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GANOY LOOKING FOR A BIG FIGHT


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IBF Pan Pacific lightweight champion Ranee “KO Kid” Ganoy says he is looking for a big fight and would love to demonstrate his explosive punching power before hometown fight fans in the Philippines.

Ganoy arrived from Sydney, Australia on Sunday to visit his mother who is scheduled to undergo an operation on June 15. She lives in Cotabato City. Ganoy said he plans to spend two weeks in the Philippines before returning to Sydney to resume training for his next fight which he said may be an IBO world title fight.

In an exclusive interview at the PAL Centennial terminal with Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today, Ganoy said his manager Dido Bohol was discussing plans for an IBO title shot with promoters including possible promoters in the Philippines. Ganoy who was carrying his championship belts was surrounded by airport personnel and fans who came in on the same flight and posed for pictures with the amiable champion.

Ganoy scored a lopsided unanimous twelve round decision over durable Indonesian challenger Joey “Furious” Di Ricardo in the first defense of his IBF Pan Pacific 135 pound title at Mansfield Tavern in Brisbane last Friday.

Seconds Out reported that the improving Ganoy who is “much better than his fight record (23-10-2, 19 KO’s) suggests, has developed his upper body and arms into a vicious punching machine.” The report said Ganoy established his power in the early rounds against Di Ricardo who had a record of 11-1-2 with 7 KO’s. One of his draws was against Czar Amonsot, the current WBO Asia Pacific lightweight champion.

Ganoy said he hurt the Indonesian in round seven and although he was on the verge of a knockout Di Ricardo survived. Ganoy continued to dominate the fight and in the end cruised to an easy win scoring a shutout on the scorecards of two of the three judges.

The 27 year old Filipino praised his trainers, the sons of Dido Bohol, Jeffrey and Hermie saying his training was ”very good and when we train we really train. No nonsense.” Dido Bohol himself told Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today that they did not wear the Cleto Reyes punches gloves which Ganoy likes. Ganoy's win was his sixth straight since losing to WBO champion Michael Katsidis in August 2005 capped by a big eighth round KO win over former IBF junior lightweight champion Robbie Peden last March. Peden had earlier dropped a twelve round decision in a title fight against then WBC super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera.

Ganoy said he had a fairly comfortable life in Sydney but “felt homesick at times “ although there were many Filipinos living in Sydney.

Ganoy said that while his right was his “power punch” he had a solid left and was capable of “dropping an opponent” if he caught him with a good left. He said one of his biggest wins was when he scored a stunning seventh round TKO over undefeated former Commonwealth champion Fatai Onikeke of Nigeria on September 15, 2006 in a fight that was regarded as Australia's "Fight of the Year" because of the ferocious back-and-forth action.

Ganoy disclosed that he accepted the fight just 21 days after scoring a second round TKO over Ty Allen and even agreed to move up to light welterweight. Ganoy said “although I didn’t train long enough I took the fight because I was in condition.”


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