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Business as usual at ABAP
Even as boxing is under threat of expulsion from the Olympic calendar, there is no stopping the training of Filipino fighters hoping for a chance to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Games.…
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Who is Zolani Tete?
Zolani Tete. The man whom newly-crowned WBA bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire, Jr. is facing next is a 5-9 South African with a 72-inch wingspan and a long list of victims that includes…
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Manny scores a knockout at Oxford
WBA welterweight champion Sen. Manny Pacquiao delivered an inspiring speech before the Oxford Union, the university?s prestigious debating society, then spoke from the heart in a one-on-one interview on stage at a…
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Donaire’s next fight in Manila?
Newly-crowned WBA bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire, Jr. said yesterday his next fight against WBO titlist Zolani Tete of South Africa will likely be held in Asia with Manila an option to host…
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Donaire breaks Scottish jinx
Nonito Donaire, Jr. finally broke a 55-year jinx where no Filipino fighter won in Scotland by halting Belfast's Ryan Burnett to wrest the WBA bantamweight crown at the SSE Hydro Arena in…
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Vindication for the Filipino Flash
Nonito Donaire, Jr. went against the odds to score what appeared to be a freakish stoppage of defending WBA bantamweight champion Ryan Burnett who was ruled unfit to continue by his trainer…
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Cambridge in Manny’s bandwagon
It won?t only be Oxford welcoming Sen. Manny Pacquiao to its hallowed halls but Cambridge is also in the UK tour where the WBA welterweight champion is delivering speeches before two prestigious…
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Ring legend in Donaire’s corner
A boxing legend was in Nonito Donaire, Jr.?s corner when he stopped Northern Ireland?s defending WBA bantamweight champion Ryan Burnett in a World Boxing Super Series fight leading to unify the 118-pound…
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Who’s next Pinoy world boxing champ?
Aside from three reigning world champions, there are 39 Filipino boxers in the top 15 ratings of the WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO----widely considered the most prestigious governing bodies of the sport.…
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Future’s wide open for Manny
At the moment, WBA welterweight champion Sen. Manny Pacquiao?s target is Adrien Broner and while contracts are still being finalized, it appears they?ll face off in Las Vegas on Jan. 19. Beyond…
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Vargas, Picson to Moscow for AIBA polls
POC/ABAP president Ricky Vargas and POC communications director/ABAP secretary-general Ed Picson left Manila for Moscow last night to attend the two-day AIBA World Congress that will culminate with the election of a…
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Randy insists foul blows cramped style
Abandoning a plan to hit and run, Randy Petalcorin threw caution to the wind as he fought Nicaraguan knockout artist Felix Alvarado head on from the start then blamed foul blows that…
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It’s a toss-up for vacant title
It looks like all bets are off on the scheduled 12-round bout between Davao City?s Randy Petalcorin and Nicaragua?s Felix Alvarado at the Midas Hotel and Casino tent tonight as the battle…
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Water and cornflakes
Like Sen. Manny Pacquiao, former WBO superfeatherweight, WBC lightweight, WBA superlightweight and WBC welterweight champion Adrien Broner said he came from nothing. His way out of poverty was through boxing and now…
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No-nonsense ref for IBF title fight
Ernie Sharif. A no-nonsense referee from Pittsburgh will work the scheduled 12-round fight between Davao City?s Randy Petalcorin and Nicaragua?s Felix Alvarado for the vacant IBF lightflyweight championship at the Midas Hotel…
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If Broner is “The Problem,” is Manny “The Solution?”
Adrien Broner is called ?The Problem? but it?s likely WBA welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will be ?The Solution? when they face off, tentatively in Las Vegas on Jan. 19. The fight is…
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Manny to speak at Oxford
WBA welterweight champion Sen. Manny Pacquiao has accepted an invitation to speak before the Oxford Union, the university?s prestigious debating society, in Oxford, a city in southeast England 51 miles from London,…
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Randy ready for KO artist
Petalcorin. Nicaragua?s Felix Alvarado is touted to be the most devastating puncher in the lightflyweight division today and he?s coming to town to face Davao City?s Randy Petalcorin for the vacant IBF…
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What drives Donaire in title race
It?s the prospect of unifying the world bantamweight championship that?s fueling Nonito Donaire?s mission to top the World Boxing Super Series and the first step is to dethrone WBA titlist Ryan Burnett…
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Jerwin says Thai easy target
If and when IBF superflyweight champion Jerwin Ancajas faces WBC counterpart Srisaket Sor Rungvisai in a unification title showdown, the Filipino said the other day it won?t be difficult to connect because…
