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World 8-Ball Championship in UAE

UAE, 2008 - Billiard is now considered as sports because of its popularity during the times of Efren “Bata” “The magician” Reyes. In the times of Amang Parica, in the Philippines, it was still some sort of a leisure and not more of a sport. Efren Reyes actually helped revolutionize and improve the view of sports fanatics with billiards and world pool, making it part of Philippine history.

Today, Ronnie Alcano is on his way to defend his title is the UAE World 8-Ball Championship and he is going to face the European Champion and veteran Ralph Souquet. As I write this post now, news have it that Ronnie Alcano was defeated by the European champion and failed to defend his title as the world 8-ball champion. Read more of our sports tips in the other categories that we have here at Tips Paradise.

De la Hoya vs Forbes on May 3

De La Hoya vs Forbes May 3, 2008 - Oscar De La Hoya is back and this time for another fight of his life as he fights against Steve Forbes for the welterweight division. Oscar De La Hoya, the biggest money making fighter of all time who is not a heavy weight but a welterweight fighter. He has also defeated 17 other fighter who are ranked as champions or former world champions in his time. On the other hand, Steve Forbes, Stephen Filipe Forbes in his birth name is a legitimate welterweight fighter who is an orthodox fighter in stance and has a ring record of 33 wins - 5 losses and 9 KO”s while Oscar De La Hoya has a ring record of 38 wins - 5 losses and 30 KO’s.

This is Oscar De La Hoya’s come back fight after a long time and this schedule of the fight will be on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at exactly 10:00 pm ET/7:00 pm PT. The boxing round starts in the Home Depot Center Los Angeles, California. This will be 12 round bout between the two fighters and is expected to bring in a new upsurge of blood in De La Hoya to fight big time again if he wins this one. To whom it will be is another episode of his boxing career. De La Hoya vs Forbes promises to be a knockout.

Calzaghe Defeats Hopkins

Today, I just finished watching the Calzaghe vs Hopkins fight dubbed as the Battle of the Planet. Prior to the fight I already made an early estimate that Hopkins will win this one from the looks of the stats and based on who’s the veteran among the two but of course, I cannot always count Calzaghe out because he has the potential to dictate the fight based on age especially if he will last up to half the fight duration which is the 6th round. That was my advance prediction regarding this fight but as it turned out, I was wrong.

In the first round, Hopkins did knock down the European challenger Calzaghe and he turned out to be the dominant fighter. On the other hand, I was never wrong about the age factor as it did good for the challenger after the first three rounds and after recovering from the first round knock down by Hopkins with a straight right hand to the face. Almost all the other rounds belonged to Calzaghe and it all just got worse for Hopkins as the European challenger got him on a unanimous decision to take the belt from him.

Calzaghe remained undefeated with an unblemished record of 45-0-32 while conquering the title belt in the lightheavyweight division formerly owned by Bernard “the executioner” Hopkins.

Cotto vs Gomez and Cintron vs Margarito

Miguel Cotto vs Alfonso Gomez (2008 welterweight championship) - Dubbed as the Welterweight Championship Doubleheader in HD, the fight between Miguel Cotto and Alfonso Gomez will also feature other champion fighters like Kermit Cintron and Antonio Margarito II. The fight will be seen live in Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey at exactly 10:00 PM ET/7:00 PM PT on Saturday on April 12, 2008. The fight will be another defense by Miguel Cotto’s WBA welterweight championship belt and will also feature 2 other champion fighters mentioned above.

The back to back championship treat is also available in HBO PPV (pay per view), closed caption (for the hearing impaired) and in Spanish on HBO Latino which is a great target for a wider treat to reach the millions of boxing fans all over the world. In the main event, Miguel Cotto who is from Caguas, Puerto Rico with a professional fight record of (31-0, 25 KOs) will take on Alfonso Gomez from Whittier California with a professional record of (18-3-2, 8 KOs). The title being fought in this fight belongs to Cotto which he snatched last December 2006 and is proud with convincing win over top welterweight boxers, Sugar Shane Mosley and Zab Judah respectively. On the other hand, Alfonso Gomez is very cocky with his last win over the veteran and renowned Arturo Gatti with a 7th round TKO last July which a little bit makes this fight an interesting saga for both great fighters.

Kermit Cintron vs Antonio Margarito (welterweight championship rematch) - The opening bout will be a fight between another set of great welterweight champions in the name of Kermit Cintron with a proud boxing record of (29-1, 27 KOs) while his opponent, Antonio Margarito has a winning streak of (35-5, 25 KOs). This is another interesting fight as it will be a 12 round championship bout which is also the third title defense by Cintron who’s only loss in his career he suffered by a defeat with Antonio Margarito himself, the challenger to this fight who knocked Cintron out in the 5th round of their first showdown that happened last April 2005. Three years ago with a prestige to regain, Cintron hopes to settle this one last time in the ring. Today, in this fight, Margarito is the challenger after he lost his title belt to Paul Williams last 2007. Margarito is also hoping to get his second welterweight title which marks this fight as one of the best rematch in the welterweight division and will give the winner the chance to unify the championship belts by fighting whoever will wins in the Miguel Cotto vs Alfonso Gomez.