{"id":226942,"date":"2012-07-11T06:33:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=226942"},"modified":"2012-07-11T06:33:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:33:20","slug":"pinoy-handig-to-face-tough-test-vs-takayama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/226942\/pinoy-handig-to-face-tough-test-vs-takayama","title":{"rendered":"Pinoy Handig to face tough test vs Takayama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MATEO &#8220;Waray Warrior&#8221; Handig will face his biggest test so far when he takes on WBC minimumweight champion Katsunari Takayama on September for the top spot in the 105lb division of the International Boxing Federation (IBF) at the Baguio Convention Center in Baguio City.<br \/>\nThe 22-year-old Baguio native Handig (12W-5L-0D, 7 KOs) hopes to take advantage of fighting on home soil against the\u00a0 29-year-old Japanese Takayama (24W-5L-0D, 10 KOs), who is fighting under ALA Boxing Promotions.<\/p>\n<p>Both will engage in 12-round brawl for the number one position in their division.<\/p>\n<p>Handig is considered an underdog against th battle-tested Takayama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are hoping that our boxer will triumph [to fulfill] his quest of becoming a future champion,&#8221;\u00a0 said Brico Santig, Handig&#8217;s promoter from the Highlands Boxing Promotions of La Trinidad, Benguet.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being the underdog, Handig has something going his way as he is in the middle of a four-bout winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>But Santig said that doesn\u2019t really matter since his boxer\u2019s last four opponents weren\u2019t quality contenders as they combined\u00a0 for a dismal 3W-29L-1D record.<\/p>\n<p>But Takayama has his own set of struggles. He was derailed twice in his bid for the IBF minimumweight title against South African Nkosinathi Joyi.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the upcoming bout will also be a huge break for Santig as a small time promoter after he won the rights of promoting the match.<br \/>\nSantig said he is planning to stage the fight either on the 15th or 22nd of September as part of the Baguio City Charter Anniversary Month. \/CORRESPONDENT DALE G. ROSAL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATEO &#8220;Waray Warrior&#8221; Handig will face his biggest test so far when he takes on WBC minimumweight champion Katsunari Takayama on September for the top spot in the 105lb division of the International Boxing Federation (IBF) at the Baguio Convention Center in Baguio City. The 22-year-old Baguio native Handig (12W-5L-0D, 7 KOs) hopes to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1240,1227],"tags":[426],"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>Pinoy Handig to face tough test vs Takayama | Inquirer 黑料社<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MATEO &quot;Waray Warrior&quot; Handig will face his biggest test so far when he takes on WBC minimumweight champion Katsunari Takayama on September for the top\" \/>\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\/226942\/pinoy-handig-to-face-tough-test-vs-takayama\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Pinoy Handig to face tough test vs Takayama | Inquirer 黑料社\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"MATEO &quot;Waray Warrior&quot; Handig will face his biggest test so far when he takes on WBC minimumweight champion Katsunari Takayama on September for the top\" \/>\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=\"Noy\" \/>\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":"Pinoy Handig to face tough test vs Takayama | Inquirer 黑料社","description":"MATEO \"Waray Warrior\" Handig will face his biggest test so far when he takes on WBC minimumweight champion Katsunari Takayama on September for the top","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\/226942\/pinoy-handig-to-face-tough-test-vs-takayama","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Pinoy Handig to face tough test vs Takayama | Inquirer 黑料社","twitter_description":"MATEO \"Waray Warrior\" Handig will face his biggest test so far when he takes on WBC minimumweight champion Katsunari Takayama on September for the top","twitter_creator":"@inquirerdotnet","twitter_site":"@inquirerdotnet","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Noy","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/226942\/pinoy-handig-to-face-tough-test-vs-takayama#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/226942\/pinoy-handig-to-face-tough-test-vs-takayama"},"author":{"name":"Noy","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#\/schema\/person\/6b883943530294c5cd24de3d7c9faf5a"},"headline":"Pinoy Handig to face tough test vs Takayama","datePublished":"2012-07-10T22:33:20+00:00","dateModified":"2012-07-10T22:33:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/226942\/pinoy-handig-to-face-tough-test-vs-takayama"},"wordCount":272,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#organization"},"keywords":["Boxing"],"articleSection":["CDN - 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