Mayweather vs Canelo schedule public media tour; free to boxing fans

Two of boxing’s current superstars, Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, will hit the road starting Monday, June 24 for an 11 city media tour in two countries to promote their upcoming world championship fight in Las Vegas on September 14.

Let the hype begin.

All of the tour dates are open to the public. The specific locations and times haven’t been announced as of publication. We’ll update them as they become available.

Monday, June 24 - New York City

Tuesday, June 25 - Washington, DC

Wednesday, June 26 - Grand Rapids, Michigan (AM) / Chicago, Illinois (PM)

Thursday, June 27 - Atlanta

Friday, June 28 - Miami

Sunday, June 30 - Mexico City

Monday, July 1 - San Antonio (AM) / Houston (PM)

Tuesday, July 2 - Phoenix (AM) / Los Angeles (PM)

Grand Rapids is Mayweather’s hometown, hence the reason for the stop on the tour. The location is rumored to be Ottawa High School, which Mayweather attended and where he held a news conference in 2007.

This is by far the biggest boxing media event to ever hit Phoenix. San Antonio, Texas is coming on as a major boxing venue; thousands came out to see the weigh-in for Alvarez against Austin Trout in April. It’s good to see for the health of the sport.

Fight fans, if you’ve never been to a big championship prize fight in person or any of these media events, do yourself a favor. Get your friends together, pack the kids in the car and get there. Not everyone can afford a ringside seat, or even put down the money for pay-per-view. This is a way to see two great boxers and world class athletes up close with your own eyes, not through a TV camera. Mayweather is the world’s best paid athlete; Alvarez is arguably one of Mexico’s greatest sports stars. Both are undefeated.

Admission to each stop will be free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. People line up several hours in advance to see the free public weigh-ins, so don’t be late.

Often the fighters, trainers, other team members and famous friends as well as other boxers who happen to show up will pose for photos and sign autographs for fans. And even though most of the news conference remarks are usually pretty well scripted out, sometimes the fighters start getting under each other’s skin after a few stops. Maybe someone’s in the mood for a little trash talk. Things might get a little tense and boil over during the faceoffs and poses. You never know.

Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions, Mayweather Promotions and Showtime hope the tour will follow in the footsteps of the successful 11-city media tour staged in 2007 for De La Hoya’s bout with Mayweather. The fight set nearly every money record in boxing that still stands:

    Biggest payday in boxing history for two fighters in one bout. Mayweather made $25 million and De La Hoya made $52 million.
    Ticket sales hit a live gate record of $19 million at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, the same venue as the Mayweather-Alvarez fight.
    The fight broke all pay-per-view records, with 2.45 million buys and $136,853,700 in U.S. revenue.
    The fight made a total of $165 million gross revenue, the richest fight ever.
    De La Hoya became the all-time leader in pay-per-view sales with this fight, 12.8 million buys over his career.

De La Hoya says he wouldn’t mind a bit if his records were broken by Mayweather and Alvarez, and why should he? As the promoter he gets a big bite of this rich pie. 
 “Gayle Falkenthal for Communities at WashingtonTimes.com” is credited for the story.
 (Source)


Is Juan Manuel Lopez the Last Hope of Puerto Rican Boxing?

