Billiards, Boxing Icons To Be Honored

Billiards, Boxing Icons To Be Honored

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MANILA – Pool icons Rubilen Amit and Carlo Biado, along with boxing champions Melvin Jerusalem and Pedro Taduran, lead the major awardees in the San Miguel Corp. - Philippine Sportswriters Association (SMC-PSA) Awards Night at the Manila Hotel grand ballroom on Jan. 27, 2025.

Amit topped the WPA Women’s World 9-Ball Championship last year, while Biado ruled the WPA Predator World 10-Ball Championship.

On the other hand, Jerusalem won the World Boxing Council (WBC) mini-flyweight title and Taduran regained the International Boxing Federation (IBF) minimumweight crown.

Also to get major awards during the star-studded affair -- co-presented by ArenaPlus, Cignal, and Media Quest -- are Daniel Quizon (chess), Rianne Malixi (golf), Tachiana Mangin (taekwondo), John Alvin Guce (horse racing), Batang Manda (horse racing), and Benhur Abalos (horse racing).

Gymnast Carlos Yulo, a double-gold medalist at the Paris Olympics, will receive the 2024 Athlete of the Year trophy.

Incidentally, both Amit and Biado received the Athlete of the Year award in 2009 and 2016, respectively.

Quizon became the country’s 17th Grandmaster during the 45th World Chess Olympiad in Hungary, while Malixi struck in the Women’s Australian Master of the Amateurs and then achieved back-to-back victories in the US Girls’ Junior and the US Women’s Amateur to take the No. 5 spot in world amateur golf rankings.

Mangin, 16, pocketed the gold medal in the women’s 49 kg. At the World Taekwondo Juniors Championships in Chuncheon, South Korea.

Meanwhile, Guce was named Jockey of the Year, Batang Manda as Horse of the Year for winning the rich and prestigious Philracom-PCSO Presidential Gold Cup at Metro Turf Club in Malvar, Batangas, while Abalos will receive the Horse Owner of the Year award. / PNA