Pinay boxing champ Ana Julaton guns for 3rd world title

She already holds two world titles, but this does not stop Fil-Am prizefighter Ana “The Hurricane" Julaton from striving hard to further improve as she vies for female boxing immortality. The Daly City-based Julaton has burst into the scene with a pair of impressive wins in 2009 that made her the super-bantamweight champ of the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and the International Boxing Association (IBA) in only her seventh and eighth pro outings.

On Sunday (Manila time), the bedimpled Filipina warrior seeks to annex the vacant World Boxing Association belt, which would make her the lineal champion in the 122-lb division and a true pound-for-pound fighter. Julaton (6-1-1) is penciled to dispute the WBA belt with veteran Lisa “Bad News" Brown (16-4-3) in a 10-round title fight at the Casino Rama in Ontario, Canada, the latter’s turf. “It would take a lot of hard work to be on the pound-for-pound [list]," Julaton said in a media interview via Skype arranged by GMA Network, Inc. on Monday. His trainer, Nonito Donaire, Sr., attests to Julaton’s excellent work ethic. “Wala kang maririnig na reklamo sa kanya.Talagang pinipilit niya kahit hirap," Donaire said in the same interview attended by GMA Network executives led by president, chairman and CEO Felipe L. Gozon. “Sana lahat ng magiging boksingero ko kagaya sa kanya dahil pag ganito, walang magiging problema pagdating ng laban." Both Donaire and Julaton agreed that training camp in San Leandro for the Brown fight has been running smoothly. “It’s been great. We have a special game plan and I look forward to [executing] it," said Julaton. “I’m ready to go. I feel great and I feel every strong." There’s an added motivation for the Fil-Am who traces her roots to Pangasinan and Manila – the flag she carries. “I want to represent the Filipino community and show that Filipinas have a lot of heart," said the first-ever Filipina to win a world boxing title. - Olmin Leyba/OMG, GMANews.TV