Despite this factor, there will not even be standing room. In the first place, it will mark the first appearance here of Garcia since he attained top ranks and it will also provide fight-hungry Filipino fans with the first top-rate professional boxing it a year.
Garcia is recognized as world champion by the New York Boxing Commission but not by the National Boxing Association, which controls poxing in the majority of the states in the United States.
The N.B.A. holds that Al Hostak is the world champion, although it has agreed to recognize a fight between Garcia and Hostak as a world championship affair.
No official announcement has been made yet as to the exact date of the coming Hostak-Garcia bout, although such a bout will probably be arranged soon after Garcia's return to the "United States from his December visit to Manila.
After beating Apostoli, Garcia said that he would visit Manila because when he left there originally he said he would never return until he had a title. Now that he had clinched the world middleweight title, he had decided to visit his home town, he said recently in New York.—United Press.
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