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Half-Pinoy Firebrand Heath Ellis Ends Year with a Bang


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Half-Pinoy firebrand boxer Heath “The Heat” Ellis who resides in Melbourne, Australia straps on his boots, laces on his gloves, packs away his tasty snack prepared by his Pinay mother and goes to the office (square ring) with a scheduled appointment with three-time Indonesian champion Aswin Cabuy. No need for a pinstripe suit, a laptop stowed away in a carry bag or a white board covered with company projections and profit and loss statistics, quite the contrary.

The current reigning IBF Pan Pacific and interim WBC Asian Boxing Council welterweight champion will be the semi-main event at the famed Malvern Town Hall in Melbourne, Australia on Sunday December 20th on a promotion by Victorian Promoter of the Year Peter Maniatis. Maniatis is a well-known boxing identity from Australia who anchors his own KO Boxing Show on Channel 31 in Australia. Maniatis is an identity within himself, a highly respected boxing commentator, a television host and a Victorian boxing icon.

The main event will be an Australian first WBC female world title fight featuring China’s Wang Ya Nan who will be defending her title against Nigeria’s Charity Mukami.

Aswin Cabuy promises to unsettle the talented Ellis early and dispose of him in the later rounds. This should not be taken lightly or with a grain of salt. The Indonesian has a win over former WBO #15 world rated and current WBO Oriental welterweight champion Samuel Colomban, who Cabuy floored twice in their twelve round fight.

The three-time Indonesian champion has been a very busy fighter. In the last two months, he put up a very respectable performance against current WBO Oriental light-middleweight champion and WBO #8 world rated Ryan Waters. Cabuy was unlucky to lose against Waters as he had the highly rated fighter badly shaken and out on his feet, however Cabuy was on the wrong end of some questionable refereeing as he was controversially deducted one point in both the first and fifth rounds. Cabuy also fought current IBO Intercontinental and IBF Australasian light-middleweight champion Rob Medley who is fighting former two-time WBA super-middleweight and current IBO middleweight champion Anthony Mundine for the vacant IBO light-middleweight world title in coming months.

Cabuy has been in the ring with some credible fighters and will surely test the talented half-Pinoy fighter. The main variable in the fight is that Ellis can punch, has a ferocious left rip and a damaging left hook. Ellis’ Filipino mother Melody Ellis, has only ever seen her son fight once in his thirteen-fight professional career and forty plus amateur bouts.

The devout Catholic prefers to stay home and pray the rosary for the safe return of her twenty-one year old eldest son. Ellis will graduate from university in 2010 with a dual teaching degree enabling him to teach both elementary and secondary school students. His only sister Jenaya is studying to be an attorney so the Ellis family is not all brawn and no brains.
His mother is a business manager for a leading Australian banking corporation, his father is a teacher and his younger brother his still in secondary and his uncle Lester is a former IBF super-featherweight and three-division IBO world champion.
Also on the undercard will be former three-division Filipino champion Flash Villacura who will be fighting a rematch against current Australian super-bantamweight champion Mark Quon.

Villacura is coming off a devastating second round knockout of former Australian title challenger and second rated Australian bantamweight Dean Livanos. Villacura informs PhilBoxing that his preparation for the fight has been good and he believes that he will knock Quon out with the same left hook that he used against Livanos in his last outing.

Top photo: Heath (R) with mother Melody Ellis.


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