Cebu City ? Stablemates Prince Albert Pagara and Mark Magsayo did their best to score knockout wins but their respective Hispanic foes didn?t dance to their music late Saturday night at the Waterfront Hotel.
Pagara knocked Nicaraguan Yesner Talavera in the seventh round of a 12-round super-bantamweight match but had to settle for a lopsided decision.
But Pagara was not amused by the outcome, saying he could have come up with an explosive showing had it not been for Talavera?s survival tactics.
?I fought a runner and not a boxer,? said Pagara after his clear-cut win. ?It?s hard to fight somebody whose purpose is to survive.?
Pagara was so disappointed that he described Talavera as somebody who gave boxing a bad name.
?Hindi siya warrior,? said Pagara who ran his record to 26-0 with 18 KOs.
Although Talavera did engage Pagara, he was hesitant to go all the way during exchanges, prompting to employ side-to-side movements to evade Pagara?s assault.
The same thing happened to Magsayo in his ten-round feather tiff with Mexican Eduardo Montoya, who went down also in the seventh stanza but went on to hear the final bell.
Magsayo wanted to make an impression but Montoya, who fought like ex-world champion Manuel Medina, also rode his bicycle as the Bohol-bred could not catch him with a clean blow.
The victory only ensured Pagara?s spot in a promotion ALA Boxing is staging on July 9 in San Mateo, California.
Magsayo?s win also guaranteed him an appearance on April 23 here when Nonito Donaire risks his world title against Zsolt Bedak of Hungary.
