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Manny Piñol

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By Manny Piñol

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Articles by Manny Piñol

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Can Marquez KO Pacquiao?

THERE is almost a unanimous verdict that the third meeting between Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and Mexican boxing legend Juan Manuel…

Tue, 04 Oct 2011
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No Percy, UFC will never upstage boxing

WRITER Percy Della, bosom buddy of my dear friend Recah Trinidad, penned a very beautiful and analytical column in the Philippine Daily Inqu…

Tue, 27 Sep 2011
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Deep, conservative and populist

HONESTLY, it took me quite a while to decide to which section I should submit this column, the Sports Page or the Opinion Page. This is actu…

Mon, 26 Sep 2011
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Donnie Nietes, the great little champion

DONNIE Nietes, who held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) miniflyweight crown for four long years, is perhaps the most underrated and unhe…

Sun, 21 Aug 2011
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America beckons

EVER since the day the diminutive Pancho Villa conquered America and came home with the world flyweight boxing crown, every Filipino fighter…

Thu, 18 Aug 2011
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Tomorrow?s Champions

LAST Saturday, in the mountain resort town of Magpet in North Cotabato, about 2,000 people gathered to witness eight young fighters slug it …

Tue, 16 Aug 2011
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Meet the real Lorenzo Villanueva

THERE is this story of a mother who described to a friend her newborn son by saying: ?It?s not that he is my son, but I really believe he is…

Sun, 14 Aug 2011
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?The stupid referee?

BOXING referee Tony Pesons, who acted as the third man in the outrageous fight between Asia-Pacific bantamweight champion AJ Banal and chall…

Thu, 11 Aug 2011
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Miracle of the Red Tomato

SATURDAY night last week, former boxer Z Gorres, who almost died from brain injuries he suffered after winning a fight against a Colombian f…

Mon, 08 Aug 2011
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Alex Ariza takes a look at Villanueva

AFTER several attempts, I finally caught up with renowned physical conditioning guru Alex Ariza by phone yesterday and brought up the case o…

Thu, 04 Aug 2011
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Cheating 101 and the national exorcism

DURING my elementary school days, the education department conducted an annual National Achievement Test (NAT) in the public schools, an unu…

Mon, 01 Aug 2011
Viva Villa!
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Viva Villa!

Pancho Villa. Long before Manny Pacquiao was named Best Boxer in the World Pound for Pound and long before Gabriel "Flash" Elorde became the…

Sun, 31 Jul 2011