
Two More Filipino Boxers Win in Milan, Italy
Two more Filipino boxers have hammered their way into the next round of the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Milan, Italy with impressive victories over tough opponents.

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Two more Filipino boxers have hammered their way into the next round of the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Milan, Italy with impressive victories over tough opponents.

Thai Athens Olympic Games bantamweight silver medalist Worapoj Petchkhoon is upset over the three-month ban imposed on him by the president of the Amateur Boxing Association of Thailand – Gen. Taweep Jantararoj.

One of Thailand’s finest pro boxers and former WBC champion Sirimongkol Singwancha (63-2, 37 KO's) has been arrested for drug dealing in the Thai city of Pattaya.

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says that a sprawling hacienda in Cancun has been offered as a training site for world pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao in preparation for his ‘Fire Power” showdown against WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto with the added attraction of the WBC “Diamond Belt” also on the line at the MGM Grand on November 14.

World pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao’s adviser Michael Koncz says there is “no need to worry” about Pacquiao’s training schedule for the “Fire Power” encounter with WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto because “everything is going according to schedule.”

Thai veteran Pongsaklek Wonjongkam has retained his WBC flyweight interim title with a sixth round technical knockout of Japanese challenger Takahisa Masuda in Chiang Mai.

Thailand’s boxing silver medalist in the Athens Olympic Games, Worapoj Petchkhoon, will not see action in the Southeast Asian Games in Laos in December as he has been banned for three months as a punishment for modeling in a gay magazine.

AJ “Bazooka” Banal won a lopsided ten round unanimous decision against rough and rugged Mexican Jose Angel Beranza at the Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

WBC International super lightweight champion Prawet Singwancha (34-3-2, 20 KO's) of Thailand has retained his title with a 3rd round knockout of Indonesian challenger Stevie Ongen Ferdinandus (3-0, 1 KO) in the Thai city of Loei.

WBA Intercontinental light flyweight champion Milan Melindo faces tough Mexican Adrian “El Confesor” Hernandez at the Cuneta Astrodome on October 3 on the undercard of the Drian Francisco (17-0-1, 13 KO’s) clash with Panama’s Roberto Vasquez (27-3, 20 KO’s) in the main event.