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Ask the Champs Email Bag, March 20, 2006
By Jose Antonio Rivera and Charles "The Hatchet" Brewer, RingsideReport.com, Tue, 21 Mar 2006
Jose,
How many titles have you won and how long did it take for you to learn how to box.
Thank you
Callum
Callum,
I have won Two MA State titles. One as a welterweight and one as a junior middleweight. Also, a USBA regional title, NABA title, IBO World title and WBA world title. Read Full Story >>>Pacquiao the greatest
By Al S. Mendoza, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Tue, 21 Mar 2006
WHO IS the greatest of them all?
I pose that question because the same question was posed to me only a while back.
The question came no less from Quinito Henson, the country’s undisputed expert in boxing.
“Do you think Manny Pacquiao is the greatest of them all?” asked Qui Read Full Story >>> GELLO-ANI IS PROMOTER OF THE YEAR!
By Salven L. Lagumbay, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Mar 2006
Oscar De la Hoya certainly did not make the wrong choice in hooking up with the ALA-SGG group, as the Elorde Banquet of Champions is poised to award Sammy "Don King" Gello-ani as its Promoter of the Year.
Liza Elorde informed this writer last week that Gello-ani, whose SGG Promotions serves as th Read Full Story >>> GAB COMMENDS GORRES, BOXING JUDGE
By Alex A. Paglumotan, GAB Commissioner, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Mar 2006
Before a fantastic and supportive crowd that filled the Mandaue City Sports and Cultural Center to the rafters, Z "The Dream" Gorres, the former RP champ, defeated OPBF's no.2 Waenpetch Chuwatana of Thailand to capture the OPBF superfly title.
The recently-concluded ten-bout boxing event entitled Read Full Story >>> World title fight very soon for Gorres, says Golden Boy VP Gomez
By Emmanuel B. Villaruel, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Mar 2006
Impressed with Z Gorres' exemplary fighting skills, Golden Boy Promotions vice president and matchmaker Eric Gomez believes that a world championship fight will come very soon for the ALA Boxing Gym prodigy.
"He (Gorres) will fight for the world title very soon," said Gomez, who was at the ringsi Read Full Story >>> PHILBOXING HAS LATEST GAB RATINGS!
By Salven L. Lagumbay, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Mar 2006
The latest GAB ratings are now available, and as always, Philboxing.com is the first to share it to the readers.
In the latest ratings for February, former Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation super-featherweight boss Randy "Komong Bato" Suico has been adjudged as the Boxer of the Month for Read Full Story >>> GORRES IS NEW OPBF KING!
By Salven L. Lagumbay, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 20 Mar 2006
MANDAUE CITY--Z "The Dream" Gorres fulfilled his end of the bargain to give side-to-side movements, but Thai Waenpetch Chuwatana could not find his range on Gorres' midsection, as the latter dominated the visiting Thai, winning a lop-sided unanimous decision to claim the vacant Oriental and Paci Read Full Story >>> Gorres fulfills dream
By Emmanuel B. Villaruel, The Philippine Star, Mon, 20 Mar 2006
Finally, it’s a dream come true for ALA ring star Z Gorres.
Gorres proved he is a worthy addition to the Golden Boy Promotions family after he hammered out a one-sided unanimous decision victory over Thai Waengpetch Chuwatana in their 12-round encounter to seize the OPBF super flyweight cr Read Full Story >>> Gorres claims OPBF crown
By Dennis Principe, The Manila Bulletin, Mon, 20 Mar 2006
MANDAUE CITY – Former RP Flyweight champion Z Gorres captured the vacant Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) superflyweight crown the other night at the Mandaue Sports and Cultural Complex in this city.
The 23-year-old southpaw Gorres outpointed Thai Waenpetch Chuwatana in thei Read Full Story >>> Gorres wins OPBF title
By Rommel C. Manlosa, Sun.Star Cebu, Mon, 20 Mar 2006
THE dream is now partly fulfilled for Z “The Dream” Gorres after he captured his first international title – and the first Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) super-flyweight belt for ALA Gym – following a masterful unanimous decision victory over Waengpetch Chuwata Read Full Story >>> Rama: The sweet science is a world in reverse
By Karlon N. Rama, Sun.Star Cebu, Mon, 20 Mar 2006
EVERYTHING in boxing is backwards says Scrap, Morgan Freeman’s character in Million Dollar Baby.
