Two Filipino fighters face tough battles on the eve of “The Event” featuring pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and Ghana;’s Joshua Clottey, at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Texas.

IBO president Ed Levine has spared his organization some embarrassment over the patently hometown decision that robbed Filipino veteran Juanito Rubillar of the world light flyweight title which was effectively gifted to South African Hekkie Budler by the three judges who, in stark violation of the IBO’s pronouncements on judges neutrality, were all South Africans.

The Philippines Rocky Fuentes of the famed ALA Gym of respected boxing patron Tony Aldeguer has  won the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation flyweight  title with a majority decision over defending champion  Masafumi Okubo of Japan  at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

“Fighter of the Decade” and pound-for-pound superstar Manny Pacquiao is so eager to get on with his WBC title defense against former champion Joshua Clottey at the fabulous Dallas Cowboys $1.2 billion state-of-the-art stadium that adviser Michael Koncz says “too bad the fight is not tomorrow.”

Former Philippine super flyweight champion and Philippine Boxing Federation super bantamweight champion Eric “The Maverick” Barcelona has lost in a ten round bout against undefeated former Japanese bantamweight champion Kohei Oba in a fight card at the International Conference Hall in Nagoya.

The Philippines Rocky Fuentes of the famed ALA Gym of respected boxing patron Tony Aldeguer has just won the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation title with a majority decision over Japan’s  Masafumi Okubo at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

Filipino flyweight Rey Migreno may earn a shot at WBA champion Daiki Kameda (16-2, 11 KO’s) if he beats Thailand’s former world champion Denkaosan Kaovichit in Uttaradit, Thailand on March 26.