Nick Giongco
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Dasmariñas nears world title shot
By Nick Giongco
Mandatory challenger Michael “Hot and Spicy” Dasmariñas is one step away from securing the coveted crack at the world crown. A purse bid is scheduled on 12 January by the International Boxing…
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Middleweight madness
By Nick Giongco
The four superstars — Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran — figured in a mesmerizing merry-go-round that lasted until 1989. Growing up in the 1980s, boxing was often…
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Marcial stays with Roach
By Nick Giongco
Filipino middleweight Eumir Marcial, undoubtedly the country’s brightest bet for a gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics, is staying put in the United States, the Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines…
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God bless America: If you want to make it big, you have to go to the US
By Nick Giongco
Wesley So’s sad story brings to mind what Manny Pacquiao did in the summer of 2001 when the Filipino puncher was starting to run out of worthy foes to beat up. No,…
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Settling the score
By Nick Giongco
First thing I did after watching Pedro Taduran lose his world title to Rene Cuarto in General Santos City last Saturday was ring up a dear friend to see what’s on the…
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Operation: Marcial makeover
By Nick Giongco
Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) Abraham Tolentino is leaving it up to the Association of Boxing Alliances of the Philippines (ABAP) to take Eumir Marcial temporarily away from the hands of Freddie Roach…
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Phl boxers ready for Thai camp
By Nick Giongco
The Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (ABAP) is opening the communication lines with MP Promotions to bring over Tokyo Olympics-bound Eumir Marcial to Thailand for training camp. ABAP secretary general…
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So far, so good
By Nick Giongco
Tokyo-bound Marcial progressing in LA training It doesn’t look as if Tokyo Olympic qualifier Eumir Marcial is joining the Philippine boxing team in its training camp in Thailand anytime soon. Although Marcial’s…
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Pacquiao’s bravest opponent
By Nick Giongco
It took him about two seconds to rattle off the name of his most courageous opponent, making sure he didn’t miss out on somebody more deserving than the name he just mentioned.…
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Salavarria swears Pacquiao still ‘young’
By Nick Giongco
For two-time world flyweight champion Erbito Salavarria, age is just a number. Salavarria, who recently turned 75, feels he doesn’t see anything wrong with Manny Pacquiao pursuing another shot at a world…
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Battle of the Braves
By Nick Giongco
There is a running joke among boxing men about how certain fighters tremble at the sight and taste of their own blood or freeze the moment their foes start inflicting even the…
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Taduran’s reign under threat
By Nick Giongco
World boxing champion Pedro Taduran swears he has thought about slipping out of his hotel room in General Santos City one of these days so he can train properly. Believing that his…
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Boxing bubble unwraps in Biñan
By Nick Giongco
It’s green and go for the first world title fight on local shores during the pandemic era, Filipino promoter Gabriel “Bebot” Elorde said yesterday. Elorde said the clash for the vacant World…
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Marcial’s Olympic grind intensifies
By Nick Giongco
Tokyo Olympics qualifier Eumir Marcial’s decision to set up camp in Los Angeles is turning out to be a wise decision. As the heavy-handed middleweight prepares to return to the ring in…
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Pacquiao: Give me Crawford
By Nick Giongco
Manny Pacquiao isn’t running away from a fight. Pushing 43, Pacquiao would rather lock horns with Terence Crawford, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight king or Errol Spence, the World Boxing Council…
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The Second Coming: This is not a (Conor) McGregor (type of) fight.
By Nick Giongco
First time I saw Ryan Garcia fight, I thought I was seeing double. He looked like Oscar de la Hoya and he fought like the Golden Boy. Garcia, 22, is being groomed…
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Uncrowned champion
By Nick Giongco
Pacquiao loses ‘welter’ title Not even the stripping of Manny Pacquiao as World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight titleholder will diminish the Filipino icon’s solid reputation, the eight-division champion’s camp said yesterday. “There…
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Shades of De La Hoya
By Nick Giongco
Ryan Garcia was just ten years old when Manny Pacquiao battered Oscar De La Hoya from pillar to post one cold December night in 2008 in Las Vegas. Shortly after having his…
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Easy work for Pacquiao
By Nick Giongco
Take it from someone who had a first-hand experience being in the ring with Ryan “KingRy” Garcia. Romero Duno, the Filipino lightweight who lost on a first-round knockout to Garcia in November…
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Passing of torch?
By Nick Giongco
Manny Pacquiao could end up fighting a guy young enough to be his son. Just hours after Pacquiao’s prospective foe Conor McGregor got ambushed in Abu Dhabi, Ryan Garcia, the young and…