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Filipino journeyman Jack “The Assassin” Asis who fights out of New South Wales in Australia has stunned former world title challenger Nestor Rocha of the United States, scoring a 2nd round TKO in a fight card at the Gold Coast Convention Center in Queensland.
WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire is excited about his return to the ring on November 5, six days before his church wedding to Rachel Marcial. Donaire told BoxingScene.com/Daily Inquirer that fighting just six days before his wedding “is no problem as long as I don’t get injured. Actually I am excited that I will fight and that it will be followed by my wedding.”
MANILA—Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao is confident he will face Floyd Mayweather Jr. sometime next year—even if the latest condition set by the undefeated American looks like yet another reason to dodge the Filipino ring icon.
Froilan “The Sniper” Saludar won a third World Boxing Organization title with a rousing 10th round TKO over a game and gutsy Gabriel Pumar, the former WBC International minimum weight champion before a good crowd at the picturesque Island Cove Resort and Leisure Park in Kawit, Cavite.
Roli Gasca, a fighter of the famed ALA Promotions has won the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation super bantamweight title with a majority twelve round decision in what was described as a thrilling bout against Japanese champion Hiromasa Ohashi at the Aioi Hall in Kariya, Aichi, Japan.
MANILA—Top Rank promoter Bob Arum insists that he is ready to do whatever he can to make a fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. happen.
WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire’s planned unification bout with WBA champion Anselmo Moreno on November 5 is off.
WBC/WBO world bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash’ Donaire is ready to face anybody Top Rank promoter Bob Arum picks for a possible fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on October 1.
Promising Froilan “The Sniper” Saludar, known for his awesome punching power goes for the WBO Asia Pacific flyweight title in a clash with former WBC International minimum weight champion Gabriel “Big Gunz” Pumar at the Island Cove Hotel and Leisure Park in Kawit, Cavite on Saturday.
The Philippines Rolly Lunas who fights under the name Rolly Matsushita has regained the Oriental Pacific Boxing Federation bantamweight title he once held by scoring an 8th round knockout over countryman Zerofit Jerope Mercado who also fights under the Japanese name of Zuiyama.