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(Eagle News) — Gilas Pilipinas Coach Chot Reyes on Friday, July 20, said he “stands with” the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas in respecting Fiba’s findings of its probe into the Philippines-Australia brawl on July 2. But in the same statement posted in a social media account, Reyes also denied he ever gave instructions to hurt or incite unsportsmanlike behavior. “And in my 20 years as head coach in the PBA and 7 years at the […]
(Eagle News)– Manny Pacquiao on Sunday, July 15, thanked President Rodrigo Duterte for his support after his win against Argentina’s Lucas Matthysse on Sunday, July 15. “Thank you to my president, Rodrigo Roa Duterte who is watching this fight,” Pacquiao, an ally of Duterte in the Senate, said after his win via technical knockout in the seventh round. The President flew to Malaysia to watch the highly-anticipated bout, and to meet with Malaysian Prime Minister […]
by Daniel Hicks Agence France Presse KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Manny Pacquiao weighed in Saturday comfortably under the 147-pound (67-kilogram) limit for his bid to win back the welterweight world championship against WBA champion Lucas Matthysse of Argentina. The only man to have won world titles in eight weight divisions in a glittering 23-year career, the 39-year-old Pacquiao tipped the scales at 146 pounds. The heavily tattooed Argentine world champion Matthysse played up his one-inch […]
The Philippine Games and Amusement Board on Wednesday thanked the World Boxing Organization for looking into the Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn fight on July 2, but also blamed American referee Mark Nelson for the results. “No matter what review they do, it will be hard to change the result as the referee didn’t call it close,” GAB chairman Abraham Kahlil Mitra said in a statement sent to AFP on Wednesday. According to Mitra, “The judges’ scores would have […]
