When their sponsor, now-Cagayan de Oro Mayor Oscar Moreno, stepped down as Misamis Oriental governor, priorities changed, naturally, and the boxers dormitory was shut down, displacing the boxers that included brothers Jason and Albert Pagara who subsequently turned pro under the ALA Boxing Promotions in Cebu City.
‘As a boy, he would go to the city’s sanitary landfill in upper Barangay Carmen. That’s why I called him ‘Carlo Paalam, Pipi Lata,’ the tin can crusher, because that’s what he did to earn a living’