Juan Manuel Lopez was supposed to be Puerto Rico’s next big thing, the next fighter from the Isla del Encanto to represent the Boricua red, white, and blue at the highest level of the sport. He was the next in line, heir to a throne that saw stars such as Miguel Cotto, Felix Trinidad, Wilfredo Gomez, Carlos Ortiz, and Hector Camacho win world respect for the Caribbean island.
Now defeated and deflated, Lopez (33-2, 30 KOs) finds himself with the tough task of attempting a return to glory this Saturday against the mega-talented and mega-deadly undefeated Mexican American rising star, Mikey Garcia (31-0, 26 KOs) at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. Most fans and experts regard the task of upending the 25-year-old reigning WBO featherweight champ to be all but impossible and see Lopez’s main stage rebirth as highly improbable.
At one point in time, though, the heavy-handed, charismatic “Juanma” Lopez sure looked to be on the road to stardom. In 2008, just a couple of weeks shy of his twenty-fifth birthday, he destroyed veteran Mexican tough man, Daniel Ponce de Leon in just one round to win the WBO junior featherweight title.
The one-sided victory lead the way for a five-defense title reign before Lopez moved up to featherweight to beat defending WBO titlist, Steven Luevano in early 2010. After just two defenses, though, Juanma ran into old school Mexican pug, Orlando Salido and was stopped in eight rounds after a thrilling back and forth war in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
It was a shocking upset for someone with such a career trajectory and seemingly unlimited potential for growth. But for the previous two years, even as Lopez’s resume grew thick with quality wins, there were signs that Lopez was allowing himself to become vulnerable.
A tougher-than-expected near loss to journeyman Rogers Mtagwa and a couple of flat performances gave credence to rumors that Lopez’s nightlife was interfering with his preparation. The Salido TKO stopped Lopez’s rise to the top and forced him into efforts to simply stay afloat.
A second TKO loss to Salido one year later, also in Puerto Rico, officially ended Lopez’s status as a main stage, elite fighter. Immediately after the loss, Lopez accused referee Roberto Ramirez of having a gambling problem that influenced his decision to stop the fight. The one year suspension issued by the Puerto Rican boxing commission for that post-fight comment killed off any remaining career momentum Lopez had and put his professional life into limbo.
The fall of Juanma was a bitter pill to swallow for many Puerto Rican fight fans, who have been living through a significant drought in recent years.
At this point, the biggest Puerto Rican presence in the sport belongs to junior welterweight champ, Danny Garcia, a fighter born and bred in Philadelphia and as mainstream American as apple pie.
The wildly popular Miguel Cotto had managed to gain a measure of revenge against hated one-time conqueror, Antonio Margarito, but then fell decisively to Floyd Mayweather and Austin Trout.
Despite high hopes for Wilfredo Vazquez Jr., the second generation fighter would lose to Jorge Arce, Nonito Donaire, and Yasutaka Ishimoto en route to proving that, while talented, he’s simply not an elite talent.
Former world champ, Kermit Cintron fell to pieces, going 1-3-1 in his last five.
Roman “Rocky” Martinez managed to win a vacant super featherweight world title and become champ once again, but has also shown himself to be an infinitely vulnerable titlist with nothing but split decisions and a draw since taking the belt.
20-something prospects, Luis Orlando del Valle and Thomas Dulorme were schooled by Vic Darchinyan and Luis Carlos Abregu, respectively, while the 23-year-old Jonathan Gonzalez barely managed to score a draw against Serhiy Dzinziruk last September.
Most tragic of all, though, was news of the murder of Hector Camacho in late 2012. Deeply loved and often fiercely hated, “Macho” was a legendary figure in Puerto Rican boxing and may have been the most charismatic presence in the history of the Boricua fight scene.
While a handful of young prospects hold the key to a Puerto Rican boxing recovery, nothing would mean more to the Caribbean fight capital and its followers than a return to glory for Juan Manuel Lopez.
Still popular and charismatic, Lopez, now 29, can also still bang and has stopped both of his tune-up opponents en route to this Saturday’s clash with Garcia.
Not only will this bout offer Lopez a chance to reclaim the exact same WBO title he lost to Salido, but it also gives him a chance to gain a measure of indirect revenge by beating the man who crushed the man who beat him.
For Puerto Rican fight fans, a Lopez win means a chance to see their flag once again held aloft after a major world title win and, possibly, the end of their unbearable boxing dry spell. (Source)


