tolentinoWorld Boxing Organization (WBO) minimum weight champion Merlito “Tiger” Sabillo is still a long way from joining the country’s elite list of gloved beak-busters, but he might just end up bumping off somebody in the list if the tenacity he showed in taming Colombian challenger Jorle Estrada at Pinoy Pride XXI becomes a permanent fixture in his arsenal.

Strutting his stuff at the glitzy Solaire Resort and Casino in Pasay City last Saturday, before a crowd that included celebrities from network giant ABS-CBN, Sabillo posted his first successful defense of the 105-pound championship with a ninth-round knockout of Estrada. Sabillo literally deflated Estrada with one crunching left to the breadbasket.

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