Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:25:05 +0000
LOS ANGELES – On the eve of his departure for Las Vegas, Manny Pacquiao held a Sunday feast for his family, members of his training team and their families and closest followers in a chic Japanese restaurant in Hollywood. Less than a week before he defend the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight crown against Adrien […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 09:33:09 +0000
By Nick Giongco LOS ANGELES – Besides his counter-punching skills, Adrien Broner vows to display an arsenal of weapons when he and Manny Pacquiao go to war next week in Las Vegas. “It (counterpunching) will definitely play a big part but we’ve got more in store to beat Pacquiao and I will show that January […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 09:25:28 +0000
By Nick Giongco LOS ANGELES – Manny Pacquiao requested to jump rope on Friday afternoon but lead trainer Buboy Fernandez politely turned down his request. Pacquiao tried his luck with conditioning coach Justin Fortune and was given the same dry answer. With a little over a week before facing Adrien Broner in Las Vegas, Pacquiao […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:30:42 +0000
By Nick Giongco LOS ANGELES – Manny Pacquiao could not help but marvel at himself on Thursday while training at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood. “Muy rapido (Very fast),” Pacquiao said in Spanish less than 10 days before clashing with Adrien Broner on Jan. 19 in Las Vegas. Pacquiao had just unleashed a […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 06:34:49 +0000
By Nick Giongco LOS ANGELES – His back against the ropes, Buboy Fernandez’s left hand twitched uncontrollably for about five seconds, his whole body the recipient of a dizzying display of lightning-quick and thunderous punches from a man you’d mistake to be in his twenties. And not from a 40-year-old guy like Manny Pacquiao, who […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 02:24:13 +0000
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Manny Pacquiao played down reports linking him to a bid for the presidency of the Philippines on Wednesday, insisting he remained solely focused on the twilight of his boxing career. The 40-year-old boxer, already a member of the Philippines Senate, has been repeatedly linked to a future run for the presidency […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 08:28:55 +0000
By Nick Giongco Before heading off to a Filipiniana event at Staples Center, Manny Pacquiao went the whole nine yards in training at the Wild Card Boxing Club. Ten days before facing Adrien Broner to defend his WBA welterweight crown in Las Vegas, Pacquiao racked up eight rounds of sparring, four apiece against Australian George […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:14:44 +0000
By Nick Giongco While getting ready to fight Manny Pacquiao on Jan. 19 in Las Vegas, Adrien Broner is also preparing to ward off two fights outside the ring. TMZ reported over the weekend that Broner has two scheduled courtroom dates on Jan. 7 (Jan. 8 in Manila) in two separate US states for allegations […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 08:33:33 +0000
By Nick Giongco Donnie Nietes doesn’t consider his landmark win over Japanese Kazuto Ioka in Macau for his fourth world crown as the most difficult and challenging in his close to 19-year career. Nietes, who acquired the World Boxing Organization (WBO) super-flyweight title with a split decision on New Year’s Eve, points to two fights […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 08:38:22 +0000
By Nick Giongco Manny Pacquiao says his near decade-long knockout spell has almost made him forget about the thrill of scoring a stoppage. Unable to post a knockout since 2009 until he brutalized Argentine Lucas Matthysse in Malaysia in July last year, Pacquiao is aiming to keep his renewed zest for ring savagery going when […]
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