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Farenas in make-or-break bout
Wed, 02 Jul 2014
There?s no reason why Michael Farenas shouldn?t win over unbeaten Mark (Too Sharp) Davis in their scheduled 12-round IBF super featherweight title eliminator at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, Wednesday night (
DONAIRE BACK IN OCTOBER
Thu, 26 Jun 2014
WBA featherweight champion Nonito Donaire, Jr. said recently he?ll stick it out in the 126-pound division to clean up the ranks before moving up to the super featherweight class with his next fight set in October under th
For whom the bell tolls
Thu, 05 Jun 2014
The confusion on why Puerto Rican referee Luis Pabon ordered the ringing of the bell to start the fifth round in the WBA featherweight title bout between Nonito Donaire, Jr. and Simpiwe Vetyeka in Macau last weekend has p
Will the real Marquez rise?
Mon, 02 Jun 2014
Mexican fighter Juan Manuel Marquez? showing in outpointing Mike Alvarado recently has revived suspicions that he may be taking anabolic steroids or performance-enhancing-drugs (PEDs) particularly as he works clos
DONAIRE GUARANTEES VICTORY
Tue, 27 May 2014
It won?t be a cakewalk for sure but challenger Nonito Donaire, Jr. guaranteed a victory over South Africa?s Simpiwe Vetyeka to wrest the WBA featherweight championship when they face off in a scheduled 12-round bout
Donaire submits to anti-doping test
Fri, 23 May 2014
Three-time world boxing champion Nonito Donaire, Jr. was subjected yesterday to Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) tests by phlebotomist Jennifer Hunter who flew in from Newport Beach, California, to adm
Olympic hero interred today
Sun, 18 May 2014
The first Filipino Olympic silver medalist Anthony Villanueva will be interred at the Loyola Memorial Park in Paranaque this afternoon after a Requiem Mass and cremation with his widow Liezel relieved that their son J
Olympic hero dies helplessly hoping
Thu, 15 May 2014
The first Filipino Olympic silver medalist Anthony Villanueva died in his sleep yesterday morning in Cabuyao, Laguna, after nearly willing himself to lose his life by not eating the last six days.
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Forgotten hero at death?s door
Mon, 12 May 2014
In 1964, boxer Anthony Villanueva returned to Manila from the Tokyo Olympics and was feted with a ticker-tape parade for bagging a silver medal in the featherweight division. He came home a hero, later appeared in movies
?Boom Boom? ponders future
Fri, 09 May 2014
Rey (Boom Boom) Bautista turned pro at 16, a week shy of his 17th birthday, in 2003 and now at 27, he?s a grizzled veteran with 37 fights under his belt. Tomorrow night, he promises to make a sensational debut a
