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Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao who was recently cited by Thailand’s top leaders as “The Hero of Asia” has, at the last minute, decided to call off his scheduled trip to the US to receive his second “Fighter of the Year” award from the Boxing Writers Association of America.
WBO minimumweight champion Donnie Nietes faces tough Mexican Manuel Vargas, the Interim champion, in the Filipino’s third title defense set for July 18 in Jalisco, Mexico.
Philippine light welterweight champion Mark Jason Melligen faces a Mexican foe in his third fight in the US which is schedules to take place in Texas on June 20.
The Philippines Jonel Alivio has been knocked out in the 11th round of his title fight against Asian Boxing Council featherweight champion Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo in Sakon Nakhon, Thailand.
Former world super bantamweight and PABA champion Somsak Sithchatchawal who figured in the 2006 “Fight of the Year” when he won the WBA title with a spectacular 10th round TKO over Mahyar Monshipour in France on March 18, 2006, will battle Indonesia’s Eddy Comaro in Pan Asian Boxing Association super featherweight interim championship in the north eastern town of Mukdahan on June 12.
Former multi-titled world boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist Sugar Ray Leonard says Filipino hero Manny Pacquiao is a boxing superstar “because of what he did to Oscar De La Hoya.”
IBF flyweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” has begun training for a planned fight at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on August 22.
The world’s No.1 pound-for-pound fighter Manny Pacquiao has denied a story emanating from the publicity group that handles Shane Mosley that he had agreed to fight the reigning WBA welterweight champion on October 17.
Respected South African promoter Branco Milenkovic is not ready to sign-off on Silence Mabuza, once again demonstrating the admirable qualities that earned him the accolade of the WBC “International Promoter of the Year” in 2007.
International Boxing Organization president Ed Levine says he will look into the alleged intimidation of one of the judges during the recent IBO middleweight title fight between defending champion Daniel Geale and fellow Australian Anthony Mundine last Wednesday.