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PNoy Sports goes to Hacienda Luisita

by Robbie Pangilinan
Yellow Ribbon Movement will bring the event to Tarlac to commemorate the birthdate of former President Corazon C. Aquino.

Eleven barangays from Hacienda Luisita will participate in the campaign to promote health and wellness and re-live ethnic sports in the Philippines. This is the third run of the highly successful campaign; the first was in August 2013 at the Quezon City Memorial Circle participated in by 700 children and their 210 parents/guardians, and the second run in November where almost a thousand children from Akap sa Bata Foundation, Leyte and Apolinario Mabini Elementary School were brought to Rizal Park to join the games.

AGE OF CHAMPIONS

2014 proved to be a groundbreaking year for current ONE Fighting Championship (ONE FC) Welterweight World Champion Ben Askren. After signing with Asia’s largest mixed martial arts organization last year, he made his heavily-anticipated debut by trouncing Azerbaijani Bakhtiyar Abbasov after Abbasov made the mistake of engaging the Olympic wrestler on the ground. Askren easily worked his way to top position before sinking in a choke that forced Abbasov to tap out.

Askren then followed it up by snatching the ONE FC Welterweight World Championship crown from Nobutatsu Suzuki with a convincing finish of Nobutatsu Suzuki. The former champion had no chance as Askren took him down and rained down a series of punches that forced the referee to stop the fight. With his hand raised and the belt around his waist, Askren confidently boasted that nobody in the welterweight division will beat him.