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Yang Ching-shun
is the most feared Taiwanese billiards player today, but
Dennis Orcollo will be out to break his back.
Yang
Ching-shun does not have the global stature of
compatriots Wu Chia-ching or Fong Pang-chao, both former
world champions, but he is nevertheless the most feared
Taiwanese billiards player today.
Even
Filipinos agree, what with a record that included
victories against pool legends Efren “Bata” Reyes,
Francisco “Django” Bustamante and reigning world
champion Ronnie Alcano.
But Yang
has a waterloo among Filipinos—Dennis Orcollo—who he has
yet to meet, and beat for that matter.
Yang,
the “Son of Pool,” is returning to the Philippines to
meet its money-game king, Orcollo, in a race-to-60 match
dubbed “The Golden Pool Classic: Dennis Orcollo vs. Yang
Ching-shun, it’s all about the money… and more.”
The
event is slated from April 20 to 22 tentatively at the
Gateway Mall in Cubao, Quezon City.
Besides
the prestigious claim of being the money-game king of
the world, Orcollo and Yang will also dispute the
$10,000 purse staked in the contest organized by Bugsy
Promotions and Rocketman Enterprises.
“Yang is
really the best Taiwanese player today,” said Bugsy
Promotions head Perry Mariano. “He may not be as popular
as Fong and Wu, particularly to many of us Filipinos,
but Yang is a very great player that almost everybody is
afraid to face him, especially in a long one-on-one
match like in money-game.” In last year’s World
Championship, Yang bombed out of the Round-of-32 in last
year’s Manila World Championship, but before that, he
booted out former world No. 1 Bustamante, whom he beat
for P150,000. Alcano also lost the same amount to the
Taiwanese.
“Orcollo
is the only top Filipino player who Yang has yet to
meet—and beat. That’s why we arranged this match to know
if that Taiwanese guy really has the Filipinos’ number,”
said Rocketman head Ramon Tuason. |
