THE Philippines? newest ring sensation, World Boxing Organization Asia-Pacific bantamweight champion Rey ?Boom Boom? Bautista checked out of the Cebu Doctors Hospital.
He went home to his family in Candijay, Bohol for a two-week rest after being downed by a virus that forced him to pull out of this Sunday?s fight on the Manny Pacquiao-Oscar Larios fight card at the Araneta Coliseum.
Bautista?s mother, who visited him in Cebu, left ahead to prepare their home for the deeply disappointed 20-year-old fighter, who had wanted so much to give Filipino fight fans in Manila and a worldwide pay-per-view television audience a display of his undoubted talent.
He tried desperately to fight off the fever and weakness to make it for the clash with veteran Alejandro Felix Montiel, but Dr. Gary Rivera, one of the top men in the medical profession in Cebu told Viva Sports/Standard Today Bautista was too weak to fight and he didn?t want his health or his career to be jeopardized by fighting.
