{"id":23977,"date":"2025-07-26T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23977\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:34:11","slug":"acting-mayor-duterte-on-boxing-match-with-torre-not-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23977\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting Mayor Duterte on boxing match with Torre: not on Sunday\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAVAO CITY (MindaNews \/ 26 July) \u2013 Acting Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte said he will not show up on Sunday, July 27, for the boxing match with Philippine National Police Chief Nicolas Torre III at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum, citing \u201cfamily day\u201d as reason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTuesday or Wednesday or any weekday,\u201d he said in a pre-taped podcast aired on Saturday night.\u00a0\u00a0To recall, Duterte challenged Torre to a boxing match, a challenge Torre accepted on July 21 but elevated to a 12\u2011round charity boxing event aimed at raising aid for victims of Metro Manila floods. He proposed Rizal Memorial Coliseum as venue for the 9 a.m. match on July 27. <\/p>\n<p>Duterte replied that he finds the charity framing suspicious. \u201cIf you really just want a fight, why do you even need the floods for charity?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/23baste-vs-torre.jpg\" alt=\"23baste vs torre\" class=\"wp-image-181191\" title=\"Acting Mayor Duterte on boxing match with Torre: not on Sunday\u00a0 1\"  \/>Acting Mayor Sebastian \u201cBaste\u201d Duterte and PNP Chief Gen. Nicolas Torre III. Photo credits: Screenshot from \u201cBasta Dabawenyo\u201d podcast (left) and MindaNews file photo<\/p>\n<p>The acting mayor in his podcast on Saturday night clarified that he \u201cdid not challenge Torre\u201d but \u201cjust wanted to punch Torre.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKung lalaki ka talaga, suntukan tayo. Di naman kita hinamon, sinabi ko talaga na suntukan tayo, mabubugbog kita, hindi kita hinamon tanga\u00a0(If you\u2019re a man, let\u2019s fight. I am not challenging you, stupid). You\u2019re just as stupid as the journalist that asked you,\u201d said the acting mayor, the youngest son of former President Rodrigo Duterte.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The boxing match, he said, is just as a \u201csmokescreen\u201d or \u201cdiversionary issue\u201d orchestrated by mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>After Torre accepted Duterte\u2019s challenge on July 21, Duterte replied he would impose a condition that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and other elected officials undergo a hair follicle drug test first.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his podcast aired Saturday night, Duterte said: \u201cTuesday, Wednesday, but not Sunday. Tuesday, Wednesday, or any other day. I think it\u2019s better for you because you still have time to practice,\u201d Duterte added in Cebuano, addressing Torre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a media interview Thursday morning, Torre said the Rizal Memorial Coliseum in Malate, Manila was all set to host the boxing match on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asked what happens if Duterte doesn\u2019t show up, Torre replied, \u201cThat\u2019s his call. Either way, we already have sponsors lined up who pledged to donate relief goods for communities affected by recent heavy rains and flooding.\u201d\u00a0(Ian Carl Espinosa \/ MindaNews)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVAO CITY (MindaNews \/ 26 July) \u2013 Acting Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte said he will not show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-23977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}