Giovani Segura wants a rematch

We finally have the complete update on Mexican boxer Giovani Segura, otherwise known as El Guerrero Azteca.
Giovani was back in his Makati hotel suite Friday. He flew back to Southern California, his home for several years now, Saturday.
Rushed to the hospital last Sunday, Giovanni was confined for observation and treatment of the injuries he sustained during his fight with Brian Viloria that was stopped by the referee in the eighth round. Doctors who attended to him at the Medical Center, including a neurologist, gave him a clean bill of health and allowed him to go home.
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According to Ring Magazine’s Ryan Songalia, who interviewed Giovani in his hotel suite last Friday, and a sports columnist’s conversation with one of Segura’s attending physicians, there was no major damage to Segura’s facial skeleton.
True, an orbital fracture was spotted through magnetic resonance imaging, but it was determined that this was a scar from an old fracture. Even if it were a fresh injury, it was too small to cause alarm. The doctors said the fracture will heal by itself, in time.
“Thank God I’m okay and have no injuries,” Giovani said.
The doctors explained that a broken blood vessel caused the big swelling on his temple. Had the skin broke and the blood flowed, the swelling would have subsided.
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Before he was discharged, Segura got
assurance from the doctors that he could
resume his training once the swelling goes down.
While his manager Richard Mota told him it’s too early to make plans, Segura is
determined to take time off to heal and then work his way back to a rematch with Viloria.
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Although the invitation from AKTV’s Peachy Guioguio promised an evening of fun and singing, I expected just
another run-of-the mill Christmas party,highlighted by a raffle with the same
appliances for minor prizes and a big flat-screen television as major prize. AKTV being a sports channel, the
yuletide gathering was hosted by the Manny V. Pangilinan-owned network exclusively for the sports press.
Peachy’s sidekick Paul Mata had advised his media guests in advance to prepare for the Christmas Carol singing contest where cash prizes were at stake for the top three warblers.
Paul added that there will be raffle prizes. Secretly, I wished for a rice cooker since the one I owned had
recently gone kaput.
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The evening started out slow, the audience halfheartedly responding to the antics of host Hans Mortel.
To his credit, helped by the prompting of the audience, he was able to convince more than a dozen mediamen to join the singing contest, including the grumpiest of them all, Eddie Alinea, and the very reserved Nick Giongco, who Mortel described as having the cleanest, whitest nape.
NBN-4’s Snow Badua won the top prize with his choreographed Christmas rap, Manila Standard sports editor
Rey Mallari and Abante columnist Zaldy Perez shared second place, while
Tribune’s Arman Carandang on the
keyboards won third place.
To the delight of the male audience, the singing contest was followed by a dance number by Milagring, Mortel’s co-host.
It was her own version of Salome’s Dance of the Seven Veils. Michelle de Guzman kept everyone entranced all night with her lively songs.
The food at Napa Restobar was good, booze flowed all night, and Russel
Cadayona of APN had the widest grin when the party broke up. He won a Blackberry Playbook.
But the others who won major prizes were just as happy. I don’t remember the winners, but I remember the prizes: 10 Nokia and Blackberry cellphones, 2 Sony Digicams, an Acer Netbook, a
Lumix Digicam, and Russel’s playbook.
I didn’t get my rice cooker. Instead, I got a Nokia phone.