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WORLD TITLE SLIPPERY AS A SNAKE FOR 'AHAS' NIETES PhilBoxing.com Sat, 22 Sep 2007  Getting a chance for a world boxing title had been for Donnie ?Ahas? Nietes slippery as a snake. With a career spanning more than four years, the world belt was slippery indeed. But having tamed a baby python with so much ease, taming a world belt may not be that handy. But the rise of Nietes in boxing has not been effortless though. He raveled through 25 professional fights with mind aimed at building a record to be proud of and worthy for the chance to take on his long-time dream?a world boxing title. Along the way he won 21 fights, 13 of which by way of knock out. Seven of these knockouts came in the 2nd round, 4 of which happened in the 1st round. His first amateur fight was colored with defeat, which any aspiring hand of weaker heart may have given up. But Nietes did not. He lost to his cousin Gerald Nietes in an inter-school championship fight in Cadiz City. At a very young age, he tasted defeat but it never brought down his heart which loved boxing so much. In 1994, at a very young age of 12, Nietes started punching the mitts with a determined mind to walk the paths of his six uncles?Dan, Jonie, Jerson, David, and Aden?who are all boxers. From the rural town of Murcia, he left his parents in 1998 to stay with his uncle Jerson Nietes in Barangay Granada in Bacolod City to pursue his high school studies and boxing. The older Nietes became his trainer and mentor. In 2003, Nietes left Bacolod City and boxing to work in Cebu City, finding his place as a utility worker of Antonio ?Tony? Aldeguer, a known patron of Cebu boxing. Ironically, he worked in the ALA Gym maintaining its equipments and facilities regularly. He brushed the ring mat, trimmed the flowers and grasses in the surrounding landscape, and wiped the taken cared of place during rainy days. But he could not tear his heart from boxing. So he asked Aldeguer to take him in as a boxer. Aldeguer did not allow him. With heart burning with passion for boxing, Nietes went back to Bacolod City to join the Nietes stable as a boxer. Still he wants more from himself. Within the same year, he went back to Cebu City and pleaded before Aldeguer for a chance to join his wards. This time, fortune came to his side. Aldeguer accepted him in. His first two fights as a professional boxer in 2003 were not impressive. But his third fight that year against Rommel Tura in Gaisano Country Mall, which handed a technical knockout in the 1st round, hinted for the talent he can be. Then streaks of knocked outs pumped the mat in for the rest of 2003 and 2004 where he dealt 7 more knock outs to his opponents. It was in 2004 when he stripped reigning minimum weight Indonesian national champion Marti Polli. A year later, in 2006, Neites took his first regional title for the WBO Asia Pacific minimum weight division when he stopped Heri Amol of Indonesia 46 seconds in the 2nd round. He defended the belt twice in 2007 with a knockout. September 30 would be his chance to make his childhood dream come true?becoming a world boxing champion. But his triumph won?t be his own. It would also be a triumph of Filipinos, and particularly Cebuanons and Bacolodnons, writing him down as the 4th boxing champion the Philippines ever had.  |
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