CONCEPCION RETURNS HOME ON SUNDAY
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 10 May 2008
Now that his planned May 17 fight in Aguascalientes, Mexico won?t take place and he will instead see action on the ?Lethal Combination? fight card headlined by Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao and WBC lightweight champion David Diaz at the Mandalay Bay Resort Hitel & Casino in Las Vegas on June 28, Bernabe Concepcion is coming home for a short visit.
Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today learned that the North American Boxing Federation super bantamweight champion was scheduled to leave aboard a Philippine Airlines flight from Los Angeles which would arrive in Manila early Sunday morning.
Michael Koncz who is the business manager of Concepcion had earlier informed Concepcion that he would not fight on May 17 and that Top Rank ?will most likely put him on the undercard of the Pacquiao-Diaz fight.?
Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao?s lawyer, Atty. Franklin ?Jeng? Gacal said that Pacquiao and Koncz were the business managers of Concepcion while former boxer Aljoe Jaro remains as manager.
There were no definite details on the planned Concepcion fight on June 28 but its clear that Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is very impressed with the undefeated 20-year-old and would wish to have a second Filipino fighter on the Pacquiao-Diaz card which would add to the pay-per-view drawing power.
Concepcion (24-0-1, 13 KO?s) scored a spectacular second round TKO in a title defense against 2004 US Olympic alternate Torrence Daniels in Quartero, Mexico last April 26. It was Concepcion?s 17th straight victory.
As a result of his win Concepcion who was ranked No. 7 by the pre-eminent World Boxing Council has moved up from No. 7 to o. 4 in the latest ratings as promised by WBC president Don Jose Sulaiman who was at special ringside with his son, WBC secretary general Mauricio Sulaiman who awarded Concepcion the NABF championship belt after the fight.
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