Fighting Manny Pacquiao with a crown on the line and big money on the side are too hard to pass up for Chris Algieri. The 5-foot-11 American of Italian and Argentine descent finally agreed to tangle with Pacquiao for the World…
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines – World eight-division boxing champ and Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao is ready to face Chris Algieri atop the ring on Nov. 23 if this is what his promoter Bob Arum wants. “As long as it is OK…
MANILA, Philippines -- What will it take for Juan Manuel Marquez to fight Manny Pacquiao again? A cool $20 million, according to Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach, in an interview with thesweetscience.com. Roach said the Mexican legend’s unrealistic demand indicates his…
MANILA, Philippines — Filipino congressman and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is the world's 11th highest-paid athlete, according to the annual list by Forbes Magazine. Pacquiao amassed a total of $41.8 million in income from winnings and endorsements from June 1, 2013…
MANILA, Philippines —Consider Miguel Cotto the new leader in the race for Manny Pacquiao’s next opponent in November. The Puerto Rican vaulted to the top of the candidates’ list following his 10th-round stoppage of Argentinian Sergio Martinez on Saturday in their…
MANILA, Philippines — From being an eight-time world boxing champion to Congressman and now a head coach. Newly-approved PBA team Kia officially named Manny Pacquiao its coach Monday in a press conference held at the Pacific Star Building in Makati. "I'm very…
Pacquiao-Algieri has makings of a classic »
Saying what he saw, Freddie Roach stated: “Chris Algieri has got a jab, that’s it.” Going by the prefight script, Roach should be coming up with a loftier assessment of Algieri, who challenges for Manny Pacquiao’s WBO welterweight crown in Macau on Nov. 23. That putdown by the Hall of Fame trainer, who has guided Pacquiao to supreme superstardom, will not in any way help sell the Pacquiao-Algieri fight, which at first…
14 hours ago / Read More »Challenger sneezes at Pacquiao firepower »
(HELP, PLEASE: This is an appeal on behalf of printing machine operator Jay M. Vera, 39, who urgently needs funds for an angioplasty procedure to save his life. Vera, a poor father to two kids, has been diagnosed at the Philippine Heart Center, where he was rushed on July 18, with two blocked coronary arteries. Donors may please contact his wife, Alicia Vera, a public school teacher, at 0918-6255888. Our…
8 days ago / Read More »Blackwater scoops up Danny Ildefonso from PBA Expansion Draft »
MANILA, Philippines – It's official, the Philippine Basketball Association is up to a dozen teams and one veteran is smack in the middle of things. Blackwater Sport and KIA took to Tito Chef at Microtel Libis for the PBA Expansion with the former choosing two-time Most Valuable Player Danny Ildefonso. Sport head coach Leo Isaac said grabbing the Demolition Man for the first pick is like winning the lottery. "Getting Danny I is…
13 days ago / Read More »Pacquiao officially enters PBA Rookie Draft »
MANILA, Philippines-It's official, Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao could put on new kicks for the parquet floor instead of the squared ring. Pacquaio, the eight-division world boxing champion, has officially entered the rookie draft of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Friday afternoon. Kia Team Manager Eric Pineda and Joe Ramos submitted Pacquiao's eligibility papers to the PBA office in Eastwood just before the dispersal draft for Kia and Blackwater Sports. "We wish him luck, as he previously…
13 days ago / Read More »Fil-Am nurse-turned-boxer ready for first pro fight »
SAN LEANDRO, California -- Why in the world would Filipino-American Joel Siapno, a bright young 22-year-old who recently graduated with a nursing degree from Oakland’s Samuel Merritt University, want to put his career on pause all for a shot at boxing, perhaps the most violent and dead-end of all sports? To chase a dream, that’s why. A successful amateur fighter from the past few years, the Bay Area product will fight in…
13 days ago / Read More »Redecorating a budding mismatch »
Sorry, but this piece on Manny Pacquiao proceeding with what originally had been thought to be a budding punching picnic in his calendared fight in Macau on Nov. 23 comes in stale. Typhoon “Glenda” lustily cut off power and communication lines around our flood-prone area by the Pasig on Wednesday, so this column on Pacquiao’s next opponent is here a day late. Yes, Pacquiao’s next foe will be Chris Algieri, 30, an…
14 days ago / Read More »Pacquiao stakes welterweight title vs Algieri »
Fighting Manny Pacquiao with a crown on the line and big money on the side are too hard to pass up for Chris Algieri. The 5-foot-11 American of Italian and Argentine descent finally agreed to tangle with Pacquiao for the World Boxing Organization welterweight title on November 23 at The Venetian Macao’s Cotai Arena. Algieri, 30, a former kickboxer and wrestler, and his co-promoters, Joe DeGuardia of Star Boxing and Banner Promotions’…
15 days ago / Read More »Pacquiao ready to face taller Chris Algieri »
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines – World eight-division boxing champ and Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao is ready to face Chris Algieri atop the ring on Nov. 23 if this is what his promoter Bob Arum wants. “As long as it is OK with Bob Arum, there’s no problem with me. I’m not afraid to face anybody in the ring,” Pacquiao told the Philippine Daily Inquirer by phone. Pacquiao said he has always faced…
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