Nonito Donaire, also known as the Filipino Flash, said he did his best. He lost his WBO super bantamweight title to Guillermo Rigondeaux in a decision on April 14. “I thought that he wasn’t better than me,” he told Inquirer.net. “I did my best. I thought I should have done something different but I didn’t.”
Recently, in the Oprah Winfrey Show, Lance Armstrong, the incredible seven time winner of the Tour de France cycling tournament, the most grueling competition in the sports world – shocked millions by confessing publicly that he used an array of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) in winning all seven events. Previously, he had repeatedly denied doping allegations.
The University of San Francisco (USF) has announced that the 9th Annual Hilltop Cup Boxing Tournament will take place in USF’s War Memorial Gymnasium on Friday, Sept. 14.
“Sometimes scorers of fights are incompetent. Sometimes they are more than incompetent, they are corrupt…..The bottom line is if you are an honest man…Pacquiao won that fight….It’s an injustice to the sport, it’s an injustice to the fighters and an injustice to the fan base,” commented well respected ESPN boxing commentator Teddy Atlas.
“Pacquiao lost?” my son asked, a look of disbelief on his face. Now, my panganay is not really boxing fan. His reaction was based not so much on disappointment, but surprise.
Even at 101 years old, Otto Jensen showed little sign of slowing down. The former boxer from Denmark, an avid fan of boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, still ran a photography studio and often could be seen crossing the street in front of it to get to a senior center he frequented.
The Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program (YPSP) at the University of San Francisco launches From Pancho to Pacquiao: Philippine Boxing In and Out of the Ring, a book that examines the economic and social contributions of a marginalized minority, Filipinos and Filipinas, to the history of boxing in the United States and the world.
ROME (The New York Times)—Vatican officials have launched a frantic investigation into the unauthorized release of the transcript of God’s recent conversation with world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao. Officials of the Roman Curia, the Holy See’s ruling body, are appalled that someone with access to the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum illicitly passed on an official copy [...]
The post-boxing Manny Pacquiao story, we all hope, will turn out to be an uplifting tale, one that would build on his incredible success as an international icon.
SAN FRANCISCO—That year, I was for Muhammad Ali. In 1975, he seemed more brilliant and exciting in the ring than Joe Frazier. He was also flashier and more entertaining. I never got to see the two of them in person when they were in Manila. But like other children and adults, I got swept in [...]
The epic 1975 Thrilla in Manila focused the world’s attention on boxing greats Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.
Now, he says he wants to fight. And in a jaw-dropping display of arrogance, Floyd Mayweather even set a date and place for the much-awaited showdown with Manny Pacquiao.
