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Can a Filipino Stop the Blitzkrieg of Jorge Arce ?
Mortz Marcelo Ortigoza - 3/5/2006
The Manny Pacquaio’s cult-like personality was at the expense of the blood of the unfortunate Mexico’s Three Musketeers Barrera, Marquez, and Morales. Those hard falls on the canvas the three suffered bolster the worth of the Filipino gladiator. This will not only make him as the best pound for pound, but will make him recipient of more big pay checks in the future like Roy Jones, Oscar dela Hoya, and others during their prime.
He is the one man demolition job who wrought havoc in the Super Featherweight, Featherweight, and Super Bantamweight Divisions ( between 130 – 122 lbs) . There is no such man like him who can stroke our primal excitement in the Flyweight and Junior flyweight divisions ( between 112 – 108 lbs). However, there are three warriors there who are saber-rattling and praying before the gods of war that one of them can put a stop to the swashbuckling destroyer of the flyweight division named Jorge “Travieso” Arce.
Brian Villoria (Junior flyweight), Disodado Gabi (flyweight), and Vic Darchinian (flyweight) have moist eyes on how to snatch the belt of Mexico’s boxing version’s of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Like the Thinker (resting his forehead against his back fingers and palm as he seated on a toilet bowl as printed by those naughty tees) Villoria , and the winner of the Gabi-Darchinian slug fest will have a lot of brain storming on how to deliver the version of El Alamein in Egygt to Travieso . By the way, El Alamein is where British Lt. General Bernard Montgomery defeated Rommel’s invading Africa Corp and thus stopped the invincibility of the latter’s genius in mauling to pulp his enemies either they be in the American, French, British, Australian, and New Zealand forces.
In these two miniscule weight division, the future is Arce. His defeat means, prestige, and lot of money.
To those who are unfamiliar with Travieso. His record is: 41 wins, three losses, and 1 draw, with 27 knockouts. While Villoria is 19 wins – 12 knockouts; Darchinian is 24 wins – 19 Knockouts, and Gabi is 26 wins- 2 losses-1 draw- 18 knockouts .
Aside from the more wars, and more experienced enemies the Mexican can show. In the past six year he got a winning streak without suffering a loss . He fought and defeated world and former world champions. His credentials and performances can proselytize the atheist to become a theist, an opera singer to become an acid rock and roller. And a tightwad to become a spendthrift. He is probably the Barrera-Marquez-Morales combined in the flyweight division.
Aside from space-constraint, I will not talk about who were those tough opponents, and how he won the match. I will instead talk how he lost a fight. Yes, dude. How he lost a fight for a change in column writing! My memorable experienced was in July 31, 1999. A young over confident and aggressive Arce fought a former three-time champion, the hard hitting Michael Carbajal. Arce was far ahead on all three judges’ scorecards after 10 rounds of intense in-figthing, but because of Murphy’s Law or call it luck, Carbajal connected a right hand on his chin and eventually captured the crown via a technical knockout.
Nobody could paint the ecstasy on the face of Carbajal. As if he won alone the lotto in the Philippines. But everybody can draw the pale- faced of dizzy and embarrassed Arce who looked like he just fell in an opened manhole in some dark sidewalks out there.
Filipinos will hate this brash Arce guy. One is his irreverence lately to the family and relatives of Villoria. He said he can fight him even at the place of the latter, where Brian’s family and relatives will be the judges. He will not give a damn on it since he will deliver Brian to the dreamland via KO.
Not even the controversial election commissioner of the Philippines Virgillio Garcillano can save Brian on this conclusion, I surmised.
Was that overconfidence, or pure braggadocio?
What I know is, it will take a lot of researching, conditioning and training on the part of either Villoria, Gabi, or even the hard hitting Armenia fighter Vic Darchinian to successfully face Mexico’s ego and dwindling saving graces.
( You can react or call this writer at totomortz@yahoo.com )
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