ALDEGUER CLARIFIES OFFER TO SIGN UP TAPALES
By Dong Secuya
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 04 Aug 2016
CEBU ? ALA Promotions president Michael Aldeguer told Philboxing that he was still very much interested to sign up newly crowned WBO bantamweight champion Marlon Tapales in a promotional deal but clarified some misconceptions that Tapales would be signing up with the ALA Stable.
?ALA Promotions International and the ALA Stable are two different entities,? Aldeguer said. ?ALA Promotions, like any promotional company such as Top Rank and Golden Boy, is in the business of promoting fighters while the ALA Gym has its stable of fighters and is independent from ALA Promotions. It just so happens that right now ALA Promotions is mostly promoting the ALA stable of fighters. But it is not always that way. And from the very beginning, as you know, it was the aim of ALA Promotions to promote any Filipino fighter regardless of where or what boxing stable he is coming from,? Aldeguer said.
?So if Tapales signs up with ALA Promotions,? Aldeguer continued, ?Tapales would still be under the RWS Gym and Wakee Salud would still be his manager. He would still be very much a Wakee Salud fighter and not an ALA Stable fighter. But if he signs up with ALA Promotions, Tapales would become a major attraction in our Pinoy Pride series.?
Aldeguer also pointed out that in fact Tapales fought in the undercard of one Pinoy Pride event. Interestingly, Tapales fought against Rasmanudin of Indonesia under the AJ Banal vs Pungluang Sor Singyu world title fight at the Mall of Asia Arena on Oct. 20, 2012 where Sor Singyu stopped Banal in the 9th round to capture his first world title. It was the same Sor Singyu whom Tapales stopped in the 11th round Wednesday last week in Ayutthaya, Thailand that catapulted Tapales for his first world title belt.
ALA Promotions had previously signed up boxers outside of the ALA Stable like Katsunari Takayama of Japan, Lorenzo Villanueva and Rommel Asenjo of the Braveheart Stable and Vic Saludar.
However, most of the boxers that were featured in ALA Promotions' highly successful Pinoy Pride series which saw stops not only in the Philippines but in the US and the Middle East were from the ALA Stable and with its partnership with TV network giant ABS-CBN and its overseas arm TFC, many of these promotions became high profile events and its boxers became instant celebrities. It was all good as long as the boxers kept on winning but the promotions itself and the ALA Stable suffer from fan criticism and emotional letdown when its hyped up fighters lose, especially in important fights just like what happened with Albert Pagara who lost to Cesar Juarez in a high profile and well-promoted event at the San Mateo Event Center in California last July 9. Nevertheless, ALA Promotions is in the business of successfully promoting fighters and events and if a fighter fails to deliver, it is something that is beyond its control.
Meanwhile, Aldeguer, who is in Manila for a series of meetings with the ABS-CBN people, and Salud, who has just recently returned to Cebu from its short vacation in Singapore, have yet to sit down together to thresh out a promotional agreement for the Philippines' newest world champion Marlon 'The Maranding Nightmare' Tapales.
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