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Gonzalez vs Dogboe: Top Rank Card Features Quality Mid-Level Bouts on ESPN+
This Saturday night Top Rank staged a card that is topped by two interesting mid-level bouts in Joet Gonzalez vs. Isaac Dogboe and Giovanni Cabrera vs. Gabriel Flores Jr. Both fights have…
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It’s not over for Nietes
Former four-division world champion Donnie Nietes isn’t hanging up his gloves after losing a unanimous 12-round decision to defending WBO superflyweight champion Kazuto Ioka in Tokyo last Wednesday. Nietes, 40, is coming…
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Garcia vs. Fortuna: Is Ryan Garcia Focused On Tank Too Much?
This Saturday night from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, Ryan Garcia faces Javier Fortuna streaming live on DAZN. Fortuna’s underrated skills, punch activity, and awkward southpaw style could make for…
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Future not bleak for boxing
While there is no reigning Filipino world boxing champion today, MP Promotions head Sean Gibbons isn’t worried about the future. “It’s a cycle,” said Gibbons. “We’re in a lull at the moment.…
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Magsayo vows to bounce back
Magsayo knocks down Vargas. A dark chapter in the history of Philippine boxing has sadly opened as for the first time in a long time, no Filipino reigns as world champion today.…
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Magsayo ready for Vargas
WBC featherweight champion Mark Magsayo shrugged off Mexican challenger Rey Vargas’ boast of wresting the crown when they meet in a scheduled 12-round bout at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, this…
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Magsayo vs. Vargas & Chisora vs. Pulev 2 Headline Weekend Action
This Saturday headlining main events here in the states and abroad feature newly crowned champion in Mark Magsayo, facing a tough style matchup in Rey Vargas as part of a Showtime tripleheader.…
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Magsayo aims to cut down Vargas
WBC featherweight champion Mark Magsayo is the only Filipino world titlist standing and he’s determined to turn back Mexican challenger Rey Vargas at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, on Saturday night…
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Robbery in Monterrey
Zamboanga del Norte's Rene Mark Cuarto would’ve retained the IBF minimumweight title instead of losing it to hometowner Daniel Valladares on a disputed split 12-round decision in Monterrey, Mexico, last Friday night…
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Cuarto cries foul
Cuarto. Rene Mark Cuarto lost his IBF minimumweight crown to Mexico’s Daniel Valladares on a split 12-round decision in Monterrey yesterday morning (Manila time) but insisted he was victimized by dubious officiating…
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Barriga mulls retirement
Mark Anthony Barriga. Mark Anthony Barriga may hang up his gloves after losing a unanimous 12-round decision to defending WBO lightflyweight champion Jonathan (Bomba) Gonzalez of Puerto Rico in Kissimmee, Florida, recently.…
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No break for Pinoy pugs
ABAP president Ed Picson said it was a severe challenge for the Philippine boxing team to bring home three golds, one silver and five bronzes from the recent Hanoi SEA Games, describing…
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Pinoy heavyweight shelved
Wendell Dagle. There would’ve been a heavyweight in the Philippine boxing team at the recent Hanoi SEA Games but ABAP secretary-general Marcus Manalo held back in enlisting Ormoc City southpaw Wendell Dagle…
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Barriga bids for WBO title
Mark Anthony Barriga. London Olympian Mark Anthony Barriga takes on WBO lightflyweight champion Jonathan (Bomba) Gonzalez of Puerto Rico in a scheduled 12-round title bout at the Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee,…
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Two left standing
Mark Magsayo (L) and Rene Mark Cuatro. Six Filipinos occupy No. 1 slots in the latest world boxing rankings and are ready to step in as mandatory challengers. They are IBF superbantamweight…
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Missing boxing Hall of Famers
Ceferino Garcia on the Ring cover. Only 11 Asians are in the International Boxing Hall of Fame, a revered institution that began induction rites in 1990 and is headquartered in Canastota, New…
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Bump on the Road
Aston Palicte ran into stormy waters at the Marvel Stadium in Melbourne last weekend and paid a hefty price for engaging local hero Jason Moloney toe-to-toe instead of capitalizing on his length…
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Boxers as collateral damage
Russian Umar Kremlev has been reelected under questionable circumstances as IBA (International Boxing Association) president for a four-year term and it may sound the death knell for the sport in the Olympics.…
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Tapales in line for title shot
Tapales (R) and Estrella during their fight last weekend in Carson, CA. Marlon Tapales cemented his claim as mandatory challenger of Uzbek super WBA/IBF superbantamweight champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev by halting Mexico’s Jose…
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Midnight changes in Hanoi
In a midnight hour series of changes, the Hanoi SEA Games organizers scrapped the 69 kg and 75 kg divisions in women’s boxing, leaving four fighters without a chance to lace their…
