MAASIN CITY BIDS TO HOST THE 2012 ABAP NATIONAL BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP
By Maloney L. Samaco
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 05 Sep 2012
MAASIN CITY, SOUTHERN LEYTE - In an effort to boost the sports program of Maasin City, the city government bids for the hosting of the 2013 Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines (ABAP) National Boxing Championships. The event will also make the city known throughout the country especially in the sporting world. It will be the local government unit?s contribution for the advancement of amateur boxing in the country.
The bid was coursed through ABAP Executive Director Ed Picson. This writer met with him personally at a dinner in Cebu City before he left for the London Olympics to discuss the merits of Maasin City hosting the biggest national boxing event next year.
The proposed tentative schedule is the month of February or March next year. The annual budget for sports development of the city will include the expenses of the hosting which will amount to an estimated one million pesos. This will include the hotel accommodation of the boxers and their coaches, including their meals.
Maasin City is accessible by land transportation from the Luzon (through Sorsogon and Samar) and Mindanao Area (through Surigao City). It could be reached by plane through Tacloban Airport. The main venue is the 5,000-seat capacity Maasin City Gymnasium, just in front of the City Hall. Hotels where the boxers, coaches and officials will be billeted are at walking distances from the City Gym.
The hosting of big sporting events is part of the city?s sports development program which is embodied in the vision of Maasin City as a ?center for sports excellence, eco-recreation and religious pilgrimage in this part of the Visayas.? It will boast tourism and economic activities in this bustling capital city.
Maasin City amateur boxing program is on a modest rise. It garnered the overall championship for boxing during the 2012 Eastern Visayas Regional Athletic Association Meet. Maasin got three silver medals during the Batang Pinoy Visayas leg at Dumaguete City last November and got one silver and two bronze medals during the National Batang Pinoy 2011 at Naga City last December. During the national championships in Tagbilaran City last year, Ruby Nicanor got the silver medal in the 48 kg. junior girls and Shiela Jean Vanzuela got the bronze medal in the 40 kg. youth girls.
Edileo Abrea is now a member of the ABAP national training team in Baguio City. National coaches Elias Recaido, 2004 Hiroshima Asian Games gold medalist, and Joan Tipon, 2010 Doha Asian Games gold medalist, conducted coaching clinics here last August. This is part of the city?s upgrading of the coaches? competence.
The Southern Leyte Amateur Boxing Association, under the auspices of the ABAP, was organized in the city to spearhead officiating proficiency in the whole province. The referees and judges here were trained by the Amateur Boxing Referees and Judges Association of the Philippines (ABREJAP).
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