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WBA Intercontinental light flyweight champion and WBO Asia Pacific minimum weight champion Milan “Melinyo” Melindo, goes after a third title when he takes on WBC Youth Intercontinental flyweight champion Anthony Villareal, a talented American in the main event of an exciting fight card at the plush ballroom of the Waterfront Hotel on January 14.
Z “The Dream” Gorres who continues to demonstrate the fighting heart he showed in the ring, is well on the road to recovery following a tragic brain injury that necessitated surgery after his superb ten round decision over tough Luis Melendez of Colombia at tnhe Las Vegas House of Blues last November 13.
WBO No. 1 ranked minimumweight Milan Melindo and hard-hitting Philippine flyweight champion Rocky Fuentes who relinquished his title earlier this year to take a big fight in Japan, engaged in a furious three-round sparring session before an enthusiastic crowd of fight fans at the Gaisano Country Mall in Cebu on Sunday.
WBC President Don Jose Sulaiman has advised pound-for-pound king, winner of the coveted “Diamond Belt” and the premier boxing organizations accolade as “Boxer of the Year” Manny Pacquiao to tell Floyd Mayweather Jr that “if he doesn’t want to fight him let him go to hell.”
Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire says he isn’t afraid of fighting WBC/WBA super flyweight champion Vic “The Raging Bull” Darchinyan anywhere.
WBC/WBA super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan wants his grudge rematch against current WBA interim champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire to be held in Australia early next year.
Former IBO light welterweight champion Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton’s father, Ray Hatton, says pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao has every right to file a lawsuit against those individuals he believes have been maligning him by alleging that he was on performance-enhancing drugs, without providing any proof.
WBO/NABO light welterweight champion Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi (27-3, 5 KO’s) is ready to face pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao on the March 13 date previously set aside for a Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr super fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum wholeheartedly supports pound-for-king Manny Pacquiao’s decision to sue Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer and Floyd Mayweather Sr and his son, undefeated former pound-for-pound No.1 Floyd Mayweather Jr for libel, slander and defamation.
The World Boxing Council has informed us that should newly crowned WBC light flyweight champion Rodel Mayol want to fight on the planned Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr undercard or on the next card headlined by Pacquiao, the Filipino “must fight Omar Nino” the No.1 mandatory opponent.