Thai veteran Pongsaklek Wonjongkam successfully defendeds WBC flyweight title in an obvious mismatch against Japan’s  Hirofumi Mukai  at the 11th Infantry Regiment headquarters in Bangkok today when the Japanese challenger was badly cut. following an accidental clash of heads at 0:47 of the opening round and the fight ended up as a no contest.. The 34 year old [...]

  Former world light flyweight champion Giovanni Segura (28-1-1, 24 KO’s) says his power will dictate the WBO flyweight title fight against Filipino champion Brian Viloria (29-3, 16 KO’s) when they clash at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig Ciy on Sunday morning. The 29 year old Segura who is best known for his two spectacular [...]

Two Filipino boxers fought bravely against superior Japanese fighters and lost in a fight card of Teiken Promotions at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on Sunday evening.   Former WBA super bantamweight champion Akifumi Shimoda (24-3-1, 10 KOs) proved too good for former Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation featherweight champion Jonel Alibio  (16-13-1, 7 KOs)  scoring a [...]

Former Philippine featherweight champion Vinvin Rufino has been knocked out in the 5th round by Mexico’s   WBC Continental Americas super featherweight champion Alejandro Sanabria in a WBC Silver lightweight title fight in  Mexico City. The 5’6” Rufino who had lost three of his last four fights according to boxrec.com was no match for the Sanabria who was over [...]

      Former pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao’s sparring partner Glen Tapia scored a sensational 2nd round knockout over Mike Ruiz on the Cotto-Margarito undercard at The Theater of Madison Square Garden in New York, Sunday, Manila Time. Tapia, a junior middleweight who served as a sparring partner for Pacquiao in the Philippines as [...]

54 year old Efren “Bata” Reyes pushed back the passage of time, pulled off some magical shots and with the ever steady  inaugural World Women’s 10-ball champion Rubilen Amit teamed up to win back-to-back World Mixed Doubles Championship at the Liberation Shopping Center in Hangzhou, China over the weekend.. Reyes and diminutive Amit  repeated their 2009 victory [...]

Australian boxer Shannan Taylor is hanging on according to a report by Tim Barrow of the Sydney Morning Herald following erroneous reports that the fighter had passed away. Barrow reported that Taylor remained on life support in a critical condition late last night after being admitted to Wollongong Hospital in the early hours of yesterday. [...]

        The famed doubles pair of Rohan Bopanna of India and Aisam ul Haq Qureshi of Pakistan have split and will now go their separate ways beginning next year. The doubles tandem was seen as a symbol of friendship between India and Pakistan which have often been in conflict on various issues [...]

STORY  COURTESY OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES AND RESPECTED BOXING WRITER  LANCE PUGMIRE.)   The  time had come for Manny Pacquiao to act on his desire to convincingly defeat Juan Manuel Marquez, his great rival from Mexico. With the World Boxing Organization welterweight title on the line, Pacquiao received as well as he gave on Saturday night at [...]