Who would think that slicing an apple with a newly bought cute knife would bring Art Villanueva to the operating table and miss his bout with a slugger from Tanzania?
“Matador” accidentally cut a tendon in his left hand, costing him a chance to show the world his skill first honed by Negros Amateur Boxing Association headed by GAB chairman Monju Guanzon.
Rev. Henry Guanzon, who handled him in the Guanzon Stable at Barangay Mansilingan for his early professional bouts, was missing at the presscon yesterday at L’ Fisher Hotel.
The reverend might have been dismayed with the accident but ALA Promotions CEO and president Michael Aldeguer said that his prot?g? will recover hopefully in 2 or 3 months and be back in the ring.
Art surely will not make the same mistake again. And he will remember always that it was an apple that doomed Adam after Eve was lured by the snake in the Garden of Eden.
There was another kind of asp on Tuesday at the Capitol Lagoon. Morning walkers and joggers just did not see or just did not recognize him among the black-shirted runners.
Looks can be deceiving and Donnie “Ahas” Nietes looks small in warmer suit.
He might be petite in civvies but looks big when in boxing trunks embraced by his championship belt atop the ring.
When our eyes met, a smile, a wave was enough to confirm that he remembers faces. And faces are pugilists’ best target.