Boxing - Ex-champion Page arrested for bank robbery

James Page’s sad story continues after the ex-welterweight champion was arrested on bank robbery charges.
Page was a solid welterweight in the mid-to-late 1990s who held the WBA title for a while from 1998 until he was stripped in 2000. On the surface, he was a talented easy-going guy who always smiled and had a nice word for a familiar face.
Trouble, though, always bubbled beneath the surface with Page. Part of Page’s back story when he was champion was that he was trying to turn his life around after fighting drug issues and a chequered past that included two jail stints.
His career ended after a 2001 loss in Las Vegas to Andrew “Six Heads” Lewis. Shortly thereafter, Page was convicted of a bank robbery in Atlanta and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
When Page was released last year, he announced his intention to fight again, at the advanced age of 42. His return was precipitated by the same one that brings so many boxers back, a need for money and no other means of earning a living.
He lost his comeback fight on Nov. 17, when he was knocked out in the second round by Rahman Mustafa Yusobov. But earlier this year, the FBI began to look at him as a suspect in a string of back robberies in Walnut Creek, Pleasanton, Antioch, Oakley, Lafayette and Emeryville, Calif.
He was arrested on Monday in Oakland, according to the San Jose Mercury News, bringing his story, sadly, full circle. Page spoke to Mercury News reporter David DeBolt in jail on Tuesday, though he wouldn’t discuss his case.
It’s something I got to fight. I’ll have my day in court.
In the video interview above, which he gave on September 7 while training in Oakland, he said he wanted to get straight so he could regain a welterweight title.
Anyone who follows boxing even a little knew that was a ludicrous thought. At 42 years old and after nearly 12 years off, it would have been miraculous if Page had been able to beat low-skilled fighters, let alone return to championship form.
Commissions have to begin taking a more difficult stance when considering license applications from older fighters such as Page, who are looking to return to the sport after a lengthy absence.
There is little barrier to entry for a potential boxer getting a license. If a fighter can pass the medical tests and show at least a modicum of skill, he’s generally allowed to fight. The lack of ability would keep the same athlete out of, say, the NBA or the NFL, but in boxing, there is always a low-level opponent to fight.
Commissioners generally approve the applications of fighters like Page, even though it rarely turns out well. Page was knocked out in the second round by Yusobov, who entered the fight with Page with an 8-9 record.
The good news is, Page wasn’t seriously injured in that bout. The bad news, of course, is that the FBI believes he’s returned to the life of crime that has kept him behind bars much of his adult life.
Hopefully, though, Page’s case will at least cause athletic commissions to be more cautious for licensing fighters in similar situations. Denying a license would at least prevent a potential in-ring tragedy.
Out-of-the ring, boxing doesn’t provide any sort of safety net for those who struggle to adapt to the real world. It’s a problem that’s not going to go away any time soon. (Source)


Parker delivers second round KO

New Zealand’s Joseph Parker announced his arrival in the ranks of respected heavyweights last night with a second round knockout which pitched durable South African heavyweight Francois Botha into retirement.
After the fight, Botha acknowledged that his 62-fight, 23-year career was over - though he is not quite done with boxing yet.
He has exhibition fights planned with former world champions Evander Holyfield (in Tanzania) and Mike Tyson (in the Congo) to raise money for children’s charity and said last night that the Parker fight would be his last competitive effort.
“He [Parker] proved it tonight,” said Botha when asked if Parker was a better boxer than Sonny Bill Williams, who defeated Botha in controversial circumstances in their fight recently. “He is much, much better and he has a really good future. You know, if I was going to keep boxing, I had to beat Sonny Bill and I had to beat Baby Joseph - but he retired me instead.”
Perhaps the most intriguing thing about Parker was his ice-cold calm when he arrived in the ring last night. There were no obvious signs of nerves or stress, unusual in a 21-year-old and Parker put it down to Team Parker and his mates picking on an unusual way to prepare for a fight: “We just put some music on and did some dancing.

