It's quite unfortunate for our star, Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista, not to see action today as part in the undercard of the Pacquiao-Larios show at the Araneta Coliseum today in Quezon City.

We called up Bautista last Wednesday while he was confined at the Cebu Doctors Hospital and we noticed his sadness for not fighting today due to his intermittent fever.

Many boxing analysts believe that Bautista needs today's fight as his ticket to the dela Hoya farewell fight in September en route to crowning himself as world champion being the much-touted heir-apparent of the highly commercialized Manny Pacquiao now.

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We said Pacquiao-Larios "show" because today's "Mano-a-Mano" is nothing but a money raiser for Pacquiao against a highly vulnerable Larios whose boxing prowess is only hyped by ABS-CBN being the exclusive network for the fight.

Can you imagine the P30,000 ring side ticket exclusive of VAT when the fight will be on a delayed telecast by ABS-CBN?

We also mentioned that Pacquiao is "highly commercialized" because he endorses almost everything on TV advertisement not to mention the plugging of his songs in almost all shows of the network. With the kind of hype that Pacquiao is getting, we will not be surprised if a lot of people would feel being short-changed with the today's fight.

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Tagbilaran again took center stage in the national limelight with the publication of yesterday's 40th charter day celebration of Tagbilaran as a city.

Mayor Dan Neri Lim placed an ad in page 6 of the Philippine Daily Inquirer issue yesterday while our compadre, Chito Fuentes, wrote an article also published in the same national daily in almost one page.

While there was no much action yesterday except from the weekly mayor's report which we co-anchored with the city mayor being some sort of a special edition, the charter day activities will be highlighted tomorrow with the distribution of the free uniforms and school bags to pupils in various public schools in the city.

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We did not finish the regular session of the 9th Sangguniang Panlungsod last Wednesday in order to catch the Weesam trip to Dumaguete City for an appointment with Gov. George Arnaiz before taking the 5-hour land trip to Bacolod City.

By Thursday morning, we were able to catch up with the National Conference on Tricycle Transportation Development at the Iloilo Grand Convention Hotel where City Councilor Edgar Bompat was already attending.

The conference was sponsored by the Vice Mayors League of the Philippines, the Department of Transportation and Communication, Land Transportation Office, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, Office of the Transport Cooperative and the Department of Interior and Local Government together with other supporting agencies including the Philippine Councilors League. It culminated last Friday.

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