~(GAB) Bans Filipino fighters from fighting in Thailand INDEFINITELY~

[puga_ni_nana]

That was really shocking... Well, that is life. People here in the Philippines die of hunger. Better fight and have a chance to earn money.

Many Filipinos are even going to Iraq despite the travel advisory not to go there. They would rather die in Iraq that stay in the Philippines with hungry stomachs.

if you appply or renew for a philippines passport, DFA (Depratment of Foreign Appairs) will stamp your passport "Not valid for travel in Iraq" so that filipinos cannot work in there. but still they find ways to enter iraq illegally through other routes.

[puga_ni_nana]

Filipinos are known hard workers even with little pay all over the world. Sending their money back home will yield greater than to spend it where they work. Still pretty cheap to live in the Philippines, Starbucks Frap is about $2.5 dollars

yeah we sure are pretty hardworking, professionals or blue colar workers were the same. the "little pay" that we receive abroad transforms into lots of money here in the philippines since standard of living is low.

but still it is costly for me to buy a coffee from starbucks here even if it is just $2.5 = P120 and the sad part is they are very good coffee!!!

[puga_ni_nana]

The mistake here is the mismatch. Suspending permits to fight in Thailand is a good quick decision. Local boxing scene in the Philippines is at its all time high, we can develop fighters here anyway that is why the requirements for a Filipino fighter to fight elsewhere is very high.

i agree but since there is not enough fights happening here, filipino boxers were recruited to fight in thailand and unwittingly becomes punching bags in the process since they were most of the time (if not all the time) overmatched. thailand's boxing authority is just letting this malpractice happen...

[tedsares]

Unreal. Thanks, mate

[CutMeMick]

Unreal. Thanks, mate

No worries..

[tedsares]

WTF!

[tedsares]

24-year-old Filipino "Lito" Sisnorio was coming off a fourth-round TKO to reigning WBC flyweight boxing champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam, 63-2 coming in. It was the Filipino’s third successive defeat.

He then fought former WBC flyweight boxing champion Chatchai Sasaku, 58-3, at the Wat Sing School in Thailand on March 30. Sasakul had won his last six fights, four by stoppage, while the Filipino won only five of his 11 fights. Sasakul is the fighter who battered, yes battered, Manny Pacquiao for six rounds before Manny caught him with a devastating combination to win the title by a sensational eighth-round knockout in 1998.

The vastly-experienced Sasakul predictably ended the fight via a fourth-round knockout. He had landed a series of vicious right hooks forcing "Lito" to go down for the count at 2:35. Later, he fell unconscious while eating dinner and was rushed to Bangkok’s Piyamin Hospital where he underwent emergency brain surgery to remove a blood clot. Sadly, he failed to regain consciousness.

His death prompted the Philippine Games and Amusement Board to ban all fights involving Filipino boxers in Thailand starting April 2007. According to BoxRec and other sources, this fight had no approval from the Philippine boxing commission and was considered to be illegal.

So much for the grim details...but let's take a closer look. Why was a 10-6 fighter (or was it 5-4) allowed to fight a 58-3 former champ? And this after having been knocked out by the tough Pongsaklek Wonjongkam just two months earlier.

I recently complained about the mismatch between Amir Kahn and Stefy Bull, but this was on a much deadlier level. This was culpable and egregious. This was not boxing; this was blood sport. This terrible mismatch was not on global Television, nor was it widely publicized...maybe that's why it was allowed to happen. My God, here's a kid who finished his boxing career with a total of 11 fights or 17 fights depending how you interpret BoxRec figures, but he's thrown in with tigers like Wonjongkam and Sasakul . That's flat out criminal.

Was an unscrupulous matchmaker in Thailand involved? Did he work with an equally unscrupulous type in the Philippines who allows fighter to go to Thailand without necessary clearance to fight? Did "Lito" slip out of the country without permission? Has Sisnorio’s manager, Jemmel Contayoso, been questioned? Why did this fight lack approval from the Philippine boxing commission, Games and Amusement Board (GAB)? Why was Sisnorio not licensed at the time of the fight? Why was he still allowed to fight? Why, why why?

This one didn’t come out of the ordinary circumstance surrounding boxing where the referees and ring side physicians are competent and the fighter are evenly matched, but still, a fatality tragically occurs. Oh no, this one involved a flashpoint of culpability that occurred in plain sight. We all know why this one occurred and that’s what makes it so reprehensible and unacceptable.

Hopefully, the right questions were (and are) being framed by Thai officials after Lito had been taken to the hospital. But it’s too late for the 24 year old. His brain quickly filled with destroyed blood vessels and blood. He quickly shut down. And that’s where it all ended for him. In a place where no bell tolls with the final ten count for fallen warriors. It ended in a place where there was no more hope, no more triumphs.

[tedsares]

".....His death prompted the Philippine Games and Amusement Board to ban all fights involving Filipino boxers in Thailand starting April 2007....." From the prior post and from another thread.

[tedsares]

Thoughts on this, banning of ALL Filipino fighters from Thailand....."

Well, I don't care for zero tolerance solutions. They are mindless. As a temporary measure, its good. But the two culprits involved must beferredt out and punished. I tend not to name names in my articles, but everyone close to this issue knows who the two are one is in Thailand and the other is in Manila. Two scumsuckers who need to be eradicated from boxing.

[tedsares]

http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200704101610.htm

[tedsares]

http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200704101610.htm