SEA Games: Eyeing 4 golds, PH boxing go for convincing wins vs home bets

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Philippines Rogen Ladon (blue) celebrates his win over Thailand's Yuttapong Tongdee (not pictured) following their men's fly (52kg) semi-finals boxing match at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 31, 2018.

FILE – The Philippines’ Rogen Ladon (blue) celebrates his win over Thailand’s Yuttapong Tongdee (not pictured) following their males’s fly (52kg) semi-finals boxing match on the 2018 Asian Video games in Jakarta on August 31, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / BAY ISMOYO

HANOI—The Filipino boxers, counted upon to ship the gold medals, obtained 4 possibilities to do exactly that. However two of them should snatch them from the jaws of the harmful host nation.

Defending champion Rogen Ladon and Olympian Irish Magno will conflict with Vietnamese rivals in males’s 52-kilogram and ladies’s 51kg, respectively on Sunday within the thirty first Southeast Asian Video games boxing competitions at Bac Ninh Gymnasium.

“I like my possibilities now as a result of I’ve been coaching towards a southpaw,” mentioned Olympic bronze winner Eumir Marcial of his males’s 75kg ultimate bout towards East Timorese slugger Delio Anzaqeci.

Additionally holding a clearer likelihood for the gold is Ian Clark Bautista who will tackle Naing Latt of Myanmar within the ultimate of the lads’s 57kg.

Ladon and Magno, nonetheless, can’t be so certain and would wish overwhelming victories to persuade the judges amid the anticipated full-packed crowd.

That’s the primary motive Affiliation of Boxing Alliances of the Philippines president Ed Picson cited for the stunning defeats of Olympic silver medalist Nesthy Petecio and defending champion Josie Gabuco within the semifinals.

“We anticipated higher outcomes however there have been a number of components that got here into play,” mentioned Picson. “That call on Josie and Nesthy, I’d prefer to suppose the judges had been persuaded by the shouting of the group however that’s nonetheless unacceptable.”

Ladon will battle Tran van Thao who’s already preventing within the professionals. Magno will tackle reigning champ Nguyen Thi Tam who defeated her in the course of the 2019 SEA Video games.

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