MAKING A FATHER PROUD: KO Win is Bai Elorde’s Fitting Birthday Gift to Papa Johnny
By Alex P. Vidal
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 30 Jul 2007
Bai Elorde (L) poses with the author.
International promoter Johnny Elorde will be celebrating his birthday on August 1 as a proud father.
This was after his son, Bai Elorde, fulfilled a promise many young pugilists like him failed to give their fathers: score a scintillating knockout victory and offer it as birthday gift to a father who’s into fight business.
Bai Elorde, popularly known as “the grandson of the late (Gabriel) Flash Elorde”, blasted into smithereens Rommel Discalsote in three rounds of a 4-rounder non-title tiff Saturday at the Flash Grand Ballroom of Elorde Sports Complex in Para?aque City promoted by his father.
Philboxing reported earlier that Elorde dominated Discalsote in scoring the stoppage win. It was Bai Elorde’s third win, and the most impressive, in as many outings as a professional fighter after a brief but sterling career in the amateur.
Before pummeling Discalsote into submission, Elorde connected hard punches that hurt his foe in the second stanza.
Discalsote was counted out by the referee after he fell from a combination of hard punches, the last of which, according to Philboxing, was a straight right to his face.
In his last fight in March this year where he scored a lopsided decision also in the same ring, Bai Elorde, was mobbed like a celebrity.
“Iba ang batang ‘to,” sighed Bai’s equally proud uncle, Gabriel “Bebot” Elorde, Jr. who watched with awe in the ringside. “Tutularan sia ng ibang kabataan dahil siya lang ang boksingerong college gradute.” (What is extraordinary about Bai is he is the only boxer who is a college graduate).
Bebot Elorde, also an international promoter and manager, said he will not be surprised if Bai Elorde will someday follow the footsteps of his “great” grandfather who reigned as world junior lightweight ruler unmolested for seven years.
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