PACMAN'S MORNING JOG AT THE CEBU IT PARK (WITH PHOTOS)By Dong Secuya, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 17 Sep 2007CEBU CITY -- With Pacquiao's training camp in Cebu going to end this week as Team Pacquiao leaves for Manila on Friday and then to Los Angeles on Saturday, PhilBoxing.com has decided to cover Pacquiao's morning jog at the Read Full Story >>>
Peñalosa, Concepcion Wow Metropolis CrowdBy Salvador Lopez, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 17 Sep 2007It was an entertaining Sunday for those who came to the Alabang Metropolis Mall to watch the 4-round exhibition bout between reigning WBO bantamweight champion Gerry Penalosa and WBC youth and NABF bantamweight champion Berna Read Full Story >>>
Brian’s Boxing Mailbag, Sep. 17, 2007By Brian Wilbur, RingsideReport.com, Mon, 17 Sep 2007Greetings RSR readers. If you want to talk boxing then you came to the right place. In this week’s mailbag we have lots of Manny Pacquiao fans, a couple weirdos, and some passionate boxing fans. Please email me if you would like your question to be featured in next week’s mailbag, but for now, e Read Full Story >>>
PACQUIAO BEGINS BIG PUSHBy Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 17 Sep 2007Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao begins what trainer Freddie Roach describes as “our big push” which will be a very hard week on the road in the mornings and in the gym in the afternoons in Cebu City. In a conversat Read Full Story >>>
PEÑALOSA WANTS THREE MORE FIGHTSBy Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 17 Sep 2007WBO bantamweight champion Gerry Peñalosa is eyeing three more fights before he decides to retire and trainer Freddie Roach believes that if Peñalosa “really wants to do it, he can go on for a longer period o Read Full Story >>>
Buhain: Pacquiao by KO in SevenBy Emmanuel B. Villaruel, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 17 Sep 2007Games and Amusements Board (GAB) chairman Eric Buhain doesn't think Marco Antonio Barrera will last 11 rounds against Manny Pacquiao this time, predicting that the revered Filipino sports hero will terminate the "Baby-Faced Assasin" from Mexico within seven rounds. Buhain, who served as head of t Read Full Story >>>
Marco Antonio Barrera set to destroy Manny Pacquiao; Pacquiao's Days are NumberedBy Johnny Benz, DogHouseBoxing.com, Mon, 17 Sep 2007In a recent press release, famed trainer of Manny Pacquiao, Freddie Roach confessed they had a spy in Marco Antonio Barrera's camp. The spy secretively video taped Barrera's work outs. "We have had a mole inside the Barrera camp for the past month, secretly video taping Barrera's workouts. We cal Read Full Story >>>
ROACH MOBBED BY FANS AT STAR MALL, METROPOLISBy Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 17 Sep 2007Celebrated trainer Freddie Roach was mobbed by fight fans at the Sports Center in the Star Mall at the Metropolis in Alabang where he worked the corner of WBO bantamweight champion Gerry Penalosa who engaged NABF super ba Read Full Story >>>
Lucky Philippines should repay Freddie RoachBy Recah Trinidad, Inquirer News Service, Mon, 17 Sep 2007LOS ANGELES -- They’re getting ready and there’s the tinkle of silverware, the clinking of wine glasses traveling all the way from dear old Manila to the clogged corridor of the Wild Card gym here. Of course, the famous boxing parlor where the reverend Freddie Roach preaches the profitable inflic Read Full Story >>>
Don’t like the message? Don’t shoot the messengerBy Homer Sayson, Sun.Star Cebu, Mon, 17 Sep 2007CHICAGO—In a Dec. 8 blockbuster at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather will battle Ricky Hatton for the WBC welterweight title. Mayweather, 30, is unbeaten (38-0, 24 KOs) and has won belts in five different weight classes. Always a marquee attraction, Pretty Boy is staring at another ha Read Full Story >>>
Morales begs off from Vegas boutBy Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, Mon, 17 Sep 2007Three-time world boxing champion Erik (El Terrible) Morales won’t be in Las Vegas to watch the Manny Pacquiao-Marco Antonio Barrera “Will To Win” rematch on Oct. 6, contrary to earlier reports that he would cheer for the Filipino icon at ringside. Morales, 31, has fought Pacquiao and Barrera in s Read Full Story >>>
TEAM PACMAN WINS FIVE-GAME HOOP SERIES VS. CEBU MEDIABy Emmanuel B. Villaruel, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 17 Sep 2007Team Pacman reasserted its supremacy over the DuraBEND-sponsored Cebu Sports Media Association (CSMA) Hoopsters with a convincing 94-82 victory in the finale of their five-game basketball exhibition series yesterday at the Cebu Coliseum. Team Pacman of boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao clinched the Read Full Story >>>
Team Pacman nails point vs. CSMABy Rommel C. Manlosa, Sun.Star Cebu, Mon, 17 Sep 2007THE CEBU Sports Media Association (CSMA) Hoopsters did their best but Team PacMan was naturally determined and intact in the final game of a five-game exhibition series held at the Cebu Coliseum yesterday. Team PacMan beat the CSMA Hoopsters, 94-82, with sharp shooting Jing-Jing Rama and Bobby P Read Full Story >>>
Érik-Díaz, en diciembreBy José Luis Camarillo, Esto en Linea, Mon, 17 Sep 2007Las Vegas, Nevada.- Érik Morales es uno de los distinguidos visitantes de esta tierra de fulgor perpetuo. Aunque es difícil de creer, el gran guerrero mexicano ha venido infinidad de veces a est Read Full Story >>>
Humberto Soto Marches On, Barrios OutBy Mark Vester, BoxingScene.com, Mon, 17 Sep 2007Humberto Soto (43-5-2, 27KOs) kept his title dreams alive when he knocked out Ismael Gonzalez (18-13, 7KOs) in the third round of a tuneup bout in Los Mochis, Mexico. The fight was set as nothing of keep busy contest to prepare Soto for his November 17 title shot against WBO super featherweight c Read Full Story >>>