Epifanio M. Almeda
125 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Wishes for Philippine Boxing 2009
2008 is exceptional for Philippine Boxing mainly because of Manny Pacquiao?s once in a lifetime exploits. While adding a junior lightweight belt to his laurels is an accomplishment, winning a lightweight crown…
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It?s high time they blame Manny Pacquiao
The ?they? refers to those who up to this time still could not accept a Filipino is better than the rest of the world. Except for billiards maybe, Filipinos are expected to…
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Boxing Judge in the US to make Filipinos Proud
Jonathan Davis. I?m referring to Jonathan ?the Best? Davis. Jonny figured prominently in the 4 February 2008 Boxing Confidential article ?Jonathan Davis: His Integrity Would've Lit Up Diogenes And His Famous Lamp!?…
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?All ?Manny? to Give?
Reading articles these past days about Manny Pacquiao giving away, sharing more of his many blessings to others brings to mind the title of an older movie ?All mine to give?. On…
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Tell your boxer all the ring rules
The expected exciting fight at the Elorde Sports Center in Para?aque City, Philippines, last Saturday, 15 November 2008, abruptly ended midway in the 2nd round when the fighter who accidentally fell outside…
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The Philippine Boxing Crown Prince
Manny Pacquiao, the pride of Philippine boxing who will be 30 years old next month, is seeing the end of his fighting days after two or three more fights. He might be…
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‘He Should Fight and Beat Him’
Who should fight whom? Oscar de la Hoya?s dilemma as to who should be facing him from the opposite corner of the ring in his declared last fight has been and still…
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Buenos ?Diaz?, David
Now that his fight with the arguably most exciting and fun to watch fighter already set, it will be more ?buenos dias? (good days) David will wake up to after June 28.…
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When Fighters Don?t Fight
The semblance of a fight put up by junior-featherweights Noel Sungahid and Anthony Esmedina marred the action packed Summer Heat Boxing card presented by the Elorde International Productions at the Elorde Sports…
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Those ?Flips?
?Flip? is what comes out from a foreigner?s mouth who finds it difficult, and without malice, in articulating ?Filipino?. But some bigot boxing fanatics derisively call Filipino fighters and fans ?flips? out…
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MANNY LIGHTENS UP THE LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION
I was about to submit this article weeks ago when I read another?s claim in another broadsheet that it is Joel Casamayor who has lightened up the lightweight division when he KO?d…
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The Unsettled Issue ? Pac or JMM
Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez is a super-fight. This is a settled issue. Who is the better fighter between the two? Each tried but failed in the 24 rounds so far…
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Ariel Delgao Left No Room for Judging Controversy, Retains ABCO Super-Bantam Title by KO
ABCO super-bantamweight champion Ariel Delgado successfully defended his title by knocking out challenger Howhaan Sitkopol of Thailand with a barrage of unanswered head and body power shots last Saturday, 15 March 2008,…
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Save? Or Saved
The fight card I was privileged to judge in Mandaluyong City, Philippines last February 13 was presented by a new promotional group named ?Save by the Bell?. When I got hold of…
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??Ring? it again Sam!?
Salven L. Lagumbay?s report on the successful holding last Saturday of the card top billed by a fight for WBO Asia Pacific Youth and WBO Oriental super-bantamweight titles at the Mindanao Civic…
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A Big THANK YOU Michael Marley!!!
Jonathan Davis. Reading Michael Marley?s 4 February 2008 Boxing Confidential article ?Jonathan Davis: His Integrity Would've Lit Up Diogenes And His Famous Lamp!? made my days. Yes ?days?, plural, because the elation…
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Z ?The Reality? Gorres
?The Dream? or ?The Reality? to apply to Z Gorres is the controversy my tennis-buff-boxing-enthusiast-friends discussed after last Saturday?s IBF 115-lb eliminator fight between Z and Vic Darchinyan in Cebu City. ?The…
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Now this is the Philippine Games & Amusements Board!
It is refreshing to learn of the Philippine Games & Amusements Board?s (GAB) timely intervention to protect IBF minimum weight champion Florante Condes. Florante is in a boxing career destroying quagmire not…
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Settling of Issues Super-Fight
In less than 60 days, the highly anticipated Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez II (JMM) super fight will settle a lot of issues. I?ll mention two. The Pacman is a beater of ?has…
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?How was it in Palawan??
This is the question boxing referee and judge Salvador Lopez (?Hogan? in the philboxing.com forum) asked me in a text message. I texted back ?excellent? with the promise to answer fully his…