New Zealand’s Joseph Parker announced his arrival in the ranks of respected heavyweights last night with a second round knockout which pitched durable South African heavyweight Francois Botha into retirement.
After the fight, Botha acknowledged that his 62-fight, 23-year career was over - though he is not quite done with boxing yet.
He has exhibition fights planned with former world champions Evander Holyfield (in Tanzania) and Mike Tyson (in the Congo) to raise money for children’s charity and said last night that the Parker fight would be his last competitive effort.
“He [Parker] proved it tonight,” said Botha when asked if Parker was a better boxer than Sonny Bill Williams, who defeated Botha in controversial circumstances in their fight recently. “He is much, much better and he has a really good future. You know, if I was going to keep boxing, I had to beat Sonny Bill and I had to beat Baby Joseph - but he retired me instead.”
Perhaps the most intriguing thing about Parker was his ice-cold calm when he arrived in the ring last night. There were no obvious signs of nerves or stress, unusual in a 21-year-old and Parker put it down to Team Parker and his mates picking on an unusual way to prepare for a fight: “We just put some music on and did some dancing.
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It’s a really good way to prepare for a fight and I found it made me relaxed and happy. I was a bit nervous about not being nervous but it was a good result.”
Trainer Kevin Barry, delighted with the outcome, said: “He was so calm and composed and in the dressing room, he was listening to me and focusing and staying cool and staying with the game plan and, when you see that in a 21-year-old, you know you are seeing maturity beyond his years. I thought it was a tremendous performance.”
Most had picked Parker to win, courtesy of his long reach and handspeed, but that prediction came with the caveat that he would be unlikely to knock out the tough Botha, who has footed it with some of the world’s great heavyweights in a long career.
That’s how it looked after a largely quiet first round where Parker was still finding his range and the wily Botha was slipping punches, leaning back, with clever head movement.
That all changed in the second round. Botha came on strongly for a time but one flashing combination showed Parker’s danger and speed. When he caught Botha with a right hand, the 44-year-old wobbled and Parker launched a blistering attack which ended only when the referee called matters off.
It was a fine, if brief, display by Parker which demonstrated all the potential he has, beginning a professional career which is beginning to flower just as New Zealand’s best known heavyweight, David Tua, is on the comeback trail.
Tua would love to have the speed of Parker’s punches and Parker has definitely put down a marker. The next boxers approached to take him on will look at him carefully.
The night had started well for the Botha family, with Francois’ son Marcel, 23, making his professional debut against Jeremy Sebastian, brother of Australian singer Guy, in their welterweight clash over four rounds. Sebastian probably won the first round but Botha started to find his range in the second and third rounds and won a unanimous points decision, egged on by father Francois from the sidelines.
Celebrities from the world of sport and media were among the crowd of about 2000 at the black tie dinner at Trusts Arena. On the guest list were former Warriors stalwarts Monty Betham and Wairangi Koopu, Millie Holmes, former All Black and Blues captain Ali Williams, team-mate Anthony Boric, Australian underworld celebrity Mick Gatto, Teulia Blakely, TV’s Shortland Street actors Benjamin Mitchell and Pua Magasiva, Laura McGoldrick and Gretchen Hawkesby. There was also a large representation from radio, there to see the The Rock v Mai FM clash between Bryce Casey and Nickson Clark.
Gatto, a former top-line boxer, was acquitted by a Supreme Court jury of the 2004 murder of a Melbourne hitman. Last year, he survived a A$10 million tax bill to sit ringside with some of Melbourne gangland’s biggest names at Shane Cameron’s bout against Danny Green.
He also drew criticism last month after it was revealed he had won a boxing licence allowing him to stage bouts in Victoria. Victorian premier, Dr Denis Napthine, said he didn’t want Gatto running boxing events in his state.
Fight For Life promoters - Duco Events, who staged last night’s bout - had been hopeful of persuading Gatto into the ring at some stage and maybe that prospect was a little closer with the appearance of Gatto last night, though the word is that Gatto’s 57-year-old knees may preclude a comeback, even for Fight For Life.
On the undercard, Australian late call-up Arlene Blencowe surprised by beating 40-year-old former world champion Daniella Smith for the vacant women’s WIBA light welterweight world crown. The surprise extended to Blencowe herself who made a tearful speech of thanks at the bout’s end, only her third fight.
RESULTS:
On the undercard, the bouts were decided as follows:
•           Marcel Botha (South Africa) defeated Jeremy Sebastian (Australia) - welterweight, unanimous decision.
•           Sam Rapira (NZ) defeated Viliami Taofi (Tonga) - light heavyweight, referee stopped contest, rd 1.
•           Daniella Smith (NZ) lost to Arlene Blencoe (Australia) - women’s WIBA light welterweight world title, unanimous decision.
•           Bryce Casey (The Rock) defeated Nickson Clark (Mai FM), unanimous decision.
•           Jordan Tuigamala (NZ) defeated Joey Allen (NZ) - super middleweight, unanimous decision.
•           Colin Lane lost to Matthew Wood (dwarf boxing) - unanimous decision


