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Cintron may be Paclite's foe for vacant title

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Wed, 06 Mar 2019

Now that Donnie Nietes has relinquished his WBO superflyweight title, No. 1 contender Aston Palicte is awaiting advice from the governing body?s president Paco Valcarcel as to whom he will fight for t…

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Justin says Floyd may not fight Manny

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Wed, 06 Mar 2019

WBA welterweight champion Sen. Manny Pacquiao?s strength and conditioning coach Justin Fortune said a few days ago he?s not sure if Floyd Mayweather may want to engage the Filipino icon in a rematch p…

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Elorde Awards Night fetes top boxers

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Wed, 06 Mar 2019

IBF superflyweight champion Jerwin Ancajas, WBO minimumweight titlist Vic Saludar and IBO bantamweight ruler Michael Dasmarinas will be honored as Boxers of the Year at the annual Elorde Awards Night …

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ABAP prepares for SEA Games

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Fri, 22 Feb 2019

ABAP medal hopeful Eumir Marcial. ABAP is leaving no stone unturned in getting ready for the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games here late this year. Boxing will be staged at the Makati Coliseum with 13 gold …

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Tapales on way back to throne

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Thu, 21 Feb 2019

Former WBO bantamweight champion Marlon Tapales is back on track for another shot at the world title and now that he?s based in Los Angeles staying in trainer Rodel Mayol?s apartment, the Tubod, Lanao…

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Pinoys in title eliminators

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Wed, 20 Feb 2019

Demecillo (L) and Dasmarinas. Two Filipino boxers will earn world title cracks after they survive a pair of championship eliminators set at the Midas Hotel and Casino in Pasay City on March 23 and WBA…

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Pinoy bombers ready to ascend throne

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Mon, 18 Feb 2019

Sanman boxing stable owner J. C. Mananquil declared the other day that interim WBA bantamweight champion Reymart Gaballo and lightweight contender Romero Duno are ready for title cracks with their opp…

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Cancer survivor ready to rumble again

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Thu, 14 Feb 2019

Boxing announcer Michael Buffer survived a serious bout with cancer in 2008 and when HBO decided to leave the fight game last year, the speculation was he had nowhere to go since the other network Sho…

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Marcial says no to pros, eyes Olympics

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Thu, 14 Feb 2019

Eumir Marcial (left) and coach Ronald Chavez. ABAP middleweight contender Eumir Marcial has declined offers to turn pro, keeping alive his dream of representing the country in the Olympics and even as…

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If not Floyd, maybe Thurman for Manny?

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Wed, 13 Feb 2019

If Floyd Mayweather decides to stay retired, the man whom WBA welterweight champion Sen. Manny Pacquiao could fight next is undefeated Keith Thurman whose nickname ?One Time? is supposed to herald his…

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Time to give back to Abainza

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Wed, 13 Feb 2019

For many years, veteran international boxing referee and judge Silvestre Abainza has made his country proud as one of the world?s top arbiters, working in fights all over the globe wherever the sound …

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Will Nietes turn Palicte away?

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Mon, 11 Feb 2019

There?s a possibility that WBO superflyweight champion Donnie Nietes will decline to face mandatory challenger and countryman Aston Palicte in a rematch and instead, battle WBA titlist Khalid Yafai in…

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Martin could be next Manny

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Mon, 11 Feb 2019

Gerry Penalosa (right) and Carl Jammes Martin. There?s a 19-year-old Ifugao fighter who could be the next Manny Pacquiao and WBO No. 10 bantamweight Carl Jammes Martin will try to live up to the billi…

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Gerry likes Garcia for Manny

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Fri, 08 Feb 2019

While Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is making up his mind whether or not to fight WBA welterweight champion Sen. Manny Pacquiao, former two-time world titlist Gerry Penalosa said yesterday Philadelphia brawle…

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Magsayo in limbo

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Fri, 08 Feb 2019

WBC No. 1 featherweight Mark Magsayo of Tacloban City, Leyte, hasn?t fought in over a year and the inactivity has resulted in the WBO dropping him from No. 1 to No. 8. If he continues to stay idle, it…

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Palicte in lethal form

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Wed, 06 Feb 2019

Aston Palicte, fresh from demolishing Puerto Rico?s previously unbeaten Jose Martinez, is hungry for a world boxing title and if it means bowling over countryman WBO superflyweight champion Donnie Nie…

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Misguided Tepora must refocus

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Wed, 06 Feb 2019

It was supposed to be interim WBA featherweight champion Jhack Tepora?s coming out party. He was booked to receive a cool $100,000 for staking his crown against Mexico?s Hugo Ruiz in the undercard of …

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Appeal raised to Asian level

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Thu, 31 Jan 2019

Ed Picson. Last weekend, Southeast Asian boxing leaders got together in Bangkok to discuss a proposed appeal for the IOC and AIBA to reconsider the abolition of the lightflyweight and bantamweight div…

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It could've been a draw

By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com Wed, 30 Jan 2019

International matchmaker Sean Gibbons said yesterday if WBA welterweight champion Sen. Manny Pacquiao didn?t finish strong in the so-called ?championship? rounds of his title defense against Adrien Br…