Teodoro Medina Reynoso
911 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Llover Halts Kurihara in the Very First Round, Completes Conquest of OPBF Bantam Crown
Rising Filipino star Kenneth "Lover Boy" Llover yesterday completed his conquest of the OPBF bantamweight crown by stopping tough Japanese champion Keita Kurihara in the very first round of their 12 rounds…
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OKC Nips LA Clippers in Late Season Struggle; Keeps League Lead, Drops Clips to 8th
At this point, the Oklahoma City Thunder can afford to drop a game, having virtually clinched the Western Conference top seed. On the other hand, their opponents, the Los Angeles Clippers need…
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Do the Oddsters Know Something We Don’t?
It's really surprising and puzzling that oddsmakers in Japan have installed former titlist Yudai Shigeoka a slight 10-8 favorite over Filipino defending WBC minimumweight champion Melvin Jerusalem in their title rematch this…
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Oklahoma Takes NBA Overall Lead; Race for West Top 6, Play-in Still On
With Cleveland dropping three straight games, the Oklahoma City Thunder has assumed overall lead in the current NBA season standings by a game, 57-12 to the Cavaliers 56-13 win-loss record as of…
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65 Years of Flash Elorde’s Historic Feat; The Decline of Local World Boxing Bouts
Last Sunday, March 16, marked a history-making event 65 years ago which seemed lost or overshadowed by the current political issues and to-dos. On that date in 1960, Gabriel Flash Elorde brought…
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Wild, Wild West 2.0
The playoff placing in the Eastern Conference is almost set, with Cleveland as the runaway topnotcher, followed by Boston and New York, down to play-in contenders Miami and Chicago, in that order.…
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Japan Crowns Second Unified Champion But Loses, Fails to Win Another Belt
Results from triple world boxing title bouts at the Kokugikan Arena in Tokyo yesterday had Japan crowning a second unified titleholder but losing a belt and failing to win another title to…
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Inoue to Fight Cardenas in the USA on May 4, Another “Expensive” Mismatch Expected
I wonder no more why Bob Arum is no longer taken seriously as fight promoter in the United States. It is official, on May 4, 2025, in a co-promotion with Ohashi of…
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Bye Bye Dallas Mavericks – From Finalists to Also Run (Again)?
With sixteen games left in its schedule, the pressure is on the Dallas Mavericks to win as many of their remaining assignments to avoid falling from being Western Conference champions and finalists…
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We’ll Get to See Lakers, Warriors More in Coming Post-Season Playoffs
Unlike the past two seasons where both had to fight for life in the play-in, chances are we will get to see fans-favorites Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors in…
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Japan’s Boxing Mix and Match – Naoya Inoue: Right Number, Wrong Foes, Wrong Sequence
After successively feasting on a has-been, TJ Doheny, and a virtual non-entity, Ye Joon Kim, in the last nine months of 2024, Naoya Inoue has been expected to make up this year…
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Can Cleveland Set New Best Season Record and Go All The Way to Second NBA Championship?
With a league topping 52-10 card and only 20 games left before the season ends early next month, the question is: can the Cavaliers set a new best record and go all…
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Japan’s Boxing Mix and Match; Ali Didn’t Take a Knee Versus Liston
Davis takes a knee against Roach. I just saw the video on X of that particular segment of the recent Gervonta Davis-Lamont Roach fight where Tank belatedly went down on one knee…
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Boston Virtually Concedes East Top Seed to Cavs; Loses at Home to Cleveland, 123-116
Defending champion Boston Celtics have virtually conceded the top seed to the Cleveland Cavaliers after dropping a 123-116 defeat to the Cavs at home, tying its total regular season 18 losses with…
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Old, New Foreign Cagers Making a Difference As Pro League Enters Crucial Stage
The good news is the two most successful teams in the NBA 2024-25 season thus far are all-American or mostly composed of American starters. The Cleveland Cavaliers, with a league-leading 48-10 slate,…
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Do the Dallas Mavericks Lose Out to LA in Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis Trade?
Does Dallas Lose out to Los Angeles Lakers in the biggest mid-season trade that essentially shipped star guard Luke Doncic to LA for star bigman Anthony Davis? It is premature to say…
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Daigo Higa Continues Chase for Second World Title; Holds to Another Draw by Seiya Tsusumi
Higa (R) in action against Takeii. Daigo Higa was among the rising stars at the start of Japan's golden era in boxing spearheaded by Naoya Inoue. In only his 13th professional boxing…
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Why is Naoya Inoue Not Moving Up?
First of, let it be said that Dmitry Bivol, in finally defeating Arthur Beterbiev recently, demonstrated the proper way how to handle and tame a beast inside the ring. But it cannot…
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Super Welterweight Coming Up as Another Division to Watch Out For
Remember the time when top names as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran moved up to the super welterweights, then known as the junior middleweight division, to resuscitate their fighting careers?…
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Pedro Taduran Aiming for Repeat Over Ginjiro Shigeoka
Taduran (L) and Ginjiro Shigeoka exchange punches in their first fight. IBF minimumweight champion Pedro Taduran is aiming for an equally impressive repeat victory over Japanese erstwhile titleholder Ginjiro Shigeoka in their…
