Solis set to hit US!

FightNews.com, 05 Apr 2007
While Manny Pacquiao has been training at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, Calif., his April 14 opponent Jorge Solis has been quietly training in Guadalajara, Mexico. Today Solis took a flight to Tijuana, where he will train, then he and his team are heading to Los Angeles on Thursday. Solis has promised he will shock the world. "Pacquiao thinks Mexican fighters all have the same kind of style of fighting - but they don't, as I will show on April 14," Solis warned. Ticket sales are hot at The Ala
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Good Guy Manny Buys Building For Fellow Boxers Near Wild Card Gym!

By Salven L. Lagumbay, Boxing Confidential, 05 Apr 2007
It was business as usual yesterday for Manny Pacquiao at the Wild Card Gym, although his team has cut down on his sparring going into the next few days before he departs for San Antonio, Texas on Sunday for the April 14 defense of his WBC International super-featherweight crown against Mexican Jorge Solis. "Sharp na sharp na si Manny. If Solis is not on the same level, it's going to be early goodnight for him," said a member of Pacquiao's inner circle in a long-distance interview yesterday whi
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Palace: Airing of Pacquiao boxing match depends on poll body

Sun.Star Manila, 05 Apr 2007
MALACANANG on Wednesday said it is up to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to decide whether to air the pre-fight reports on the April 15 bout of boxer Manny Pacquiao with Mexican Jorge Solis. Pacquiao is running for congressman of South Cotabato under the administration coalition against reelectionist Representative Darlene Antonino Custodio of the Genuine Opposition. (GO) Custodio has said she will not call for the non-airing of Pacquiao's fight because it is not part of political
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Roach uncertain to be in Pacquiao’s corner

By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, 05 Apr 2007
American trainer Freddie Roach may or may not be in Manny Pacquiao’s corner when the Filipino superstar faces undefeated Mexican Jorge Solis on April 14 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Despite Roach’s recent statement that he plans to fly to San Antonio from Puerto Rico just in time for the Pacquiao fight, reports coming in by the day would suggest that nothing remains definite. A report, which came out of Ringtalk.com, yesterday hinted that Roach, who’s been wi
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Solis having US visa problems; Roach at Pacquiao’s corner

By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, 05 Apr 2007
WILL MEXICAN Jorge Solis make it to next week’s slambang face-off with Manny Pacquiao in San Antonio,Texas? As far as Top Rank is concerned, the April 14 duel between Pacquiao and Solis is already a done deal at the Alamodome. However, Solis is still making last-minute arrangements for his visa to be released in his hometown of Guadalajara so he could finally be unveiled to the Los Angeles boxing press on Thursday afternoon. "He is in Guadalajara right now getting his visa," To
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NBI help sought in Sisnorio probe

The Philippine Star, 05 Apr 2007
The Games and Amusement Board yesterday sought the help of the National Bureau of Investigation in its probe of the death of Lito Sisnorio in an effort to determine and pin down those involved in the ring tragedy. At the same time, President Arroyo ordered the GAB to provide cash assistance to the family of the ill-fated fighter, who died of brain hemorrhage after suffering a fourth round knockout against Thai champion Chatchai Sasakul in Thailand last Friday night. In a special meeting,
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Stricter controls need to be placed on boxing

Bangkok Post, 05 Apr 2007
Since last week's column, two men have been beaten to death in a boxing ring. There are other, more subtle, ways to describe what happened to Lito Sisnorio and Deeden Kengkaroon but that is the stark reality of the situation. Filipino journeyman Lito died after being knocked out by former world flyweight champion Chatchai Sasakul in Thailand while details of Deeden's fatal match are still shrouded in mystery. Reports indicate he boxed in the Philippines then returned to Thailand before s
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Boxer’s girlfriend cries out for justice

By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, 05 Apr 2007
The late flyweight Lito Sisnorio’s embittered girlfriend Jonahmae (Lalang) Bacus yesterday called for a stop to the prostitution of Filipinos abroad and lashed out at the boxing brokers who arranged the mismatch that led to the 24-year-old fighter’s death in Thailand last Saturday. North Cotabato Gov. Manny Piñol, who is in Bangkok to claim Sisnorio’s body, described the exploitation of Filipino fighters as despicable and condemned it as an act of human trafficking. Bac
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