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By Manny Bautista

World title contender Rey “Boom Boom” Bautista has confirmed that he will officially fight in the titanic pay-per-view event featuring boxing legend Oscar de la Hoya against newly-crowned WBC lightweight king Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

This confirmation was relayed by his manager Michael Aldeguer in a text message last Wednesday. The 22-year-old prospect arrived here on Tuesday for a short vacation with his family following a smashing second-round stoppage of Mexican Eden Marquez a week ago at the Cebu Waterfront Hotel. Bautista and his parents and brod motored to Can-olin, Candijay the following day for a gathering with close kin and fans. He was in Carmen last Thursday to accompany his elder sister when this writer visited his home in Dampas district, this city.

Further reports from CDN correspondent Salven Lagumbay showed that the WBO Intercontinental superbantam champ (26-1-18KOs), is set to tangle with a tough opponent as confirmed by GBP vice-president Eric Gomez. The adopted son of Tagbilaran is awaiting a return-to-gym order from the ALA Gym-Cebu.
“We are going to put him on the show and we are trying to get him a good fight against someone in the rankings, someone who could give him a good fight,” Gomez told Philboxing.com in a report yesterday.
Gomez has indicated that GBP remains hopeful of Bautista’s future in boxing and they were “looking at a possible world title fight again. That’s the plan.”

The young boxing executive added that Bautista is “not going after a world champion for his next fight but want to do a fight that is important to set him up for his next couple of fights before fighting for the title.”

Gomez has read the reports posted at Philboxing.com describing Bautista’s impressive win over Marquez, and was happy about the result of the fight, including the co-main event where Donnie Nietes stopped Nicaraguan Eddy Castro in the second round.

“The thing with ‘Boom Boom’ is that he’s very charismatic. He’s one of those guys that people like to see fight because you never know what’s going to happen. Anything can happen. He could get dropped but he could also knock anybody out. That makes him exciting,” Gomez said, echoing the observation of one boxing website which ranked Bautista as one of the world’s most exciting fighters.


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