In boxing, you generate momentum to let loose a stinging fist from your stubby toe. If you want to move left, you don’t step left. You push with your right toe. To move right, you push wi Read Full Story >>> Hopkins and Pacquiao: Different Roads to Greatness
By John Hively, BoxingScene.com, Mon, 20 Mar 2006
I disagree with those who place Bernard Hopkins up there among the top five or six middleweights of all time. Hopkins was an alphabet champion for six years, unified the title eventually, held it four years before losing it on a controversial decision, and defended his various titles twenty times. T Read Full Story >>> GBP says Larios is dangerous
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Mon, 20 Mar 2006
CEBU CITY — Boxing outfit Golden Boy Promotions (GBP) is puzzled over the insistence of Manny Pacquiao to bring over Mexican Oscar Larios to Manila for a ten-rounder in June or July.
While Pacquiao’s handlers and even Filipinos alike doesn’t see Larios as much of a threat anymo Read Full Story >>> PACMAN-BARRERA II PROBABLY “NOT” IN NOVEMBER!
By Pedro Fernandez, RingTalk.com, Sun, 19 Mar 2006
MARCO LIKES PUBLIC RELATIONS DRUM OVER BONGOS!
Las Vegas, NV-In the past 48 hours, Marco Antonio Barrera, the WBC titleholder at 130 lbs., has called out Manny Pacquiao. Having KO’d both Barrera and Erik Morales, and with a third Morales fight already signed for September, Pacquiao is in th Read Full Story >>> RESULTS IN MANDAUE: GORRES CAPTURES OPBF TITLE; AMONSOT, BARDON WINS
By Dong Secuya, PhilBoxing.com, Sun, 19 Mar 2006
Z Gorres (Philippines) won by unanimous decision over Waenpetch Chuwatana (Thailand) for the vacant OPBF super flyweight title at the Mandaue Sports & Cultural Complex in Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines. The scores are as follows: Pinit Prayadsab (Thailand), 118-109; Salven L. Lagumbay (Philippines Read Full Story >>> Busy second quarter for Filipino boxers
By Dennis Principe, The Manila Bulletin, Sun, 19 Mar 2006
AFTER OPENING the first quarter of 2006 with a bang, Philippine boxing is now primed to unleash its second quarter salvo as several Filipino fighters are lined-up for meaningful bouts abroad.
Leading the charge is World Boxing Council (WBC) minimumweight mandatory challenger Rodel Mayol.
The Read Full Story >>> Salud not taking chances for Jaca
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Sun, 19 Mar 2006
CEBU CITY — Boxing man Wakee Salud is not taking any chances when one of his top boxers, super-featherweight Jimrex Jaca, guns for the vacant Orient-Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) 130-lb crown on May 20 in Tokyo.
Salud, the right-hand man of boxing star Manny Pacquiao, has recruited Pacq Read Full Story >>> Golden Opportunity
By Rico Navarro, The Freeman, Sun, 19 Mar 2006
Unprecedented, timely and deserving. These were the first three words that came to my mind when I read about Golden Boy Promotions of Oscar de la Hoya tying up with the ALA Gym to manage the careers of Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and Z Gorres. We also couldn't help but feel proud and happy for the Cebu Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao, Larios seal June bout
By Dante Navarro, The Philippine Star, Sun, 19 Mar 2006
It’s green and go for the Pacquiao-Larios fight.
Manny Pacquiao finally gets his wish to fight before his countrymen after gaining worldwide recognition in the US with his victories over a couple of Mexican legends as he sealed a showdown with Oscar Larios in June at the Araneta Coliseum. Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Larios to push through?
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Sun, 19 Mar 2006
CEBU CITY — Golden Boy Promotions (GBP) executive Eric Gomez said on Saturday that “in America, a done deal is not the same as a signed contract.”
Gomez was obviously referring to speculations and even news reports concerning the status of the proposed match in Manila between M Read Full Story >>>
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