Bill Velasco
114 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Left out of awards
By Bill Velasco
January is sports awards season in the Philippines. While other countries generally celebrate sports-related achievements within the calendar year, in the Philippines, that?s not the case. Perhaps it is to let the…
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Pinoy Pride 34: Eye-opener
By Bill Velasco
?Pinoy Pride: Back with a Vengeance? provided a deep insight into how hard it is to build a world championship boxer. At the long fight card held Saturday evening at the Hoops…
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What ALA is doing right
By Bill Velasco
The Pinoy Pride 33 or ?Philippines vs the World? card held at the StubHub Center in Carson, California yesterday broke many barriers for Philippine boxing. Five years in the making, it impelled…
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Test for Nietes, Pagaras in US
By Bill Velasco
Yesterday, Jason Pagara, Albert Pagara and Mark Magsayo left for California, their first-ever trip to the United States. In a week and a half, they will be joined by WBO champion Donnie…
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The FIBA learnings
By Bill Velasco
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates ? Even in the high-pitched excitement for ?Pinoy Pride 32: Duel in Dubai 2? here Friday, the big news was that the Philippines lost the bid to host…
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ALA?s bold new world
By Bill Velasco
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates ? You know you?re in a different world when your ride from the airport is an Escalade, and when a well-dressed young man steps out of his white…
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The Megafight: Material issues (Last of Two Parts)
By Bill Velasco
The definition of a winning performance has also changed, as pointed out by Evander Holyfield. The courage to slug it out is a rare commodity more readily available in mixed martial arts…
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Nietes: Setting the example
By Bill Velasco
Donnie Nietes? dream is simple: to be a world champion for a decade. Saturday night, he once again proved why he is a prototype boxing champion, with a masterful demolition of Gilberto…
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Billion dollars, perfection weighing on Mayweather?
By Bill Velasco
Is the pressure of a potential billion-dollar fight and maintaining a perfect record starting to get to Floyd Mayweather Jr.? This is the big question that could very well determine the outcome…
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Responsibility, etiquette
By Bill Velasco
Taking off from Saturday?s piece about the price of democracy, there are a few issues in sports today that are bound by the gray areas of responsibility and etiquette. In a nation…
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Pacquiao, cheerleading: the price of democracy
By Bill Velasco
This week, small sober celebrations were held commemorating the People Power revolution of 1986. It appears that great numbers of people were either unwilling or unable to celebrate, primarily because it was…
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Mayweather: Next excuse, please
By Bill Velasco
The truth is finally out. Floyd Mayweather Jr. will not fight Manny Pacquiao on May 2. All along, the unspoken stumbling block has not been Manny Pacquiao, but his promoter, Bob Arum.…
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Mayweather: One foot out?
By Bill Velasco
Did Floyd Mayweather really ever have plans of fighting Manny Pacquiao in the first place? As of Sunday Manila time, some pieces of the puzzle are falling into place to show that…
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The global vision for OneFC
By Bill Velasco
OneFC chief executive officer Victor Cui is always joyous about flying back to the Philippines for his events. It always feels like a homecoming. His parents join him, as do immediate family…
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Champions we deserve
By Bill Velasco
It is a double-edged sword to be WBO light flyweight champion Donnie Nietes. The native son of Murcia in Negros Occidental is quiet, humble and businesslike, missing the swagger of most other…
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Manny unmasks Tim Bradley
By Bill Velasco
The anticipated victory of Manny Pacquiao in regaining the WBO welterweight title from Timothy Bradley yesterday now adds another option to the next steps on his multi-titled career. Pacquiao unmasked Bradley as…
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Pacquiao vs Bradley, seriously
By Bill Velasco
Okay, so Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley will fight again for Bradley?s WBO welterweight belt. For real. There really is no other choice on the horizon for Pacquiao, whose clock is ticking,…
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Pacquiao-Mayweather: Two years too late?
By Bill Velasco
Like the sightings of the Loch Ness monster, the prospect of a Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather fight pops up in the media every few weeks or so. Mayweather, who has had unimpressive showings…
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More bad news about brain trauma
By Bill Velasco
After the death of Jonas Garcia from injuries supposedly stemming from his competing in a school-based amateur boxing competition, there?s more bad news regarding head trauma and brain injury in sports. Recent…
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Sick of getting shafted
By Bill Velasco
The controversial loss of Filipino welterweight Wilfredo Lopez in his gold medal match at the 27th Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar only got two lines in some news entities? reportage. But to…