Iloilo To Host National Open
Youth and Women Slugfest
Youth and Women Slugfest
By ALEX P. VIDAL
The Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines (ABAP) has announced the holding of the 2008 National Open Youth and Women’s Amateur Boxing Championship on April 6-12 in Iloilo City.
Rogelio M. Fortaleza, ABAP secretary general, informed Iloilo City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas in a letter about the boxing championship. Fortaleza informed that prior to the national competition among the country’s top amateur boxers, a regional and national accreditation seminar for referees and judges would also be held in preparation for the event.
ABAP would invite teachers of the Department of Education for the accreditation seminar, said Marlon Lumacad, boxing project director.
Fortaleza asked the Iloilo City government through Councilor Jose Espinosa III, chair of the city sports council, to shoulder the round-trip airfare of the person who will conduct the seminar, including his food and accommodation, and the honorarium of P12,000 or P1,500 a day for four days.
Lumacad, organizer of “Box Iloilo Box”, said the host city and the local organizer have been requested to prepare a budget of P1.5 million for the national amateur boxing tournament.
“We have organized the different committees that will handle the event and we have already initial pledges from private sponsors,” said Lumacad who represents Erwin Chiongson’s Winner’s Gym and Elorde Gym.
Glenn Donaire: Common
Denominator
Denominator
February 2 was a night of predications…and explosions!
While tart-tongued former IBF titlist Vic Darchinyan has vowed to stop local ring heartthrob Z Gorres in their 12-round IBF world title eliminator on Feb. 2 at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel, the Cebuano speedster has also promised to punish the visitor from Australia for his pre-fight braggadocio. But the fight was a split draw which decision was unpopular. Gorres was floored a few times and still managed a split draw.
But how can fight fans assess the chances of both ring gladiators when both of them possess fearsome ring ledgers?
Let’s cite as their common denominator Glenn Donaire, elder brother of IBF flyweight champion Nonito, Jr.
Gorres created ripples at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on March 19, 2005 when he scored a first round stoppage at 2:03 over the US-based Donaire in a non-title fight refereed by Jay Nady.
The fight was undercard of the first Manny Pacquiao vs Erik Morales trilogy where Pacquio lost by unanimous decision.
On October 7, 2006 in Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Glenn Donaire earned a shot at Darchinyan’s IBF and IBO crowns and was badly clobbered en route to losing a 6th round TKO in a fight billed by boxing scholars as reminiscent of Roberto Duran’s “no mas, no mas” (no more, no more) refereed by Tony Weeks. /MP
While tart-tongued former IBF titlist Vic Darchinyan has vowed to stop local ring heartthrob Z Gorres in their 12-round IBF world title eliminator on Feb. 2 at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel, the Cebuano speedster has also promised to punish the visitor from Australia for his pre-fight braggadocio. But the fight was a split draw which decision was unpopular. Gorres was floored a few times and still managed a split draw.
But how can fight fans assess the chances of both ring gladiators when both of them possess fearsome ring ledgers?
Let’s cite as their common denominator Glenn Donaire, elder brother of IBF flyweight champion Nonito, Jr.
Gorres created ripples at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on March 19, 2005 when he scored a first round stoppage at 2:03 over the US-based Donaire in a non-title fight refereed by Jay Nady.
The fight was undercard of the first Manny Pacquiao vs Erik Morales trilogy where Pacquio lost by unanimous decision.
On October 7, 2006 in Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Glenn Donaire earned a shot at Darchinyan’s IBF and IBO crowns and was badly clobbered en route to losing a 6th round TKO in a fight billed by boxing scholars as reminiscent of Roberto Duran’s “no mas, no mas” (no more, no more) refereed by Tony Weeks. /MP
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