Pound for pound king and “Fighter of the Decade” Manny Pacquiao who has emerged as a crossover star in the US has outranked Floyd Mayweather Jr  in the 2012 Bloomberg/Newsweek Power 100 rankings of athletes. Pacquiao and Mayweather were the only two boxers the list with Pacquiao at No. 28 while Mayweather ranked 21 places [...]

               We have been pointing out that the WBC International flyweight title fight between Filipino Roilo Golez and former world champion and No. 2 ranked Edgar Sosa who was defending his International title in Mexico was an obvious mismatch. But apparently the Games and Amusements Board and its officials didn’t [...]

In a New Year’s day stunner Sunderland lit up their “Stadium of Light” with a dramatic 1-0 win over league leaders Manchester City adding to the weekend horror that saw Manchester United beaten 3-2 by lowly Blackburn Rovers and Chelsea overcome by Aston Villa 3-1.   It was only Arsenal who stood firm with a [...]

On a day of English Premier League shockers Manchester United lost to relegation-threatened Blackburn Rovers 3-2 on Sir Alex Ferguson’s 70th birthday while  Chelsea were beaten by Aston Villa 3-1.   Arsenal led by their talisman Robin Van Persie who scored the only goal of the match to surpass football great Thierry Henry’s one year mark saw [...]

  Undefeated Jose “Sniper” Pedraza (6-0, 5KO’s) scored a 5th round TKO over Ghana’s Herbert Quartey (7-7, 5 KO’s) to win the WBC World Youth super featherweight title at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, Cabazon, California as reported by Ricardo Rodriguez-Rivera, Director of Communicatioins of Universal Promotions, Team Puerto Rico and Gary Shaw Productions..   [...]

Inspired by the incredible achievements of Ring Magazine pound for pound king  Manny Pacquiao through the years, boxing has once again been the savior of Philippine sports in the international competitive arena. Four world champions is by any means a  minor achievement and even though his own performances this past year haven’t been as dominating as we [...]

After serving the country with distinction in the Davis Cup competition. Asian Games and Southeast Asian Games, the Philippines former No. 1 ranked player Cecil Mamiit will now serve as non-playing captain of the Davis Cup team. Davis Cup administrator Randy Villanueva of the Philippine Tennis Association told the Manila Standard that he had spoken [...]

Thailand’s Sod Looknongyangtoy (Kokietgym) has won the WBC Asian Boxing Council super bantamweight title with a 6th round knockout of Zhandos Zhetpisbayev of Kazakhstan in Cheng Mail. Sod, the interim champion proved too strong for the overmatched 25 year old Kazakh fighter whom according to boxrec.com had a record of 2 wins 1 loss and no [...]

Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire who moves up in weight to battle former world champion Wilfredo Vazquez Jr for the WBO super bantamweight title at the Alamadome in San Antonio, Texas on February 4 is on his way back to the US after workouts in Manila and Tokyo. Donaire’s wife, Rachael, told the Manila Standard [...]

Sugar Ray Leonard’s epic battle with two division champion Wilfredo Benitez for the WBC welterweight title as well as Roy Jones Jr’s showdown with Richard Hall with Jones’ WBC/WBA/IBF light heavyweight belts on the line will headline AKTV’s “Super Fights” on IBC 13 on December 27 at 9:00 p.m. The battle between Leonard and Benitez  [...]