GESTA HAS NO TROUBLE HANDLING PACQUIAO SPARRING PARTNERS
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 08 Aug 2010
Promising Filipino lightweight Mercito ?No Mercy? Gesta (18-0-1, 8 KO?s , the southpaw with both speed and power has had no trouble handling two sparring partners of pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao.
Gesta?s assistant manager Vincent Parra told us that Gesta sparred with Amidou of Ghana who reportedly has a record of 17-0 with 16 knockouts and Raymond Beltran (23-4, 15 KO?s) and ?handled them very well.?
Parra said Amidou ?can?t believe that he (Gesta) is only 135 pounds. He was very impressed with him.?
Parra said four-time ?Trainer of the Year? Freddie Roach had been ?helping us out and has done such a great job helping us train.?
Gesta himself told us that it was Roach who matched him up against the bigger fighters to find out whether he could handle them or not and he was able to face up to the sparring partners without trouble.
Gesta told us he was taking it slowly to make sure he has no weight problems in his next fight.
Parra said Gesta was ?doing great? in the almost three weeks they have trained at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles and is ?turning the corner and we are right on track.?
Parra described Gesta?s eight round clash with 35 year old journeyman Genaro Trazcanos who has a record of 22-11-1 with 13 KO?s as a ?stay busy fight? at Casino Del Sol in Tucson, Arizona on August 20.
Trazcanos who was knocked out in the 7th round by Jose Miguel Cotto, the elder brother of reigning WBO light middleweight champion Miguel Cotto in a battle for the vacant WBO Intercontinental super featherweight title fight some years ago is basically considered a washed-up fighter who is coming off a 1st round knockout at the hands of undefeated Mike Dallas Jr, the light welterweight known as ?The Silent Assassin? with a record of 15-0-1 with 5 knockouts on April 8 this year although Trazcanos won by a 1st round TKO over Waldo Vela (0-9-3) last October 24, 2009.
Promoter Don Chargin has Gesta going right away on September 17 in San Diego in which the soft-spoken Filipino will defend his WBO North American Boxing Organization youth title against a still unknown contender.
Gesta won the vacant WBO NABO youth title with an impressive win over Mexico?s Oscar Meza. Gesta dropped Meza with a wicked body shot in round four forcing the Mexican to retire on June 4 this year.
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