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Bernabe Falters Against JuanMa

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:23:26 +0000

In what was described by Fightfan.com as a “fierce opening round”, Bernabe Concepcion and Juan Manuel Lopez dropped to the canvas on the first round. However, Concepcion failed to capitalize on it as the savvy Puerto Rican scored a 2nd round TKO against the Filipino warrior.

Lopez gained the upper hand in the second round, sending Concepcion to the canvass twice. The bout was stopped at 2:37. This made Lopez still unbeaten in all his 29 bouts while Bernabe drops to 28 wins (with 15 KOs), 4 losses and 1 draw.

It’s a heartbreaking outcome for Concepcion who has been waiting for his chance to fight JuanMa for quite some time. In the end, the Filipino — who is being managed by Manny Pacquiao — fell short on his first shot to JuanMa.

If there’s any consolation for the night, Nonito Donaire retained his World Boxing Association (WBA) interim super flyweight title after stopping Mexican Hernan “Little Tyson” Marquez in the 8th round.

Abe Concepcion to Fight JuanMa

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:52:28 +0000

Bernabe Concepcion finally gets a chance to fight Juan Manuel Lopez. The world title fight is slated on July 10, 2010 and will be shown on ShowTime as reported by FightNews. Abe is expected to be a heavy underdog to the suave Puerto Rican. Lopez has a record of 28-0 with 25 knockouts. Concepcion is 28-3-1, 15 KOs.

This is also reported by Dyan Castillejo on her interview with Manny.

Video after the break

Concepcion Decisions Santiago

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:36:54 +0000

Filipino featherweight Bernabe Concepcion scored a ten round decision win over Mario Santiago at Top Rank’s “Latin Fury 13 / Pinoy Power 3” pay-per-view card at the Las Vegas Hilton. Concepcion employed a good in-and-out movement to setup his attack. He threw and landed the harder and more effective punches early in the fight and in Round 6, the Filipino fighter caught Santiago with a huge right hand that dropped the taller Puerto Rican. Santiago managed to survive the round but did not find anything to counter Concepcion’s powerful attacks. Despit the last minute rally of Mario Santiago, the Filipino boxer was ahead on all three officials(98-91, 96-93, 97-92).

Arguably, the undercard of Concepcion/Santiago is the best fight of the night as observed by boxing fans. With the win, Bernabe Concepcion finally gets a shot at the title being held by Juan Manuel Lopez.

Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, who manages Concepcion, was also in attendance to witness the entire card and to show his support to his Filipino compatriots.

Abe to Fight Mario Santiago on Feb 2010

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:58:16 +0000

Top Rank is working on a February 13, 2010 pay-per-view card between Mario Santiago and Bernabe Concepcion. The fight night will be headed by Nonito Donaire who will be making his first defense of his interim junior title in the main event against Gerson Guerrero. It would be Bernabe’s first fight after his disqualification on his first world title shot against Steven Luevano. Boxing writer Dan Rafael of ESPN rates the Santiago-Concepcion as a good fight. He also suggests that the winner of the bout deserves a shot at the title.

Also included are the bouts between bantamweight titlist Fernando Montiel against Michael Domingo. All bouts are only available via pay-per-view. It would be Abe’s fourth fight in the featherweight division and we, his fans, are definitely rooting for him. We hope that this young fighter will come out more polished after his disappointing show against Luevano.

Who is Mario Santiago

Mario, nicknamed is Principe Ponce, is a Puerto Rican super featherweight southpaw who fought Steven Luevano in June 2008 and had a split draw. After his draw with Luevano, Santiago won his last two fights against Gilberto Sanchez Leon and Morris Chule with unanimous decision and split decision, respectively. His last fight was on October 17, 2009 at Whataburger Field in Texas.

Santiago’s only lost is with his first fight against Héctor Velázquezon July 28, 2007. Prior to his lost, he had knocked out his last 8 opponents. And after an 8-month hiatus after the lost, he went back into the ring by knocking out Edel Ruiz in the first round of their February 1, 2008 fight. And from August 2006 to present, Mario has been holding his Caribbean Boxing Federation Featherweight Title.

Here’s the video of the fight between Mario Santiago ang Steven Luevano.

Marvin Sonsona is Next Manny?

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:32:56 +0000

It appears like every Filipino boxer who gets a shot or wins a crown is labeled as “Next Manny Pacquiao”. You heared about it when Ray Boom-Boom Bautista is on his prime. You also heared it everytime you hear the name Abe Concepcion and for sure, AJ “Bazooka” Banal is also called as such. But none of them has clinched a world title belt at 19 years old like Manny. And there seems nobody who will duplicate the feat of Pacquiao until Marvin Sonsona came.

Interestingly, Benjie Varella of EastSideBoxing has predicted that Sonsona will be the next World Champion from General Santos City on his column (http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=20592&more=1). However, he predicted that it will come sometime in 2010 or early 2011. Apparently, he prediction is wrong because it’s only the third quarter of 2009 and Marvin Sonsona already got his first World Boxing Organization super flyweight crown. The Marvelous Marvin is a couple of months younger than Manny when the latter clinch his first title.

At this early, Marvin is already compared to the likes of Pacquiao, Edwin Valero and Juan Manuel Lopez due to his supreme punching power. His records show it with 12 of his 14 fights comes by way of knockout. He also annihillated former world champion Wandee Singwancha of Thailand within two rounds in May 2009.

Now that he is already holding a world title, he is out to prove that he can be the next Manny Pacquiao. We could all be witness for the rise of the new Filipino boxing star.

Abe Concepcion Fights at the Big Dome on Jan 11

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:04:12 +0000

Filipino boxing protege Bernabe Concepcion fights for the vacant WBC International featherweight crown at the Araneta Coliseum on Sunday, 11 Jan 2009. His foe is the former WBC International titlist Sande Otieno of Kenya. The fight, which will also two other Filipino boxers, is dubbed as Judgment in Far East and will be the first major boxing event in the Philippines for 2009.

Called “The Real Deal”, Bernabe steps into 126 pound division after several years at the 122-pound super-bantamweight class. In the interview by the Philippine Daily Inquirer to Jaro he said the Abe has grown too big for superbantamweight. He further adds that the featherweight class is best for Abe and it is the class where he can make use of his full power.

According to Recah Trinidad on his article at inquirer.net, Bernabe “will also be eyeing the world featherweight crown within the year against either Steve Luevano or Oscar Larios.” The fight will be telecast by Solar Sports and will also feature mini-flyweight champion Denver Cuello of the Philippines against Indonesian junior flyweight champion Yanus Emaury, and Sonnyboy Jaro versus Nanpayyak Sakkipin of Thailand.

More of Recah’s article at http://sports.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20090105-181416/Concepcion-ready-for-WBC-Intl-title-bid. It will be shown at Solar Sports channel.