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For Cendaña, Baste Duterte doesn't even deserve 'bakla' tag

Published Jul 25, 2025 12:13 pm  |  Updated Jul 25, 2025 01:16 pm

At A Glance

  • Acting Davao City Mayor Sebastian "Baste" Duterte doesn't even deserve to be called "bakla" or homosexual after the latter laid out a condition before accepting the proposed charity boxing match against Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief General Nicolas Torre III.
Acting Davao City Mayor Sebastian "Baste" Duterte (leftl), Akbayan Party-list Rep. Perci Cendaña, (Facebook)
Acting Davao City Mayor Sebastian "Baste" Duterte (leftl), Akbayan Party-list Rep. Perci Cendaña, (Facebook)


Acting Davao City Mayor Sebastian "Baste" Duterte doesn’t even deserve to be called "bakla" or homosexual after the latter laid out a condition before accepting the proposed charity boxing match against Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief General Nicolas Torre III.
According to Akbayan Party-list Rep. Perci Cendaña, homosexuals are people of courage and conviction--traits supposedly not shared by the Dutertes.
"Please lang huwag nyo tawaging 'bakla' si Baste dahil umatras siya sa boxing nila ni General Torre na siya mismo ang naghamon (Please don't ever call Baste 'bakla' for withdrawing from his boxing match with General Torre that he himself challenged for)," Cendaña said in a Facebook post Friday, July 25.
"Maraming bakla ang matapang at may paninindigan. Hindi ganyan si Baste, hindi ganyan ang mga Duterte (A lot of homosexuals are brave and have convictions. Baste, or the rest of the Dutertes, aren't like that)," he added.
Last week, Mayor Duterte, son of the detained former president Rodrigo Duterte, challenged Torre to a fistfight.
Torre accepted the dare and proposed a 12-round charity boxing match for the benefit of typhoon and flood victims all over the country. He set the fight on Sunday, July 27, at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City.
But Mayor Duterte tore a page from Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s book and sought a drug test first--specifically a directive from President Marcos that "all elected officials should undergo a hair follicle drug test".
Cendaña wasn't done roasting the Davao mayor, though.
In a subsequent Facebook post, the Akbayan solon posted a picture of a jetski, along with the text "Ako nga nganga, asa ka pa sa boxing?! (Nothing happened with me, what do you expect from boxing?!)"
Cendaña was alluding to a famous unfulfilled promise of the elder Duterte.
"Like father, like son," he wrote.
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