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GESTA RED HOT, RIOS FALLS FLAT
Cebuano southpaw Mercito ?No Mercy? Gesta gave another impressive performance when he stopped Oscar Cuero of Colombia in eight rounds at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Gesta…
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Pacman still at top of his game
MANILA, Philippines - WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao isn?t anywhere near the point of decline in his storybook boxing career but strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza is reserving judgment on how…
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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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Ariza says Bradley won’t run away
MANILA, Philippines - WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao?s strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza said yesterday he doesn?t expect Tim Bradley to run when the unbeaten California fighter called ?Desert Storm? takes…
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A new Manny Pacquiao
WHEN pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao asked one of his aides to get a chair and have us sit next to him at the 12th Annual ?Flash? Elorde Awards Banquet of Champions, we…
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Too early to push Manny for president
MANILA, Philippines - WBO welterweight champion and the world?s consensus No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter Manny Pacquiao is being touted as a presidential candidate in 2022 but while it?s far from his mind,…
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AN INTERVIEW WITH RODEL MAYOL
Filipino boxing fans are now very much aware of the weigh-in controversy in Mexico involving defending WBA flyweight champion Hernan Marquez and challenger Rodel Mayol. The protests made by Team Mayol regarding…
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Koncz averts Mayol blackball
MANILA, Philippines - Working feverishly to avert a global blackball on Rodel Mayol for exposing shenanigans in boxing, Manny Pacquiao?s Canadian adviser Michael Koncz yesterday assured that the Mandaue fighter?s ring career…
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Final date for Viloria defense
WBO flyweight champion Brian (The Hawaiian Punch) Viloria?s title defense against nemesis Omar Nino Romero has been reset to May 13 morning in Manila (May 12 night in North America) because of…
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GAB vows to protect Mayol, awaits report
MANILA, Philippines - Unless influential parties come to Rodel Mayol?s defense for refusing to fight WBA flyweight champion Hernan (Tyson) Marquez on the basis of a farcical weigh-in, the fighter from Mandaue…
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PARDON ME BUT I WAS SO WRONG ABOUT MICHAEL KONCZ
When I wrote that article yesterday praising Michael Koncz for refusing to allow Rodel Mayol to fight Hernan Marquez at Sonora, Mexico who came it 2 pounds overweight and tried to cheat…
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Mayol?s predicament should wake up MP Promotions
Rodel Mayol returned to his roots here in Cebu and trained for two months. It was a perfect training camp. His sparring sessions did not only involve hungry, up and coming boxers…
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RODEL MAYOL MAKES A STAND
I personally met Rodel Mayol and his family last November in Las Vegas during the third fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez. Before that, our communications were via phone calls,…
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Mayol spurns Marquez, cries foul
MANILA, Philippines - In a startling move to expose shenanigans in boxing, Rodel Mayol refused to fight WBA flyweight champion Hernan (Tyson) Marquez after a bizarre sequence at yesterday?s weigh-in where the…
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HEADS UP TO YOU MICHAEL KONCZ
This may come as surprise to many philboxing.com readers as in the past I have not written anything positive about Michael Koncz, the man directly in charge of MP Promotions. In fact,…
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Rodel Mayol aims at another belt with support of country, family and Pacquiao
Rodel Mayol arrived in Sonora, Mexico Tuesday night with a dream. He dreams to once again have that glittery championship belt wrapped around his waist, to once become a world champion. He…
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Viloria can’t wait to avenge loss
MANILA, Philippines - WBO flyweight champion Brian (The Hawaiian Punch) Viloria will wait a little longer before exacting payback on Mexican nemesis Omar Ni?o Romero as their 12-round title fight has been…
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Pe?alosa advises Manny to train hard
MANILA, Philippines - Former two-time world champion Gerry Pe?alosa said yesterday Tim Bradley should be easy to beat but WBO welterweight titlist Manny Pacquiao must take his training seriously to get the…
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It ain’t over for Julaton
MANILA, Philippines - The winds didn?t blow the Hurricane?s way in Mendoza, Argentina, last Friday night but Ana Julaton vowed to kick up a storm when she comes back from a stinging…
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Julaton decks Marcos but loses title
MANILA, Philippines - Unable to cope with the work rate of a volume puncher, Ana (The Hurricane) Julaton failed to capitalize on an early knockdown and yielded her WBO female superbantamweight crown…
