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Domingo cleared to fight
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Thursday, 12 February 2009 04:14

Domingo cleared to fight WBO Oriental bantamweight champion Michael Domingo, whose breakthrough fight against world-rated Nestor Rocha was called off because of Hepatitis B, has been cleared to fight again.

ALA Gym chairman and respected boxing patron Tony Aldeguer said Domingo (37-14-2, 16 KO’s) was cleared twice, both by the Games and Amusements Board doctors in Manila as well as in Cebu.

Aldeguer said the tests were “supervised by the GAB doctors” even as he wondered how Domingo, who had fought before in the US, was found to have Hepatitis B when he had been given a clean bill of health prior to the Rocha fight.

He noted that even Mercito Gesta was supposedly infected with Hepatitis B but subsequent tests in the US cleared him to fight.

Domingo who trained at the Mayweather Gym in Las Vegas was distressed at the reported findings which effectively ruined his hopes of a big win and a possible world title fight down the road.

Now that he has been cleared the soft-spoken 29-year-old bantamweight is eager to get back into the ring against Monico Laurente, who has a record of 8-4 with 1 knockout.

Laurente lost a split decision in a Philippine bantamweight title fight against former WBC flyweight champion and OPBF bantamweight champion Malcolm Tunacao last September 30, but bounced back to score a ten-round unanimous decision over Jun Eraham last November 15.

Domingo will be featured on the undercard of an exciting double-header where Z “The Dream” Gorres (28--2-2, 15 KO's) is making his debut as a bantamweight in the main event.

Gorres takes on former IBF minimum weight champion Roberto Carlos "Mako" Leyva (25-8-1, 20 KO's)
 
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