Pagara brothers to get hero's welcome | Inquirer Sports

Pagara brothers to get hero’s welcome

By: - Correspondent / @janiarnaizINQ
/ 04:20 PM August 09, 2015

 Jason and Albert Pagara. Photos by Roy Luarca


Jason and Albert Pagara. Photos by Roy Luarca

MAASIN CITY – A hero’s welcome awaits Jason Pagara and his brother Prince Albert for their victory in Pinoy Pride 32:  Duel in Dubai 2 at the Dubai World Trade Center on August 7.

The Pagara brothers were expected to come home before the fiesta on Aug. 15 in honor of the city’s patron Immaculate Concepcion.

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“It’s but fitting that they be accorded a hero’s welcome and a motorcade around the city,” said  Maasin City Mayor Maloney Samaco.

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“We are proud, very proud of them particularly because they owned up that they are from Maasin,” he added.

The boxers were born in Lib-og village this city.

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Albert, the younger Pagara started out as an amateur boxer under tutelage of Maasin Sports Council headed then by Samaco.

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During the Duel in Dubai 2, Albert pulled off a first round knockout victory over Mexican Jesus Rios to keep his International Boxing Federation junior featherweight title in Dubai earlySaturday (Manila time).

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His brother, Jason, won by unanimous decision over Mexican Ramiro Alcaraz, 77-73, 76-74, 78-72.

The 10-round junior welterweight encounter was stopped in the eighth round upon the advice of ring physician Dr. Nasser Cruz following another head butt that bloodied Jason’s left eye.

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