Cebu, Surigao del Norte amateur boxers to face off in Villamor Boxing fight card

Glendale G. Rosal 07/19/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Villamor Monthly Boxing fight card on July 29 will pit Cebuano and Surigao del Norte pugs at the Villamor Boxing Gym in Barangay Pagsabungan, Mandaue City. A total of 13 amateur bouts…

Villamor Boxing Gym: 14 amateur fights on May 20 in Consolacion Sports Complex

05/12/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Fourteen exciting amateur bouts will highlight the Villamor Boxing Gym’s monthly amateur fight card on May 20, this time at a bigger venue at the Consolacion Sports Complex, Consolacion town, north Cebu. The…

More bouts lined up for Villamor grassroots boxing tournament

Glendale G. Rosal 03/18/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines —Additional amateur bouts guarantee to spice up the Villamor Boxing Gym (VBG) amateur monthly grassroots program that will unfold tomorrow, March 20, at the VBG Gym in Barangay Pagsabungan, Mandaue City. The monthly amateur…

Edito Villamor: Giving back to boxing through his grassroots program

Glendale G. Rosal 03/09/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Edito Villamor, the former ALA Boxing Gym chief trainer has indeed come a long way in organizing a grassroots amateur boxing program in his gym in Mandaue City. On Saturday, Villamor will hold…

Sinulog sa Carmen is free for spectators — mayor

Futch Anthony Inso 01/19/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Spectators for the upcoming 50th Sinulog sa Carmen on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023, can witness the event for free. This was confirmed by Carmen Mayor Carlo Villamor in an interview over DYHP-RMN Cebu…

The search for the next UP President

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 12/06/2022

It was former Education Secretary Onofre “OD” Corpuz who told me that one of the pioneers in the establishment of banks in the Philippines is a namesake, Damasco Gorricho. He said that my surname is perhaps a…

Murder, she wrote

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 11/04/2022

The unfolding of new information on the Oct. 3 murder of broadcaster and vlogger Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa of the “Lapid Fire” radio program reads like a classic whodunit. There was the surrender and confession on Oct.…

Pagara gets new manager, eyes boxing comeback 

Glendale G. Rosal 08/20/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Former World Boxing Organization (WBO) Inter-Continental super bantamweight champion “Prince” Albert Pagara rekindled his world title dreams with a new manager and a new boxing gym based in Tayud, Lilo-an town, north Cebu. …

Nietes flies to Dubai for world title eliminator bout with Jimenez

Glendale G. Rosal 12/06/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines— The longest-reigning Filipino boxing world champion and four-division world champion Donnie “Ahas” Nietes flies to Dubai, United Arab Emirates for his WBA world super flyweight title eliminator slated on December 11 against Norbelto “Meneito”…

Boxing experts’ take on who Ancajas should fight next

Glendale G. Rosal 04/11/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Local boxing experts have contrasting opinions on who the reigning IBF world junior bantamweight champion Jerwin “Pretty Boy” Ancajas will face next after his successful title defense on Sunday, April 11, 2021, in…

Boat captain from Malapascua feels ‘pandemic’s pinch’ as fewer tourists visit island

Doris C. Bongcac 03/20/2021

MALAPASCUA ISLAND, Daanbantayan – Many of those who depend on tourism for their livelihood were badly hit when the lockdown started a year ago in March 2020. Still, people like Rey Villamor, who is from Malapascua Island…

Donnie ‘Ahas’ Nietes gears up for April 3 Dubai fight

Glendale G. Rosal 03/06/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines— If there’s a person who can tell if four-division world champion Donnie “Ahas” Nietes still has gas left in his tank, it is his trusted trainer, Edmund Villamor. Villamor and Nietes are currently gearing…

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