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BARRERA-JUAREZ AFTERMATH
Great fighters have to grow old some time and Marco Antonio Barrera, at the age of 32 and after a long career and some hard fights, may be just starting to fade.…
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Carson City Gives Awards to ALA Team Members, WBO Exec
Carson City, CA -- May 24, 2006. right after the Press Conference held at the Home Depot Center in the City of Carson, California hyping the fight between Fernando Montiel and Jhonny…
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Montiel – Gonzales / Gorres Press Con (with Photos)
Being my day off, I was just lounging at my back yard pool sipping ice-cold lemonade when Sam Gello-ani called up and informed me that the Press Con for the Montiel/Gonzales fight…
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PE?ALOSA SET TO RE-UNITE WITH WAKEE SALUD!
In a bid to be given yet another crack at a major world title, former WBC superfly king Gerry Pe?alosa has re-united with his former manager, Rex 'Wakee' Salud, with whom he…
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Bautista reminds Roach of Pacman
FREDDIE ROACH can probably see Manny Pacquiao in the person of Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista. The top trainer told the Bulletin yesterday from the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood that Bautista…
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Louie Espinosa and a science he once called sweet
SACRAMENTO, California -- How’s the new job? I asked with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. The voice on the other end of the line paused for breath. To keep the edge off…
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Third Pacquiao-Morales clash to unfold October 7
Make October 7 a red-letter day for all full-blooded fight fans of the Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao and the Mexican ring icon Erik Morales. On Wednesday Nick Khan, one of Pacquiao’s…
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Pacquiao: I promise to make Filipinos happy
LOS ANGELES – “I am very excited and am very happy that all my countrymen can watch my fight live. I will not make any predictions but I promise to do my…
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Pacquiao likened to a tank
MANNY Pacquiao and Oscar Larios are poles apart. But they can both be brutes, skillful and are expected to put up a great fight when they clash for 12 rounds for the…
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Ask Geno, May 24, 2006 Edition
Welcome one and all to the RSR Mailbag. This week has been a good week for comments and questions as obviously you all know that the "Geno Bambino Question of the Month…
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WORLD TOP 10 – POUND-FOR-POUND
I'll be the first to admit I thought Oscar De La Hoya's days as a 'pound-for-pound' elitist were well gone, but his sensational display against Ricardo Mayorga in Las Vegas recently had…
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Marquez moves on after Indonesian disaster
It wasn’t even close. Juan Manuel Marquez (44-3, 33 KO’s) easily outfought, out-countered, hurt and schooled Chris John (37-0, 20 KO’s) in the art of pugilism on March 4th of this year.…
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PANONCILLO APPOINTED AS WBO VICE-PRESIDENT!
In what is considered a major shot in the arm for Philippine boxing, Filipino-American Leon Panoncillo has just been appointed by World Boxing Organization president Paco Valcarcel as its vice-president for the…
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‘LITTLE BROWN DOLLS’: A Gallery of Filipino World Boxing Champs
THEY were called “little brown dolls,” but how they could fight! Twenty-seven world champions enshrined in the record books since the early ‘20s attest to the ability, speed, courage and flash of…
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A Few Moments with the Master
It was three o'clock Saturday afternoon and I was standing near the main entrance of the Staples Center with a couple of friends, Jhun Parungao of Woodland Hills, and his visiting friend…
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LABAO TKOs MORENO IN “BABAG SA CALAUAG”
Rey Labao repeated his mastery over Roberto Moreno by registering an impressive victory over the latter via a 2nd round technical knockout. The scheduled 10-round fight, which incidentally was for the LUZPROBA…
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RP CHAMP BARDON FACES JAPANESE ON JUNE 17
Philippine flyweight champ Jojo Bardon of the Wakee Salud Stable will take on one-time WBA and WBC flyweight contender Trash Nakanuma in a 10-round non-title brawl on June 17 at the Korakuen…
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Roach: Don’t rush Boom Boom!
Trainer non-pareil Freddie Roach said unbeaten Filipino super-bantamweight Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista is indeed a jewel "but I will not rush him" into fighting for the world title. "The kid's just 19…
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Cebu honors SEA Games organizer
The Sportswriters Association of Cebu (SAC) named the chairman of the provincial organizing committee for the recent Southeast Asian (SEA) Games as its Sportsman of the Year in the 24th All-Cebu Sports…
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Barrera vows to watch Pacquiao-Larios fight
One good turn deserves another. For watching his fight against Rocky Juarez on Saturday (Sunday in Manila), Marco Antonio Barrera told Manny Pacquiao that he will watch the Filipino prizefighter when he…
