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Boxing continues expanding rapidly in Vietnam and Sunday's exciting fight card in Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon) vouches for that. In the evening's main event, Uzbekistan super welterweight Khusniddin Pulatov (7-3, 4 KO's) nailed a unanimous decision victory over more experienced Filipino warrior Rodel Wenceslao (13-17-2, 5KO's) to defend for the first time his WBA Asia Super Welterweight Title in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
The World Boxing Organization (WBO) headquartered in the Island of Enchantment, Puerto Rico, has assigned Las Vegas Hall of Fame referee Robert Byrd, 75, as the third man in the coming clash for the vacant WBO Super Flyweight title between world-class Filipino fighter Donnie Nietes, 36, and Japanese star Kazuto Ioka.
CEBU CITY, Philippines - Hard-hitting world-ranked light flyweight Christian Araneta (17-0, 14 KO's) of the Philippines - one of the candidates to Cebu's Best Knock Out of the Year - made good use of his speed and boxing skills to score a unanimous decision win over "The Lizard" Vincent Bautista, 25, today Saturday (Dec 22) at Robinsons Galleria here in the Philippine's Queen City of the South, Cebu.
MANILA, Philippines - World-ranked Filipino Featherweight Genesis Servania (32-1, 15 KO's) is one of the popular and promising Pinoy boxers with a real chances of battling for a world title in 2019.
CEBU, Philippines - In one of the most intriguing and competitive boxing battles between Asian star fighters, three-division world champion Donnie Nietes (41-1-5, 23 KO's) of the Philippines clashes against Japanese standout Kazuto Ioka (23-1, 13 KO's) for the vacant WBO Super Flyweight World Title on New Year's Eve at the plush Wynn Palace Cotai in the vibrant city known as "The Vegas of Asia," Macao; and Nietes' strength and conditioning coach American Nick Curson, feels more than confident on the chances of his fighter.
New Year's Celebrations in awesome Macao have got so much more exciting with the confirmation of three world title fights set to thrill boxing fans December 31 in the former Portuguese Colony. In the evening's main event, 3-division world-champions Kazuto Ioka (23-1, 13 KO's) of Japan and Donnie Nietes (41-1-5, 23 KO's) of the Philippines collide for the vacant WBO Super Flyweight World Title.
PANAMA CITY, Panama -- One of the important points addressed by Philippines GAB Chairman Baham Mitra during his participation in the recently concluded WBO 31st Convention in Panama was the issue of the Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn scoring, which was a very hot subject among the Filipino boxing community last year.
Filipino Alphoe Dagayloan (11-2-5, 5 KO's) impressively stopped strong Chinese foe Rongguo Wu (6-2-2, 2 KO's) in the 6th round to capture the vacant WBA Asia East Flyweight Title Saturday (Oct 27) at Quibors Boxing Gym in Bacoor, Cavite; a victory that might get the Dipolog native into the world rankings.
World-ranked Filipino Carl Martin (10-0, 9 KO's) is set to make the first defense of his WBA Asia bantamweight belt against hard-hitting Korean challenger Moon Chul Suh of Iksan City at LCS Gym in Lagawe, Ifugao Province in the Philippines, a battle too important for the promising, hard-hitting Ilocano "Wonder Boy."
The Knock Out Artist is coming. IBF #1 Felix Alvarado (33-2, 29 KOs) of Nicaragua is set to arrive in the Philippines this coming Monday October 22 ahead of his important clash against Filipino Randy Petalcorin (29-2-1, 22 KOs) for the vacant IBF Jr. Flyweight World Title at the plush Solaire Resort & Casino in Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippinesa tough fight that both men want so much to win.