PROMOTER TUTO ZABALA JR ASSURES EVERYTHING IS ?GOOD TO GO? IN PARRENAS-CARMONA INTERIM TITLE FIGHT
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 24 Jun 2015
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Promoter Tuto Zabala Jr has played down some concerns over the WBO super flyweight Interim title fight between WBO Oriental champion Warlito ?Cowboy? Parrenas who is ranked No.1 and Mexico?s David Carmona who is No.2.
Zabala informed the New Standard/boxingmirror.com that ?everything is good to go for July 4 in Mexico.?
The assurance was given after Parrenas expressed some concern that he was being given the runaround after the bout which was initially supposed to take place on June 20 was postponed to June 27 and then again to July 4.
The latest wrinkle which Parrenas mentioned to us after he arrived in Manila from Tokyo on Tuesday evening so he could obtain his visa to Mexico since its reportedly much less of a hassle here, was that the spelling of his name on his airline ticket to Mexico was incorrect.
Parrenas has to return to Tokyo after he acquires his visa since he, British trainer Warren Evison and Japanese trainer Hero Bando who once fought undefeated Edwin Valero. The Venezuelan southpaw with 27 KO?s in 27 wins before he died in prison, are set to leave for Mexico on June 29.
Parrenas told the New Standard/boxingmirror.com he hopes the promoter is not playing games with him just like the initial postponement of the fight date which drew a remark from WBO president Francisco ?Paco? Valcarcel who said he didn?t want any further delays.
In response to questions from us, Zabala Jr said ?nothing here has been done with bad intentions? as he explained how hard it is to promote an interim title fight in the smaller weight divisions. We also had a conflict with the date because of TV commitments and for this reason we had to postpone the fight for only two weeks.?
Before he arrived in Manila, Parrenas had his last sparring when he went six rounds with tough and talented former Oriental Pacific Boxing Federation champion Takuya Kogawa with Parrenas describing the 30 year old Japanese as ?strong, someone who hits hard and is resilient.?
He said the sparring with Kogawa helped ?develop my stamina because he was very fast and threw a lot of punches.?
Kogawa who is also preparing for an upcoming fight has a record of 23-4 with 13 knockouts and counts among his victims former WBC world champion Sonny Boy Jaro in a ten round bout on April 7, 2013.
Evison believes that Parrenas who is ?going through vigorous training with altitude masks and also does some hard work on the punch-mitts in a gameplan to put pressure on his opponent.?
Parrenas didn?t underestimate Carmona who, he said, ?is a good boxer with speed and technique but has no power? and that could make the difference as the world No. 1 has an impressive record of 21 knockouts in 24 wins with 6 losses while the No. 2 ranked Carmona has a record of 19-2-4 with 8 knockouts.
The lanky Filipino vowed ?I?ll do my best for my family, my country and supporters.?
Zabala informed us that Carmona was ?very good in training and has been working with Martin Casillas (15-5, 9 KO?s) and Alejandro Hernandez.?
The 29 year old Hernandez who is ranked No. 10 by the WBC and No. 12 by the WBA in the bantamweight division world rankings won the vacant Latino title with a unanimous ten round decision over Casillas last March 20 and has a record of 29-11-1 with 16 knockouts.
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