BUHAIN WARNS BEBOT ELORDE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 29 Jun 2007
Games and Amusements Board chairman Eric Buhain was visibly upset and embarrassed when Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today informed him that one of the handlers who went to Osaka, Japan with OPBF champion Juanito Rubillar and manager Gabriel "Bebot" Elorde Jr had not returned with the group and was believed to have gone TNT.
Buhain called Elorde and told him that the Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines was a friend and he would have Elorde, his trainers and boxers all denied visa to Japan unless the handler who went TNT, Nestor "Bong" Elorde, was "brought back within a week."
Well-known Japanese boxing manager, matchmaker and journalist Joe Koizumi in a story posted on the philboxing.com website said promoter Takanobu Totsuka had filed a case with the Japanese police about what Koizumi said was "the illegal overstay and illegal work" of Elorde in Japan clearly indicating that Elorde didnt get lost but had deliberately stayed behind. violating the terms and conditions of his visa.
There were similar cases of so-called trainers and handlers failing to return after fights in Japan and South Korea in the past. In some instances non-boxing people posed as trainers or corner-men and allegedly with the connivance of past officials of the GAB traveled to Japan and South Korea and found work in those countries illegally. This resulted in a one year ban imposed by the Japan Boxing Commission on all Filipino fighters. The Elorde case is the first in the past few years.
Koizumi lamented the fact that the latest incident had "mercilessly destroyed" the possibility of the Japan Boxing Commission allowing Filipino boxers who are not ranked in the top twelve being permitted to fight in six or eight round bouts in Japan.
Bebot Elorde said his relative had " gone out drinking with some Filipinos" to celebrate Rubillar?s smashing fifth round knockout victory over Japan?s Ken Nakajima and was not with them when they checked in at the airport.
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