LOS ANGELES, California — Gregorio "Greg" Asuncion, a Fil-Am long-time friend of world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, has filed "unlimited" civil case against the boxer’s trainer Freddie Roach, the Wild Card gym boxing club, and "Does 1 to 100" in relation to an alleged mauling incident inside the gym on October 20, 2008.
The case, a complaint for damages on assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, premises liability, and loss of consortium, was filed by Asuncion’s lawyer, Robert H. McNeill, Jr. of the famed Ivie, McNeill & Wyatt law corporation based on Flower St., here on November 20, 2008.
The incident allegedly happened after Asuncion, known within Team Pacquiao as "The Sheriff" because he works at the LA County Sheriff’s Office, escorted Pacquiao from The Palazzo apartment to the Wild Card gym on Vine St., Hollywood.
When he sat inside the gym, Asuncion said he was asked by security chief Rob Peters to leave because Roach did not want so many people inside.
As he was preparing to leave, Asuncion said, "Suddenly Freddy hit me from the back of my neck… so powerful that I fell on my knees. He told me to get hell out of the gym and I said okay."
"On my way to the door I fell again because I felt dizzy. Slowly I got up again and proceeded outside and I can hear his personnel yelling at me that I’m acting," he continued.
Asuncion said he called 911 for help and the paramedics and police arrived at the gym. He was put on a stretcher, and given a neck brace before being taken to the hospital.
In the "first cause of action for assault", McNeill stressed "Roach and Does 1 to 100, intentionally, willfully, wantonly and maliciously threatened plaintiff so as to cause plaintiff to reasonably believe. He was in danger of being harmed."
"Because of defen-dant’s skill as a boxer and his occupation as a boxing trainer, a reasonable person in plaintiff’s situation would have been offended by the threat of violence on the part of the defendent, Freddie Roach."
Meanwhile, Asuncion said he was hurt when some of the witnesses "suddenly turned deaf and blind."
"Even some of those who were earlier egging me to file a case are now singing a different tune," sobbed Asuncion. "But I am confident the truth will come out."
Asuncion’s wife, Allyson, is co-plaintiff in the case filed before the Superior Court of the State of California County of Los Angeles, Stanley Mosk Courthouse. The complaint said, prior to the injuries sustained by the 51-year-old Asuncion, he "was able to and did perform his duties as a spouse."
"Subsequent to the injuries and as a proximate result thereof, plaintiff Gregorio Asuncion has been unable to perform the necessary duties as a spouse, and that he no longer can perform the work and services usually performed by him in the care, maintenance, and management of the family home," it explained.
"Allyson Asuncion has been deprived and will be deprived of the consortium of her spouse, including the performance of her spouse’s necessary duties, all to plaintiff Allyson Asuncion’s damage"
"What hurt me most was that after my husband fell, instead of helping him, they added insult to his injury when they cursed him and accused him of faking that he was hurt. In this country (United States), even dogs are treated well like humans because they, too, have the rights," mourned Allyson. /MP
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