Jerry Jones (R), owner of one of the greatest teams in sports history, the Dallas Cowboys, was awarded with the honorary WBC green and gold champion …

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Bacolod City. Good day fellow boxing fans! I was lucky to catch WBO Minimumweight World Champ Donnie “Ahas” Nietes while he was in town. …

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The spectacular performance of WBC lightweight champion Edwin Valero who hammered interim champion Antonio DeMarco so badly for most of nine rounds …

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Daiki Kameda.

Benefiting from a ten day training stint and some tough sparring at the Elorde Gym in Paranaque, Japan’s Daiki Kameda has won t …

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“Fighter of the Decade” and pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao’s power is “unreal” according to conditioning expert A …

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Malcolm Tunacao of the Philippines (L) celebrates with his coach after he won the vacant bantamweight title of Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federatio …

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Six-Time World Champion Floyd Mayweather (Second From Left) speaks with members of the media on February 5, 2010 in the Super Bowl XLIV Media Center …

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIF (February 5, 2010) – STEVEN SEAGAL, one of Hollywood’s most popular box office action heroes and the star of A&E’ …

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Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire says he has to lose some weight to make the 115 pound super flyweight limit in time for his WBA Inte …

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The "Fighter of the Decade" and pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao had another good day working out at the Wild Card Gym of trainer Freddie Roach.
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Way before noon Wednesday, Rodel Mayol was already at the Wildcard Gym in deep training for his February 27th title defense against former world cha …

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2/3/10, Las Vegas,Nevada — "THE CHAMP HITS LAS VEGAS" — Nonito&\#039; The Filipino Flash&\#039; Donaire, Philippines talks with reporters during a media d …

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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday raised the Olympic incentive to 15 million pesos (340,909 U.S. dollars) for any Filipino athlete who gets a gold medal in Beijing.

Gracing part of the 37-member Beijing-bound Philippine Olympic delegation to Beijing in the presidential palace for a send-off party, Arroyo said the government has decided to set aside an additional 4.5 million pesos (102,272 U.S. dollars) as Olympic bonus to lure the country’s first Olympic gold.

According to the country’s Incentives Act, the government is set to give a 5-million-peso reward for an Olympic gold winner, 2.5 million pesos for a silver medalist and 1 million for a bronze.

However, individuals, groups, and companies have promised a combined sum of 10.5 million pesos for the gold medalist in the Beijing Games.

Wearing the Philippine Olympic delegation uniform herself, a cheering Arroyo said she wished the extra bonus would spur the athletes to bring out their potential to clinch a much-expected honour for the country. more…

For Manny Pacquiao, it’s about scale, on and off. On the scale, there is his astonishing rise from a 107-pound fighter to a challenger and favorite for the 135-pound title against David Diaz on Saturday at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay.

Off the scale, the Pacquiao story is about a rapid ascent from an impoverished upbringing to stardom for a Filipino who generates idolatry in his own country and quick hits of attention everywhere else. Any struggling boxing Web site needs only to mention Pacquiao, who can put a sudden spike in readership.

For the past couple of years – or at least since he beat Erik Morales in their first rematch on Jan. 21, 2006 – there have been no apparent limits on what Pacquiao could do or who he might fight.

Even though he is about to fight at lightweight for the first time against the tough and likable Diaz, speculation about Pacquiao-Oscar De La Hoya at 147 pounds still circulates. It is talk and only talk, Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said last week in a conference call.

“It’s a great thing to conjure up and talk about,” Arum said. “But it’s not very realistic.”

At least, it wasn’t last week. But next week it could be very realistic, depending on whether Pacquiao can continue to make it look as if anything is possible on any scale.

The Diaz fight, a Pacquiao test flight, puts him at a crossroads, intriguing in many ways.

Pacquiao is fighting at a heavier weight for the first time in his first bout since a so-so performance in a debatable decision in March over Juan Manuel Marquez.

Diaz, the World Boxing Council’s champion, has been dismissed in several corners as pedestrian, a mere speed bump in the way of Pacquiao’s path to bigger things. That’s not fair to the determined Diaz, a 1996 Olympian who has paid his dues.

Diaz, who has about 30 aunts, uncles and cousins in the Valley, knows what he is up against.

The good – perhaps bad for Diaz – is that Pacquiao sounds as if he is serious about a new challenge.

Other than a flurry of stories a few months ago, there have been no repeated reports of Pacquiao being less than diligent in training. Silence on that front indicates a prepared Pacquiao.

In any case, Home Box Office’s pay-per-view fight represents a decisive date in a career that has Pacquiao in position to prove he deserves outright ownership of a spot vacated by Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s retirement.

It’s at the top of another scale: pound-for-pound.