DESPITE not being able to bring home the gold medal from China, Filipino boxer Eumir Marcial held his head high and offered his Asian Games silver medal to his countrymen. Marcial, who bagged the bronze in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, said he would have not been able to reach this far in Hangzhou without the overwhelming support of the Filipino fans. This victory would have not been possible without all the outpouring of support from all the Filipino fans. The gold medal bout was nip and tuck with neither fighter backing down. The silver, though, was an upgrade to the bronze medal Marcial won in the 2018 Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia as a middleweight.
