Games and Amusement Board Chairman Juan Ramon “Monju” Guanzon laments here the lack of government support to develop local boxers even as he discloses that Visayas and Mindanao have been producing quality boxers and successfully landed remarkable stints both in the local and international scenes.
Guanzon told sportswriters in Bacolod City that there should be a program that would focus on a boxing program from the grassroots level.
Guanzon also said that there were cities that got boxers from Bacolod City but since there were no support from the local government, these boxers had been claimed by other towns and cities as their own. He claimed the boxing facility at the Paglaum Sports Complex was established during the time of his father, the late Congressman Romeo Guanzon and also took initiative for substantial support for the Negros Amateur Boxing Association (NABA) and lauded the volunteerism of trainers and coaches who teach young kids at the said facility.
