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Dreamland: Where Filipino Fists Lit Up San Francisco Nights
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 28 Apr 2025
Before the condos and skyscrapers rose like silent monuments to the wealthy, before memory gave way to glass and steel, there was a place in San Francisco where fists, not fortunes, determined your worth.
A place called Read full story A Seat at the Table of Antonio Lopez Aldeguer: A Reminiscence
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 25 Apr 2025
On March 22, 2024—on the eve of the Gala of Champions—I met Antonio Lopez Aldeguer in person for the first time.
We sat quietly in the Ambassador Suite at the Manila Grand Opera Hotel. The celebration was still a day away Read full story Little Pancho: A Filipino Fighter in the Ring, an American Soldier to the End
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 17 Apr 2025
San Francisco Civic Auditorium – June 17, 1940
The air inside the auditorium was thick with tobacco smoke, anticipation, and something special. Filipino farmers, laborers, sailors, and immigrants leaned forward in Read full story The Civic’s Sacred Ring: Filipino Fighters and the Heart of San Francisco
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 14 Apr 2025
The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, once the San Francisco Civic, stands tall at 99 Grove Street—a quiet giant nestled in the city’s civic core. Time has worn its walls, but the building still breathes. For those who know Read full story Young Tommy: In the Gaze of Dempsey, In the Shadow of Villa
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 07 Apr 2025
In the small town of Silay in the sugar bowl region Negros Occidental, a Filipino boy named Fernando Opao was born on Christmas Day, December 25, 1910. Years later, the boxing world would come to know him by another name Read full story The Hard Road of Young Nationalista
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 03 Apr 2025
Federico Angulo Buenaflor— i.e. Young Nationalista— stood in his corner, fists clenched. His gloves were laced tight, his body aching from weeks of brutal training, his mind sharpened by years of struggle.
Across th Read full story Lope Tenorio: El Bulakeño Matón (The Bulacan Brawler)
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 31 Mar 2025
Lope Tenorio was a mystery. He was a fighter whose fists did the talking, a bruiser who carved his name into boxing history but left little behind about the man he was outside the ring. He came from Manila, but his bat Read full story Varias Milling: The Bicol Ghost Chicago Couldn’t Ignore
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 27 Mar 2025
The boxing ring does not care where you came from, what you gave up, or how much you deserve a break. It only knows one thing— the fight. The pain. The will to stand up when everything tells you to stay down.
Varia Read full story Socrates Batoto: A Champion of the Orient, Inspired by the Great Flash Elorde
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 25 Mar 2025
Edgar ‘Socrates’ Batoto was a proud Waray, a fighter from Bato, Leyte—a land shaped by challenge, determination, and quiet strength. Boxing can be both unforgiving and rewarding. Talent, skill, and grace can take a fighte Read full story Cowboy Reyes: The Gatekeeper of the 1920s Golden Age of Philippine Boxing
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 20 Mar 2025
Francisco “Cowboy” Reyes was a fighter who stood at the crossroads of opportunity. Back in the early 1920s and 1930s, if a boxer wanted to prove himself in the Philippines and earn a ticket to fight in America, h Read full story
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