Just when Z Gorres’ career has been on an upward spiral, his older brother Jun, 31, suddenly dies.
Jun (Maximo Jr.), according to a spotty report in SSC, was probably ganged up on as he suffered multiple knife wounds, one which almost severed his neck.
Our report had it happening in Barangay Bakilid, Mandaue, while JFT and CPL of our sister publication, Sun.Star Superbalita, wrote that the incident took place at Sacres Road Ext. in Barangay Tipolo of the same city – practically the only thing that both accounts had in common besides Jun Gorres’ name.
ABSURD. The Superbalita report has more details, suggesting Jun’s death had something to do with drugs and as one “eyewitness” had absurdly claimed, that Gorres killed himself with self-inflicted stab wounds after falling through the roof of a sari-sari store.
That is for the police to determine. And as we all know, in this country, the truth has a strange way of not letting itself be known if funding is inadequate. Gorres’ family is not particularly wealthy and as the Superbalita account had it, his family is not too keen on having his body autopsied.
Whatever the reason for Gorres’ death, we only hope that Jun is in a better place.
Now this business of knives being used to attack people. Whatever heroics the movies show – a good knife fighter always has an advantage over a good barehanded fighter – boxer or kungfu expert.
An average Filipino male going up against a man like Gorres will soon find out the former world light-welterweight world contender is not one to trifle with. So it’s plausible that several persons assaulted him and used to knives to even up matters.
It was a tragic gruesome end to one of Cebu’s most promising boxers who quit the fight game but decided to maintain his connection to the sport as a trainer.
Actually, local sports suffered a double whammy lately with veteran sports columnist Manuel N. Oyson Jr. suffering a stroke last Saturday. He is still in the hospital. We hope Noy Maning will be back on his feet anytime soon.
Whether you agree with him or not, there’s no arguing the fact that attorney Oyson is an institution in local sports. He has hammered away at thousands of columns on everything since as long as sexagenarians can remember. Local feuding sports leaders have been his recent favorite punching bag. Or what’s a Counterpunch for?
MMA AT THE COLISEUM. Call it coincidence or synchronicity but after we came out with a piece on a mixed martial arts organization inhibiting media access (“Gag the rags” SSC Nov. 12), before you could say MMA, we realize that a local group will present “Only The Strong Survive 3” on Friday starting 8 p.m. at the Cebu Coliseum.
We heard the promoters held a presscon last Thursday at Baseline Restaurant in Scoop kingpin Bobby “Knight” Inoferio’s regular get-together.
We were hoping posters or at least a fight program was available for our perusal. But since none are available and being the nocturne that we are (a pre-lunch forum is an unholy-hour gathering and we couldn’t be there), we employed our hunting instincts and pieced together some of the match-ups.
The following are all in the mixed-martial-arts category: Yawyan Ardigma’s Paul Reboquiou (140 pounds) versus Jerming Lazo (152lb) of Arcomjukai Kickboxing Club; YA’s Rene “Ironman” Noblefranca (130lb) vs. AKB’s Edmund Vergara (130lb); YA’s Reynante Dioso (130lb) vs. Pablo Santillan (132lb) of Durex Dragon Kickboxing Club-Lapu-Lapu and YA’s Aileen Ting (105lb) vs. Nova Dinolan (105lb) of Angel Technique Club-Mandaue.
It has been rumored for the good part of a year that Mixed Martial Arts Entertainment Inc., organizers of the OTSS series, hooked up with the Manila-based Universal Reality Combat Championship to produce a tournament in Cebu to serve as the eliminations for a URCC competition in Manila. That fell through twice. A third time is not desirable.
