BANTAY-SABONG: DEFENDING WORLD SLASHER CUP CHAMPION REY BRIONES POISED FOR A 3-PEAT; GROUP A FINALS SET TODAY

Saturday, January 21, 2012

DEFENDING WORLD SLASHER CUP CHAMPION REY BRIONES POISED FOR A 3-PEAT; GROUP A FINALS SET TODAY

2-time World Slasher Cup champion newspaper executive Rey Briones displayed toughness and consistency with his fleet of Spartans Green Leg lines and Spartans Red strain after his two entries Spartans Palawan and Spartans Cuyo scored 4 wins and 3 points, respectively. The popular son of Masbate province will try to win his third crown when he collides with equally undefeated bets in the championship set on Sunday, Jan. 22.

Set today starting at 2:00 p.m. with more than 100 exciting matches lined up is the finals among Group A standouts led by close friends 2007 WSC solo champ Wilson Ong of Dumaguete, 3-time WSC runner-up Nestor Vendivil of Nueva Ecija and 2011 WSC-2 defending co-champ Rikki Reyes of Laguna. Ong, Vendivil and Reyes founded and now the pillars of the newly-formed Philippine Federation of Gamefowl Breeders.

Hosted by the Pintakasi of Champions, this 50^th year anniversary edition of the World Slashers Cup is co-presented by Thunderbird Romoxtyl and Thunderbird Ganador Max with BMeg as minor sponsor.

Also scoring 4 wins out of 4 matches during last Thursday’s Group B semis are Thunderbird’s Cong. Lawrence Wacnang with Cong. Cosalan (Crowsland Silver Wings) and Boy Lechon/Erick Abella/Atty. Bong Villanueva; Andres Bernos (Steady On); Allan Cong & Dalwin Yulangco (Team Supreme LM Pride); Mike Romulo (Tonio Untd); Rizalde Sandoval (Lucky Charm/116#2); Gerry Ramos & Raymond Burgos (AAO Hitchcock); Jojo Bernardo & Ed Santos (EBS Jurupa March 14 4-Cock Kaybiga); joined by 3.5 pointers Dennis Loria/Arnel de Jesus (DL Tingkoroni Tungkag-Vancouver) and the group of Clarence Perkins/Grady Malone & Marcel Julao (Dexter GM MTJ)

Also to try to stack up as much as 7 points tonight are Boy Marzo, Dicky Lim, Atong Ang & James Uy; Will Kollet of Alabama, Joey & BubOy delos Santos, Romano Pedroche, Mike Cuaresma & Mike Tan; Cito Alberto & Albert Yam, Biboy Enriquez, Jorge Torres & Claude Bautista, Mayor Boyet Joson, JV Magsaysay, Bong Angeles, Tim Fritzgeral & Osang dela Cruz, Atty. Capucchino, Atty, Santos, Allan Chan & Romy Co; Felix Gatchlian, Atty. Jun Mendoza, Atty. Ed Moreno & Bob Price, Jun Topacio, Gov. Bong Carreon and Jaime Que & Ed Pangilinan.

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LANDO LUZONG

For the love of sabong : Rolando Luzong was a former managing editor of Totoy de la Cruz's Pinoy Sabungero Magasin; editor of Philippine Cockfights Newsmag of Atty. Clem Abundo; served as Roligon Mega Cockpit PR Manager for four years & General Manager for 6 years (1991-2001); publisher of Karambola Magazine; host of Karambola sa Ere radio program with Princess Naldo; was part of the group that conceptualized and launched sabong.net.ph - the most popular cockfighting website in the internet; conceptualized and started sabungero.com; conceptualized and edited Larga tabloid and a contributor in various cockfighting magazines. Lando was the first to invest in Emoy Gorgonia's Tukaan - the first sabong tv program and also in 2006 conceptualized and started the cockfights tele-magazine program Hataw Pinoy. He is currently a regular contributor to Manila Bulletin's Animal Scene Magazine with 45,000 circulation; a Consultant for Thunderbird Power Feeds & Thunderbird Power Vet; editor of the Thunderbird Gamefowl Journal and PR man for Araneta Coliseum's cockfighting events. He is actively involve in community service projects thru the civic group Tambay Kay Epoy Association which he founded (www.tambaykayepoy.multiply.com) for which he was awarded by the Beta Sigma Faternity. Last May 22, 2010, he returned to Roligon Mega Cockpit to help in the derby promotions and immediately staged the succesful 2010 Hatawan sa Tag-ulan 5-Cock Derby, but had to give up Roligon due to some diffrences with the management. Currently, he writes sabong colums for Bandera (tabloid of the Philippine Daily Inquirer) every Friday and Pilipino Mirror (tabloid of Business Mirror) every Sunday, Tuseday & Thursday. In December 2011 Lando Luzong conceptualized and founded the GAMEFOWL MAGAZINE with Bernie Tacoy and Ramil Tan as publishers. GAMEFOWL MAGAZINE is officially launched on May 14, 2012 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Cubao, QC during the 2012 World Slashers Cup-2. GAMEFOWL is now the most respected and is fast becoming the most populat magazine in Philippine cockfightng. Lando's latest project is the live cockfights webiste www.sabongsports.com and then the www.sabongsasugbo.com for which he serves as Operatiopns Manager - "All for the glory of GOD"