August 16 - 31, 2016
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY
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Pacquiao trains for
upcoming fight
There’s no substitute to
early preparations.
With this in mind, eightdivision world champion and
now Senator Manny Pacquiao
plunged into training Tuesday,
still two months and a fortnight
away from his comeback date
with American World Boxing
Organization
welterweight
champion Jessie Vargas.
Pacquiao went through
a day of very light training
regimen, consisting of several
rounds of early morning
roadwork inside the posh
Forbes Parks where he resides
coupled with a “only to shed
off rust” workout at the Elorde
Gym in Pasay City.
Bosom friends Buboy
Fernandez, himself a newlyelected councilor in his
hometown in Bicol, and brother
Roger “Haplas” Fernandez
oversaw the day’s schedule.
“Pang-alis lang ng taba
(only to do
away
with
excess
fat),”
Buboy said after the afternoon
session. “More than four
months na kasi since Manny
fought last kaya he decided to
start feeling how it is to train
again.”
Buboy was referring to
the former flyweight, superbantamweight, featherweight,
super-featherweight,
lightweight,
juniorwelterweight,
welterweight
and
super-middleweight
titlist’s impressive 12-round
unanimous beating of Tim
Bradley in the final chapter
of their trilogy last April 9 at
the MGM Grand Arena in Las
Vegas.
The
Pacquiao-Vargas
encounter is set November
5 at the Thomas and Mack
Center, also in Las Vegas,
where the American beltowner will be putting his 147-
pound crown on the line.
“Nakaka-miss na ang
boksing (I’ve missing boxing a
lot),” Pacquiao told this writer
in a phone interview before
playing basketball a few hours
following his afternoon session
at Elorde where he worked on
the double end and speed
balls, shadowboxed, skipped
rope and limbered for about
an hour.
“Pahiyang lang muna
(just to get the feeling of
how it is to be atop the ring
again),” he said. “It’s been
quiet a long time since that
Bradley fight, so, I thought
maybe it’s time for me to start
my preparations.”
“My opponent is not a
pushover as others believe he
is. He’s a reigning champion
so I really have to prepare,” the
husband of former Sarangani
Vice Gov. Jinkee reasoned
out. “And the best way to
prepare is to start early.”
The
exSarangani
congressman added though
that no regular schedule
of training has been drawn
out yet. “Wala pa, Everything
depends on the schedule of
senate sessions as well as
hearings in the committee
level.”
“Today medyo maaga
natapos ang session giving
me time to train. Depende
talaga. Pangako ko naman sa
mga kababayan natin, I’ll be
concentrating on my duty as a
lawmaker bago and boksing,”
he explained.
“It’s all a matter of time
management. But of course,
my priority is my job as a
senator,” he assured. “I feel
naman that I can do both
jobs naman so there really
is nothing to worry about as
far as our kababayans are
concerned. “
“Once I realize that I
can no longer perform the
job for which I was elected,
then that’s the time for me to
stop doing the thing I’ve been
doing all my life -- boxing,” he
asserted.
After easily disposing off
Bradley, the Filipino ring icon
announced his retirement
that elated no end his wife
and mother Dionisia, who,
among others, have long
been calling him to hang up
his gloves.
“It looks like Manny
hasn’t change. He still
possesses the speed and the
strength he displayed when
be beat Bradley,” two-time
champion Gerry Penalosa,
who watched his friend do his
things, observed.
“Walang
nagbago,
gutom na gutom pa rin,”
he noted. “Sa kinilos nya
kanina sa ensayo parang
hindi na-layoff. Pafa bang
napakabango pa rin sa kanya
ang glab kung sumuntok.”
The New People’s Army turned over its two prisoners of war to Senator
Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao on Friday, afternoon, August 26 in Barangay
Calapagan, Lupon, Davao Oriental. ( Photos by Wendell Alinea/OSMP)
2 collegiate leagues to open
TWO collegiate leagues
are set to commence next
week with the opening of the
8th Inter Scholastic Athletic
Association tournament and
National Collegiate Athletic
Association-South’s
18th
season.
ISSA, in partnership with
SM Leisure, will be introducing
bowling this season while the
athletic organization is in talks
with Trinity University of Asia,
Enderun Colleges and DLSUAraneta in a bid to expand the
league next year.
St. Dominic College of
Asia will host the opener on
Sept. 6, 2016 at the Mall of
Asia Arena.
Officials also bared the
inclusion of a basketball
tourney for Senior high
school this season during
the Philippine Sportswriters
Association
Forum
at
Shakey’s Malate.
Meanwhile, First Asia
Institute of Technology and
Humanities will manage
the opening ceremonies of
NCAA-South’s 18th season
in Tanuan, Batangas on Sept.
8 highlighted by a proposed
drone show.
Season 17 junior division
overall champion De La
Salle- Lipa and six-straight
senior overall titlist University
of Perpetual Help SystemLaguna will also be awarded
during the event, which
centers on the theme “Let’s
Keep the Flame Ablaze.”
There will be nine
sporting events including
volleyball, chess football,
badminton, table tennis,
swimming, taekwondo, beach
volleyball and demonstration
sport futsal, while basketball
will kick off the 18th season
with host FAITH and San
Pablo Colleges colliding on
Sept. 13. (P.P. Duran, MS)
By: Julian Ray Fortaleza
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