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                    [Title] => More Hollywood heavyweights join The Expendables 3
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It was big in 2010. Got even bigger in 2012.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/entertainment/20140806/hollywood-actors-5.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 823416 [Title] => 12 Hollywood big guns in The Expendables 2: Never before, never again [Summary] =>

 In 2010, The Expendables was the biggest thing that happened to action movies.

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CANASTOTA – WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao isn’t eligible for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame because he remains active in the ring but five years after his retirement, there will be no doubt of his enshrinement.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 603709 [Title] => The Expendables grosses P25-M [Summary] =>

The star power of a Dream Team of action stars proved irresistible for Pinoy moviegoers.

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Top Rank chairman Bob Arum said yesterday there’s no doubt in his mind that Ricky Hatton will go out like a light in his IBO lightwelterweight title defense against Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 2.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 422390 [Title] => The throwback fighter [Summary] =>

LAS VEGAS – Freddie Roach recently called Manny Pacquiao the modern-era version of Henry (Homicide Hank) Armstrong who is in the history books as the only fighter to hold world titles in three weight divisions at the same time.

[DatePublished] => 2008-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 409349 [Title] => Role model for Manny [Summary] =>

Two-time world welterweight champion Jimmy McLarnin is a perfect role model for Manny Pacquiao because the Irish “Baby-Faced ...

[DatePublished] => 2008-10-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 361125 [Title] => Banal denied US visa [Summary] => Rising superflyweight boxing star A. J. (Bazooka) Banal’s application for a B1-B2 visa was denied by the US Embassy and that’s why he was unable to accompany ALA stablemate Rey (Boom Boom) Bautista and trainer Edito Villamor in their trip to Los Angeles last month.

Bautista left to fight in the undercard of Marco Antonio Barrera’s recent World Boxing Council superfeatherweight title defense against Rocky Juarez in Las Vegas but never got to see action after suffering a fracture of the right clavicle during a workout at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 224336 [Title] => Hall of Fame snubs RP pug [Summary] => Why is former world middleweight champion Ceferino Garcia not enshrined in the International Boxing Hall of Fame?

Surely, there is justification to include the Filipino who popularized the bolo punch, was the first fighter to floor war hero Barney Ross and held the legendary Henry Armstrong, the only fighter ever to hold three world titles simultaneously, to a draw.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206451 [Title] => Snakepit awaits Pacquiao in LA [Summary] => It won’t be friendly territory when International Boxing Federation (IBF) superbantamweight champion Manny Pacquiao steps into the ring to face Emmanuel (The Butcher) Lucero of Mexico at the historic Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles on July 26.

The Olympic is a notorious snakepit for visiting fighters opposing Mexicans or Latinos. Fans who patronize the boxing facility are mostly of Mexican descent and unforgiving when expressing partisanship. They are shameless, loud, and scandalous.
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