Nietes eyes fourth world crown

Credit to Author: Rey Bancod| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 04:31:57 +0000

Donnie Nietes flies to Macau on Christmas Day upbeat that by the time he gets back to the country on the first day of 2019, he’d be a four-division world champion. Nietes battles fellow three-division titlist Kazuto Ioka of Japan on Dec. 31 at the Wynn Macau for the vacant World Boxing Organization super-flyweight crown. […]

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Pacquiao remains a force at welterweight

Credit to Author: Rey Bancod| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 08:19:38 +0000

    For George Kambosos, the Australian sparmate of Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino icon remains a tough guy to beat even at age 40. Pacquiao, who puts the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight crown for the first time against Adrien Broner on Jan. 19 in Las Vegas, will prove too much even for the 147-lb […]

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Boxers told to ‘stay fit’

Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 08:43:15 +0000

By Nick Giongco The country’s top amateur fighters are already on vacation mode. But the coaching staff of the Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (ABAP) is reminding everyone to be on “active rest”, head coach Pat Gaspi said on Tuesday. “While you are on vacation, make sure that you don’t allow yourself to […]

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Broner nears peak form

Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:00:46 +0000

By Nick Giongco As Manny Pacquiao turns up the heat in his Manila training camp, Adrien Broner is doing the same thing in West Palm Beach in Florida as the two punchers prepare to lock horns for Jan. 19 in Las Vegas. Broner, who challenges Pacquiao in the Filipino star’s first defense of the World […]

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Wilder-Fury ‘direct rematch’OKd

Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 15:00:19 +0000

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – The World Boxing Council gave the go-ahead Friday for a “direct rematch” between their heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury, who battled to a draw in Los Angeles last Saturday. “Wilder and Fury gave boxing one of the best fights in the heavyweight division in a long time, which […]

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Lomachenko: Pacquiao is old

Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 13:00:55 +0000

NEW YORK (AFP) – Three-division world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko is eager to notch another career first on Saturday as he attempts to unify two belts when he fights Jose Pedraza. “It’s the next step for my dream,” said Lomachenko, the World Boxing Association lightweight world champion who brings a record of 11-1 with nine knockouts […]

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Lomachenko won’t fight Pacquiao

Credit to Author: Rey Bancod| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 02:51:11 +0000

NEW YORK (AFP) – Three-division world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko is eager to notch another career first on Saturday as he attempts to unify two belts when he fights Jose Pedraza. ”It’s the next step for my dream,” said Lomachenko, the World Boxing Association lightweight world champion who brings a record of 11-1 with nine knockouts […]

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