Question About Hong Kong Challenge 1996...

McKinneyMiner

McKinneyMiner

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This morning I was watching the final tape of the 1996 Hong Kong Challenge between Earl Strickland and Efren Reyes (I don't have the others).

Immediately I recognized the voice of Mark Wilson doing the commentary.

My question is this: Who is the other man in the booth with Wilson? He identifies himself as a countryman of Reyes (although he sounds European educated) and at one point Wilson calls him "Ed."

Anybody know who this was?
 
At the beginning it sounds like he says Ed Vidson.... He said it really fast so it was hard to get the pronunciation.
 
Ed works for Vintage Sports which does sporting events in the Phillipines I believe. He was a color man like that guy who does commentary with Allen Hopkins on ESPN. I think because he was Filipino and Mark is American, they could represent both combatants.
 
when first saw the tapes I didn't see either one and I thought ED sounded alot like JIM Rempe.....Did anyone else think this?
 
Funny you should say that...

When I first heard him I thought it was Jimmy Mataya who does commentary on the World 8-Ball Championships with Rempe.

After a while, though, you can hear the accent and that he was probably educated in England or somewhere.

I enjoy his commentary. He's a bit of an Efren homer, but he knows what he is talking about and he has good chemistry with Mark.
 
McKinneyMiner said:
I enjoy his commentary. He's a bit of an Efren homer, but he knows what he is talking about and he has good chemistry with Mark.
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Are you kidding?
Ed made that tape almost unwatchable with his very biased commentary.
On top of that, he was neither the play by play man nor the color man.
He knew nothing about playing shape. So, he could not be the color man.
Then he did not even keep inning by inning score. He didn't remember if Efren broke and ran out one rack. He had to ask Mark. Mark became the play by play and color commentator at the same time.
All Ed did was read the score after each game and professed his love for Efren all night.:rolleyes:
They should have hired Jal Halfert to work with Mark on that historic match.
Problem was Vintage Sports of the Philippines was the sole broadcaster of that match.
Btw, COM was originally scheduled to be a race to 100 then was stretched to 120. Earl would have won handily if it were a race to 100.:eek:
Also, the money distribution was 75-25. Not winner take all.
That was the year Efren shot with a Moochi.:eek:
After the match, Efren quit smoking and played like crap for a while until he won the ESPN tournament in Orlando. I must have been the good luck charm as I drove him to the airport with his pareng Alex.
 
Again, I only have the final tape.

I didn't get to hear him in the previous ones. But I thought he was fine to listen to while Efren was making his comeback.

He very well might have been a major league ass-whip prior to that...
 
An even better question.....

Who was that smokin' looking brunette helping rack the balls? I think I had a dream or two about that woman.. lol:D
 
The tall brunnette racker was fine. :-)
The elegantly dressed Chinese lady was promoter Bob Moore's wife.
Bob Moore was dead about a year after the event.
Shot himself supposedly but I dunno the real story.
Bob Moore willed a house to Efren. He had a house in New Alabang, Manila.
Efren gave it to his sister.
 
McKinneyMiner said:
This morning I was watching the final tape of the 1996 Hong Kong Challenge between Earl Strickland and Efren Reyes (I don't have the others).

Immediately I recognized the voice of Mark Wilson doing the commentary.

My question is this: Who is the other man in the booth with Wilson? He identifies himself as a countryman of Reyes (although he sounds European educated) and at one point Wilson calls him "Ed."

Anybody know who this was?
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He is Ed Pecson...he's a sport commentators in the PHIL..specially PBA (Philippine Basketball Association) he's well known in the Phil
 
I've actually been watching this match over the last week or so for the first time, and it struck me that the commentary was quite poor, but strangely still listenable. Ed Pecson never seemed to know anything, and also he just kept saying "this is the colour of money match, race to 120, winner takes all.. blah blah blah", and when he did say something it was obvious, yet tried to make it sound well observed and profound.

Also i couldn't really take to Mark Wilson, and he didn't do anything to endear himself to me towards the end when by now Earl has lost it a bit (his head, not necessarily the game) and he got down very quickly and took his shots fast. he made em both, one a bank/plant and the other a swerve-cut shot, and then scratched. Mark was saying he didn't deserve to make them cus he didn't play em with the right mindset or something, and that he deserved the cue ball to go in. i just couldn't believe it when he categorically said "justifiably so the cue ball is going in". thought it a bit uncalled for really.

in saying all that, what a match it was!
 
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