Medical workers refused rides?

The man who made “Pinoy Pride” a mantra in Philippine boxing is no longer involved in the sport as he closed down the famed ALA stable in 2020 after a 35-year journey that produced world champions Donnie Nietes, Milan Melindo and Merlito Sabillo while spawning the likes of Mark Magsayo, Melvin Jerusalem, Rey (Boom Boom) Bautista, AJ Banal, Edito Villamor, Malcolm Tunacao, Andy Tabanas and Jeo Santisima.

World-rated Ar-Ar Andales picked himself up from a first-round knockdown and delivered a sensational one-punch ninth-round demolition of Reymark Alicaba on Wednesday night during Manny Pacquiao Presents: Blow-By-Blow.

Algerian Olympic champion Imane Khelif has denounced "false and offensive" allegations after the International Boxing Association (IBA) said it will sue the International Olympic Committee over her inclusion at the Paris Games' women's boxing last year.

World heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk said he intends to take on two more fights before heading into retirement.

In some 30 years in the boxing business, WBO Asia Pacific chairman Leon Panoncillo said he’d never witnessed a more exciting main event than what went down at the NuSTAR Convention Center, Cebu, last Saturday. Panoncillo, 59, is a Hawaiian of Filipino descent and from his Bangkok base, coordinates the WBO activities in the Asia Pacific region, often serving as fight supervisor at ringside aside from his duties as a sanctioning executive.