SONSONA LEAVES FOR THE U.S. WITH DONAIRE SR AND MORALES TONIGHT
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 06 Jan 2010
“Marvelous” Marvin Sonsona (14-0-1, 12 O’s) leaves for San Francisco tonight (Wednesday in Manila) along with Ciso “Kid Terrible” Morales (14-0, 8 KO’s) and trainer Nonito Donaire Sr after their flights had to be postponed on two occasions when Sonsona failed to take a flight from his hometown of General Santos City to Manila.
Well known promoter Sammy G ello-ani who has handled the career of Sonsona traveled to GenSan to pick up Sonsona and accompany him to Manila to make sure he keeps his commitment for the February 27 title fight against Wilfredo Vazquez Jr (17-0-1, 14 KO’s) in Puerto Rico.
A somewhat relieved Gello-ano told us that the Puerto Rican promoters had spent a lot of money to build-up the super bantamweight title fight and had what Gello-ani said was “a very important press conference” on January 14 and that “everybody wanted to see him (Sonsona) there.”
Gello-ani said Morales who faces WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel (39-2-2, 29 KO’s) in a title fight on the “Pinoy Power III” Top Rank Promotions card at the Las Vegas Hilton was arriving in Manila from Cebu along with trainer Nonito Donaire at 6:30 p.m. and would be joined by Sonsona on the Philippine Airlines flight to San Francisco where they will train at the Kennel Boxing Gym.
Gello-ani said he is flying to San Francisco on Sunday and will accompany Sonsona to Puerto Rico for the press conference after which the former WBO super flyweight champion who lost his title in his first defense when he failed to make the weight in his November 21 bout against Mexico’s Alejandro Hernandez at Casino Rama in Ontario, Canada. However, since the fight ended in a d raw the title remains vacant.
Gello-ani claimed that the 19 year old Sonsona was immature and still wanted to enjoy life and that his parents reportedly couldn’t control him.
Gello-ani said he needs time to mature and said “I hope he will mature after a year or even after this fight” because he is a talented fighter.
When we cited the maturity shown by newly crowned WBO light flyweight interim champion Johnreil Casimiro who scored a stunning 11th round knockout over highly fancied Cesar Canchlla recently, Gello-ani pointed out that the “family background was different who back him up, make sure he has good training while in the case of Sonsona his father cannot control him. That’s why I went to GenSan just to let him (Sonsona)know that this fight is very important.”
We had a chance to talk to Sonsona and advised him to take his career seriously and to make use of the opportunities given him. While he thanked us f or our concern Sonsona said he was “okay and will train hard for the fight” adding “I can do it.”
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