CHARLY SUAREZ' QUEST FOR GOLD CONTINUES
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 11 Apr 2012
Lightweight Charly Suarez' quest for gold and a berth in the London Olympic Games later this year continues when he battles two-time Japanese national champion Daisuke Narimatsu in the fourth bout of the semifinals in the evening session which will be around 9:00 p.m. today Manila Time.
Suarez needs to win a gold medal to be able to qualify for the London Olympics later this year.
After fierce competition in Astana, Kazakhstan 12 of the 25 slots available in the quota for the 2012 AIBA Asian qualifying event have already been decided, while the other 13 including that of Suarez will be decided during two intriguing days of semi final and final battles.
Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines president Ricky Vargas told the Manila Standard that Suarez who scored an electrifying 14-5 win of Asian Championships bronze medalist Abdlay Uulu Anarbay of Kyrzgystan in the quarter finals on Monday ?is well known here and called the ?Bombay Tiger? ? in an obvious reference to his stint with the Mumbai Fighters team of India in the World Series of Boxing where he scored a stunning shutout win over World No. 4 ranked Semen Gribachev of Azerbaijan last March.
Vargas said Suarez ?has matured a lot from his World Series of Boxing stint as part of team India.?
India has already qualified five boxers for the London Olympic Games while four more are in contention in the semi finals in Kazakhstan today aside from Beijing Olympics welterweight bronze medalist Vijender Singh who has already secured a spot in the Olympics but will also see action today.
Singh who combines his boxing skills with good looks is credited with giving the sport in India a major boost and this can be gleaned from the number of boxers India will send to the London Olympics.
With only 17 year old Mark Anthony Barriaga having qualified, Suarez is the last hope among the men?s team to make it to London.
He goes up against a talented Japanese in Narimatsu in the semis and will have to display the same relentless style he showed against Anarby using his hand-speed and movement to overcome the Japanese southpaw and make it to the finals.
Narimatsu won the Japanese national title in the bantamweight division in 2010 with a 9-2 victory over Chikashi Kawada in the finals and on November 20, 2011 beat Kenji Fujita, the defending lightweight champion 23-16 in the finals to win back-to-back titles.
Vargas also mentioned the fact that Suarez, typical of most young Filipino athletes, is building a house for his parents in Panabo, Davao from his allowances and incentives.
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