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NIETES, WBO EXEC ARRIVE IN VICTORIAS CITY! By Salven L. Lagumbay PhilBoxing.com Thu, 19 Apr 2007 World Boxing Organization (WBO) Asia Pacific minimumweight champion Donnie Nietes has arrived in Victorias City, Negros Occidental ready to defend his title this Saturday against Bangkok's Thongthailek Por Vorasing in a 12-round scrap at the 18,000-capacity New Victorias City Coliseum. The event will be covered by top-rating boxing show 'Main Event' on RPN-9, said top promoter and Elorde Awards Promoter of the Year Sammy 'Don King' Gello-ani. This will be Gello-ani's final big event before he flies out to Las Vegas as a special guest of the Golden Boy Promotions for the May 5 Oscar De la Hoya-Floyd Mayweather Jr. super bout, groomed to become the highest-grossing pay-per-view event in boxing history. Nietes arrived yesterday with all the other Filipino fighters seeing action on the undercard, while promoter Gello-ani also arrived with GAB official Rolando Mendoza. WBO Asia-Pacific chairman Leon Panoncillo will also be touching down in Bacolod City later today with Por Vorasing and his trainer, according to Gello-ani. The referee for this Saturday's fight will be Tony Pesons, while the judges are Sev Necesario, Jonathan Davis and Edward Ligas. This double championship event will also feature Mark Jason Melligen going up for the vacant RP junior welter title against veteran Christopher Saluday in the other 12-round tiff. An explosive undercard, including a women's bout, is being lined up to spice up the two championship duels in what is considered the biggest boxing event in Victorias City. Click here to view a list of other articles written by Salven L. Lagumbay.  |
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