Antonio Santiago
23 articles · RingsideReport.com
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Mayweather-Canelo: The Event
Sometimes boxing fans await for a fight for decades, and it does not happen at all (cases in point: Dempsey vs Wills, Tyson vs Foreman, Lewis vs Bowe, Tyson vs Bowe), other…
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Book Review: Boxing, A Worldwide Record of Bouts and Boxers
Some books are so good, it? sad to finish reading them and write their review. On that line, soon I have review coming on books about college boxing and world champions Joe…
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Hey, Floyd and Manny: Do Boxing a Favor and Fight Already!
It?s a funny thing that occurred to me today as I was reading my friend Clay Moyle?s excellent book, Sam Langford, Boxing?s Greatest Uncrowned Champion: back in the very old days, boxers…
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Manny Pacquiao: Thank You for Saving Boxing
I have to be honest here. I stopped following boxing because it wasn?t fun anymore and then I heard of some Filipino fighter causing a stir and it forced me to get…
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Boxing: Much Room for Improvement
I was appalled recently to read on the Playboy Magazine?s Advisor section, that one reader called boxing dead! The reader argues that MMA and UFC and other types of combat sports are…
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An Open Letter to Oscar De La Hoya & Genaro Hernandez
On September 9, 1995, the world of boxing stopped as it put its collective eyes over a ring erected at the legendary Caesar?s Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. That night, the highly…
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Manny Pacquiao: Can He Become a Bigger Star?
When a person has it all and said person?s birthday is around, the perennial question is: What can one get the person that has it all? Similarly, when a person has achieved…
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RSR Looks Back at Filipino Sensation Gabriel Flash Elorde
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the tragic death of one of Mexico?s all time great boxing heroes, Salvador Sanchez, Oscar De La Hoya and HBO Boxing presented us with…
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Aladdin Antonio Grants The Boxing Wishes
When I was a kid, I fantasized about going to a mysterious land far away from Puerto Rico, like Japan, Egypt, Italy or perhaps India, and finding an Aladdin?s lamp. The reason…
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A Family Affair: The Relative Side of Boxing
In Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone narrates how violence in the media has affected American life as it currently is. People used to watch sitcom television shows and laugh at everything, without…
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RSR Looks Back at Rolando Navarrete
Once upon a time, there was a period in the junior lightweight division where virtually every fight was a classic in the making. Alexis Arguello of the WBC was the most widely…
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Nonito Donaire: A Flash in the Pan or the Real Thing?
When you are a young kid and with the future ahead of you, you dream about a lot of possibilities. In the future, you will be a disease curing doctor, a problem…
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RSR Looks Back at Filipino Sensation Gabriel Flash Elorde
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the tragic death of one of Mexico’s all time great boxing heroes, Salvador Sanchez, Oscar De La Hoya and HBO Boxing presented us with…
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Big Shoes to Fill: Can Rey Bautista Become the Next Manny Pacquiao?
Manny Pacquiao and Gabriel “Flash” Elorde are without a shadow of a doubt the greatest Filipino boxers of all time. Quite a lofty position when you consider Ceferino Garcia, Pancho Villa (the…
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Manny Pacquiao Knocks Out Jorge Solis and Remains Huge Draw in Boxing
Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, 44-3-2, 35 KO’s, defeated the lowly regarded but talented Jorge Solis, 32-1-2, 23 KO’s, and a native of Mexico. Pacquiao started slowly, letting Solis show the world his ability…
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Manny Pacquiao Comes to the Alamodome to Face Jorge Solis
When one mentions the name The Alamo, memories of battles lost by the Mexican come to mind. Starting with the Alamo Mission one, which took place during early 1836 in a city…
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Boxing Truly has a Superstar in Manny Pacquiao
Almost three weeks ago now, we witnessed one of the rare international Pay Per Views offered in the United States. When a Pay Per View is offered to American soil from abroad,…
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Boxing Looks Back at The Hawaiian Punch, Andrew Ganigan
Once upon a time, there was a physical area in boxing that encompassed three different weight divisions, with a ten pound difference and enough excitement to wake up the dead. It was…
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A Flash With Staying Power
Think about it. How many times has a person been able to inspire his or her countrymen with their actions? One can name a few, such as Mother Teresa, Lady Di, Mahatma…
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Can Iron be Destroyed by a Hawaiian Punch?
Since its early days, the Junior Flyweight division has been filled with a number of interesting match-ups that never took place. During the early 1980's, we could have had a fight between…
