers sees a tough fight between pound-for-pound king Manny ‘PacMan’ Pacquiao and World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. In an interview with eastsideboxing.com, Emmanuel “Manny” Steward said…
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Roach-Mayweather war gets very personal
With about a week left before Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton of the United Kingdom square off, it looks like the trainers of the two fighters are the ones…