AGUSAN DEL SUR \u2014 Third time is the charm for Jarrell Mark Ancajas of Region 12 (SOCCKSARGEN).<\/p>\n
Trained by International Boxing Federation (IBF ) champion Jerwin Ancajas, Jarell settled for silver in his two previous outings in Palarong Pambansa.<\/p>\n
But this time, he is hungrier than ever to snatch the gold.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very happy, because I prepared for a long time for this fight. I locked in for two months, and this is my third try in Palarong Pambansa. I am happy to finally have the gold for the first time,\u201d Ancajas told The Manila Times in Filipino.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI am inspired by my uncle; he is the reason why I am here.\u201d<\/p>\n
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By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jerwin\u2019s nephew overcame John Albert Bersabal of Region 10 (Northern Mindanao) in the flyweight 48-50 kilogram (kg) secondary level boys\u2019 category.<\/p>\n \u201cMy uncle is the one who teaches me. He teaches me what combo to use against my opponent. Boxing is really tough; it\u2019s a punch directed towards you. Even getting the right weight is difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n Just like his uncle, the 17-year-old Ancajas dreams of being a champion one day.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to be a world champion. My idol is my uncle and, of course, our legendary champion, Manny Pacquiao,\u201d the southpaw boxer shared.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AGUSAN DEL SUR \u2014 Third time is the charm for Jarrell Mark Ancajas of Region 12 (SOCCKSARGEN). Trained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[343394,64,63,802,24978,5284,87392,4717,343393,114455,343396,343395,85],"class_list":["post-705724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-ancajas","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-champ","tag-gold","tag-ibf","tag-in","tag-jerwin","tag-nephew","tag-palaro","tag-snares","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705724","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=705724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}