Reni M. Valenzuela
186 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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GOOD NEWS! PAC AND FLOYD RETIRING FROM BOXING (Part IV)
What?s the fuss? Pacquiao and Mayweather will ?soon? hang up their gloves and it?s nothing new, but good news anyhow because retirement seems to be the only good they can do for…
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TIME FOR PEOPLE POWER IN BOXING
How do you become an enemy to yourself? Media?s job is to inform and send a message by way of report and opinion. But if media sends the wrong message and reports…
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JERKS, BOXING AND THE ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE (Part III)
How do you become an enemy to yourself? Media?s job is to inform and send a message by way of report and opinion. But if media sends the wrong message and reports…
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MEDIA, PAC-FLOYD AND THE HEALING OF BOXING (Part II)
Here?s the score. Media should not care about any fight of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao if it is not a fight against each other. How scribes and media will respond…
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MEDIA?S ROLE IN HEALING THE SPORT OF BOXING (Part I)
What?s wrong with boxing? Nay, what?s wrong with media? Where in the world can we find a sport in which money is the main thing, the overriding issue? Can anybody tell of…
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WHO SAYS FORGET THE MAYWEATHER VS. PACQUIAO?
They seem to have signed the contract blindfolded. Michael Koncz?s logic sounds rational, but only to them who have no qualm in gagging the Super Fight from becoming a reality and have…
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MANNY PACQUIAO?S CONTRACT WITH TOP RANK ALL ABOUT MONEY
They seem to have signed the contract blindfolded. Michael Koncz?s logic sounds rational, but only to them who have no qualms in gagging the Super Fight from becoming a reality and have…
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BOXING ISN?T A SPORT WITH MAYWEATHER AND PACQUIAO
Can boxing be considered a sport today if put on scale? Like it or not, boxing must ever struggle to stand as a sport, or else we nullify history and dishonor great…
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WHAT DOES MARQUEZ?S WIN OVER ALVARADO MEAN TO BOXING?
Why a fifth bout between Pacquiao and Marquez is all of a sudden being raised as though it needs to happen tomorrow? What does Dinamita?s win yesterday mean to boxing? Why any…
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PAC AND FLOYD?S LATEST PPV: HANDWRITING ON THE WALL
The pay-per-view sales are down for the shows far below projections. HBO and Showtime live cable viewing for both fights didn?t do well in numbers based on the announced approximation by the…
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WHAT ?MAYWEATHER-MAIDANA II?? PACQUIAO SHOULD BE NEXT
Much of boxing made a mistake underestimating the capability of the underdog champion to beat a pound-for-pound god. Floyd Mayweather Jr. must have realized he committed an equally big mistake handpicking the…
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IS MAYWEATHER-MAIDANA WORTH WATCHING?
Sports can readily identify the best athletes today without much contention: Ronaldo in soccer, Woods in golf, Shihoura in swimming, James/Durant in NBA, Tulowitzki in MLB, Federer in tennis. But in boxing,…
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THE SILENT MAJORITY, JERKS, BOYCOTT AND MAYWEATHER
Floyd?s dumping of his fianc?e ahead of the ?Mayweather vs. Maidana? must not be in any way connected to his intent to ?magnify? the said show for promotional purposes by creating a…
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WHY FLOYD MAYWEATHER ISN?T FIGHTING THE BOXERS WE WANT HIM TO FIGHT?
He?s at ease dodging competition for the basic reason that, whoever he handpicks as an opponent, there are those who pay to watch his fights enough to make him richer every time,…
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HOPKINS A WONDER TO WATCH; THE HALF-SOLVED ?MAYWEATHER VS. PACQUIAO?
When a boxer or athlete runs out of gas during a competition, it?s almost always like reaching the point of surrender for the same boxer or athlete (not the ?apostates?). Stamina is…
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WHAT?S OBVIOUS IN PACQUIAO-BRADLEY 2?
The ?Pacquiao-Bradley II? yesterday showed me only two things when I watched it on replay this morning. Let me share them with you as I quickly make this piece to briefly dissect…
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PROTEST OVER ?PACQUIAO-BRADLEY? AND ?MAYWEATHER-MAIDANA?
The bottom line is the Pay-Per-View numbers of the ?fights.? And the question is: Will Manny Pacquiao and Money Mayweather finally be convinced or compelled to fight each other next as a…
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THE PEOPLE AND DEMOCRACY IN BOXING
What liberated people would ignore an injustice, gladly bear its yoke and willingly suffer its injuries by doing nothing? If scoundrels think they are free to do what they?re doing in defiance…
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CROOKEDNESS IN BOXING: SOLUTION TO A WAYWARD SPORT
Boxing prides itself to have in its fold the highest paid athlete in the world today but, oh, at the expense of everything that is right about prizefighting as a sound and…
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MAYWEATHER CONTINUES TO TOY THE WORLD AND BOXING
It?s final, on May 3 at the MGM Grand or Barclay?s Center, square pegs in a round hole will stage a fight that the sport doesn?t warrant and the fans don?t crave,…
