
Pacquiao To Set Camp in Metro Manila, Not Baguio City
MANILA, Philippines--POUND-FOR-POUND king Manny Pacquiao has decided to train in Metro Manila so he could continue to attend to his work as Sarangani representative.

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MANILA, Philippines--POUND-FOR-POUND king Manny Pacquiao has decided to train in Metro Manila so he could continue to attend to his work as Sarangani representative.

Manny Pacquiao, the reigning pound-for-pound king is scheduled to return home Monday morning and plans to begin training on September 20 for what he says will be “the toughest fight” of his career in recent years.

Hard hitting Rocky Fuentes (27-6-2, 17 KO’s), battered Japanese mandatory challenger Yasuto Aritomi with vicious body shots that made the Japanese wilt and quit at the towards the end of the 8th round at the International Convention Center in Nagoya, Japan Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines—Conditioning expert Alex Ariza feels the smaller but speedy pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao will have the edge over the bigger but slower Antonio Margarito when the two clash for the vacant WBC super welterweight title at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on Nov. 13.

Former WBO super flyweight champion “Marvelous” Marvin Sonsona left his training camp to fly to his hometown of General Santos City to celebrate his 20th birthday and never returned, forcing promoters to call off a fight scheduled for him on September 4.

Tough Rocky Fuentes (26-6-2, 16 KO’s), the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation flyweight champion made the 112 pound limit without trouble at the official weigh in for his second title defense at a clinic in Nagoya where the OPBF conducted the weigh-in.

Omar Nino Romero (29-3-2, 11 KO’s) whose battles with Filipino fighters have often ended in controversy but have always been tough fights, stakes his newly won WBC light flyweight title against Colombia’s Ronald “Indio” Barrera (27-7-2, 17 KO’s) at the Olympic Theater in the University of Guadalajara, Mexico this weekend.

Z “The Dream” Gorres underwent major surgery at the Cebu Doctors Hospital Wednesday to correct a portion of his windpipe that had narrowed down and was also infected apparently due to improper handling at the Las Vegas University Medical Center when Gorres underwent emergency brain surgery last November.

Bantamweight Jonathan Ba At has scored a 1st round TKO over Ma Yi Ming in a battle of southpaws in a scheduled eight round bout at the Sangyo Hall in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.

Former WBC/WBA minimum weight champion Katsunari Takayama of Osaka who was signed up by ALA Promotions last May and trains at the famed gym in Cebu has beaten the odds and won his IBF title eliminator showdown over South Africa’s Tshepo Lefele at Carnival City in Gauteng on a big card promoted by well-known boxing man Branco Milenkovic.