By Rey Danseco

 


TWO boxers from Luzon island where the Philippine capital Manila is located, proved that they are better than their counterparts from the province of Cebu.
WBC No. 18 and Philippine minimumwieght champion Florante Condes and RP light flyweight champ Sonnyboy Jaro, both fighters from Binangonan in Rizal, retained their titles in contrasting fashion against the fighters of Sammy Gello-Ani's Stable on Sunday at the Cantada Sports Center in Tanyag, Taguig City, Philippines.
Condes easily dispatched challenger Fabio Marfa with left uppercut to the body. Marfa was sent down to one knee and surrendered while hardly breathing with his mouthpiece out.
Referee Ferdinand Estrella stopped the fight at of round 7 to give Condes his 20th stoppage win in as many victories. His victory was his third straight against Cebu-native or trained boxers, including when he dethroned Elmer Gejon and challenger Arman de la Cruz of Rex “Wakee” Salud's Stable.
Condes, a 26-year old southpaw native of Romblon has three loses, all by close decisions and one draw in his four year career.
Jaro (25-5-3, 15 KOs) kept the belt with technical draw in round 5 after referee Bruce McTavish stopped the fight from the advise of ring physician when the 108-pound champion suffered a nasty cut in his right eyelid from accidental head-clash.
Two judges scored the fight a 47-47 draw. The third official had it 48-47 in favor of Denoy.
Marfa dropped to 21-15-4 with 11 knockouts. Marfa is a brawler from San Remigio in Cebu.
Condes, a southpaw, let the 29-year old challenger landed volumes of combinations as his purpose was to fell the punching power of the Cebuano in the first two rounds.
In round three, Condes started to unload hard combos and in the fifth round Marfa felt the pain from the punches of the stocky champion.
Denoy (12-7, 6 KOs) seemed trying to dominate Jaro when he managed to land punches and then use his lateral and side to side movements.
Denoy suffered a small gash in round 3 from accidental headbutt.