Mike T. Limpag
131 articles · Sunstar Cebu
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Exclusive: Active player looking for conspirators to fix PFL matches
The fledgling and struggling Philippine Football League may find itself in a match-fixing scandal after an active player has been discovered to be looking for conspirators willing to fix matches. The player…
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The night Cebu fans made Boom-Boom cry and other ALA tales
At the height of his popularity, Rey “Boom-Boom” Bautista could do no wrong in the eyes of boxing fans. It was a pleasure hearing the crowd go “Boom! Boom!” with every Bautista…
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To Sir ALA, thank you for the memories
It was at Casino Español 13 years ago that I first saw Antonio L. Aldeguer got emotional. It was the Sportswriters Association of Cebu-San Miguel Sports Awards and Z Gorres, one of…
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Limpag: Can Pacquiao keep his focus?
One guy in the Pacman camp once described his entourage as one big distraction. There are just way too many people, some with conflicting duties. But the guy said that Pacman seemed…
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Limpag: Marcial’s advantage
Olympian boxer Eumir Marcial is in the news again but for the wrong reasons just a few weeks before the Tokyo Olympics. Marcial, who receives P43,000 a month from the Philippine Sports…
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Limpag: Nietes’s comeback fight
When I saw a photo of Donnie Nietes a month or two into the first lockdown, my immediate thought was, this was a guy who’s enjoying retirement. “Pang lightweight na,” said a…
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Limpag: Casimero vs. Inoue, Act 1
“I’d just let my manager decide,” is a common answer of Filipino boxers when asked if they’d like to fight a certain boxer. I think it’s because they are afraid to sound…
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Limpag: Donnie and Pacman
A FEW days before the barnyard dung hit the fan, SunStar Superbalita sports editor Jun Migallen posted a photo of him and former world champion Donnie Nietes and my first thought was…
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Limpag: Magsayo?s return
THE last time I saw Mark Magsayo up close, he left no doubt on the thousands who saw his match that he was going to be a future world champion. Matched against…
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Limpag: Jhack the Olympian
I had a chance to join Ed Picson of Abap the other night, together with Philippine Sports Commission bigwigs Charles Maxey of Davao and Ramon Fernandez of Cebu and Gerald Ca?ete of…
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Limpag: Deifying Pacquiao
WHEN Manny Pacquiao knocked out Lucas Matthysse in Kuala Lumpur last Sunday, there was no other perfect narrative than that of a champion, whom many have written off, somehow channeling his old…
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Limpag: Dissecting Pacquiao
AFTER Manny Pacquiao?s unexpected knockout win last Sunday against Lucas Mathhysse, there was an interesting thread on social media about separating Manny the boxer from Manny the politician. Some agreed, some strongly…
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Limpag: Losing interest in Pacman
IT used to be that everyone plus their karaoke-loving off-tune neighbor would be airing a Pacquiao fight on a Sunday and the most common question during fight week would be, ?Where are…
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Limpag: ALA calls Magsayo?s bluff
AT the height of Mark Magsayo?s controversial bolting from ALA Promotions, the wife of the boxer, who is now his manager, dared ALA Promotions to show a contract between the two boxers…
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Limpag: The curse of ALA fighters
IT?S something that has become rather common in the past few years, starting with Rey Bautista. An ALA fighter loses abroad and armchair experts are quick to blame the trainers and managers…
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Limpag: Leadership change
What a difference a change in the leadership of the Games and Amusement Board has been. Ever since Abraham Mitra was appointed chairman, the agency that used to be known for a…
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Limpag: Donnie?s dream
MY only goal then was to keep the title. I never expected to be a champion this long. That?s what reigning IBF flyweight champion Donnie Nietes said during an informal gathering with…
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Limpag: 10 years a champ
TEN years ago, Donnie Nietes faced then undefeated Pornsawan Porpramook for the vacant WBO minimumweight title at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino. Cebu City wasn?t as flood-prone then, Ayala only had the…
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Limpag: Budler befuddled in ?cooking? claim?
AFTER going at each other for 12 rounds of intense exchanges, challenger Hekkie Budler took Milan Melindo?s hand and raised it. He waved to the crowd and pointed to Melindo as if…
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Limpag: A gov?t funded Pacquiao fight? No way
COLOR me a party-pooper but I?m not in favor of having Manny Pacquiao fight his swan song in the country. And I am certainly not amused that we have the DOT secretary…