MANILA, Philippines Tokyo-bound boxer Eumir Felix Marcial is joining Irish Magno, Nesthy Petecio and Carlo Paalam as they pitch camp in Thailand next month as part of their Tokyo Olympics buildup. Marcial has communicated to Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines his plan to rejoin the national squad in training after his second professional fight in Los Angeles, California initially slated next month before its postponement..
Published February 15, 2021, 5:24 PM
Photo from Nesthy Petecio
Tokyo Olympics hopeful Nesthy Petecio calls her best friend, the one she trusts whether they do something serious or funny, the person she wants to take care of her baby – if the time comes.
But that one person is gone now. Gone too soon.
Alexcel Dargantes, 24, passed away Saturday evening, the Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (ABAP) announced Monday. She was a member of the ABAP women’s team from 2013-2017.
Petecio, who has been in the training camp bubble in Laguna since last month, expressed her pain and sorrow in Facebook posts since Saturday, as well as her stories of friendship with Dargantes.
Published January 24, 2021, 5:45 PM
In this file photo, Philippines’ Eumir Felix Marcial (left) defeats Malaysia’s Che Azmi Mohd Aswan in boxing’s middleweight semifinals at PICC Forum in Pasay last December. (MB File Photo)
After a month-long rest, Eumir Marcial will resume with his training program this week under Hall of Fame coach Freddie Roach at the Wild Card Gym in preparation for his second professional fight in March.
The 25-year-old Marcial had his professional debut Dec. 16 when he scored a unanimous victory against American Andrew Whitfield at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California
Since then, he took a break even from training with Roach.
Senior Reporter
THE planned return to training of national athletes vying for a spot in the rescheduled Olympic Games at the weekend did not push through and instead was delayed by a week, but the Philippine Sports Commissionâs (PSC) reminder on safety stays.
In a virtual orientation last week, the PSC reiterated that while the return to training of the athletes is very important with less than 200 days to go before the sporting spectacle to be held in Tokyo and final qualifiers for it just around the corner, such should not be done at the expense of proper health and safety protocols.
Published January 2, 2021, 1:26 PM
The Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (ABAP) has been working double time to send Olympic hopefuls and qualifiers to a training camp in Thailand in the midst of the pandemic.
ABAP secretary general Ed Picson said if things fall into place, select Filipino boxers including Olympic-bound Irish Magno would train for two months at a facility in Muaklek, a two-hour drive from Bangkok starting in February.
“Our counterparts there are working feverishly to make this happen,” Picson told
Manila Bulletin, adding that they got an offer from the Thailand Boxing Federation last November.
He said the original plan was to send the PH squad last December, but they were faced with challenges in working on Thailand’s stringent requirements on travel protocols due to the pandemic.