Recah Trinidad
1,137 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Shouldn?t Pacquiao be more cautious?
Take it from Mexican boxing great Juan Manuel Marquez, who certainly knows what the noble and elusive commodity is all about. The legacy of Manny Pacquiao will not and should not be…
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Manny Pacquiao needs to be helped
Suddenly, it?s not easy saying nice things about Manny Pacquiao, superhero and former beloved premier warrior around the boxing world. In another careless move, the eight-division world boxing title winner has shot…
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Isn?t Pacquiao-Bradley 3 also a junk sale?
PARDON please, but like it or not, the scheduled top world welterweight boxing clash in Las Vegas on April 9 also has the makings of a garage sale. Both main fighters, definitely…
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Can a new weapon help Tim Bradley?
THE GREAT Mexican boxing trainer Nacho Beristain has come up with a complicated description of Timothy Bradley?s ring style. ?He is the same fighter?with that stinking, fast and difficult style,? Beristain explained.…
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A growing urgency for Pacquiao
HAS Timothy Bradley junked his predictable slap shots to start developing a spear punch similar to the one Juan Manuel Marquez threw in stopping the great Manny Pacquiao cold in 2012? Latest…
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The one and only King Carlos Loyzaga
Loyzaga. There are not too many among today?s basketball devotees hereabouts fortunate enough to have witnessed the great Carlos Loyzaga in action. Such a sorry fact, and it?s like this: At the…
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Could Gilas Pilipinas have enough luck?
INSTEAD of pray for a miracle, the first wish for the Gilas Pilipinas national basketball team was for a lucky break in the Olympic qualifier the country will be hosting in July.…
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Now they?re hard-selling a firefight
THE main protagonists were of uneven skills, power, talent and fierceness. The whole boxing world knows that. So the announcement of a third fight involving welterweight standouts Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley…
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Now selling: Third Encounter of a different kind
THEY continue to throw in extenders and enhancers to make the trilogy taste and look great. Sorry, wrote the famous novelist Ivan Goldman. Staging a third fight between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy…
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Why so sudden Hermie, lovable warrior?
THERE was never a dull moment with him, but the famous broadcaster and boxing expert Hermie Rivera was once stunned into silence when Muhammad Ali turned to him on stage and quipped,…
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Panic-selling the reinvented Timothy Bradley
THEY should also try a fair and honest way to market the third encounter between Manny Pacquiao and WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley. The fight promoters had tried everything, tossing in falsehood,…
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Can Arum really retire Pacquiao?
WHEN Bob Arum declared months back that Manny Pacquiao would fight his last bout on April 9, the statement carried a final impact. Pacquiao did not whimper, or manifest any hint of…
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Pacquiao-Bradley: Sorry for the convenience
THEY still try to call it a showdown, the third meeting between Manny Pacquiao and Tim Bradley slated in Las Vegas on April 9. Sorry, but of the 10-something local Pacquiao fans…
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Who?s afraid of Tim Bradley, world champ?
Who? Definitely not Manny Pacquiao, our fearless, firebreathing national treasure of a world boxing superhero. The whole truth about it is that Tim Bradley, whom Pacquiao had handpicked for his next opponent,…
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Christmas prayer in Lipa for a heroine
Magsanoc. SHE?S great -- greatest -- not in the ordinary sense. Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc stood out, shone pure and bright because she was out of this world, heaven-sent, if you please. She had…
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Pacquiao?s next bout is for our Miss Universe
CAN a big defeat inside the boxing ring be avenged in a separate venue like, say, the dazzling stage of a major international beauty contest? Manny Pacquiao obviously thinks so. In fact,…
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MP?s ?Blow by Blow? rolls on the road
NOT that he didn?t give a damn about his promoter, but Manny Pacquiao has made mention of the country?s next president, instead of his next opponent. In his birthday celebration in General…
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Bob Arum has reason to be bothered
VETERAN promoter Bob Arum has cautiously manifested surprise at Manny Pacquiao?s continued refusal to name his preferred foe in a scheduled April 9 farewell fight in Las Vegas. That, of course, was…
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Manny, Floyd Jr. score separate sizzlers
FLOYD Mayweather Jr. scored an off-ring sizzler when he bought a diamond-studded million-dollar wristwatch in Dubai earlier in the week. On the same day TMZ Sports came out with the sensational item,…
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DONAIRE-JUAREZ REMATCH APPEARS A MUST
THERE?s every reason ? and evidence ? to say that last Sunday?s world super bantamweight boxing title war won by Nonito Donaire Jr. in San Juan, Puerto Rico has taken the lead…
