{"id":205705,"date":"2012-06-03T09:29:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T01:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=205705"},"modified":"2012-06-03T09:29:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T01:29:43","slug":"cebuano-aj-banal-to-get-second-world-title-crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/205705\/cebuano-aj-banal-to-get-second-world-title-crack","title":{"rendered":"Cebuano AJ Banal to get second world title crack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IF PLANS don\u2019t miscarry, AJ \u201cBazooka\u201d Banal will earn another crack at a world title when the highly successful Pinoy Pride series returns to Manila either in September or October.<\/p>\n<p>Banal, the WBO Asia-Pacific bantamweight champion, is likely to face Thailand\u2019s Pungluang Sor Singyu for the WBO bantamweight crown currently held by Jorge Arce of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The initial plan was to pit Banal against Arce but the Mexican boxer is keen on vacating the crown to move up to the 122-pound division, said Michael Aldeguer, CEO\/president of ALA Promotions.<\/p>\n<p>Banal (27-1-1, 20 KOs) is the No. 1 WBO bantamweight contender while Singyu (41-1, 26 KOs) is rated No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Banal faltered in his first world title fight, losing to Rafael Concepion via a 10th round knockout in 2008 in Cebu City.<\/p>\n<p>Aldeguer said prospective venues are the Smart Araneta Coliseum or the Mall of Asia Arena should they be able to convince Singyu\u2019s camp to have the fight held in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Pinoy Pride series had its first Manila edition yesterday. The main event, set late last night, featured champion Donnie Nietes against Felipe Salguero for the WBO light flyweight\u00a0 title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pinoy Pride 14 was the biggest so far considering that it featured one world title fight and two regional title fights,\u201d said Aldeguer.<\/p>\n<p>Aldeguer said more big fights will be held in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make Cebu as the Las Vegas of Asia but we also have to penetrate Manila being the country\u2019s capital city. We also want to have the big fights held in Manila because it has bigger venues which could accommodate 15,000 to 20,000 fans,\u201d said Aldeguer.\u00a0 \/Editorial Assistant Calvin Cordova<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IF PLANS don\u2019t miscarry, AJ \u201cBazooka\u201d Banal will earn another crack at a world title when the highly successful Pinoy Pride series returns to Manila either in September or October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1240,1227],"tags":[7166,426,20097],"byline":[],"source":[206068],"column":[],"editor":[],"videographer":[],"position":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cebuano AJ Banal to get second world title crack | Inquirer 黑料社<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"IF PLANS don\u2019t miscarry, AJ \u201cBazooka\u201d Banal will earn another crack at a world title when the highly successful Pinoy Pride series returns to Manila either in September or October.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/205705\/cebuano-aj-banal-to-get-second-world-title-crack\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Cebuano AJ Banal to get second world title crack | Inquirer 黑料社\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"IF PLANS don\u2019t miscarry, AJ \u201cBazooka\u201d Banal will earn another crack at a world title when the highly successful Pinoy Pride series returns to Manila either in September or October.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@inquirerdotnet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@inquirerdotnet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cmiranda\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Cebuano AJ Banal to get second world title crack | Inquirer 黑料社","description":"IF PLANS don\u2019t miscarry, AJ \u201cBazooka\u201d Banal will earn another crack at a world title when the highly successful Pinoy Pride series returns to Manila either in September or October.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/205705\/cebuano-aj-banal-to-get-second-world-title-crack","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Cebuano AJ Banal to get second world title crack | Inquirer 黑料社","twitter_description":"IF PLANS don\u2019t miscarry, AJ \u201cBazooka\u201d Banal will earn another crack at a world title when the highly successful Pinoy Pride series returns to Manila either in September or October.","twitter_creator":"@inquirerdotnet","twitter_site":"@inquirerdotnet","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cmiranda","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/205705\/cebuano-aj-banal-to-get-second-world-title-crack#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/205705\/cebuano-aj-banal-to-get-second-world-title-crack"},"author":{"name":"cmiranda","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#\/schema\/person\/a62383c42c222a10aad7acab735f860d"},"headline":"Cebuano AJ Banal to get second world title crack","datePublished":"2012-06-03T01:29:43+00:00","dateModified":"2012-06-03T01:29:43+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/205705\/cebuano-aj-banal-to-get-second-world-title-crack"},"wordCount":285,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#organization"},"keywords":["AJ Banal","Boxing","Pinoy Pride"],"articleSection":["CDN - 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