BAGUIO'S pride Alice Kate Aparri dropped her first assignment and bowed out of contention in the first Asian Cup Women's Boxing Tournament at the Haikou gymnasium in Haikou, China over the weekend.
Aparri, the bronze medalist in the World Women's Boxing Championships in Barbados last year, succumb to her mortal rival Mary Kom of India, 8-11, in the event which features the top four ranked women boxers in various divisions in the region.
Kom was also Aparri's tormentor in the last world championship where the Indian mother went on to win the championship in that competition held last year.
The Indian fighter simply outclassed the Baguio lady pug right from the star with a 3-1 lead then withstood Aparri's solid hooks and uppercuts in the succeeding rounds.
Aparri tried to rally in the fourth round but ran out of time and punches to yield the match to the Indian fighter, who also pounded Aparri, 8-1, in their faceoff in Barbados last year.
Nesthy Petecio, the 19 year old promising fighter also failed to bounce back from a sluggish first round performance and trailed all the way before absorbing a 7-10 loss to Kazakhstan's Zhaina Shekerbekova.
Petecio fell behind, 2-0, after the opening round as the 21 year old Kazakh wisely stayed away from the Filipina bet's power shots while connecting with her own head shots to keep a 4-2 edge halfway through the match. (Roderick Osis)
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