Mark F. Villanueva
92 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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INSIGHTS ON PACQUIAO VS MOSLEY
Manny Pacquiao?s opponent come May 7th in Las Vegas, Shane Mosley is a scarred and battle tested thirty nine year old fighter, who in his last two fights lost in a lopsided…
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Mark F. Villanueva Interviews “Kid Chocolate”
They say the good thing about being lost in life so that you no longer know who you are is grabbing that fresh chance to be whoever you want to be. It…
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Orlando Salido: A Blue Collar King
Other things could have happened at the eighth round that ended in a stoppage. Amidst that hellfire targeted at him, the defending WBO Featherweight World Champion could have used the ropes and…
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Erik Morales: Gotta Love The Stubborn Mexican
Breaching the depths of accepted lows one time a friend asked me how I cope, and I said ?God loves a fighter. He knows how tough I am; that I always put…
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Donnie Nietes Lands At 108
It was Donnie Nietes? first fight at the 108lb division after coming up from the Minimumweight class, but it seemed as though his diminutive opponent from Mexico was the one moving up.…
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Nonito Donaire Jr: A Hybrid Filipino
Change is good, but most certainly not without hurt. We detest it when something or someone new disrupts established patterns we have become deeply set in, ostracize it when something different presents…
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Mark F. Villanueva & Wayne McCullough on Erik Morales Comeback
It was late and I was checking out my old boxing videos from my computer in a backpacker?s place I rented for two days. I walked back in from the terrace that…
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ZAB JUDAH: KEEP THE FAITH
People come and go, yet it?s not in the leaving itself that empties you, but the realization that those who used to believe in you and with whom you have drawn strength…
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DONAIRE’S BACK UP AND RIOS’ VICTORY
Sometimes I feel like Boxing is all I have, and now life is a brawler. So I sat back all alone to view it all from a distance. I took my time…
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It’s Nonito Donaire Jr.’s Time
When Fernando Montiel?s rude awakening came he was laying on his back with both hands up as if in surrender, except he was actually trying to stand back up and fight. He…
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Ricardo Mayorga: Got A Light?
If Nicaraguan ?El Matador? Ricardo Mayorga was as good in boxing as in hyping up fights there?d be a very good chance he?d still be a world champion up to this day.…
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Life And Boxing: A Look Into Donaire Jr. Versus Montiel
When the time comes for you to step in you know you are in it on your own and all the people you trust for guidance are backed up behind you knowing…
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The Super Fight
The combination of two undefeated boxers mixed up in the same ring is a rarity these days. It?s as if that breed of fighter that is willing to risk all- that glittering…
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Evaluating Mosley
At thirty nine years of age there seems to be no indication yet that ?Sugar? Shane Mosley plans to take it slow in terms of pursuing his boxing career and fighting the…
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Michael Katsidis: A True Warrior to A Fault
When promising jockey Stathi Katsidis died last Oct. 19, 2010 of an undetermined cause many believed the upcoming fight between his younger brother, Michael Katsidis and Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez was going…
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Two Bishops Can?t Checkmate The King
Almost in the same breadth that in this modern day and age presidents can govern over nations from an aircraft thousands of feet above the air Manny Pacquiao?s job as a congressman…
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MERCY IN THE RING
At some point in that long, arduous and deadly twelve round stretch the fight should have been stopped but it kept rolling. I wanted to hear what Coach Robert Garcia was saying…
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ANTONIO MARGARITO AND THE TRUTH
The truth hurts so much more than a Pacquiao cross. A perfectly timed punch delivered with the exact amount of speed and power may knock you out cold as it did the…
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Respecting Shane Mosley
I feel for Sugar Shane Mosley, that green-eyed charming monster-warrior in the ring from Pomona, California who must be having a hard time on the recipient?s end taking blow by blow criticisms…
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REDHEAD STRIKES AGAIN
When Jose Miguel Cotto wobbled redhead Saul Alvarez during their May 1, 2010 boxing match on the Floyd Mayweather Jr. versus Shane Mosley undercard dreams of a new Mexican boxing star lay…
