Comments on: Prelude to Dela Hoya-Pacquiao Fight: Bad Boy from Dadiangas’ Rolando Navarette’s Classic Fight Video

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:23:30 +0000

Sinong may alam sa current address ni navarette? How can I contact him. Gusto ko lang kasi siyang matulungan in some ways. I know naghihirap daw siya ngayon at wala ng kaibigan. Please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks in advance.

By: Jordan Ray Quinco

Jordan Ray Quinco — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:38:24 +0000

san na ba si navarette ngayon?… ahmmm… nanews xa before?.. medyo mentally ill daw xa?.. how true po..

By: tanchi

tanchi — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:46:39 +0000

sayang si navarette.. tanchis last blog post..Litratong Pinoy 7: Mahalagang Regalo

By: bariles

bariles — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:27:25 +0000

Originally Posted By ark
Hmmm, undersized pala si Navarette by 5 feet sa laban na un. If he can beat a bigger and taller foe, I think Manny also can!

That is correct arl! Manny will surely win this fight! ")

By: ark

ark — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:43:46 +0000

Hmmm, undersized pala si Navarette by 5 feet sa laban na un. If he can beat a bigger and taller foe, I think Manny also can! arks last blog post..Pacquiao vs dela Hoya "The Dream Match" Bout: My Result Forecast

By: bariles

bariles — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:28:09 +0000

@Dave – hello! Sure. Will check them out today. Thanks for the invitation. Happy blogging!

By: bariles

bariles — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:18:30 +0000

Originally Posted By Kritiko
akong pnaka maswerteng tao sa gensan..
ako ang naging pasahero nya sa tricyle nya heheheeh..
di ako binugbog….promise

Am sure kung di ka nagbayad, kulatado ka talga nun. Hehehehe. (joke) I didn't know that he drives a tricycle now. Last thing I heard, he worked at the Fishport.

By: bariles

bariles — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:10:29 +0000

@Daxi Weida – thanks. So much has changed since then but the play for money has grown even worse. Oh well. But I agree with you – if there’s one legacy that Navarette has left, it’s the lessons that boxers and non-boxers have learned from his life story.

By: bariles

bariles — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:07:30 +0000

@Daxi Weida - thanks Daxi. So much has changed since then. And I agree with you, a lot of people learned from Navarette's fate. If there's one legacy he has left in this world, that would be the lessons a boxers and non-boxers have gathered from his life story.

By: bariles

bariles — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:58:15 +0000

Originally Posted By Tom Ramberg
Hi Bariles!

Hi Tom! You are right! The next best thing to watching it live in las vegas is to watch it here at the City Coliseum with 7,000 cheering townmates of Manny. Three words to describe it – GOOSE PIMPLES galore!

By: jinky

jinky — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:06:28 +0000

Yeah, I agree with you, sir vel.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:03:19 +0000

Hi sir avel please do visit my sites http://www.pacquiaovsdelahoyaupdates.blogspot.com and pinoyfearfactorupdates.blogspot.com , salamat hehe

Daves last blog post..PACQUIAO WATCH: SLAY him Manny

By: Kritiko

Kritiko — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:41:05 +0000

akong pnaka maswerteng tao sa gensan..
ako ang naging pasahero nya sa tricyle nya heheheeh..
di ako binugbog….promise

By: Daxi Weida

Daxi Weida — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:17:12 +0000

Thanks, Kuya Avel, for sharing the video.

I found another video at asianboxing.com (I cant seem to find one in YouTube)of his fight vs. Mexican Bazooka Limon during his 3rd title defense in 1982 in Las Vegas.

http://asianboxing.blogspot.com/2007/07/video-of-week-rolando-navarette-vs.html

I never saw this fight as there was no PPV back then. I never realized he fought very well in this fight (way better than when he fought Boza-Edwards and Choi-Il-Chung). He was well ahead on points until that fateful 12th round (boxers fought 15 rounds in title fights back then).

Iba rin ang boxing noong araw, once you get dethroned, you really go down and you have to work your way up again. Ngayon, magtapatan lang ng milyones ang mga promoters, may rematch ka na, and a trilogy even.

Navarette surely made a lot of bad decisions in life; and the lessons we learn from his life story are his greatest legacy to us. Even Manny said he learned from the Bad Boy.

Daxi Weidas last blog post..An engineer for a moment

By: Tom Ramberg

Tom Ramberg — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:15:37 +0000

Hi Bariles!

It would be so exciting to be in Gen-San to watch the fight. We are still here in the US so we are doing the next best thing. We are getting together with my wife’s Filipina friends and watching it on pay per view. Yes, I know that the fight is in Vegas and not Gen-San but I think it would be more exciting to be there! Cheers!

By: bariles

bariles — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:53:42 +0000

@jinky - hello. Do you remember the saying, "LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT?". Definitely, he made a lot of not-so-good choices in his life which led to his downfall. Too bad to see him in his current state really.

By: jinky

jinky — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:26:06 +0000

sir vel ha, nagiging obvious na age natin, ajejeje. . .

Seriously speaking, Rolando Navarette is also a legend na rin sa boxing. . . in fact, if my visitors kami from other places – isa pa rin siya sa gusto nilang makita aside from Pacman.

He did a good job naman but the odds were all against him then.

By: bariles

bariles — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:09:52 +0000

Originally Posted By m1k3
seventeen years ago or twenty seven years ago???

Ooops! Hehe! Thanks for pointing out my error. Tumatanda na..

By: bariles

bariles — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:01:33 +0000

Originally Posted By SleeplessInKL
Dadiangas became well-known because of the ‘Bad Boy from Dadiangas’. Do people still call GenSan ‘Dadiangas’ these days?

Only people who have moved away for quite some time, just like a former high school classmate who still called the city by that name when she was here last May 2008 for our reunion. It sounded so “old-ish” that we had to convince here that we call it GENSAN now.

By: SleeplessInKL

SleeplessInKL — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:57:10 +0000

Dadiangas became well-known because of the ‘Bad Boy from Dadiangas’. Do people still call GenSan ‘Dadiangas’ these days?

By: m1k3

m1k3 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:54:18 +0000

seventeen years ago or twenty seven years ago???