NIETES, GORRES ARRIVE AT FIGHT VENUE!
By Dong Secuya
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 13 Sep 2009
Photo: WBO minimumweight champion Donnie Nietes (L) and bantamweight contender Z Gorres rest at their assigned tent after they arrived at the fight venue at El Palenque de la Feria in Tepic, Narayit.
Gorres is scheduled to fight at 7:00 pm local time (9:00 am Manila time) for the first TV bout while the Nietes-Vargas championship bout will immediately follow after the Gorres fight.
WBO champion Donnie Nietes (L) listens to the instructions by Referee Jose Rivera (R) of Puerto Rico as WBO supervisor Luis Perez (2nd from left), also of Puerto Rico and matchmaker and promoter Sampson 'Picasso' Lewkowicz, listen.
TEAM ALA at the hotel before leaving for the venue (L-R): ALA VP Dennis Canete, trainer Edmund Villamor, AJ Banal, world champion Donnie Nietes, promoter and matchmaker Sampson 'Picasso' Lewkowicz, Z Gorres, trainer Edito Villamor and cutman Dr Allan Recto.
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