Sanman Promotions has taken its scouting efforts to the grassroots level in pursuit of potential world class Filipino boxers. As a concrete step in achieving this goal, it will be launching “The Next Contender”, a bi-monthly amateur boxing event aimed at discovering the next Filipino world boxing champion. Each season will be culminated by a three-day boxing tournament wherein champions will be awarded.
According to Sanman CEO Jim Claude Manangquil, the program will focus on finding raw local boxing talents and future world champions. “This project will bring out the crème of the crop from the local boxing talents and will help kids focus on sports rather than vices like drugs and alcohol. We hope this effort will merit support from good sponsors and from the government. Everyone is excited for this to start,” Manangquil stated.
