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Z GORRES SHOWING HIS FIGHTING SPIRIT
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 23 Jan 2010
Former world title challenger Z “The Dream” Gorres continues to show his fighting spirit as he recovers from brain surgery following his last fight against rugged Luis Melendez of Colombia at the Mandalay Bay House of Blues in Las Vegas last November 13.
Evan Aguiling of Buhawi Studio who makes statuettes and has produced one of pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao flew to Las Vegas to meet Gorres and told us he went straight from the airport to the clinic of Dr. Ben Calderon who is attending to Gorres and waited for the boxer who was scheduled to have his staples removed.
Aguiling said the procedure which was done at 3pm was taped by a Las Vegas TV station ABC13. He said that later that evening, the footage was aired on the local evening news which they all watched at Dr. Calderon's clinic.
Dr. Calderon earlier told us that one of the staunchest supporters of Z Gorres was the boxing coach of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and that it was the coach who has been pushing the Las Vegas media to carry the Gorres story regularly.
Aguling said “Z was in high spirits. True to the Pinoy character, he has kept his sense of humor and was joking around the whole time. I couldn't help but feel sorry for him though” even as he mentioned what Dr. Calderon told us before that many Filipina nurses take him and wife Daches food and make donations.
He said that with the consent of Gorres he is “pushing through with the Z Gorres statuettes and that all profits from the sale of the statuettes will go to Z Gorres” even as he added “. Z needs all the help he could get.”
Although there were plans for Gorres to return home sometime in mid-February there is nothing definite since his doctors and therapists need to be consulted and preparations made for him to continue the proper therapy when he returns home to Cebu.
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