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JAPANESE AMPUTEE BOXER SEEKING GAB RECONSIDERATION PhilBoxing.com Tue, 15 Nov 2005 On November 17, Thursday, the three-man agency of the Games and Amusements Board or the GAB will again be tested for their continued quest to promote competence in regulation and supervisory aspects of their job. One of our agenda is the case of a Japanese boxer, an amputee by the name of Mr. Naozumi Tsuchiyama. The determined boxer from Japan is seeking the GAB reconsideration from its decision last September when the agency disapproved Tsuchiyama's application for a license to engage in professional boxing in the Philippines. But Tsuchiyama, better known in Japan as "Nao", persisted and did not stop there. The move by Tsuchiyama through Mr. Higake Yusuke of the Shinwa Management Systems Limited, serving as his manager in his November 07, 2005 letter addressed to the Chairman to be reconsidered is welcomed by the GAB Board headed by Chairman Eric R. Buhain. As a matter of fact, both of them have been calendared to appear in person before the said incoming board meeting. So what would be the issues to be raised? This writer and the good Chairman had an initial discussion on this matter. Whether or not we will find merit on this, the beauty is that, we are giving them the clear impression that the Board has an open-mind policy to listen to them in an open session. As to the issues, definitely Mr. Yusuke will be having a hard time defending his boxer from an array of questions during the conduct of actual deliberations. We will also include the previous findings of our medical section headed by Dr. Nasser Cruz and Mr. Emmanuel Flores, our Boxing Chief's findings when this case had been under their jurisdiction and prior to the Board's action last September of this year. I am therefore, giving the assurance to the reading public that I will submit, through PhilBoxing.com, immediately the findings of the Board after this week's meeting. Since I've realized that this case of Tsuchiyama, will be a landmark case as we from the GAB will cast our vote of either yes or no. GAB BIDS FOR WBA 2007 The Games and Amusements Board under the strong stewardship of Chairman Eric R. Buhain and Commissioners Alex A. Paglumotan and Angel P. Bautista is set to approve the submission of bid via a unanimous resolution the hosting of 2007 World Boxing Association or WBA 86th annual convention, in its scheduled Board Meeting this November 17, 2005 at Makati City . Surely, the Pan Asian Boxing Association or the PABA will have its 12th regional forum to be included in the WBA. The initial attempt was made by this writer in Seoul, Korea during the 84th WBA and 10th PABA global meeting. I sounded off, though in verbal manner, Mr. Gilberto Mendoza, WBA President and Mr. Alan Kim, the organization's Director General, the interest of the GAB for the Philippines to host the convention the year after next. But modesty aside, had it not been for Chairman Buhain's motivation I will not have that guts to propose before them the noble idea of submitting the bid. Remember that last time I wrote about the WBC? It was as an offshoot of the Chairman's official travel to Cadiz, Spain, as the first target of the GAB. So, this is our second. Maybe two in a row for the year 2007. World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association, both conventions to be held in the Philippines? Though, not a joke in terms of preparations, but taking into account the thrust and our nation's quest to promote our boxing community globally, they will create an impact, giving the impression that boxing remains one of the leading sports in the country. This may sound ambitious, I must concede. But the big question is, are we ready to host two big major events successively? The answer is in the affirmative side. Yes sir, we are positively ready considering the preparations of the whole matter would take us still at least two (2) years from now to begin with. And it is not only the Games and Amusements Board which will shoulder all of these, we only act as the lead agency to do it. Once we get the nod of approval from these boxing bodies, immediately the Board will lay down the very foundation for the hosting. And as a matter of bureaucratic protocol, we will ensure the green light from the Office of the President through the hard working Executive Secretary Eduardo R. Ermita. What is important in this worthy cause is the tapping and coordination of appropriate interrelated agencies to help, all professional boxing promoters and all concerned to get involved with the local chief executives especially in the Metropolitan Manila area where probably this world boxing conventions would be held. We are confident that we have the best and the finest hotels here, world class restaurants and entertainment places fit for the demands of the would-be delegates. And to note, when we say delegations, what is very obvious is the fact that this will also pump prime if not bolster our tourism industry as well as future investment opportunities. And to top it all, most, if not all, of the sitting officials of these world sanctioning boxing bodies are millionaires in their own right -- having both financial and economic interests of their own in their respective countries. Click here for a complete listing of columns by this author. Click here for a complete listing of this author's articles from different news sources. |
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