Featherweight Charly Suarez who is still battling for a possible wild card entry into the 2012 London Olympic Games has been beaten at the Sydney Jackson Memorial Tournament at the Universal Sports Complex in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.   Suarez, captain of the Philippine squad lost to Uzbekistan’s Faziddin Gaibnazarov who had already qualified for the [...]

World Boxing Council president Don Jose Sulaiman has announced that the WBC Board of Governors will meet in Mexico City on May 28-29 “to review the organization if the first Professional Boxing World Cup.”   There have been similarly oriented programs in the past with the World Cup of Boxing between Mexico and Thailand  promoted [...]

Nevada State Athletic Commission 4xecutive director Keith Kizer has told the Manila Standard that he had received a formal letter from Dr. Margaret Goodman, President of the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association or VADA stating that WBA super lightweight Lamont Peterson had tested positive for the use of steroids.   The letter dated May 4, 2012 and [...]

    Former WBO super flyweight champion “Marvelous” Marvin Sonsona will battle Puerto Rico’s former  IBA featherweight champion Orlando Cruz  at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.   Filipino promoter Sammy Gello-ani who is a partner of well-known international promoter and matchmaker Sampson Lewkowicz  told the Manila Standard that Sonsona who has a [...]

(Second of a series) RECENTLY, Manny Pacquiao preached before another huge gathering that braved the oven-hot conditions in the  Hope church in San Pedro, Laguna where, according to Dyan Castillejo of ABS-CBN, Pacquiao was the guest preacher. Castillejo noted that the crowd was made up largely of poor and middle-class worshippers. “There were many young [...]

  Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has indicated that  WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire will defend his title against former two division world champion Cristian Mijares of Mexico on July 7 at the Home Depot in Anaheim, California.   Arum told the Manila Standard “it looks like he’s going to fight [...]

  Pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao has renewed ties and will begin training with strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza on Monday morning in Los Angeles following his arrival in LA last Saturday in time to watch the Floyd Mayweather Jr – Miguel Cotto title fight.   Ariza told the Manila Standard that he [...]

   Pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao’s adviser Michael Koncz who watched Floyd Mayweather Jr score a unanimous twelve round decision over WBA super welterweight champion Miguel Cotto on television, about an hour after arriving in Los Angeles from Manila   said  a Pacquiao – Mayweather fight “is never going to happen.”   In an overseas [...]

Floyd Mayweather Jr kept his unbeaten record in tact by scoring a unanimous twelve round decision to win the WBA super welterweight title from a brave Miguel Cotto in a fight where the judges scorecards failed to reflect the closeness of the bout before a sell-out crowd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las [...]

World Boxing Council president Don Jose Sulaiman has asked WBC Governor Edward Thangarajah who is stationed in Thailand to send him a DVD of the WBC light flyweight title fight in which Thai champion Kompayak Porpramook was awarded a hugely controversial 5th round technical decision over No. 6 ranked Jonathan Taconing on Thursday.   Sulaiman said [...]