“Batang Maasin”
boxer takes a crack at international belt
By BONG PEDALINO (PIA
Southern Leyte)
September 20, 2007
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte
– A home-grown ring fighter will travel to South Africa to try
his luck at a World Boxing Council (WBC) International title in a
fight scheduled on Friday, September 21.
Alex Aroy, dubbed “Batang
Maasin” and “Maasin Bomber” will face “WBC International minimumweight
champion Zukisani Kwayiba in a 12-round bout on September 21, 2007, at
the Carousel Hotel and Casino in Temba, South Africa,” said Mayor
Maloney Samaco in his “Sports Roundup” column in the latest issue of a
local weekly.
It will not be an easy
outing for the Maasin boxing sensation, whose opponent has been billed
as “one of the most exciting prospects to come out of Eastern Cape,
South Africa in recent years” Samaco wrote in quotes, apparently
reflecting the sentiments of top analysts.
Kwayiba, nicknamed
“Troublemaker”, has been undefeated in all the nine professional
fights he had undergone, seven among those victories coming by way of
knockout.
He was also the conqueror of
Filipino boxer Gabriel Pumar of Lapu-Lapu City, his record showed, and
was highly successful in his first title defense versus fellow South
African Sithembile Kibiti by a first-round technical knock-out (TKO).
