Posted at 10/13/2014 1:34 PM | Updated as of 10/13/2014 1:34 PM
MANILA, Philippines - Rey Loreto, Edrin Dapudong and Denver Cuello, as expected, hurdled their respective bouts Saturday night at the Almendras Gym in Davao City.
But the three Filipino boxers made sure that the “Clash of Little Titans” card put up by Sonshine Sports Management was a loaded and action-packed affair.
Before his cheering fans, Loreto stopped Indonesian Heri Amol in the seventh round to retain his International Boxing Organization junior flyweight crown.
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Sonshine Sports Management point man Manny Piñol said Loreto is determined to prove that his smashing win over the South African was no fluke.
Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, the brains behind Sonshine Sports, has ventured into sports, and for starters is committed to support boxing, golf, volleyball, motocross and drag racing.
DAVAO CITY— As Manny Pacquiao enters the last phase of a legendary career, plans are afoot for the staging of one of his farewell fights here possibly in 2016.
Pacquiao is under contract with Top Rank but former North Cotabato Gov. Manny Pinol, who promoted Pacquiao’s world title defense here 14 years ago, said he has broached the idea with Pacquiao himself.
Pinol said on Saturday that Pacquiao was receptive and importing the fighting congressman can be done with the financial backing by spiritual leader Apollo Quiboloy, who is building a multi-purpose venue here that can accommodate about 70,000.
This line of thought has led to some scientists claiming that “atheism is psychologically impossible because of the way humans think,” says Graham Lawton, an avowed atheist himself, writing in the New Scientist. “They point to studies showing, for example, that even people who claim to be committed atheists tacitly hold religious beliefs, such as the existence of an immortal soul.”
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, since we are born believers, not atheists, scientists say. Humans are pattern-seekers from birth, with a belief in karma, or cosmic justice, as our default setting. “A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith,” writes Pascal Boyer in Nature, the science journal, adding that people “are only aware of some of their religious ideas”.
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