May 31, 2005
TOKYO, JAPAN-It was reported that world-rated ex-world flyweight champ Medgoen Singsurat kept his regional belt by a fifth round knockout of a Filipino opponent named Tata Polinar in Thailand last Friday. Polinar, however, has been staying in Cebu, Philippines, in preparation at Wakee Salud Gym for his fight with world-rated bantam Manabu Fukushima in Tokyo on this coming Saturday - without leaving for Thailand. The investigation of the GAB (Games and Amusements Board of the Philippines, the local commission) started thereafter, and Emmanuel Flores, the GAB boxing chief, has sent an official letter today to the Japan Boxing Commission (JBC), saying that it was definitely not Tata Polinar that lately fought and lost in Thailand. Therefs no other boxer with the same name of Tata Polinar in the Philippines. Then, who on earth was the Filipino boxer who campaigned there under the name of Polinar?
(5-31-05)