PACQUIAO, JINKEE AND CHILDREN ARRIVING FOR CONCEPCION?S FIGHT IN LAS VEGAS
By Alex P. Vidal
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 24 Jul 2008
LOS ANGELES, California ? Double crown world champion Manny Pacquiao will be accompanied by wife Jinkee and two children Jemuel and Michael when he arrives Thursday night from Manila to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to watch the fight of North American Boxing Federation (NABF) super bantamweight champion Bernabe ?Kamaong Llave? Concepcion against Adam Carrera in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 26.
This was revealed by boxing agent Michael Koncz who got the confirmation from their associate Rex ?Wakee? Salud in a long distance call from Cebu in the Philippines.
?Wakee just informed me that Manny is coming with Jinkee and the kids,? said Koncz, head of Team Concepcion that motored to Las Vegas this morning.
Jinkee had earlier wanted to go to Singapore but changed her mind in the eleventh hour to join her husband, a boxing superstar in Las Vegas, added Koncz.
Koncz said the Pacquiao family will go to Las Vegas to be at ringside at the MGM Grand Event Center, site of the world welterweight championship tussle between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito, the main event of the pay-per-view show presented by Bob Arum?s Top Rank Promotion.
After the fight, Jinkee and the kids will fly to Mexico for a week-long vacation, said Koncz.
Pacquiao will iron out some kinks with Arum in relation to his next title defense at the Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas either against Edwin Valero or Humberto Soto.
It will be known whether Arum will ink a deal with Golden Boy Promotions to pit Pacquiao against junior middleweight champion Oscar De La Hoya this year or in early 2009.
Joining the entourage with Concepcion and Koncz to Las Vegas from Pacquiao?s apartment at the Palazzo in La Brea here were Pacquiao staff Winchell Campos promoter and manager Aljoe Jaro, former WBC international champion Jovi Chan-Halog, boxer Vernie Torres and Sammy trainer Sammy Halibas.
Diosdado ?The Prince? Gabi and Jinkee?s elder brother Russle Jamora will join with the Pacquiao family in going to the glitzy city dubbed as ?entertainment capital of the world.?
World Boxing Council (WBC) ring physician Dr. Allan L. Recto, who will act as cut man, will arrive in Las Vegas from Laredo, Texas in the evening.
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