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NIETES-VARGAS CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT TO BE INCLUDED IN LATIN FURY 11 CARD SEP 5
By Dong Secuya
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 25 Jul 2009
Tagbilaran City -- The already thrice postponed title fight between WBO minimumweight champion Donnie Nietes of the Philippines and challenger Manuel Vargas of Mexico has been moved to Sep. 5 under the Latin Fury card to be headlined by Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr at Nueva Villarta in Mexico.
Chavez Jnr himself was supposed to fight today in the Latin Fury 10 card set at the same venue but a reported rib injury forced the son of a legend to bail out of the July 25 card.
ALA Promotions president Michael Aldeguer has informed PhilBoxing.com that he received word from international matchmaker Sampson Lewkowicz about the latest development.
"Sampson has assured us that the fight will finally push thru on Sep. 5. Fernando Beltran [the promoter of Nietes-Vargas fight] has a good working relationship with Top Rank so it's easy for him to include the Nietes-Vargas card to the Latin Fury series," Aldeguer said.
The Nietes-Vargas card was originally set last May 18 in Mexico but was postponed to July 18 due to the A H1N1 virus scare. Then the July 18 schedule was moved to Aug. 1 and only last Wednesday, July 22, the ALA people received word that the Aug. 1 date was scrapped.
Michael's father Antonio Aldeguer, for his part said that "it's hard for Nietes' part having to reduce in the final week of training and then suddenly told that the fight was off."
"We are thinking of having Nietes just come home and forget about the fight and air our concern to [WBO President] Paco Valcarcel about the postponements and ask for our choice of an opponent for Nietes," the elder Aldeguer said.
But according to the Aldeguers, who are in Tagbilaran for tonight's Sandugo boxing event headlined by their lightweight prospect Jason Pagara, that they will still let Nietes come home to Cebu to rest for a week or two before going back to the U.S. to resume training.
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