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'GAB should stop mismatches in Thailand, not the Pacquiao-De La Hoya fight' By Danyeva Grace C. Donato PhilBoxing.com Sat, 27 Sep 2008 If the Games and Amusement Board (GAB) is serious to protect Filipino boxers, it should make a drastic move to stop the mismatches mostly involving underrated Filipino boxers regularly happening in Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, and Australia before it will throw the books on the Manny Pacquiao versus Oscar De La Hoya fight set on December 6 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was the suggestion made yesterday (September 26) by respected businessman-sportsman Daniel P. Sumagaysay, who is founder of the Manny Pacquiao Team Iloilo. Sumagaysay, 52, said so many "unheard of" Filipino boxers have been "slaughtered" especially in Thailand and Australia by their rivals that are mostly world-ranked "and the Games and Amusement Board did nothing to stop or at least minimize these injustices committed against poorly-trained Filipino boxers in exchange for a penny." "If the GAB will insist on stopping the Pacquiao-De La Hoya fight on the pretext that it is allegedly a mismatch, then the agency is guilty of committing a double standard here because it has failed to even stop the exporting of Filipino boxers who are only being fed to the lions in foreign rings," Sumagaysay thundered. Sumagaysay added that some of these "hapless" Filipino boxers are only paid between $400 to $700 and they also endanger their lives because they are reportedly being paired against world-ranked fighters. He cited the case of unheralded Lito Sisnorio who died of brain injury after losing by knockout to former World Boxing Council flyweight champion Chatchai Sasakul on March 31, 2007 in Bangkok. These "mismatches" are arranged by unscrupulous matchmakers in a hope to improve the world ranking of their wards at the expense of Filipino boxers "and this has been happening even before Chairman (Eric) Buhain became head of the GAB," he disclosed. Sumagaysay further said: "Manny Pacquiao can defend himself against Oscar De La Hoya because he is a legitimate world champion. And besides, the promoters would not risk their multi-million investments if they realized that Pacquiao does not have a china man's chance to upset the Golden Boy." If the GAB can not stop the massacres of lowly-rated Filipino fighters seeing action in Thailand and other countries, it can not stop the Pacquiao-De La Hoya fight "because contracts have already been signed and the promotional tour for the fight is about to start (in New York City on Oct. 1)," said Sumagaysay. Click here to view a list of other articles written by Danyeva Grace C. Donato.  |
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