Archive for the ‘Pinoy Records’ Category

By Tim Starks | Queensberry-rules.com

To look at Pacland over the weekend, you’d think apocalypse had been visited upon the Philippines. A series of boxing matches that very weekend prompted the dour mood. Featherweight Bernabe Concepcion and junior featherweight Eden Sonsona lost by knockout. Flyweight Brian Viloria won, but in a closer-than-expected decision over a journeyman. Only junior bantamweight Nonito Donaire won impressively, albeit against a hopeless opponent. Read the rest of this entry »

By Leo Reyes | Bleach Report

Fighter of the Decade Manny Pacquiao lost to Floyd Mayweather, Jr in Forbes list of world richest athletes according to the latest rankings released by Forbes Magazine.

In the rankings, Forbes placed Mayweather as the second richest athlete in the world with $65 million while Tiger woods was declared the richest with a total revenue of $105 million. Read the rest of this entry »

By Granville Ampong | Examiner

Exclusive with Filipino Celebrity Headlines Examiner – Any attack on the 15th Congress of the Philippines should center on the doors behind it. As known to many, “any public official is only as good and as old as they promise,” one man’s pentel brush pen from the far end of the hinterlands has written. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Manny Pacquiao should come out smoking when he receives his Fighter of the Decade award from the prestigious Boxing Writers Association of America on Friday evening at the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan.

No less than Joe Frazier, the former world heavyweight champion otherwise known as “Smokin Joe,” will present the award to the 31-year-old Filipino champion who, as far as the BWAA is concerned, is second to none this decade. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Manny Pacquiao flies to New York today to receive his Fighter of the Decade award from the Boxing Writers Association of America, and take a much-deserved family vacation off the waters of Mexico, on board a 120-foot yacht. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Maureen Garcia Englehardt, one of two surviving daughters of former world middleweight boxing champion Ceferino Garcia, will claim the P100,000 check and trophy that the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) set aside for the late Biliran fighter’s heirs in line with his posthumous enshrinement in the Sports Hall of Fame. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – For sports analyst Joaquin “Quinito” Henson, Manny Pacquiao’s character in and out of the boxing ring is reminiscent of the first Filipino to ever become a world champion: Francisco “Pancho Villa” Gilledo.

In an interview with abs-cbnNEWS.com, Henson said that very much like Pacquiao, Gilledo was known for his “never-say-die attitude” in the ring and his remarkable punching power. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Nine athletes and the 1954 Philippine basketball team will be formally enshrined in the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame tonight in a historic ceremony with Chief Justice Reynato Puno as guest of honor at the Maynilad Hall of the Manila Hotel. Read the rest of this entry »

It will be a night of veneration and reminiscing when the first batch of Filipino sporting icons is enshrined into the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday evening at the Maynilad Hall of the Manila Hotel. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Twelve-time national champion Grandmaster (GM) Rogelio “Joey” Antonio Jr. will attempt to set a Guinness record by facing 600 chess opponents in the Pinoy Ironman: 1 vs 600 simultaneous chess exhibition in June.

The event will take place at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium in Manila on June 21. Read the rest of this entry »

Nine of the greatest Filipino athletes and a team that took the country to unprecedented heights will be enshrined to the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame in a glittering ceremony on May 5 at the Maynilad Hall of the Manila Hotel.

Late boxing greats Gabriel “Flash” Elorde, Francisco “Pancho Villa” Guilledo, Ceferino Garcia and Jose “Cely” Villanueva and Anthony Villanueva, track and field stalwarts Miguel White and Teofilo Yldefonso, swimmer Teofilo Yldefonso, cager Carlos Loyzaga and the Philippine Team that won bronze in the 1954 World Basketball Championships make up the distinguished first batch of the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame. Read the rest of this entry »

The tallest PBA player is Edward Joseph Feihl of TJ Hotdogs. Feihl who stands seven feet tall is half German. With his height, Feihl could bang bodies with the centers in the NBA. Feihl was part of the Philippine Centennial Team, which won third place in the 1998 Asian Games. Read the rest of this entry »

Eugene Philip Amano (born on March 1, 1982 in Manila, Philippines) is an American Football offensive lineman for the Tennessee Titans.

Amano’s family moved to San Diego when he was 2 months old. He started playing football at highschool landing a scholarship in at Southeast Missouri State. He spent his first 4 season in the NFL as a backup. Last season Amano became a full time starter for the Titans.

He attended Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego, California, where he was an all-conference performer as an offensive and defensive lineman during his senior season and also lettered in basketball and track.

Amano late into his senior year had no scholarship offers and planned to walk-on to either the University of New Mexico or San Diego State University. But when SE Missouri State called one of his high school coaches about players on his team, he sold the recruiters on Amano.

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It is a real challenge to come up with a list of the country’s best athletes, both past and present. Fortunately, sports institutions like the Philippine Sports Commission, the Philippine Olympic Committee and the Philippine Sportswriters Association have named several athletes in their Hall of Fame or sorts. Read the rest of this entry »

Filipino athletes are known for being quick and sturdy. What they lack in height, they make up for in speed and tenacity. They move swiftly and with grace and strive for focus and precision in movement.

They are born tacticians, who carefully calculate speed, motion, force and space to determine the target. Although not as disciplined or as scientific as western athletes, they have agility to compensate.

When lacking in experience and training, they have their loved ones to inspire them. They fight like they dance, to the tune of their avid and ever loyal Filipino fans who shout like a harmonic orchestra. Hooray! What a sight to behold a Filipino being crowned as a champion!

Athletics Champions

Athletics has produced a number of gold medals for the Philippines in the Far Eastern Games before the war. It also gave the country two bronze medals in the Olympics and 11 gold medals in the Asian Games.

In the 1920s, two Filipinos were among the world’s fastest men. In the 1930s, a Filipino was considered Asia’s best athlete. From the 1950s to the 1980s, Filipino women were among the fastest in Asia. Read the rest of this entry »