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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Saturday, January 24, 2009 |
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NAT’L AMATEUR BOXING
Bacolod wins
overall championship
BY NIDA BUENAFE
Topping the Kids division and finishing 1-2 in the Junior Girls category, host Bacolod City lived up to the expectations of the home crowd as they romped off last night with the overall championship honors and the P20,000 cash prize in the 2009 SMART National Amateur Boxing Championships at the Negros Occidental Multipurpose Activity Center.
Gerson Nietes Jr. did not disappoint his fellow Bacoleños as he took the gold in Youth boys light flyweight by outscoring, 13-5, Cadiz City’s Arman Altar while Elijah Ray Guanzon settled for silver in Youth bantam after bowing to Cebu City’s Dave Peñalosa.
| Iloilo journalist ILOILO CITY – A US-based Filipino journalist has filed a damage suit against Freddie Roach, trainer of boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, for allegedly pushing and threatening to kill him over an article he wrote last year. Alex Vidal, also a licensed international boxing referee and judge, filed the complaint before the Superior Court of California on January 20. Vidal said that on July 25 or 26 last year, while he was at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas talking with a boxer, a trainer and Dr. Allan Recto, Pacquiao's ring physician, Roach approached him and complained about an article that he wrote on philboxing.com where the journalist is a regular contributor. |
| FROM PSC TO ABAP MANILA – After giving up the chairmanship of the Philippine Sports Commission, William "Butch" Ramirez is not totally leaving sports as he accepted his election as vice chairman of the Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines. “I will still be involving myself in Philippine sports and in fact, my vision is to be part of 'Go for gold' in the 2012 London Olympics,” Ramirez said. He accepted the nomination after receiving a call Wednesday from Malacañang that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has already accepted his resignation as head of the PSC. |
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