Segura going for KO win against Viloria

The manager of former WBC-WBO junior flyweight champion Giovanni “El Guerrero Azteca” Segura is convinced that the title fight between his boxer and WBO flyweight champion Brian “The Hawaiian Punch” Viloria will not go down the wire and end in a decision.
Richard Moto said the judges in this fight, dubbed “The Island Assault,” will not be playing a vital role because Segura will knock out the defending champion “right in his hometown, before the eyes of his
countrymen.”
“Giovanni will go for broke and give it his all like he did in his recent fights,” said
Moto, who arrived in Manila with Segura and trainer Javier Capetillo two days ahead of schedule.
“Remember that my boy is the only one who beat and knocked out Ivan Calderon. I respect Brian because he’s a good friend and a great champion, but this is business.”
Segura himself has vowed to end the fight with a knockout of Viloria.
“I am not letting this fight end with a decision,” said the Mexican. “Viloria is no easy fight. He is an Olympian who has better amateur experience than me. I don’t know how to box, I only know how to throw punches.”
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“Brian, I’m going to knock you out,” Segura continued. “I am saying that with confidence. I am not saying it with bad blood. I am saying this because I want to give the people what they deserve. The fans put food on our table, I watch boxing on TV, I hate boring fights and I am not a boring fighter.”
The Viloria-Segura fight will be staged at the Ynares Sports Center in Pasig this Sunday.
Boxing enthusiasts are predicting that the bout will be a candidate for “Fight of the Year” honors.
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A former chair of the Philippine Sports Commission, sympathizing with the incumbent, said it should not be Richie Garcia who should be made to account for the country’s 26th Southeast Asian Games debacle in Indonesia but Philippine Olympic Committee president Jose “Peping”
Cojuangco Jr.
The former PSC head stressed that the government agency’s task is only to disburse the budgets to the national sports associations which train the athletes and prepare them for competitions.
“Since all the NSAs are under the POC, Cojuangco should be made answerable for their performance,” he said.
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After Garcia was invited to Malacañang to give an assessment of the country’s SEA Games performance, word spread like wildfire that the President had asked him to step down.
Garcia has denied the reports.
“If there is anyone who should step down, it should be the
President’s uncle,” said the former PSC chief. “But he will have to do it voluntarily because President Noynoy does not have the power to remove him. The POC presidency is an elective post and not an appointive position under the government. It is only the NSAs that can remove him from the position, if they choose to.”
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HOOPVINE: Local sportswriters describe football superstar David Beckham as “friendly, very, very nice and extremely accommodating. Despite the tight cordon sanitaire, David allowed young kids to get his autograph and shake their hands”… The Philippine U-16 girls team had quite an experience en route to Jihan, China, where they are now competing in the Fiba Asia Championship,” SBP executive director Sonny Barrios told us. “One of the players lost her passport at the Beijing airport and was not allowed to board the connecting flight to Shandong. She had to take the train, accompanied by assistant coach Mark Herrera. The whole team prayed a novena when they arrived in Jihan and guess what, the passport was found the following day”… According to Barrios, it was snowing in Jihan when the girls arrived.