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RP-JAPAN SHOWDOWN NOT FOR ANY ASIA CUP
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 24 Aug 2007
Promoter Rex “Wakee” Salud, a close friend and confidant of Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao, has made it clear that the Philippine-Japan fight card at the sprawling Mall of Asia on Saturday is a “battle for supremacy” between the Philippines and Japan and not for any Asia Cup.
Salud issued the clarification in a long distance telephone conversation with Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today upon being informed that the World Cup format belonged to Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions and had been copyrighted and any attempt to copy the format and stage it for an advertised Asia Cup may result in legal action.
International matchmaker Sampson Lewkowicz called Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today to inform the promoters of the so-called Asia Cup that Golden Boy Promotions “has the trademark” and “any effort to copy the creation and imagination of Golden Boy would be sued.”
An emotional Lewkowicz said he together with Golden Boy Promotions “worked so hard to create this beautiful happiness for a country that means so much in the sport of boxing” adding that "imitators are like those who imitate Gucci and produce garbage.”
The renowned international promoter who was deeply involved in the recent World Cup which the Philippines wrested from Mexico by winning five of the six scheduled fights and has boosted the careers of Filipino fighters said the “beautiful, sentimental $500,000 World Cup is owned by the Philippines and any other cup would be a disservice and unfair” to the gallant fighters who battled some of the great Mexican warriors to bring honor to their country.
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