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Former world boxing champion Rolando Navarette was stabbed in the neck Friday night by a tenant at the boarding house he owns in Bula, General Santos City, ABS-CBN Regional Network Group reported. The suspect used an ice pick.



Doctors said Navarette is out of danger but his condition is still being monitored. Attending physicians applied cold compress on the former boxer's wound and gave him a tetanus shot.

Despite his injury, Navarette was still able to recount the incident. The former boxer said that his tenant, Racman Saliling, suddenly attacked him right after policemen visited the boarding house.

Navarette said that the attack could have something to do with a necklace that he lent to the suspect's sister, Lily.

The sister had earlier borrowed a gold necklace from the former boxer but no longer bothered to return it.

Navarette said that he brought police along to find and arrest Saliling for the theft of the necklace. When the police failed to find the suspect at the premises, they left.

Saliling, it turned out, was only hiding and waiting for the police to leave so he could ambush Navarette.

According to police investigator Joel dela Cruz, Navarette even told them, jokingly, that the Sacliling might stab him after they leave because he (Navarette) was unarmed.

True enough, Saliling suddenly appeared and lunged at Navarette with an ice pick after the police went away.

Saliling and her sister escaped after the incident.

Navarette told ABS-CBN that he didn't know Sacliling or his sister very well, saying they never had any dispute or confrontation before the stabbbing happened. He added that he felt even worse because the stabbing happened on Valentine's Day which is his birthday as well.

Navarette was the World Boxing Council world junior lightweight champion in 1981 but later lost the title to Mexican fighter Rafael Limon.

Navarette had earned the moniker "The Bad Boy from Dadiangas" after the town he grew up in. That title rang true outside the ring as well, when the boxer was involved in several violent incidents after his career ended.

In recent years, Navarette was treated for injuries he suffered in two previous attacks. In 2005, Navarette was bludgeoned with a steel pipe by a female neighbor. In 2006, a security guard clubbed Navarette's leg with a shotgun after an altercation at a local fishport.


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