Teodoro Medina Reynoso
911 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Mysterious Mexican Claims Second Top Pinoy Scalp
Torres (R) inflicts Cataraja's first loss. Mystery Mexican fighter Kenbun Torres claimed a second straight top ranking Filipino bantamweight victim via 10 round split decision over KJ Cataraja in a featured bout…
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Why Doesn’t the US Use Pros in Olympic Boxing (Part 2)
Team USA for Paris Olympics. In the opening part, we traced how the once mighty Americans have been reduced from masters to paupers in Olympic boxing in the last twenty four years.…
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Why Doesn’t US Use Pros in Olympic Boxing? (First of Two Parts)
Omari Jones is the lone medal winner in boxing for the USA in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Wikifact: The United States swept the podium at the 1904 Games in St Louis as…
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Petecio, Villegas Oust French Foes; Biggest Gainers, Losers in Paris Boxing
Aira Villegas (L) and Nesthy Petecio (R). In our tunnel vision-like focus of attention on how our boxers were faring in their quest for podium finish in the last Paris Summer Olympics,…
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Hope Springs For Boxing in LA 2028
It is hard to believe that boxing will not be an Olympics event in the next staging of the global quadrennial games in Los Angeles, California, USA, a city, state and country…
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Olympic Gold Does Not Make a World Pro Boxing Champion
First, a trivia: Who is the Olympic gold medal winner who fought and mostly beat the most number of fellow Olympic champions in his pro boxing career? It was Cassius Clay better…
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“Sang Daang Laban Para sa Bayan” Sounds Nice But Not Accurate
In numerical term, the 33rd Olympics in Paris may have really marked the Filipinos' 100 years in the global summer games since 1924 hence the slogan "Sang Daang Taon Laban Para sa…
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Will Pro Boxing Regain Prominence Post Paris Olympics?
The persistent rumor is that boxing may have seen its last as an Olympic sport event in the recently concluded 33rd Olympics in Paris. The reasons given are varied, ranging from the…
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US Fries French Team for Olympic Basketball Gold
The US All Stars team kept a pesky France national squad at bay for more than three quarters before Stephen Curry singed them with a searing display of three points shooting in…
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Uzbekistan, China Rule Paris Olympics Boxing; Marcial Tokyo Semis Foe Wins Lightheavy Gold
Hassanboy Dusmatov of Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan and China dominated men's and women's boxing in the recently concluded Paris Olympics boxing event. The Uzbeks won five of the seven golds in the men's bannered…
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US Survives Serbia, France Stuns Germany; To Clash for Olympic Basketball Gold
L-R: Durant, James and Curry carry the USA Team to victory against Serbia. When the US started to flaunt its professional superstars in basketball with devastating effect in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics,…
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Should We Send Our Elites to 2025 Bangkok SEAG?
Petecio and Villegas. It certainly took a long time in coming; but now we have athletes that we can truly consider as elites. Admit it or not, the past two Olympics have…
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Aira, Nesthy Box in the Shadows in the 2019 Manila SouthEast Asian Games
Current women's boxing toasts Nesthy Petecio and Aira Villegas boxed under the shadows of their more popular teammates in the 2019 Manila Southeast Asian Games boxing competition. I covered the boxing competition…
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Marcial Should Focus on Pro Career
Felix Eumir Marcial should heed the advise of no less than the Kazakh middleweight great Gennady Golovkin that he leaves the amateurs and focus on his professional career. After drawing a bye,…
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Japan’s Weak Underbelly
Pedro Taduran (R) pummels Ginjiro Shigeoka. The minimumweight and flyweight remain as Japan's weak underbelly as it lost its hold of the last world 105 lbs title in its possession and its…
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Shigeoka Brothers Had Eyes on Conquerors Since Three Years Ago
Pedro Taduran (R) overpowers Ginjiro Shigeoka last weekend. Naghanap sila ng sarili nilang kapahamakan. They looked for their own misfortunes. The Shiegoka fighting brothers Ginjiro and Yudai seemed to have tempted their…
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Golden Age in Japanese Boxing: How is the Bigger World to Know?
Imagine Manny Pacquiao fought only in the Philippines or Asia. Or Roberto Duran in Panama or Latin Americas. Would they have attained the success and greatness they achieved in their respective careers?…
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Door Opens to Kazuto Ioka To Become Champion Again
Kazuto Ioka (L) and Kosei Tanaka. Two weeks after losing his WBA belt in a unification against Argentine IBF champion Fernando Martinez, an opportunity has apparently opened for Kazuto Ioka to become…
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WBA, Inoue Reach a Modus Vivendi; MJ Akhmadaliev Appears “Abandoned”
Inoue (L) and Akhmadaliev (R). It can be said that the WBA and the camp of "The Monster" Naoya Inoue have reached a modus vivendi that allowed Inoue to keep his WBA…
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Astrolabio Should Rein In “Gigil”, Employ Calculated Violence
There is no question that Vincent Astrolabio packs a wallop in his punches. Vincent demonstrated it once again in his last fight, a WBC eliminator that he won by stopping Thai erstwhile…
