By Jason Aniel, RingTalk.com, 17 Mar 2007
DID ROACH MAKE RIGHT CALL WITH GERRY? Las Vegas, NV- You can bookend recent Philippine boxing history (1996-present) from the rise of Luisito Espinosa and his seven featherweight title defenses to Manny Pacquiao’s reign as the 2006 Fighter of the Year. But in between those two moments ca
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By Cliff Rold, RingTalk.com, 17 Mar 2007
A LEGENDARY ERA BEGINS THE RIDE HOME! Arlington, VA – All good things may come to an end, but the best conclusions are rarely reached without a crescendo preceding them. For this living-legendary featherweight era, the build to a fitting finale enters step two. The first step was supplie
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By Rene Bonsubre, Jr., PhilBoxing.com, 17 Mar 2007
Gerry Peñalosa’s skills set him apart from most Filipino pugilists. He is not a Pier 6 devil-may-care brawler but a smooth southpaw stylist gifted with hand speed and he could bob and weave and slip punches with the gre
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By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, 17 Mar 2007
Manny Pacquiao is peaking in time for his fight against Jorge Solis of Mexico next month in Texas. A day before he left for Manila prior to his departure for the United States, Pacquiao went a total of 10 rounds with two sparring partners, said Rey Golingan, who had watched the boxer while tr
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By Jingo Quijano, Sun.Star Cebu, 17 Mar 2007
EXPERTS who think that Gerry will be easy fodder for the hard punching Daniel Ponce de Leon are in for a nasty surprise. I just love underdogs and the 10-1 odds have me salivating over the possible upset of epic proportions that is bound to happen. This last rounder stared long and hard at his f
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By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, 17 Mar 2007
Gerry Peñalosa’s former managers Tony Aldeguer and Rex (Wakee) Salud said yesterday moving up in weight is his biggest drawback in challenging WBO super bantamweight champion Daniel Ponce de Leon of Mexico at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas tonight (tomorrow morning, Manila time). "The weight d
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By Homer Sayson, Sun.Star Cebu, 17 Mar 2007
LAS VEGAS - Like most of my travels to Sin City, I’d like to think of this ongoing visit as merely another Sun.Star Cebu assignment, one of the very many that I’ve done so often through the years as a credentialed NBA and boxing writer. But it ain’t that simple. I’m h
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By Bill Velasco, The Philippine Star, 17 Mar 2007
When we were first shooting the plug of the daily ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) program Hardball, we were thinking of issues to discuss that would get the attention of the sports-savvy Filipino audience. Naturally, the discussion came to Manny Pacquiao, whose overwhelming popularity made it easy to tal
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By Calvin Watkins, MaxBoxing.com, 17 Mar 2007
Marco Antonio Barrera has placed himself in a dangerous position. He’s talking about retirement. Fighters who talk about leaving the sport they love in public, especially to the media, normally get beat or escape with a victory. Juan Manuel Marquez is nobody to escape from. Saturday nigh
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By Juan Angel Zurita, BoxingFanatics.com, 17 Mar 2007
In a matchup that should’ve happened many years ago, the legendary Marco Antonio Barrera will battle fellow Mexico City native, top ten pound-for-pounder, Juan Manuel Marquez. Both will be fighting for the pride of their home
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By Mark Snow, Boxing Confidential, 17 Mar 2007
Well, it’s another pay-per-view whack to the chin against boxing. Marco Antonio Barrera and Juan Manuel Marquez are headlining a busy week of boxing that will tragically pass as uneventfully as many others do. Barrera vs Marquez is a highly watchable fight pitting two of the best pound for p
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By TK Stewart, BoxingScene.com, 14 Mar 2007
Have a look back at the career of any great prizefighter and you’ll see that when they were at their best and in perfect mix, that everybody around them had a purpose and the chemistry surrounding that fighter was one of perfect composition. Muhammad Ali kept the potent mix of master chemists Angelo Dundee, Bundini Brown and Herbert Muhammad as part of his potent recipe for nearly 20 years. They all served as integral p
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By Troy Ondrizek, BoxingScene.com, 14 Mar 2007
For years anonymity is where Juan Manuel Marquez dwelled. A fighter never wants to be in the realm of the unknown, but Marquez can only blame himself for his current popularity residence. Blessed with an abundance of skill and willing to put in the long hours to hone his craft, Marquez has forged himself into a formidable adversary for anyone near the featherweight weight-class. Marquez is one of the best counter-punchers i
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By Ronnie Nathanielsz, Manila Standard Today, 14 Mar 2007
SOLAR Sports, which paid a whopping P40 million for the TV rights for Manny Pacquiao’s showdown with undefeated but unknown Mexican featherweight Jorge Solis at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, will telecast the April 14 fight card on GMA-7। Viva Sports/Standard Today learned that Solar officials had finalized details with officials of GMA Network on Monday and an official announcement is expected within a day or two. The fight will be replayed on RPN-9, where Solar Sports has a ma
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By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, 14 Mar 2007
The superbly staged boxing extravaganza “Moment of Truth” held last Feb. 24 at the Cebu City Sports Complex which was put together by respected boxing patron Tony Aldeguer, his son Michael and promoter Sammy Gello-ani and telecast by the giant broadcast network ABS-CBN produced remarkable ratings beating arch rival GMA 7 in the process. The WBO super flyweight title fight in which Z “The Dream” Gorres
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By Salven L. Lagumbay, Boxing Confidential, 14 Mar २००७
In what would be the biggest break in his boxing career, Bobby Pacquiao hopes to step out of his more illustrious brother's shadow when he takes on WBC no। 2 Humberto Soto in a 12-round showdown on June 9 at the Madison Square Garden in New York, USA। The Soto-Pacquiao showdown will be the chief support to the huge Miguel Cotto-Zab Judah title bout promoted by Bob Arum's Top Rank. According to a source, Arum had given the younger Pacquiao two choices for his next fight: a bout on April 27
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By Doug Fischer, MaxBoxing.com, 14 Mar 2007
Marco Antonio Barrera doesn’t need Juan Manuel Marquez। He doesn’t need this fight that the sport’s most diehard fans are salivating over। World-class boxers in the featherweight and junior lightweight divisions need a fight with Marquez like you need a massive case of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Barrera’s not dumb – he’s actually one of the smarter prize fighters to come around in the past 25 years – so he knows what a tough fight he will have with
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By David Finger, FightNews.com, 14 Mar २००७
For a fight that some experts have already billed as "the biggest fight ever for Mexico," there was no question that both Juan Manuel Marquez (46-3-1, 35 KO's) and Marco Antonio Barrera (63-4, 42 KO's) were living up to the billing of "Fearless" as both fighters held a press conference in Los Angeles yesterday before heading out to Nevada। Both Marquez and Barrera appeared to be the picture of confidence
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By Dennis Principe, FightNews.com, 14 Mar २००७
Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao believes ex-foe Marco Antonio Barrera has what it takes to win over another former rival Juan Manuel Marquez this coming weekend। In a long distance telephone interview Pacquiao said Barrera throws more quality punches apart from having better ring craft compared to the usually rugged Marquez। “Barrera has the edge and I guess he will win this fight,” said Pacquiao a few h
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By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, 14 Mar 2007
Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao must like living dangerously. He’s got less than a month to train at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles for Mexican mystery fighter Jorge Solis but that doesn’t seem to bother him. Pacquiao battles Solis in San Antonio on April 14 and it’s a must-win situation for the Pinoy idol. A loss would be devastating not only for his career as a prizefighter but also for his campaign to unseat Darlene Antonino-Custodio as congressman in the first district of
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