ALA PROMOTIONS KICKS OFF 2016 WITH BIG FEBRUARY CARD
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Tue, 05 Jan 2016
ALA Promotions kicks off 2016 with a big card on February 27 at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino in Cebu titled ?Stars of the Future? headlined by unbeaten super bantamweight Prince Albert Pagara and featherweight Mark ?Magnifico? Magsayo along with KJ Cataraja and unbeaten minimum weight Melvin Jerusalem.
Pagara will face former IBF super flyweight champion Juan Carlos Sanchez Jr, the 24 year old Mexican southpaw with a record of 20-4-1 with 9 knockouts who battled Cesar Juarez and lost by a twelve round unanimous decision in a WBO International title fight.
Juarez subsequently engaged five division world champion Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire in a brutal fight for the vacant WBO 122 pound title which Donaire won after dropping Juarez twice in the fourth round before Juarez made an unbelievable turnaround and engaged Donaire in a slugfest in the second half of the fight, showing no signs of tiredness while throwing flurries of punches and not backing off even after getting nailed by some big shots.
Sanchez Jr who beat Juan Francisco Estrada, the current WBO/WBA flyweight champion in an eight round bout early in his career but lost in a rematch also scored a 9th round knockout in a title defense against Filipino Rodel Mayol on September 22, 2012.
The 21 year old Pagara in his last fight when he made his US debut at the StubHub Center in Carson City, California scored an impressive 6th round knockout over Nicaraguan southpaw William Gonzalez to win the vacant WBO Youth Intercontinental title after earlier scoring a spectacular 1st round knockout over highly touted Hugo Partida to win the vacant IBF Intercontinental title on June 21, 2014.
Magsayo will face off with another Mexican warrior in 22 year old lightweight Eduardo Montoya who has a record of 17-4-1 with 13 knockouts.
Montoya who is scheduled to fight Tony Luis for the WBC Latino Interim title on January 29 is coming off a 6th round TKO win over Cipriano Garcia in a scheduled ten round bout last October 2 after earlier scoring a ten round unanimous decision over Luis Gonzalez on September 19, 2014.
Magsayo also fought on the initial US presentation of ALA Promotions in partnership with the giant broadcast network ABS-CBN and the widely watched TFC ? The Filipino Channel ? and scored a spectacular 1st round knockout of fancied Mexican Yardley Suarez to capture the IBF Youth featherweight title after earlier winning by a 5th round TKO over Rafael Reyes on July 11, 2015.
The 20 year old Magsayo has a record of 12-0 with 10 knockouts and together with Pagara is regarded as a future world champion.
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