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MAYOL IN IMPRESSIVE WIN, KONCZ WORKING ON TITLE FIGHT VS ‘TYSON’ MARQUEZSunday, 13 May, 2012, 4:17 PM

Posted on 13 May 2012

Former world light flyweight champion Rodel Mayol scored an impressive ten round decision over former WBO flyweight champion Julio Cesar “Pingo” Miranda dropping the rugged Mexican three times en route to a handsome win on the undercard of the Brian Viloria-Omar Nino Romero title fight at the Ynares Center in Pasig City.   All three [...]

ALTA OVERWHELMS NEW ZEALAND’S FAUMUINA IN TWO ROUNDS

Posted on 13 May 2012

        While Filipino fighters usually dominate the lighter weights with Manny Pacquiao being the biggest of them all at welterweight, promoter Gabriel “Bebot” Elorde believes he has a future middleweight prospect in Marlon Alta.   The last time the Philippines crowned a world middleweight champion was when Ceferino Garcia, known for the original bolo [...]

KHAN TITLE REMATCH WITH PETERSON IS CALLED OFF

Posted on 12 May 2012

Former world junior welterweight champion Amir Khan’s grudge rematch with IBF and WBA champion Lamont Peterson has been called off after Peterson tested positive for banned steroids. Khann himself confirmed that the fight had been cancelled and that he is looking for a possible opponent for a June 30 fight  date although nothing is definite. [...]

VILORIA DEDICATES TITLE DEFENSE TO EX WORLD CHAMPION ANDY GANIGAN

Posted on 12 May 2012

  World Boxing Organization flyweight champion Brian Viloria is dedicating his title defense against Mexico’s Omar Nino Romero at the Ynares Sports Center in Pasig City on Sunday to his close friend  and former world champion Andy Ganigan who passed away recently,  two years after suffering permanent brain damage following an unprovoked assault by a [...]

CUELLO ARRIVES IN MEXICO THIS WEEKEND FOR WBC TITLE ELIMINATOR

Posted on 12 May 2012

Heavy hitting light flyweight Denver Cuello (30-4-6, 20 KO’s) is scheduled to arrive in Mexico this weekend for his WBC world title eliminator against Ganigan Lopez (20-4, 14 KO’s) on a card promoted by Canelo Promotions and Boxeo de Gala at the Palenque de la Feria in Celaya, Guanajuato next Saturday. Cuello who is a [...]

PACQUIAO LOOKS FINE IN TRAINING DESPITE THE JETLAG

Posted on 08 May 2012

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum who was at the Wild Card Gym on Monday to watch pound for pound king  Manny Pacquiao on his first day of workouts since arriving from Manila over the weekend said “he was fine but a little jet-lagged.”   With five weeks of intense training ahead of him, Pacquiao began [...]

SHAKEY’S V LEAGUE MOVES TO AKTV IBC 13

Posted on 08 May 2012

The popular women’s volleyball Shakey’s V League has moved to Active TV or AKTV and will be telecast beginning Thursday on prime time over IBC 13.   Sports Vision chairman Moying Martelino told the Manila Standard that they had signed a contract to air the games on AKTV after they couldn’t come to terms with [...]

VILORIA READY FOR WHATEVER OMAR NINO ROMERO BRINGS

Posted on 08 May 2012

World Boxing Organization (WBO) flyweight champion Brian Viloria (30-3, 16 KO’s) is ready for whatever former two-time champion and Mexican challenger Omar Nino Romero (31-4-2, 13 KO’s)brings when they clash at the Ynares Sports Center in Pasig City on Sunday. Viloria, a three-time, two division world champion has been working out “almost every day” at [...]

TACONING-KOMPAYAK WORLD TITLE FIGHT DVD NOW WITH TOM KAZCMAREK FOR REVIEW

Posted on 08 May 2012

A DVD of the recent WBC light flyweight world title fight between  southpaw Jonathan Taconing of the Philippines and Kompayak Porpramook of Thailand is now with Tom Kaczmarek, chairman of the World Boxing Review Committee.   WBC president Don Jose Sulaiman told the Manila Standard that they had received a copy of the fight from [...]

GRETCHEN ABANIEL LOSES IN WORLD TITLE FIGHT

Posted on 26 April 2012

Gretchen “Chen Chen” Abaniel failed to capitalize on another crack at a world title when she lost to Thailand’s Teeraporn Pannimit in a clash for the vacant WBO female minimum weight title in Bangkok.. The 26 year old Abaniel who  lost her bid for the IBF title to highly talented Mexican Katia Gutierrez by a [...]

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