Jaro Did Not Follow Instructions, Leading To Segura Loss
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
Hard-hitting light flyweight contender Sonny Boy Jaro didn’t follow instructions and paid the price by getting knocked out in the very first round by WBA champion Giovanni Segura in Mexico, the same day Rodel Mayol won the WBC title with a stunning 2nd round knockout over Edgar Sosa on November 28.
Michael Koncz, the adviser of pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao said they had warned Sonny Boy Jaro that “in the first two rounds Giovanni Segura is a very dangerous fighter, he comes out swinging wildly and after the second round he starts to lose stamina. Don’t stand toe-to-toe with him.”
Koncz who together with Pacquiao handles Jaro said “I don’t know whether it was nerves or his problems with Aljoe Jaro or what, I don’t know. I don’t have an excuse but he did exactly the opposite of what we asked him to do. He stood toe-to-toe and actually rocked Segura with a right hook but that wasn’t the game plan. I told him I’m not going to scold him or whatever. Hopefully we can make a rematch in the future.”
Koncz in fact revealed that he is in talks with Fernando Beltran and was “trying to do a rematch but the problem is they don’t want a rematch immediately because they are bent on fighting Rodel Mayol. They want Mayol to fight Segura. So I’m working on that because Mayol is also under Manny and myself.”
Koncz said that from his discussions the Segura people “want to do the Mayol fight as soon as possible” but that he had a couple of issues that need to be resolved first.
He said that in the previous contract with the promotion company in Mexico that if Mayol won, they “had an option to promote one fight but I limited that fight to a six month period so they have to do it in six months. “
Koncz said he would talk to them sometime this week adding that “if we had to we will fight Segura and if they don’t want me to do that then I will do the fight without putting up the WBC belt. That way they still have their option to utilize on a rematch with Sosa” although Sosa would be out of action for at least six months and has indicated he wants to move up and fight as a flyweight.
Koncz clarified that he was not aware of the details of the problems between Sonny Boy Jaro and his former manager Aljoe Jaro but explained that “approximately two months prior to the problems between the manager and the fighter Aljoe witnessed the contract and signed it as a witness and Sonny Boy signed it and we have a four-year contract with them – Manny and I as managers.”
He said they also had a three-year contract with featherweight Bernabe Concepcion which was to expire in October this year but that Concepcion subsequently signed a renewal. Koncz also clarified that “the contracts are worldwide and it allows us to dictate where the fighter is to train, who he’s to train with and gives us complete control over matchmaking and in reality it precludes the Philippine manager from putting him (Concepcion) in a fight without our consent, even in the Philippines.”
