Teodoro Medina Reynoso
911 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Bantamweight and Featherweight, New Pinoy Niche Weight Classes?
Casimero (L) and Tapales lead Pinoys at top of bantam and feather weights. The bantamweight is a class in boxing for boxers who weigh above 115 pounds and up to 118 pounds…
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Shall We See The Same Monster Inoue Again?
After going to hell and back in that fight of the year with Nonito Donaire recently, shall we see the same Monster Naoya Inoue again? Boxing history is replete with cases of…
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Crucial Role of Coaching in Boxing (or Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth)
We often hear the phrase, "players win the game, coaches lose it" in basketball and perhaps most other team sports including soccer and baseball. Simply explained it boils down to good execution…
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Manny Pacquiao Deserves Higher Pound for Pound Rating
LOST in the current squabble for the top post in the pound for pound ranking particularly of the Ring Magazine which started this tradition back in the fight sport's early years is…
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Inoue, Corner Outwit Donaire in Predicted Boxing Chess Match
While many of so called boxing experts predicted their fight to end via the short route, mostly in favor of Naoya Inoue, Nonito Donaire correctly saw it as a chess match. What…
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November 7 Saitama Bouts: History/ies in the Making?
While it is customary particularly in the West to hold world title and major boxing fights on a weekend or at least on a Friday, the same is not true or followed…
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Romero Duno’s Failed Imitation of The Pacman
The by and large rousing ring success of Manny Pacquiao since the last decade and through the current one about to end has spawned and continuous to inspire generations of Filipino fighters…
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CANELO ALVAREZ, POUND FOR POUND KING?
The Ring Magazine is just waiting for the results of Naoya Inoue's fight versus Nonito Donaire this Thursday before issuing its latest pound for pound ranking. But except for formality, it is…
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Practicality of Going Down in Weight to be Tested in Nonito Fight vs Inoue
The camp of current lightweight unified champion and pound for pound top lister Vasily Lomachenko may be among the parties watching with interest what will happen when Nonito Donaire clashes with Naoya…
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TOP RANK, BOB ARUM STUNTING ANCAJAS CAREER GROWTH
(Author's Note: This is followup to my earlier published article titled, "The Jerwin Ancajas Dilemma") It is no longer a wonder why despite being a world titlist for more than three years…
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Fights Seen to Affect Pound for Pound Ratings
It may not be immediately apparent but the results of two bouts happening this November may have the effects of drastically altering the current pound for pound rankings. For a long time…
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Answers and Questions: Will it be November to Remember?
By this time many of the questions about boxing and our boxers at the start of the year have already been answered. Yes, Manny Pacquiao still has what it takes to compete…
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Daud Yordan Continues to fight on for Indonesia
Daud Yordan. As fighters from neighboring countries Philippines and Thailand remain major fixtures in world professional boxing and those of Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and even Laos start to make headways in the…
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Much Ado About Nothing: Wanheng Menayothin’s 54-0
Wanheng Menayothin. Long reigning WBA minimumweight champion Chayapon Moonsri, better known as Wanheng Menayothin successfully defended his world title for the 14th time by wide points decision over South African challenger Simphiwe…
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Ex-Soviets Making Presence Felt, Serious Title Bids at Welterweight
In a welterweight division dominated by top American champions with the sole exception of Manny Pacquiao, fighters from the former Soviet Union are making their presence felt as they bid to get…
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Last Quarter Push for PH Boxing
L-R: Heno, Ancajas, Donaire and Casimero. Four Filipino fighters take on separate rivals in important world championship bouts overseas starting this weekend in what could be a last quarter push to improve…
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Referee’s Focus Should Also be Fighters Safety
While the referee stands inside the square arena primarily to ensure the proper conduct of a fight by seeing to it that rules and regulations are followed by the ring protagonists and…
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After Pacquiao, it’s Nonito’s Turn
The Philippines version of the dynamic duo-Manny Pacquiao and Nonito Donaire. The durable twosome has been instrumental in the long ongoing another golden age in Philippine boxing for almost two decades now…
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Pinoy Fighters Eke Out Wins in Japan
Froilan Saludar. Heading towards Nonito Donaire's all important fight versus The Monster Naoya Inoue in their World Boxing Super Series bantamweight finals in November 7 in Saitama, Japan, the chance of visiting…
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Light Heavyweight, a Bridge too far for Canelo? (of Pride and Boxing)
Middleweight/Super Middleweight titlist Saul Canelo Alvarez will attempt to accomplish what few others have successfully done before as he challenges Russian Krusher Sergey Kovalev for the latter's world light heavyweight belt on…
