By Waylon Galvez
Omega Sports Promotions is hoping the four-card event it is staging on Oct. 7 in Cebu could be a step in its bid to produce a fighter who can penetrate the big market in the United States.
“That’s our mission,” said Julius Erving Jungco, the head trainer of the Omega’s stable of boxers, said Friday.
“We’re hoping that we’ll be able to produce a world class Pay-Per-View talent like Manny Pacquiao or Nonito Donaire. We want the boxing world to know that there is Omega Sports Promotions that this is willing to provide quality boxers.”
“The mecca in boxing is in the US. We hope for them to notice our boxers,” added Jungco, referring to US-based boxing outfits like Bob Arum’s Top Rank Promotions, Golden Boy Promotions of boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya, and Floyd Mayweather’s Mayweather Promotions.
In the Philippines, the only boxing outfit that is at par with the US-based promoters is the MP Promotions of Sen. Manny Pacquiao.
Omega has actually produced a couple of world class boxers, including WBO bantamweight champion John Riel Casimiro, who successfully defended his crown in the US last weekend, and world title contender Jhack Tepora.
The four fights in Cebu will feature four of Omega’s fighters, including reigning World Boxing Association South light flyweight champion Ronnie Vecilles, who is also ranked No. 10 in the World Boxing Council ratings.
The said event next week will be the first for boxing in the country despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Organizer has setup strict health protocols approved by the government, including the Games and Amusements Board led by its chairman Abraham “Baham” Mitra.
The other boxers of Omega seeing action next week are Penitente Apolinar and Carlo Bacaro.