Mexico vs Puerto Rico: A boxing rivalry

One of the best national rivalries in boxing, of course, is Mexico versus Puerto Rico. Many trace the birth of the rivalry to a 1934 bantamweight championship bout in which Puerto Rico’s Sixto Escobar became the first world champion from the Caribbean island when he knocked out Mexico’s Rodolfo Casanova. Since then, there have been numerous memorable clashes between fighters from each country.
Among the most memorable are these epic battles: Puerto Rican Wilfredo Gomez’s fifth-round TKO of Carlos Zarate to defend the junior featherweight title (1978); Mexican Salvador Sanchez’s eighth-round knockout of Gomez to retain the featherweight title (1981); Gomez stopping Lupe Pintor in the 14th round in defense of the junior featherweight title (1982); and Mexican legend Julio Cesar Chavez’s 11th-round TKO of Edwin “Chapo” Rosario to win the lightweight title (1987), then a defense against Hector Camacho (1992).
If you add Mexican-Americans to the equation, you can’t leave out Puerto Rican Felix Trinidad outpointing Oscar De La Hoya in their controversial welterweight unification fight (1999) and Trinidad’s 12th-round knockout of Fernando Vargas to unify junior middleweight belts (2000).
Although I covered Trinidad-Vargas, the most significant fights in the rivalry in my time on the boxing beat are the memorable bouts between Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto and Mexico’s Antonio Margarito.
“It’s one of the best rivalries, and it’s great to be part of the rivalry,” Cotto said before the first fight. “This is another chapter, and it’s good for us. We want to make this fight at the level of those in the past. Everybody knows about the rivalry. Now it is me against Margarito. This fight will add another shot to the rivalry.”
Boy, did they.
The Cotto-Margarito fights had an intensity like no others, and that was even before anybody suspected that Margarito may have cheated by wearing loaded hand wraps in their first violent fight, an 11th-round knockout win for Margarito in 2008 in which he won a welterweight title in Las Vegas.
“If you put a Puerto Rican boxer in with a Mexican boxer, you will have a good fight,” Cotto said before meeting Margarito for the first time.
Usually, that’s exactly the case, and Cotto and Margarito waged a thrilling fight, which had appropriately been titled “The Battle” in the buildup to the pay-per-view.
Much of the discussion in the prefight hype was centered on the great Puerto Rico-Mexico rivalry—a Mexican and Puerto Rican have fought for a world title more than 60 times—and the fight more than lived up to it.
“I have people coming up to me all the time to talk about it,” said Margarito, speaking about the rivalry before the first fight. “It’s a thing of pride, which I feel myself. But the important thing is the fight between us. We’ll be up in the ring and, yes, we carry our countries behind us and, yes, people come up to me and say, ‘Hey, do this for the country.’ I feel it. I say I will take this belt back to my country.”
It was only well after the fact that Cotto and many others suspected that Margarito had worn loaded wraps in the fight because it was before his next bout, against Shane Mosley, that he was caught trying to enter the ring wearing illegal wraps coated in a plaster-like substance.
The stage was set, obviously, for an eventual Cotto-Margarito rematch. After Margarito had his license revoked and didn’t fight for 16 months, he came back for a tune-up fight and then got destroyed by Manny Pacquiao, but the lure of a second fight with Cotto was still there.
The second meeting, in December 2011, only deepened the rivalry between the fighters and the countries, given the overwhelming bad blood between Cotto and Margarito. This time they fought on Cotto’s turf—New York’s Madison Square Garden—where his fans were out in force. And in one of the most bitter revenge fights in history, Cotto hammered Margarito’s surgically repaired right eye and stopped him in the 10th round for a deeply satisfying victory.
The passion that Cotto, Margarito and their fans brought to the two fights—built largely on nationalism, which has always been important in boxing—was as good as it gets. (Source)


