AS the year sees its last day today, Manny Pacquiao has yet to find his first foe for 2012.

But not Nonito Donaire Jr.

If ESPN.com is to be believed, Donaire will face Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. on Feb. 4 at the famed Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. (more)

The Ring Magazine still rates Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao as the best boxer in the pound-for-pound list for 419 weeks now and one boxer isn’t pleased.

Despite the choice of the boxing magazine known as the bible of boxing to keep Pacquiao as the world’s No. 1 pugilist, 2010 Fighter of the Year and current Ring middleweight titleholder Sergio Martinez believes the fighting congressman from Sarangani Province doesn’t deserve the accolade. (more)

Filipino boxing icon and Sarangani Representative Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao was officially elevated to the rank of lieutenant colonel Monday at the Philippine Army headquarters in Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City.

Pacquiao was given the donning of rank ceremony to “publicly recognize” his promotion to the next higher grade in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Reserve Force. (more)

CEBU CITY — In boxing terms, it will be a title fight.

Representative Manny Pacquiao is “100 percent” joining the public auction that Court Sheriff Eugene Fuentes has scheduled to sell a titled portion of the South Reclamation Properties (SRP) this month, said local boxing promoter and Pacquiao confidant Rex “Wakee” Salud on Friday. (more)