The highly successful Pinoy Pride series takes a giant hurdle this weekend. Pinoy Pride 27th installment will takes place in the international stage. The first of its kind and it will be in Dubai.

ALA Boxing mainstays Genesis Servania, "King" Arthur Villanueva and Rey Boom Boom Baustista will be up against their Latino counterpart.

This boxing event dubbed "Duel in Dubai" will be held at the Dubai World Trade Center. The Filipino Channel (TFC) has been promoting this card in the Middle East. TFC is part of ABS-CBN TV network, the biggest TV network in the Philippines. Through its vast subscribers, this event gets a lot of leverage in exposure.

There are around 2.5 million Filipinos around the Middle East especially in the GCC area.

In Dubai, there are 931, 562 Filipinos.

If Mr. Tony Aldequer's venture in Dubai will come out successful, I think there will more boxing card coming up in the future. As a boxing fan, I'm willing to spend my hard earned dinar. And I will travel to Dubai if world class fights will be staged there.

Well, for the first Pinoy Pride International show in Dubai gives us world rated boxers. And here they are: The Pinoy Pride 27 fight card in Dubai.

Genesis Servania (24-0-0, 10KO) vs. Jose 'Matador' Cabrera (22-4-2, 10KO) 12 Rounds Super bantamweight as the main event.

"King" Arthur Villanueva (25-0-0, 14KO) vs. Henry 'El Crespo' Maldonado (19-3-0, 14KO) 12 Rounds, junior bantamweight, as co-featured bout.

Rey 'Boom-Boom' Bautista (35-3-0, 25KO) vs. Juan Jose 'Piquet' Martinez (19-1-0, 15KO) 10 Rounds super featherweight.

Pasig City, Manila -- Pinoy Pride 24 results: The successful Pinoy Pride Series returned at the Solaire Resort and Casino. The 24th series dubbed as "THE FUTURE IS NOW", which headlined Genesis Servania against former WBA super flyweight world champion Alexander "El Explosivo" Muñoz of Venezuela, was again another successful event brought to us by ALA Promotions.

[Also: Pinoy Pride 23 Results: Banal, Pagara, Melindo, Sabillo win the distance, Nietes by KO]

Genesis Servania TKO 12 Alexander Muñoz

After searching almost all night long for one lights-out-punch, still undefeated Genesis Servania (24-0, 10 KO's) found it only in the 12th and final round. Servania landed an overhand right that sent Alexander Muñoz crashing to the floor with 38 seconds left in the final round.

Muñoz was able to get up, but referee Tapdasan had seen enough and waived it off to save Muñoz from further beating. The official time of the stoppage: 2:22 in Round 12. Muñoz (36-6, 28 KO's) went down twice. He went down after he was tagged by a stiff right hand in Round 2. And he took a knee after absorbing a cracking left hook to the body in the Round 9.

Prior to that, in Round 8, Servania suffered a deep and nasty cut over the left eye because of accidental head butt. It seemed Munoz is in control of the fight, but the irony is that: in the dying seconds Munoz thought the round was over and touch gloves with Servania. But Servania answered him with left and right to the head that momentarily stunned and somewhat hurt Muñoz as the bell sounded. 

With the win, Servania could be in for a world title shot.

"Prince" Albert Pagara KO 1 Isack Junior

"Prince" Albert Pagara (19-0, 13 KO's), according to fight commentators Ronnie Natanielz and Ed Tolentino, Pagara's "title" could be alleviated from "Prince" to "King" after a stellar performance, knocking out Isack Junior (22-5-2, 8 KO's) of Indonesia, in the very first round. The Indonesian laid flat on his back from a right hand to the body and was counted out by the referee. The official time, 2:41. In an interview with Dyan Castellejo, Pagara said that he "studied" the style of his opponent through "YouTube".

"King" Arthur Villanueva UD 10 Fernando Aguilar

Arthur Villanueva now improved his record to 25-0, 14 KO's, was in a hell of a fight against late substitute Fernando Aguilar of Mexico. Aguilar (9-7-0, 1 KO's) showed the heart of a Mexican warrior giving Villanueva a lot of trouble. After suffering a cut in Round 3, Aguilar went for a broke in Round 4 won that round convincingly. However the controlled and consistent aggression of Villanueva carried the night and won a unanimous decision to the tune of 94-93, 95-92, and 96-91 on the judges' scorecards. 

[caption id="attachment_1644" align="alignleft" width="333"] Roach, Donaire and Pacquiao "look-alike"[/caption]

On another note "look-alike" of Coach Freddie Roach, Manny Pacquiao and Nonito Donaire were at ringside enjoying the action.