CASIMERO IN TITLE REMATCH AGAINST AMNAT ON MAY 25 DURING IBF CONVENTION IN CHINA
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 01 Apr 2016
Former light flyweight champion Johnreil Casimero has earned a rematch against Thai champion Amnat Ruenroeng with the fight scheduled to be a highlight of the IBF Convention in Beijing, China on May 25.
Sammy Gello-ani who co-promotes Casimero with well known internatioal promoter/matchmaker Sampson Lewkowicz told The Standard following his return from a press conference in Beijing with Casimero said Johnreil went home for a quick visit to his hometown in Ormoc and would return to the gym on Saturday.
Gello-ani said "we need to win this one after what happened to Marvin Sonsona" whose wild and wooly ways lost the respect of Lewkowicz who helped him but got no respect in return.
The rematch will take place some eleven months after Casimero's first clash with the IBF flyweight champion in one of the ugliest and worst officiated title fights in recent years where referee Larry Doggett allowed several clinches by the Thai champion, head-butts and takedowns before penalizing Ruenroeng in the eleventh round by which time the champion had sealed victory.
Upset over the performance of referee Doggett who tolerated Ruenroeng?s patently foul tactics including numerous headlocks resorted to by Ruenroeng, Sammy Gello-ani formally wrote to IBF president Darryl Peoples and Championship Committee chairman Lindsey Tucker protesting the failure of referee Larry Doggett to stop the persistent foul tactics of the Thai champion which emboldened him to continue.
Gello-ani protested the fact that American referee Doggett did nothing to stop the champion from repeatedly sending Casimero to the canvas in takedowns, constantly holding and grabbing for long spells and catching him in a headlock and around the throat several times.
He also pointed out that Doggett failed to call a clear knockdown in round three when Casimero caught Ruenroeng with a perfectly-timed left hook with the groggy champion allowed time to fix his loose laces that helped him recover while Doggett ruled a knockdown in the previous round when Amnat connected with a much less cleaner punch and dropped an off-balance Casimero.
Gello-Ani said Casimero has committed to training hard for the title rematch and should prevail provided the IBF picks a competent referee and judges.
Also on the undercard is former World Boxing Council strawweight titlist Xiong Zhao Zhong, the first Chinese boxer to win a world title who will face a still unnamed opponent in a title eliminator with the winner due to next face recently crowned championt Jose Argumedo.
Photo: Thailand's Ruenroeng and the Philippines' Johnreil Casimero during the weighin of their first fight.
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