SONSONA FAILS TO LEAVE AGAIN
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 06 Jan 2010
“Marvelous” Marvin Sonsona failed to once again leave for the United States to begin training for his WBO super bantamweight title fight against undefeated Wilfredo Vazquez Jr set for February 27 in Puerto Rico.
He was supposed to fly to Manila from his hometown of General Santos City on Sunday to join Ciso “Kid Terrible” Morales and Nonito Donaire Sr on a flight to San Francisco but their departure was called off after Sonsona, for unknown reasons failed to take the flight from GenSan.
Promoter Sammy Gello-ani who worked hard along with international matchmaker/promoter Sampson “Picasso” Lewkowicz to get Sonsona the title shot after he lost his WBO super flyweight title when he failed to make the weight in his first defense at Casino Rama in Ontario, Canada last November 21, traveled to GenSan via Davao on Sunday to meet with Sonsona and his parents to find out what was wrong.
Latest word is that his father said there was no family problem as earlier rumored while his mother said on Monday that Gello-ani had bought a ticket for Sonsona who would hopefully leave for Manila on Tuesday and catch a connecting flight to Los Angeles where he and Morales are supposed to train at the Kennel Gym in San Francisco.
Morales faces WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel in a title fight on the “Pinoy Power III” card at the Las Vegas Hilton on February 13 which will be telecast in the Philippines by the giant broadcast network ABS-CBN which recently signed a two-year output deal with Top Rank promoter Bob Arum.
www.insidesports.ph, Standard Today and Viva Sports learned that when Sonsona was asked why he wasn’t training and why he didn’t leave as scheduled, he provided no answer even as he indicated he doesn’t pay any attention to criticism of his attitude.
All efforts to contact Gello-ani proved futile while Nonito Donaire Sr who continues to work hard with Morales at the IPI Gym in Mandaue said if Sonsona is not ready to fight then he would prefer continuing to train Morales in Cebu and leave for Las Vegas about two weeks before his title fight against Montiel.
Donaire said Morales was looking good and coming along nicely and he has high hopes for the young fighter.
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