Random Ramblings

Referee Bruce McTavish was forced to stop the fight in the remaining 1:45 of the final round thus proclaiming Colombian Carlos Tamara as the new International Boxing Federation (IBF) light-flyweight champion.

Viloria was leading on the scorecards until the 9th round when Tamara start unleashing the punches. Brian Viloria appeared to be wobbly at the beginning of the 12th round and after 14 unanswered punches from Tamara, the referee was forced to stop the fight.

A blogger may face libel suit for her blog entry about the ‘rotting’ relief goods inside the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) warehouse, the story was published sometime in October of 2009 during the height of the relief mission for typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng and spread in the blogosphere very fast.

The blog entries popularity reached the office of (then) DSWD Secretary Esperanza Cabral who requested the NBI to investigate. According to the inquirer.net story:

Tickets for the Pacquiao vs. Clottey match at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas will be on sale starting Saturday, January 23, 2010, 10AM Central Time. Ticket prices are $700, $500, $300, $200, $100, and $50, buyers can get their ticket at the Cowboys Stadium box office in Arlington, or by calling Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com .

The Cowboys Stadium will be configured for over 40,000 fans for THE EVENT with elevated floor seating similar to NBA games.

Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer announced Monday that they are working on a possible match-up between Pretty Boy Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Sugar Shane Mosley.

‘Sugar’ Shane Mosley is about to fight the Haitian-American boxer, Andre Berto for the WBA-WBC Welterweight belt unification bout which is scheduled on January 30, 2010. But due to the recent earthquake in his hometown, Berto withdrew from the fight.

The world’s pound-for-pound king Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao was tested negative for performance enhancement drugs, this is according to the results of his drug test released by the Nevada Sports Athletic Commission (NSAC).

The results came out 9 days after the collapse of the talks for the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight.

Sony Pictures on Monday confirmed that Tobey Maguire will not be part of the next Spiderman movie. Moreover, Sony Pictures decided to ‘kill’ the planned Spiderman 4 and just reboot the franchise.

Also out of the movie franchise is director Sam Raimi, the new movie will be an all new casts and director, this new movie is expected to be shown in 2012 instead of the original plan of releasing the Spiderman 4 in 2011.

Boxing at the Bay Philippines is presenting the IBF Flyweight Championship bout between the champion Fil-Am Brian ‘The Hawaiian Punch’ Viloria and the challenger Colombian Carlos ‘El Olimpico’ Tamara.

The Fil-American Viloria will defend the IBF Flyweight Championship belt that he won against Ulises “Archie” Solis on April 19, 2009 at the Araneta Coliseum. Viloria knocked-out Solis with a vicious right hand on the 2:56 mark of the 11th round.

This will be Viloria’s second defense of his Flyweight belt, the first was against Jesus “El Azul” Iribe, August 9. 2009 at the Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Viloria won via unanimous decision (118-110, 117-112 and 117-111) and retained the IBF Flyweight crown.

After being silent for sometime, the infamous acid thrower once again created chaos in Temple Street of the Kowloon District of the city. At least 30 people were injured including children and tourists when a man hurled acid to the crowd.

This incident was the latest in a series of similar attacks since December 2008 injuring more than 100 people including a Filipino family enjoying their vacation in the city in June of last year.

Are we seeing the end of cybersex?

A New Jersey company, True Companion LLC announced at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas on Saturday that it has developed a “the world’s first sex robot,” a life-size rubber doll that’s designed to engage the owner with conversation rather than lifelike movement.

With the cancellation of the much anticipated bout between Manny Pacquaio and Floyd Mayweather, Jr., the world’s pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao will face Joshua Clottey on top of the ring to defend his recently won WBC Welterweight belt against Miguel Cotto.

The Pacquiao vs. Clottey fight will happen on March 13, 2010 (the original schedule of the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather, Jr. fight) at the New Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.