BORNEA TWINS IN BIG WINS
By Manny Piñol
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 08 Dec 2014
The upcoming stars of Philippine boxing, twins Jake and Jade Bornea, both flyweights, scored big in their respective bouts in the boxing event staged Saturday in M'lang, North Cotabato.
Jade, the older of the twins but who turned pro later than his brother Jake, stopping a game but outclassed Armando Yee after the end of the second round for a 3rd round TKO victory.
It was Jade's second victory in as many professional outings and his second consecutive stoppage victory.
Younger twin brother, Jake, who turned pro ahead of Jade, punished Rowiel Garcia causing a huge welt in the latter's left eye before stopping him at 2:45 of the second round.
It was Jake's 8th win in 9 professional outings.
The twins, both former members of the amateur boxing team, are under a promotional contract with Sonshine Sports Management and are being lined up for bigger fights in 2015.
In a card staged by Sonshine Sports Management in cooperation with Amoy Boxing of Gen. Santos City which manages the twins and the municipal government of M'lang under Mayor Lito Pinol, six other Sonshine Sports boxers scored victories over their opponents.
Here are the results:
- Former amateur standout Jaime Quitoriano won over Vergil Degoma by majority decision in 6 rounds of a junior bantamweight bout;
- Manobo fighter Michael Bravo stopped Jessie Suacasa in the 3rd of a scheduled 6 round junior flyweight bout;
- Roskie Cristobal stopped Rey dela Cruz at 45 seconds of the first round of a scheduled lightweight 6 rounder;
- Jilbert Gomera stopped Dingdong Quinones at 2:36 of the first round of the 6-round bantamweight bout;
- Rolando Magbanua stopped JP Macadumpis at 39 seconds of the 3rd round of scheduled 8-round featherweight bout;
- Lorenzo Villanueva knocked down veteran Jaime Barcelona in the 6th en route to a majority decision victory after 8 rounds.
The fights will be shown on SMNI Channel 39 every Saturday at 9 a.m.
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