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IBF flyweight Johnreil Casimero returned home from a long flight from London yesterday evening and announced that he 'wants to win all the flyweight belts available so it will be hard to carry.”
Triple world champion Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez is in the fast lane warpath, stepping on the gas, heading straight for the Forum in Inglewood, California, intent on the biggest fight of his career, against also undefeated Mexican world champion Carlos Cuadras.
Senator and eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao has presented newly crowned IBF super flyweight champion Jerwin Ancajas with a bonus of P500,000 [around $10,731 USD] - for his rousing IBF super flyweight championship victory over Puerto Rico’s McJoe Arroyo during a courtesy call at his senate office on Monday.
The seven day countdown to what the World Boxing Council described as 'one helluva fight' between WBC super flyweight champion Carlos Caudras and number one contender Roman "Chocolatito” Gonzalez, who incidentally just happens to be the WBC flyweight champion - has passed, and so did their weigh in, “without the hint of a storm cloud on the horizon."
Japan’s Takuma Inoue came off the canvas in the opening round of a furious ten round battle in which he decked Filipino Froilan “The Sniper” Saludar twice, in rounds eight and nine to earn a crack at WBO bantamweight champion Marlon “The Nightmare” Tapales at the famed Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on December 30.
TOP Rank promoter Bob Arum isn’t someone you take lightly when it comes to hyping a fight card. Sensing the less than enthusiastic response to the World Boxing Organization welterweight title fight between champion Jessie Vargas and eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas on Nov. 5, Arum pulled off a masterstroke that suddenly fired the imagination of fight fans, especially Filipinos, who didn’t seem too excited about Pacquiao’s return to the ring against a champion.
by Ronnie Nathanielsz - Unheralded Jerwin Ancajas dominated IBF super flyweight champion McJoe Arroyo and dropped him in the 8th round to score a handsome win and give the Philippines its fourth world title and the first for eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao, who promoted the fight card at the...
Five division world champion Nonito 'The Filipino Flash' has picked Cuban Ismael Salas as 'main trainer' for his fight against unbeaten Jessie Magdaleno at the Thomas & Mack Center on November 5. Donaire informed The Standard that Salas will work with him in Las Vegas and told us that his new trainer who replaces his father/trainer “Dodong” Donaire who didn’t want to work in Las Vegas and wished to spend time with his family in San Francisco and concentrate on managing his Gym will help out in “the physical part in the next eight to 9 weeks of training” since he is “mentally ready and have done what I need to do psychologically and mentally and will be ready to fight in a month or so.”.
Hard-hitting Jerwin Ancajas who has a record of 16 knockouts in 24 wins with only one defeat and one draw plans to go for a knockout against IBF super flyweight champion McJoe Arroyo of Puerto Rico when they clash in a title bout at the Philippine Navy Gymnasium in Taguig City on Saturday. Arroyo weighed in at 113-pounds, while Ancajas was 114 on the limit.
Former IBO junior lightweight champion 'Jazzy Jeff' Mayweather, the uncle of unbeaten former pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr, believes Jessie Vargas “is in a great situation” when he faces eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas on November 5.