GORRES IMPRESSIVE IN PUBLIC SPARRING
By Dong Secuya
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 18 Jan 2008
Cebu City -- Z 'The Dream' Gorres, who will face former world champion Vic Darchinyan in Australia on Feb. 2 at the Waterfront Hotel & Casino, displayed sharpness and good timing during yesterday's public sparring session at the ALA Gym in Banilad, this city.
Gorres sparred three rounds each against lightweight Glen Masicampo and bantamweight Gil Millegen and wowed the crowd at the jampacked ALA Gym as he repeatedly tagged the slower Masicampo with straight lefts and sharp counters and displayed his defensive prowess against the rampaging Millegen.
"We're 90% ready," declared Gorres' trainer Edito Villamor who also informed that Gorres had already logged a hundred rounds in sparring and will do eigtheen more rounds as Gorres tapers off in the next two weeks.
"He's ready to take on Darchinyan," ALA Gym boss Antonio L. Aldeguer said. "I have never seen Gorres so sharp and so confident."
The Gorres-Darchinayan fight is for the IBF super flyweight title elimator where the winner will challenge world champion Dimitri Kirilov of Russia.
Meanwhile, Aldeguer informed that the tickets of the highly-anticipated match were selling briskly and not that many tickets were left for the 3,000-capacity Waterfront Hotel Grand Ballroom.
Dubbed as 'Now or Never', the event will be covered by Solar Sports to be telecast in the Philippines and Australia and by live Internet streaming the rest of the world.
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