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Saudi beckons for Manny’s next fight

There are four possible dates on the table for super WBA welterweight champion Sen. Manny Pacquiao’s next fight and Saudi Arabia looms as th…

Wed, 16 Dec 2020

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Mama unfazed by tough odds

It won’t be easy sailing for General Santos City challenger Jayson Mama who’s determined to defy the odds in dethroning IBF flyweight champi…

Wed, 16 Dec 2020

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Donaire won’t give up fight

Brandishing three negative tests to prove a false positive, Nonito Donaire, Jr. said yesterday he’s still hoping against hope to be given th…

Mon, 14 Dec 2020

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Gaballo ready for war

Reymart Gaballo with Cuban trainer Moro Fernandez in Miami. Reymart Gaballo is on a mission to capture the WBA bantamweight crown and his fi…

Thu, 10 Dec 2020

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Boxing back in business

Boxing promoter J.C. Manangquil. Last Saturday, J. C. Manangquil of Sanman Promotions staged a boxing event with five fights in General Sant…

Tue, 24 Nov 2020

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Donaire won’t take new foe lightly

Nonito Donaire, Jr. isn’t taking Puerto Rico’s Emmanuel Rodriguez lightly as he steps up training for their scheduled 12-round fight for the…

Thu, 19 Nov 2020

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Why Manny still sells

Boxing experts are heralding the dawn of a new Golden Age in the 147-pound welterweight division. In the 1940s, the world celebrated the exp…

Thu, 12 Nov 2020

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Not over for Magramo

Magramo. Giemel Magramo is back home in Paranaque, none the worse for wear after losing to Junto Nakatani on an eighth round TKO for the vac…

Tue, 10 Nov 2020

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Magramo goes for broke tonight

Giemel Magramo with Flash Elorde’s widow Laura. It’s all or nothing for Giemel Magramo who battles unbeaten Japanese southpaw Junto Nakatani…

Fri, 06 Nov 2020

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Fil-Am dreams to be like Manny

Little DJ Zamora (right) and Canelo Alvarez. There’s a 17-year-old, 5-10 left-handed Fil-Am featherweight who is unbeaten in three pro fight…

Thu, 05 Nov 2020

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Make no Bones about it

Calerence Adamds (L) and Johnriel Casimero. Former WBA superbantamweight champion Clarence (Bones) Adams took over training WBO bantamweight…

Tue, 03 Nov 2020

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Gone too soon

Rico Navarro. Last month, my good friend Rico Navarro texted to invite me for a one-on-one chat on his weekly online show “Bleacher Talk Goe…

Mon, 02 Nov 2020

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Inoue wins but Casimero unimpressed

Super WBA/IBF bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue was hardly threatened in mowing down overrated Australian challenger Jason Moloney in Las Ve…

Mon, 02 Nov 2020

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How scary is The Monster?

Super WBA/IBF bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue got banged up by Nonito Donaire, Jr. in their unification showdown in Saitama last November …

Sun, 01 Nov 2020

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Magramo endures quarantine

Nakatani (L) and Magramo (R). Giemel Magramo isn’t allowed to leave the Grand Palace Hotel, where he is quarantined, until two days before h…

Wed, 28 Oct 2020

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Manny says focus is overdue

Super WBA welterweight champion Sen. Manny Pacquiao has made an impassioned appeal to support the creation of the Philippine Boxing and Comb…

Sat, 24 Oct 2020

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Honda assures fair judges

Magramo (C) with Liza (L) and Johnny Elorde (R). Three Japanese judges will be named to work the much-awaited fight between No. 1 contender …

Thu, 22 Oct 2020

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Casimero to put ‘turtle’ to sleep

WBO bantamweight champion JohnRiel Casimero, holed up in a hotel undergoing a 14-day quarantine in Ormoc, said yesterday he plans to go back…

Mon, 19 Oct 2020

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How far will Eumir go?

L-R: Marcial, Ancajas and Gibbons. Olympic middleweight boxing qualifier Eumir Marcial is now in Los Angeles for training with Freddie Roach…

Fri, 16 Oct 2020

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Mikey vows best for Manny

A fight is farthest from super WBA welterweight champion Sen. Manny Pacquiao’s mind in this pandemic but even as he’s focused on his chores …

Wed, 14 Oct 2020