"Hellboy" Garin Diagan on the Way to Puerto Rico
By Carlos Costa
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 18 Aug 2023
Skilled Filipino challenger "Hellboy" Garin Diagan (10-3, 5 KO's, on the left), and DBS (Dragon Boxing Stable) Teammate travel on a jet plane on their way to beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico for Garin's crucial 12-rounder title fight against Boricua WBO World Champion Oscar Collazo (7-0, 5 KO"s).
The hard-swinging Puerto Rican Oscar Collazo, 26, is the very same fighter who made Melvin Jerusalem (20-3, 12 KO's), quit on his bangkito, shockingly dethroning the Pinoy world champ last May.
He wants to do the same to Diagan. Could he?
No way, say Diagan fans in Gensan, Cebu and elsewhere: "Diagan is Hellboy! He will be the one to give Hell!"
Both, Collazo and Diagan are young, glory-hungry, talented southpaws, wanting more than anything to score the big win.
The winner will go on to reign as the WBO Minimumweight Champion of the World.
Will it be Collazo or Diagan?
Promoted by Oscar de la Hoya in association with Miguel Cotto, the Oscar Collazo vs Garin Diagan championship war will take place at the famed Roberto Clemente Coliseum on August 26 for Collazo's WBO 105 World Title, live worldwide on DAZN.
Von Voyage, Garin, May the Best Man Win!
The author Carlos Costa can be reached at carlos@philboxing.com
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