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Sonsona Loses Title after Three Months

Many athletes and enthusiasts employ speed bag training as part of a weight-loss regimen or specifically as a calorie-burning activity.  I’ve not met a person who cannot appreciate the burn of trying to keep hands and elbows up after 10 minutes on the bag.

Plus, Dude (Sonsona) is a growing-ass dude.
“He’s a young guy exploding into a man,” Tremblay said after Saturday’s weigh-in.

Even after giving up solid food mid-week Sonsona couldn’t slim down any further. When a Friday night workout only got him to 117, Tremblay decided to forfeit the title rather than try something drastic to make weight.

“He could have drained himself down to 115, but after six rounds he would have been a depleted fighter,” he said, noting the danger in sending a dehydrated fighter into the ring. “Why kill him? Why take a possible loss when we have another plan for him anyway?”

Marvin Sonsona, 19-year-old rising boxing star from the Philippines, works the speed bag on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2009 at Cabbagetown Boxing Club in this file photo. (RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR)