
Magale Upsets Fueki, Suzushino Stops Gonzales
Filipino featherweight Carlo Magale, who didn’t have a very impressive fight record stunned Japan’s Ryo Fueki, by scoring a 6th round TKO at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

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Filipino featherweight Carlo Magale, who didn’t have a very impressive fight record stunned Japan’s Ryo Fueki, by scoring a 6th round TKO at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

The Philippines Bogie Delada, making his first appearance after a 19-month layoff has suffered a 4th round knockout at the hands of undefeated IBF Pan Pacific bantamweight champion Thangthong Kiattaweesuk in a fight card at the Chira Nakorn Stadium in the southern Thai city of Had Yai.

Rugged Raymond Sermona lived up to his nickname “Foreman” in recognition of his fighting style which resembles that of former heavyweight champion George Foreman, by scoring a 1st round TKO over Japan’s Zuri Kannan at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Thursday.

The father of Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton says the former IBF junior welterweight champion has undergone more tests to find out what he is suffering from.

PACQUIAO TO DECIDE ON COTTO FIGHT WITHIN 48 HOURS/Ronnie Nathanielsz Filipino boxing icon and the acknowledged hero of Asia, Manny Pacquiao, is expected to decide on the proposed fight against WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto within the next two days. Pacquiao adviser Michael Koncz said he and lawyer Franklin "Jeng" Gacal were scheduled to meet with Pacquiao on Wednesday night to go through the proposal forwarded to Pacquiao by Top Rank promoter Bob Arum. Koncz who hand-carried the proposal after meeting Arum in the US felt it was a good proposal but made it clear that the final decision rests with Pacquiao and nobody else. Koncz said Pacquiao was attending to some matters in Sarangani province from where he plans to run for a seat in the House of Representatives in the May 2010 elections. However, the adviser said "we will have a final closing on the agreement, hopefully by Thursday." At the same time Arum who is vacationing in Italy is unhappy with Gacal’s statements to the media that should Cotto refuse to drop down in weight there is always Shane Mosley to turn to since Mosley has said he would agree to fight Pacquiao, take a 40 percent share and come down to 143 pounds. Arum has always maintained in conversations with us "You don’t negotiate through the media." Should the fight with Cotto push through it would take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on November 14. Meantime, Koncz who was in Manila attending to the visa and work permit of Sonny Boy Jaro said he expects to get it within the next couple of days. Jaro battles Mexico’s WBA light flyweight champion Giovanni Segura in a title fight in Nayarat. Mexico on July 25.The hard-hitting Jaro has a record of 30-7-5 with 19 knockouts while the champion Segura’s record is 20-1-1 with 16 knockouts.

Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim paid tribute to Filipino boxing hero and the first Asian to become world flyweight champion Francisco Guilledo who took the ring name Pancho Villa on his 84th death anniversary Tuesday, at Pancho Villa’s monument at the North Cemetery.

Nicaragua’s Roman ”El Chocolatito” Gonzalez has made the second successful defense of his WBA minimum weight title with a unanimous twelve round decision over Japan’s Katsunari Takayama in Kobe.

The IBF has ordered junior bantamweight champion Vic Darchinyan (32-2, 26 KO’s) to “go directly to his mandatory title defense” following his loss in a bantamweight title bid against champion Joseph Agbeko (27-1, 22 KO’s) last Saturday in Sunrise , Florida.

The Philippines’s Eric Barcelona failed in his second attempt to win the vacant IBO bantamweight title losing a unanimous twelve round decision to South Africa’s Simphiwe Vetyeka at a jam-packed Emperors Palace in Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa.

Thailand’s former IBF minimumweight world champion and light flyweight title contender Ratanapol Sor Vorapin has decided to retire after taking a bad beating from hard-hitting Filipino Rey Migreno in a Pan Asian Boxing Association flyweight title fight at the beautiful Karon beach resort in Phuket.