By Nick Giongco
MP Promotions head Sean Gibbons, center, drops by the training camp of world champ Jerwin Ancajas, right, and ex-world champ Marlon Tapales in Carson, CA.
Two top Filipino punchers booked to figure in key fights on Dec. 7 – world champion Jerwin Ancajas in Puebla, Mexico and ex-world titleholder Marlon Tapales in Brooklyn, New York – intensified their respective buildups during a workout in Carson, California.
Ancajas makes the eighth defense of the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super-flyweight crown against Miguel Gonzalez of Chile at the Auditorio GNP Seguros.
Tapales, formerly the World Boxing Organization bantamweight ruler, clashes with fellow former world champion Ryosuke Iwasa of Japan at the Barclays Center for the interim IBF super-bantam belt.
“Solid sparring,” said MP Promotions president Sean Gibbons, who arrived in time at the Rock Gym in Carson, to watch the heated session.“Good work.”
Ancajas was supposed to battle Mexican Jonathan Rodriguez last Nov. 2 in Carson but Rodriguez could not make it in time, forcing Bob Arum’s Top Rank Inc. to scrap the fight and reschedule it in Mexico underneath an Emanuel Navarrete headliner.
Tapales’ bout with Iwasa will be his third straight appearance on US soil.
Source: Manila Bulletin
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