Despite losses, hard-hitting Juan Manuel Lopez remains a boxing attraction

There are a number of boxers who, despite the best efforts of their promoters and those who stand to make money off their success and popularity, fail to fulfill their lofty expectations.
They are, though, fun, entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable boxers to watch, even if they never reach the ascendant heights predicted for them.
Amir Khan, the British welterweight contender and 2004 Olympic silver medalist, is one such fighter. Eight years into his professional career, no sane person would rank Khan alongside the elite British fighters in history, but he remains a fun guy to watch and regularly engages in compelling bouts.
Juan Manuel Lopez is another boxer who fits that category. Lopez, who will meet Mikey Garcia on Saturday for the WBC featherweight title in an HBO broadcast from American Airlines Center in Dallas, hasn’t quite lived up to the expectations that were set for him as he began his career in 2005.
Oh, Lopez is 33-2 with 30 knockouts and has won world titles at super bantamweight and featherweight. By any measure, those are the numbers of a successful athlete.
But early in Lopez’s career, he was deemed an heir to the throne previously held by legendary Puerto Rican fighters such as Felix Trinidad, Miguel Cotto, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfred Benitez and Carlos Ortiz, among many others.
He was to be the island’s next great star, the conquering hero who gathered international acclaim for his feats in the biggest matches of his era.
It never quite worked out that way, though Puerto Ricans seem to share a much deeper personal connection with the effervescent and outgoing Lopez than they ever did for the far more accomplished but far more dour Cotto.
Defensive deficiencies and a questionable chin, though, have conspired to limit Lopez’s greatness and probably will deny him a spot in the International Boxing Hall of Fame when he’s done. Those two weaknesses are likely going to prevent him from racking up the kinds of quality wins that build a Hall of Fame resume.
It’s easy, though, to write off a guy once it becomes obvious that he’s not going to be the next Mayweather or the next Robinson or the next Ali or Leonard.
But even if Lopez fails to match the storied accomplishments of his legendary countryman, it doesn’t take away from the fact that he’s one of the game’s most entertaining fighters.
Lopez lost twice to Orlando Salido, and Garcia manhandled Salido, so logic would suggest Garcia would manhandle Lopez, as well. And he might.
Lopez, though, brushes off such talk and attributes the results to style differences.
“Salido and I love to go at it, have a war,” Lopez said. “Mikey is more of a counter puncher. Either way, it was a great fight and I congratulate him for that win. Different fighters and different styles, anything can happen and anyone can win. There is no way to tell from one fight to the next who will win. I feel good about it. I think Salido was pretty beat up when he faced Garcia, and I think Salido was fresher when I got him.”
Lopez ultimately didn’t have the strength, power and resolve that Salido did, and that led to two losses by stoppage. However, Lopez did impart plenty of damage on Salido and he’s correct when he says that Garcia faced a lesser version of Salido than he did.
Garcia, though, is a far smarter and more versatile fighter than Salido ever dreamed of being. In Salido’s ideal plan, the opponent meets him in the center of the ring and trades punches until one or the other can’t take it any longer.
There is plenty of nuance to Garcia’s game, and he’s not so easy to hit. But no less an authority than Brandon Rios, a super lightweight who is moving to welterweight later this year to fight Manny Pacquiao, said Garcia (31-0, 26 KOs) has hit him harder than anyone he’s ever faced.
That’s a big issue for Lopez, because he’s shown a tendency to become drained during fights and, as a result, becomes more vulnerable to power as a bout drags on.
Lopez, though, is optimistic. He enters the bout as refreshed as he’s been in a major match since he blasted out Daniel Ponce de Leon in the first round in 2008 to win the WBO super bantamweight title.
He was suspended for a year by the Puerto Rican commission foralleging after his second loss to Salido that referee Roberto Ramirez Sr. was gambling on fights.
Since he returned in February, he’s had two soft-touch opponents who provided little more than a gloried sparring match.
On Saturday, that time off will come in handy, he insists.
“Without a doubt, ever since I started boxing professionally, I have had one fight after another, with a lot of tough fights mixed in there, and I never took any time off,” Lopez said. “So it was good, even though I didn’t want it that way, but there is a silver lining in everything. It was good for my body. Now I have come back and I feel good.”
He’s a decided underdog, and is no longer the darling of Top Rank’s stable. He’s probably never going to move alongside Trinidad as one of Puerto Rico’s greatest legends.
That’s OK, though. The Juan Manuel Lopez who has fought 35 times previously is plenty good enough to watch.
Just because he’ll likely never become a superstar isn’t reason to forget about him and move on to the next big thing.
Lopez has too many great fights in him to make that mistake. (Source)


Pacquiao to mount nat’l boxing tourney

Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao will launch a national boxing program, the Manny Pacquiao national championships, aimed at discovering potential boxing champions all over the country.
Pacquiao, who was re-elected congressman of Sarangani province during the May 13 elections, is reportedly keen on launching the program to help tap young talents from the countryside as part of his continuing outreach efforts.
Former North Cotabato Gov. Emmanuel Piñol said a monthly boxing tourney will be held in Metro Manila, featuring fighters from eight boxing clubs in the country who will compete in eight weight categories.
The matches, according to Piñol, are to be aired weekly by a major television network with Pacquiao himself hosting the event, organized with support from Raymundo “Jeff” de Guzman.
Negotiations are now reportedly underway among Pacquiao’s camp with the management of the Solaire Resort & Casino, the possible venue of the tournaments, and GMA television network, which is to air the sports show.
Winners in Pacquiao’s boxing show shall be awarded with a Manny Pacquiao Trophy and a cash grant of P100,000 each.
Only fighters who have not won national, regional or world titles, not over 28 years of age, can participate in the tournament, Piñol said.
The Pacquiao boxing matches are expected to be launched by the last week of July with Pacquiao himself hosting the show at ringside, Piñol said. (Source)


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