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                    [Title] => Donaire: All set to move up to featherweight
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On Saturday, Oct. 22 (Oct. 23 in the Philippines),Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KOs) defends his World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight titles at the 4,500-seat Madison Square Garden’s WaMu Theater in New York against the 36-year old Argentine southpaw, Omar Narvaez (35-0-2, 19 KOs). Narvaez, who represented Argentina in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics in Atlanta and Sydney, respectively, is the reigning junior bantamweight/super flyweight champion. He is going up the bantamweight ranks for the chance to meet Donaire.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135709 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653011 [AuthorName] => Philip Ella Juico [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 318997 [Title] => Viloria sets sights on Arce [Summary] => World Boxing Council (WBC) lightflyweight champion Brian Viloria admits his ultimate goal is to face rugged Mexican knockout artist Jorge Arce in a blockbuster duel but realizes the fight is contingent on a convincing victory over Jose Antonio Aguirre at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Feb. 18.

"Any fighter wants to compete in big fights and I’m no different," said Viloria quoted by Kevin Iole of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "There is no way I’ll look past Aguirre because I need this to get to Arce."
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 97142 [Title] => The real deal - SPORTING CHANCE by Joaquin M. Henson [Summary] => San Francisco immigration lawyer Sydney Hall hit the jackpot when he sealed the deal for Manny Pacquiao to challenge International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior featherweight champion Lehlo Ledwaba of Soweto, South Africa, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on June 23.

Pacquiao, manager Marty Elorde, and business agent Rod Nazario left for the US last May 17 to look for the pot of gold. Hall initially arranged for the group to live in a three-bedroom house in Colma, near San Francisco, with featherweight Orlando Villaflor and trainer Jun Montesa.
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Pacquiao, manager Marty Elorde, and business agent Rod Nazario left for the US last May 17 to look for the pot of gold. Hall initially arranged for the group to live in a three-bedroom house in Colma, near San Francisco, with featherweight Orlando Villaflor and trainer Jun Montesa.
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