RING MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr., PhilBoxing.com, 24 Apr 2007

I was having a very hard time trying to write this article. I have been a boxing fan for almost three decades. Even if I try to apologize for it or try to rationalize its existence it will not bring Lito Sisnorio back. There will always be people drawn to the sport, either as active protagonists or as mere spectators. Andy Balaba would be my earliest recollection of a Filipino boxer dying due to ring related injuries. This was in 1982, the year Lito Sisnorio was born, in a fight held in Read Full Story >>>

DE LA HOYA TO VISIT PHILIPPINES AFTER MAYWEATHER FIGHTBy Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, 24 Apr 2007
World light middleweight champion Oscar De La Hoya says he plans to visit the Philippines after his “The World Awaits” showdown with undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr on May 6 (Manila Time) in what is certain to be one of the biggest and most amticipated fights in the history of boxing. De La Hoya spoke of his plans to visit the Philippines in a conversation with Dyan Castillejo of the giant broadcast network ABS-CBN at his training camp in Puerto Rico where De La Hoya said earlier he had been Read Full Story >>>


BOBBY PACQUIAO BEGINS SPARRING AT WILD CARD GYM
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, 24 Apr 2007

Bobby Pacquiao has begun sparring at the Wild Card Gym of celebrated, two-time “Trainer of the Year” Freddie Roach following his return to Los Angeles from Las Vegas. A spokesman for Manny Pacquiao, journalist Winchell Campos told Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today in an overseas telephone conversation that Pacquiao sparred two rounds with a fighter being handled by Sugar Shane Mosley and did alright. The younger brother of Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao had earlier been taken to Las V Read Full Story >>>

Everybody wants a piece of Pacman
By Abac Cordero, The Philippine Star, 24 Apr 2007

Suddenly, everybody wants to get into the picture. With Manny Pacquiao looking at one big fight by the end of the year, his possible contenders are already making some noise in the hope of landing a million-dollar bout against the hard-hitting Filipino superstar. Juan Manuel Marquez, Humberto Soto, Marco Antonio Barrera and Joan Guzman, the only non-Mexican among the four, have all sent strong signals of wanting to face Pacquiao as early as September. The World Boxing Council wants M Read Full Story >>>

BOBBY PACQUIAO TRAINING AT WILD CARD GYM
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, 24 Apr 2007

Bobby Pacquiao has returned to Los Angeles from Las Vegas and has begun training at the Wild Card Gym of celebrated, two-time “Trainer of the Year” Freddie Roach. Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today learned last week that Michael Koncz had taken the younger brother of Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao to Las Vegas to train at the Top Rank Gym in preparation for his fight against WBC No. 2 super featherweight Humberto Soto who is handled by Arum but that Pacquiao had an argument wit Read Full Story >>>

WBC ignores legal cases
By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, 24 Apr 2007

If WBC president Jose Sulaiman has his way, he’ll throw lawyers out the window for interfering in the process of determining the deserving challengers for the world championship. Sulaiman made a cameo appearance at the weigh-in the day before Manny Pacquiao demolished Jorge Solis at the Alamodome in San Antonio last April 14. He arrived in a wheelchair to rest a bum knee and was mobbed by reporters who swarmed all over the amiable Mexican. Like a veteran politician, Sulaiman didn’ Read Full Story >>>

Boy shot by Pacquiao bodyguardABS-CBN News, 24 Apr 2007

A 10-year-old boy was rushed to hospital in General Santos City Monday after he was shot and wounded by a bodyguard of boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, ABS-CBN News learned. Doctors at the St. Elizabeth Hospital said the boy sustained a gunshot wound on the left palm near his pinky and another on his right hand. Authorities said the boy is now out of danger. Doctors declined to issue additional statements regarding the condition of the boy. The report said the shooting took place at 2 p.m Read Full Story >>>

PUERTO RICO UPDATE: BAUTISTA, BANAL IN VEGAS APR 29!
By Salven L. Lagumbay, PhilBoxing.com, 24 Apr 2007

Undefeated Rey `Boom Boom` Bautista and Alex John `Bazooka` Banal, together with trainer Edito Villamor, are set to fly to Las Vegas on April 29 for their May 5 assignments on the Oscar De la Hoya-Floyd Mayweather card. The group will take an American Airlines flight 1235 that will depart Puerto Rico at 4:20PM and will arrive in Las Vegas at 10:15PM. `The boys are now very excited to be in Vegas for their fights,` reported Villamor from PR, where they are training alongside Oscar De la Hoy Read Full Story >>>