Assassin faces King Kong
Two Australian-based Filipino fighters take on Thai opponents in Toowoomba, Queensland, on Saturday, March 3, according to their trainer Todd Makelim this week. Jack ‘The Assassin’ Asis, a natural featherweight who became Australian light-welterweight champion in August 2011 [...]
Men, and boys too, box for different reasons, including self-defence, physical fitness, release of energy and sometimes anger, and of course, the lure of prize money and fame. The boxing marathon (‘boxathon’) last Sunday, November 20 at the Holy Trinity Boxing Gym in Dulwich Hill, an innerwest suburb in Sydney, is an exception [...]
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World class lightweight, Filipino powerhouse Ranee ‘KO Kid’ Ganoy returned to the ring last Friday night in Melbourne on an exciting Ellis Boxing show dubbed ‘Western Showcase II’. And the ‘KO Kid’ was back with a bang in a big way [...]
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Pinoy powerhouse Ranee “KO Kid” Ganoy is set to return to the ring July 22 in Melbourne against Thai welterweight Sapapetch Sor Sakaorat, Ganoy’s manager Mike Altamura of MJA Boxing announced today [...]
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Filipino import Jack “The Assassin” Asis took just 1min 16sec to capture the Australian light-welterweight boxing title in Townsville, Queensland, on the weekend [...]
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Manny Pacquiao defended successfully his World Boxing Organization’s welterweight title after 12 rounds in a unanimous decision against Shane Mosley in Las Vegas yesterday [...]
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Explosive-punching lightweight, Ranee “KO Kid” Ganoy (31-11-2, 27 KOs), inked an exclusive managerial agreement with rising Australian boxing manager, Mike Altamura, yesterday [...]
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Australian Federal Police (AFP) raided the Bohol Boxing Stable in Sydney’s southwest on Thursday, October 21, following a Sydney Morning Herald website report on Wednesday, October 20, that a family in NSW was now under investigation for allegedly recruiting Filipino boxers to fight in Australia and ”keeping the men in slave-like conditions in a Sydney garage” [...]
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Three “fighting Pinoys” figured in a Melbourne boxing card recently, with reigning World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Asia-Pacific super-bantamweight champion Alan Jay Tuniacao, based at Liverpool NSW, scoring an emphatic unanimous decision over Indonesia’s Skak Max [...]
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Boxing promoters, trainers and fans are unanimous in calling Manny Pacquiao the greatest fighter of his time. He now stands tall with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler. And who will argue [...]
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