Bill Velasco

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Left out of awards

January is sports awards season in the Philippines. While other countries generally celebrate sports-related achievements within the calenda…

Mon, 11 Jan 2016

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Pinoy Pride 34: Eye-opener

?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…

Mon, 30 Nov 2015

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What ALA is doing right

The Pinoy Pride 33 or ?Philippines vs the World? card held at the StubHub Center in Carson, California yesterday broke many barriers for Phi…

Mon, 19 Oct 2015

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Test for Nietes, Pagaras in US

Yesterday, Jason Pagara, Albert Pagara and Mark Magsayo left for California, their first-ever trip to the United States. In a week and a hal…

Mon, 07 Sep 2015

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The FIBA learnings

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 t…

Mon, 10 Aug 2015

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ALA?s bold new world

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 y…

Sat, 08 Aug 2015

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The Megafight: Material issues (Last of Two Parts)

The definition of a winning performance has also changed, as pointed out by Evander Holyfield. The courage to slug it out is a rare commodit…

Mon, 11 May 2015

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Nietes: Setting the example

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 champ…

Mon, 30 Mar 2015

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Billion dollars, perfection weighing on Mayweather?

Is the pressure of a potential billion-dollar fight and maintaining a perfect record starting to get to Floyd Mayweather Jr.? This is the bi…

Sat, 14 Mar 2015

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Responsibility, etiquette

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 re…

Mon, 02 Mar 2015

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Pacquiao, cheerleading: the price of democracy

This week, small sober celebrations were held commemorating the People Power revolution of 1986. It appears that great numbers of people wer…

Sat, 28 Feb 2015

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Mayweather: Next excuse, please

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 …

Sat, 24 Jan 2015

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Mayweather: One foot out?

Did Floyd Mayweather really ever have plans of fighting Manny Pacquiao in the first place? As of Sunday Manila time, some pieces of the puzz…

Mon, 19 Jan 2015

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The global vision for OneFC

OneFC chief executive officer Victor Cui is always joyous about flying back to the Philippines for his events. It always feels like a homeco…

Sat, 06 Dec 2014

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Champions we deserve

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 …

Mon, 05 May 2014

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Manny unmasks Tim Bradley

The anticipated victory of Manny Pacquiao in regaining the WBO welterweight title from Timothy Bradley yesterday now adds another option to …

Mon, 14 Apr 2014

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Pacquiao vs Bradley, seriously

Okay, so Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley will fight again for Bradley?s WBO welterweight belt. For real. There really is no other choice …

Sat, 01 Feb 2014

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Pacquiao-Mayweather: Two years too late?

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…

Sat, 04 Jan 2014

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More bad news about brain trauma

After the death of Jonas Garcia from injuries supposedly stemming from his competing in a school-based amateur boxing competition, there?s m…

Sun, 22 Dec 2013

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Sick of getting shafted

The controversial loss of Filipino welterweight Wilfredo Lopez in his gold medal match at the 27th Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar only got…

Mon, 16 Dec 2013