Manny Piñol
254 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Amateur boxing headed to the gutters
With only one little guy, Mark Anthony Barriga, who qualified for the Olympic Games by a stroke of luck, carrying the country?s tri-colors in London this year, there is little doubt left…
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Great Fights At The Heights
Lorenzo Villanueva. Decades ago, I and my Baguio city boxing friend Raffy Panagan started a series of boxing events titled "Great Fights At the Heights" which featured prospective highlands boxers in bouts…
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Into the Lion?s Den
With a few fights left in his storied and fabled boxing career, Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao is now starting to get an idea of what the new life and the new…
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Thunderbolt goes high altitude
Given what he considers as a once in a lifetime chance of lifting himself and his siblings out of poverty, orphan Lorenzo ?Thunderbolt? Villanueva, 26, has vowed to push himself to the…
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Singapore Hosts Two World Boxing Title Fights
The tiny nation of Singapore, known all of these years as the business hub of Asia, has started a well-planned effort to become the Far East's sports and entertainment center when the…
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Publisher Pacquiao
Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, who is also the Congressman from Saranggani, the TV host, the singer, the basketball player, the billiards shark and many more, is taking on a new persona…
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GMA 7 Airs Pacquiao-Marquez III Review
Television network GMA 7 which carried the epic third fight between Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and great Mexican counterpuncher Juan Manuel Marquez will air on Sunday, Nov. 27, from 5 to…
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The media and mind conditioning
THE late Smokin? Joe Cantada, undoubtedly one of the best sportscasters and boxing analysts in the history of Philippine broadcasting, once warned me not to score fights while doing the ringside commentary.…
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Pacquiao-Marquez III Replay, Review Set Nov. 27
The replay and review of the third meeting between Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and Mexico's great counterpuncher Juan Manuel Marquez has been set by GMA Channel 7 on Nov. 27 with…
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Pacquiao-Marquez III Replay: Let’s Watch And Learn Together
All these debates over who won in the third meeting between Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and Mexican boxing legend Juan Manuel Marquez are exercises in futility because nobody could alter the…
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If The Judges And Computer Erred, Who Could Have Scored It Right?
Determining the winner in a boxing bout is not like selecting the new American Idol or choosing the New Seven Wonders of the World where the volume of votes texted in from…
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PACQUIAO-MARQUEZ III REPLAYED AND DISSECTED
In the face of the so-called "controversial" victory of Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao over Mexican boxing legend Juan Manuel Marquez in their third meeting in Las Vegas last Saturday, I suggested…
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Pacquiao Agrees to “Winner Takes All” In Fight against Floyd Mayweather
Hollywood, California, Nov. 4 - Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, responding to a dare by late night show host Jimmy Kimmel, tonight said he is willing to face undefeated American boxer Floyd…
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Saving Boxer Ryan
Ryan Rae Ponteras, 21, is not the kind of boxer you would like to have in a boxing club like the Braveheart of North Cotabato which is known for developing young and…
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Who could?ve won in Ali vs. Stevenson? What if Mayweather fights Pacquiao?
HUMAN history is replete with tales of events that everybody wanted to happen or stories that we would have wanted to be continued but somehow these never happened or ended soon enough.…
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Disrespecting Freddie Roach
Before last week, I was given the impression that American trainer Robert Garcia was a nice young man who could grow to be one of the best trainers in boxing and eventually…
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Roach dissects top Philippine boxers
HALL of Famer Freddie Roach, a former lightweight contender who is now considered as the world?s best boxing trainer, is one of the nicest people to talk with about boxing because his…
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Pacquiao hints: It?s Bradley after Marquez
Some may call it over-confidence or even arrogance, but for people who have keen business sense, it is just simply forward planning. Five weeks before he defends his world welterweight title against…
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Roach: After Pacquiao, Nietes is RP’s Best
Nietes (L) with Roach. Two days before he attempts to win his second world boxing title, tiny Donnie Nietes, the former gymnasium janitor who became a world champion, has earned plaudits from…
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Pacquiao Breaks Baguio Camp Friday
On Friday, Oct. 7, members of the training team of world welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will pack up their bags and break the Baguio City training camp ending a three-week high-altitude training…
